[EXPANSION]Hardmode Expansion -- General Feedback Thread

[hellrazor]

I dont think incendiary grenades make incendiary ammo's redundant... I think they were redundant to begin with. Inc ammo isn't very practical for doing damage on anything past sectoids and floaters. So a gun loaded with INC's is much less practical than a gun loaded with something else. INC grenades provide a handy dose of cleansing flame in a convenient package, without having to swap ammo or weapons.
The versatile weapons still have AP and HE ammo so I'd say they're still pretty versatile without the 3rd ammo type. But you could maybe offset the loss by adding in a stronger AP that can be researched? or pseudo plasma rounds? to keep multi-ammo weapons more relavent in the later game.
this is all just oppinion though.

I have a stronger AP Version. It is Alloy Ammunition for Standard Pistols, Rifles, Shotguns, Heavy Canons and Auto Canons.
So maybe removing the Incendiary Ammo for Heavy Cannon and Auto Cannon would be the way to go.
And Maybe remove the Incendiary Rocket and put in a Elerium Rocket or so (something which makes the Rocket Launcher longer usable, but still way weaker then the blaster launcher).

But this is only a suggestion.

[Ridаn]

I use Autocannon incendiary ammo to provide illumination on a regular basis. I do not think it should be removed.
Incendiary rocket on other hand.. never used it, and can`t think of a situation when I would.

[hellrazor]

I use Autocannon incendiary ammo to provide illumination on a regular basis. I do not think it should be removed.
Incendiary rocket on other hand.. never used it, and can`t think of a situation when I would.

So i could technically replace the incendiary missile for the rocket launcher with an elerium warhead missile (140 damage)

[hellrazor]

Today i started modding the expanded ubase maps.
So far i was forced to rework, most of the nodes... some weren't even linked properly, also a lot of walls missing and so forth.

To put a little enjoyment into all of this, i decided to redesign UBASE21 completly (the clone lab).
My current Version looks a little otherwise of course. See attachments.

Please let me now if you like it, then i place proper nodes for routes, otherwise i will play around with it more.

[Solarius Scorch]

Very nice.

[Ridаn]

Today i started modding the expanded ubase maps.
So far i was forced to rework, most of the nodes... some weren't even linked properly, also a lot of walls missing and so forth.

To put a little enjoyment into all of this, i decided to redesign UBASE21 completly (the clone lab).
My current Version looks a little otherwise of course. See attachments.

Please let me now if you like it, then i place proper nodes for routes, otherwise i will play around with it more.

I like this one better than previous one (it had two corridors on East and West sides, with LOS blocking power sources, right?).
I`m really glad that someone is trying to keep Expanded U_Base up to date.

[hellrazor]

Good to know that you like it.

I will place proper routes and spawn points.

I am just reworking ubase 2c into food processing plant.

i will also redesign ubase 18 and 19, since the do not have any purpose at the moment.

[hellrazor]

Oh well i did not like what i did with ubase21,
so i gave it another try see for yourself.

I like it much better.

Anyone care to comment?

[Ridаn]

From a glance: ground level got more intersting, and now large 4tile units can move through mapblock and spawn there - great job.
I also fancy those new wall tiles

[hellrazor]

From a glance: ground level got more intersting, and now large 4tile units can move through mapblock and spawn there - great job.
I also fancy those new wall tiles

Well the double double doors could be a nightmare.
So i changed it once again.

Also now symmetric :>

I added proper routes to this version. I will put this version into my mod.
Once i am finished redesigning the maps i want i will make a extra thread for base modules (as a standalone version).

[hellrazor]

I did some work on putting ubase2c into some proper context, as a food processing facility.

I hope you like it.

[Dioxine]

Very nice and clean... too clean. I'd advise removing one of the cows and 1-2 tanks of each type, or rearranging some of their blocks into L-, H- and other shapes - such a perfect order of rectangles looks suboptimal Also - good luck with the expanded ubase, this thing really needs a fix!

[hellrazor]

Very nice and clean... too clean. I'd advise removing one of the cows and 1-2 tanks of each type, or rearranging some of their blocks into L-, H- and other shapes - such a perfect order of rectangles looks suboptimal Also - good luck with the expanded ubase, this thing really needs a fix!

Why would it be suboptimal?
It is the perfect order for storing stuff, to get it in and out quickly.

And btw i did a lot of work on the expanded ubase last weekend. Fix a lot of stuff reworked the rmp routes on all but 3 maps (i checked them they seemed to be ok, 2 of those will get reworked anyway.)

You can find the Version i put together on the last weekend here

But make a backup of the original files, because i did not rename them.
I tested it about 20 times to see if the aliens were behaving, and they did pretty good with the new routes.

[Dioxine]

I will be more blunt: suboptimal from the artistic point of view, or, to put it even more blunt, ugly

[hellrazor]

I will be more blunt: suboptimal from the artistic point of view, or, to put it even more blunt, ugly

It's funktionell. The aliens are that way.