As usual your sprites are fantastic.
U can speak your mind. share it , the mod should be enjoyed by all
i also like 40k to be more melee, but i haven't found the balance yet
Sure, it's just a matter of what's relevant. My idea of a 40k mod would be hordes of disposable guardsmen with crappy lasguns. Most people's idea of 40k is space marines.
My suggestions to make melee attractive:
- lower maxViewDistance, or lower distances set for each armour;
- decent starting melee stats for your guys - I'd say in line with throwing;
- fix combat knife and shock maul to use melee skill;
- aimRange for everything but the sniper rifle;
- shorten the combat knife to fit in a belt - at least until transformable guns let you fix bayonets;
- give lots of armour shredding to chain and power weapons, and less to guns - lasers might ignore some armour instead.
That looks like a lot but I don't think it's too much. Melee is pretty terrible at the moment.
I have other ideas too.
Lasguns are a bit odd at the moment. You can buy guns but not clips, and pick up clips from enemy (and friendly) corpses - all before you research them. Plus they shred armour, which isn't typical in 40k. I'd suggest removing the armour damage from them and making the research go towards hot-shot clips which do go through armour.
The storm bolter is weirdly powerful rather than being a rapid fire bolter. (Chaos tend to use slightly different combi-bolters instead, though the distinction might not matter).
Enemy factions would be more strongly themed around the four gods rather than armour types. I presume you did it this way to fit more with the Xcom races, but I think that hinders the 40k feel. You could even do it by legion, but that's probably a lot of extra work for not much benefit.
Enemy armour is far weaker than yours. Granted it's already kind of a slog to kill terminators, but it probably should be. Combined with the previous suggestion you wouldn't just be fighting a horde of them though.
I hope some of these suggestions are helpful even if you don't want to use them.
