Those 'Design your own units' games hit the ^^ter because no one could stand how stupidly convoluted they were and how difficult and time-consuming it was.
There was a really bad game called Metal Fatigue (Or something) where you'd design units. You could give them hovercraft chassis, walking legs, treads, wheels, etc. Then you chose from about 2900 different frames, armed them with 87*10^54 redundant weapons and worthless features, and then watch the ugliest war machine ever made walk out and die instantly because you couldnt' afford to put armor on it
Besides, it doesn't look like Homeworld so I don't see how it can be better :).
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oh no, this is good stuff. the unit design is finished in about 3 clicks per unit...
i love playing this game online... someone ask me and ill give it to you and we can play!
Uranium, that isn't Metal Fatigue. Metal Fatigue was own though....yes you could costumize you units, but there weren't that many different ways to build them, and most modules can be used for different things. it only had 4 different types of parts. Torso, 2 arms and legs.
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I must be thinking of a different game. This one was really :P, and really buggy.
Regular, I didn't have enough appriciation for the game to go for the expansion.
Metal Fatigue was fun, but it really started sucking when your mechs wiped out everything on the surface, only to find that the enemy had tanks galore underground where your metals couldn't go. So you'd have to re-tool your whole army, get tanks, go down there and get crushed by their static defenses. Really sucked.
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ditto, they could have solved this problem by putting a timer on the hp of all units trapped underground
Anyone up for some Homeworld sometime?
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Rawr. Ph33r my pincer maneuver.
Ion cannon frigates FTW.