[SAGEKING]

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Name: Defiler
Faction: Hierarchy

Purpose: Area-Denial Unit and Meta-Artillery
Speed: Medium
Armor: Medium
Unit Class: Inorganic
Vision: Medium
Targeting: Direct

Concept Art
Reconnaissance Photo
Defiler Render

Word from the front lines:
"A slathering, gooey form encased in a bath of radiation, the Defiler has something living in it, but as to just what that is, it's not entirely clear. The defiler speaks in gurgles and barely audible words as it goes about its task of corrupting and mutating."

Weapons:
Radiation Bleeder (Passive): The defiler bleeds radiation as it moves. The longer it stays still, the larger the radiation area becomes around it, up to a moderate size. Radiation bleeding only works while the unit is in bleed mode (default).

Radiation beam (Default, vs. ground): The default weapon does different things to different unit types.

Vs. Infantry: Infantry hit by radiation charge take heavy damage over time. If the targets are killed by the beam, they become mutant slaves, controlled by the Hierarchy player.

Vs. Vehicles: Sprays vehicles with high-intensity toxins. Vehicles get a light DoT effect applied for a long duration that makes them reveal for the Hierarchy player.

Vs. Structures: All structures get a light DoT effect and function at half efficiency for the duration. Production and turret fire rate is slowed. This effect stacks with the Cylinder's effect, completely shutting down the structure if both effects are on it.

[popcorn2008]

Concept art already? Sweet!!!

I love that recon photo also, the detail looks pretty good!

[Elegy]

Sweeet Kevin

Go go go post more

[Luga]

Sweet!

I hope the radiation "bleed" effect will look better in game after polish though Now it kinda look more like a beam that radiation "fog" that it is in the concept art

This post has been edited by Luga: 06 February 2007 - 10:02 PM

[Cobra848]

Can't wait to use it on some helpful humans, ehh mutants.

[Klarin]

A few questions. First, is that green stuff supposed to be radiation? If so, why would we see it? Second, how exactly does radiation do those things mentioned in the radiation beam description?

Klarin

[Elegy]

Klarin, on Feb 7 2007, 03:03 AM, said:

A few questions. First, is that green stuff supposed to be radiation? If so, why would we see it? Second, how exactly does radiation do those things mentioned in the radiation beam description?

Klarin

I imagine the green sludge is radioactive, not that the green stuff itself is actually the radioactivity.

[Elegy]

posted on GR btw.

Is the "Cylinder" the next unit up? Or is it another ability name?

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This effect stacks with the Cylinder's effect, completely shutting down the structure if both effects are on it.

[DuRiN]

Very nice unit, seems like a late-game unit to me. I like how radiation is "marked" tbh.

[Cobra848]

The Defiler seems to be the new Desolator from RA2. But instead of killing infantry, it mutates them to being friendly. Also how they deploy their area of effect, and the Defiler can do damage to buildings.

I know I underused it in multiplayer, but sure was fun in single player. But I know it will be like a new unit, since how UaW is set up.

[Klarin]

MrSpontaneous, on Feb 7 2007, 03:38 AM, said:

The idea would be that the information is being wired into the software which then interprets and displays it so that the commander can make quicker, more informed decisions that lower their casualties and improve the war effort. It would not make sense, to display a hazard as dangerous as radiation on the mini map were it could be easily missed, rather than directly draw it on the main display screen.

Good idea: with one qualification. That kind of "data" should only be visible as an additional layer. That is, it should be able to be turned on and off in the in-game GUI, just like you would expect a real version of that kind of interface to be.

Klarin

[lord hobo]

looks nice, i swear that recon pic is in the pc zone mag

[Foshjedi2004]

Yes it was.

[SAGEKING]

sigsiggerson, on Feb 7 2007, 03:54 AM, said:

posted on GR btw.

Is the "Cylinder" the next unit up? Or is it another ability name?

The Cylinder is another Hierarchy unit that you'll see in the future

*disclaimer* Our green radiation is not representative of what radiation would look like in real life.

[DuRiN]

Thanks SAGEKING . I first thought it was some kind of weapon heh.

[Mr. Scetch]

SAGEKING-PG, on Feb 7 2007, 03:12 AM, said:

Weapons:
Radiation Bleeder (Passive): The defiler bleeds radiation as it moves. The longer it stays still, the larger the radiation area becomes around it, up to a moderate size. Radiation bleeding only works while the unit is in bleed mode (default).

Radiation beam (Default, vs. ground): The default weapon does different things to different unit types.

Vs. Infantry: Infantry hit by radiation charge take heavy damage over time. If the targets are killed by the beam, they become mutant slaves, controlled by the Hierarchy player.

Vs. Vehicles: Sprays vehicles with high-intensity toxins. Vehicles get a light DoT effect applied for a long duration that makes them reveal for the Hierarchy player.

Vs. Structures: All structures get a light DoT effect and function at half efficiency for the duration. Production and turret fire rate is slowed. This effect stacks with the Cylinder's effect, completely shutting down the structure if both effects are on it.

Now that's what I call a unique unit with unique abilites :Thumb:

If all units are this awesome, then :omg:

This is a unit I really wanted to see A unit that has different effects vs different units :bow:

sigsiggerson, on Feb 7 2007, 05:46 AM, said:

OK, in all honesty, care factor about green sludge = none

Agreed.

JeffPalmer-PG, on Feb 7 2007, 06:17 PM, said:

Sorry but to be blunt, tell George Lucas that there would be no explosions in space apart from the small amount of oxygen in the craft. You MUST throw science out the window.... its a game and the game needs to be fun and look good.

Totally agreed. It's a GAME dude, not RL science stuff!

I like the radiation of the unit

Btw, do those mutants have a timer, or are they forever ingame till they are killed?

This post has been edited by Mr. Scetch: 07 February 2007 - 01:24 PM

[Luga]

You should add the sound effect of radiation though, you know that wierd "Sparkling" ish sound you hear when people search after radiation? That would be cool, and if would be more radiation like instead of thinking "Poison gas"

[JeffPalmer-PG]

Luga, on Feb 7 2007, 06:28 PM, said:

You should add the sound effect of radiation though, you know that wierd "Sparkling" ish sound you hear when people search after radiation? That would be cool, and if would be more radiation like instead of thinking "Poison gas"

A giger counter, yeah that will be cool... Frank!

[Luga]

JeffPalmer-PG, on Feb 7 2007, 07:47 PM, said:

A giger counter, yeah that will be cool... Frank!

Yeah giger counter.

Though you guys could have said that instead of radiation, it leaks out some sort of alien gas that takes over humans mind or something, which just happend to be in a greenish hue color

[CowGoMoo]

*skimmed 90% of posts in this topic related to realism*

cool unit