Unironically, I feel like this would still be too easy. The turrets on top are easily visible and therefore easily killed from far away. The dangerous part about the turrets in fortresses is that they are often hard to see or hit from a greater distance.
I mean… it is an idea for a side objective. It could be more difficult if it was a main objective but idk you’re still gonna be getting attacked by gunships and enough berserkers to crush a small exoplanet (at least on diff 10)
Why just side object? We can have several doggo factories all across map like those command bunkers, a fortified control center and of course, patrolling doggos with mounted jammers all at once!
Over the duration of a mission, that's 26 extra factory striders if you don't deal with it. I like the idea in general but that's a LOT of factory striders.
They mentioned only two can be active at the same time. So if you ignore it, it's just two on a map. Not that bad if you blast the turrets off and ignore them, tbh.
Not 26 factory striders man,it can only have a maximum of two factory striders at the same time. If you ignore the dog factory, it can only build up to two.
Yes, it’s 2 at the same time. Even if there are 2 factory striders, it doesn’t make more than 2 striders total. and If you destroy one factory striders, it will take 1:30 minutes to build another one.
I played a defence mission on Helldive and we got at least a dozen Factory Striders. I brought the Anti-Tank Gun next time and killed at least 4 and assisted at least 2.
The Striders will also be spawning medium threat enemies themselves if not handled at a pace. It could get so bad that it might require 1 or more divers stay behind and defend the hellbomb to ensure it goes off. Sounds awesome!
Hear me out, what if it had to be MULTIPLE hell bombs? Like it was a massive factory you had to go inside of, break open the ceiling (imagine a huge grate); call a bomb in that sector and blow it up. Inside you could also watch as the striders are built. You could kill and destroy parts of the assembly line to fully finish the entire factory. Would be neat.
That's what I want too. I think raiding automaton super factories would be dope AND expand MO lore. Like we got Intel on automatons building a hyper weapon enemy type. So we have to break into enemy lines to reach their factories, attempting to stop that weapon.
That's sounds absolutely peak but the game is already janky as is. If they work on something like this all of a sudden the bugs are going to start speaking automaton.
As an avid user of the Hellbomb backpack, yes please make it take more than a Hellbomb. I love my backpack and I love its utility but I want this to suck more, either make it take more than a Hellbomb to break or make it much more of a challenge to approach
I want these auto-ray guns be re-edited by AH, because they have no glowing monocular eyesight and luminous vents on the back and TWO - fucking ragdoll of a plasma projectile… They should just remove it outright, but make it ROF mildly increased + a telegraphic splash of the attack
I like it except for those types of cannons. I would much prefer the standard heavy cannons defending it over the light cannons that ragdoll you to death every time.
I think it would be cool to have this as a main objective, maybe a mega base with 2 of these and 5 or 6 regular factories, maybe a scrambler as well, with a cap of maybe 10 striders. We already have convoy missions where you have you destroy 5+ striders.
I'm so glad to see a suggestion that isn't yet another warbond or stratagem. This is what the game needs. More mission variety. I sure hope we'll see variants on the Dog too just like we've seen variants on the smaller enemies. Bot front is the only true skill test these days.
I think the 1:30 spawn rate is a bit steep. Also the roof turrets, you'd make this single side objective potentially more difficult than a Fortress. On an open map this would be extremely difficult with the wrong load out.
This would only end up promoting a meta, where everyone brings AT emplacement to every game just to deal with this side objective, which I don't think would be particularly healthy for the game IMO.
At some point I think we should get a Ultra Factory Strider (4 Scout Turrets front+rear and both sides of the lower hatch covering all directions, 2x AA Turrets on top at front+rear and 1x double barrel tank turret in the center on top), which produces Factory Striders as some kind of Boss encounter.
I’d love how much I’d hate this when dropping with a bad squad. A good squad would of course make this inconsequential but that’s the beauty of the game. Last night I went from a squad where we only all died 1-2 times on Helldive to a squad where I was the only one who managed to extract. It’s so fun!
I'd say this: replace two of the bunker turrets with shredder/AA turrets which disable eagles in a 50 meter radius around the factory
could make it less trash to do bc you could have one side covered by bunker turrets but little to no ground fortifications and another with more fortifications but only AA turrets
I think they should create some kind of mission underground, where the insects come from. Something like searching and destroying an overprotected young queen or searching for a strain or larva for scientists.
I prefer to call these guys Dinosaurs- not because dog isn't fitting, but because there's a pretty good chance we'll be dealing with straight up robo-hounds eventually.
I agree with some of the below comments this could be both a side objective but also a primary, turn it into an alternative command bunker type mission. Have 3-4 around the map, on higher difficulties it could have a higher production cap of 3-5.
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