Two questions:

1. Is retaking French Guiana going to be a mission (the first one?) because it would make sense as it would be essential for the ECA to get the Solaris system back together?
2. How powerful is the Sprut-SDs cannon compared to the Kodiak?

Very cool update - btw, does this mean that hypothetically if a USA aircraft is shot down by a Wotan, that the pilot dies? Or is it just trivia.

At first I had no idea what that meant, but after a quick search on TvTropes I can only say this:

"Stand aside, everyone! I take LARGE STEPS!"

This post has been edited by DragonNOR: 22 Dec 2012, 14:47

Ah, Russia is regaining the initiative, the Pandora attack and the US invasion of France, the crushing defeat of their navy, they need to cripple the ECA by logistical means. Hopefully, Russia will drain the ECA of its power by knocking out their satellites, as well as sparing their men from the horrors of the Solaris solar blast.

To me, if you played DoW 2, you could a do Avitus better than the actor who voiced him.

This post has been edited by Planardweller: 22 Dec 2012, 16:08

The voices of the ECA units are perfect, great job.

Is ECA OST will be just like the song in the video?

BTW, I was expecting a missile Heavy AA, but i was wrong. This wotan is like a hybrid between avenger and microwave.

Reminds me of the GDI Disruptor as well.

I'm guessing that the USA will dispatch General Thorn or Griffon to retake the Space Center since the ECA is unlikely to take it themselves since it's busy in Europe. Either that or the GLA will take it for themselves and use it to fry Russia, the US, China, and the ECA like what they did with the USA's particle cannons.

This post has been edited by (2142)Gen.Reaper: 22 Dec 2012, 15:50

I would assume the missions will be placed throughout the war, so this might in fact have an effect on a later mission where you're suddenly left without Solaris support and have to make do.

Is it known, that russians already can fully control Solaris network, especially military-modified satellites (if there are any?). Possibly they can move and disable satellites themselves, but not really anything more - it says the satellite was de-orbited (not shot down with anti-satellite missiles).

It's obvious that for in-game purposes that is reasonable to allow capturing and using opponents SW, but in-setting, after the incident with the particle cannon stolen by GLA, it would be really stupid to not account for such cases during design phase.

Also, MARS, does ESA (the space agency) use SKYLON or its relative?

This post has been edited by Planardweller: 22 Dec 2012, 16:08

When I saw the image with the Christmas gifts I thought "Wait, why is it three boxes left? It's Christmas the day after tomorrow, so it should only be two left!" THEN I realized the tiny cutural difference: in Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia the 24th is the big day and in the Anglo-American world it is the 25th. Merry Christmas!

Exactly same damage as the Kodiak.

This post has been edited by MR.Kim: 22 Dec 2012, 17:01

This might be totally off-topic but am i the only one that thinks the skylifter looks adorable in there?

The thing basically looks like a really fat puppy in a box.

Which rotors

A blue metal skin

ok i lost track of where the thought process should have ended.

Keep in mind that the last bit of information is from an in-universe news picture; just like RL news channels, they latch onto a headline the moment something happens and may get things wrong in the process. Normally, a Solaris satellite is expected to remain in a synchronous orbit above its power station. The fact that this one was 'de-orbited' had the immediate result that the ground station was no longer provided with solar power, but in practice, it could mean that the satellite either went down or was put on a different orbit i.e. moved. In any case, those ESA facilities just became an important war asset and you'll soon learn what happened to it. As for the SKYLON, this kind of thing doesn't seem relevent in the grand scheme of things so...I'm neither saying they do use it nor do I say that they don't.

On the voice recording: a few of those actually sound like just plain unaccented english rather then having a Norwegian tint. Only a few those, the rest I could definantly identify as sounding like a Scandinavian.

about Skylon - it was my general curiosity about a space project i'm really interested in and it seems appropriate for ESA to continue their support of a british development which can replace space shuttle.

what you are saying is essentially the equivalent of an EM pulse in vanilla.

mars are you going to incorporate the whole storyline into a PDF once 2.0 comes out?

oh?
OH!
didnt catch the actual meaning of the name

I want the purple one next!

At the beginning I though VDV is going to take out / capture some important military control centers in the US until the text said "a contingent of (Russian) 2.000 soldiers". Then I thought how the hell these only 2K soldiers are going to re-take whole military control of the US.

Now that makes sense. I wonder against whom will Solaris be used against - US or ECA.

P.S. VDV must have been accompanied by conscripts since they managed to capture the enemy structure.

Wait, will the particle uplink be able to be shot at other things in space?
And the solaris?


You know what i'm thinking

Beam-o-war time!

I really like this new update, and the addition of SAP, playing on the RF side.
Hope to take control of the ESA facilities, can give more options to the Russians, now that U.S. joined the war...

This post has been edited by CheoRock: 22 Dec 2012, 19:30

Detail nazi . I think we would all like to see simple inconsistencies cleared up, than be allowed to perpetuate. I mean if we were talking a wrongly attributed General, unit cost, or in game ability in the description, surely that would be worth pointing out? I generally don't comment on the boards unless I wish to give opinion or constructive criticism.


On which I have to make mention; the fatass airship is indeed a lovely model in my opinion, reminiscent of another game I used to play and I do think it adds a mice touch to the ECA faction, much like the Chinese factions airship also does. My only concern with the airships though is that they appear to be able to tank a tremendous amount of AA. In terms of balance they can really hog up the Russians or the GLA...not so much the Americans Raptors tend to get them en route and China again has enough flak to make short-work thereof.

I feel the addition of the Wotan will be another excellent point of uniqueness, love the model and concept I guess it might feel a lot like the ZH Avenger in action just with more power.

This post has been edited by Genmotty: 22 Dec 2012, 19:37

"Tell the gunner his aim SUCKS!"

Very interesting update, also i've been hit by the tha new upgrade for the bmd, it will give more uniqueness to orlov that can displace and change his troops in matters of seconds...


i know that The Hunter has banned every gameplay question until xmas but i'd like to know if the bmd after the sprut sd has an immobile turret (since is a tank destroyer) or if the turret still retains the ability to traverse

lol i was wondering if everyone had forgotten or neglected to read that post by The_hunter... was beginning to wonder if he was going to start can-trolling us