Dynamic corpse health

[reivanen]

What i was thinking of would be something like dynamically adjusting corpse metal value based on health. The health value could be made so that when it gets below 50% the unit is set to dead and the corpse metal would be calculated from remaining hp.

This way some really cool new gameplay features could be introduced - the more devastating weapons you use the less wreckage metal is available after killing the unit. This could also balance rez/capture imbalance as you would have the choice of shooting at the wreckage after a unit dies to prevent it from being resurrected/make the resurrection more expensive.

The unit died/corpse/debris transformations could all be accompanied by appropriate effects and the hp threshold values could be specified globally/per unit

How hard would something like this be to implement?

[Pressure Line]

easy, because its already done :) do it through COB and unit corpse tdfs (be prepared for a lot of copypasta)

remember kids, just because it isnt in BA doesnt mean it isnt possible!

[Saktoth]

It is in BA, actually. When a unit dies, whether it becomes a debris or wreck or disappears entirely depends on the overkill. From there, AoE weapons easily nuke wrecks and debris.

[Sheekel]

they had this in OTA as well