Heroes of the day

[Optec]

posted on April 4th, 2009, 11:04 am

Last edited by Optec on April 4th, 2009, 1:04 pm, edited 3 times in total.

One of the features requested most in the forums were hero units, like known from some other real-time-strategy games. Till now we always stated that we do not want to include "game-defining" hero units, as Fleet Operations is focused on fleet combat. But you could read some small hints that we plan to implement something similar to hero units in the future. Well, the time has come!

Click here to read this article!

posted on April 4th, 2009, 12:02 pm

Looks awesome Looking forward to playing with them 

posted on April 4th, 2009, 12:54 pm

Aye, this has really made my day. 

posted on April 4th, 2009, 1:07 pm

Great news. But it would really be cool if once you promote your vessel to veteran some design changes also happen. Say the ship gains some new design features ( some armor plates or stuff like that for ships that gain alot of defensive value or some new hull additions for other upgrades ), and also an aura if possible. Some sort of light that sorrounds the veteran ship so it stands out from an entire fleet.

posted on April 4th, 2009, 1:08 pm

most Veteran Abilities add something new, new torpedoes, slight model changes, a new glow on the engines and similar stuff

posted on April 4th, 2009, 1:25 pm

This looks really cool.

Also, will there be any changes to the present experience system? At the moment quite a few ships get nothing, or virtually nothing for their final level (two gold bars). The Sabre doesn't get anything... the neubla, excelsior and quite a few other ships just get "all attributes increased by one".

Wonder what a veteran Tavara/Descent looks like lol

posted on April 4th, 2009, 2:12 pm

This is great guys! FO just keeps getting better and better

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on April 4th, 2009, 2:30 pm

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on April 4th, 2009, 2:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

You guys rock! I'll never cease to be amazed by the things you guys manage to conjure out of the A2 engine--keep up the truly spectacular work 


On a related note, just looking at those screenshots it seems like it is going to be awfully hard to tell the officer ranks from the veterans: maybe you could change the veteran symbol to a gold star, rather than the double black bar with gold trimming (as it is so similar, and I want to be able to find my own veterans fast.... and target my opposition's veterans even faster  )

posted on April 4th, 2009, 3:23 pm

Any Idea when this will be implemented?!?!?

posted on April 4th, 2009, 3:24 pm

Well i believe the next patch however idk when it will come out...

posted on April 4th, 2009, 3:31 pm

Very interesting.

posted on April 4th, 2009, 3:42 pm

I had a question that I was never sure about.  Do ships gane experience from destroying stations?

posted on April 4th, 2009, 3:46 pm

I had a question that I was never sure about.  Do ships gane experience from destroying stations?

Yes, anything with 'worthXP = XXX' in the odf will give exp.

posted on April 4th, 2009, 5:04 pm

Incredible.  Simply Incredible.

[mimesot]

posted on April 4th, 2009, 5:15 pm

Last edited by mimesot on April 4th, 2009, 5:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.

You quasi created a comlete new rank  you are really amazing!!! You are the heroes of the day!!!