Upgrade for phase gate.

Stripetail · January 2013

What would everyone think about a Phase Gate upgrade that increases the gate's size and allows it to transport Exos as well as Marines?

Volcano · January 2013

That would be a bloody huge phase gate

Stripetail · January 2013

The gate to Oblivion itself!

Benson · January 2013

Would have to only a 1 way PG until the other side gets upgraded as well, otherwise I'm all for it!

nsguy · January 2013

Not a bad idea, but could make current phase gate placement tricky unless the devs come up with a design that takes little room. You'd have to place the phase gate with the knowledge that if upgraded it will expand and accommodate more space. Bugs may include the phase gate expanding through an object or wall.

Benson · January 2013

I would say that if there is not enough space, the PG cannot be upgraded, forcing comms to place Exo-Gates out in the open and vulnerable

ScardyBob · January 2013

Exo-PGs no, but ARC/MAC-PGs yes.

Benson · January 2013

ARC PGs....thats gonna give me nightmares XD

AurOn2 · January 2013

i'd be more worried about arcs in pgs my fruend. exos are pale meat when you think about 50 arcs popping up behind a hive and exploding it. /shiver

semihandy · January 2013

If you put two phase gates really close to each other, half of an exo will make it through.

nsguy · January 2013

There could be a timer put on the phase gate in the event that this idea becomes OP, such that once a non-marine unit goes through it it requires a cooldown time to get going again. I do envision problems though: "ok Exo wait for us and then go", *Exo uses PG*, "No you idiot!", *Exo eaten by Onos*, "We can't help you, we're on cooldown!". They'll learn...

Lofung · January 2013

yes

schkorpio · January 2013

haha you could have a lot of fun if phase gates were big enough to fit exo's and buildings in them - hey comm we need some turrets - build them in the base, then chuck them through the phase gate portal style :)

I think the phase gate should work more like the protoss air transport, where first holograms appear around the phase gate and they then materialise into players (basically like the spawn points i guess)

so that aliens will know how many people are coming through and have a chance to make a descision to fight or run.

Stripetail · January 2013

It would definitely require a bit more planning out by the commander if they used one, that being said, even with the small ones I've seen some pretty strange placements for phase gates. (Had one in Veil where half of the phase was inside of a massive pipe!) You had to crouch to use it. Maybe an overlay when first placing a Phase that shows its current size, with an outline of the upgraded one's size.

Increasing the cooldown when an exo phases through would be good as well, gives the guys in front of you time to move out of the way.

I don't think anyone besides pure Marine players would want Arcs to ever have the ability to flood through phase gates. That would be a TERRIFYING thing to see if you were aliens.

CrushaK · January 2013

The canonical reason why Phase Gates only transport marines is that they can't reassemble the materials used for Exos, MACs and ARCs on the other side.

DC_Darkling · January 2013

you know.. that HAS been bothering me..

NS1 = contact
NS2 = war

And jetpacks are still prototypes? Just get a new advanced tech building. Shove JP and exo on that. (lets just asume they also finished testing the 'new' exos)
Then use the prototype for... drumm roll... prototypes.
Make this machine phasegate a prototype... done?
You could even make it so that, because it is a prototype, it may fail like after a certain x phases it will shutdown for a while to reload energy or something.

Upgrade for phase gate.

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