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A Red Alert 2 mod for the OpenRA game engine
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Reinvent Allied Spy Satellite and Allied Spy Radar Sabotage effects. #639

Open ShikiSuen opened 4 years ago

ShikiSuen commented 4 years ago

Currently, US Spy Satellite is useless in OpenRA (see #406).

I guess it can be reinvented into a tertiary superweapon (for instance):

Everytime using it, the user can see the entire maps exposed for 5 seconds (except explosed area), and show the last exposed full-map contents as a static image in gray scale constantly in all areas out of players' units' sights. (Something similar to Red Alert 3, but it also shows the last seen position of all objects on the map.)

Soviet Spy Plane also leaves last seen contents on the map in a similar way.

Comparatively, Yuri's Psychic Reveal doesn't need reinvention.

Any better idea?

ShikiSuen commented 4 years ago

Also readdressing the sabotaged radar effects (by Yuri UFO and Allied Spy):

When Yuri UFO jamming a radar building, the affected player's radar screen shows TV Static Noise, and all areas out of player units' sights are also shown as "static TV Static Noise" until the jamming ends (either the UFO jamming action stopped or the radar building gets removed).

Similar effects when Allied Spy gets into enemy radar building. However, the lost data of revealed maps are not recoverable and will be shown in whole-black after the radar sabotage countdown ends.