Enemies

[pizzaoverhead]

Movement

• Ground: Regular movement, blocked by structures, water etc.
• Jumping: Can skip barriers N cells wide. Could potentially cause some weapons (e.g. rockets) to miss (by being invulnerable/collisionless at the peak for example)
• Flying: Ignores all barriers, could need special turrets/weapons to attack
• Swimming/amphibious: Ignores water as a barrier
• Subterranean: Ignores structures but not water
• Burrowing: Like jumping, but underground
• Tunnel maker: creates subterranean paths that regular ground moving characters can use. Could be temporary/close over time.
• Starting or emerging from underground travel could be blocked using concrete (similar to C&C Tiberian Sun).

  Weapons

• Melee: Requires target adjacency
• Ranged: Doesn't require adjacency, requires line of sight (blocked by barriers)
• Indirect: Doesn't require adjacency or line of sight
• Area of effect: Affects everything within N cells. Could falloff from the origin

  Projectile type

• Active homing (as used by worms)
• Unguided (e.g. rockets, shotgun shells, fired at last target location)
• Unguided with target leading: Takes target movement into account
• Instant: No travel time (e.g. machine gun bullets)
• Spawning: Spawns new mob
• Barrier: Temporarily prevents movement within the targeted cell
• Static: Occupies a cell (visibly or not), triggered when the cell is entered (e.g. landmines)

  Status effects

• Health drain (e.g. poison, fire)
• Healing
• Speed reduction
• Rate of fire reduction
• Temporary inability to fire weapons
• Armour power drain
• Disable armour power regeneration
• Prevent personal bots from being launched
• Destroy all nearby bots
• Stealth: Low or zero visibility
• Targeting: Opposite of stealth. Nearby bases immediately attack.

By combining attributes like these, you can produce complex enemies: For example, a biter that lays eggs that attack the player when stepped on, a walking hive that spawns swarms of flies that chase the player and slows them down, or a sentry that guards areas before calling for backup.

[Xerrass]

cool idea lets see when i will find time to start implementing this !

[Xerrass]

ok i have to see what i can implement here help will be apriciated