[Mission Concept] Alpha vs Omega

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A long one here. Not sure anyone wants to read.

Announcer
Colonel Orlan
“You made it. Thank God. I don’t know how much longer will i be able to survive.”
“Based on the info i hacked from the Dominion, that is the experimental war machine, Xanthos.”
“Luckily, i tapped into another secret project, the Omega Base-Defense Terra-tron.”

Mission used
Nova Covert Ops - End Game (final mission)

Change
_ Convert the 5 Gorgon docks into 3 Command Centers outpost. Each outpost have 1 Command Center, 2 SCVs (that will be rebuilt if destroyed), 2 mineral field.
_ 2 Gorgon docks near the base turned into expo.
_ Nova base converted into bases for Coop Commanders.
_ Orlan’s base is in the South-East corner behind your coop base. The Terra-tron is constructed here.

Main objective
+Scenario
The Xanthos will attack 4 times at the 7th, 13th, 18th and 23rd. The Terra-tron will join to defend. Every time the Xanthos is defeated, both the Xanthos and the Terra-tron will rush back to their respective base to repair. Each time the Xanthos is defeated, it will return the next time with more weapons.

+Weapon
. Flame Throwers - 0.5s - 7 range
10 (+10 vs light) (casual/normal)
20 (+20 light) (hard/brutal)

. Raigun - 3s - 13 range
50 (+50 armored) (casual/normal)
75 (+75 armored) (hard)
80 (+80 armored) (brutal)

. Missile Pods - similar to Archangel missile. Does 40 heavy damage to an area (highlighted in red) for a short time but can be dodged. Hard and Brutal double the number of missiles launches. (more Red areas)

. Assault Drone Platform - unleash Assault Drone similar to Galleon but have 8 drones and damage x2 compare to Galleon’s drones. Hard and Brutal increase the number of Drone to 12.

+Xanthos Health
Unlike the campaign, the Xanthos has 6000 Health & 1 armour (+3500 Health and 1 armour each time it’s repaired, up to 16500 Health & 4 armour), NOT individual weapons. Reduce its health to 0 will force it to retreat. Its weapons can not be destroyed like in campaign.

+Xanthos Waves
1st time it always has a Flame Thrower. (+ Railgun in Hard and Brutal)
2nd time it has Flame Thrower + Railgun. (+Missile Pods in Hard and Brutal)
3rd time it has Missile Pods + Flame Thrower + Railgun. (+Assault Drone Platform in Hard and Brutal)
4th time it has all weapons

+Additional enemies
Xanthos is escorted with a group of enemies & 2-3 Hybrids (the 4th waves, all hybrids escort will be Greater ones). Each time the Xanthos lose 2500 Health, it will erect a Plasma Shield (1000 shield / 1500 shield in Brutal) and a group of Hybrids + units will be spawned nearby to help it.

In Brutal, Leviathan / Mothership / Loki will join the defense when the Xanthos is repaired after the 3rd wave. Loki can use missile pods (anti air spell), defensive matrix (200 shield spell), yamato cannon (300).

+Terratron
If the Terra-tron is destroyed while fighting the Xanthos, nothing will affect the mission but you will have a harder time because the Terra-tron is a good meat shield in the fight against the Xanthos. (similar to how the Bailus is in Parts & Parcels) It will always be rebuilt for the next defense against the Xanthos.

Terra-tron deal damage similar to a Planetary Fortress. Have 6000 Health & 3 armours. It is considered as Building (banelings deal extra damage against it), Heroic, and both as Ground & Air (Scourge and banelings can attack it).

+Enemy Base
If you can destroy the enemy base before the 4th wave. The 4th wave will start in 10s but 2 enemy nukes will be launched at the location the Xanthos awake. One will be launched at 3s and another at 0.5s before it awakes to clear all units/turrets/nests/mines camping the area.

The enemy in the base will continuously rebuild and replace its defensive force the same way the bases in Oblivion express and Mist Opportunity do. There are also Greater Hybrids stationed in the base. Additional reinforcements will also teleport into the base and add the defense every 3-5 minutes.

Optional objective
The 3 Command Center outposts will be attacked by very large force at 10th, 16th and 20th minute. You need to defend the respective outpost when they are attacked. If the Command center is destroyed, the outpost platform will exploded, everything include the mineral fields will be destroyed.

Destroying the enemy base before the attack on the outposts being launched will force all the remaining intended outpost waves toward the Xanthos to help escort it. Optional objectives being marked as complete in this situation.

Brief Summary & explanation
_The Xanthos will attack in total 4 times toward Orlan’s base. Everytime the Terra-tron will be built at Orlan base and intercept the Xanthos.
_If you destroy the base before the Xanthos launch the 4th attack (meaning it has the 16500 Health, 4 armour and all weapons), the 4th wave will begin with 2 nukes being called down before the Xanthos awake to clear all Camping units/buildings.
_If you clear all the base and start the 4th wave before the optional objectives, the remaining outpost waves that are supposed to attack the outposts will instead attack-move toward the Xanthos location and aid the Xanthos in its 4th offense. Optional objective will be marked as complete regardless whether you kill the Xanthos before the outpost waves or not.

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Definitely sounds pretty epic, but not sure about including the Terratron, it certainly is a cool…thing, but I feel like its also a bit silly.

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It’s a good model. I like to include it in a Titanic mech war long ago lol.

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This is a scenario, not an objective.

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“Ackchually”

That was very nitpicky :smiley:

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Minor edit of the ‘Main Objective’

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I think the Leviathan/Mothership/Loki should only come on Brutal, but not Hard. Otherwise seems pretty good to me! :grin:

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  • Too short a mission. 20th minute final attack means that it won’t last past 22, and there’s really no way to extend it.
  • Optional objective at 5 minutes is painful for the average low macro player, see: P&P’s bonus objective nerf
  • Destroying enemy base to end the mission means that people will likely focus on that instead of fighting the Xanthos the 2nd time. None of the enemy bases in MO or OE are tough to destroy.
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Why not have the bonus objectives spawn at 9, 14, and 18 minutes? Between the xanthos waves?

What’s the fail condition? Losing all buildings like in DoN? Could just cheese with terran commanders. Maybe if the terratron is destroyed, the xanthos makes its way toward the repair site, and if the terratron wreckage dies, mission ends in defeat.

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Technically, Orlan is a mercenary leader, not a colonel. Haha, and I refuse to entertain the idea of him as a mission narrator if he doesn’t come with an alternate set of dialogue for when Mira Han is one of the commanders. Most of the Terran cast hate his guts, anyway.

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I think the concept is solid. The only thing I would suggest is change the Xanthos’ name as it was hijacked by General Davis not Amon and maybe add maybe 5 minutes more on those objective timers. I generally dislike missions that take less than 30 minutes to finish.

Edit: A good mission plot and setting for this is that Amon is assaulting Dead Man’s Port (the Merc haven in WoL) and is deploying a prototype mech created by the Moebius Foundation (the predecessor of the Xanthos). Only chance is to battle it with the merc’s ultimate weapon: The Terratron.

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Major redesigns was implemented.

I thought people here dislike mission that takes more than 20 mins to complete. lol

About the plot, i have been thinking of having Orlan hijack his convict ship and start running from Mira until he got caught up in an experimental run of the Xanthos. If there is a different character that can do the narration, i would have put them as announcer but we seems to run short on that.

Just give me another character that can be a good narration for this mission. I will try to make a sound narration for them. LOL

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Everyone is different that’s why we have so many different kinds of maps, I personally prefer maps that can in fact be speed ran in some way, some people dont, you cant please everyone it’s impossible, so dont worry about it.

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There’s people who want to speedrun everything and then there’s people like me who like to build up massive armies and destroy everything with them at a leisurely pace.

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Well if you go with my suggested scenario you could have Orlan be the Narrator. Maybe even have him take some shots at Mira for backstabbing him.

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Add dialogue for Orlan and Mira special
“Thank God u- Why are you here?”
“Good job running from your ice bed.”
“Anybody but you.”
“Just to be clear. You’re right back to your beauty nap after this.”
“uhm… Parlay?”
“We’re not pirates” - Matt

Terratron being destroyed.
“i shouldn’t come here.”
“Missing your bed?”
“No, no. I am fine. Anything is fine… anything but that.”

After successfully defend the command outposts.
“Hey, Mira. I know you like some mineral. Would you mind pay some attention to these freshly harvested mineral and close one eye about the whole ‘icy’ thingy?”
“Well, you got a good point but i don’t think darling will agree.”

After some times.
“Hey, big guy. Can we just forget all the bad history and looking forward?”
“Oh, you got quite a HISTORY Mr. Orlan.”
“You’re giving me too much credit. I am just a guy on Deadman’s port doing his thing.”
“Wanted for violation of unauthorised documents of the Dominion, piracy, tax avoidance, conducting illegal businesses, vandalizing public property and numerous other charges. You are to be arrested and set on trial before the Supreme Court of the Dominion. And that’s not counting that one time in.”
“Just cut me some loose rope this time, will ya? I even held out this long for you guys to catch those mad Moebius guys and help wrecking their big gun. Let this time deed be payment for past debt. How about it? I swear i’ll be good. The next time you need something with code and files, i will even do it for free. You know i am good at that, don’t you? I will be very beneficial to you. Just don’t turn me back into frozen meat.”
“Loose rope but Mira will be the one holds it.”
“It’s a deal then. You got my word.”

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This forum needs a “haha” react

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just <3 is enough :slight_smile:

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I’ve not used the Editor at all. Maybe it would be possible for you to make these changes and get it into the Arcade for our intrepid Devs to play?

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I tried but GalEdit makes no sense to me. I can’t understand what is what from the interface. Had a lot of troubles finding a good tutorial in the past and couldn’t find anything.

And i am more of a fiction writer than modder