Alpha
Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
A new Overwatch support option. Allows an Overwatch Officer to deploy up to X (5?) Marines from the Sulaco Hanger bay to an outdoors area within 5 squares of a droppod beacon.
Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
- Interesting new support option that allows for additional strategic and tactical possibilities via direct reinforcements.
- Faster return to the action for marines.
- Reduces the effectiveness of aliens/preds camping the shuttles like a bitch.
- Sulaco Hangar level gains a 'drop pod' facility.
- Marines standing in the 5 1x1 droppod stalls in the drop pod facility are eligible to be deployed by droppod to a designated location within 5 squares of a drop pod beacon.
- Overwatch Officers can remotely launch the drop pods from their Overwatch Console. They will be told the number of marines ready in the drop pods, their name, role, and general condition (per the crew console computer).
- After being launched, the Droppods have a short delay before they appear at their designated landing positions.
- Droppods push away and knockdown mobs within a one tile radius of their landing, while dealing minor brute damage, or major brute damage on a direct impact. The drop pods themselves work similarly to anchored lockers that the marines open and exit upon deployment (they can be destroyed/hacked apart like tables).
- Squad leaders normally have and utilize drop pod beacons.
- Obviously drop pods cannot deploy inside caverns or indoors.
Coding. Spriting for the drop pod sprite.
