Custom Squads

[GodlikeDennis]

Everyone would already have all the weapon files required, they'd just mix and match etc.

(Still a bad idea)

[SublimeSnugz]

(Still a bad idea)

Indeed i do not like this idea either.

[Spieel]

^^ +1

[SK8ERatWAR]

I do like this idea! i'd love to once have a thompson in a normal rifleman squad..

[GodlikeDennis]

The person you're playing against might not though. Go play CoH:O. There's a hero rifle squad that starts with BARs and nades and a volks squad with mp40s and assault nades that you can build as your first unit. It's just not a good idea.

[Chancellor]

Bad and stupid idea.  The current squads are fine.

[Spieel]

The person you're playing against might not though. Go play CoH:O. There's a hero rifle squad that starts with BARs and nades and a volks squad with mp40s and assault nades that you can build as your first unit. It's just not a good idea.

  That just sounds plain wrong. I guess I won't be trying COH:O after all.

How about instead of changing weapons and stats of the squads, why not include a option for personalizing the skins for the the infantry, that way you'd still have personalized troops and no problems with balance? (just a thought)

[White Dot]

Impossible , if you made a unit with 5 LMG's not only would it be unbalanced but imaginary to other players , there is no way other players can see a unit since YOU are the one who made it on your comp. Its like the Skin bug where you can have different skins but only you see them.

If you look at my original suggestion it says it would be based on a point system which the devs would set up to control your squads firepower

[Akalonor]

Thats not the point. It Is Impossible Why does no one understand this ??

[GodlikeDennis]

It's not impossible. It would be if players simply imported their own squads into the game files but not if ingame there was actually a function for it.

By your logic there wouldn't be custom paint jobs/banners in DoW or customised weapon loadouts in CoD.

You just need to make it that the number of men/weaponry/health is able to be read by the receiving computer, which wouldn't be hard so long as you only used the weapon files already used in the game.

Make it so it would be something like:

Build custom squad:
American recruits
   cost:240mp
   squadsize:8
   squad health:240
   weapon id:1BAR 1Thompson 1m1a1carbine 5m1garands
   skin id:american riflemen

I'm no coder or programmer but I'm sure it's possible if you just use the game files already there.

[Akalonor]

CoD can have costum loadouts because its on a server ( like WoW ) that is connected and updating constantly. doing this would require uploading each unit and it would make your game incompatible with those who dont have the same unit. I dont think this belongs in EF at all.

[cephalos]

of course it won't work with EF. But nice idea for new mod.... 

[GamblerSK]

ou man, theres no problem to have a custom squad from files which are already in game just like Dennis said, try to understand this, its all about combinations of things which are already in-game, so you on your pc or someone else will see a custom squad without any problem because you have capabilities to see it

[Seeme]

Akaloner's right, if not impossible, really really hard.

[GamblerSK]

i dont know how much it takes to do it working but then isnt any problem with displaying those custom squads on opposite computer