Dear all,
A new game mode has been planned for and will be one of the 2 additional game modes to be added into the game, free for all existing customers once it's tested and deployed.
Survival
You and your friends have been surrounded. Enemies come from all directions and will wipe you out the moment anyone slips up.
Survival is a co-op multiplayer or single player (co-op with bots still under consideration) game mode that is along side the standard skirmish battle mode.
Survival games will have different maps that will be designed to suit the needs of the game mode.
Difficulty
There'll still be the 3 difficulty modes - Easy, Normal and Hard AIs. Based on the factions assigned to each AI, ships and fleets will be spawned to attack your base after an initial timer runs out.
Thus you'll have a reasonable amount of time to build up your defenses. Harvesting is still enabled for additional funds.
Economy
On top of harvesting and initial credits, you can also earn credits by destroying enemy vessels. For every capital ship destroyed, you'll earn 1/3 of its total HP. Ie, a UNC Medium Frigate yields 333 credits. A fighter is worth 100 credits apiece and a bomber, 250 credits apiece.
Co-op
In a co-op game, with a maximum of 4 players, all 4 players will be spawned in the SAME sector, in the middle, each with their own base structure in a diamond formation.
The game feel will be similar to campaign mission 13, except that the waves will be increasingly harder to deal with.
Time Limit
For the standard survival mode - there'll be a fixed time limit for each mode. Right now, the numbers are 10 minutes for easy, 25 minutes for normal, 45 minutes for hard. They're NOT the final numbers.
SIEGE BREAKER mode
A planned deviation from Survival. This is not an additional game mode, but rather a small mod from the main mode.
In this mode, every enemy spawning point will have a command center. Upon its destruction, you'll stop an AI from spawning further ships and existing ships that belongs to that particular AI will cease to function.
- The destruction of each command center yields 25,000 credits to all players.
- Waves will NEVER end, no time limit
- You win when you destroy all the enemy command centers while withstanding endless waves of ships.
Please discuss your thoughts in the discussion topic named - "Survival and Siege Breaker"