Human Harvesters

[SirPHz]

Need a complete rework, the stress these retarded harvesters cause is making my blood rocket.

[Lfod]

They are pure trash right now.

[Panzrim]

You can drive them yourself.

[Rain Ikari]

Originally posted by Panzrom:

You can drive them yourself.

If you can get into one, lol. The entrance ramp only drops down when you're close AND the harvester is motionless... which very rarely happens because they're almost always in motion, moving back and forth, trying to change direction. You have to wait and hope it'll figure out how to get to a resource deposit/refinery where it'll stop moving to do what it wants to do.

[Swiftbear]

Don't have the game yet but just from looking at videos the harvester looks way to unreasonably big, like huge. So out of proportion to the size of everything else. Not sure why.

[Shams]

Yup those Human Harvester its a nightmare....

[BR|sCip]

please fix the harvester asap cant play

[Chris]

Originally posted by Swiftbear:

Don't have the game yet but just from looking at videos the harvester looks way to unreasonably big, like huge. So out of proportion to the size of everything else. Not sure why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWY3mRWCzdw

I believe this was what the deve was going for.

And god bless him for keeping it that size.

[OnLY //]

There is bad driving AI and then there is this. These guys do a 27 point turn in an empty desert to turn around and somehow manage to get stuck on a pebble.
f*** me is it fun to be stuck on 0 resources for 10 minutes because the AI can not figure out how to turn left.
It is a shame, because i love the premise and atmosphere of this game.

[Dahak]

Originally posted by Swiftbear:

Don't have the game yet but just from looking at videos the harvester looks way to unreasonably big, like huge. So out of proportion to the size of everything else. Not sure why.

It is that big and I absolutely love it. The AI being ♥♥♥♥ at it is aggravating, but I wouldn't want a smaller one. When you are on foot the things are just amazing to see and driving them is surprisingly fun. Particularly when some enemy armored car thinks it can kill you because you are unarmed. Squish.

[Dahak]

What I hope for is some kind of aircraft that uses that big landing pad on the back to haul resources back to the refineries. They can come with one which will limit their range a bit but you can build more to make them more efficient. That eliminates the need to dock the things entirely but means you have to be careful not to have the hauler shot down.

Even if they don't go with an aircraft version, you could use some kind of smaller hauler truck that docks easier. Thats what a real corporation would do anyway. You don't see the massive dragline or bucket wheel excavators personally trundling back and forth to the refining sites for a reason.

[Lying Sack Of Fun]

I agree. Those harvesters are a headache. lol I was having a blast and scouting the enemy base only to find a harvester hanging onto the side of a refinery. Came back to base to find my 2 harvesters doing the same ha ha!

[Swiftbear]

So the harvester in Dune makes sense though, it looks like it would be deployed for long periods of time could be months or even years. That it not only collects but processes minerals / spice / whatever onboard and maybe aircraft fly in and pick up the finished product. I don't know the lore about it in Dune so just guessing.

Just saying for how big the one is in Silica that just collects and brings it back to a refinery in a short time (which its like the size of the refinery), that's why its size don't make sense to me.

[Burnt Toast]

At the very least, the dev should make it possible to spawn more harvestors at refineries if one dies and make smaller harvesters available at higher tech levels.

["Dubbed one too many names."]

Hmmm... Since the current harvesters have a helipad, why not add a mineral transport?

A heli flies back and forth between the harvester and its factory?

It doesn't have to have a fancy animation, just a simple flyby.

[Wolf King]

Originally posted by Dahak:

What I hope for is some kind of aircraft that uses that big landing pad on the back to haul resources back to the refineries. They can come with one which will limit their range a bit but you can build more to make them more efficient. That eliminates the need to dock the things entirely but means you have to be careful not to have the hauler shot down.

Even if they don't go with an aircraft version, you could use some kind of smaller hauler truck that docks easier. Thats what a real corporation would do anyway. You don't see the massive dragline or bucket wheel excavators personally trundling back and forth to the refining sites for a reason.

really good ideas here