Pilots - Just HP?

[MerlinCross]

Asked this before when it was a demo. With the game out figured I could get a better answer as people are further in the game.

Are Pilots just HP? Just another 'part' of the mech to break? What I'm asking is that is there some sort of level system to the pilots, skill gain, etc; or are they all just interchangeable parts?

A Pilot dies or get lost, will I be extremely bothered that I lost a really good soldier like XCOM or just pull one new one out of the bin?

[whit]

Just pull a new one from the bin.

[ANGRY ABOUT ELVES]

They're just HP. Some pilots have more HP than others, but nothing else. The only way they could be more interchangeable is if they had full-face covering helmets and no names.

[Krasus]

sadly pilots are realy easy to replace, there is a kill count how many enemys they beat, but that does nothing.

personaly i found this quite bad, i mean they never get better and a new one is the same as a veteran....

to make it worse story wise there is some talk about a trick shot showing of to newbies, but nothing shows that ingame he is any better

[Idorian101]

Once upon a time there was a roadmap where it was included an evolution for pilots, which they ditch completly and IMHO it won't be part of any update in the future. This is at the moment a rinse and repeat game, with no reward apart from salvage more advanced parts.

[AberrantMan]

One of the two things that killed this game for me was that your pilots don't matter. The other being that it seems like upgrades are just stacking numbers on top of eachother and nothing more. It becomes pretty shallow after like level 8 lol

[muhanga]

Originally posted by Idorian101:

Once upon a time there was a roadmap where it was included an evolution for pilots, which they ditch completly and IMHO it won't be part of any update in the future. This is at the moment a rinse and repeat game, with no reward apart from salvage more advanced parts.

Code for this "evolutions" is still in the source. So maybe it will be added later when developers have more time.

[mraadx]

we're gonna have to wait for the modder to do that for us, then.

[Chocbomb]

After i figured out that the pilots were of poor design i stopped reading the events that popped up with them talking that try to humanize them.

How many times i need to be told "its a bomb" by a concussion limit with lips is too much imo, i dont follow the story anymore because the people are designed poorly.
Whoever the god is in this universe he is of poor quality.
Poorer than poor.
I dont even help the natives push the tractor out of the mud anymore.


There is no hospital or recovery, just a splattered cockpit.
There is no point being immersed in your squad and caring about the people in this game, kill everything and get a new one from the bin.
Now i just get a new one from the bin.
New one from the bin.
From the bin.
The bin.
Bin.

I can make robot arms.. but not prosthetic limbs? or my own AI to pilot my machines more efficiently?

Booooooooooooooooooooooooo!