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TLS sounds good to me this will need to be in the outline for the design team to work into the GDD.

Warfare is just that robots fighting.  If you google war pretty much anything you see I think sooner or later we will have a Mech that does it.

@Design Do you have anything to add to this?

Thanks,
James Fleming

I agree with VTOLs, it seems that with lack or resources, it would not be practical to use jets since they require airfields to land at, whereas VTOLs can take off and land pretty much anywhere to transport troops and mechs, and can transform into jets once in the air. I also agree with James, the main idea of combat will pretty much remain the same as what we know now, albeit with more advanced technology to make things interesting, but the REASONS behind those battles would be different. You also brought up a good point with most resources being scavenged, repurposed, and recycled. I think it is important to start thinking about what kind of technology, weaponry, and equipment they have based off of this because it could possibly affect writing or gameplay, but definitely art and sound.

The VTOL aircraft works good with the game design, many abilities can make use of it, because it's fast enough for a "fly by" to drop some emergency supplies but also slow enough to drop troops. This way we can use it for many abilities.

The reason behind our war resulting in the skirmishes and small fights including searching for new resources work well together with our current game modes. It's either a searching for new resources or a defending of something precious, instead of just killing and destroying the enemy for no reasons.

That means, I can just agree with Matthew, nothing that changes our current gameplay, it fits well with it.

I really appreciate the feedback.I've been thinking about the question, why mechs? Why not super tanks ? As a player I've played at least 2 games that are based around much combat,the presence of mechs is never justified and its something I have wondered. As a writer I want this question answered, I want it to feel real and nessecary( asside from the fact that mechs are cool). My thinking so far, vehicles like tanks ( as we know them) require more than one person to operate,mechs take one with at least the same amount of firepower. Mechs are presumably swifter and more maneuverable. I would think that a machine more human would be more intuitive to operate. According to how I have the lore laid out, in the crisis before TLS takes place mechs were outfitted with cybornetic implants and used to keep human soldiers on battlefields dominated by drones. when this is essentially repeated in the story of TLS,this becomes the means of removing precious soldiers from the frontline. As with my previous post, most if this fluff,understanding I have so that the story is thorough and real,it doesn't ha e a lot of bearing outside the story. My reasoning for posting it here is to make sure we are on the same page and to ensure that my thinking is correct, since it is forming the lore .
-Matthew-

Another thought could be like as you said, mechas are more agile than tanks so they can traverse the terrain easier, since I'm assuming most industrial developments have been destroyed, so there is little or no roads that a tank would need to traverse the land?

I guess to be brutal, any vehicle could be modified to adapt to the environment. In an absolute sense, The future is wide open to change anything into whatever we need. That said,our future choose mechs and I think the reasoning is sound. I agree, it hardly makes sense to say there is a scarcity of resources and then turn around build roads and massive structures. A dearth of resources creates a unique world I think,and that is exciting to me. It keeps our universe lean and hungry. That mindset of survival and desperation allows us to exploit the best and worst of humanity. On a poetic note, to me,the mechs are proxy humans, waging war even when humans can't because of cost of violence. I'm sorry if Ive rambled.
-Matthew-

I like the idea of using VTOL aircraft. It could also be cool if every mech had a VTOL flying drone armed with weapons that is carried on and launched from the back of the mech. 

The mech could go into auto pilot mode when the player is controlling the flying drone. Or the flying drone could go into auto pilot mode after it's launched.