Shattered Paradise is an expansion for Tiberian Sun on OpenRA, its goal is to (im)balance the game by adding new factions (Mutants, C.A.B.A.L. and Scrin) and reworking the original sides, all of this to create a game a little more varied and balanced than TS. The mod puts a lot of emphasis on making the factions as asymmetric as possible.
In this mod the Scrin units are too pure to be affected by tiberium in any positive or negative way, instead they to have steal the souls, or essence of their enemies to regain strength, meaning Scrin players have to play aggressive to maintain their units alive. A unit might drop its essence if killed by alien weapons (with the exception of razorsharks and destroyers due to balance reasons), after that any Scrin ground unit that moves near the essence will collect it automatically healing a small amount of its health, if there are many units, it will move to a random unit of the pack and enemies cannot steal your essence (that might change in the future).
I'm keeping the mechanic but I need a real excuse to have it make sense -.-
this whole concept sounds silly but honestly I welcome something new into the mix
Good essence...Need more.
wicked!
Unit design is nice...but effect need more work. Overall is ok. :)
Hi mate, you want a reason for it to make sense? Turn to Sci Fi gumph instead of fantasy gumph.
The Scrin from what I can tell are a bio-organic race mostly, right? They are both part tech and flesh. Scrin are "pure" in there minds (or religion however you want the lore to be etc) they can easily view it as stealing the souls of those who are impure or cleansing there essence/aura. In reality they are simply stealing the bioelectric energy from organic life to power them. This would also allow it to apply to cyborgs or anything robotic as then they are simply stealing the power from their system. It's all energy, they are advanced enough to process it wherever the source might be.
Something like that?
Something so technologically advanced that you can't understand it is indistinguishable from magic.
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