Death Robot Technology?

[Fin]

I'm not sure if this has been posted, but I figured with the amount of people that didn't like the GDR, it deserved its own thread.

On page 194 of the PDF manual, the little picture has two mods. One is for giant single units, and the other is for "Death Robot Technology". Removal mod shipped with the game, possibly?

 

[Zhahz]

The firaxis dude who did the demo today has most likely played a fair amount of civ 5. He said he's legitimately built a GDR once.

People freaking out over stuff they haven't experienced is kind of silly.

 

[Fin]

The firaxis dude who did the demo today has most likely played a fair amount of civ 5. He said he's legitimately built a GDR once.

People freaking out over stuff they haven't experienced is kind of silly.

I agree, but I just thought I'd post it up.

 

[ggganz]

Where was this found? I didn't hear about it. Anyway, my guess is that it was a joke and won't be in the game. It could easily be in a mod though, they had it in NextWar in civ4, or at least something similar (can't remember what they're called).

 

[Maniacal]

I suspect the GDR will be an end-game unit. With a LOT of tech researched required (if not almost all).

 

[Dict4t0rCiv]

Since the manual says the game always ends at 2050 (whoever has the most points wins) it might be tough to get the GDR unless you rush science or keep playing after 2050 with no victory at stake just to get it. It'd be nice if some modders could create some more realistic near future units (Reaper UAV, Osprey type gunship) to replace the GDR.

 

[Sphinx]

Since the manual says the game always ends at 2050 (whoever has the most points wins) it might be tough to get the GDR unless you rush science or keep playing after 2050 with no victory at stake just to get it. It'd be nice if some modders could create some more realistic near future units (Reaper UAV, Osprey type gunship) to replace the GDR.

i'm quite sure you can turn off time victory. i always turnd it off in civ4 and hated civ3 for not having it.

 

[Dict4t0rCiv]

i'm quite sure you can turn off time victory. i always turnd it off in civ4 and hated civ3 for not having it.

You're probably right, I'll be turning that off.

 

[Iceciro]

Giant Death Robot has been shown in some gameplay pictures blowing stuff up, so I believe it's the real endgame unit.

It's unlocked at Nuclear Fusion, at the very very very end of the tech tree, the same tech level as Future Tech.

 

[Kruelgor]

The Giant Death Robot requires around the same technology as nukes so it will be a rare unit for sure.

 

[Alsark]

Where was this found? I didn't hear about it. Anyway, my guess is that it was a joke and won't be in the game. It could easily be in a mod though, they had it in NextWar in civ4, or at least something similar (can't remember what they're called).

It was in the GameInformer video review, so no, the GDR is definitely in the game. So is the GDG, but that's a better kept secret.

 

[Kikaider]

Giant Death Robot has been shown in some gameplay pictures blowing stuff up, so I believe it's the real endgame unit.

It's unlocked at Nuclear Fusion, at the very very very end of the tech tree, the same tech level as Future Tech.

Giant robot, check
Fusion powered, check.

Might as well just call it a Gundam if it's going to be like that. Now we just need a newtype to pilot it. :s

 

[Fin]

Yeah, we all know it's going to be in the game. I was talking about the mod that looks like it's meant to take the thing out of the game, though. It's in the little screenshot on page 194, like I'd said in the OP.

So many people had originally been asking for a way to take it out, there was even a thread with people asking for the option through a poll, remember?

 

[mmmfloorpie]

Alot of people seem to be giving the developers heck over including the Giant Death Robot (personally I think it should have been called the Giant Robot of Death), but I can appreciate their intentions... I believe, they recognized that one of the worst parts of the game is always when you have run out of techs to research and there aren't any new units.

For some reason, the development crews have never been forward thinking enough to give us a couple "future units" or actually giving us real future techs instead of just infinite "future techs". The GDR helps to mitigate this shortfall by providing a unit better than a modern armor say...

So, I say kudos to you 2k people... Kudos...

 

[muxec]

Didn't we have giant death robots that worked just fine in Call To Power?

 

[Drawmeus]

Didn't we have giant death robots that worked just fine in Call To Power?

Call To Power had lots of things that are way outside what people are willing to swallow in a legitimate Civ game.

That said, GDR doesn't bother me in the least, personally.

 

[Kikaider]

Alot of people seem to be giving the developers heck over including the Giant Death Robot (personally I think it should have been called the Giant Robot of Death), but I can appreciate their intentions... I believe, they recognized that one of the worst parts of the game is always when you have run out of techs to research and there aren't any new units.

For some reason, the development crews have never been forward thinking enough to give us a couple "future units" or actually giving us real future techs instead of just infinite "future techs". The GDR helps to mitigate this shortfall by providing a unit better than a modern armor say...

So, I say kudos to you 2k people... Kudos...

Would much rather have a unit that replaces the tank with a decently sized mecha of around 4m or so. It'd be quite nice to see someone take the robot idea and go wild with it and different levels of robos. I wouldn't mind seeing 3 or 4 different generations of a realistic mecha approach. :s

 

[awesome]

i'd like to see drones, those robot plane things.

 

[Pragmatic]

The GDR seems like it'll be powerful, but it has problems:

1) It takes Nuclear Fusion, the single most expensive tech in the game aside from Future Tech.

2) It (supposedly) costs 1000 hammers to create. Modern Armor is 700, Rocket Artillery is 600, Stealth Bomber is 800.

3) It requires Uranium. It's competing with Nuclear Missiles, Atomic Bombs, and Nuclear Power Plants.

4) It's not a ranged unit. Enough ranged/air units can take it down without damage.

5) Its movement is only 3. That's slower than Modern Armor and Mechanized Infantry, and on par with Rocket Artillery (not counting set-up time...?). And FAR below what a Stealth Bomber can do (20 range).

If I were faced with a GDR, I'd get a bunch of Guided Missiles (70 ranged combat strength, compared to the 150 of GDR; no resource requirements; 20% of the cost of a GDR; available at Satellites). Five of them probably won't take out a GDR (WAY too big a difference to make much of a dent), but you'd have dozens of turns to build them.

Of course, there's always a Nuclear Missile (available at Advanced Ballistics). Toss one of them at the GDR, and you probably can destroy it.

 

[stealth_nsk]

4) It's not a ranged unit. Enough ranged/air units can take it down without damage.

This point is not totally right. Unit strike back to bombing, see manual. And ranged attack is not that far to feel safety against GDR