Commander Abilities Idea

Commander Abilities

The player can select and use up to 2 abilities on each mission. They unlocks these abilities as they complete missions starting with only 1 ability slot and 1 unlocked ability after the first mission and gradually unlocking the others as they go.

Leadership: All friendly Ships in ability range do 10% more damage to enemies.

Morale: All friendly ships in range of your ship will take 5% less damage from enemy fire.

Daredevil: Removes part of your shielding, meaning your ship can move/turn 10% quicker but you take 25% extra damage.

Missile Jammer: Homing Missiles move 25% slower whilst in range of the jammer (and maybe vanish quicker too?)

Minesweeper: Automatically destroys any mines in a very small radius of the ship.

Repair Drones: Your ship is automatically repairs itself and friendly units when they're not currently under attack by enemies. (See Note A)

Overcharger: Redirects power from your shielding to your weapons. You ship does 40% extra damage but takes 30% extra damage from each hit

Kamikaze: Shielding is completely removed (you can only take 1 hit before you die) but you get a massive damage and speed bonus in return. (Can't be combined with Repair Drones)

More abilities to come as I think of them


NOTE A: Repair Drones - The "not being attacked" condition would be something like hasn't taken damage for the last 3 seconds and there isn't an enemy in a 100 pixel radius (or something similar). The actual repairing would be fairly slow so it isn't like you could fly out of combat for a few seconds and come back with full health.