Air Based Enemies & Anti-Air Defenses

[Pyr3x]

I have been playing Factorio for quite some time now and the game play changes have been significant but something has always felt a bit strange, why don't biters utilize some kind of flying type? Wouldn't it be kind of cool to have to not only invest in ground defenses but air too?

I can even see the drones being put at risk by air attacks etc which should help balance drone use by requiring extra care with the need to deploy air based defense outside of base borders etc.

[benwillard]

+1

[Koub]

The subject of flying enemies already been suggested at least in these threads :
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=61380
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=39289
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=53259
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=50179
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=50674
viewtopic.php?f=80&t=139
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25043
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21489
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13260
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10294
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18597
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3565
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2126

[MathieuG89]

TL;DR

Flying Bitters

What ?

Bitters that can fly similar to Starcraft's Mutalisk

Why ?

- Adds more variety of enemies to the game
- Can fly over water and walls posing a new challenge for the player
- Cannot be killed by artillery reduces the ability to cheese the game
- Would look cool as hell !

Thank you for considering my suggestion

[Koub]

[Koub] Merged into older thread with the same suggestion.