I'm thinking of an exo mech with wrist rockets and machine guns and a sword or some sort of weapon that can effectively deal with ground alien units like scorpions and fit well with tanks defending from the climbing aliens. It would have to be expensive and have a small range.
#A human melee unit.
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mechs aren't something Dram is keen on. Best you can hope for is something similar to a Helldivers Patriot or Emancipator.
Further, the aesthetic has to fit within the game's vision. Humans are not a melee oriented faction. A mech with wrist rockets and a sword isnt within the scope of that vision.
Silica pulls inspiration from Dune, Starship troopers, etc. Its human factions are meant to sort of resemble late Cold War powers, with the Sol/US having superior tech and Centauri/USSR compensating with heavier guns/firepower
Mechs like that will have to be something left to the mods. Dram does want people to be able to mod the game in the future. He even has a sword model in game, although the odds that this makes it into the base game is pretty low. Itll probably just serve as a basis for modding in human melee units, that way player can live out their warhammer fantasies