New Equip Idea

[KIAsan]

I have seen lots of threads, but may have missed one, but here goes anyway. If you want to add something fun to the game, lets put in a jet pack armor. Make it cost 2-3 certs to buy, put it on a capacitor like the VS max jets. You could play around with weapon slots, capacity to figure out the balance. Would definitly take sniping to a whole new level. Would also make it a lot more fun for us all (shooting folks outta trees and such).

Anyway, just another wild idea that wont see the light of day.

[Professor Frink]

AH HA! The TR want to snake or technology! No seriously this isn't tribes. It would certainly be a cool thing to have though.

[Firefly]

Last I checked, jumpjets weren't just a Vanu idea (in terms of real-life events). If we have it around now, there's no reason why the TR don't have access to it a millenia in the future.

Except that 9mm chaingun bullets are absolutely retarded.

[Indecisive]

No.

We are not talking about "real-life events" and in this reality, JJ's were AT carryed over to the VS.

[Cyanide]

This was a big discussion during beta. The general consense then was also "this is not tribes". Some of the dev team actually worked on tribes2 (which may explain their inability to fix bugs) so if jetpacks were going to happen, they would have already done it.

[xmodum]

i dont care if it would be to much like antoher game , i would still love to be in the air but not have to be in a plane , a VS MAX or falling from a tower or a mountain THIS ROCKS!

[Indecisive]

Then join the fucking vanu. Waaay to unbalancing


It will NEVAH happen.

[xmodum]

god damn chill go, i do play VS, damn.I would just like to be able for inf to fly like the VS MAX's do :P~

[Indecisive]

I see your point, but think about it: wouldnt it competly make the max's specially ability worthless? Dont say NC maxes. That shield implant wont even absorb one MCG bullet.

[Firefly]

Will it absord a Repeater bullet? Because it's the same thing.

[00AgentDuck]

The NC shield in my point of view is actually pretty good, it's saved my life a few times. It can take alot more then one MCG bullet, I've had it take a barrage of missles from a reaver, when you can't take something down, the shield is like rechargable armor. With it you can take damage and not worry about a engineer always being at your side.

EDIT: oh sorry I get what you mean, the personal sheild implant your talking about. My bad.

[Chaaos]

Hey I like the NC max shield, lets me absorb 3 deci hits before i die instead of of just 2.

Jump jets makes vanu maxs special and though on the "Cool-o-Meter" it would be off the chart but otherwise way overpowering. Snipers could jump into a tree and snipe without even a minor threat of being found. The zerg could swarm a base even faster by simply jumping over the walls and bypassing choke-points like gates, backdoors, or organizing a gal drop. 1 on 1 combat would degrade down to bunny-hopping who can dodge and fly up into the air and shoot the best.

[Professor Frink]

1 on 1 combat would degrade down to bunny-hopping who can dodge and fly up into the air and shoot the best.

Exactly

[xmodum]

y dont we just make it where u could only get them if u have a weapon mod in a linked base? :doh:
it would get the caverns just a little bit more popular becuz im sure every1 would like to have jumpjets , and also ur weapon would have to be hostlered to use it becuz u would need both ur hands to control it :p there ya go solves ur problems but this will never make it cuz the Devs never read these :(

[MuNsTeR]

i wanted that so long ago.. i forgot about that

[SandTrout]

While I loved tribes, it is a different style of play than planetside. Where Tribes had the keep-moveing feal to it, Planetside has more of a jog-and-stop style. Jets would screw up the style too much to be implemented in this game.

I wouldn't mind seeing MMO Tribes though.... As long as it's a different game.

[sutserikeru]

i think its a good idea, but the last thing we need is more shit for people to bitch about being unbalanced. The Devs should focus of balancing EVERYTHING out and fixing all the bugs and shit before they even THINK about adding new shit, or making a new expansion, or anything like that. Just my opinion

[KIAsan]

I came up with this idea, while flying around my vanu max, just exploring stuff. I really don't see how a common pool armor could be unbalancing. Not everyone would cert it (heck, how many people cert reinforced). Just limit it in some way, so that it is not over powering, maybe make it hold the same as basic armor with only 50 points of armor. I mean, we have all these new ideas for vehicles and weapons, lets see some love on the armor side.

And yes, it would change the way the game is played. But then again, so has loadstar and flails and routers. I guess, everytime something is added, the game changes.

Anyway, you don't have anything to fear, the speed at which new things are added to this games, makes glaciers look quick. And the chance of a Dev taking an idea from a public forum, then implementing it? Hmm, I think snowballs in hades have a better chance.

[Firefly]

I can understand why the developers don't run around to every website and pull ideas. Then you'd have morons running around saying "OMG look at my 1337 idea!" and spamming it up over whatever chat channel they have.

If anything, Zombieside has awesome ideas that could probably do a lot to help. I've given up using the Wishlist idea because everyone and their mom has an idea, and by the time you get a reply, it's fifty pages down because seven million people post there.

I've tried limiting my ideas to here, because (I see you SporkfirePS) there's some quality people here with intelligence that know how to reply, and then only the occasional flamer.