Gun Towers

[Ludio]

Well I was looking at some other fan sites and I found this at Planetside Shuttle:

http://www.forumplanet.com/3dactionplanet/planetside/topic.asp?fid=5754&tid=945614

I knew about the 7-12 bases on each continent, but we also get to take over 30 gun towers on each continent!

This should add a bit more depth to the strategy. Should you go straight for the base, or take any nearby gun towers first so that you have a better base of operations to launch your attack from.

[afex]

neato

[Sputty]

Gun towers will be perfect assembly areaas. They'll often be closer to the enemy, and possibly harder to take. They portect the assembling soldiers so I think they'll be ued that way alot. Probably the base will be attacked first because taking losses from a tower w0uld be annoying.

[Ludio]

We havent seen any screenshots or have any other info about them. It will be interesting to see how big they are and other general info like that. What I want to know about is the 'gun' part of the gun towers. How many turrets will they have, and what will they be like, just like the turrets at bases or different.

[Squeeky]

:love: Dave G

Damn! Ok, This game is gonna be too much fun. Kill me now

[Incompetent]

never believe anything off shuttle, they haven't updated their info in two years.

edit: oh, i figured they had it buried on some page, didn't bother to click the link

[Ludio]

Did you go to the link? It was SmokeJumper who posted the info on their forums yesterday (01/26). So unless SmokeJumper isnt working on Planetside anymore I think its legit :D

Thats why we should all be happy!

[PR24]

:D cool

[Navaron]

Just when I thought this game couldn't get any cooler.

[Sputty]

Yeh, it's recent too. Those guard towers will be so useful. I can't wait to play PS....I'm shaking

[Furio]

Thats cool arouses questions on how many guns are in a gun tower or how powerful they are?

[chaos1428]

:drools: :drools: :drools:

[ABRAXAAS]

IM CRAPPIN MY PANTS HERE!!!.......oops:doh:

[Mopo]

This is what reavers are for- pounding the shit outa defenses before the ground troops arrive.

[Format]

Ahhh, gotta love reavers. Soo sexxy :drools:

[Zatrais]

hmmmm.... killing assaulting reavers in my AA MAX... sweeeeet :drools:

[SmokeJumper]

Gun Towers are actually quite easy to take, but since they have Lockers and Bind Tubes (and I think some of them have med terminals...not sure), they're pretty dang useful.

You hack their Control Point using a REK...just like when you hack a Control Console at a main facility. However, there is no 15-minute acquire time after hacking. If you successfully hack the gun tower, it's yours and you can immediately respawn there, use the Lockers, etc.

These are VERY useful buildings...in the right circumstances.

[Zumthor]

Very cool.:)

Thanks for the answer SJ. :love:

[Zhor_Prime]

w00t, springboard for incursions into surrounding area and rally point

[�io]

Originally posted by SmokeJumper
Gun Towers are actually quite easy to take, but since they have Lockers and Bind Tubes (and I think some of them have med terminals...not sure), they're pretty dang useful.

You hack their Control Point using a REK...just like when you hack a Control Console at a main facility. However, there is no 15-minute acquire time after hacking. If you successfully hack the gun tower, it's yours and you can immediately respawn there, use the Lockers, etc.

These are VERY useful buildings...in the right circumstances.

Don't you just love this guy? :D

Thanks for the sweet info Smokey!!

[BLuE_ZeRO]

SJ is just a pluthera of useful info :D

[ABRAXAAS]

Originally posted by ABRAXAAS
IM CRAPPIN MY PANTS HERE!!!.......oops:doh:


EVEN MORE PANTS CRAPPIN !!! IM SO EXCITED SOME ONE SHOOT ME!!! :jawdrop:

[RabidPlatypus]

Originally posted by SmokeJumper

You hack their Gibson

[Myhouse43]

I think the gun towers are awesome! They will make great individual outfit bases and meeting points instead of clogging up the main bases. Besides, this is something outfits can battle between themselfves without other people getting in the way.

[Tobias]

I dont think they will be that important, you can just go around.

[Hamma]

Excellent. :D I dont recall seeing any gun towers when I played. Should be sweet tho :D

[SandTrout]

They will probably me more useful for scouts and loan-wolves as a place to hide and resuply safely.

Just hope the other empire doesnt have a turret control base(forget what they're called).

[Hamma]

amp station i believe :D

[RabidPlatypus]

sounds like a sniper nest if I ever heard one...

[MrVicchio]

Go over to the News UpDate Section.. that just changed, it aint 30 anymore

[quiet]

:stupid:
SJ corrected himself, says it's more like 15 gun towers per continent.

[Ludio]

Still thats 15 more things to capture on each continent. Instead of only 10 hotspots the action can be spread out to 10 bases and 15 gun towers.

[Sputty]

I wonder if big battle lines will form of if it will be just skirmishing basically

[NapalmEnima]

I think their importance will depend on whether or not any of them have inventory terminals.

Locker access is nice, but there are some things you can only do at an inventory terminal. Changing armors, for example.

It also depends on what kind of guns, their range, etc.


Oh, and AMP stations cause your turrets to fire on vehicles. You need to deploy motion detectors to get them shooting at people. Having a skeeter near-by may also do the trick (their sensors also cause ememy infantry to show up on radar)

[EineBeBoP]

WOW :eek: I cannot wait till games is released, or at least until i get into beta ( i WILL get into beta :P ) cant wait to see how everyone did making PS

[Format]

There is a smily for drool, :drools: heh

[EineBeBoP]

Originally posted by Format
There is a smily for drool, :drools: heh


Showoff :rolleyes:


well, thats why im still but a recruit
:drools: