MANA turret gets a shield

[Knocky]

http://a.yfrog.com/img576/8504/or9yi.jpg

[The noob]

Well, there goes one particular concern about the mana turrets, being vulnerable to fire from the front.

[JPalmer]

That turret is awesome and all, but that screenshot overall...wow.

[Gogita]

Ohhh that looks pretty....

So does this screenshot indicate that using a turret gives you the choice of a third-person perspective?

[Mastachief]

awesome i ponder how many in proximity can be deployed and where they can be setup

[capiqu]

So engineers will deploy turrets, just maned ones. Where is my Striker, need to know how many shots it can take.

[The Kush]

That's awesome

[capiqu]

DAMMIT!!!! I feel like a little kid waiting for Christmas.

[Purple]

Ohhh that looks pretty....

So does this screenshot indicate that using a turret gives you the choice of a third-person perspective?

i dont think so. it looks like they have a camera behind it.

[AlienTwentyFour]

Time to gun down some Vanu. :)

[Xyntech]

That head is looking like a nice juicy target. I'll be happy to see if I can exploit this fact in beta.

Awesome picture. Can't wait to see it in purple.

[Atheosim]

This looks fucking incredible./

[Naz The Eternal]

Heck yes! I was worried about this when I saw previous images and renders of the turrets

This makes me happier for all the engi's out there :)

[IMMentat]

yup, i may actually spare an ace or 2 for planting a few of these suckers now.
Sparkles make EVERYTHING better. #nods#

[Zekeen]

Does NO ONE notice that he is wearing a BACKPACK?!!!!

That's been a major thing people have been asking about lately. And no one has yet noticed he actually has one. I guess they aren't just cosmetic.

[The Kush]

Does NO ONE notice that he is wearing a BACKPACK?!!!!

That's been a major thing people have been asking about lately. And no one has yet noticed he actually has one. I guess they aren't just cosmetic.

brings me back to my ps1 command days.. loved my backpack


(thats where i kept my stash);)

[MacXXcaM]

What's the deal with the backpack? It's not exactly new...

[Bags]

Engineer has had one for a long time.

[ringring]

Ohhh that looks pretty....

So does this screenshot indicate that using a turret gives you the choice of a third-person perspective?

Maybe the shot is taken by someone else sdtanding behind the gunner.

[Sledgecrushr]

Ohhh that looks pretty....

So does this screenshot indicate that using a turret gives you the choice of a third-person perspective?

I think that is someone else looking at a guy using a mana turret.

[MacXXcaM]

That someone doesn't have a gun nor HUD? I think it's 3rd person.

[Rozonus]

The devs will have a free-movement camera system that lets them move to any position which comes in handy for screenshots like this. It is what they've used to take all the other 'action' screenshots.

[MacXXcaM]

You're right. Sorry

[RSphil]

still get a nice head shot though :)

[Shamrock]

Reminds me a little of Global Agenda, engineer class in that game could drop these small shield walls and set up turrets behind them, however they could only absorb a set amount of damage before disappearing.

[Ceska]

So nice !

[Shogun]

now this is great news! shields for the mana turrets are a good adittion.

will engineers be able to pump up the shield? maybe it shrinks when it looses hitpoints, and a fully pumped shield will even cover up the head of the gunner?

[Evil Redrum]

http://twitpic.com/9ns77m
Just posted from Hamma a little bit ago.

[Toppopia]

http://twitpic.com/9ns77m
Just posted from Hamma a little bit ago.

I was about to post that, and i noticed the worst part, no protection for the head. NO!!!! Now i can be sniped spam from everything... :(

And did anyone notice the nice laser sight on the gun? Too bad it looks like its off centre. Oh well, laser sights for the win!!

[kaffis]

I was about to post that, and i noticed the worst part, no protection for the head. NO!!!! Now i can be sniped spam from everything... :(

And did anyone notice the nice laser sight on the gun? Too bad it looks like its off centre. Oh well, laser sights for the win!!
I'm actually kind of interested to see if we get multiple different shield configurations to spec into that will have different tradeoffs.

Say, one protects the turret much more thoroughly, but leaves the head exposed (as in Hamma's tweeted shot), another leaves the turret vulnerable to destruction but does a better job of protecting the head (as in the original post for this thread), and perhaps a third might protect the flanks better at some other expense...

[VelRa]

now this is great news! shields for the mana turrets are a good adittion.

will engineers be able to pump up the shield? maybe it shrinks when it looses hitpoints, and a fully pumped shield will even cover up the head of the gunner?

Shield the head at the expense of the overall integrity of the shield? Sounds like a good sidegrade.

[Xyntech]

I was about to post that, and i noticed the worst part, no protection for the head. NO!!!! Now i can be sniped spam from everything... :(

And did anyone notice the nice laser sight on the gun? Too bad it looks like its off centre. Oh well, laser sights for the win!!

It does provide a little head protection off to the sides of the front (which looks to be a little more than the NC version had).

At least a sniper would have to be pretty much straight in front of the turret to get the shot, giving the gunner a better chance of actually seeing and shooting the sniper, as opposed to the sniper being 45 degrees off center and still getting a head shot.

I would still like to see some head protected variants, but now that we know that snipers are 2 shot kills on most classes, I'm not quite as worried.

[MacXXcaM]

Wonder if the shield will have some crazy effect when shooting against it like the polygons lighting up for a second and fading out again....