Drops from galaxys

[BUGGER]

From this (http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/viewer.php?img_id=444) pic is shows a ANT being droped from a galaxy. Now yall know it im but i wonder do ya jump with parachutes or do ya have stabalizing jets or what?

[Hamma]

Kinetic Dampeners. :)

[Fire_Monkey]

Originally posted by Hamma
Kinetic Dampeners. :)

I believe this negates the use of vehicle drops as bombs

[Nightmare]

Originally posted by Fire_Monkey
I believe this negates the use of vehicle drops as bombs
Doesn't stop us from using aircraft as bombs ;)

[oosik]

Now this raises an interesting question. Can only ANTS be dropped this way or can Buggies and lightnings be dropped as well? Might make for some interesting tactical decisions.

[MooKoo]

i hope any thing and every thing can drop from a galaxy

[diluted]

still not sure on kinetic dampeners. do they take away all dmg from falling? if you fall off of something high in a base do they work then? what do they look like? heeeeeelp.

[Destroyeron]

Light tanks and buggies can be fitted onto a galaxy.

[NeoTassadar]

Look at top left corner. Some TR MAX has really crappy aim.

[Arthell]

I think Kinetic Dampeners absorb all the damage for a certain height, but if you pass that max height you take some damage.

Basically : big fall bad

[Mauser101]

Just listened to the AGN Developer's Interview. It seems that drops from high altitude shouldn't be that harmful, but short falls from very low heights (maybe 1 or 2 stories) my be very harmful. The Kinetic Dampners wouldn't have time to kick in.

"Bug class, go fast, go splat" -anybody remember virtualworld?

[Marsman]

Yes, you can bail out any vehicle that fits in the Galaxy. (ANT, lightning, Harasser, etc...) Tons of Fun!:D

[culkid]

this brings a whole new name to the word 100 person paratroop

[Destroyeron]

yup :D

[BUGGER]

Originally posted by culkid
this brings a whole new name to the word 100 person paratroop

Thats the first thing im gona do.

[Moleculor]

Finally! Confirmation that vehicles have kinetic dampeners!

Ok, for those of you who don't know how they work....

Think of them like parachutes. If you jump out of a plane too low, they won't have time to deploy and slow you down enough to land safely. But if you jump out of a plane high enough, there's plenty of time, and you'll land without taking ANY damage.

In PS, the -only- way to take damage from falling is to fall from a -low- altitude. A high one isn't low enough.

As for what they look like.... Maybe a glow around the armor? All it is is a energy field that reduces the amount of kinetic energy your body/armor contain through falling. Kinetic energy being energy that is moving you (i.e. the force of gravity or something).

[Mauser101]

Do you guys remember the beginning of the Final Fantasy movie when the soldiers fired that energy bubblemajig at the ground and landed in it? Now that's a kinetic dampner.

[Sentrosi]

Well, the first thing I'm gonna do is install the game, then I'll fall out of a perfectly good Galaxy. I think that if I fall out of a perfectly good Galaxy, then try to install the game, that I'll suffer some sort of injury requiring massive amounts of bedrest and spongbaths done by nurse Bertha, the human wildebeast.

That being said...

I can't wait to fly a galaxy and drop off some MAX's. Or provide air cover for an air drop. Gonna be lots of fun.


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[NeoTassadar]

...okay. No more about buffalo nurses, please.

Anywho, Molecular's right. For the 1,567,842,039th time, it's damage negation (NOT reduction) above a certain altitude. If they kick in, no damage from fall. Fall too low (but high enough to injure), you get hurt. I heard somewhere (no backup) that, in way of how it looks, it's just you falling quickly (like normal) then slowing as you approach the ground.

I'm wondering if you throw a grenade downward during freefall, if it will fall faster than you (in the game, of course), or equalize speeds with you and kind of howver next to your head for a few seconds before exploding.

[Sentrosi]

Originally posted by Sentrosi
nurse Bertha, the human wildebeast.


That's wildebeast, not buffalo....If you're gonna misquote me, do it right.:)
:eek::whip:

[Subliminal]

Do you guys remember the beginning of the Final Fantasy movie

Do you guys also remember how terrible that movie was :scared: :scared: :scared: :P~ :P~