Jetpack onto aircraft.

[Morphic]

Since watching the trailer, am I the only one that's gonna try and see if I can get onto top of aircraft with my jetpack? lol :D

[haticK]

lol dont think youll quite make it

[Simokon]

jump from tall structure, hope to get lucky?

[Littleman]

From the video's we've seen, jetpacks don't quite zip one around quite like that. also, you won't be climbing along the side, shooting into the hold from above through a disturbingly thin roof, or grappling other jet pack guys in mid-air and tossing them aside like they can't fly too.

Running along the tops though? Maybe. Planetside 1 vehicles moved beneath the player. I don't know how they'll handle in Planetside 2.

[Pepsi]

These are one of the few situations I wish the aircraft had rotors. I'll teach you to try and hitch a ride!

[aleksandrgrc]

jet pack? im ramping quads onto one and then onto and into a biolab. and im going to orbially drop onto an airship, take control and crash it if they ever make them for outfits.

[berzerkerking]

zi was shown to be possible in one of the E3 stream don't remember which though

[Hamma]

It might be possible, but you wont have much success.

[p0intman]

It might be possible, but you wont have much success.

unless its stationary and on the ground, you mean.

in which case, its doing something wrong if it allows you to get that close, or its pilot is incompetent.

[GhettoPrince]

I hope LA get some way to grapple onto buildings/terrain/aircraft. The jet pack looks fun, but it would be so cool to let someone with a lot of points in light assault just go full on batman like the guy in the trailer.

[SirWhiteshadow]

I don't care how good your jetpack is...if you collide with an airplane, regardless of your timing, you go splat. It is simple physics.

[GhettoPrince]

Wow, really? You're cool with immortal nano soldiers, alien spaceships and laser guns , but we can't grapple onto a plane because SCIENCE? :lol:

[Revanmug]

I don't care how good your jetpack is...if you collide with an airplane, regardless of your timing, you go splat. It is simple physics.

The question was going on air vehicule. Not colliding with aircraft. Maybe you should recheck your simple physic on slow moving object.

[aleksandrgrc]

not that i disagree with plans splatting human physics
but the more i read the more things point towards that things dont work as they seem to from our perspective everywhere else. did you know that recently (last year) they discovered galaxys where the gravitational constant was different than that here in the sol system. it lead me to papers about how this impacts sir newtons works then to electric universe and eventually hollow earth which i know believe in. plug lol.

[ZaBa]

From the video's we've seen, jetpacks don't quite zip one around quite like that. also, you won't be climbing along the side, shooting into the hold from above through a disturbingly thin roof, or grappling other jet pack guys in mid-air and tossing them aside like they can't fly too.

Running along the tops though? Maybe. Planetside 1 vehicles moved beneath the player. I don't know how they'll handle in Planetside 2.

Always with the negativity!

There is footage confirming that standing on moving vehicles is possible in PS2; there's basically no way dropping/jumping onto a moving Gal/Lib and laying a few sticky grenades or boomers is not totally going to be A Thing.

[Renegadeknight]

I would be very impressed if anyone actually manages to take down a speeding gal by jumping on top of it. I guessing it could work on a stopped gal, but than a stopped gal is a sitting duck for many things.

[Eyeklops]

I watched a PS1 vid of Alienmouse bailing out of a mossy onto a flying galaxy. He then proceeded to hack the galaxy and boot all the people out, was epic.

[Trolltaxi]

If light assault is able to walk on Galaxies, I demand TR maxes to be able to anchor on the wings and top and side and...

Now that's what I'd call a GUNSHIP!

[therandomone]

If light assault is able to walk on Galaxies, I demand TR maxes to be able to anchor on the wings and top and side and...

Now that's what I'd call a GUNSHIP!

If Maxes had a human turret cert (for on top of aircraft), that would be pant-shittingly awesome in my book, but only if it came with a cigar and "its a good day to die" speech.

[NewSith]

You can stand on it, but just as in PS1 the vehivle will move under you, you can find it in Higby's 2nd stream I think.

[Ivam Akorahil]

blegh SOE loves NC too much

[Envenom]

Live your dreams bro

[Magpie]

http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/planetside-2/1225448p1.html

The one-man Lightning ATV is the speediest method of zipping around the huge map on the ground. But, in a manner similar to one of the classic Battlefield 1942's most famously unrealistic features, a second player can jump aboard and ride along like a heavily armed, physics-defying hood ornament. It looks absurd, but it's also absurdly entertaining. I was also able to ride along on top of other land vehicles, such as the tanks and trucks, so I'll be surprised if the same isn't true for air vehicles (I didn't get to try that). I'm looking forward to some spectacular stunt videos of aerial acrobatics as players ride the wings of planes.


:groovy:

[bmfof]

Jetpacking onto an aircraft would be too much of a stretch without breaking the overall game balance. I'd rather see something like grapling hooks that can be used to attach one's self onto buildings and vehicles. It could be a tool slotted in place of side-arms and it would work great with the idea of scaling up an aircraft to plant C4 on it.

[Sabot]

Jetpacking onto an aircraft would be too much of a stretch without breaking the overall game balance. I'd rather see something like grapling hooks that can be used to attach one's self onto buildings and vehicles. It could be a tool slotted in place of side-arms and it would work great with the idea of scaling up an aircraft to plant C4 on it.

Q2 CTF, anyone? Nah....

[ZaBa]

If light assault is able to walk on Galaxies, I demand TR maxes to be able to anchor on the wings and top and side and...

Now that's what I'd call a GUNSHIP!

This is also a thing that happened, and was immortalized in the Empires At War trailer from E3.

e/ Although it was VS rather than TR, but still; point is, vehicles in PS2 apparently have friction unlike almost every other game ever.

[BlueSkies]

Ok... so maybe the jetpacking thing won't work.

...

I still want to be able to shoot pilots through the cockpit canopy though!

EDIT: checked Smed's tweets. Vehicle surfing, while difficult, is in. And! players in some vehicles can be killed (ala, shooting through the cockpit). sweet!

[MrKWalmsley]

Wow, really? You're cool with immortal nano soldiers, alien spaceships and laser guns , but we can't grapple onto a plane because SCIENCE? :lol:

Nothing in science refutes those possibilities. Have you ever heard of Kaku? But the one thing you cannot do is survive that kind of force crashing into you at that speed, or at least not without some serious damage, or the kind of armour tech which would make it totally bullet and explosion proof! Which would make for a pretty boring wargame wouldn't you think? If everyone was immune to bullets.

[Cosmical]

Anyone else think that light assault should get a Halo esque latch onto vehicle function?

[MrKWalmsley]

Anyone else think that light assault should get a Halo esque latch onto vehicle function?

No. Just...no.

[morf]

i don't care how good your jetpack is...if you collide with an airplane, regardless of your timing, you go splat. It is simple physics.

challenge accepted

[Canadian Vanu]

I demand mirrors edge style free running.



Anyone else think that light assault should get a Halo esque latch onto vehicle function?

Yes. Just... yes.

[Gonefshn]

Grappling hooks omg that would be nuts. I can't imagine the trollol.

[RageMasterUK]

Thankyou Magpie for posting that was just gonna go trawl my history for that one. To condense the paragraph, since Gamespy article author saw the build, you CAN stand ontop of vehicles and ride along and shoot.

I also think it was mentioned you could get different 'styles' of jetpacks, the current jetpacks look like VS max flavour style jumpjets, but I remember reading you could get horizontal and lateral burst jumppacks as part of the game progression, for those players who want to just close distance, or gain height quickly. So if you want to get that kind of loadout and try surfing enemy galaxies then you can.

There is vehicle hit-locations, and i total buiscuits NDA release clip (with the sound disclaimer at start) he greases an ATV driver who falls off his quad, and his ride shoots up a tree 30 ft and they laugh about it. If you can shoot ATV riders, they will probably allow you to shoot at any exposed character in vehicles. The windshield on the gal would probably just nerf the shots a lil.

The trailer may not be a million miles from gameplay possibilities.

-RageMasterUK

[Morphic]

Thankyou Magpie for posting that was just gonna go trawl my history for that one. To condense the paragraph, since Gamespy article author saw the build, you CAN stand ontop of vehicles and ride along and shoot.

I also think it was mentioned you could get different 'styles' of jetpacks, the current jetpacks look like VS max flavour style jumpjets, but I remember reading you could get horizontal and lateral burst jumppacks as part of the game progression, for those players who want to just close distance, or gain height quickly. So if you want to get that kind of loadout and try surfing enemy galaxies then you can.

There is vehicle hit-locations, and i total buiscuits NDA release clip (with the sound disclaimer at start) he greases an ATV driver who falls off his quad, and his ride shoots up a tree 30 ft and they laugh about it. If you can shoot ATV riders, they will probably allow you to shoot at any exposed character in vehicles. The windshield on the gal would probably just nerf the shots a lil.

The trailer may not be a million miles from gameplay possibilities.

-RageMasterUK

And if that doesn't work there is always the kamikazi point blank Deci shot lol

[SmokinJacakal]

In one of streams Magret Krohn did state you land on enemy aircraft which wont be hard when you consider low flying liberator hovering around a base, What you can do from there is to be speculated though :)

[Renegadeknight]

Well seeing how the devs seem to be saying it is possible, I am definitely going to attempt it.

[Justaman]

Youtube Link: Wing surfing~ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xcmHYuUbn0#t=1h48m19s) on a galaxies tail-fin, right before it SPLODES. HF daydreaming.

[soulsurfsublime]

I think if a player wants to try and Teen wolf their ride to prom or into battle that's cool with me. Mosquito steed cert activated! Will it be possible? I know just about every game I've ever played the vehicle moves, the player doesn't, and that equals falling. If vehicle is moving; then check player for movement; if player movement = vehicle movement; then teen wolf ride to battle; else fall to your death;

[Crator]

Youtube Link: Wing surfing~ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xcmHYuUbn0#t=1h48m19s) on a galaxies tail-fin, right before it SPLODES. HF daydreaming.

Ha, he does say it is possible to land on top of a flying GAL but he didn't say you could stay on it. Would be kick ass if you could though! Drop on top of GAL, place C4 on top of GAL, jump off GAL and press C4 tigger! BOOM!

[NewSith]

Thankyou Magpie for posting that was just gonna go trawl my history for that one. To condense the paragraph, since Gamespy article author saw the build, you CAN stand ontop of vehicles and ride along and shoot.

Please rewatch both Higby's streams. In one of them (I think it was the second) Higby jumps on top of a lightning/vanguard and it moves from underhis feet, while he stands still. Gamespy author is either wrong or the newer build doesn't have it anymore.

[ThermalReaper]

Nope, and if I see threads about not being able to do that, I'll smack someone in the face like a cardboard box.

[ZaBa]

So there's this Scythe in the E3 trailer...

http://i48.tinypic.com/otq3d1.gif

http://i.imgur.com/UH7ru.png (http://i.imgur.com/B1Moy.jpg)

Bam.

[Justaman]

So there's this Scythe in the E3 trailer...

http://i48.tinypic.com/otq3d1.gif

http://i.imgur.com/UH7ru.png (http://i.imgur.com/B1Moy.jpg)

Bam.

It really looks a lot more like there is a MAX on that Sythe. Just from the bulk of its body and weapons.