What new and original vehicles would you like to see?

[Yenni]

Here's a small list of the most likely of canidates as I see them.

-Empire/NS buggys (Marauder, Enforcers etc)

-NS 6-man air transport (basically a huey for spec ops, back caps, and anything to contribute to half-squad worth of troops)

-Cloakable vehicles, all shapes and sizes. As well as current veh option.

-Artillery...Meh, aint seen it done right yet...maybe this time

-Airships/Titans - Ala BF2142

Personally I'd be a big fan of a Nanite Systems, "Huey" vehicle. Think the chopper frrom avatar. 6 people max. Fast, but susceptible to small arms.

Maybe I just wanna reenact the scene from Apocalypse Now

[Zulthus]

Thresher
Maurader
Enforcer
Skyguard
Lodestar
Vulture
Phantasm
ANT
Dedicated AMS
Switchblade
Leviathan
Juggernaut
Deliverer
Raider
Aurora
Thunderer


With a side order of enter/exit animations please.

[Yenni]

Surely you can't be serious.

Seriously though. As much as I liked a lot about the old vehicles, Alot of them felt redundant and unneccessary.

I can do without all of the core combat vehicles, except the flail, but I'd rather tradtional arty.

Also the deliverer variants were just a pain.

[Zulthus]

Surely you can't be serious.

Seriously though. As much as I liked a lot about the old vehicles, Alot of them felt redundant and unneccessary.

I can do without all of the core combat vehicles, except the flail, but I'd rather tradtional arty.

Also the deliverer variants were just a pain.

Putting all of the vehicles into one is boring and takes all of the variety out of them. Instead of having to buy vehicle weapons with auraxium, they should be on a different vehicle for a different role. The Lighting should be a dedicated 1-man AV vehicle. The Skyguard should be a separate vehicle. There should be empire specific Sunderer variants with ES turrets on top of them by default. See what I'm saying? Variety makes stuff interesting.

[RodenyC]

Thresher
Maurader
Enforcer
Skyguard
Lodestar
Vulture
Phantasm
ANT
Dedicated AMS
Switchblade
Leviathan
Juggernaut
Deliverer
Raider
Aurora
Thunderer


With a side order of enter/exit animations please.

This.Nuff Said.

Putting all of the vehicles into one is boring and takes all of the variety out of them. Instead of having to buy vehicle weapons with auraxium, they should be on a different vehicle for a different role. The Lighting should be a dedicated 1-man AV vehicle. The Skyguard should be a separate vehicle. There should be empire specific Sunderer variants with ES turrets on top of them by default. See what I'm saying? Variety makes stuff interesting.
And this.And didn't Higby say variety is better as well?

[Sylvanicus]

1. A motorbike. I know we have the flash and that's pretty damn close, but I think something even smaller would be absolutely hilarious, as well as useful. No weapons, no real combat use, but give it some kind of stuffs to make it worthwhile in terms of transport.

2. A sag wagon. The sunderer already sort of fills this role but I'm thinking some massive truck, bigger even than the sunderer, that doesn't carry passengers but carries something along the lines of two flashes, ammo, and deployable turrets/cover. Basically a mobile garage.

[Yenni]

Meh. I agree It'd be cool to have comepletely different chassis for each use. But I don't seem them retconning lightning and sundy abilities just give us the skyguard and AMS back.

But I do agree with you, so what NEW and ORIGINAL veh would you like.

[Fazed]

MONSTER TRuCK

[Ghost Runner]

A missile artillery truck :P

[Carver]

I wouldn't want the exact same old buggies, but a light, inexpensive 4-5 man transport would be nice. Available wherever you can get a flash.

[maradine]

Sky Lance. You did the ridiculous YouTube strip tease; bolt a gunner seat on there and let's get to it.

[Timealude]

I would like some form of resource truck, buggies which we are getting.....how about an ES bomber? Like Vanu could drop plasma bombs, NC could drop high impact bombs and TR could get cluster bombs.

[psijaka]

A lightly armoured 4x4 (with single small turret) capable of carrying a small squad, say 4 people. Not quite as fast as the Flash, and not as armoured as the Sunderer; would fill the gap between them nicely. Cost around 150 Auraxium.

[Dagron]

I think the problem with having too many similar vehicles is that it defeats the purpose of them having cooldowns.
All i really want are 2 more vehicles: smaller air and ground troop carriers (4-6 seats total) with one turret at most. Trying to shoot people from the back of a buggy bouncing through the dunes should be fun, and i also want to get to da choppah! Nuff said.

[Legolas]

Flash + Jumpjets.

Yes.

[VaderShake]

LARGE crewable Battle walkers with jump jets.

[Yenni]

LARGE crewable Battle walkers with jump jets.

Stop talking...

[Dreadbelch]

Some kind of chopper. Even if it's just a futuristic Little Bird with a chain gun.

Some sort of menacing capital spaceship. Would be cool to see a slow moving Titan from Eve Online or something creeping across the battlefield. Would add another dynamic to the battlefield if handled properly.

[Helwyr]

I just want my Wraith ATV

[Zulthus]

Some kind of chopper. Even if it's just a futuristic Little Bird with a chain gun.

Some sort of menacing capital spaceship. Would be cool to see a slow moving Titan from Eve Online or something creeping across the battlefield. Would add another dynamic to the battlefield if handled properly.

This is the future, helicopters have been rendered obsolete and primitive with the invention of fighter VTOL engines. Much more reliable and less moving parts.

[Zulthus]

I just want my Wraith ATV

They have a cloaking attachment for the Flash called something with Wraith in the name. Not sure if its in yet but they already said they're doing it.

[Dreadbelch]

This is the future, helicopters have been rendered obsolete and primitive with the invention of VTOL. Much more reliable and less moving parts.

VTOLs haven't made helicopters obsolete because helicopters are VTOLs, dumb dumb.

We're brainstorming here. Not shitting on other people's ideas.

[Zulthus]

VTOLs haven't made helicopters obsolete because helicopters are VTOLs, dumb dumb.

We're brainstorming here. Not shitting on other people's ideas.

Yeah, you know what I meant, lol. Could have made it clearer.

And sorry, it was a bad idea, there's obviously no reason to use rotors when they're already using futuristic engines that do it better. For your daily dose of the Cobra hit up some BF3.

[SixShooter]

How about an ES bomber? Like Vanu could drop GLITTER bombs, NC could drop high impact bombs and TR could get cluster bombs.

Fixed :)
:cheers:

[Timealude]

Fixed :)
:cheers:

lol yes our bombs shall throw glitter in their eyes :D

[Yenni]

Well sony, you heard the people. Here's what we want.

- 4-6 Chopper/buggy. Something to fill the spot between sunderers and atvs

-stealth wraither

-bf2142 titans.


make it so

[Dagron]

When i said "get to da choppah" i meant an air vehicle to get just a few people in and out of hot spots that isn't quite as fast as a fighter, not that it needed spinning blades. I thought it was a better way to bring the image to mind than try to explain it. :P

[Frotang]

A trailer for the Sundy!

Ok bear with me here, but i feel the base sundy should remain strictly troop transport. The add ons such as AMS, vehicle repair, vehicle ammo dispensary should be added in the form of an attachable trailer which can be detached and remain usable in the field. Now in addition to the 3 trailers mentioned id like to see a mobile field turret trailer and some sort of additional seating trailer for 6 more seats. These are all in my dreams tho and i have many more crazy ideas haha

[maradine]

Actually, I think thats the best thing to come out of this thread. I wonder if the physics model could support it. Can't think of why not.

[Baneblade]

Arcadia, the NC Outfit Air Cruiser
Overlord, the TR Outfit Air Cruiser
Taranis, the VS Outfit Air Cruiser (because it can't be Scythe anymore)

[GuyFawkes]

Just looking at the Esamir footage it brought back visions of the empire strikes back and AT-AT walkers etc. Then I remembered how OP they were and similar to BFR's, and decide to go shove my head down the toilet.

[TheBladeRoden]

A long segmented centipede-like vehicle, basically a trackless train, and I don't even know why. And it could lay mines as it crawls along.

A spider-like vehicle that launches electrified webs to stun people, and can stab them with its legs.

A grasshopper-like vehicle that can hop onto buildings.

Really the arthropoda's the limit with vehicle ideas!

[bjorntju1]

http://flygirlgamers.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/planetside-2-environmental_concept_1.jpg

That.

In Space.

With space stations.

[sylphaen]

I think the problem with having too many similar vehicles is that it defeats the purpose of them having cooldowns.

Have you thought about shared cooldowns ? For example, cooldowns could easily be applied to a categories of vehicles if they don't want you to pull 2 tanks in a row.

The system was different in PS1, but as a dedicated driver (>10 cert points invested in vehicles at all times), you had room to switch to a different vehicle if your main choice was still on cooldown. (and that main choice would differ based on the kind of combat that was happening: buggies were great for harassing/flanking/fast-play, tanks were great for holding ground/counter-armor, aurora was a very specific anti-zerg AI weapon/door-camping).

Of course, having access to everything at once demands another system i.e. resources. In PS2, vehicles are on a resource cooldown (you specialize in getting vehicles or infantry equipment) AND a timer cooldown (you avoid spamming/wasting your vehicle). So if you're on cooldown, no options available.

To be honest, I felt more freedom in PS1 and thus tend to prefer the PS1 vehicle system to PS2. The PS2 ground vehicle play feels bland and boring to me.

IMO, vehicles from sanctuaries should be free.

(Just in case, for the PS1-Vet-Hater terrorists out there, I am not saying PS2 sucks and PS1 was so much greater, better, etc... I am simply stating a preference and why in PS2, I exclusively play infantry and stopped playing ground vehicles. For all the others, sorry for being a bit off-topic.)

[vVRedOctoberVv]

A trailer for the Sundy!

Ok bear with me here, but i feel the base sundy should remain strictly troop transport. The add ons such as AMS, vehicle repair, vehicle ammo dispensary should be added in the form of an attachable trailer which can be detached and remain usable in the field. Now in addition to the 3 trailers mentioned id like to see a mobile field turret trailer and some sort of additional seating trailer for 6 more seats. These are all in my dreams tho and i have many more crazy ideas haha

That's actually a pretty cool idea.

[maradine]

That.

In Space.

With space stations.

I think someone did something like that.

[Dagron]

Have you thought about shared cooldowns ?

No, i hadn't thought of that. :)