New AA Turret: T-Ray Tweet. [Archive]

Pella

2013-02-21, 09:12 AM

Now before anyone Jumps the gun and crys about adding more AA.

Think about it logically. These New turrets will be replacing certain Flak Turrets on towers and Bases.

What does this mean for Pilots? Less Flak covering the skys. I welcome these turrets as we already have a hard counter to A2A,G2A Missiles with flares.

You can have 100 Lock on's. And 1 flare counters them all. You cant do the same with flak.

Pilots should welcome these.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/album/mp52rz6sp6/20130221_512676915228c.jpg (http://www.planetside-universe.com/media.php?view=2305)

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media.php?view=2305

https://twitter.com/PS_TRay/status/304452333947998208

Twasta

2013-02-21, 09:17 AM

Missiles are cool, m'kay?

Can't wait to use one.

ChipMHazard

2013-02-21, 09:23 AM

Oh that does look sweet.

NewSith

2013-02-21, 09:41 AM

You can have 100 Lock on's. And 1 flare counters them all. You cant do the same with flak.

Pilots should welcome these.

Pella, I wish every pilot was intelligent enough to figure that out instead of whining about missile spam.

Satanam

2013-02-21, 09:53 AM

This one looks really nice, and if they'll be replaced on the old turrets, then I'll love it.

MrBloodworth

2013-02-21, 10:48 AM

I Can dig it. It will still be a death coffin. :)

Figment

2013-02-21, 10:58 AM

I take it this will fire barrages of little lock on missiles?

Canaris

2013-02-21, 11:02 AM

I take it this will fire barrages of little lock on missiles?

lol I was just wondering would it fire all twenty missiles in one go too, cos if it only fires one then what's the point of the other 19 tubes? :D

Figment

2013-02-21, 11:13 AM

Maybe it fires ten missiles at once? >.>

MrBloodworth

2013-02-21, 11:22 AM

Swarm missiles would be a sight to see. But I'm near sure that wont be the case as those projectiles would have to be tracked.

Koadster

2013-02-21, 11:27 AM

Models are already ingame, here are some pics I just digged outta the files after seeing this post.

Heres the engineer turret, it used to have a tripod model but got removed

http://s5.postimage.org/bhmqzf7qv/missle_m.jpg

Heres the base turret one

http://s5.postimage.org/vdiqeyos7/missle_t.jpg

Dougnifico

2013-02-21, 11:31 AM

You hear that... the sound of a million pilots crying out in terror...

Riekopo

2013-02-21, 11:32 AM

Pilots will be even more screwed, great. One flare we can only use every half minute.

Assist

2013-02-21, 11:35 AM

they need clouds in this game, weather, wind, etc!

Qwan

2013-02-21, 11:38 AM

They look cool but the question is will they do the same damage as the turrets that we have now. Looks dont take out air, damage and hitting the target is what makes them deadly.

Assist

2013-02-21, 11:40 AM

They look cool but the question is will they do the same damage as the turrets that we have now. Looks dont take out air, damage and hitting the target is what makes them deadly.

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psijaka

2013-02-21, 11:46 AM

Missile turrets a nice idea in principle; hope they don't screw air v ground balance too much though; I'm feeling that this is not too far off being where it should be right now. Maybe shorter flare cooldown will be needed?

Qwan

2013-02-21, 11:54 AM

Really Assist..... you used a Motley Crue video:rock: to get your point across. :lol:

satori

2013-02-21, 12:09 PM

they need clouds in this game, weather, wind, etc!

That would be very cool. Rain on Amerish and snow storms on Essamir?

ChipMHazard

2013-02-21, 12:18 PM

That would be very cool. Rain on Amerish and snow storms on Essamir?

Aye, but I wouldn't hold my breath. They've been talking about a weather system for a looooong time:p

ShadetheDruid

2013-02-21, 12:28 PM

Maybe shorter flare cooldown will be needed?

Or give us flares with "ammo" (nothing too ridiculous, just give us one flare per cert level in the "magazine"). If people want to spam lock ons, let us spam flares in return.

At least then I might be able to do some dogfighting without being chased 2km by someone who doesn't know what a nose gun is every 10 minutes.

Assist

2013-02-21, 12:50 PM

Really Assist..... you used a Motley Crue video:rock: to get your point across. :lol:

I know if I was an artist I'd be listening to that while working! :P

Evil Redrum

2013-02-21, 12:56 PM

Just going to leave this here... http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/album/mp52rz6sp6/20120214_4f3ac37be28a1.jpg

maradine

2013-02-21, 01:01 PM

That does make me a bit horny. Not sure about the placement, though. :)

What would be interesting is letting defending engineers decide which they want up - either via upgrades or replacements.

Wahooo

2013-02-21, 01:02 PM

That would be very cool. Rain on Amerish and snow storms on Essamir?

As if my FPS could get even lower.

Assist

2013-02-21, 01:07 PM

Just going to leave this here... http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/album/mp52rz6sp6/20120214_4f3ac37be28a1.jpg

what's with the desktop icons?

DviddLeff

2013-02-21, 01:17 PM

Higby did that back before Beta to disguise his desktop as people were reading way too much into the icons when he posted pictures.

ChipMHazard

2013-02-21, 01:18 PM

Oh I am looking forward to seeing it in action.

Ghoest9

2013-02-21, 01:56 PM

Hmmm - i like flack turrets. They arent particularly effective but they are fun.

Rothnang

2013-02-21, 02:23 PM

If there are two kinds of AA turret maybe that will finally allow the devs to start differentiating air targets a bit more in terms of what weapons are good against them.

It really annoys me that the exact same weapons are good against a Fighter as are good against a Liberator or Galaxy. The Larger aircraft are by far the biggest and least agile units in the game. Even though they have a higher end speed than something like a tank, they take much longer to turn around to get away from a deadly threat.

I really hope they use the opportunity of multiple AA turrets to give air units a serious distinction in what weapons are good against them. It's just silly that Fighter and Galaxy get lumped together for the purpose of what's a good weapon against them, since obviously anything that has a reasonable chance of hitting a fighter is practically impossible to miss a Galaxy with. That's like if MBTs and ATVs had the same armor just because they are both on the ground.

Hamma

2013-02-21, 02:31 PM

Damn I totally missed this. Getting it posted!

Hamma

2013-02-21, 02:34 PM

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/album/mp52rz6sp6/20130221_512676915228c.jpg (http://www.planetside-universe.com/media.php?view=2305)

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media.php?view=2305

Red Ketchup

2013-02-21, 02:53 PM

I hope that this new turret kinda work like "anti-air rocket pods" * instead of shooting lock on missiles. In other words, compared to the existing flak turret, this one would have a slower rate of fire but higher damage. I think this would make it better than flak against slow/hovering aircrafts.

*oh the irony!

Timealude

2013-02-21, 04:58 PM

I wonder how well these will work against galaxies and libs?

MaxDamage

2013-02-21, 05:05 PM

I Can dig it. It will still be a death coffin. :)

I like redundancy.

bpostal

2013-02-21, 06:28 PM

Just going to leave this here... http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/album/mp52rz6sp6/20120214_4f3ac37be28a1.jpg

http://youtu.be/GNkGbTuGHd0

Oh My!

MercDT

2013-02-21, 11:05 PM

So, a rocket turret emplacement on the old alpha walls. I guess this turret isn't coming back with those walls?

QuantumMechanic

2013-02-22, 01:26 AM

Is there any word on when or how this turret is coming into the game? Or is this just a re-tweet of something we've known about since before beta?

Stanis

2013-02-22, 02:56 AM

CrimsonTemplar

2013-02-22, 09:17 AM

Just going to leave this here... http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/album/mp52rz6sp6/20120214_4f3ac37be28a1.jpg

Very nice. What's the facility is the turret in? Looks like a techplant but the walls and textures seem...different.

Perhaps I'm just seeing things.

EDIT: Ah so those are the old Alpha walls eh? Guess I was seeing things.

Still nice turret.

Dodgy Commando

2013-02-22, 10:59 AM

Historically the automation of defences required radar.

Interlink facilities on PS1 provided radar.

We know interlink facilities are in the roadmap.

Hmmm.... I hope they are automated.
Yet significantly more effective when manned.

Just like PS1 Wall Turrets. At least they put some pressure on you when attacking.

I don't know if its specific to EU Cobalt, but I find wall turrets are underused in PS2. Imagine if a facility's defenses were fully manned.

Of course they would require engineer support as they do tend to end up destroyed, occupied or not. :rolleyes:

MrBloodworth

2013-02-22, 11:01 AM

Just like PS1 Wall Turrets. At least they put some pressure on you when attacking.

I don't know if its specific to EU Cobalt, but I find wall turrets are underused in PS2. Imagine if a facility's defenses were fully manned.

Of course they would require engineer support as they do tend to end up destroyed, occupied or not. :rolleyes:

They are the first things to go, because even unoccupied they are worth XP.

Dodgy Commando

2013-02-22, 11:03 AM

Aye, I'm guilty of it myself.

They also appear to add to the killcount for weapon medals, even when unoccupied. I don't know whether that's intentional, but it happened to me once.

But still, all stations operational and supported must be quite hard to crack.

CrankyTRex

2013-02-22, 04:57 PM

It looks cool, but more AA? Seriously? Sigh.

Sprintfox

2013-02-22, 09:19 PM

what's with the desktop icons?

Memory training by binding something specific to a certain image.
It's a common type of practice if you want to keep your brain fresh.

Associate something with an image and you'll remember it everytime.

MaxDamage

2013-02-22, 09:29 PM

Hate to say I told you so.

Nah.... I love it.

Biohazard

2013-02-23, 12:10 AM

New? No, not really. We first saw this almost a year ago. Nice to hear that the model may finally have a use though :D

nailgun

2013-02-24, 12:42 AM

like this game needs more fucking AA

Dkamanus

2013-02-24, 01:40 AM

they need clouds in this game, weather, wind, etc!

Fuck yes they do. I just think all weater effects are something that would give a LOT of immersion inside the game. Hopefully they won't take 3 years to do so.