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[DarkDragon]

http://planetside.station.sony.com/game_updates/future_plans.jsp

I just had a heart attack....this is great!!!

[Hamma]

excellent

[Khronos]

:D sweet..

sanctuary strikes sound cool,but wonder how they'll play out...

[edit: ooh outfit "events" sound nice as well.]

[RUEN]

OMG! my work blocked it OUT! someone post it please!!!! *cries*

[Hamma]

May 14th - Aircraft, Vehicles, and More!
PlanetSide will soon be released, but the development team isn't resting. Check out what's on the horizon for updates and additions to the game!

Here's a peek at what you can expect in the near future for PlanetSide:

New aircraft :
Liberator - a brand new common pool bomber
Lodestar -- a vehicle transport aircraft
New vehicle:
Skyguard -- an anti-aircraft buggy
Platoons: Combine up to three squads to facilitate chat, share XP and organize and command large-scale missions with up to 30 people .
Sanctuary Strikes: Strike at the heart of your enemy. By achieving a "lock" on the three continents connected to an enemy sanctuary, launch attacks via the opened warpgates.
Quarterly Outfit Competitions: Conduct special events featuring structured competitions between outfits. Games like "Capture the Flag" and others can be played.
PlanetSide is a persistent world, constantly changing. Updates like this are made on an ongoing basis, so stay up-to-date with what's to come in regular update reports right here.

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[RUEN]

kickass, i like the outfit things and the Sanc Strikes

[Vis Armata]

I was drooling over the bomber (yay) until I came upon the part where locking three continents allowed a Sanctuary strike...what a game.

[MuadDib]

OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG!

This is a clear show of the dedtication of the PS team. New content and startegic objectives ahoy!

[OneManArmy]

god hath handed down some geek lovin' for us all.

jesus I literally can't take all this in one day. from the matrix to this and all the new trailers for games just released.... I'm gonna explode or something....

[Saethan]

Hmm. Yay. :-D

[Xxzard]

Liberrator? was that to honor WW2 Liberator bombers. but what about the sanc strikes probably have to stay around the edges too only kill people not capture.:(

[afex]

<Neo> Woah.

[RUEN]

I think the Sanc Strike is a GOOD add, it gives your team something to drive for... asskicking at its finest, they'll probably be hella rare though (lets hope).

[Zenny]

:D Outfit competitions!!!

Be interesting to see how they handle sanctuary strikes seeing how it would be all of NC against an attacker...!

[Prowler]

Wow. This game will own :cool:

[powdahound]

Hopefully they will find a happy balance between the empires. NC still gets OWNED hardcore. :(

[RUEN]

Be interesting to see how they handle sanctuary strikes seeing how it would be all of NC against an attacker...!

God it's sad how true that is... :(

[ObnoxiousFrog]

The Liberator is my new lover.

[Shaftt]

ya!!!:eek: :love: :eek: :lol: :thumbsup: :borg: :bouncy: :domotwak: :sniper: :vsrocks: :vsrocks: :vsrocks: :vsrocks:

[Shaftt]

this is kool
<===extactic

[Hellsfire123]

I knew the sanc strike would come, why else would there be gun towers at each sanc warpgate?


Lodestar....omfg. Maybe we could carry tanks? APC's? God imagine a bridge battle and then seeing 4 vanguards fly overhead and drop down behind you. I think i just wet myself.

Bomber better not turn into a spam fest.

[r3d]

Sexcelent !

[Camping Carl]

:jawdrop:

[Shaftt]

any 1 hear about water vehicles i think there was a post somewhere that said it is going to come so some bases will be moved to water inlits and such but i'm not sure sounds cool:hitit:

[NullandVoid]

OMG, bombers. I wonder how many fools with be weapon locked within a couple hours of bombers being added.

[Supreme]

finally.

this game now has a good purpose.

the sanct strikes sound awesome

the outfit competitions will make Guild (outfits) have something to fight over but what?

wont this create this ONE KILLER outfit no one dares touch?

uh oh.

[Demdadar]

Great !!

[Hamma]

My guess is this "vehicle" transport can move heavy tanks. And perhaps AMS's

I bet its some kind of clamp you hover over and pick up the vehicle.. so the vehicle is vurnerable on your underside.

Just speculation of course, but it sounds cool.

[Nitsch]

Originally posted by OneManArmy
god hath handed down some geek lovin' for us all.

jesus I literally can't take all this in one day. from the matrix to this and all the new trailers for games just released.... I'm gonna explode or something....

That post wins my quote of the day :)

[balab]

the devs read my mind. i was thinking about upcoming vehicles all of last night and this morning. basically i predicted medium air transports (but more of a 3 to 4 man infantry transport), a serious AA vehicle, and some electronic warfare (mobile radar and radar jammers). and voila.

but...

i don't see why the need for bombers when reavers already fit that role and some more. the reaver rockets has high RoF, mediocure/decent accuracy, and good direct/splash damage. they already devestate infantries and vehicles alike. how much better can the bombers devestate everything else on the ground?

i predict the addition of bombers will call for even more efficient AA on top of the skyguard. something like an empire specific AA tank. quite obviously actually, seeing how most vehicle types follow this trend: harasser->assault buggy, lightning->assault tank, so skyguard will evolve into heavy AA.

[ZionsFire]

:drools:
mmm...mm..m
WAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[NeoTassadar]

:thumbsup: I'm enthusiastic, but worried about Sanc Strikes. But the carryall concept is great. *Wonders about capacity and armor*
Platoons. Bombers. :drools:

[Sp3ctre]

But what happens when a sanc gets invaded? Does the whole empire get destroyed? They can't temporarily stop an outfit because players pay for the game, so restricting time is a bad thing to do. Maybe they just get shamed around the world and the sanc resets

[Cyber]

It won't be all of NC vs just the enemy getting hit by the sanctuary strike. It's also NC vs the other side as well. Why?

Because you have to hold the lock on all 3 continents. It's not locked of VS owns one base on it and it's also not locked if TR shows up and takes a base. And by the sounds of it to me it's probably going to require ONE side to hold all 3 continents. Not 2 held by NC and one by TR.

That would make it extremely rare. Probably only something TR will pull off. :D

[Indecisive]

See? I told you my perdiciton would come true? I wasnt lieing......man....bastages


no one belives me :(

[Slab]

Great.

A weapon that a moron could use to destroy a friendly invading force.

"Must be at least this smart to fly this vehicle."

[Spinnaker]

err gusy there is an AA gun buggy dont forget that muahaha ppl wil fear this when the gunner find out that a 50' rounda in a guy looks like :eek:

[Revolver]

Hopefully when that happens the weapons lock will be lifted.

[Jbaz]

A bomber eh... MrVulcan finally got his wish. :thumbsup:

[Chanfan]

The bomber surprised me, since they seemed dead set against any kind of indirect fire or mass area weapon. I'll wait to see how it plays out, but I am worried about griefers and idiots. Also, worried that it will further cut down on the already lacking outdoors fights.

Having the AA Buggy to balance it is a nice touch.

The sanc strike isn't that surprising, as they've hinted at it. It's good as it's a holy grail goal to drive for, but seems to be about as likely to happen - I can't imagine a side getting all three sanc warp gates locked.

Platoons are what I'm looking forward to the most. More tools to organize > more tools to kill with.

Outfit competitions sound like they have potential to be fun - hope they mix it up so that one outfit just doesn't dominate.

[Clubfoot]

I just hope the bombers are not anywhere near as powerful as the T2 bombers (ie instant death for any but the Jugs on the very edge of the blast radius with shield packs on). The only thing that kept v-pad games playable was a limit of one ( two in some mods) bomber per side at any time; and remember it was at least theoretically possible to quickly get away from an area with your jetpack if you heard the whistle of falling bombs. Imagine a squad of 10 bombers flying over a battle along the flight ceiling. Most people are probably going to give up and log off after repeatedly dying immediately when they step outside.

[2coasts]

bombers will be cool.

now let the devs do their job.

[SweetTater]

If they make the bombers offensively powerful, make them equally defensively weak. Make them real slow, require air escort, or always show up on radar. Have them not be able to hover but have a minimum speed they have to fly at. They way they can't just hover and drop a ton of ordinance but have to do actual bombing runs. They only place they can stop is at a dropship base which has a way of stopping them.

[Airlift]

I think they should be very powerful, but also have very limited bomb capacity. The more dominant air power becomes, the more feasible it becomes that people will include anti-air in their plans.

[xuur]

next stop


tactical nukes.

[Warborn]

Originally posted by Slab
Great.

A weapon that a moron could use to destroy a friendly invading force.

"Must be at least this smart to fly this vehicle."

Do you know exactly how strong bombers will be? I think you're being overly critical at this point making comments like that.

[Dharkbayne]

Originally posted by xuur
next stop


tactical nukes.

Tactical nukes........ they make my pants happy

[OneManArmy]

but its so much fun to be so critical at this stage in time, its what separates the fanboi's from the rest... :rolleyes: :nono:

[SaltzBad]

Originally posted by Clubfoot
I just hope the bombers are not anywhere near as powerful as the T2 bombers (ie instant death for any but the Jugs on the very edge of the blast radius with shield packs on). The only thing that kept v-pad games playable was a limit of one ( two in some mods) bomber per side at any time; and remember it was at least theoretically possible to quickly get away from an area with your jetpack if you heard the whistle of falling bombs. Imagine a squad of 10 bombers flying over a battle along the flight ceiling. Most people are probably going to give up and log off after repeatedly dying immediately when they step outside.

The shrike was in the air faster, and at that point the bombers life got hard. Its just on pubs where the best defense was a few guys crowded with launchers around the pad that bombing was easy. Same would prolly go for Liberator vs Skeeto.