Infantry only areas

[Artimus]

Are these areas going to be inaccessible from ground fire and aircraft as in saying can I fly a reaver down in there blast someone and swoop out? Or as a prowler sit on a cliff side or right angle to drop shells right inside those areas? I know tanks cant physically drive in them from what I saw on gdc

[Bags]

Indoors for one.

[SKYeXile]

i think you will find that biolabs, inside the dome is infantry only while sort of having an instanced feel to them without aircraft.

presumably the domes cant be destroyed.

[Artimus]

Originally Posted by Bags

Indoors for one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohxc5...e_gdata_player

Go to 20 min that is what I am curious about I thought that was infantry only, it looks like I can see the sky or a tank can get up to the entrance and fire down the way

[CutterJohn]

Where are the tank only areas?

[WiteBeam]

Bridges also has a roof for cover from air.
What's wrong with indoors?

[Tatwi]

Originally Posted by CutterJohn

Where are the tank only areas?

lol... I am picturing that 90s tank game I used to play at lunch on the computers at school some times... Two tanks and messed up physics ftw!

[CutterJohn]

Originally Posted by Tatwi

lol... I am picturing that 90s tank game I used to play at lunch on the computers at school some times... Two tanks and messed up physics ftw!

It'll probably just be like it was in PS1.. Wide open plains areas for tanks/ground vehicles, with little cover to protect air from AA and no good hilltops/chokepoints to provide for infantry strongholds.

[DayOne]

Originally Posted by elfailo

Does this also mean there are going to be designated A2A area's where AA can't ruin the fun for pilots?

Areas without buildings and really high up.

[arclegger]

We're trying really hard to make sure the "vehicle heavy" areas and the "infantry heavy" areas stay that way. Obviously all of planetside 2 is about vehicles and infantry fighting together but there are spots where we want specific types of fights to be happening.

Like some of the outposts are meant for vehicles to STAY OUT, so if we go to beta and vehicles are ruining these places we will probably have to make changes.

All part of the process

[Stardouser]

Originally Posted by arclegger

We're trying really hard to make sure the "vehicle heavy" areas and the "infantry heavy" areas stay that way. Obviously all of planetside 2 is about vehicles and infantry fighting together but there are spots where we want specific types of fights to be happening.

Like some of the outposts are meant for vehicles to STAY OUT, so if we go to beta and vehicles are ruining these places we will probably have to make changes.

All part of the process

I have only played a few hours of PS1, and that was recently, but it seems to me like battles very quickly end up infantry only with defenders camping doorways and attackers throwing themselves at the doors en masse to get through. What will you be doing to encourage more battles out in the field which must be won before the siege of a base can proceed?

[KTNApollo]

Originally Posted by Stardouser

I have only played a few hours of PS1, and that was recently, but it seems to me like battles very quickly end up infantry only with defenders camping doorways and attackers throwing themselves at the doors en masse to get through. What will you be doing to encourage more battles out in the field which must be won before the siege of a base can proceed?

Agreed. Spend a few minutes bombarding them and destroying their vehicle terminal and then it's all indoor infantry unless there is a vehicle counterattack from another base.

[Stardouser]

Originally Posted by KTNApollo

Agreed. Spend a few minutes bombarding them and destroying their vehicle terminal and then it's all indoor infantry unless there is a vehicle counterattack from another base.

Well, I didn't mean fights that would simply be outdoors as in right outside the base, I meant fights that might occur 2-3 km away and then once the attackers win that they can proceed to the base. It just seems to me that it's basically most often Empire A's huge force attacks empire B's base with inf only defenders, while B's huge force attacks A's base with inf only defenders.

[ringring]

Originally Posted by Stardouser

I have only played a few hours of PS1, and that was recently, but it seems to me like battles very quickly end up infantry only with defenders camping doorways and attackers throwing themselves at the doors en masse to get through. What will you be doing to encourage more battles out in the field which must be won before the siege of a base can proceed?

In ps1 that is/was often a function of populations. It's odd but with larger populations it was the case that the distance between the bases appeared larger. This was because it took longer to go from one base to the next, because of the vehicle fighting that occurred between the two bases.

[Artimus]

Well back in old ps1 days I remember hossin for the.fact there were alot if trees in the way for amor and aircraft alot of those base seiges were based around infantry. (given it was poplocked)

well I am all for these areas all questions will be answered in beta I supose..