Nothing New but Upgrades?

Rodel · 2012-07-28, 09:21 PM

So when ever it is suggested that PS2 could use a vehicle x eventually someone says that it might be an upgrade for vehicle y.

Will there be an AMS---Sunderer upgrade
Will there be a Loadstar---Galaxy upgrade
artillery--------------- lightning upgrade
...and so on.

I guess this makes a lot of sense money wise to only add upgrades and not brand new vehicles but I will be disappointed if SOE doesn't proactively add more vehicles to planetside 2.

FINALCUT · 2012-07-28, 09:24 PM

I agree. I need an Enforcer. Not some upgrade. There is no way you can upgrade a Tank to a buggy. That would be a downgrade technically,but the Enforcer was the most fun vehicle for me and it will be greatly missed. I am sure we will see buggies in a patch down the road. Way too many buggy fans for SOE not to put them in.

Deadeye · 2012-07-29, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by FINALCUT

I agree. I need an Enforcer. Not some upgrade. There is no way you can upgrade a Tank to a buggy. That would be a downgrade technically,but the Enforcer was the most fun vehicle for me and it will be greatly missed. I am sure we will see buggies in a patch down the road. Way too many buggy fans for SOE not to put them in.

I agree. I need Buggies. Otherwise what else is there to Jihad Jeep with? ATV? pff, too small a target for the enemy, doesn't make it exciting enough! :P

Originally Posted by IHateMMOs

Loadstar is confirmed, and they may be adding a ground vehicle mobile spawner so that you're not fully dependent on just a Galaxy. They're not cheap.

Edit- And also there may be naval and space warfare so there's huge opportunities there. New ground vehicles like long and short range artillery, mobile heatseaking rocket launchers, more empire specific aircrafts, tanks, buggies, transports. All of this may come, just at the moment. there are not many vehicles.

Would love to see amphibious vehicles for the other factions. Maybe a hovercraft transport for crossing bodies of water. It'll be air cushioned as opposed to the Vanu's anti-grav system.

WiteBeam · 2012-07-28, 09:24 PM

I would imagine they will actually add in those vehicles everyone wants such as the Assualt buggies and such. Along with new maps.
There will be much more than we have seen post beta.

Nefarion · 2012-07-28, 09:25 PM

Lodestar has been confirmed to be in the game.

SteinB · 2012-07-29, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by Nefarion

Lodestar has been confirmed to be in the game.

Confirmed by who?

Can you provide a source link?

I have followed PS2 development closely and have never seen or heard anything about Lodestars beyond "maybe post launch"

Turdicus · 2012-07-29, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by SteinB

Confirmed by who?

Can you provide a source link?

I have followed PS2 development closely and have never seen or heard anything about Lodestars beyond "maybe post launch"

Yeah Lodestars were never confirmed so I don't know what that guy is talking about. Sunderers currently behave a little like lodestars in that they have a repair/rearm aura around them.

RageMasterUK · 2012-07-28, 09:29 PM

It makes alot of sense to add new vehicles from a money perspective. Even if the vehicles they add are given free initially.

Its a whole new tree they create for upgrade purchases

-RageMasterUK

Rodel · 2012-07-28, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by RageMasterUK

It makes alot of sense to add new vehicles from a money perspective. Even if the vehicles they add are given free initially.

Its a whole new tree they create for upgrade purchases

-RageMasterUK

Good point... and I bet the buggies are comen. The Thrasher was bad ass.

Littleman · 2012-07-28, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Rodel

Good point... and I bet the buggies are comen. The Thrasher was bad ass.

True that. You don't shoot infantry with the thresher, you shoot vehicles. My brother and I held the bridge against the enemy, ripping up their tanks. then we had the ditch the thing because we ran out of ammo. It looked so cool in black and red though.

Buggies will make a return, but balancing them will be a bitch. People don't expect buggies to be as devastating as tanks, but I imagine they will have to be to make up for the lack of armor and their high speed. Wait... how is high speed a disadvantage?

Well, seeing as how some people are against one-man tanks already, I think it bears mentioning that even if buggies could be one-manned, it'd probably be suicide to look away from your path or else come to a complete stop, making dedicated gunners more of a must. Besides, I relate the lightning more closely to the buggies than I do to the MBT's.