Tank Grief

[NC Nighthawk]

Are there going to be commands for tank drivers/owners to control who is in charge of his vehicles weapons. If any putz can just jump into the gunner chair, then is it not logical that a form of griefing would be to jump into the tank's turret and grief the driver by not shooting and essentially making his tank worthless. I mean does the driver have control over who sits in the gunner chair. I don't want to spend a ton of BEPs just to drive some newbie around that wants to fire the "Big Gun". This happened a lot in Infantry another sony MMOshooter.

[afex]

the owner of a vehicle can set permissions on his vehicle.

self only
squad only
empire only (open)

this is just so you can jump out at a base and do something and still expect it to be waiting for you when you get back.

the driver also has the ability to kick people out of the vehicle at will. so if you and your buddy want to go buggy riding, and someone else hops in the passenger sit first, give him a swift push of the eject button and you're good to go

[NC Nighthawk]

Thanks for the info

[Commander Cain]

Originally posted by afex
the owner of a vehicle can set permissions on his vehicle.

self only
squad only
empire only (open)

this is just so you can jump out at a base and do something and still expect it to be waiting for you when you get back.

the driver also has the ability to kick people out of the vehicle at will. so if you and your buddy want to go buggy riding, and someone else hops in the passenger sit first, give him a swift push of the eject button and you're good to go

Thats what every game with shared vehicles needs, this game looks better and better every 5 minutes.

[m0rphiu5]

just out of intrest afex, where dd you find that out.... old forum posts?, hamma?

[Jinxmasta]

I think it was said a long time ago since I too recall hearing something like it. I think it'll be great so I won't need some retard as my gunner like I usually get in other games. Instead of shooting the enemy, he purposely bombs his own team! Well, it seems the Devs were aware of this and figured it out. Good job Devs!

[Incompetent]

you forgot oufit only

It's from dave, i don't remember where he said it but it was from dave. i think you can also boot people out of your vehicle to.

edit: actually, that is just asking for a griefer so they might have taken it out.

edit again: the booting people out of vehicles part, not the other.

[Hamma]

We have known about vehicle permissions for some time, but yes its true - afex hit it perfectly.

As for stupid tank gunners I doubt your gonna find as many as say BF1942, people will be paying monthly fees and will probably want to be more serious about it.

[m0rphiu5]

thankz guys, i was just curious, i had never heard of it before... wondering if it was just rumour, but since its "straight from the hoarse's mouth" i cant argue with that.

[Hamma]

btw, yes you can kick people out of your vehicle at any time

[powdahound]

They should have an ejection option too. So if you're getting owned you can eject and land a little ways away...

[Camping Carl]

Or a self destruct button.....

[Zarparchior]

While we're at it why don't we make some of the ground vehicles spit out slippery oil behind them to make those nasty buggies chasing you wheel about and crash and also allow air vehicles to use a random teleportation ability?

[Unregistered]

/me plays the theme from Spy Hunter

I like the oil slick, but can I get smoke screen, and missles too? That damn Hilicoptor keeps owning me......

/end 80's arcade flash back.

The vechicle information came out of the IRC Dev chat. If you haven't read it yet you might want to look into it. It's a great read, and most of the current info we have came from it.

Here's the link.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/a...hp?articleId=6