Will you be able to Kamikaze in the 1-man crafts??

[TRscpd]

but still it would be fun to drop it.. its like INC ANT RUN!! like a small nuke :P BOOOOOM! killed 5 ppl

[2coasts]

they augta just include nukes, maybe each empire gets 1 per week, extremely hard to transport and use, but very fun

[kid klash]

load up a galaxy with explosives and make them barney-style vanu's go boom.

[Deadlock]

except that you can only parachute when u drop out of a flying vehicle, so you woud die too...

i thought they kicked in if u fell from above a certain height. so u could jump off of building roofs and still be ok, i could be wrong though.

[Sando138]

KDs kick in afteryou fall like 15 feet or so, so you can fall out of a galaxy and live, but not out of a low flying vehicle, but they probably don't stop damage 100% until like 30ft.

[NeoTassadar]

Been mentioning high alt. ANT drops (for bombing purposes) off and on for a while. The devs said you have to be very careful (= it's unstable), so if vehicles DO have Kinetic Dampeners, which is news to me, it's a simple matter to ram the nearest wall (near enemies, of course). Take them by surprise, too. Last thing anyone not on this forum would expect.

[LiquidThunder]

Originally posted by Matuse
Running a jeep into a Leopard or Tiger tank, I'd be amazed if you scratched the paint, nevermind inflicted noticeable damage.

1 ton jeep hits 30 ton steel ingot, and tank is not destroyed...go figure.

Basic physics. Calculate the sheer momentum involved in a 1 ton object travelling at 45 mph added to the momentum of a 30 ton tank going at 20 mph both AT eachother. sure the jeep's structure might as well be tissuepaper, but combined with the explosion of the engine, you have a ridiculous ammount of force involved there.

Drive a wrangler full speed into a tank and see what happens.

-LT

[Matuse]

If you are going to be the champion of basic physics, then it would probably be beneficial to know about them wouldn't it? No difference between the 45 mph jeep hitting the tank at 40mph, 20mph or not moving at all. At least, from a momentum and force point of view (that would be the basic physics you speak of) in the real world, the moving tank makes the passengers of the jeep far less likely to survive, because the tank would proceed to run over them.

If "basic physics" could account for something as complex as a vehicle impact, why is it exactly that we have crash tests, crash test dummies, multi-million dollar test facilities for determining what the result of an impact is?

That doesn't change what happens when the mostly hollow, primarily aluminum jeep hits the almost entirely solid, mostly steel tank that outweighs it by a factor of 30 (and by as much as a factor of 70, these days). I've seen what happens when vehicles run into tanks. The vehicle becomes tinfoil, and the tank barely even gets jolted.

The gas tank exploding is simply a laughable joke. The supreme accuracy of Hollywood notwithstanding, passenger vehicles do not spontaneously erupt into fireballs whenever they get looked at crosseyed. Military vehicles, in the anticipation of receiving more deliberate and far rougher treatment, are actually much LESS likely to have this happen, particularly with as mundane a cause as a frontal impact at moderate speed.

[2coasts]

are you willing to put your money where your mouth is?


how about it punk?
ill supply the jeep, you get the tank

[2coasts]

one of the new screenshots has a pic of the ANT exploding:

http://planetside.station.sony.com/s..._Explosion.jpg

[Warborn]

A jeep wouldn't do much to a think if it impacted. The hull of a tank is durable enough to withstand an explosive projectile with a far small surface area, but far more kinetic energy, being launched at it. Much of the time said projectiles break apart on the tank's armor. So if you think a jeep, with far less force behind it and a much greater size (ergo less penetrating power) is going to take out a tank, you've got another thing coming.

[Led]

Running people down with the bomber in T2 was fun!

I even got a few people with the havoc once