News: PlanetSide 2: Roadmap - March Preview

[KaskaMatej]

Originally Posted by Emperor Newt

Thats only because you currently cannot see them with NV scopes. Which will change (at least as far as I heard) and everything will be back to normal. No place to hide.

That's a bug, not a buff. Big difference.

[Hamma]

Yes you cannot fire while cloaked.. someone misunderstood what she said

[Shogun]

i especially like the passenger seat !

finally a seat where you can sit down but still use your own weapons! i asked for such a thing a long time ago

now give us an aircraft with 2 or even 4 max-ports that work the same way!
the maxes sould cling under the wings (much like the headhunters in the riddick movie) and use their own weapons. the downside would be, that the exposed max position would give no protection to the max, so the original max hitbox applies, like with the atv or mana turret.

but i am very disappointed about the temporary cloak. is there any chance that the cloaks (also personal cloak) in the game will be fixed and we get back the sneaking-gameplay we enjoyed so much in ps1? this short-time cloaking is useless and sucks. the ps1 cloakers tactical approach with small arms and hacking or CE laying was perfect! but ps2 only has castrated cloakers and engineers. i hope this will be adressed soon.

[FireStormNova]

I think it will be ok and and people or getting scared too soon + these weapons can be fixed easly by twiking there amout of damage and how fast they fire. That is if they will even need it? I am happy that they brought them back and or trying to make them unique for each faction.
Cloakers being able to cloake some vehicles is nothing new it was like that befor! =) I am NOT worried about it: PS2 stealth is not 100% and my eyes or more trained on movement *Wink* so i will be killing them like always. =)
I am most excited about the 2 seater flash = this has alot of potential seeing that the rider can use most of there own weapons. Something you could never do befor in PS , not even when rideing in a buggy. I hope you can also upgrade your armor with this because most tanks can kill a flash with 1 kill.

[Shogun]

Flash a-ah
Savior of the Universe
Flash
He save everyone of us
Flash
He's a miracle
Flash
King of the impossible

[Pella]

Originally Posted by Mastachief

well i hope they keep the requirement to keep a lock for the striker looking at its fire rate anything less will make entire areas a no go for vehicles and air. Allow dumb fire too but reduce the fire rate for dumb fire.

The speed of the pheonix projectile and what seemed slow turn rate should keep it pretty much balanced. After all you have to take first target time, flight time and reload time into account makeing the dps pretty low. Essentially this is a less accurate lockon (but you steer it) with the advantage of cover. People moan that it will instagib infantry... so will the other, the vs get a sniper and the tr get a spammer.

Lancer, i'm not sure on this depends on the charge up time and level of damage the top tier gives else once again vehicle and aircraft wont be able to approach any VS base. Essentially this is a sniper AV weapon much like the original was with little or no flight time for the hit.

Makes sense. It should be a tight radius to keep the lock on also. And dumb fire is going to be a must.

I hope we can lock onto maxes

[wasdie]

I thought they were revamping the loadout screen. I hope it makes it in this patch. Right now the map/loadout is really cumbersome and limiting. Could use a lot of logical upgrades.

[Koadster]

March preview.. ok where's my Feb update? I'll take improved item preview over squad drag drop firstly...is this 6 month plan gonna be a 10th month plan. Perhaps you should have called it just the roadmap without individual months. Just a large list of things to work on.

[Striker KOJ]

The Lancer looks like shit. Hate to be so blunt, but what a stupid design. May as well have just added "charge up" to the default launcher. There is nothing "Lance" about a ball of energy. I know she said it would "shoot lazors", but then it will just look like a "rocket launcher" shooting lazors. One shot and reload? Regardless of how much you charged? Why even have a charge up mechanic at that point?

And where is my giant box of energy bolts? Same silly ass battery orb? So much for unique.

I hate it when people use terms like "re-imagine", when in actuality they made a complete different product and slapped an old name on it.

In fact, all of the new launchers look too... cartoony? All bulbous and such. Striker looks like a poster tube... Ridiculous

Really disappointed.

[Timealude]

Originally Posted by Striker KOJ

The Lancer looks like shit. Hate to be so blunt, but what a stupid design. May as well have just added "charge up" to the default launcher. There is nothing "Lance" about a ball of energy. I know she said it would "shoot lazors", but then it will just look like a "rocket launcher" shooting lazors. One shot and reload? Regardless of how much you charged? Why even have a charge up mechanic at that point?

And where is my giant box of energy bolts? Same silly ass battery orb? So much for unique.

I hate it when people use terms like "re-imagine", when in actuality they made a complete different product and slapped an old name on it.

In fact, all of the new launchers look too... cartoony? All bulbous and such. Striker looks like a poster tube... Ridiculous

Really disappointed.

From certain angles, I can see where you are coming from with the Striker. But it still does look cool to me at least. The lancer, I love that design and I have faith the Dev team will make the projectile look right. (Im also guessing they did the voice over recently while the footage was put together a while back.) The phoniex looks just like any other NC weapon should look...like they got it out of a trash can All kidding aside, it does look very NCish so props to the weapons team and art team on this. Im sure they are working extremely hard on these rocket launchers and I cant wait to try one In game.

[Takoita]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Yes you cannot fire while cloaked.. someone misunderstood what she said

Honestly, I've heard the same thing. Cut us non-english speakers some slack.