Nothing New but Upgrades?

[Rodel]

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]

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.

[WiteBeam]

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]

Lodestar has been confirmed to be in the game.

[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

[Rodel]

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.

[Vanath]

They have said they will be making new assault buggies and if I remember correctly they will be faction specific.

[haticK]

We could get jetskis and bikinis, that would be fun times

[Littleman]

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.

[bpostal]

Originally Posted by haticK

We could get jetskis and bikinis, that would be fun times

Put some cannons on a jetski and use it to hunt magriders.

[atheistunicycle]

I don't know how effective buggies could possibly be in PS2, with a faster time-to-kill than PS1. In PS1 it would take 5-6 pheonix shots to take out a Thresher, in this one I can't imagine it taking more than 2-3.

[opticalshadow]

i think to an exstent this could be smart. some things like more specilized vehicles, like the skyguard should be a vareint removing a buggies weapon system and replacing it is ally ou need to make that vehicle.

now other ones, you could prolyl do an arty conversion on a lightning, but id point you to the size artillery are, and how small the lightning is, i feel it would be a comp out. that said, given that its so extreamly limited in scope, it might be a good decision, as more players will benifit from it.

things like hte loadstar, as they exsisted in ps1, would make no sesne as a galaxy conversion, they filled insanely diffrent roles, the same with the sunderer being the ams. the thing with teh ams is it need to have no weapons, it need to just be a spawn truck with a quick shop. and it needs to be its own vehicle. unlike the arty above, its scope is not limited, it was, and would be, a major point on the map, its importence is more so then nearly any other unit on the field. in that vein its proper balence needs to be its own, not a kit change.

[Rivenshield]

Originally Posted by bpostal

Put some cannons on a jetski and use it to hunt magriders.

Why does this make me LOL so much?

[BlueSkies]

They already said buggies would be in game, just not at launch.

[Kur]

I want an AA vehicle with some additional ground protection like a minigun or something.