Major aircraft issue.

[Zekeen]

I personally like landing being difficult. More power to the skilled pilots!

[FPClark]

Just flying any aircraft normally in real life damages it. ;P (I dont see a tiny tiny fraction of health loss when landing as that huge of a deal)

[Gonefshn]

Originally Posted by Purple

this guy gets it.

Thanks purple. I figured you weren't entirely serious. It's an interesting thing to notice though

[Hamma]

Landing was still being tweaked when I played.

[PeteHMB]

Originally Posted by Zekeen

I personally like landing being difficult. More power to the skilled pilots!

This x100. One reason I stopped playing battlefield after BF1942 and Desert Combat was all the helicopters got "easy mode" turned on. They no longer felt like helicopters with autohover and dumbed down controls. I've flown real helicopters and anyone who's ever flown anything, even an R/C aircraft, can tell you it's a lot more difficult than "press W to go". That's not to say we should turn this into a flight sim, but damn, make it harder than piloting a hot air balloon.

[SixShooter]

The Scythe looks like it would be no problem to land, besides, Reavers and Mossies are for sucks.

[Zekeen]

Originally Posted by PeteHMB

This x100. One reason I stopped playing battlefield after BF1942 and Desert Combat was all the helicopters got "easy mode" turned on. They no longer felt like helicopters with autohover and dumbed down controls. I've flown real helicopters and anyone who's ever flown anything, even an R/C aircraft, can tell you it's a lot more difficult than "press W to go". That's not to say we should turn this into a flight sim, but damn, make it harder than piloting a hot air balloon.

I gotta agree that it's more fun when it takes skill just to take off a bit. But PS2 looks like it'll have advanced AND easy flying. The fighters look easy to use, but the Galaxy looks INCREDIBLY HARD! I can't wait to fly it!

[Timealude]

Originally Posted by arclegger

hey ace do you think it would be possible to get a video montage of galaxies crashing?

[Dahmon Myncar]

Mmmmm....pho. When i first saw Higby flying the reaver in the GDC vid I thought the flight looked very arcade-y (its a word !!) TBs video jettin around in the mosquito only confirmed my suspicions. That being said, Im glad to see that there might well be patience and skill involved in piloting, or at least landing, an aircraft.

[Nabeshin]

With all the possible ways to get killed in an aircraft in PS2, landing will be the least of the worries.

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by Hmr85

Ha my favorite part was when Kevmo was showing off the tower and you see that Gal fly by like "hey whats up check me out." Next thing you know you see the thing roll over and nose dive into the ground. I thought that was hilarious.

yeah, I lol'd at that. And the scythe face-planting in the night-ops vid was pretty chuckle-tastic too.

[Malorn]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Landing was still being tweaked when I played.

I think they just said that to hide their Indiana Jones inability to land aircraft.

[DrifterBG]

Trees were sometimes the bane of my existence in Planetside 1... now I have to fear canyon walls too.

*puts on bike helmet* let's do this.

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by DrifterBG

Trees were sometimes the bane of my existence in Planetside 1... now I have to fear canyon walls too.

*puts on bike helmet* let's do this.

I'm looking forward to jumping on my ATV off a canyon wall in an experiment to determine the TTK of a Flash(?) on a Reaver. All in the cause of balance-checking 'yunderstand?

[DrifterBG]

I'll be there in my scythe to lead him to you, mate!