PlanetSide Next Reaver Exclusive

[Peacemaker]

Originally Posted by Smed

If by black and red you mean the fluids leaking from a TR soldier's brains when I make them into a smear on the front of my Reaver then yeah.. everything looks better in black and red! ( I like purple too btw... Vanu bleed too!)

NC ftw!

And all you people saying "that looks like a mosquito".. you haven't seen the mosquito yet (I guess I just confirmed that we HAVE a mosquito)...we're striking a balance between old and new that you should judge for yourself when you see it all in the game.

And all you pilots out there. These are not your daddy's toys. They have a whole new physics and feel to them that will require skilled pilots and will absolutely separate the men from the boys in the cockpit. We've put a lot of time and energy into how things feel in this game.

Smed

While I hope that reavers arnt nerfed into oblivion with one pilot I do very much love the promise of a new flight model. Time to rule the skies!

[Tikuto]

i'd rather the Vanu have more Turquiose than Indigo.

[Robert089]

Originally Posted by Typwn

It's beautiful

[Infektion]

Originally Posted by Smed

If by black and red you mean the fluids leaking from a TR soldier's brains when I make them into a smear on the front of my Reaver then yeah.. everything looks better in black and red! ( I like purple too btw... Vanu bleed too!)

NC ftw!

And all you people saying "that looks like a mosquito".. you haven't seen the mosquito yet (I guess I just confirmed that we HAVE a mosquito)...we're striking a balance between old and new that you should judge for yourself when you see it all in the game.

And all you pilots out there. These are not your daddy's toys. They have a whole new physics and feel to them that will require skilled pilots and will absolutely separate the men from the boys in the cockpit. We've put a lot of time and energy into how things feel in this game.

Smed

Well this certainly brightened up my weekend! Now that you mentioned this new feel, how about proper piloting controls via joystick? That'd be insane! btw... 6+ veteran, and playing planetside was one of the best things I did while going through cancer back in 2007-2008! NC-KWA-Infektion!

[Canaris]

Originally Posted by Typwn

I think I prefer this...

Now that's what I'm talking about! TRage!

[haywire]

I just can't wait to see it all in motion now!

[NCFeralTomcat]

It looks like a wasp render to me. But nonetheless...I am so stoked I cannot stand it. I'm also a planetside veteran of 6 years...I love this game so much and cannot wait to get back into it.

[Electrofreak]

Looks more like a Mosquito to me. But very nice!

EDIT - Just saw Smed's post. Lookin' forward to see the Skeeter render!

[Neptunium-K]

Neptunium approved.

Two things:
1) Please incorporate excellent mouse controls. I'd rather joysticks not be mandatory; and on that note, PLEASE DON'T FORCE ME TO CONSTANTLY DRAG MY MOUSE ALL OVER THE DAMN PAD TO EXECUTE A TURN. While I'm the first to argue for new flight physics, the mouse control for Planetside planes was pretty good. Keep some semblance of it in Planetside Next.

2) Please make at least a couple planes viable for A2A combat. I don't want to be forced into a skeet, and only a skeet. Ideally, I'd like my reaver to hold its own in the air.

Oh, and 3) FFS, don't include the Wusp.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Traak

Now how about max suits that aren't so ridiculously slow and stupid to turn. I can turn a 2-ton car around faster than a max suit. Very unbalanced physics for the max suits.

Protip: Turn your mouse sensitivity up while in a max.

[Werwolf]

Originally Posted by Neptunium-K

Neptunium approved.

Two things:
1) Please incorporate excellent mouse controls. I'd rather joysticks not be mandatory; and on that note, PLEASE DON'T FORCE ME TO CONSTANTLY DRAG MY MOUSE ALL OVER THE DAMN PAD TO EXECUTE A TURN. While I'm the first to argue for new flight physics, the mouse control for Planetside planes was pretty good. Keep some semblance of it in Planetside Next.

2) Please make at least a couple planes viable for A2A combat. I don't want to be forced into a skeet, and only a skeet. Ideally, I'd like my reaver to hold its own in the air.

Oh, and 3) FFS, don't include the Wusp.

100% agree!

[MgFalcon]

I wish there was a good side view of the reaver, I have a feeling that the tail is longer than what it looks like in that screenie. It just seems too squished in this shot to look like what we are all familiar with...

[Nirawen]

Originally Posted by Smed

And all you people saying "that looks like a mosquito".. you haven't seen the mosquito yet

But we have seen the Mosquito from the original Planetside and this Reaver is almost a updated-carbon-copy, visually that is.

It's not necessarily a bad thing, I always wondered why no one ( in the theoretical world of Planetside's military research and development ) thought to simply strap rocket launcher's to a Mosquito if its so much faster.

Could be that Auraxis has a new super sonic agile fighter in the Mosquito, so the Reaver needed a speed upgrade.

[CGar]

Originally Posted by Typwn

I think I prefer this...

Looks awesome! *Salute*

Think you could upload that in a better file format though (or at least go easier on the compression)? The jpeg compression artifacts are killing me >_<. The TR deserves the best!

[Saieno]

Originally Posted by CGar

Looks awesome! *Salute*

Think you could upload that in a better file format though (or at least go easier on the compression)? The jpeg compression artifacts are killing me >_<. The TR deserves the best!

It's because of the tinypic host, sorry.

But on the topic of how the aircraft will control, I'm hoping similar to BattleField 2 helicopters and such. I was an amazing pilot and would love a similar feel to Planetside 2. I really dislike how Reavers and Mosquitos can just sit there in the sky without any effects from gravity, wind, momentum, or anything really. Looking forward to a change thats for sure.