teh navy

Lartnev · 2004-06-10, 04:22 PM

No, I've mis-spelled it for a reason:

Originally Posted by Sporkfire

We see the requests for naval combat more than virtually anything else for really expanding gameplay and content. That said, we want to do it someday too, and the idea of Battle Islands gives us the perfect platform to do it on.

However, the first release of battle islands will be separate zones. We have some ideas that will eventually cluster the islands into groups that will have objectives tied together, and that may be a good time to begin thinking of 'teh navy'

http://psforums.station.sony.com/ps/...d=27403#M27403

I wonder what he could be hinting at exactly?

TheN00b · 2004-06-10, 04:29 PM

Hints from Sporkfire make me hawt...

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Hayoo · 2004-06-10, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Lartnev

No, I've mis-spelled it for a reason:

http://psforums.station.sony.com/ps/...d=27403#M27403

I wonder what he could be hinting at exactly?

There really isn't anything to be read in it. Spork only misspelled that cause the original guy mispelled it.

Originally Posted by Halifax

where we can have teh navy?

He was just making a little fun. They want to do a navy but it's not on their plate anytime soon, unfortunately.

Onizuka-GTO · 2004-06-10, 05:19 PM

What are you talking about? We have a Navy.

Its called The Vanu Magrider Fleet

Nalar · 2004-06-10, 10:05 PM

Yeah, and now with all of these deliverer variants able to go in the water too, what can they really add that will make navy battles any different from what we already have?

Light scout water boat = switchblade
troop transport = deli
battleships = mag, thund, raider

Hayoo · 2004-06-10, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Nalar

what can they really add that will make navy battles any different from what we already have?

Ships, for one thing, since we don't have anything remotely resembling a navy. It doesn't take much to imagine all the vehicles, structures, weaponry, or certs that could be added.

Thunder and Raider? They don't even come close. They're just amphibious APCs, and nothing at all like a battleship or even a destroyer.

EarlyDawn · 2004-06-10, 11:46 PM

I think the common opinion is that naval battles could include larger, "Capitol" ships besides just cutter and speedboat sized.

That offers a lot of room for growth. You could have normal vehicle-like smaller ships, oil-rig typed bases that would add new effects to your base lattices, and later, even have outfit owned capitol ships.

How cool would it be to log on to the game onboard your outfit's aircraft carrier, and stroll around? Outfit mates are reequipping and repairing reavers, then head back in to support ground troops making a normandy style landing on Desolation's beaches. You head up to the command center, where some of your outfit mates are working terminals to defend the ship, coordinate radar and airstrikes, and filter information for the commanders... speaking of whom, are in the war room, deep inside the carrier, plotting strategy on a massive holographic map. Now think how cool this would be with deployable emplacements, a functional command structure, improved communications systems, and new grunt gear.

JetRaiden · 2004-06-11, 12:34 AM

O MY GOD I ALMOST JUST POOPED MY PANTS

teh navy is here! run away!!!!11

Hayoo · 2004-06-11, 02:03 AM

Navy...oh yes.

from Heroes of the Pacific

Lartnev · 2004-06-11, 05:07 AM

Obviously I have never questioned Sporkfire's spelling ability, I was just copying, what he copied from someone else.... if you get my drift. I just wanted to point it out because it's the first hint that I've seen that the dev team has plans to incorporate a navy. Then again I could be a complete tard and Sporkfire was joking that he should go back to complaining that there isn't a navy and they have no plans

And technically, magriders and deliverers are amphibious, not naval

Hayoo · 2004-06-11, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by Lartnev

Obviously I have never questioned Sporkfire's spelling ability, I was just copying, what he copied from someone else.... if you get my drift. I just wanted to point it out because it's the first hint that I've seen that the dev team has plans to incorporate a navy. Then again I could be a complete tard and Sporkfire was joking that he should go back to complaining that there isn't a navy and they have no plans

heheh. He and Smoke have mentioned several times over the past year that a Navy is the single biggest request made by players. Then they always follow that statement with "we'd like to do it eventually, we have documents for lots of things, but not right now." Very frustrating to hear them tease us like that every so often.

Lartnev · 2004-06-12, 07:58 AM

As long as this isn't a one off

I knew it's definately something that's been asked again and again, but I'd never heard any dev response to the idea.

/me happily rules out the prospect of himself being a complete tard

Vis Armata · 2004-06-12, 01:25 PM

Hm, a Sturmgrenadier carrier. It would need a Galaxy landing pad and some tubes, though.

ChewyLSB · 2004-06-12, 02:52 PM

Er, is it just me, or are AirCraft carriers in this game just a bit different? I mean, every "plane" in this game is vertical take off... so it would just be a floating heli-pad where you can get vehicles from.

Baneblade · 2004-06-12, 03:00 PM

I still think airships done right are better than sea-based navies done wrong...