News: Higby Tweets Customized Magriders

[Mod]

Even the armour panels along the sides appear to be different shape.

Desert camo on a desert backdrop... should prove interesting

[Vash02]

Barring my massive dissapointment that the magriders rail guns are fixed forward (redesign nao!).

Its good and all but does anyone else think the features we had in PS1 that we are losing for this isnt worth it?


Also, how do people get in? I see no hatches, is it going to be like the flail or something?

[Sirisian]

Originally Posted by Vash02

Barring my massive dissapointment that the magriders rail guns are fixed forward (redesign nao!).

I'm with you there. Was hoping T-Ray would be allowed to make a redesigned one then let people vote on the difference. I really want a tank for the VS in case I ever decide to use one.

[Higby]

Originally Posted by Khellendros

Is that an actual ingame shot? The perspective looks a bit wrong, as if the mags are just photoshopped onto the background.

When I send out screenshots or pics unless I say otherwise or it's some art work in progress in Maya or the terrain editor, it's always 100% in the runtime game client no photoshop no trickery. I'm not doing a bunch of trickery in these shots except by flying to get certain camera angles - 100% legit game screens, that means sometimes theres temp assets, proxy objects, etc in them, but I trust you guys to look past that.

I do more manipulation on the travel photos on www.matthewhigby.com than I do on the screenshots for Planetside 2, our stuff looks awesome as is.

[Canaris]

*Dances around while jabbering about how freaking kewl this game is going to be with decking your outfit out in its own special themed uniforms and vehicle layouts like a school girl having a hissy fit*

^ not ashamed to say I just did this.....

[Higby]

Originally Posted by Draep

Yeah pants pooped, those tanks look fucking cool. Wonder if those guns on the top are the main guns? Either way, do they rotate 360?

They're not main guns, but they're extremely effective at their roles: AV, AI, AA.

They're 360 rotate and varying degrees of vertical pitch based on the weapon role.

[Khellendros]

Originally Posted by Higby

When I send out screenshots or pics unless I say otherwise or it's some art work in progress in Maya or the terrain editor, it's always 100% in the runtime game client no photoshop no trickery. I'm not doing a bunch of trickery in these shots except by flying to get certain camera angles - 100% legit game screens, that means sometimes theres temp assets, proxy objects, etc in them, but I trust you guys to look past that.

I do more manipulation on the travel photos on www.matthewhigby.com than I do on the screenshots for Planetside 2, our stuff looks awesome as is.

Roger that.

It's just that to my eyes, the mags look like they are a part of the background, if that makes any sense. I understand you guys are still working on all this stuff, no biggie. I'm liking the art a lot though.

[Higby]

Originally Posted by Khellendros

Roger that.

It's just that to my eyes, the mags look like they are a part of the background, if that makes any sense. I understand you guys are still working on all this stuff, no biggie. I'm liking the art a lot though.

I wanna get a better glory shot of the hood ornament... maybe once I snag lunch, then you will see!

[mefy]

So thats not the heavy rail beam? I was gonna say... it just doesn't look like a mag to me. They look like souped up threshers... the guns dont look very thwarting at all. Could we maybe have an infantry standing beside one for comparison? The vanguard seems to be proportionate to the PS1 vanguard, but this magrider just seems smaller and less intimidating.

[Canaris]

Originally Posted by mefy

So thats not the heavy rail beam? I was gonna say... it just doesn't look like a mag to me. They look like souped up threshers... the guns dont look very thwarting at all. Could we maybe have an infantry standing beside one for comparison? The vanguard seems to be proportionate to the PS1 vanguard, but this magrider just seems smaller and less intimidating.

flip side of that is that they're probably very nimble and hard to hit when on the move I'd imagine

[Khellendros]

Didn't one of the early trailers show a mag among some troops?

Edit: Yea, just looked at the first one (I think), and there are a few scenes with mags in them. They look fairly big and very wide compared to the PS1 mags.

[mefy]

I don't know about you, but when I think tank... I think intimidating beastliness and being able to take a beating and deliver knockout punches... regardless of faction. I really hope all empire tank cannons will be able to 1 shot infantry this time around and not leave the magrider out of the loop with a sniper pea shooter.

Another problem I see is projectile speed. VS projectiles should travel the fastest hands down. I mean, what's the point of beam weaponry if its equal or subpar to standard ammo? The NC Doom Cannon was a great example of how things can be easily obscured and unbalanced with just one small mistake, the Particle Cannon got extreme damage, great accuracy, straight line trajectory and very fast projectile speed... which should be indigenous to the VS theme...

going back to tanks, would you really want a small, nimble tank or a tank that can actually do what tanks are supposed to do? The NC are going to get the King Tiger tanks which will probably one shot the VS Sherman tanks... and the TR's T-34 tanks will be able to take a beating so they'll be fine in the end. This was a huge concern for me... is empire balance when it came to pulling armor. Least amount of firepower and armor was not worth being 6kph 'more nimble' and being able to cross a lake once every few hours. Just my opinion though...

[Bags]

Looks pretty but they look shopped in, lol.

[Tapman]

[Canaris]

that's even worse than the first one Higby :P
if you want to have the hood ornament stand out put it on the flash hider of the main gun barrel

A hood ornament that doubles as a gun sight, or a way to lock on troopers before you magmow them