News: Higby Tweets Customized Magriders - Page 11

Hamma · 2011-11-16, 01:24 PM

Both of you please tone it down. This isn't a bar where we start fighting and throwing chairs then "Stepping outside"

And please get this thread back on topic, if you want to debate the Graphics of PlanetSide 2 lets start another thread for it. This topic is about vehicle customization since that's what the screenshot shows.

QuiCKaNdDeaDLy · 2011-11-16, 01:30 PM

Looks Cool!

Alaska · 2011-11-16, 01:34 PM

Loving the mag screenshots!

Oh, for all the TR out there..TRay should be posting the hell out of the prowler today.

(You guys are the best though, taking your time to sprinkle us with screenshots, keep up the amazing work). =]]

Xyntech · 2011-11-16, 01:47 PM

I wonder if the armor add on for the magrider will be 1 to 1 with the side armor hitbox.

I still figure that you could make a variant without a driver gun, where you just remove the barrel and plug up the gap where the gun used to be and replace the top turret with something even bigger and beefier than usual. This would seem to me to be an easy solution to keeping the new magrider design, while still allowing all three MBT's to have a dedicated driver/dedicated gunner variant.

I'm still really excited for the current design though. There is no way it won't be awesome unless they screw something major up and it turns out completely gimped. I can't see them making one sides entire MBT be completely useless, so that leads me to believe that the forward fixed gun will be made to work and thus be pretty amazing.

Raymac · 2011-11-16, 02:33 PM

LOL wtf happened to this thread? "i'm gonna come find you and beat you up." hahaha

I mean even if Proto isn't just trolling and seriously doesn't like them, that's fine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, especially when it comes to art. But if you just look at this thread, it really is like 98% in love with the pics, not just approve, but seriously deeply impressed and excited to see more.

You can't please everyone all the time. To each their own. However, only having 1 person so far say they don't like them, well that is still a pretty awesome track record.

If he is just trolling, get a life.

Protozoan · 2011-11-16, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by KornDemon

I have to agree with the previous poster ... at this quality level the Magriders just remind me of units from an RTS game. Besides .. the textures are kinda weired, but that's the VS ...

Not the only one.

Raymac · 2011-11-16, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by Protozoan

Not the only one.

Well KornDemon has expressed his approval of many other of the pics in the game. Plus he admits he is not easily impressed, which is fine. OK, so instead of just 1 person in the entire world so far not liking them, I'll concede 1.2 people.

My point still stands. You don't have to like the stuff, but you are in a very small minority. That's fine though. You can like or dislike anything you want.

Protozoan · 2011-11-16, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by Raymac

Well KornDemon has expressed his approval of many other of the pics in the game. Plus he admits he is not easily impressed, which is fine. OK, so instead of just 1 person in the entire world so far not liking them, I'll concede 1.2 people.

My point still stands. You don't have to like the stuff, but you are in a very small minority. That's fine though. You can like or dislike anything you want.

Maybe this could of all been said in the first place instead of people telling me I'm smoking crack and that I'm a retard cause I state my opinion on something. Just goes to show you this community is more like an Oligarchy then a Democracy, which means its either your way or gtfo. I didn't like the screenshots cause they were all blurry in fullscreen resolution compared to other games, but there had to be a huge fight cause everyone got offended cause no one could see it and had to make excuses. Regardless of whether or not the game is done or if the detail had to be dumbed down to increase performance, it doesn't excuse the fact that the SS are blurrier then other games. If you don't want to admit it that's fine. The community already said it was because its in alpha / backgrounds / ground textures aren't finished, according to posts..., but everyone wants to argue when they had been proven wrong.

Xyntech · 2011-11-16, 03:05 PM

At least KornDemon isn't some retard picking fights over the internet. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you are just a dumb ass, proto.

Your arguments aren't even good. Clutter doesn't equal detail. So a patch of ground is a little sparse in a game that's still in development, so what? It wasn't even the focus of the picture. We have already seen proof that the detail on character and vehicle models is up to industry standards for an FPS, we don't need proof every five minutes.

You are either very stupid or very trolling. I hope you get your act together or get banned. No need for that shit here. At least come up with some decent arguments and stop acting 12, that would be tolerable.

Anyhow, like Hamma said, this thread is meant to discuss the new info about the magrider and customization options. If you really want to continue this, make a new thread. We can take bets to see how long it takes for it to get locked.

Speaking of staying on topic:

Presumably the Prowler and Vanguard would be relatively easy to make modification options to make them more similar to each other, or push their differences to the extreme and make them further apart. The Magrider seems that it will be a bit different, since it's entire design is unique. A slower, heavier armored Magrider would still be able to strafe, even if at a slower speed.

It makes me wonder how fast the fastest Magrider will be, or how armored the most armored one will be. Will an extremely customized Magrider be able to match a stock Prowler for speed, or a stock Vanguard for armor? What about firepower? I could handle the Magriders gun being a little weaker if it could at least have a sidegrade variant that could one shot infantry.

I just see the entire thing being a little harder to balance than the other two tanks.

Hamma · 2011-11-16, 03:07 PM

Guys one final warning please get back on topic or I will have to close this thread.

IceyCold · 2011-11-16, 03:37 PM

Phew, a shit storm broke out while I was gone.

On topic, I do not know who would say those Mags look bad because personally I'd say they look damn good. So far the amount of detail and attention given to the vehicles in Planetside 2 has been outstanding.

T-Ray and the rest of the art team need to pat themselves on the back. Good job.

Xyntech · 2011-11-16, 03:44 PM

The new Magrider reminds me a little bit of a few things. The ID4 fighters, maybe a little bit of the droid army hover tanks from Phantom Menace as well.

Most of all, it looks like a really well thought out progression from the PS1 Magrider design. Like what the old Magrider could have looked like with a higher polycount and a stronger game engine to back it's design up with.

I think the original Magrider had to be more slimmed down to fit the scale they were developing everything at, but since size seems to no longer be an issue for things like base layouts, it feels like the VS designs are really getting a chance to spread their wings.

I want an option to put blades on the edges of the Magrider, to increase it's Magmowing lethality.

Talek Krell · 2011-11-16, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by FastAndFree

Wasn't there a picture of the Prowler in the latest PC Gamer article where it had forward-firing dual cannons mounted on the side of the hull?

There's no direct confirmation on what weapon system that is (or if it's actually a prowler), but from the design and context I suspect it's actually an artillery cannon module.

Raymac · 2011-11-16, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by Talek Krell

There's no direct confirmation on what weapon system that is (or if it's actually a prowler), but from the design and context I suspect it's actually an artillery cannon module.

Yeah, at the time I thought it looked more like a Lightning, but I didn't think Lightnings were going to be in the game. Since then, Lightnings have been confirmed which really makes me wonder if it was a Lightning or a Prowler.

I'm still kind of blown away by how awesome camo looks on the Magriders, and also the amount of variation there is. I would have guessed that it would be all camo or no camo, not 80% camo, 20% camo, like what we've seen.

If Higby called this "Pimp my Mag", then I really can't wait to see the customization options available for everything else. Hopefully "Pimp my..." becomes a regular feature like the lunchtime stuff.

Xyntech · 2011-11-16, 04:14 PM

Wasn't there some speculation on whether that was a Prowler or a Lightning in that PC Gamer picture?

I figured it had to be the Prowler since we had no confirmation that the Lightning was even in the game at that point, but then shortly after that they confirmed the Lightning.

Makes sense, considering that the old Lightning had it's guns on the sides as well.