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Re: Larger Crew Vehicles, Good or Bad?
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I think large crew vehicles will be even more important now that fighting over remote locations away from facility's is more relevant. You will want to be able to maintain vehicles on site as importing more from a base could prove difficult due to time or encroaching enemy forces. Large vehicles such as heavy tanks encourage this.
Long before the great second coming and back in the day's of BFR's we had a similar discussion over heavy vehicles. Sporkfire said one of the original concept's for Battleframe robotic's (At least the heavy variants) was for the unit to serve as a heavy turret position. Powerful weapon's and shielding allowed the BFR to outclass most lesser ground threats while still delivering and awesome amount of fire power. The weakness to this is of course the shield generator makes reckless wandering BFR's easy to overwhelm and kill. BFR's needed protection from ground infantry. If you could you wanted air cover so libs couldn't tank bust you. This seemed to be pretty balanced but over time various changes lead to OP. The Flying variant's were very fun but as they also became OP it felt as if everyone now had a Gundam.
I believe the new heavy vehicle should serve a similar purpose but incarnate in a new form. As much as I love Mecha I think this new Heavy Tank/Vehicle should be just that. A "Conventional" ground vehicle moved by Treads or Wheels. (Magic for you Vanu) I personally think some kind of super heavy armored vehicle should be acquirable. To save you from reading more bricks of text:
"Heavy/Super Heavy Ground vehicle Concept"
Modualization
Planetside 2 seem's big on customization (MeGusta.jpg) and as such this new vehicle should have many options. Special armor and weapons are a given but i would like to see other things such as spawn tubes or advanced sensor equipment also available. This would add depth and allow the vehicle to serve as a mobile HQ or "base". Higby's law of Trade off's would occur as a "logistics fit" vehicle would be weaker in combat and therefore more vulnerable. Some of these moduals or fittings could only be accessed by specifically skilled characters (Engineer,medic,CR etc) and/or via the tech tree. IE: Need a Tech Center or X amount of unobtanium and X amount of Hydrocarbons. This vehicle could be fitted to carry X amount of infantry to serve as an APC or forgo that and use the space for more advanced weapons and armor.
Uses
- PVP Anti armor: Lots of armor and Anti tank weapons. Cannons, missiles and all that shit.
- PVP Anti-personnel: Anti personnel weapons such as machine guns, grenade launchers or even flamethrowers.
- APC Driver plus 6-8 passengers +1 MAX? Lighter weapons and armor but possible room for sensor suite or equipment terminal or storage
-EWAR or "Command" Variants These are more specialized vehicles outfitted by skilled characters. The Benefits could include SOI or squad style benefits to Health,stealth, Radar Ect. This one has lots of possibility's given what other things in game it might be able to interact with. Jamming Aircraft Radar maybe?
- ENG or the "repair" type would be a vehicle equipped and operated by a skilled engineer. It would have a turret mounted welding torch to repair friendly vehicles and machines. This variant could get away with light armor and maybe even a hatch mounted machine gun to keep infantry at bay as it will operate under direct combat conditions. Other abilities could include constructing or deploying large engineering objects or mine fields. This is where this get's really interesting and quite possibly Pandora's box. Such a variant could arguably be used to collect resources directly via WoW or EVE style Mining. This would add an intriguing yet also a literally game changing element.
- MED/SPAWN This one is last for a reason because It's essentially a wet dream about the AMS. The vehicle could have spawn tubes...perhaps even augmented spawn tubes with longer spawn times for balance. (maybe you could even train down spawn times via medical skills eh? ;D) Along with Spawn tube's we would of course have equipment terminal's. Cloaking seems fine but maybe as a skill to train or tech level to unlock. Cloaking field or Stealth from Radar and sensors.
These Hybrid vehicles could be deployed in any conceivable way. They can very easily fill the heavy armor roll while just as easily being used as mobile covert operations base for a squad of commando's and cloaker's. Squads of the engineering variants would move behind the armor keeping them repaired and fueled with ammunition.
This would be quite the task to implement but I feel the modular concept may cut down the workload a bit. I love having a variety of dedicated vehicle's to play with but this idea is to fascinating to let go of. I would imagine this could be added via expansion pack or large seasonal patch as opposed to launch.
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Last edited by HELLFISH88; 2011-12-18 at 03:46 PM.
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2011-12-18, 12:00 PM
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