Nanite Systems Modular Outpost Tower - Page 3

Graywolves · 2012-05-07, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by Immigrant

It looks much better now!

That's so beautiful.

SniperSteve · 2012-05-07, 10:43 PM

I involuntarily said "WOAH...." out loud when I saw this...

Pyreal · 2012-05-07, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by Robotix

Wonder what those little floating icons are for. I see 4 aircraft and 2 gun icons midway up and 2 unidentifiable ones at the ground level. The tower is modular, so maybe those are where you can switch up different attachment/gun emplacements.

The bottom icons are tanks. They must be consoles to spawn the kits and vehicles.

Stew · 2012-05-07, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by Graywolves

https://twitter.com/#!/NaniteSystems...217536/photo/1

I think it looks pretty neat. Just needs TR Banners

Edit:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media.php?view=2086

Why they said modular ?

Is these towers can be expanded ? Or is these tower can be build on the fly anywhere ? thats my question Dont care about the banner yet until beta

Hmr85 · 2012-05-07, 11:26 PM

The games is looking great. Its been awhile since I last looked at the site and to see the progress from day 1 pictures to now is simply stunning. SOE is doing a solid job. I can't wait to get in beta and explore everything.

Johari · 2012-05-07, 11:53 PM

Holy guacamole, 4 great pics in just one day? Great media blitz and I can't wait to see more.

God I can't wait till beta so we get to explore all these cool things.

PeteHMB · 2012-05-08, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by Pyreal

The bottom icons are tanks. They must be consoles to spawn the kits and vehicles.

Wait, what?! We can spawn vehicles from towers now???

Xyntech · 2012-05-08, 04:00 AM

Looking fantastic. Tower fights in PS2 are going to be a whole new ballgame.

Icons for things like spawn terminals is a good idea for new players, and will hopefully be one of many features that will keep population numbers high. Hopefully there will be a way to turn them off for players who don't need/want them though.

KTNApollo · 2012-05-08, 04:11 AM

If these towers are indeed modular (upgradable) or deployable I hope they cost a lot of resources. It would suck if all of the towers in the game are upgraded/deployed everywhere on week 2 of the game's launch.

ringring · 2012-05-08, 06:10 AM

Wow great job!

A few thoughts:
I can forsee epic battles around these.
BFR's are back (when I saw this it made me giggle and no no alcohol involved)
At Christmas can we have it festooned in fairy lights?

Main thought is that the towers and bases are a 'real' upgrade to Planetside as opposed to 'other stuff' which I won't mention.

Coreldan · 2012-05-08, 06:17 AM

Gief!

Squiffy · 2012-05-08, 06:38 AM

When this came through on my phone, I thought it was someone having a laugh because of the "smiley" face at the top, but now I've looked properly it looks awseome.

Pillar · 2012-05-08, 08:22 AM

I think the most practical explanation for the modular design would be that they all start out as a basic outpost and are upgraded by the their controlling faction for resources. Perhaps the upgrade process is controlled by high ranking individuals, or maybe there's a voting system that the entire faction can take part in, and a timer by which the votes must be submitted before the upgrade goes through.

Kipper · 2012-05-08, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Pillar

Perhaps the upgrade process is controlled by high ranking individuals, or maybe there's a voting system that the entire faction can take part in.

If I had designed it, I'd have a console that listed every upgrade you could do and a 'donate' button, that's democratic. If you resource-rich and really want something built, you can build it entirely out of your own funds, or if you're an outfit with less individual resources - you can just say - "hey, lets upgrade this tower, everyone good to donate x resources to upgrade y?"

Probably some weakness with that but it was a quick idea.

I don't think all towers will be fully upgraded within 2 weeks, someone will have thought of that early on, I'm betting everything is destructible - either when the base changes hands, or in real time. It would be kind of cool if you knew you were going to lose a tower so the last thing you did before getting the hell out was C4 the entire thing back to its most basic level, just to piss off the enemy

Xyntech · 2012-05-08, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by ringring

At Christmas can we have it festooned in fairy lights?

That's already going to happen every time the VS control it.

Speaking of which, I can't wait to have 100+ VS shooting off "fireworks" every time we cap a base again. It looked pretty awesome back in the original game, it's going to look amazing on Forgelight.