DRONE STRIKES from your PHONE !@#$%!

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Originally Posted by maradine

After stringing together a nice kill streak, you deserve a reward. Some games give you extra "points". Some have a deep-voiced, omniscient narrator that calls out your achievements to the heavens. And some send a gunship onto the map to make a mess of the remains. The important point here is - who cares if a reward requires "no skill"?

Posts like this give me great pause about the audience this game is attracting. Killstreak rewards in COD is without doubt the worst mechanic ever built into a game, period. Your reward should be the fact that you got a killstreak.

I am extremely worried about this drone strike thing. If I die to shit that someone launched from their goddamn phone this game is fucked.

[Total Overkill]

In all honesty? At least Mac users can play Planetside2 now *zing*

[Fenrys]

If I had a cellphone, I'd be excited by this.

I don't though, so it's merely interesting.

[CutterJohn]

Really?

I mean.. Really?!

[Captain1nsaneo]

Originally Posted by Zekeen

Oh crap! We're going to be NUKED by Smedley during Beta.... QUICK! WHICH SIDE DOES SMEDLEY PLAY?! Please say he plays NC!!!! PLEASE SAY HE PLAYS NC!!!!

He plays NC and flies a reaver.

Agreeing with this either being really really stupid or possibly cool. I'm just not much of a fan of getting killed by things I can't kill in return.

[Fenrys]

Originally Posted by Captain1nsaneo

I'm just not much of a fan of getting killed by things I can't kill in return.

We don't know that yet. It will probably cost resources like any other vehicle, and maybe you can shoot down the drones before they fire/drop bombs.

[RandomNPC]

Originally Posted by Fenrys

We don't know that yet. It will probably cost resources like any other vehicle, and maybe you can shoot down the drones before they fire/drop bombs.

Like I said, have a little faith in the devs. They're not going to add a free kill mechanic.

[Sabot]

I think you're overreacting to this... It will probably be on a 24 hour timer or something like that, can only be used while not in game, require cert.... it'll probably not even completely destory a tank. If you even get to guide the rocket yourself. Might just be that you choose a hex and launch a AI controlled drone strike that picks the first available enemy ground target. Actually showing the game in action, in real time, and allowing you to effectively play it from you phone is nothing they have claimed would be possible... I guess we'll see.

[Sheppe]

Planetside has Orbital Strikes, how is the drone strike any different apart from the fact you don't have to turn your computer on, wait for ps and character to load, type /ia then pull out a cud and hit the 4 then point and click.

TL;DR - it's a wireless OS

[Lorgarn]

Originally Posted by The Kush

Hmm I'm uneasy about this and how PS2 PC requirements could be met by a phone.

Well, lol, it's not like your running the game with Forgelight on your phone. Read the whole paragraph, "It's a map app". Which basically means that all you're seeing is a fancy map.

And yes, I'm somewhat interested. But I'm more interested in the other stuff that's going on.

[Kran De Loy]

If these are sufficiently resource intensive than I see no reason why they are different than grenades...

I like the idea, even if I don't have any kind of smartphone myself.

Well at least as long as they have more limitations of use than just resource cost, that is.

[Tikuto]

Not sure about this, too. Seems like something of an team-work effort required to aid the lagging App-user.

Additions to App:
(Outfit Speciality) - Maybe the app can allow for Outfit 'super-weapons', which could be triggered by responsible Outfit member(s)
and
(Drones) - allow for additional a category of 'remote weaponry' only available through PlanetSide2's application under restrictive conditions (like not being able to be logged-in Client & App at same time).

Acceptance of Weaponry:
Drones and other things remotely activated could be categorized so that they can be assembled in-line with everything else in-game. This, to me, presents itself as an accepted selection of equipment alongside 'Tanks' and 'Ships' accept the understanding is their 'Drone' gameplay style fits perfectly with an Android application like a remote.

'Drones' weaponry only available for App-users remotely. Cool.

[Alanim]

Well since you're in a drone you could technically just stream the game to the player from one of their servers so you'd expect some mild latency. I actually find this to be a pretty alright idea.

[Fab]

Originally Posted by Sabot

I think you're overreacting to this... It will probably be on a 24 hour timer or something like that, can only be used while not in game, require cert.... it'll probably not even completely destory a tank. If you even get to guide the rocket yourself. Might just be that you choose a hex and launch a AI controlled drone strike that picks the first available enemy ground target. Actually showing the game in action, in real time, and allowing you to effectively play it from you phone is nothing they have claimed would be possible... I guess we'll see.

You are probably right, it will certainly not be OP, but i like the idea.
What I find interresting is more the general direction that this game is taking : between that and the App, they mean to make the game more than just something that you just play 2 hours after work.

[Figment]

Could well be these strikes would require laser sighting or something from outfit buddies on the ground? >.>

If it's a fly-aim-by-map thing, it won't be that powerful.

Curious though, if it's just showing a map, how's it going to avoid vertical obstacles? >.> High altitude drone? Couple hellfires? Will it just do radar surveillance for your buddies? Had a lot of questions on that one yesterday, but it seems too unwieldy to become OP, unless...


100 outfit mates at the office synchronise their coffee breaks. >.>