Planetside 2 Information Thread - Page 5

exLupo · 2011-08-14, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by Ibuprofen

The lack of vehicle hacking seems not only to not really serve a purpose with regards to streamlining the game,

The devs believe the streamlining will be substantial not only from a tech standpoint but balance as well.

Quoted from here:

Q: Why was veh hacking removed?

Matt: No problem, man!
-Couple reasons, the one you mention is one, another is because we really want to push the empires to be very different in PS2, and getting ahold of enemy weapons and vehicles makes it a lot more of a balance nightmare.
- Keep in mind that from a technical perspective, having to make VS and TR specific texture variants for an NC vanguard is as expensive to our texture budget as having two unique vehicles too (assuming we'd want to do it right, with a full skin not just a decal swap, which we would). Our texture budget is already stretched with all the unique armor, vehicles, weapons etc. I can't think of any other AAA fps game that would have anything close to our texture requirements.

Crator · 2011-08-14, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by exLupo

The devs believe the streamlining will be substantial not only from a tech standpoint but balance as well.

Quoted from here:

Q: Why was veh hacking removed?

Matt: No problem, man!
-Couple reasons, the one you mention is one, another is because we really want to push the empires to be very different in PS2, and getting ahold of enemy weapons and vehicles makes it a lot more of a balance nightmare.
- Keep in mind that from a technical perspective, having to make VS and TR specific texture variants for an NC vanguard is as expensive to our texture budget as having two unique vehicles too (assuming we'd want to do it right, with a full skin not just a decal swap, which we would). Our texture budget is already stretched with all the unique armor, vehicles, weapons etc. I can't think of any other AAA fps game that would have anything close to our texture requirements.

Pretty sure that's a cop-out. Someone else on the forums said, "So why don't they just throw out the empire specific texture and just make the colour of the vehciles change when it is hacked by someone?

Vancha · 2011-08-14, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by Crator

Pretty sure that's a cop-out. Someone else on the forums said, "So why don't they just throw out the empire specific texture and just make the colour of the vehicles change when it is hacked by someone?

How can there be a colour change without textures?

Crator · 2011-08-14, 12:35 PM

Can there not? Ok, I'm not too knowledgable when it comes to computer graphics art. Wait a minute, they already have the textures for each vehcile. Just load it up in your texture editor and paint a new colour on it. Oh wait, they didn't design the art from the ground up to allow that to happen did they?

Bags · 2011-08-15, 02:47 PM

Updated with the syndcon article.

Bags · 2011-08-17, 09:18 PM

Updated with new article and two screenshots.

megamold · 2011-08-18, 06:01 AM

hmmm strange , they said that you couldnt use the other faction's weapons and yet in the screenshot its quite clear that the tr soldier is holding a nc gun

Hamma · 2011-08-18, 09:55 AM

Aye an interesting turn of events.

Bags · 2011-08-18, 12:33 PM

I know right, could Sony actually be listening? Maybe this whole 2012 thing isn't so far-fetched...

megamold · 2011-08-18, 01:31 PM

personally i taught not being able to use other empires weapons was a much bigger loss then not being able to hack vehicles

it does look like they are lurking the forums or something so lets hope it stays that way

also: it looks pretty damn awesome allready judging by the screenshots, i think its time to release some more actual gameplay, screenshots never really hit the spot for me