Scythe Pylons a Major Blind Spot (An Oversight)?

inigma · 2011-12-12, 02:53 PM

I know the Scythe looks pretty mean, and being a VS player myself, I look forward to piloting the flying fishhook/boomerang/scarab-in-the-sky, but one thing has me greatly concerned: the forward pylons seem to obstruct the port and starboard view of the ground from the pilot's seat. I'm not entirely hot on the alien-bug theme overall (hey Im VS, i just like the tech!) but two major blind spots on the Scythe for the sake of aesthetics I think could potentially really turn me off from being a VS pilot.

It seems like this is a design flaw as it would present a pair of serious blind spots for Scythe pilots (and doesn't make sense for the VS who are supposed to do things technologically better). Did anyone else notice this?

At the very least I would like to suggest modifying the design of the Scythe to have shorter side sweeping (x-wing configuration) pylons (or pointing backward), rather than forward sweeping blind spots. Anyone else concur?

I really enjoyed having universal fighters in Planetside 1, since mossie dogfights would equalize the advantage of one empire versus another by sheer mastery of the universal mossie. I wonder if there will be a universal fighter in P2 to offset any potential imbalance between the three empire fighters thus introduced.

TheRagingGerbil · 2011-12-12, 02:56 PM

Just fly inverted. :P

Xyntech · 2011-12-12, 04:04 PM

Tank battles worked well in Planetside with ES tanks.

ES fighters will be fine as well.

Those pylons are pretty slim and will probably obstruct very little of our view, if any.

Either we get an open screen first person view like in Planetside (which would likely just ignore the pylons and make them invisible), or we will get simulated cockpits, which would hopefully obstruct a minimal amount of view, but still would obstruct it some, for all three ES fighters.

At worst, we will be the only side to have a partially obstructed view, but I really can't see it being that big a disadvantage. Considering our maneuvering advantage, I'd say it evens out.

I've wanted ES fighters in Planetside forever. Originally I wanted 3 new fighters in addition to the common pool Mossie and Reaver, but I think the current plan makes decent sense. Considering the customization they are including for all vehicles, it makes a lot of sense to just have a modifiable air frame that can be adjusted to fill the different roles.

I plan to spend a lot of time in the Scythe. I feel your concern, but I think this will be a non issue.

Nobody will bitch louder than me if it ends up being a significant disadvantage, but they'd have to really be fuck ups to let it get to beta if it were that broken.

Besides, it can always be easily and instantly fixed by removing the pylons from the first person view. It won't make a ton of sense of be realistic, but games aren't always 100% realistic. Gameplay comes first.

SKYeXile · 2011-12-12, 04:42 PM

can somebody link the screenshot of the 1st person veiw...i have not seen it.

Lonehunter · 2011-12-12, 04:46 PM

Maybe the VS are so tech savy they put a couple eyes on the front of those pylons and that is where you're camera feed comes from in the cockpit. See VS can't just look through a glass window, they gotta make some fancy gadget

CutterJohn · 2011-12-12, 04:49 PM

One would presume, if there is even a cockpit view, that the mesh would be disabled.

Otherwise you'll have to worry about the incredibly wide frame on the reaver cockpit too.

Though I've never been able to figure out why people like cockpit views. The border of my monitor does an already far too impressive job at restricting my view. Don't need useless graphics to restrict it even more.