Will they add naval units in future of ps2?

Astrok · 2012-06-30, 10:43 AM

Would be cool if u could/need to invade the continents with boats and aerial support as just going trough a portal.

Big cruisers,destroyers,landing crafts...

duomaxwl · 2012-06-30, 10:46 AM

http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...su.php?q=naval

Your answer lies in there. Somewhere.

EDIT: It's too early in the morning for me to be a search nazi, I'll just end up feeling like a dick while at work. Basically, Higby said he'd like to try it one day, and at one point even the PS2 site had misquoted saying it contained naval vehicles. So there's a good chance that there will eventually be naval vehicles in the game, just not at launch.

Enzo · 2012-06-30, 11:11 AM

Naval vessels are typically used for transporting people between land masses so I don't see how useful they would be considering there is direct teleportation between continents.

Maybe if they added ocean bases or allowed the ships to fire very long distances like artillery to support the land forces.

AThreatToYou · 2012-06-30, 11:15 AM

Space fights on/in naval ships in orbit.

Hello PlanetSide 2: Descent 4.

Artimus · 2012-06-30, 11:17 AM

I know that they wont be in at launch but there is a very early interview were higby slips up and says ps2 is land air and naval combat I would search but im on my phone at work

Figment · 2012-06-30, 11:21 AM

The big issue is that, IF they want to include these things, they should first include the "hardware", ie the continents should be tailored to it right now.

Since Indar has such a silly ring of unused territory around it at the moment, it's still possible to adapt that terrain to naval domains (docks, shipyards, subpens, harbours, offshore mining, Atlantic Wall fortifications, marina's and dolfinariums, etc), while expanding the surrounding sea area to allow for invasions, naval tactics and naval warfare.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/s...913#post737913

Some basic ideas from long ago...

Tooterfish · 2012-06-30, 11:36 AM

We were discussing this in chat a couple days ago. It got pretty retarded. Submarines, long range battle cruisers, carriers, and the feeling that none of this is very planetside-esque.

Stardouser · 2012-06-30, 11:41 AM

"It doesn't sound like Planetside" is an unfounded argument. PS1 not having it doesn't mean it doesn't fit.

And although this thread is about water-based naval units, this same argument is used against space combat, saying SPACE combat doesn't sound like Planetside? Space travel is in the very lore of the game. And every time you use an orbital strike, the game refers to that very fact.

Oceans can provide resources too, I might add. And there ARE ways to integrate oceans into the game, although people who want combat to be funneled and tunneled into meatgrinds might object to those ways.

IgloGlass · 2012-06-30, 11:41 AM

If they were to add naval vessels it would have to be to a few specific maps. They just won't fit on let's say Indar. Imagine a map with nine large islands instead. To capture one island you'd first have to get there, can't just spawn. The cheapest way to then get the Zerg there would be by boat and/or Galaxy, however imagine a 50 seat naval vessel, instead of a 12 seat Galaxy, accompanied by three frigates.. Gold! I'd actually like to see this before any space battles.

Also, Higby and team, we want swimming!

Figment · 2012-06-30, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by Tooterfish

We were discussing this in chat a couple days ago. It got pretty retarded. Submarines, long range battle cruisers, carriers, and the feeling that none of this is very planetside-esque.

If you scale up too far, you go too far, it should be limited to units that can work in shallow water.

World of Battleships is for everything bigger. (Speaking of that, I'm already imagining every battle there to eventually be 15 vs 15 Bismarcks)

vVRedOctoberVv · 2012-06-30, 02:49 PM

Yeah, space battles would be the only reasonable place for "ships" in Planetside... We can teleport, we have air transports... we have jump jets... What the hell you need a boat for? Ships are nearly obsolete in-RL NOW, much less in a thousand years when we have pew pew laser and teleporters

Arovien · 2012-06-30, 04:08 PM

Helicarriers, gg.
No hulks allowed tho.

fvdham · 2012-06-30, 05:24 PM

There already is a naval unit: the Magrider.

Ratstomper · 2012-06-30, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by Enzo

Naval vessels are typically used for transporting people between land masses so I don't see how useful they would be considering there is direct teleportation between continents.

Maybe if they added ocean bases or allowed the ships to fire very long distances like artillery to support the land forces.

WW2 naval forces used battleships to shell fortifications on coasts before forces went in. I would actually kinda like to see some long-ranged, sea-based artillery.

DownloadFailed · 2012-06-30, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by Ratstomper

WW2 naval forces used battleships to shell fortifications on coasts before forces went in. I would actually kinda like to see some long-ranged, sea-based artillery.

That'd be amazing to see. However, can't the same effect already be achieved by orbital strikes? Orbiting ships are pretty much the carriers/destroyers of the sea except they're in space. I think naval battles would be freakin' amazing, don't get me wrong, I just don't see what big ships out at sea can do what big ships in space can't.