Actual bombs are in the game! :D

Broadside · 2012-07-09, 09:15 PM

I didn't notice this upon first viewing of Higby's stream, but a weapon option for the Reaver is clusterbombs.

Description: Cluster bombs trade propulsion for a larger payload. They inherit the vehicle's speed when released and fall to the ground. The bombs do area damage upon detonation.

I was worried for a while that PS2 wouldn't include any air-to-ground weapons besides missiles and rockets (I hadn't seen any real bombs yet), but it looks like we'll all be able to high altitude bomb the crap out stuff just like in PS1. Hurray!

haticK · 2012-07-09, 09:17 PM

I can see all the TKs now :o

Landtank · 2012-07-09, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Broadside

I didn't notice this upon first viewing of Higby's stream, but a weapon option for the Reaver is clusterbombs.

Description: Cluster bombs trade propulsion for a larger payload. They inherit the vehicle's speed when released and fall to the ground. The bombs do area damage upon detonation.

I was worried for a while that PS2 wouldn't include any air-to-ground weapons besides missiles and rockets (I hadn't seen any real bombs yet), but it looks like we'll all be able to high altitude bomb the crap out stuff just like in PS1. Hurray!

I believe the liberator is also capable of bombing, aside from being a gunship now.

Neurotoxin · 2012-07-09, 09:21 PM

Reaver Tooltips:

Reaver Composite Armor - Adds composite armor on the Reaver Light Aircraft that will add resistance from small arms fire.

Decoy flares - Launches several decoy flares, disrupting lock-ons and any missiles currently tracking the vehicle.

Hellfire Rockets - The Hellfire Rockets are dumb-fire rockets that can do massive damage on direct hits. These rockets are ideal for engaging ground targets from the air.

Coyote A5M - The Coyote Air to Ground Missiles are capable of locking-on to enemy vehicles. Once a lock has been acquired, simply fire the weapon and it will begin tracking your target.

Cluster Bombs - Cluster Bombs trade propulsion for a larger payload. They inherit the vehicles speed when launched and will fall to the ground. Cluster bombs do area damage on detonation.

Xyntech · 2012-07-09, 09:56 PM

I can't wait to use my Scythes superior maneuverability to immediately turn and fly straight upwards over a narrow gap between buildings and drop cluster bombs straight down on the unsuspecting heathens below.

Broadside · 2012-07-09, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Xyntech

I can't wait to use my Scythes superior maneuverability to immediately turn and fly straight upwards over a narrow gap between buildings and drop cluster bombs straight down on the unsuspecting heathens below.

Go ahead and sit perfectly still. It makes it all the more easy to blast you out of the sky.

Xyntech · 2012-07-09, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Broadside

Go ahead and sit perfectly still. It makes it all the more easy to blast you out of the sky.

I'll be afterburning straight upwards, for the split second or two that it takes to unload my bombs

maradine · 2012-07-09, 10:16 PM

A needless exposure over the target area. Cool kids toss-bomb, and the good ones don't even need a CCIP.

mintyc · 2012-07-09, 10:20 PM

now all i need is for SOE to offer a buyable horn of jericho in the store and i am all set to dive out of the sun to bomb some mags and prowlers

Broadside · 2012-07-09, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by maradine

A needless exposure over the target area. Cool kids toss-bomb, and the good ones don't even need a CCIP.

CCIP?

Xyntech · 2012-07-09, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by maradine

A needless exposure over the target area. Cool kids toss-bomb, and the good ones don't even need a CCIP.

You jelly that the Reaver can't drop a bomb straight down a 30 meter deep 3 meter wide crevice without slowing to a crawl?

Toss bombing is for rookies.

PhoenixDog · 2012-07-09, 10:25 PM

I don't need bombs to kill NC and TR. Pretty sure throwing a box or a phonebook out of my cockpit is enough to kill one of those pathetic stragglers on the ground. Bombs cost money NC and TR aren't worth...

Xyntech · 2012-07-09, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by PhoenixDog

I don't need bombs to kill NC and TR. Pretty sure throwing a box or a phonebook out of my cockpit is enough to kill one of those pathetic stragglers on the ground. Bombs cost money NC and TR aren't worth...

I'd pay money to kill NC and TR, if the money went towards killing them in more rainbowly fabulously colorful ways.

maradine · 2012-07-09, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by Xyntech

You jelly that the Reaver can't drop a bomb straight down a 30 meter deep 3 meter wide crevice without slowing to a crawl?

Toss bombing is for rookies.

Leaving out the irony that you are, in fact, toss-bombing when you drop your stick flying upwards, I'll inform you that no one's ever been able to wash the stink out of a Reaver cockpit with sufficient skill to make me want to breathe in one.

@Broadside - Continuously Calculated Impact Point. A HUD function that displays an estimation of where ordinance would land if released, based on current airspeed, altitude, heading and elevation, air temperature, munition drag, etc. In more modern aircraft with navigational databases, it also considers the altitude above sea level of the target pip itself. These days, most "dumb" bombs are still given considerable computational assistance before being released.

PhoenixDog · 2012-07-09, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by Xyntech

I'd pay money to kill NC and TR, if the money went towards killing them in more rainbowly fabulously colorful ways.

Why waste money on an exterminator when you can just swat the flies with a swatter? Plus...What is more hilarious to imagine? Bombs dropping on a bunch of NC? Or a phonebook crushing some stupid TR?

I want a phonebook mod.