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Add in an instance or some PvP mode or SOMETHING that lets me take an attack helicopter filled with Ark Hunters to an enemy base and drop them off. Planetside 2 did some things right in that regard. Dear 343, PLEASE let me pilot a Pelican in multiplayer. Seriously, I would never log off of this game if I could just get a helicopter that I could write Snefru Airways on the side of. Air Taxis FTW. Getting to Arkfalls has never been easier.
Ehh, making it easier to get around in a sense makes the game world feel smaller.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snefru
just enjoy the drive, get some air and do race friends.
That's why I made the instance suggestion. Let a group of Ark Hunters (4-6) go to an entrenched enemy compound (can be mutant, raider, 99er, doesn't matter). Anyway, you have your standard group make-up (healer, sniper, shotgunner/decoy, etc) as well a someone flying a chopper into the compound. Half the instance could be one person flying the thing with everyone else on turrets. DLC as a small fee paid expansion?
I agree, but if this were the case turrets would have to be disabled completely. No turrets on air vehicles, it would be a disadvantage and no one would use them. But I still like the idea. ;-)
Air vehicles are all about freedom. In games where moving around on the ground is supposed to be viable the freedom they offer tends to break the game. By confining it to a single instance it becomes a caged bird, no pun intended.
Why would turrets be a disadvantage? They provide covering fire for the first half of the mission or so before they get dropped off an the pilot has to avoid enemy fire while he waits for the team to complete their objective so he can extract them.
Why not add a DLC where a new area is opened up where the EMC has air vehicles that you have access to. That zone could be mostly group missions like I said, convoy protection missions in a chopper, and straight up seek and destroy missions on enemy ammo dumps, radio stations, etc. Sure it would make ground travel inefficient but that wouldn't be the point of the zone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aetrion
Well they would be an air vehicle with turrets, height advantage + damage, while you're protected in armor. I see a problem, though they could be combated with guided rocket launchers (which already exist in game) in PvP, I still see them as a problem in PvE as it seems unfair to say the least. I think it would be better if they were faster than land vehicles in the sense they fly, they don't have to go through steep terrain all the time, but shouldn't also have weaponry also. Seems unbalanced.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snefru
I really get the appeal of having helicopters and stuff, I just don't think it's a mechanic that would really improve the game. Try some Planetside 2 or War Thunder. :D
It wouldn't be unbalanced if you had seen my next idea that I said one post later: a new area. Everybody is in one, so it's not unbalanced. Also, since it's a different area the enemies can be balanced accordingly (large missile turrets, chain guns, enemy rocket ground troops, enemy helicopters, etc.). As I said earlier, I'm thinking DLC FAR down the road, but it woul be nice if the devs even considered putting this in game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slay