T:V article in PC Gamer

Is this article in the February issue of PCGamer?

Correct me if im wrong but thats the blood eagle light flying the pod and its carrying 3 weapons not 2 :p

it says march 2004 at the bottom.

Tune in to WOFN tonight for video of the Pod in action, plus more details on everything you read in PC Gamer. :)

Tune in to WOFN tonight for video of the Pod in action, plus more details on everything you read in PC Gamer. :)

Awesome!

Tune in to WOFN tonight for video of the Pod in action, plus more details on everything you read in PC Gamer. :)

i hope all this will be available for dl after tonight.

el oh el

censorshiped!

It will be available for dl after tonight. Not sure how soon, but eventually.

cant someone PM me link to article. My pc gamer is late this month. Oh, and i'm not bullshitting, I DO get pc gamer.

cant someone PM me link to article. My pc gamer is late this month. Oh, and i'm not bullshitting, I DO get pc gamer.

say it aint so sarca! :scared:

'Pod' better be a temporary name.

tPOD (Tribes Paramilitary Oscillating Drone)

The first thing I thought of when I saw the POD:

http://www.yojoe.com/magazine/97/bubble.jpg

this thing would take out POD


http://www.johnnyastro.com/Johnny%20Images/box2.jpg

That being said, 5150 stopped playing before the advent of spam scripts, and thus probably never witness long range vpad spam which was, and still is to some degree, all the rage in vehicle supression. =V= vs RT on Slapdash was an excellent example of spam taken to the extreme.

let me guess.. been a while since you have played T2 huh

If you guys bothered to read carefully you would see I was referring to people spamming the vpad. Note, not the people getting into a vehicle, the vpad itself, ie the structure that creates the vehicle. This wasn't a problem in T2 because the vpad was shielded as opposed to T1. Yes I see the lightbulbs turning on out there. A shielded vpad would be a great way to start the beta then we could see whether they needed to made invulnerable.

Vir

actually, you were talking about o sniping the vpad. at least initially

The O sniping actually happened in T1 and not T2, and the only time it happened was on the pubs.

my comment about vpad mortar spam was prompted by this comment:

When vehicle pads were taken down in T2 they were taken down by shrikes or by bombers.

That may have been how it was when you were playing, but as soon as the spam scripts became public long range mortar spam was the prefered method of taking down a vpad.

I'm not really sure what you're talking about saying that the vpad was sheilded in T2. The vpad buyer thing itself does have a sheild (like everything in T2) but it doesn't extend to cover a player that was on it.

actually, you were talking about o sniping the vpad. at least initially



my comment about vpad mortar spam was prompted by this comment:



That may have been how it was when you were playing, but as soon as the spam scripts became public long range mortar spam was the prefered method of taking down a vpad.

I'm not really sure what you're talking about saying that the vpad was sheilded in T2. The vpad buyer thing itself does have a sheild (like everything in T2) but it doesn't extend to cover a player that was on it.

Yes o sniping the vpad or spamming the vpad with the intent to take it down, like we saw in T1. Unlike T1 sending longrange discs or sniping the vpad just will not take it down because it is shielded. I am not talking about the player trying to get in to the vehicle, which btw an o sniper is still going to shoot at regardless of whether the pad is invulnerable or the vehicle is already made. We just have to admit there is that kind of player on a pub. If you want to talk about mortar spam that is a function of HO since maps were not small enough to spam base to base.

Vir

bloops my bad

now i've got you, and you're absolutely right. Making the pad indestructible will do absolutely nothing to stop people from vpad sniping. No one ever really "camped" vpads, cause there was no where to hide, but if the vpad is invulnerable that might make vpad spam obsolete, at least if the vehicles are invulnerable initially as well.

but of course that's all speculation.

In case the post hist last post didn't clue you in VirDT = |5150|Vir. So yeah, i think he played a little bit of T2.

|5150|Vir Heh, the shrike master.

Yea, I still play unlike some people here who gave up the ghost to long ago but still offer their opinion but haven't experienced any evolution of the game after the first 6 months .

I remember observing Vir back-capping from a shrike out the frontdoor of Sanctuary for an entire map about three months after release. That was fun :).