OFFICIAL Rover/Rocket Pod discussion thread
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wow, this stuff looks great! i love the rocket pod, seems like it has the potential to separate the men from the boys 
just so long as the rockets can't be guided after a certain time, otherwise i see people sitting around memorizing how to steer the rockets directly into a base/turret/flag stand, spread non-withstanding.
just so long as the rockets can't be guided after a certain time, otherwise i see people sitting around memorizing how to steer the rockets directly into a base/turret/flag stand, spread non-withstanding.Marweas said:Funny how misguided someone can be in a post about guided rockets.
Enlighten me then
Sure if they're not too fast/manuverable it won't be easy to hit moving targets but HoF's, Invs, Turrets, sniping LD's don't do a hell of a lot of moving so you can sit there firing salvo after salvo and guiding each one in to the target..
So now we have a weapon that can hit absolutely anything and can be guided from range and does "significant" damage.. and can't be flared off? How is this better than the T2 missile launcher exactly?
If the rockets spiraling pattern has even the slightest nuance of Robotech rocket attacks I swear I'll come in my shoes!
(Unfortunately, the pictures show straight flight paths for each rocket)
Fantasy Musings Over the RP:
A capper grabs the flag and heads for home, suddenly a phalanx of rockets pop up over a nearby hill. Disk jumping, the capper leaves the ground none-too-soon as the rockets detonate where he was once skiing.
Skiing into position near the enemy base, the heavy fires blind into the air ahead of him. As his momentum brings the enemy base into sight, a last-second correction guides the rockets on target. The heavy continues on at high speed.
A medium gets caught out in the open and quickly finds themselves the target of a salvo. With no time remaining, a split second decision is made. The medium, with impeccable timing, throws a grenade or mine amd disks it at just the right distance to create a fireball, that the rockets disappear into. Saving his ass from destruction.
Fuck all you nay-sayers. As long as the rocket guidance is player controlled and requires skill, I want it in the game.
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How exactly does a rocket launcher fit in with tribes again? My big concern with it is that you actually have to stop and aim the thing to be able to hit a target. Here you're saying that tribes is a celebration of movement and speed, and yet you create a weapon that encourages the opposite. If I'm running a route, I don't want to stop, shoot and aim until the missles hit.
Also, this has been done before. I think every game since Perfect Dark invented it has had a weapon similar to this in some sense. The thing is, it works in most of those games; I don't think it would work in tribes. It only serves to slow the gameplay.
I'm not totally sure about the rover but making it a spawn point seems bad in so many ways. How will defense spawn at the base? Are they supposed to ctrl+k until they get there? And like colossus said, it does take away from the focus of the game: capturing the flag, not destroying OOB spawn points.
One thing that I really don't like is the size of the weapons. They are way too obtrusive. All of them minus the disc launcher tend to look like UT weapons as well. The whole game looks way to much like UT for that matter. Throw up some more scratched metal catwalks, add in some more giant weapons with pretty effects and then top it off with some quad damage and you'll have a nice ut+quake clone w/ skiing.
Also, this has been done before. I think every game since Perfect Dark invented it has had a weapon similar to this in some sense. The thing is, it works in most of those games; I don't think it would work in tribes. It only serves to slow the gameplay.
I'm not totally sure about the rover but making it a spawn point seems bad in so many ways. How will defense spawn at the base? Are they supposed to ctrl+k until they get there? And like colossus said, it does take away from the focus of the game: capturing the flag, not destroying OOB spawn points.
One thing that I really don't like is the size of the weapons. They are way too obtrusive. All of them minus the disc launcher tend to look like UT weapons as well. The whole game looks way to much like UT for that matter. Throw up some more scratched metal catwalks, add in some more giant weapons with pretty effects and then top it off with some quad damage and you'll have a nice ut+quake clone w/ skiing.
Marweas said:
I said EXCLUSIVE. There's no logical reason (in my mind) why Gamespot (of all places) should be the only Internet gaming news website that gets the official video release from Sierra. Why can't you send this out simultaneously to ALL the major game sites AND the fansites like Tribalwar? You can't tell me that a huge portion of your franchise's fanbase isn't right here, all waiting to see the latest goods on T:V. Come on... This is stupid.
Sh33p said:So now we have a weapon that can hit absolutely anything and can be guided from range and does "significant" damage.. and can't be flared off? How is this better than the T2 missile launcher exactly?
Explain how this is worse than what you can currently do with a disc? Except with a disc, once you've targeted and shot, you can hide out of sight.