Originally Posted by DviddLeff
Regarding BFRs, they could have been awesome.
If they had taken 3 men to crew the standard version, and 4 to man the gunner variant.
As it was instead of the most powerful vehicle being a Reaver, you had the most powerful vehicle being something that put out 400% more fire power and had much more survivability. It took months of nerfs to get the thing to almost fit into the game, and by that time probably half the player base had left because of them.
If they had truly been heavy tanks with 3-4 crew, and had the option of EITHER a shield, roof turret OR flight pack they may have worked right off the bat, requiring a large investment of both certs and players to be effective.
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Even then they wouldn't have been awesome. BFR's were failed from the get-go because of the world they were being dropped into. Their clumsily large size made them neither larger-than-life awesome to merit a bunch of crewmen nor Small enough to be versatile. Their scale put them in an awkward limbo within PS.
They are essentially Planetside's paperweights, IMO. They're big, bulky, encumbersome, they get in the way, and their firepower doesn't match their size. They fail like ED209. (But ED209 has some sort of cool factor to him)
if they were going to make large robots, they'd need to go all out of the box. Make them rediculously huge or reasonably smaller.
Bases just aren't big enough to accommodate them without pissing everybody off. Adding something of their scale comfortably would require dynamically shaping the bases.