Dropships

[Doobz]

i personally think the best flight model for an action game yet is BF's. its perfect. it takes some time to understand, but ull be flying in a few minutes, but actually mastering it (like me ) can take days.

[SVoyager]

well bf is good. well in a way lol. i think for this type of game bf1942's FM is good. You can actually do some manoevers that can throw your ennemies off and you dont have some sort of ai trying to help you. Altho the controls are slow, the plane takes 2 year to react from your move, but its not too bad.

One thing i found funny the first time i tryed it was. REVERSE on planes WEEEEEE lol. I'm using a HOTAS and my throttle was all the way down (idle on normal planes, but bf1942 decided it was reverse), so i went on reverse on the wake map as axis and ended up in the water behind the carrier lol. I lmao'ed for a good 10 minutes after that hehe. The other thing was when u landed the plane. It took .000001 feets of runway to land that thing heh. Just go REVERSE PFFF mid air and u come to a almost stop MID AIR PFFFF. omg just typing this makes me laugh again.

But besides that, yes bf1942's FM is pretty good, i would like it for PS yup.

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[Hamma]

I think at one point dave said it would be similar to t2.. he designed that FM afterall

[SVoyager]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

damn

-edit. too bad u cant do much with it in terms of manoevers besides flying between mountains and close to the ground. Its not too bad tho because if its like t2, then fear me cuz evrtime im in a shrike i kick evryone's butts lol (to the point of being kicked in t2:renegades bc i was killing too many guys with the ground missiles on the interceptor lol j/k). The lack of being able to do anything with it is bad, well i hope they do better job for the ground vehicles tho. The MPB had such hard time rolling around lol.

[Hamma]

Yea im sure the engine code will be much better.. I seriously doubt it would be an exact replica of the T2 flight model, probably something that takes a bit more skill.. but who knows.

[SVoyager]

i still beleive, err hope .

well basicly what was almost missing/wrong in t2's FM was that, for turning, it was using "side thrusters" kinda. Instead of having to turn the plane (bank? sorry my english, im a frenchie), and then pull to make the plane turn (like any other plane in the world), so that you can do more stuff instead of just use ur mouse to point and shoot.

[Doobz]

i personally didnt really like the t2 engine all that much.
it felt way too much like some kind of giant cartoon with ppl who were about 15 feet tall, i dont know why, it just did.

also everything u shot felt like u were throwing nerf footballs at the enemy. plus u couldnt fly high enough or do any really cool meneuvers in aircraft. plus everything was WAY too freaking fast to have any kind of real strategy.

the physic just felt all screwy to me. i hope the physics in planetside are more grounded, and the action a litle slower, and with much faster projectiles and bullets. that would make it much more military-minded

[Hamma]

Just referring to the flight controls.. PS will have much different physics im sure.. there will be no skiing in PS

[Doobz]

oh, dont even get me started....

[Tobias]

In t2 i liked getting the invis thingy and a shotgun, and blsting people when they went to buy stuff (after getting to the NME base of course.) It was great, for like a week. Then i went back to t1

[Doobz]

how was t1 better? i never played it

[Ravon Dark]

I was a very good shriker in T2, but if PS FM is like T2's in that you can't do any sort of complex manuver, unless of course... OMG he's flying upside down!! ohh Yeah! real strategic manuver there... I just won't fly in PS if it's too much like the T2 FM.. I thought the T2 FM was horribly under developed and the fact that you couldn't even roll it or fly upside down for more then 5 seconds before the y velocity took over and slammed you into the ground was quite appalling and annoying. It took a lot of skill out of the game and just made it about as run and gun as Top Gun on the NES.

[SVoyager]

ahhh, yea agree with you doobz. no chainguns where u can actually see the bullet slowly reach ur target (especially when u gotta lead 20 meters in front of em to hit j/k).

I hope they have in mind to set the pace slow enough so that it promotes teamplay (fast pace, 1death/20seconds = no teamplay, just rush in. medium-slow pace promotes teamplay, u dont wanna walk the way in again .)

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[SVoyager]

haha ravon, you just summed it all . S! u dont know how many times ive seen people die that way lol

[Incompetent]

Your all thinking wrong, the devs have said over and over that the aircraft are HELICOPTERS. and as far as T2, i hate that flight model, but there was a mod that had a kickass one. i can't for the life of me remember its name, it started with a T i think.

Edit: Terminal mod