Aircraft?

[Navaron]

OK,

I know the vehicles have VTOL ability, but do they handle like choppers or jets?
Do they have to maintain airspeed with constant foward motion, or do they have staionary platform abilities like helicopters? Can they strafe? Can they loop, roll, stall even?
Can they be manually landed quicker than with the (lame imo) auto land?
What is the max altitude? Do they handle better in the higher, thinner atmosphere (which would create perpetual sky battles - muy el baddassio) or is the ceiling so low that they are always prey for AA guns?
What is the speed difs between a galaxy and a little gun ship? In reality, the largest combat (cargo) jets aren't a whole lot slower (relatively) than a fighter (forget afterburners and obviously at their cruise efficiency settings).

Thats all for now, Make sure to have these answered by Tuesday, and don't forget that PTA is tommorrow night, and the spelling bee is also tuesday so study up.

Teacher Nav

[TG_NightHawk]

About all I can tell you is there isn't going to be any simulation, trying to keep it as close to arcade as possible! So, probably no loop de loops!

[Tegadil]

I would like to see a quicker landing time for manuals than autos.
Risk vs Reward, or something like that.

[�io]

What would be sweet is as soon as you take off you can press 1 key and go from arcade-mode to sim.

In the first the controls are much more user friendly, no fancy flying(well not much) and auto landing. In the second mode you can roll, loop, stall, whatever you want and no auto landing.

That would be

[xuur]

auto landing?

bah! the landing is the best part of piloting a dropship (if indeed you ever really land). hate to see that taken away

[Nubi]

wtf? Auto land? First thing I'ver heard about that

I mean how difficult is it to land a block of pixels without running into another block of pixels? Not hard at all

people just need to get some skill under their belts

[Hamma]

*sigh*

[Navaron]

[TG_NightHawk]

Originally posted by Nubi
wtf? Auto land? First thing I'ver heard about that

I mean how difficult is it to land a block of pixels without running into another block of pixels? Not hard at all

people just need to get some skill under their belts

Well good then, if it isn't hard, then you won't mind allowing it to land for you! Just think, you can use your landing skills somewhere else now!!

[Jinxmasta]

Originally posted by Nubi
wtf? Auto land? First thing I'ver heard about that

I mean how difficult is it to land a block of pixels without running into another block of pixels? Not hard at all

people just need to get some skill under their belts

I agree. Are they trying to take all the joy out of piloting an aircraft? First of all, the way they handle sucks big time if it is like Tribes. No offense to the people that came up with that flight system, but it sucks. Second of all, if we can't do our own landings we will have a boring flight to the enemies base that takes no real skill and then all we do is push a button. Seeing as being a pilot will be the main thing for some characters, they should be able to have fun doing it!

[Airlift]

It seems to me like most of the time you won't actually be landing to let your people disembark, but rather hovering and telling everyone to gtfo. Seems pointless to land if everyone and the vehicle can safely exit in flight, so do it like a helicopter. Landing is for when you want to get out

[Zarparchior]

Hmmm... with Kinetic Dampeners and all... why DO we need to land?

Oh yeah, they need to be able to board it first.

[WhiteSun]

Originally posted by Zarparchior
Hmmm... with Kinetic Dampeners and all... why DO we need to land?

IIRC, there was discussion over a period of stun when landing from a bail, a second or three, which would leave your troops unable to defend themselves.

I want my mates unloading with guns blazing.