NPC's in planetside? - Page 4

DayOne · 2012-02-19, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Zulthus

NPCs do not belong in Planetside.

No place in a giant, immersive, persistent world?

Zulthus · 2012-02-19, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by DayOne

No place in a giant, immersive, persistent world?

Nope.

Tatwi · 2012-02-19, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Zulthus

NPCs do not belong in a team based PvP persistent world game.

Fixed.

Livefire · 2012-02-19, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by DayOne

No place in a giant, immersive, persistent world?

Planetside vets are way to dismissive about this and as a vet I am saddened by this, I do find there fear of passive npc's, human and animal funny tho. I also hope they realize that this is not PS1 and it is going to need to be held a to much high standards for the new people it must attract that have never played or even heard of Planetside before. And improving the immersive game play and realism, as well as new styles of play other then just the repetitious base hacking is going in the right direction.

Graywolves · 2012-02-19, 05:12 PM

Only if they put Ragnaros in Searhus

Bags · 2012-02-19, 05:12 PM

Planetside is PvP.

E has no place in this game. Except like trees.

Zulthus · 2012-02-19, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by Bags

Planetside is PvP.

E has no place in this game. Except like trees.

This. PVP is the POINT of the game, having even passive NPCs just distracts from the focus of the game. Adding in NPCs doesn't raise the standards of the game, in fact it would make it worse. I don't want to have to fight off rhinos and zebras when I'm trying to fight off other players.

XPquant · 2012-02-19, 05:22 PM

YES!

Ragefighter · 2012-02-19, 05:29 PM

maybe if a little bit of stuff was added like passive mining machines that get resources from areas you capture (assuming we are not going to be mining shit idk), nothing like you have to go and hail an npc and press dialog in order to get your gun..
not sure how the resources are being handled in game but i would assume we are capturing like a mine for X resource or what not. would be weird if the mine was just a lifeless (or machineless) hole in the ground. or they could utilize like a mining laser that atomizes stuff i guess.

But most 'jobs' that do not require a person to play it are probably best suited to be done by a supercomputer or AI/VI (IE automatically).

fauna such as stuff like animals or maybe if there is a swampy area add some bugs that don't effect pvp just add flavor. Like you shouldn't be able to hide your aircraft in a flock of birds and have incoming missiles attack the birds.

Really depends on the Beta server tests, if the servers handle 2000+ players and just chew through it like butter than sure all some more eyecandy, but if the added fauna makes the game less accessible than it is a bad option. last thing I want in a game like this is a herd of animals to rush a battle and cause people to lag out or their FPS to crash...

Sirisian · 2012-02-19, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by Zulthus

I don't want to have to fight off rhinos and zebras when I'm trying to fight off other players.

Originally Posted by Sirisian

A lot of people will immediately assume you want to add chickens and fish to the game which even I have problems with. Adding creatures that make sense and make the continents feel more alive should be the goal with sci-fi creatures.

I don't think anyone wants rhinos and zebras specifically.

Might as well go and list all of them. I personally don't want ants.

Zulthus · 2012-02-19, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Sirisian

I don't think anyone wants rhinos and zebras specifically.

Might as well go and list all of them. I personally don't want ants.

I could deal with ants, but as a compromise, gorillas cannot be in the game.

Talek Krell · 2012-02-19, 05:47 PM

The idea that the devs could add NPCs to the game without affecting performance seems unlikely at best. No reason to sacrifice frame rate or player count for a herd of Auraxian Not-Cattle.

artifice · 2012-02-19, 05:53 PM

If I was writing a review for an MMO that didn't properly immerse the player which NPCs are very much apart of, I would probably deduct points. Especially when that MMO will be going up against competitors that do have that aspect.

Redshift · 2012-02-19, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by artifice

If I was writing a review for an MMO that didn't properly immerse the player which NPCs are very much apart of, I would probably deduct points. Especially when that MMO will be going up against competitors that do have that aspect.

PS2 has no competitors atm, nothing offers the scale of PS2, shit nothing offers the scale of PS1 still.

Aurmanite · 2012-02-19, 06:14 PM

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that people championing this idea either haven't played Planetside, or sucked really bad at it.