Make jump packs an equipment item so you'll have to switch to it in order to use it, that should balance it out.


You wont be able to shoot while using it.
It'll have 1/2 uses per life.
It'll have multiple variants in the market.
When you have one on your fitting, it'll be shown on your characters' back when others look at you.
give it a high CPU, and energy use.
Also, let it drain stamina when you use it. (maybe)

Doesn't that sound balanced?

So this could be an aggressive mobility, or emergency egress to a dropship for snipers and such, but would have trade off.

But you can initiate a controlled descent if you jump out of a air born ship already. Unless I misunderstood the above statement?

That is all.

Dropships. That is already in the game. Use them.

Sometimes you wanna be able to go that extra speed without using a vehicle.

I don't want jetpacks to be in the next built (June29th) but there's not harm in talking about Jetpacks now.
The sooner CCP knows our "wishes", intentions, the better they can plan their work IMO.

I would like to see how jump packs would work in this game. Hell I'd like to see thruster packs (being able to skate along the ground at twice the running speed in any direction, but only being able to use it once or twice per charge.)

No. That is all.


Seriously - You can't make a 'suggestion' without at least providing some thoughts on how to implement them, what they would add to the game, or even why you want them added.

"Because they are awesome, or because XXX game had them" Are not valid reasons.

Any game with enhanced jumping simply makes you see everyone jump nonstop during combat. They already nerfed jumping once to make it cost more stamina and not possible to jump with less than half of your maximum. Why would they revert that change by giving everyone superjumps? Granted, jumping makes you an easier target to anyone who can actually aim, the majority of players can't track people for whatever reason. Totally different ball of wax, and I digress. A lot of the terrain is designed so that you can get up/around it. Terrain is not just there to look pretty as scenery, it creates bottlenecks that enforce 'tactical gameplay'. If you can ignore terrain as you please to just go whereever you want, you risk breaking the game, as everything may as well be flat at that point. An infantry who is hard to see should not have unhindered mobility, ever. If you want unlimited mobility around the battlefield without worrying about terrain- Like said above, use a dropship.

As mentioned in an above post : Jetpacks are terrible for essentially the same reasons I just listed. They are slightly more acceptable if anti-air weapons are able to lock them and installations saw them as a valid auto-fire target. However, they still seem highly unnecessary and any 'advantage' they pose is mirrored by a dropship, which has the added bonus of being able to carry more people, better guns, more tank, have people spawn in it, and (later) cloak.

Well I only played the first Tribes. It was a mess, and I really would rather not see
that kind of "gameplay" again.

You don't want this turning into HALO though with their extremely ridiculous jumps

As I said about them before:
"Jet Packs. Yes, if you let people shoot while flying then that increases the rate of foolish wild gunfire, people doing crazy up/down bunny exploitation things. But what if you couldn't shoot while flying? Also, there is the problem of people getting damaged and then flying away before you can kill them. But what if armor damage prevented flight? Problem of increased mobility being an advantage far above any other speed module attachment. How about limiting fuel to just a few short jumps or one moderate jump?

Each of the other suggestions also has drawbacks and flaws that could be discussed.

My point is simply that there are ways these could be implemented to increase options (and fun) without giving unfair advantages or creating silly situations."

From my previous thread:

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=112876#post112876

Any of you gents played/read warhammer 40k stuff? Like the space marine jump packs. Basically a super jump with controlled landing =D! I would LOVE to see that since they have the controlled landing in place. And it would be a good anti flyer class. Jump up close to a flyer and try to plan explosives if its low enough. Then fall back down.

I approve so long as wearing one makes you eligible for scram missile launcher lock. Even if you are not jumping.