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Ivan Avogadro
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Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.05.19 15:59:00 -
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What do you guys think of the ability to customize and deploy your own turrets? Turret installations as they exist now are good but there are two main shortcomings (by design):
(a) All of them are situational, based on where the fighting is (and many of them on the outskirts of a map will never be used at all)
(b) They can't be customized by the user to benefit from mods
HAVs, LAVs, and DSs are essentially mobile turrets already but I'm talking about immobile ones. Having the ability to summon a turret to my position would be invaluable in certain situations where the enemy is entrenched but there are no heavy guns around for me to use, probably because my own team blew up all the installations for 100WPs. And, for a substantial ISK investment, I would also like the ability to use hardeners or tracking computers or repairers. |
slypie11
Planetary Response Organisation
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Posted - 2013.05.19 16:00:00 -
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its coming. It was also on one of the trailers |
RydogV
Shadow Company HQ
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Posted - 2013.05.19 16:11:00 -
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I always assumed this would become a functional game mechanic in due time. Most have already heard that ultimately there was suppose to be a Commander role in the future who would participate in the battle from the MCC with a top down RTS perspective. It was believed that Corporations would be able to drop installations (not just turrets) on the battlefield to support the ground forces. Obviously we would have to have these resources in the Corporate inventory and they probably won't be cheap. Hopefully they are a little more durable than the generic installations that populate the current maps.
I played a bit of Starhawk before it faded away and the "Build & Battle" system of that game was a lot of fun. It really made for some dynamic gameplay and I think some aspect of that incorporated into Dust would be really interesting. Especially if I can drop a turret on someone's Proto HAV 
I also would not mind something similar to Killzone where the engineer class could deploy a personal turret for hasty defense. They were not too powerful and fairly easy to destroy but they were enough to slow attackers a bit and could provide a nice early warning effect. I would not mind seeing something like that in Dust as well. |
Kai Wulf
Villore Sec Ops
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.19 16:16:00 -
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In the deployment menu there was (not 100% sure if it is still there to be honest) a menu item labelled "Installations". It didn't seem to do anything at the time, but I did wonder if we'd be able to call in our own installations such as turrets and supply depots one day.
On a related note, the description for the repair tools state that they can be used to repair installations, with some being less effective than others. However, whenever I have tried to repair installations it hasn't worked.
To be honest I am getting a little annoyed at my own "teammates" destroying these installations at the beginning of the match. Twice I've found myself facing a dropship or tank and wishing the Railgun or missile turret was still where it should be.
I would love to be able to deploy my own installations, but I think they would have to be limited in some way. Perhaps Squad leader controlled and limited by Warpoints like the precision strikes are currently. Or perhaps weaker versions of the ones we have on maps now.
I don't know. I'm not very good at game design/game balance and all that. This is just my inner-logi crying out :D
But I +1 your idea, especially the customisation part. |
Ivan Avogadro
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Posted - 2013.05.19 16:44:00 -
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Kai Wulf wrote:In the deployment menu there was (not 100% sure if it is still there to be honest) a menu item labelled "Installations". It didn't seem to do anything at the time, but I did wonder if we'd be able to call in our own installations such as turrets and supply depots one day.
On a related note, the description for the repair tools state that they can be used to repair installations, with some being less effective than others. However, whenever I have tried to repair installations it hasn't worked.
To be honest I am getting a little annoyed at my own "teammates" destroying these installations at the beginning of the match. Twice I've found myself facing a dropship or tank and wishing the Railgun or missile turret was still where it should be.
I would love to be able to deploy my own installations, but I think they would have to be limited in some way. Perhaps Squad leader controlled and limited by Warpoints like the precision strikes are currently. Or perhaps weaker versions of the ones we have on maps now.
I don't know. I'm not very good at game design/game balance and all that. This is just my inner-logi crying out :D
But I +1 your idea, especially the customisation part.
I honestly wouldn't mind if they were smaller than installations, as long as they offer more protection that the LAV turret currently does. Maybe they only have a 270 degree sweep, but your body can't be directly attacked from the front. Either blow up the turret or sneak behind that blind spot for the personal touch. |
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