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Faction specific air vehicles and other news
Aluvius
Member Posts: 288
in PlanetSide 2
Planetside Universe has a nice Sept. news roundup article. Some of the choice info includes that there will be faction specific air vehicles. TR - Mosquito, NC - Reaver, VS - Dyson (a new one). All can be customized like the ground vehicles, add more armor, more afterburners, etc. There's also a nice looking screenshot linked by Matt Higby (head dev guy) from an in game play session. One bit of news that I'm not sure I like is that they are putting in a kill cam. I dunno, it depends on how its implemented, I've seen it done different ways in various games.
http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-end-of-september-news-roundup-2563.htm
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a Dyson??
anyone know what a "Dyson" is, because we Seriously need to know let alone ask the PS2 team why they choose the word Dyson for VS.
i checked for a definition and it didnt really clear things up.
and the urban dictionary definition is very..veerrry undesirable.
TR get a annoying insect that suck the blood of victims
NC get pillagers to rob others forcibly
VS...we get, a flying vacuum cleaner? ...that, according to urban dictionary, that functions as a sperm guzzler.
I will NOT represent the VS if they expect us to fight in the battle field with Friggin Flying Vacuum Cleaners that does very inappropriate things to the opposing faction.... F that noise
Lol.
That is kind of a weird and unfitting name to choose..
If its effective though,I can easily see passed it.
Look up Freeman Dyson and Dyson Spheres ... oh the youth of today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson
I Will Represent the VS by piloting a giant energy capturing sphere of intergalatic destruction
Hehe yeah, it makes me think that it has a spherical model of some sort. In that case, Dyson as a name makes sense although you could also go with a Globinator or Globatron or ooh how about a Baller lol.
"Pimp One, Pimp One, we need Baller support ASAP. We're dying over here!"
"Copy that, we'll be ho's down in 1 mike, Pimp One out."
Explosions, lasers, whoosh.
Mutombo Squadron, death from above!
*Ahem* I'd like to point out that theres also Miles Dyson: http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Miles_Dyson.
The man who created skynet. If that doesn't put a sock in it, then maybe the cold steel death from what we can only assume the Hunter-Killer looking ship will deliver.
NC get the Reaver, TR get Mossy, and VS get a flying Vacuum? Once again it looks like the Devs will be playing and overpowering TR and NC.
I played Vanu in PS1 and I always thought that we were OP compared to NC/TR. The speed of our vehicles and their ability to move over water made a great difference in survivability. Also the fact that our pulsars could instantly swap to AP rounds and back was also a bit OP. Finally the near instant speed of our anti armor weapon rounds (I can't remember the name) was a huge bonus as well. I'm glad top see that they are keeping the water hover and the pulsar swaps from what I've seen.
more balancing for SOE to mess up. great.
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