My question is whether or not it will be possible to play this game as a pure FPS specialist? For instance, what if my character is a terrible pilot and hates flying? Will it be possible to exist planetside, engaging only in FPS encounters? Or to be a passenger flying along only as a boarding party member?asked by Sawbones
TL;DRPlayers should be able to focus much more on FPS, including boarding-party roles and planetside encounters, though avoiding flying entirely is doubtful, and more FPS practice options are to be discussed later.
So I think there definitely will be the opportunity to focus much more on FPS. Whether or not you will be able to entirely avoid flying in space, I probably doubt that would be the case. But you certainly could join crews and operate as a boarding party specialist and not be flying, say on a bigger multi-crew ship. There will definitely be some FPS encounters that will be down on planet-side that will allow it. So I would say that if you prefer to do FPS, there will be that available for you to do in the game. And we're also going to be creating a sort of FPS... you know, we have Arena Commander - there's gonna be some of the FPS extension to that to allow you to practice your FPS skills without having to risk getting killed for real in space. So watch and stay tuned for that down the road - that's something we'll be talking about later on this year.