Are there any plans on getting heavy vehicles such as tanks or anything similar onto planetary battles? It'd be nice to have that diversity on the first-person shooter side. Also, will you be able to use your ship as a bomber for large battles? Are large battles something included in the mid- to long-term range for the game?asked by Dread
TL;DRSquadron 42 will open with a huge capital-ship battle and a torpedo bomber is being built; tanks currently have no plans, though ground vehicles like exploration buggies and mining-base vehicles are possible.
Well, I don't know. Let's ask Erin.
Yeah, I mean, on Squadron 42, we definitely have plans on the ship side. Obviously, we've got capital ships, and I think our intro is going to be pretty impressive, I hope. I mean, we're basically planning on having an absolutely huge battle at the beginning, which will really get you into the game. But yeah, we definitely are in the middle of actually building out the Retaliator right now, which is basically that. It's a huge torpedo, Vulcan type, long range torpedo bomber. So yeah, absolutely. We've got some big plans for that as well, obviously on the Squadron 42 side. And also we're creating the cap ships in Squadron 42 for the Persistent Universe as well. So we're making sure while we're making these cap ships, although the multiplayer aspect will be limited on Squadron 42, we're putting all the ship systems in so people can play on the ships together. And obviously we'll be getting that into the dogfight module later on as well.
Yeah, so we'll do that. And then as far as tanks, we currently don't have any plans, although long term that's something that's quite doable, because we have the ability to do ground vehicles as well as space vehicles, as everyone can see with the buggy that you have in your hangar. And there may be some cases where on the exploration side you can have an exploration buggy, and you can have limited areas you land and you can go round and do a little Prometheus kind of thing, and hopefully not be quite as stupid as the scientists in Prometheus. What's this tentacle thing? It looks really great.
I think then also, on places like the Shubin mining base, which is huge, we probably intend to have some vehicles that you'll drive around in there and so forth.