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Posted - 2012.03.26 17:45:00 -
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So Fanfest 2012 is over and we showed off a live demo of orbital bombardment followed by a roundtable discussion about some of the design challenges ahead to make this feature complete. I want to start an official thread where people can discuss their ideas for orbital warfare based on what we've already shown, for both ships shooting at the ground and the planet shooting back.
If you havn't already seen, you can watch the live demo here (just look at how excited Soundwave is!)
http://bit.ly/H7BO7g
Recapping some of the things discussed at the roundtable:
- The demo was actually live with real playstations sitting on stage and real EVE clients talking to a cluster in London. No smoke and mirrors.
- Talking specifically for the EVE side of things, we want to make Orbital Bombardment more involved in terms of skills required and weapon variations as well as spectacular in terms of visual effects. There will eventually be larger and smaller bombardments according to ship size (nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure) and these will have suitably scaled skill, isk and complexity investment to match their effect. If you have any specific opinions on how you see that working, reply here.
- One feature that didn't quite make it in time for fanfest is displaying the damage done on the battlefield to people, vehicles and structures. That feedback is especially important when you don't have an EVE and DUST client side by side. I'm interested in ideas here on how you would want that information visualized.
- There have already been a variety of suggestions on how to make sure it isn't one sided or overpowered. I'm sure people have a lot of interesting ideas on how to counter an orbital strike, so feel free to discuss those here too.
Cheers!
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Posted - 2012.03.26 18:50:00 -
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My Neutral Toon wrote:Maybe add a feature of "Warp to Bombardment Location"...
If you look carefully at the video you'll see we are not actually at the planet warp in, but at a location closer to the target.
We are iterating on a number of solutions to achieve this.
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Posted - 2012.03.27 22:45:00 -
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Markus Reese wrote:Mutie DaPig wrote:The tank, the remote repairers, all the buildings - in fact the surrounding area for miles around ought to be turned to glass after a volley from an Abaddon - you silly person
or should i say oght and lose the U seeing as Eve is going all yank. I thought about that for fluff earlier. There is an effect from too much energy. By all rights, a bombardment cannon cannot have the same energy behind it as the spacial shots. Projectile or otherwize. If you shot at the atmosphere with a projectile or hybrid, the sheer physics of colliding with the atmosphere would destroy the shot before hitting ground. We can only assume that the laser energy would just disrupt everything too. They sorta touch on it in Templar One. So the guns for bombardment are not doing damage equal to that which hit our ships, but that is just so the shots reach ground.
Our "lore" (and cost balancing) solution will most likely revolve around special ammo designed for re-entry.
Also we want to specifically offer a range of precision bombardments as well as the nuke it from orbit option depending on your objective for that district. Destroying everything should come with its disadvantages, even though its fracking awesome.
EDIT: By the way, this thread is boss and you are all boss for posting in it. We are taking notes and brainstorming further so your ideas and problems raised are super valuable. Cheers.
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Posted - 2012.04.27 19:01:00 -
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Also confirming that CCP Omen literally read every word in this thread. I sat and watched him do it.
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Posted - 2012.04.27 20:38:00 -
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CCP Goliath wrote:CCP Nullarbor wrote:Also confirming that CCP Omen literally read every word in this thread. I sat and watched him do it. Also confirming that Nullarbor apparently needs more to do with his day.
I like to watch.
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