Guild Wars 2

WvW needs more mobile war machines to fight against, instead of just direct player fights. Having an army of war units to fear instead of just players running around and building stationary sieging equipment is more fun. This adds more strategy to WvW also because then players would have to create strategies to defeat these units. Use the RTS game model to create these units and the gameplay should work well. Ex., tank like units would have high armor and high area of effect damage but can easily be taken down by infantry units or tank destroyer units etc. War is about strategy and infantry combat shouldn’t be the main gameplay of a war game. Get more RTS devs to develop this part of the game if needed.

Ok, I lost my original thread due to the glitching that happened earlier. But to give the gist of my original post, I envision different kinds of constructable vehicles besides golems. I envision fast low power offensive/defensive vehicles for quick crossing the map, I picture normal speed constructs/hazmat suits made by the Asura for the other races that have skills focused on anti-personnel for groups and 1v1 combat. I see submarines that enhance underwater combat and possess heavy torpedo’s. Why? Because I want to see the developer’s build underwater forts for WvW. So we get real underwater combat which is almost non-existent in the game right now. Even pro players often turn into noobs when they go in water just because they have so little experience fighting there. So I want the middle island replaced with a fort….which I don’t see as a problem since guards could be underwater anyways and other creatures like sharks could become factors for defense. We could see new underwater defenses created for defending with and expand gameplay to see some really cool undersea battles. I don’t ever expect flight to become a game mechanic but I do think there is a wide variety of land and water-based vehicles besides the alpha and beta golems that we have available to us which our brilliant Asura engineers (ahem) would be more than happy to invent for the mass of warriors in line to do battle….

SoS unleashed a 20-golem army the other night during Oceanic primetime. While it was quite funny to watch, I didn’t think it was fair on the other servers we were matched up against. Besides, most of us didn’t sign up for Gundam Wars 2. If it becomes even more siege-based than it already is, there’s less room for people to want to just run around and flip camps for daily or whatever.

Could someone give some perspective on fielding a 20-golem army? How exactly easy is it to get the plans for those to get 20 at once? Does this happen often enough to justify Icpdragonslayer to say it would be a problem? Its not smart to nip an idea in the bud without backing it up with numbers to prove it.

Also, it feels rather lame that a race of mad scientist inventors who are all out to prove their the best would be satisfied with clunky foot-dragging siege machines without considering other uses for them(which they have we just haven’t seen more in WvW yet).