Yeah…but you know they “don’t tell us everything”…lol…I was envisioning some “Rocket Man” type videos of people flying over and through LA 3.0…I am hopeful they go back and add the functionality to other cities and zones…Southsun would be very cool to do fly-overs…:)
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I doubt the Vanilla maps such as LA are designed to keep gliders from breaking out of the map, getting over the Tengu wall, for example. So it’s most unlikely they will ever put in gliders, not without going over the maps first and adding more invisible walls.
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I think gliding in LA could be fun, though they might not want it due to the JP and could in-lore say any unregistered flights get the flak guns aimed at them.
But you’re right, the reason they couldn’t add gliding to old maps is that the maps weren’t designed for it — but LA is so new that they could have factored it in!
Let’s hope they at least put in the jump pads Palador suggested.
Well, LA was completely reworked, so it isn’t too far fetched to ask: did they rework LA with gliding in mind? It’s no longer a broken, old map we’re talking about, but the newest, freshest map we got! I’d really like to see every map reworked one by one to allow gliding. It doesn’t have to be all at once and it doesn’t have to be as soon as HoT hits, but it would be nice to see future changes bring each map closer to being explorable by glider.
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Could work as a ‘subtle’ commercial for the expansion, sure – seeing people glide all over LA. Wouldn’t mind it personally, it might add something to the atmosphere.
I’d say the answer is a “no” given the jumping puzzle. Jumping off the lighthouse would probably give you the height to get to some of the harder parts of that JP with little effort. It is this reason only I don’t think it will happen (since the map was just designed, it could have otherwise been designed with gliding in mind).
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I had not explored the JP yet, so I can see where that may pose an issue…sad if that is the case though…cause it would be great fun to leap from the Lighthouse and take a sky tour of LA.
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I had not explored the JP yet, so I can see where that may pose an issue…sad if that is the case though…cause it would be great fun to leap from the Lighthouse and take a sky tour of LA.
Avoiding anything particularly spoiler-y, the jump puzzle uses a lot of open space among the new buildings.
That said, I can’t think of anything other than the lighthouse that could potentially make it any easier. If the angle of descent/limit on flight time is limiting enough, this may actually be viable. Once you are actually in/on the JP, a glider would be almost totally useless if memory serves.
Edit: The other two JPs would be totally unaffected by glider use.
From what I saw in the videos descend speed seems to be pretty high (you descend about 50% of what you move forward). Though I might be wrong and / or there are masteries to reduce descend speed.
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you’ll get abilities to increase height i think, plus, once you get one key, you restart to get the others and the chest, it’d make more sense if gliding was only kept to the new maps (maybe brisban as there isnt any jumping puzzles but i doubt that)
We should be able to use gliders in any map. becasue they don’t represent any special effect other then a way of replacing “droping” with “gliding”
So, from where ever my characgter can “drop” from, it should always be able to “glide” becasue its player’s action to use (F) and not an (auto) feature
They should roll out map updates to all the major towns to support gliding post HoT release. If we have an area that you should not be allowed to go, just add a downdraft.
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The new LA would be great for it and I would find it strange if they didn’t at least think about the possibility when designing the new map, it only misses a high tower in the middle to jump of.
Main problem (especially with the lighthouse) would be that it allows you to fly outside of the map, you could make an invisible wall there, but invisible walls are the worse, ugly (what is really impressive for something that is invisible) and immersive breaking. Maybe they could do something like the winds blowing you inside, but that would only make sense near the tower (because of the hills).
Maybe if at some point we get seamless maps it will be implemented. But who know, LA is more of a HoT map then a Vanilla map so it would not be completely unthinkable.
