I save Ascalon against another Charr invasion, and my father trifles with doors!
So these hang-gliders huh?
oh god please make it happen. The day i see my chubby charr engineer with hanglider dropping bombs on mordrem while i play the top gun soundtrack on my media player is the day i can die in peace >_<.
But jokes aside.. i doubt they will be more then a form of movement
It’s hard to fight when you can only glide and not actually fly.
The hang gliders seem to just be a thing you use to traverse the new maps, really.
Possible as a minigame althought if they were to make the gliders as a minigame, I see it more as a race.
A “sanctum sprint” using gliders may be fun. WoW has some flying mount bombardment quests. I however don’t think we will ever get PvP flying combat. For one part, underwater PvP combat was removed partly for the same reasons: difficulty players had to combat with the 3rd dimension. And for another part, I played Aion. Flying/gliding in that game was extremely enjoyable, but flying combat always was a real mess, be it 1v1 or 600v600, and although I was playing on the EU-Suthran server which offered one of the most coordinated faction command chain and advanced air combat strategies.
I hope it is similar to ArcheAge but I doubt it will be.
Looking at the “hang gliders” in the videos, I feel I should let you know. They’re not hang gliders.
They’re more like parachutes of a sort that lift you on updrafts; kind of a way to avoid falling damage, since a lot of these maps now seem to have a lot of vertical travel added to the horizontal travel. A hang glider would let you fly more, and even move around while keeping a more or less even height (diving a bit to pick up speed, then lifting some to gain height again). These look like they’re going to be very specific as to where you can use them.