Guild Wars 2

This could be so cool if we could have Airships in EoTM piloted by players to bomb enemy ground forces and battle other Airships that slowly fly around the map.

Airships could have special abilities like rockets, and bombs of course, but could also have some kind of Ability to carry a certain amount of allies in it, and release them when they are ready, for some kind of air ambush on enemy forces.

There could be a new type of Turret on the ground for battling it out against Airships from the ground, controlled by players of course.

Airships could also have special turrets on them mounted by ride-alongs that debuff enemies and place boon consumable and environmental weapons on the field for allies to use them.

There could even be different types of Airships to use with different roles.

Like a for example:

Support Airship:
Has Healing turret and Boon maker. Also makes Environmental Weapons for ground allies to use. Can Rez down/defeated allies with single use special.

Cargo Airship:
has the most player capacity load. Able to carry more players as ride-alongs. Slower than all others, but with mounted turrets for passengers to use.

Bomber Airships:
Rockets, and bombs. Faster than other ships, but fragile.

Titan Airships:
Great armor on these ships, able to hold a nice sum of passengers, and can spawn other Airships from here. Acts as a timed Waypoint as well for its special ability. Creates Environmental weapons for troops to use. Cost the most to make this ship.

i dont think the gw2 engine really supports this idea. i cant recall any instance in the game where the player is able to pilot/drive/ride anything at their control. everything is either stationary or given pre-determined paths.
which also explains the lack of mounts.

Knighthonor.4061:

Support Airship:
Has Healing turret and Boon maker. Also makes Environmental Weapons for ground allies to use. Can Rez down/defeated allies with single use special.

Only if you actually name this airship The Boonmaker.
Come on, its an awesome name of a ship.

Sounds like a tonne of work if they were ever to do this I’d expect a 2017 release.

Kokurai.7258:

i dont think the gw2 engine really supports this idea. i cant recall any instance in the game where the player is able to pilot/drive/ride anything at their control. everything is either stationary or given pre-determined paths.
which also explains the lack of mounts.

I dont know about that, since WoW has a old engine and was able to add flying mounts.

Why not GW2 as well?

Kokurai.7258:

i dont think the gw2 engine really supports this idea. i cant recall any instance in the game where the player is able to pilot/drive/ride anything at their control. everything is either stationary or given pre-determined paths.
which also explains the lack of mounts.

Mounts are a different story. While they may seem like vehicles, in most instances of games they’re simply an extension of the player’s model, whereas true vehicles are rideable by more than one player and have a different control scheme. Siege Golems are more akin to mounts than vehicles from a game design perspective.

There is Poll on Mounts

So far Majority do not really want mounts.

Every vote counts so please vote

http://www.gw2wvw.net/content/should-gw2-have-mounts-horses-dragons-closes-27feb

Fuzzion.2504:

There is Poll on Mounts

So far Majority do not really want mounts.

Every vote counts so please vote

http://www.gw2wvw.net/content/should-gw2-have-mounts-horses-dragons-closes-27feb

Thats not the same. Since these would be vehicles. For battle. not just transportation.

Progression on the game engine that would be a good thing, also it would give them more “tools” to play within the ls story and the game itself.

Aeolus.3615:

Progression on the game engine that would be a good thing, also it would give them more “tools” to play within the ls story and the game itself.

They are implementing a dx11.2 GW2 engine by the time ps4 becomes main stream

golems are siege weapons that can move. they do this via the transformation func. it’s not a matter of the engine. it’s not a graphical question. if you can move your character around then that’s proof enough that it can be done if they want to. just develop a way to move up the y axis, and the rest for controls.

godofcows.2451:

golems are siege weapons that can move. they do this via the transformation func. it’s not a matter of the engine. it’s not a graphical question. if you can move your character around then that’s proof enough that it can be done if they want to. just develop a way to move up the y axis, and the rest for controls.

I agree. they already do this with water combat

What would be really cool is to have that airship shoot down boons for allied players. Not dmg others but for just from a support standpoint. That would be sweet.

Knighthonor.4061:

Fuzzion.2504:

There is Poll on Mounts

So far Majority do not really want mounts.

Every vote counts so please vote

http://www.gw2wvw.net/content/should-gw2-have-mounts-horses-dragons-closes-27feb

Thats not the same. Since these would be vehicles. For battle. not just transportation.

That would just make it more work to implement. On top of it being flying would probably make them have to rebuild most of the maps which weren’t designed to be seen ’cept for select angles.

I mean, that’s not to say it’s a bad idea or that it shouldn’t be done.