Righto so hopped onto test for a bit to see what had been done to my beloved flash... Annnnnd it's not too bad. Not too bad. I was very worried that the driving mechanics would be dumbed down excessively, but it doesn't seem to quite be the case. It is basically impossible to flip the flash now, no matter how overwhelmingly stupidly you drive, but in situations that would normally flip the flash, it still typically results in your vehicle losing all momentum or ricocheting in an awkward direction... so basically if you're stupid with your driving and try to use the flash in combat, this will definitely kill you. This addresses part of my concern over a dumbing down resulting in an influx of idiots to the flash scene, which would be bad for everyone. The next thing is the modified rumble seat... I know it's not done yet, but I need to express how much I'd like for the rumble seat to fold down when not in use (basically into the recess where the old seat was) - I find the seat to be visually jarring when driving around, both covering most of my player model and sticking out awkwardly while turning or drifting. It also gives me the impression that I'm driving around a 2 man vehicle, rather than a 1 man vehicle that's better with 2... I know that seems like a rather petty distinction, but hey, people are petty =p
Nay! Rather, 'tis the prevailing sentiment and philosophy of the time that plays large part in shaping whether our minds are more generally directed towards nobility or towards trivial concerns. I would love a return to the Stoicism of the Romans, or the Scholasticism of Christendom. Er, yes, the Flash. I haven't gone on the PTS due to the 9 gig download, and I've forgotten that one trick to shorten it down like 5 gigs or so, but, I have a question, sir! Pics?
I managed to flip it over on Hossin, but other than that, yes it is extremely difficult to flip over. Thumps up to SOE for the new code on the Flash
I've posted these elsewhere, but for ease. New Handling (just before the seat arrived): New Seat (plus 1st impressions): I realised I forgot about AV grenades in the tank test, so add one of those to the mix, and boom goes a MBT in ~4 seconds. Enjoy!
i am one of those crazy guys who use the flash for fighting. i dropped thousend cert's in it, and learned how to drive a flash with only low risk of flipping. (i was able to control my drifts and spins, or at least to use them to my advantage) the new flash dirves like a train on rails. you have to force a drift, or it won't happen. i guess it's easier to drive now for the average player. but it also has a higher turning radius (before the patch i was abel to turn on a peace of pizza, now i need~5m) , and i can't turn while maintainging my forward momentum to shoot what is following me... i guess it would take some time for me, to relaern how to drive a comabt flash. but the thing, that you won't flip it, if you don't want to, is a great change...(it takes me several minutes of active trying, to flip the flash) also it's easier to flip it back, once it's upside down. it's not a perfect change in my opinion, but it's hard to make it better(i don't know, how to do it better but i already miss my crazy drifts). But it's a change in the right direction, and will add a lot of life to the flash. rise the flashes! They will be everywhere and bring death to everyone!
Flipping was about the only reason I kept the Surger on. (And hill climbing, but the stock does that decently well at this point too.) I'll be swapping to the combat chassis most likely as well.
I was thinking about downloading test again to try out turbo. I'm glad to hear it still sends you up; my question to you is what happens when you contact the ground after a particularly righteous turbo jump. On live it seemingly randomly explodes with a greater chance the higher you are, I assume because you hit with greater velocity. However some objects in the game make you more prone to explosion than others for some reason and your flash will detonate on them even at low falling speeds. I use Racer 3 frame. That combined with turbo's acceleration means that most friendly vehicles can be avoided where they might otherwise roadkill me from behind on accident or on purpose when we are driving the same direction. I'm not sure if it boosts turbo speed or not. I was hoping for flash changes in this patch that somehow make the flash more resistant to terrain damage. It's good to hear that it's harder to flip but that isn't my main issue when I use a turbo flash; that's more of a 'I hit a little bump and flipped over' issue. When turbo jumping I usually have enough time to right myself to land wheels down but no matter what side of the flash I land on it's very likely to explode when I hit the ground if I get any kind of air or jump from high terrain to low. It's possible it's moving fast enough towards the ground after a high jump that the game thinks the flash is past the terrain's boundaries when it checks. I don't know if that check is serverside or clientside. It might explain why some terrain makes me explode after falling a shorter distance than others though. The turbo flash is my favorite vehicle, but it's very frustrating having to deal with turbo killing me so often. At least it is a cheap vehicle though. I hear the magrider has issues with flipping over; does it explode from jumping hills too? If it does I'd be glad to see it fixed in the same manner as the flash even though I play NC.
I'd love to see the flash become something that might be feared or a force to be reckoned with on and around the battle field. I really hope these changes go live. Now if only we could get that passive turbo...
you can always not allow anyone to jump in ur seat turn on wraith and they cant jump in so the seat no problem if u wanna go solo. but it makes the view smaller when using wepons in TP mode so yeah a bit annoying but when having passenger will switch to first person mode. atleast its a big upgrade to the game only forces you to go first person when using passenger i still love it if the width of the flash be reduced it might somwhat look like a harley bike i hope they dont reduce the wraith cloak time from 40 to less its perfect right now. i dont want the front facing seat if they even touch the cloak timer to adjust game balance of using a decimator passenger or at mines engi on the back