SRV Should be remotely deployable whilst on-foot.

Samoth Infernus · Apr 16, 2021

It could be much better than getting in ship and deploying with the srv afterwards.

We can dismiss the ship remotely to orbit so ships are capable of doing some things remotely.
I think we should be able to deploy the srv whilst on-foot and nearby the ship. While the ship is on the ground of course. Not FLYING by itself.
It could be easier and less time consuming than getting back in to the ship and deploying again with the srv.

What do you guys think about it?

Edit: Added some details to be clear.

JTFireblaze · Apr 16, 2021

Ship flies overhead and airdrops your buggy near your locations? Hell yeah!

Conch · Apr 16, 2021

Orbital drop? yes, all of my yes! ill get my ODST helmet rdy

Samoth Infernus · Apr 16, 2021

No I'm not talking about orbital srv drops but it would be cool tho. I was saying that when I'm on foot and the ship is landed, we should be able to remotely trigger the ship to deploy the srv. I think it should be a thing.

JTFireblaze · Apr 16, 2021

I don't think an SRVs thrusters would be strong enough to decelerate from an orbital drop tbh. Maybe that's what all the SRV crash sites are in game...

Tucanpub · Apr 16, 2021

Samoth Infernus said:
It could be much better than getting in ship and deploying with the srv afterwards.

We can dismiss the ship remotely to orbit so ships are capable of doing some things remotely.
I think we should be able to deploy the srv whilst on-foot and nearby the ship. While the ship is on the ground of course. Not FLYING by itself.
It could be easier and less time consuming than getting back in to the ship and deploying again with the srv.

What do you guys think about it?

Edit: Added some details to be clear.

I had the same idea about a recall for srv's also you be walking so far and running low on oxy and power or you just don't want to walk all the way back just call up the srv to come to you just like the ship.

John Vedel · Apr 18, 2021

I have suggested a fighter which work like a srv for spot where big ship can't land.

Dixieman58 · Apr 18, 2021

Having ship launched fighters with landing gear would be a great addition to the game. Of course you would have to bring your ship into the atmosphere (if it has one) then launch into your fighter to descend to the ground and land. There would be limitations to this, as you would not be able to use your SRV, but in some cases, if you plan on exploring an area on foot, having the ability to get to more "rocky" or "geologically challenged" areas would be more efficient this way. Now I know that your fighter uses "telepresence technology" meaning your are not physically in the ship, but there is a cockpit and chair with controls, etc., so I don't see why using it in "telepresence" or "physical" mode would or could not be possible. In addition to this, an "exploration only" type SLF could be added for this purpose.

JTFireblaze · Apr 18, 2021

Dixieman58 said:
Having ship launched fighters with landing gear would be a great addition to the game. Of course you would have to bring your ship into the atmosphere (if it has one) then launch into your fighter to descend to the ground and land. There would be limitations to this, as you would not be able to use your SRV, but in some cases, if you plan on exploring an area on foot, having the ability to get to more "rocky" or "geologically challenged" areas would be more efficient this way. Now I know that your fighter uses "telepresence technology" meaning your are not physically in the ship, but there is a cockpit and chair with controls, etc., so I don't see why using it in "telepresence" or "physical" mode would or could not be possible. In addition to this, an "exploration only" type SLF could be added for this purpose.

I'm pretty sure the fighters do have landing gear. They have them in the Arx store at least.

Being able to select telepresence or physical mode - much like how you pick between Physical Multicrew or Telepresence Multicrew could be good. So if you're in a wing/space/combat situ you can be in tele-SLF. But exploring go physical and dismiss the mothership.

(Or... just do away with telepresence and just treat it as a gameplay necessity when it comes to respawns. Die in your fighter, respawn at the mothership...)

Dixieman58 · Apr 18, 2021

JTFireblaze said:
I'm pretty sure the fighters do have landing gear. They have them in the Arx store at least.

Being able to select telepresence or physical mode - much like how you pick between Physical Multicrew or Telepresence Multicrew could be good. So if you're in a wing/space/combat situ you can be in tele-SLF. But exploring go physical and dismiss the mothership.

(Or... just do away with telepresence and just treat it as a gameplay necessity when it comes to respawns. Die in your fighter, respawn at the mothership...)

Well whether they do or not, they are not deployable outside of the arx store. And telepresence should definitely stay, getting your SLF destroyed in the heat of battle and being able to immediately take back control of the mothership is crucial to keep yourself from actually seeing a re-buy screen.

On another note, I would think an "exploration SLF" would have a bubble type cockpit with all glass would make it easy to spot flora, POI's, etc. since you have to quite close to the surface in order to see them. And an SRV-type wave scanner to point you in the direction of such POI's considering once you fly down from orbit, you can no longer access the "heat-map" to see where they are.

JTFireblaze · Apr 19, 2021

Dixieman58 said:
Well whether they do or not, they are not deployable outside of the arx store. And telepresence should definitely stay, getting your SLF destroyed in the heat of battle and being able to immediately take back control of the mothership is crucial to keep yourself from actually seeing a re-buy screen.

On another note, I would think an "exploration SLF" would have a bubble type cockpit with all glass would make it easy to spot flora, POI's, etc. since you have to quite close to the surface in order to see them. And an SRV-type wave scanner to point you in the direction of such POI's considering once you fly down from orbit, you can no longer access the "heat-map" to see where they are.

I only meant the model supports landing gear, I assume there is an animation of some kind too. But yes, they could or should be landable outside of the arx store.

I just mean with the telepresence stuff it should be less of a consideration, and we should just go with gameplay. If you're in a fighter and the mothership is still in the field when you explode you respawn instantly into the mothership as it works now. If you've dismissed the mothership and are in an exploring mood, when your fighter gets blown up you respawn in your mothership. Having to decide whether to go in to "telepresence" or "physical" seems like an unnecessary step in my opinion.

Exploration bubble cockpit fighter? Yes please. Basically an SRV with thrusters. Actually, wasn't there that concept art for something like this, although I think it was more like a mining/cargo SLF.