Vehicles & Vehicle Combat

[Alluvian_Est-Endrati]

Naturally at this point the inclusion of vehicles in the game is a matter for pure speculation, as it is with many things. The implementation of vehicles is, after all, largely dependent (as to whether it should be done or how) on what all the game itself is going to be like.

At the most basic level, there are two fundamental ways to implement vehicles for a potential game as this. The first would be the "pure mount" option of course. For this, the vehicles themselves would serve as little more than a conveyance, a means to making travel easier. Even at this level of implementation, there are still various degrees of utility that might exist for vehicles, be they single-character transports or multiple-character.

On the more advanced side of the spectrum, vehicles could also exist as an additive degree of complexity to combat. Many vehicles in 40K could fill this sort of role well. Once again the distinction between single-character vehicles and multi-character could exist. Things could become quite interesting indeed in a multi-person vehicle with one individual driving/piloting and the others either manning weapons or preparing to disembark.

The other issue to consider is that of vehicle access. I am of the opinion that some form of vehicle (or transport enhancement) should be availiable to just about everyone on an individual basis. However I also think that larger vehicles (which could also serve as transports) would be well worth implementing as well. Such vehicles could either be availiable entirely to individuals, or such things could instead be the province of larger groups (guilds perhaps) to allow them to transport their members into battle in an orderly fashion.

[Wrayth]

MMO creators are leery of vehicle implementation, as travel is a very easy timesink

On the other hand, they are obviously popular. They're also very pertinent to the setting.

I suspect that 40K will follow the current WoW example of vehicles in combat roles... it will be a distinct competitive disadvantage if they do not.

[Ard_Ead]

since they're aiming in making large scale warfare between races there must be some role where people could control a vehicle. I'm at least hoping that that there's gonna be be war-bikes and tanks at least. I would love multi roles vehicle but find that its incredibility hard for developers especially with lag from different internet speeds. just imagine they make the game with apocalypse rules though now that would be awesome.