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[evil713]

odd thought occured to me. What if all PvE forces were tanks/infantry and all PvP forces were Mechwarriors?

following that thought, if it were so how would you feel going into battle with bot infantry and bot tanks supporting you?

[ForeverN00b]

I can play PvE for free, it's called MW4. Terrible idea, I motion we don't waste the devs time programming an AI that the game doesn't need.

[Gorith]

evil713, on 01 July 2012 - 05:33 PM, said:

odd thought occured to me. What if all PvE forces were tanks/infantry and all PvP forces were Mechwarriors?

following that thought, if it were so how would you feel going into battle with bot infantry and bot tanks supporting you?

Kinda like creeps in moba games?

Escort:
In this game varient every 2 minutes a wave of increasingly more powerfull units spawn and go to attack your enemies base First team to destroy either the enemy HQ or run the opponent out of mechs wins.

[Der Zivilist]

I have nothing against PvE content, and I have nothing against PvP content.

Mechs are Mechs, and my enemies shall explode regardless of whether their pilot is sentient or artificial

[Walter Soebchak]

I personally would like to see PvE implemented down the road. It would be nice to see be able to co-op through major story points. I think this has been discussed previously.

[AtomicArmadillo]

Yes this is old and has been discussed.

[Wildcat]

Yes to PvE... the MW Map is far tooo massive not to have PvE in game.... PVE will open alot of other opportunities and many possibilities for the game

The Devs will need PVE for their Clanners Invasion Plans I would suspect...

[Khaine AT]

personnaly i woud like the Idea of support of KI.. in Operation Flashpoint and Armed Assault u have sometimes support from KI Troops too and is a nice thing... but as usual it depends on how they implented this "feature"

[Troopersledge]

I think PVE could be fun if it was kept to just the support elements since this is about mechwarriors online. later on once the clan invasion begins it would be fun to re-enact the mechwarrior 3 intro

[Whiski]

PvE would also open itself up to players who prefer PvE rather than PvP, or a combination of both. I would enjoy some PvE, not only for practice but for a change of pace at times. Variety is a good thing.

[Nufsed]

Yes

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

ForeverN00b, on 01 July 2012 - 06:03 PM, said:

I can play PvE for free, it's called MW4. Terrible idea, I motion we don't waste the devs time programming an AI that the game doesn't need.

The game does need them. A base doesn't really feel like a base without at least having some kind of turrets. And don't tell me it takes a lot of programming to code a turret that never moves and simply fires at enemies within range. They could code that in their sleep. MW4 btw also has no Co Op to its missions at all and the campaign+game engine is a decade old.

[famguy1]

Whiski, on 02 July 2012 - 04:48 AM, said:

PvE would also open itself up to players who prefer PvE rather than PvP, or a combination of both. I would enjoy some PvE, not only for practice but for a change of pace at times. Variety is a good thing.

Bots in training mode would be quite good, but i don't think many people would like it in PvP. Also there could be an Instant Action mode, like in previous MechWarrior games. One problem is that AI takes time to program and everyone wants to play it ASAP. I think that after the game is fully released, there would be some PvE mode. Maybe something like in Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament, where you can play offline with bots.

[mr Zonke]

If they add pve content down the road (which I very much hope they do for the clan invasions (it would be hard to incentivise players to play like clan mechwarriors do in the lore)), AI support units in some pvp modes would be awesome me thinks. Especially if those AI support units were controlled by a player mechcommander style.
But let them do the matches well first.

[Kenyon Burguess]

in small doses, AI would be ok to add to a mission. protect vehicle X on route would be fun. spend 20 minutes mowing down helicopters and turrents like MW4, not fun.

[Valkeminator]

Should put a poll on this... I don't mind PVE as long as its implemented properly. More stuff to blow up is a good thing, maybe consider giant boss stages (I'm thinking of co-op here), or the aforementioned escort missions. But 'Mech enemies should not be an AI affair, if there's any PVE element it would be good if its done by unplayable units like tanks or something like that.

But if any the PVE should be a co-op mission kind of thing in my opinion.

[mr Zonke]

Valkeminator, on 02 July 2012 - 05:28 AM, said:

Should put a poll on this... I don't mind PVE as long as its implemented properly. More stuff to blow up is a good thing, maybe consider giant boss stages (I'm thinking of co-op here), or the aforementioned escort missions. But 'Mech enemies should not be an AI affair, if there's any PVE element it would be good if its done by unplayable units like tanks or something like that.

But if any the PVE should be a co-op mission kind of thing in my opinion.

Yes! Coop missions I would definetly pay for, since that is after all where we all come from with the old mechwarrior games...

Edit: Better yet would be a powerful mission editor offcourse, like pretty much all flightsims have..

Edited by mr Zonke, 02 July 2012 - 05:32 AM.

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

We should just get both. You need bots to "try" to defend bases anyway even in PvE matches(tanks, turrets, etc) and a Co Op Vs Clan A.I mode would rock. There's no reason this has to be strictly PvP. Ignore the PvP fanboys. I like PvP just as much, I was a professional WoW PvPer for years, but there's no reason we can't have both. I agree PvP should be the focus and PvE should be secondary... but secondary doesn't mean non-existent. I would LOVE some fully Co Op missions that feature a full player team(ie 4-8 players) in campaign style missions.

Edited by Bluten, 02 July 2012 - 05:35 AM.

[Delta Red]

I would be fine with it and might even enjoy it in a seperate mode.

[HelixNL]

It would be interesting to have this game mixed with both PvP and PvE matches.
Ive experienced the same thing in Exteel where you would fight wave after wave just to protect your base or to end up in a Boss battle.

Also NPC`s to practice with would be great, because im absolutely sure that i will miss about 7 out of 10 shots when fighting against someone.