Railjack Solo Idea

[AreeSoothsayer]

When playing solo you are in the pilot seat with control over the front guns. The side guns are not working at all. Why not give full control over all guns to the pilot when they are not in use. When another player drops into the control seat they take control of that gun while leaving the other in the pilot's control.

Yes, I want the cool image of 6 guns firing at my control as I blast through space in my Railjack so sue me.

 

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[(XBOX)Shodian]

I'm going to assume that once we get the command intrinsic that we'll have NPCs on the side turret.

[AreeSoothsayer]

44 minutes ago, (XBOX)Shodian said:

I'm going to assume that once we get the command intrinsic that we'll have NPCs on the side turret.

Which would you prefer. Questionable AI controlled turrets on the sides or controlling all 3 sets of guns yourself.

[(XBOX)Shodian]

2 hours ago, AreeSoothsayer said:

Which would you prefer. Questionable AI controlled turrets on the sides or controlling all 3 sets of guns yourself.

Well considering I'm good at the game and don't need my side turrets to win ima say AI controlled turrets.

[AreeSoothsayer]

42 minutes ago, (XBOX)Shodian said:

Well considering I'm good at the game and don't need my side turrets to win ima say AI controlled turrets.

I'm not talking win or lose. I'm talking fun and woohoo. Ya know, like the Last Starfighter Death Blossom.

[(XBOX)Shodian]

3 minutes ago, AreeSoothsayer said:

I'm not talking win or lose. I'm talking fun and woohoo. Ya know, like the Last Starfighter Death Blossom.

Then find someone else to piolet or just do what I do, fly into the center of the map and then use side guns. 

[Kaggelos]

14 hours ago, AreeSoothsayer said:

I'm talking fun and woohoo.

Sign me up! Fun all the way!

[Steel_Rook]

Personally, I'd rather have AI gunners using the side guns than having the pilot fire all of them, and for a few reasons:

• If the pilot controls all three guns, then other people sitting on the side guns reduces the pilot's DPS substantially. We already have players yelling at each other to stop firing the side guns, we don't need more of that.
• It removes a possible hook for AI crews, which are presumably still coming.
• It makes the side guns even more pointless than they already are, since it just means the pilot has three times the main gun.
• It's going to look like ass due to the way Railjack camera projection works. The view out of all the windows is centred somewhere just in front of the Archwing Slingshot and ALL of the windows and ALL of the side guns fire from there. You won't get a main gun firing in the middle and two more firing from the side. You'll get three guns firing in-line in the middle.

I'm all for making Railjack more solo-friendly, but I'd rather do this by allowing players to automate some systems rather than just removing them. At the end of the day, the Railjack is a Corvette size ship. I'd rather retain its feeling of size and complexity than make it feel more like a fighter.

[Zairilia]

I'd much prefer AI operating them so I could feel it's somewhat safer to leave the ship with nobody in it.  Command intrinsics are presumably still coming, so maybe controlling the side guns will part of that.

[matt11mz]

As someone with moderate-to-poor aim, AI turrets alongside my pilot turrets would be a godsend. If you control all turrets, then you get powerful attacks, but only against one enemy. If you have AI side gunners, you can focus down enemies while the AI potentially covers your flanks. In terms of fun, if the AI is controlled with the command intrinsics, then I'd argue it would be more fun to order your crewmates around as their captain, rather than a boring DPS boost.

[Twilight-Knight]

My vote for AI, but focus fires do tempting.

[AreeSoothsayer]

Pilot Gun Control

Crew Gunner Control

Manual Gun Control

 

Just have all 3 options, pick what you like to use.

[MonsterOfMyOwn]

Tbh railjack is just forced multi with way too long grind to get 10 in all intrinsics.

To solo railjack I just need more efficient ways to take out crewships when playing alone. So I rather need access to the big gun as a pilot rather than side turrets.

[fr4gb4ll]

On 2020-11-09 at 8:15 PM, (XBOX)Shodian said:

I'm going to assume that once we get the command intrinsic that we'll have NPCs on the side turret.

...who are more likely than not won't hit ѕhit but at least won't waste our missiles ^^)   but yes, why else did we converted all those damn lichs? for their 'help' in normal missions is more like a joke imo... i gt the feeling they make fun of me when only AFTER i went down they arrive, don't doing much and then taking their leaves again.

[fr4gb4ll]

On 2020-11-13 at 8:42 AM, MonsterOfMyOwn said:

To solo railjack I just need more efficient ways to take out crewships when playing alone. So I rather need access to the big gun as a pilot rather than side turrets.

that and pilot access to the forge too - via tac-screen if possible. when flying solo, i usually have toput the ship into stealth mode whenever i want to use the forward cannon (well, not really much for that), deal with boarding parties, use the catapult or the forge.

if someone would try to sell me a spaceship concept like our railjack, i would roll on the floor laughing and then kick their arses out of my office... no engineer with a little shame left would design such impractible vehicle.