Thread: Hijacking vehicles

You've all played Halo - you know what I'm talking about. Spurred by Zephy's suggestion in the grapple hook thread, I think it would be *EPIC* if you could implement a system for hijacking vehicles, either ? la Halo 2/3, or in some other way (make it very possible to shoot/kill drivers, allow a grapple hook to attach to the underside of air ships so that the player could climb up - then shoot the driver - or... something). Allowing the player to shoot the driver would be the easiest to implement I would have thought, but the Halo style hijacking would be the most fun for players.

I played Mercenaries more, and the Hijacking in that was great. Also in Just Cause. Look up videos of those.

Just Cause even has an awesome grappling gun.

It wouldn't be possible to climb up onto a ship then shoot the driver, as that would require all vehicles to have full interiors and people to be able to move around them when they are moving and we all know what happens when people normally try that.

I like the idea of hijacking though, if we have the ability to steel vehicles others are using or we just make it so people can take the opposite teams vehicles is another matter.

One option would be to have a light unit, like NoDe suggested in the Grappling hook thread, that has the ability to steal vehicles as they can read the language/have special training. This would mean players who want to steal vehicles can, they might have to shoot out the driver first....but they could steal it afterwards.

And good luck on shooting out the driver of a tank...

Some vehicles should be uhh... "Hijack-resistent" ... Or "un-hijackable" (WTF?)

Anyway, In real life, there is no way to Hijack a tank, is it? I suppose you cant open up the "Door" from the outside?
Plus, making every vehicle Hijackable wouldn't be that fun, i think....

I agree some vehicles are almost impossible to hi-jack. Air-Destroyers would be a nightmare, all those ladders and passageways... you could steal an unattended one but not hi-jack.

agreed... nice idea though, I liked hijacking the halo 2 tank.

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On the other hand, someone with a pick-axe or anything which allows a lot of force to be applied to an area could punch through the thin metal used on tank hatches, to shoot the gunner or lob in a grenade.

I like the idea of being able to hijack tanks, or at least jump on them.* Tanks are too good in close quarters in most games, while one of the nice things about them in Halo is that you don't take them into areas with overhangs or down narrow pathways.

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As Traction Wars doesnt currently have any ground armour this is all pretty academic. The main area this would apply is airships. Which have glass windows anyway so it would be pretty easy to shoot the pilot.

I still like the idea of having ground vehicles, for the green storm at least...