This is all great, but.... The,"Bike." I know it's similar to the firefall bikes but I'm not excited about it. IMO Ember is all about moving forward and the bikes are just too, "old school" looking. I mean are the bikes for a faster mode of transportation or show case? The Firefall bikes weren't really off road friendly and I think that's kind of what you all are going for here. The huge tires, the bulky frame. If the terrain is going to be anything like Firefall then the bikes are going to end up just being show cased like in Firefall. We only really dropped them to show them off and hear the sound of the nice motor; push it a few meters at max speed then carry on gliding. Hopefully the bikes in Ember will be an extremely sufficient mode of transportation. Maybe even sufficient as gliding if not more sufficient and faster because of the engine. I would hope the bikes look more futuristic. Even resembling the mechs. A lot more sleek and not meant for off road, thus making more use of roads and highways. The roads were rarely used in Firefall. That could also introduce the need for off road vehicles, like buggies ect. but that's for another rant. Love the Firefall bike and maybe it should be exclusive but I hope there are more futuristic bikes. Like crotch rocket type. Will be upgrading my pledge asap =)
Go Ember!
Actually, the bikes were my main method of transport once I got one because
(A the gliders only got you so far
(B not everyone wanted to craft consumable glider pads when you still had a ways to travel but landed no where near a glider pad
(C heading back to a mission board from the "wilderness"
(D the two or three rechargeable glider pads that could be unlocked had a long cool down (15-45 mins)
(E Bikes could actually outpace gliders, especially if you were headed someplace with a greater altitude
Should also mention that bikes did slow down when going uphill and speed up when going downhill, making a certain route to Trans-Hub only need steering because gravity made you go faster than normal top speed. That and bikes had health, ie it getting shot enough or colliding with another high speed bike would dismount you, and it would go on it's 10 second cool down so you couldn't just speed away.