Wow, I've had a really similar idea on the weekend. I like the idea of having transports (aircraft or ground vehicles) dropping the players into the zones. If implemented well thought through, it might even be reusable if they start to work more towards an open world. In the end I scrapped and didn't post what I though about, because I'm quite sure the devs already have a concept they are working towards. It'd be really nice if the devs communicated a bit more open what they have in mind for the future, because otherwise it's hard for the community to contribute their ideas. There's no point in working out ideas and posting them on the forums, if the devs already have a concept they stick to. In the end, it will just stay a dusty post on the forum
Had the exact same thing! I was just mucking around in the garrison and ended up looking at the aesthetics of the stormhawk for 15mins!!! Fact that there is a Stormhawk model and also a new ork version of it, which has taken time out of development to be created just to be sitting in a random spot gives me faith they will be used, and hopefully like OP has described.
Much as I dislike referencing Space Marine I did like how when you spawned back in it was as if you were being teleported down into the battle, complete with the lighting crackle and flare right before you go charging back into the action. Maybe could have something like that on the respawns? Have an opening sequence of the Marines being deployed, setting up a teleport homer, then further reinforcements are zapped in. Eldar could have a webway effect, Orks their usual green teleporta effect, Chaos have a little warp hiss, things like that.
I mean hell they can literally just have our character autorun out of a drop pod, thunderhawk, rok, webway gate, warp portal, etc. and it would be more immersive than now. Spawning on points would be a bit more difficult unless when we take points over that architecture also pops up near it. Home spawns = Thunderhawks, large roks, Full sized webway gates, massive chaos warp portal Objective spawns = Drop pod, smaller roks, infantry sized webway gates, warp rift tears open and chaos walks out (or drop pods too for them) Vehicle spawn - same ol, same ol.
I kinda feel that way as well, they are out of time which in production is money for further development so what we see if likely 90% of what we will get by "launch" Fortunately if they get a spike in sales they can keep production rolling for patches and content for as long as the spice flows. Probably a few years of success to see something resembling an mmo with immersive elements.
