Can you charge the Hover Pack with batteries?

[GIGGLESPOOPY]

It would be quite useful if you can, if not, Coffee Stain should add it.

[Zak]

No, you can't and I doubt the devs would ever consider doing this. The idea is to keep it limited so it requires proximity to power poles. With batteries, it would become an unlimited, go-anywhere transportation method.

[Kage Goomba]

The hoverpack is powered like any other building - and its 100MW's the entire time you are wearing it.

Which renders your question moot.

[Huren Ogeko]

you would have to carry around an entire battery building with you to make that work.

[Bobucles]

The hoverpack can not use fuel, it can not use batteries.
It connects to the nearest power pole or plug or some end of a railroad track. If that nearest node has no power, too bad! It does not attach to power lines, so it can lose power in between two large poles. It needs 100MW to function and will trip the grid if the grid can't handle it. At this point, every single grid in your base should have big batteries attached to handle sudden grid load.
If the hoverpack runs out of energy, it has a last ditch glide mode to land safely.

[Fanger]

Originally posted by Zak:

No, you can't and I doubt the devs would ever consider doing this. The idea is to keep it limited so it requires proximity to power poles. With batteries, it would become an unlimited, go-anywhere transportation method.

I just lay poles as I go exploring. Basically unlimited now with just a minor inconvenience

[Twelvefield]

Originally posted by Bobucles:

If the hoverpack runs out of energy, it has a last ditch glide mode to land safely.

This part makes me happy that third-person view is rare. Last ditch glide mode is me flapping my arms like Big Bird, and flying about as well.

Laying out poles as you fly works really well, I think. Chances are, you're going to need to plug into something in the pink jungle sooner or later, even if all it is is a giant spider nest, to make it glow in the dark (more).

Still, you can make a car. And you can make the Pioneer fly. You can load her up with a couple thousand bags of cement, and she still lifts off. So, why can't we have a flying car? Gaff's Spinner would be AOK, but a Snowspeeder with a harpoon would make land whale encounters a little more interesting.

And why would you put a harpoon on a Snowspeeder?? That should have been a fast, noisy way to snap the aft half of the machine away and get rid of Dak.

[Redlegoguy1]

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

you would have to carry around an entire battery building with you to make that work.

My initial assumption on this was about the same, but it looks like I actually got it backwards. Batteries hold 6000 MJ, and at a consumption of 100 MW, that's only 1 battery every minute. A single stack of batteries would keep you going for more than 3 whole hours, which is probably still super unbalanced, just in the opposite direction.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Twelvefield:

Originally posted by Bobucles:

If the hoverpack runs out of energy, it has a last ditch glide mode to land safely.

This part makes me happy that third-person view is rare. Last ditch glide mode is me flapping my arms like Big Bird, and flying about as well.

Hate to burst your bubble - but the only time I've seen 3rd person view is when I'm in a Hypertube - hoverpack - when it's out of range of power - just simply sputters off. That's it.

Just hold spacebar down (I think) and it will slowly glide you to the ground.

[Fenix]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Hate to burst your bubble - but the only time I've seen 3rd person view is when I'm in a Hypertube - hoverpack - when it's out of range of power - just simply sputters off. That's it.
Just hold spacebar down (I think) and it will slowly glide you to the ground.

You misread Twelve's Comment, They said were glad it wasn't 3rd person, and it's tap space.
3rd Person happens on vehicles, The cube and the factory cart you can see yourself, and death.... I also think if you ragdoll but don't die too.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Fenix:

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Hate to burst your bubble - but the only time I've seen 3rd person view is when I'm in a Hypertube - hoverpack - when it's out of range of power - just simply sputters off. That's it.
Just hold spacebar down (I think) and it will slowly glide you to the ground.

You misread Twelve's Comment, They said were glad it wasn't 3rd person, and it's tap space.
3rd Person happens ob vehicles, The cube and the factory cart you can she yourself, and death.... I also think if you ragdoll but don't die too.

Fair enough. :)

[Twelvefield]

Nothing repairs burst bubbles.

[xX10]

Batteries are 100% useless, just another point that proves 1.N0 is a joke. It'd be cool to have a use for them. Make the hover faster on batteries to fly around the hideously humongous map. I've said this 1000 times, but the devs are stuck on FPS movement, so we are def not gonna get that...even when it's illogical not too.

This game is painful to play. It's like it's designed by a turtle...or a snail. That is the pace we must do everything. It's a 6 hr game, stretched over 300 hr because of moving slowly here and there. Very unsatisfactory indeed.

I wanna see that hover burn...it's too slow.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by xX10:

Batteries are 100% useless, just another point that proves 1.N0 is a joke. It'd be cool to have a use for them. Make the hover faster on batteries to fly around the hideously humongous map. I've said this 1000 times, but the devs are stuck on FPS movement, so we are def not gonna get that...even when it's illogical not too.

This game is painful to play. It's like it's designed by a turtle...or a snail. That is the pace we must do everything. It's a 6 hr game, stretched over 300 hr because of moving slowly here and there. Very unsatisfactory indeed.

I wanna see that hover burn...it's too slow.

Just can't help yourself can you?

[Huren Ogeko]

I dont have an issue moving around fast.
as long as you dont walk everywhere I dontsee the issue.
between my jet pack and hypertube cannons I can anywhere I want anytime I want and pretty quickly as well.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

I dont have an issue moving around fast.
as long as you dont walk everywhere I dontsee the issue.
between my jet pack and hypertube cannons I can anywhere I want anytime I want and pretty quickly as well.

Ditto - Jetpack with Turbofuel for tall leaps - parachute for slow fall - hoverpack for inspection/construction and tactical hunting.

Not done the cannon thing - but I respect it.