126696-revival-of-hoverboard-physics

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Are there any plans to bring back hoverboard physics that we saw in beta?
I am not clear on the reason why they were removed but I would love to have them added back in the game. 
 
.. This kind of reminds me of the removal of Eve Online's engine trails. (We got them back a few years later)
 
I rolled past this thread which is why I wanted to make a new one: https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/99247-hoverboard-physics-look-at-what-carbine-threw-away/
 
Edit: Quoting the first post of linked thread:
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Hoverboards look cool, they're obtainable with a variety of currency, and they can go over water. What's not to love about them?
 
...Oh, right. Their physics.
 
Despite supposedly being a futuristic skateboard, they behave in ways that aren't going to surprise anyone. Press W, they move forward. Release W, they stop...instantly. There's no buildup of speed, there's no braking process. Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Go ahead, tap and release W multiple times and watch your character move forward then swing the board to the side to cancel out inertia that doesn't exist. Watch them move forward with the board to the upper right, because cool physics are overrated.
 
Watch this. Look at how they lean into their turns and then actually get airtime off a jump. That looks like a hoverboard I want to play around with! Heck, I'd go back to zones and poke around for all of the missing lore - not because I like lore - but because I'd want an excuse to go through every zone and see what I could ramp. Look at this. That's beta footage of someone slamming themselves into a wall while on a hoverboard and taking damage. That's not in the game. Why? I guess Boring McBorePants wanted a unique mount that behaved exactly like every other mount, and that's exactly what we have. Hoverboards? No. We have reskins of the same basic mount construct that every other mount in the game uses, with a "go over water" flag enabled. Thrilling!
 
Lastly, check out these images. Know what they are? A skate park that was made for the real hoverboard physics. I posted screenshots of the jumps to show that we can get about halfway there with the current system. I'm level 34, so I don't have access to the 15% mount speed increase, but I don't think that's going to make a difference...also, this is a level 28 area. We could have been flying off of ramps in a military base overrun by squirg zombies...but all we get is disappointment and a glance at what should have been.
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Yeah, it seems like those physics are still in place, at least on some scale, in those Explorer flags you can run through to pick up speed. You get a side to side sort of slide effect, and running up ramps will send you launching off the end.
 
I'd love it if that was on hoverboards.	
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			I'm all for watching Aurin fly off cliffs to their death. Make it so!	
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			I believe they were removed because they would cause you to die frequently and hilariously while riding your hoverboard. The physics never quite jived with the falling damage.	
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The physics in beta were terrible. Beyond terrible. You took fall damage from riding over normal surfaces, slipped around like everything was a sheet of ice, and response/control felt like crap. The patch where they fixed movement and mounts was like angels came down from the heavens and sang us songs of glory.
 
I have one word tot his request: Nope. (nope.nope.nope.)  :P	
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The physics in beta were terrible. Beyond terrible. You took fall damage from riding over normal surfaces, slipped around like everything was a sheet of ice, and response/control felt like crap. The patch where they fixed movement and mounts was like angels came down from the heavens and sang us songs of glory.
 
I have one word tot his request: Nope. (nope.nope.nope.) :P
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I don't remember much from the dark days, mostly because my potato couldn't run the CBT version of the game very well. Wasn't there also a problem where you could hit a wall and die while you were mounted?
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			There actually is a skate park somewhere in the open world... can't remember exactly where though.	
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I don't remember much from the dark days, mostly because my potato couldn't run the CBT version of the game very well. Wasn't there also a problem where you could hit a wall and die while you were mounted?
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The physics in beta were terrible. Beyond terrible. You took fall damage from riding over normal surfaces, slipped around like everything was a sheet of ice, and response/control felt like crap. The patch where they fixed movement and mounts was like angels came down from the heavens and sang us songs of glory.
 
I have one word tot his request: Nope. (nope.nope.nope.)  :P
 
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I cant image that if it were to be reimplemented it would show up unrefined. Not asking for an unfinished product here.
Other then bugs (it sounds like you saw) in beta, are there other reasons why you are against this?
 
I would hate to think that people believe I want to bring buggy content in the game.
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			I would offer up an idea to implement a switch. The aforementioned explorer flags that stack up and let you slide around as though you are on ice, I think would be a cool feature that I could turn on/off in the open world at my own risk. I want to have to counter-steer on a hoverboard when I'm going too fast. Also, I would argue that if you didn't like the "ice" mechanics, then simply don't drive at full speed, or sprint, on the hoverboard. 	
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 I would argue that if you didn't like the "ice" mechanics, then simply don't drive at full speed, or sprint, on the hoverboard. 
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Hover rollers and tricks?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ8WVB4H6Rc	
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			Woot! THIS is how the hoverboards should work. Why don't just make them like this and turn them into mounts to move outside the city, fast, harder to control, possibility to fall? While normal mounts safe to show off and move in the cities?	
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Hoverboard physics you say?
 
I vote for this.
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/112963-the-opportunity-that-carbine-has-and-should-jump-on/
 
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Carbine you have a massive opportunity here
Please. Make it happen.
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Hoverboard physics you say?
 
I vote for this.
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/112963-the-opportunity-that-carbine-has-and-should-jump-on/
 
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Rollerblades...?
 
ROLLERBLADES!
 
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