Will you be able to take enemy factions weapons?

[FraBaktos]

Will you be able to take, steal if you will weapons off of enemy corpses? I don't understand why you couldn't if you can't.

[Hamma]

Yes, when they die. The leave a "coffin" you can loot.

[FraBaktos]

So if I killed a Terran with a chaingun, and I'm vanu, I could take his chaingun?

[Hamma]

I believe so, but you would need the Vanu counterpart to that cert in order to make use of it - as i understand it.

[Styr]

:brow:

gimme yo lunch money foo

[�io]

Yeah you need the "weapon class" cert if you will. I'm wondering though how the heck will TR and NC get ammo for stolen VS weapons and vice-versa.

[Camping Carl]

Maybe they don't. :borg:

[Navaron]

You know I just realized, I've never seen this "coffin" - what's it look like? Is there a pic somewhere I've never seen?

[�io]

Uhhh gimme a sec i'll try to find it.

[Hamma]

I know there are pics around, its just a little coffin, decked out with the empire's logo and colors. :p

[Warborn]

Hopefully not shaped like a coffin. That'd look kind of cheesy.

But, it might be one of those situations where you need to see it to understand.

[Lillemanden]

Dead people will only turn into a coffin when they respawn, right?
So medics can see who to revive, and for visual pleasure by seing a TR/NC eating dirt, for a while.

[Warborn]

Hm. Would be nice if it worked like Wolfenstein. You know, when you shoot a guy and get him to 0 health, he's incapacitated and essentially mortally wounded. After a short while, he dies, if a Medic doesn't revive him. But, if you shoot him while he's incapacitated a few times, he'll die.

[Hamma]

Originally posted by Lillemanden
Dead people will only turn into a coffin when they respawn, right?
Yes. Once you choose to respawn, or the respawn timer runs out, you become a coffin that can be looted.

[Warborn]

I'm wondering though how the heck will TR and NC get ammo for stolen VS weapons and vice-versa.

Presumeably by looting the corpse where you got the gun and taking the ammunition too.

[�io]

Yeah but that will only provide a few rounds not enough to last for a few battles. Once it runs out i guess you have to run out and find more peeps using that weapon. :)

[Civilian]

The coffin -----> http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMediaPage.jsp?media_id=1634654&object_id=15582&channel_id=59&page_title=PlanetSide&adString=network%3Dign%26site%3Dpchub%26pagetype%3 Dmediaimgthin&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpc.ign.com%2Fobjects%2F015 %2F015582.html

[snipe]

from the looks, he took his pistol too

[�io]

Heh thanks, i kidna forgot about the search i was supossed to do. :D

[Navaron]

Nice find, good job. That's not nearly as lame as it sounded.

[FraBaktos]

For some reason I can't open the link to see the picture... damn computer!:mad:

[Warborn]

http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/planetside_121102_016.jpg

[CrazyMike]

Kinda of reminds me of some sort of star trek coffin. Myself I've often wondered if when you loot an enemy weapon you can reload it through the use of your own terminals. This would apply to enemy tanks and aircraft too I suppose as I assume thier ammunition supply isn't infinate.


CrazyMike

[SandTrout]

You could always grab more ammo at an equipment terminal. From the look of things, the rifles and automatic pistols use the same ammo type (9mm) and the different shotguns probably use the same ammo as well(sweeper, scatterpistol, Jackhammer).

This means that everyone can get ammo for the TR and NC weapons because they include common pool ammo types.

I'm wondering if an NC or TR can grab ammo for the VS weapons though because no common-pool weapons use energy-cells. If not, it would leave the VS at a equipment advantage because the TR and NC would have to kill more VS to get more ammo for their weapons(kind of like an addiction :devilwink)

[Khortez]

Wouldn't that be bad for the Vanu though? I mean everyone is going to be actively attacking them just to get ammo. Hell, if that did happen you'd probably see them just throw ammo out and see if the TR and NC leave with the spoils and leave them alone.

[SandTrout]

Nah, killing Vanu is fun enough, its just it will become a dependancy.