If we cant hack vehicles, we should be able to hack Soldierss

[Dreamcast]

So they are saying no hacking vehicles because the textures cost too much.


Well how about hacking actual soldiers?


First of all it should be hard to do, but possible and it should be only done by infiltrators.



This is my vision of this.

First of all this only works on targets who are still for sometime like snipers,engineers repairing, anybody who is still......The hacking will either be the same way you hack vehicles in PS1, or it will include some sort of stealth animation of requiring to get to position and grappling the unsuspected soldier....This itself could require skill so the person getting attacked can defend himself and prevent being hacked and the hacker if good can actually hack him faster.

Either way if the hacker is succesful, it should take him some time, lets say 20-30 seconds normally.




Anyways once the hacker hacks the person, he has 30 seconds(or more) for the hack soldier to not get detected(he can kill,chat,give orders etc without suspicion at this time), once he does get detected...The hacked soldier can now chat and call his buddies, and he will show up as an enemy now with some cosmic changes like red eyes or subtle texture changes....Turrets and detectors will show him as an enemy also.

Meanwhile the hacker using the hacked body, will stay in a cloak state but the cloak state will eventually run out and the hacked body will eventually die or get unhacked.


Anyways it should be part of the skill tree and be one of the elite skills on the infiltrator side....Now I know Planetside doesn't want the slow down of gameplay so hacking somebody should be very difficult to pull off....


Please put it, I wanna hack NC soldiers and backstab people.

[xcel]

This...doesn't make sense.

[Malorn]

I think bronze is back.

[Firefly]

Nope, Dreamcast used to be called Planetside. Two separate posters.

And now, back on topic.





HACK THE PLANET!

[Death2All]

If I hack you can I make you kill yourself so you stop posting?

[Crazyduckling]

If you want to hack NC, why don't you just play NC? :D

I just can't see this working at all. This idea just kinda makes me go 'lol wut?'.

Impersonating someone, and being able to chat as that person, could have serious consequences for that person.

[Malorn]

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[Dreamcast]

If you want to hack NC, why don't you just play NC? :D

I just can't see this working at all. This idea just kinda makes me go 'lol wut?'.

Impersonating someone, and being able to chat as that person, could have serious consequences for that person.

I thought other MMOs already already had this idea of taking over enemy players....


I can see this working, is just like hacking vehicles.


Well you can impersonate that person for like 30 seconds, I mean is not that much time....but if you could make some critical decision that will be awesome but the likeliness of that happen is really not much....Mostly hacking somebody will be to kill.

[DashRev]

he will show up as an enemy now with some cosmic changes

If we hack an enemy, can we make him become one with all things?

[MgFalcon]

Well you can impersonate that person for like 30 seconds, I mean is not that much time....but if you could make some critical decision that will be awesome but the likeliness of that happen is really not much....Mostly hacking somebody will be to kill.

*Engineers voice* The Spy is a Spy!

[Dreamcast]

If we hack an enemy, can we make him become one with all things?

huh? like use enemy vehicles?....maybe not, people will cry about it

[Soothsayer]

what about trees? I need dev confirmation that we will be able to hack trees...

[opticalshadow]

dumb idea, but i also think their reasoning for not letting us hack vehicles are stupid aswell.

[Galapogos]

what about trees? I need dev confirmation that we will be able to hack trees...

If one hacked said tree, would they get all of the kills from people crashing into it?

[SavageB]

First thing I would do if this is implemented ( which it wont be ) Is hack you Dream and make you run across the CY naked :D

Dirty streaker.

[Bags]

Wait, you mean this isn't a joke?

[PsychoXR-20]

Anyways once the hacker hacks the person, he has 30 seconds(or more) for the hack soldier to not get detected(he can kill,chat,give orders etc without suspicion at this time), once he does get detected...The hacked soldier can now chat and call his buddies, and he will show up as an enemy now with some cosmic changes like red eyes or subtle texture changes....Turrets and detectors will show him as an enemy also.

And what happens when said player starts cussing out their outfit, yelling at their friends, and spamming chat, TKing, getting grief.

People already do this stuff when its their ass on the line, imagine doing it when it's someone else's ass on the line.

When's the last time you believed the "that was my brother" excuse?

[p0intman]

So they are saying no hacking vehicles because the textures cost too much.


Well how about hacking actual soldiers?




No.

[Firefly]

I'm sorry, this is the dumbest fucking idea I've ever heard for Planetside. Agent Smith Matrix bullshit. I can't even think of a suitable alternative or work-around. No redeeming value, nothing to even consider salvaging.

Just... No. :doh:

[ShowNoMercy]

pretty damn stupid to be honest. It doesn't even make sense in context of the game? I mean some sort of neural interface tool? whaat? next thing you know players will be getting sex changes! then PS2 is doomed.

[Raymac]

It sounds like a loooooooooong way to go just to kill someone. I mean you go through all the trouble to hack the person, like a sniper on a hill all by themselves, just so they can get killed by someone on their team?

Now, if you hack the soldier, then you get to go run around as them for a limited amount of time then at the end of that time you blow up jihad-style, then maybe, maybe I could see something like that as an update down the line, but the whole thing sounds a little silly.

[basti]

Hacking usually means uploading a Virus in a system.
Now, if i upload a virus in a person, i wont be able to control them. They would just get diarrhea.

[Soothsayer]

Hacking usually means uploading a Virus in a system.
Now, if i upload a virus in a person, i wont be able to control them. They would just get diarrhea.

Yes, there are some major balance issues in question here... Imagine if an entire defense force was sitting on the john.. attackers could just walk right in and cap...

[Evilmp]

First thing I would do if this is implemented ( which it wont be ) Is hack you Dream and make you run across the CY naked :D

Dirty streaker.

Does this mean we can disrobe our characters and fight in our undies?

I would be for that.

[headcrab13]

If we hack an enemy, can we make him become one with all things?

Hah, I see what you did there!

-HC13

[puykonig]

What we cant hack vehicles!!! hmmmm

[Gogita]

Seriously, Dreamcast/Planetside....
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[cashfoyogash]

dreamcast = bronzelemental

[psychosiszz]

This is a good idea imo, But there should be an option to make it last 1-2hours so I can RP Avatar in PS2.