New tweet.. got stealth?

[SuperMorto]

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg876/scaled.php?tn=0&server=876&filename=jz0fu.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

clearly you have not! ;)

Updated with greywolves image too :

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg644/scaled.php?tn=0&server=644&filename=zzryv.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

[Graywolves]

http://yfrog.com/hwzzryvj

posted this too

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/viewer.php?img_id=1866
http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/main/psnext/twitter/20120130_4f26ef7476546.jpg


http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/viewer.php?img_id=1867
http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/main/psnext/twitter/20120130_4f26efbd7e2e8.jpg

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/viewer.php?img_id=1868
http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/main/psnext/twitter/20120130_4f26f2c590caa.jpg

[Tikuto]

"Oooh.. shit." O_

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zxsbVMrOUNw/THM4cOEyclI/AAAAAAAAECg/7ZPaYK47U0o/s1600/37392.jpg

[BlazingSun]

It's the Predator!

[Hmr85]

looks good, I'm digging that second shot with the bio in the back ground and yes I see you :D

[AncientVanu]

hey this stealth cloak actually looks pretty good, this guy will be completely invisible at distance. Are there going to be some kind thermal sensors or scopes in the game, or some other anti-stealth tech?

[Hmr85]

I'm sure darklight will make its way back into the game to help counter the cloaker threat in one form or another.

[Roy Awesome]

I saw the first pic and thought that he was in a bush.

Saw the second pic and started looking for the bush that the cloaker was in. Then I realized he was in the tree.

[Tikuto]

Third zoom-out of same tree.
http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg740/scaled.php?tn=0&server=740&filename=f53vx.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

[Graywolves]

http://yfrog.com/kkf53vxj

AND another scale shot EVEN further


-edit- Tikuto beat me!

[Roy Awesome]

http://yfrog.com/kkf53vxj

[Tikuto]

roflmfao

[sylphaen]

Darklight was fun.

Once I was in a crowded tech plant lobby. I flickered DL on by habit and "OH S***" there was like 3 or 4 of them crouching in the corners !
>.<

!!!

[Tikuto]

Darklight was fun.
Once I was in a crowded tech plant lobby. I flickered DL on by habit and "OH S***" there was like 3 or 4 of them crouching in the corners !
>.<
!!!Only PlanetSide...

:love::love::love:

[AncientVanu]

looking at these awesome views and this hard terrain an OT question comes to my mind, in PS1 what is the main gun elevation for the 3 tanks and the Lightning too, if you don't know numbers at least comparatively which has highest gun elevation and which one has the lowest? I'm trying to figure out which one will have an advantage in PS2 if they are left unchanged.

[Magpie]

NC cloaker looks the best

[Hmr85]

Man, I cannot wait to wage war across all that land. Just stunningly beautiful. So whens this beta again? :cool:

[atone]

NC cloaker looks the best
damn, best looking NC model so far and its the one that turns invisible:p

[Raymac]

I still don't see the cloaker in the 2nd pic.

Shots look amazing, but that's become par for the course.

[Hmr85]

He is in the middle of the tree at the fork V. I think lol

[WiteBeam]

So is this a different continent than what we have been seeing so much of?
http://a.yfrog.com/img876/7615/jz0fu.jpg
http://yfrog.com/hwzzryvj
http://yfrog.com/kkf53vxj

[Hezzy]

I can't see anything! Ha, only kidding. Fixed the link for you!

I think it's good that we can be a cloaker and have a rifle at the same time. Can't wait to do some sniping while perched in a tree!!

[Shogun]

can we please get some agent orange ammo for the liberator gun?

[Hmr85]

I can't see anything! Ha, only kidding. Fixed the link for you!

I think it's good that we can be a cloaker and have a rifle at the same time. Can't wait to do some sniping while perched in a tree!!

I'm slightly concerned about cloakers having rifles and sniping. But I am gonna with hold my worries till after I see it in the beta.

[Sirisian]

So is this a different continent than what we have been seeing so much of?

I don't think so. I think people were jumping to conclusions about what Indar was based on the WIP screenshots. It would seem like most of the map it's a heavy WIP.

[Magpie]

I HOPE IT NOT TIMED STEATH like retarded halo reach

[Atheosim]

Much agreed with that.

[Jimmuc]

I'm slightly concerned about cloakers having rifles and sniping. But I am gonna with hold my worries till after I see it in the beta.

cant cloak and shoot at the same time. mainly used to move at distances unseen but if someone is 10 feet from you can see you. at least thats what i think highby or someone else said.

[nomotog]

How did he get in the tree?

[Tasorin]

Sensor Disruptor placed by dedicated Engineers that allow for the Stealth function of the suit to be impaired as long as they are inside the sphere of disruption of the stealth sensor. The advanced version of the sensor can enable the sensor to be cloaked as well.

Rock, paper, scissors right?

So besides team work or a pray and spray, what is going to be the counter to stealthers?

This is why we need Beta. Every screen shoot just generates more questions that can't be answered. Some day though, the stars will align, marketing will finally stop kiestering the beta cycle dates, and Higgles will have a triple double with bacon, and we will find out about beta.

Maybe even solve world hunger...

[Yutty]

has this been posted yet?
http://a.yfrog.com/img857/2442/shqds.jpg

[SuperMorto]

Stop talking about the snipers and cloaking, they go hand in hand.

Folks are you crazy???, the whole point in being a sniper is to be stealthy, waiting patiently for that one shot!!!!

look:

http://topairsoftsniperrifles.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Airsoft-Sniper-Ghillie-Suit.jpg

http://media.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/MIL_USMC_Sniper_lg.jpg

http://huntingpredators.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sniper1.jpg

I think sniping in Planetside is about to change, its going to change into what sniping really is, a skill. And it will be much harder to snipe I think!......

[Magpie]

has this been posted yet?
http://a.yfrog.com/img857/2442/shqds.jpg

Looks like a gay superman with pedo googles!

[basti]

WHa? Its just a screenshot of some base stuff, nothing else there.
Really no idea what your talking about.

[Hmr85]

Stop talking about the snipers and cloaking, they go hand in hand.

Folks are you crazy???, the whole point in being a sniper is to be stealthy, waiting patiently for that one shot!!!!

I think sniping in Planetside is about to change, its going to change into what sniping really is, a skill. And it will be much harder to snipe I think!......

Nobody on here has any issue with the snipers having camouflage.... What I have a issue with is it being permanently on while they are firing. Unlike a lot of people on here. I think the sniper class needs to be completely separate from the cloaker class. I also firmly believe the cloak ability they have needs to have a limit on it where its only active for 30 seconds with a minute cool down. If they have that cloak up when they fire it pops off and they have to wait that minute cd again or less.

[Magpie]

Well what about people who wanta do sas / navy seal style this class is not just for sniping it's not even gonna have bolt drivers just a semi fire rifle. I think it will still fit the cloaker style of ps1 in some form

[basti]

Nobody on here has any issue with the snipers having camouflage.... What I have a issue with is it being permanently on while they are firing. Unlike a lot of people on here. I think the sniper class needs to be completely separate from the cloaker class. I also firmly believe the cloak ability they have needs to have a limit on it where its only active for 30 seconds with a minute cool down. If they have that cloak up when the fire it pops off and they have to wait that minute cd again.

It has been said that while being in the cloaker sniping loadout, your cloaking is rather limited.

Wait and see i say. If its broken, we will yell at them right away. ;)

[Goku]

WHa? Its just a screenshot of some base stuff, nothing else there.
Really no idea what your talking about.

Someone needs new glasses!

[Sirisian]

Was hoping for a 100% cloak when not moving. Maybe they should make a customization. I prefer being able to walk around enemies in a hallway without being visible to someone staring at me. Probably a design issue with giving the cloaker a sniper rifle and assault rifle.

[LZachariah]

Do we have a sense of what weapon this new Infiltrator (Higby's Infiltrator) is holding? I do remember him saying that Infiltrator's get heavier weapons than just a pistol in this game, but the more powerful the weapon, the less concealing your cloak. That sounds like a very good balance to me; I like it. This also explains the Terran Infiltrator that was reposted in this thread (you can see his goggles; that's a Terran) and he's holding an assault rifle.

And also, yes, I hope that the cloak either 1. Is indefinite, or at least 2. Lasts as long as in Planetside 1. That was a good system.

~Zachariah

[Graywolves]

They might balance it so that if you have a rifle out your cloak breaks or when you shoot and it goes on cooldown.

There are many ways to balance it, just gotta wait.

I only hope that we don't get 20 people every battle trying to snipe because they want kills (no leaderboards because the game isn't bullshit lobby crap might kill that incentive though)


-edit- wait what is Higgles running behind the game? The one that has Hamma's pic on it.

[Vancha]

Tree sniping returns!

This better be legit instead of having just been "placed" in a tree for the cool factor, otherwise you'll break my heart.

Was hoping for a 100% cloak when not moving. Maybe they should make a customization. I prefer being able to walk around enemies in a hallway without being visible to someone staring at me. Probably a design issue with giving the cloaker a sniper rifle and assault rifle.
Yeah, I'm guessing non sniping/rifle-toting cloakers will be able to go invisible.

Edit: I'm pretty sure the cloaker is unstealthed in the second picture. Imagine you've zoomed directly back from the first image, on the lowest left branch about a third of the way along, you can see the silhouette of them crouched with their rifle pointing toward the top of the base.

[Erendil]

looking at these awesome views and this hard terrain an OT question comes to my mind, in PS1 what is the main gun elevation for the 3 tanks and the Lightning too, if you don't know numbers at least comparatively which has highest gun elevation and which one has the lowest? I'm trying to figure out which one will have an advantage in PS2 if they are left unchanged.


I don't know the exact numbers, but I'm pretty sure the comparative max elevations of their main cannons went like this (from highest to lowest):


Lightning
Magrider
Prowler
Vanguard


That I believe is also the order you'd get if you compared their turret's turning rate. In addition, if you included the Prowler's 15mm turret on the list it'd be either #1 or #2.


Nobody on here has any issue with the snipers having camouflage.... What I have a issue with is it being permanently on while they are firing. Unlike a lot of people on here. I think the sniper class needs to be completely separate from the cloaker class. I also firmly believe the cloak ability they have needs to have a limit on it where its only active for 30 seconds with a minute cool down. If they have that cloak up when they fire it pops off and they have to wait that minute cd again or less.


Here's a Higby quote from November's Sniper thread (http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37948&highlight=sniper) that others here have mentioned that may shed some light on how they're planning to balance the sniper's cloak:


...If you're utilizing a sniper loadout you'll have a less perfect cloak that doesn't last as long. It's more for some enhanced camouflage while moving from sniping positions than using for typical infiltration. Anyone who gets up on you with that configuration is going to see through it.

[ThGlump]

Im seeing 2 there.
1 unstealthed on top right branch.
1 stealthed on the top left branch (its more visible zoomed out where his silhouette is clear - zoomed in its just blurr - mybe its only coincidence of light but i see him there)

[ringring]

They look beautiful.

[HitbackTR]

Instead of giving infils a sniper rifle to use, just give us back the spiker. That was a seriously fun weapon!

[HitbackTR]

I think the sniper class needs to be completely separate from the cloaker class.

QFT

[Hmr85]

QFT

Unless you have something productive to say go troll another board and stop trying to up your post count.

Edit: post of shame here. I apologize for being a jerk. I took it the wrong way.

[Hmr85]

Here's a Higby quote from November's Sniper thread (http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37948&highlight=sniper) that others here have mentioned that may shed some light on how they're planning to balance the sniper's cloak:


It has been said that while being in the cloaker sniping loadout, your cloaking is rather limited.

Wait and see i say. If its broken, we will yell at them right away. ;)

Thank you both for the update. That's all I needed to see.

[HitbackTR]

Unless you have something productive to say go troll another board and stop trying to up your post count.

Not trolling or trying to up my post count actually... merely agreeing with what was said. Got a problem with that?

[Raymac]

Unless you have something productive to say go troll another board and stop trying to up your post count.

ummm, I think he was agreeing with you, dude. QFT = Quoted For Truth, right?

However, I'll troll ya and disagree. ;) Like was said earlier in the thread, being sneaky and "stealthy" is very much a requirement for sniping so it makes perfect sense to include them as different parts of the same class.

[HitbackTR]

ummm, I think he was agreeing with you, dude. QFT = Quoted For Truth, right?

However, I'll troll ya and disagree. ;) Like was said earlier in the thread, being sneaky and "stealthy" is very much a requirement for sniping so it makes perfect sense to include them as different parts of the same class.

Ah yeah I realize that I may have just trolled myself. @Hmr85: yes I was agreeing with you

[Hmr85]

Ah yeah I realize that I may have just trolled myself. @Hmr85: yes I was agreeing with you

Fair enough, I guess I did mess that up there. :rofl: I took it as the other QFT. I guess I need to catch up on my internet lingo. I apologize :cool:

[Vancha]

QFT is "quoted for truth", not "quit fucking trying", in the same way PST is "please send tell" and not the "pssst" sound of a whisper.

I don't see the problem with it being part of the cloaker class. It wouldn't necessarily not have a cloaking device by being it's own class, but then I don't think the cloaking device will be a problem anyway. It's the sort of thing they can easily change the duration/restrictions of if it's too powerful.

[Hmr85]

Hehe yeah, I took QFT as "Quit Fucking Talking". lol my bad and I apologize again. :love:
I feel like an idiot now =/

[Saintlycow]

As long as you can't shoot while stealthed

[Espion]

Stop talking about the snipers and cloaking, they go hand in hand.

Folks are you crazy???, the whole point in being a sniper is to be stealthy, waiting patiently for that one shot!!!!

I think sniping in Planetside is about to change, its going to change into what sniping really is, a skill. And it will be much harder to snipe I think!......


Protip: This is a game.


Sniping in PS was probably the most balanced sniper in the history of gaming.

[HitbackTR]

Hehe yeah, I took QFT as "Quit Fucking Talking". lol my bad and I apologize again. :love:
I feel like an idiot now =/

Well in your defense I didn't even realize QFT even meant anything other than Quoted for Truth so I have learnt something new also.

[Mightymouser]

Has anyone bothered to mention to the team the merits of the "PrintScreen" key?


On topic: Cool! :eek:

[alienmoose]

Has anyone bothered to mention to the team the merits of the "PrintScreen" key?


On topic: Cool! :eek:

You are going to look very handsome in that new invisibility shroud.

[Raymac]

Has anyone bothered to mention to the team the merits of the "PrintScreen" key?


On topic: Cool! :eek:

Actually they have, and it's called a loophole. An "official" screenshot has to go through a relatively lengthy approval process before it gets released. On the other hand a "behind the scenes" phone pic posted to twitter is a loophole around that process and we get to see it immediately.

[SuperMorto]

Protip: This is a game.


Sniping in PS was probably the most balanced sniper in the history of gaming.

Protip: This isn't PS....

[Atheosim]

The dynamic lighting is fucking gorgeous. I'm so excited about the day/night cycle.

[Tikuto]

Someone tag where the cloaker is on pic 2, i can't see the fucker.

Racism against cloakers.

[Vancha]

Someone tag where the cloaker is on pic 2, i can't see the fucker.

I'm pretty sure the cloaker is unstealthed in the second picture. Imagine you've zoomed directly back from the first image, on the lowest left branch about a third of the way along, you can see the silhouette of them crouched with their rifle pointing toward the top of the base.

/Tag.

[Knocky]

Actually they have, and it's called a loophole. An "official" screenshot has to go through a relatively lengthy approval process before it gets released. On the other hand a "behind the scenes" phone pic posted to twitter is a loophole around that process and we get to see it immediately.



Perhaps Hamma should make a sticky (that would most likely be ignored anyway) explaining to these guys this. Although Mightymouser has been here long enough and should know this himself.

[Tikuto]

It's NC cloaker. The little antennas on his crouched faced-down posture poke his shoulder-back upwards. :D

[RodenyC]

Just imagine the cloaker/sniper in that tree at night.
:drools:

[Tikuto]

hey this stealth cloak actually looks pretty good, this guy will be completely invisible at distance. Are there going to be some kind thermal sensors or scopes in the game, or some other anti-stealth tech?Darklight. Hopefully it'd be a standard helmet feature for every armor except cloaker suits. Not an implant anymore, which I always found to be distasteful...




Motion Sensor should also do something else.
Reveal nearby enemies on radar (like PS1).
Flashing florescent (http://usaled.com/userimages/ledhome/PURPLE.gif?rand=1164247727) revealing nearby cloakers (new to PS2).

[ThGlump]

Someone tag where the cloaker is on pic 2, i can't see the fucker.

That tree is swarmed with snipers. They must be breeding there! Kill that tree!

Green: 2 unstealthed snipers
Blue: Steathed one (best visible zoomed out)
Red: unsure. it looks like silhouette of one, but is far distance/a lot smaller than other three.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=287&stc=1&d=1328028253

[Forsaken One]

That tree is swarmed with snipers. They must be breeding there! Kill that tree!


We now have new info on PS2! Snipers grow/spawn from trees.

[Tikuto]

Haven't we be hinted that trees won't be invincible anymore?

[Baron]

Personally,

I've always thought dark light was over powered since 9 out of 10 people had that implant. Made cloakers ALMOST insignificant in my opinion, more like a free kill. I don't think the DL options should even exist in PS2.

[Vancha]

That tree is swarmed with snipers. They must be breeding there! Kill that tree!

Where's the virgin mary, Glump?

[Princess Frosty]

That's really cool, glad we're starting to see the stealth stuff now, more details would be really great.

When it comes to cloaking I hope you're still 100% invisible when still and that picture is of a slowly moving infiltrator and not a stationary one. I thought that PS1 got stealth damn near perfect except for DL exploits, the actual cloak effect was damn near spot on, someone with a good eye could spot a moving infiltrator but if you were ultra slow (crouch+walk) then you were onnnnnnnly just visible and could sneak past guards, maximum fun.

[ThGlump]

When it comes to cloaking I hope you're still 100% invisible when still and that picture is of a slowly moving infiltrator and not a stationary one.

This is stationary one. But he is visible because he has sniper loadout so cloak isnt perfect. If he had infiltrator loadout he would be invisible like in ps1.

[Higby]

That tree is swarmed with snipers. They must be breeding there! Kill that tree!

Green: 2 unstealthed snipers
Blue: Steathed one (best visible zoomed out)
Red: unsure. it looks like silhouette of one, but is far distance/a lot smaller than other three.


that red circle was me in the same spot as the first screen.

[ThGlump]

Damn! So that other 3 snipers are just my imagination?

[Vancha]

Damn! So that other 3 snipers are just my imagination?

Considering the size of Higby, they're either your imagination or gigantic snipers. Sniper mechs perhaps.

[Tikuto]

The tree is the sniper. In PS2, trees fight back.

[Raymac]

that red circle was me in the same spot as the first screen.

WOW. Ok, the scale of that treee just got alot bigger for me then.

[Princess Frosty]

This is stationary one. But he is visible because he has sniper loadout so cloak isnt perfect. If he had infiltrator loadout he would be invisible like in ps1.

Right, that makes sense, it's a good idea to be honest.

Higby please drop a payload of stealth info on us soon, I really want to hear more about the class and what sort of james bond toys we get, especially anything thats non-combative and focused around sneaking past enemies to sabotage equipment and stuff like that.

[Metalsheep]

I hope up close the Cloaking is better than in the pic. If a cloaker sitting still looks like that then hes meat. It looks just like the Cloaking from Reach and Halo 3, which (to me at least.) becomes easy to spot after your eyes are trained to see it. I don't even have to try and spot stealthed guys in those games anymore, i just see them.

But if hes lit up just for the pic, then that's cool. Or if that's just the Snipers cloak. Close quarters infiltrators should get slightly less visible stealth fields.

[Vancha]

I hope up close the Cloaking is better than in the pic. If a cloaker sitting still looks like that then hes meat. It looks just like the Cloaking from Reach and Halo 3, which (to me at least.) becomes easy to spot after your eyes are trained to see it. I don't even have to try and spot stealthed guys in those games anymore, i just see them.

But if hes lit up just for the pic, then that's cool. Or if that's just the Snipers cloak. Close quarters infiltrators should get slightly less visible stealth fields.
If only we had a thread full of replies that could allay your fears.

[Vancha]

I don't see the others at all.
That's because they aren't there.

[ThGlump]

That's because they aren't there.

Lies. You could clearly see scope of bottom green one. That ist natural branch/leaf.

[Vancha]

Lies. You could clearly see scope of bottom green one. That ist natural branch/leaf.
Again, that's not a sniper. That's clearly the virgin mary.



...or Elvis.

[Higby]

WOW. Ok, the scale of that treee just got alot bigger for me then.

Yeah, it's a pretty big tree. My character died when I dropped out of it. =(

[Atheosim]

Physics engine needs some tweaking then.

On a more serious note, it looks like the opposite. Player avatars are quite small and the objects in game aren't quite that large after all.

[Vancha]

Yeah, it's a pretty big tree. My character died when I dropped out of it. =(

Can we get confirmation that we'll be able to make it up there ourselves and that you didn't magic your character up there for the photo opportunity?

(This site needs a pray emoticon.)

[Shogun]

Yeah, it's a pretty big tree. My character died when I dropped out of it. =(

Captain higlo:0
Ent:1

time to let the veloceraptors out!
or give chainsaws to the max units, to cut down trees.

[Knocky]

Can we get confirmation that we'll be able to make it up there ourselves and that you didn't magic your character up there for the photo opportunity?

(This site needs a pray emoticon.)


Do what we do now.....bail out over a tree.

Of course you will have to put points into bailing out of AirCav in PS2...so haha!

[Metalsheep]

time to let the veloceraptors out!
or give chainsaws to the max units, to cut down trees.

Please tell me the TR MAX melee weapon is some kind of Chainsaw.

[Roy Awesome]

Yeah, it's a pretty big tree. My character died when I dropped out of it. =(

Planetside 2: Return of the Killer Death Trees

[Baneblade]

I like the 'phased' cloak, they seem the most plausible, plus they are easier to balance.

[cellinaire]

Physics engine needs some tweaking then.

On a more serious note, it looks like the opposite. Player avatars are quite small and the objects in game aren't quite that large after all.

No. Doesn't look like the opposite. And I'd rather choose the middle-ground :groovy:

[VioletZero]

Glad to hear that this isn't a sniper rifle I see.

I'm all for the idea of taking out Artillery in favor of a no indirect fire mentality as long as it applies to sniper rifles too.

[SuperMorto]

Please use your brain when posting in my threads or:

:stoppost:

[Atheosim]

I'm starting to think violet zero is a flat out skilled troll.

[Vancha]

I'm starting to think violet zero is a flat out skilled troll.

I'm pretty much convinced of it.