Dev QA Part 3 Comments

[Hamma]

Due to everyones recent concern reguarding certs, I have decided to release the detailed certification list for public consumption. :)

http://www.planetside-universe.com/articles.php?articleId=22

Comments welcome.

[Tobias]

Now I count 28 certs? Am I wrong, are there more?

[Zarparchior]

The more I learn about this game, the more I want to play it. :(

[NapalmEnima]

Well that had a number of interesting tidbits buried in it:

Vehicle info:
The Basalisk has a rotarty chaingun.
Both APCs have two gunner positions.

Armor/inventory info:
MAX armors can't use basic equipment.

Armors DO have weapon slots... and everything but the standard and infiltration suits have two pisol slots. The medium has two rifle slots.

Everyone gets to carry a knife. This was assumed, but is now a known fact.

There is a comment in the light armor about being able to drive any vehicle. There is no corresponding comment under any other armor. This COULD (but probably doesn't) mean that the standard, infiltration, and medium armors are excluded from driving some vehicles. I personally expect all these armors to be able to drive everything. 'Cept maybe the medium.

defaults:
Everyone starts with the "standard assault" cert (amp, empire's pistol, suppressor).

Other stuff:
Several weapon certs cover more than one weapon, but not all.

[Hamma]

Yep. This answers the questiosn better than I ever could. This is direct from the dev's

Also note, as far as I know these are all certs.

[Tobias]

Does the supresser count as a pistal then? And if so can a stealth use it then?

[Hamma]

Takes more inv space than a pistol

[Lt AntiSmile]

anyone else notice under galaxy it say's '3' gunners? something new? miss print?

[Tobias]

Galaxy has three 20mm chainguns....one each wing and a tail gunner. No 75mm cannons for j00!

[Marsman]

No that's correct and yes it did change from 2 75mm guns to 3 20 mm guns. See here (http://www.planetside-universe.com/content.php?p=sdVehicleInfo) for an updated description. :)

[Jinxmasta]

I thought this week's Dev Interview answers were gonna have info on MAXes too or am I mistaken because I only saw info on certs. Oh and does this mean grenades will be able to be used by anyone as long as there is room in inventory?

[Lexington_Steele]

I am excited about the Mosquito's "limited radar profile."

[Coliostro]

Hmm, grenades...one of my favorite tools in Halo. I didn't see a cert for them either. Perhaps no one throws like a girl in this game. :evildrop:


Coliostro

[NapalmEnima]

No gren certs. EXCELLENT point.

Also, no gren SLOTS. So an infiltrator could drop a plasma grenade in someone's lap and watch'em melt... even if they could only carry a small number at a time (depending on what else they're packin').

[Camping Carl]

Well this is good, because now it's has been cofirmed now that stealths can't use a bolt driver, even while uncloaked, because they can't even carry it. Which means, no sniper will will be able to just snipe a buncha guys, and just go invis. when they figure out where he is.

[Jinxmasta]

Uhh Carl... we already knew that...

[Camping Carl]

Well yeah, but it's nice to have confirmation from the devs themselves. :D

[Camping Carl]

Darn, gotta remember to include this:

Villain Supply (your site for everything EVIL!) (http://www.villainsupply.com/)

[Jinxmasta]

What is up with you and that site? Oh and why can't you include it in your sig instead of always making a post for it?

[Camping Carl]

I don't want it in every post, I have my reasons......

[Hamma]

:huh:

MAX Information will be coming in a few weeks, that was a mistake on my part.

[Jinxmasta]

Ahh man! I thought all this time that it was coming today! Oh well I'm gonna be a stealth but information on PS is what keeps me alive! Must have more...

[Tobias]

M&M's keep me alive. They made me their God.

[Doobz]

my army of Sour Skittles will slaughter ur M&Ms and invade their land of milk and honey to indulge themselves in ur pink M&M mistresses

[Tobias]

Haha! You did not count on my Heavy Penut and Almond troops! They shall defeat your sour but oh so sweet candy forces and rape your easter skittles! But please, leave the Mini M&M's out of this, no need to involve the children!

[Jinxmasta]

Or I could just bring in the Vanu army and destroy you both... Your pick, live or die!

[Doobz]

Ur vanu wimps would never get withing 20 miles of my uber easter skittles!

they will have their way with ur vanu babes and be the masters of the universe!

[Tobias]

Ah, but you have failed to count on my Halloween candie commando's! And of course My Jelly bean allies know much about combat with easter candie!

[Incompetent]

i'll conquer you all with my legions of starburst shock troops.

[DiosT]

That messes up my first plant to be a sniper!


How can you have a "Sniper" cert if you can't Snipe! I certainly hope theres LOTS and LOTS of trees and bushes lol, You can't realy play a 'sniper' without being able to hide heh...


though, guess you could just load up on the Bolt Driver, a Thumper(gren. launcher), and a MAG-Scatter, and load up on the Heavy Armor...

Can you drive ANYTHING in heavy armor? Or i gotta hitch rides?


Man i was hopin for the Sniper(bolt driver)/Infiltarion/hacking combo with probably the wraith =p

[SteveDemers4]

Awesome, awesome article! Nice work! :D

[SmokeJumper]

WARNING!

I just saw this thread for the first time.

Certifications will certainly be one of the things we'll be juggling during beta.

For instance, in Hamma's list, we had all MAX configs under a single certification. That has already been split up into three configs (anti-air, anti-infantry, and anti-vehicle) for players to acquire. There may be more changes like this coming as we juggle costs and the "pre-req" trees.

Just didn't want you engraving this stuff into stone. :)

[m0rphiu5]

thats fair enough, it was nice to get abit of an idea of what its like atm though, nice to be "in the loop" as such

[�io]

Originally posted by SmokeJumper
Just didn't want you engraving this stuff into stone. :)

Hehe don't worry most of us know beta is far from gold.(well hopefully not that far) ;)

[Hamma]

Nice, I will have to ajust that on our certs page :D