New Core Combat Info!

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Gamespot has released new information about Planetside's new expansion, Core Combat. It describes a few of the new features, including weapons and vehicles ranging from a new heavy assault weapon named Maelstrom, to a short-range teleportation vehicle. Here's a quote: <blockquote>Core Combat will add six new caverns to the game, each with its own look and feel. The caverns will be accessible via new warpgates, and these gates will be found in Amerish, Hossin, Ceryshen, Oshur, Forseral, and Solsar. The Amerish cavern will feature a river, Hossin will have a somewhat swampish look, Ceryshen will feature slippery and frozen lakes, Oshur will be a maze of canyons, Forseral will have a crystalline area with a large energy beam in the middle, and Solsar's cavern will feature lava and other volcanic features. New alien technology will be introduced, including a new hover buggy called the switchblade, a new support vehicle that creates neutral teleporters known as the router, and a mobile artillery unit called the flail.

Much like the way the two ATVs in the game were recently combined into one certification in a patch, the upcoming router vehicle--which lets you drop a teleport point and teleport from the router to that point at will--will likely be rolled in with the AMS certification, creating a new "tactical support" hybrid. New weapons will also be added to the special and heavy assault categories. The special assault weapon will be the radiator, a weapon that will actually let you irradiate an area, making it dangerous for an unspecified amount of time. Heavy assault will receive the maelstrom, which sounds like it has a primary firing mode similar to Quake's lightning gun. The alternate fire will launch energy grenades that have an effect similar to that of the lasher when they explode. The medium assault certification will grant players access to the spiker, which fires small orbs that can be detonated at will. The orbs gain power the longer they travel, making distant shots more damaging. All three weapons are neutral and, from the sounds of things, will only be able to be acquired or resupplied in the game's underground caverns.</UL>Below are two new images from Core Combat. The first is concept art of the weapon "Maelstrom", while the second is concept art of the Flail, the new artillery vehicle.

All of the 8 new images can be found in our media section. Planetside: Core Combat is slated for a release in October, however there has been no publicly announced date of release. Stay tuned to PSU for the latest information about Core Concept and everything related to Planetside!

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