Should infiltrators be the only class able to capture points?(hacking)

[Resolve]

It made no sense to me in the E3 demo that all of the classes(besides MAX) could capture the points by "hacking". To me it would make more sense to only allow the infiltrator to capture. The infiltrator probably went through rigorous training to be able to hack into consoles so why allow "dumb" classes to have the same ability? If changed, this would also bring the infiltrator up to the usefulness of other classes(although may slow gameplay, not a bad thing really). If this was so, it would make infiltrators as useful as they were in PS1. You absolutely needed one to cap a base.

[Vetto]

Ehhh... No.. No I do not, it make getting basses far harder then it should, cause then it boil down to having to baby sit one class to take a base.

[Resolve]

True I guess that makes some sense. I just feel that infiltrator will be a novelty class now. We'll see.

[Vetto]

Originally Posted by Resolve

True I guess that makes some sense. I just feel that infiltrator will be a novelty class now. We'll see.

There hardly Novelty, there the snipers and back stabbers, There the class that will head shot some one in the middle of the night while everyone scrambles to find out were he is while he already moving to a new spot.

[Troscus]

Originally Posted by Resolve

True I guess that makes some sense. I just feel that infiltrator will be a novelty class now. We'll see.

Imagine the sniper and spy from TF2 had a baby. Now imagine this baby is much more serious than his parents, and assassinated both of them. He then moved to Auraxis, where he joined one of the empires. Now he has a rifle, a cloak, and a ton of gadgets we don't even KNOW about yet, and he has you in his sights.

Not such a novelty now.

[Saifoda]

Originally Posted by Resolve

True I guess that makes some sense. I just feel that infiltrator will be a novelty class now. We'll see.

Infiltrator is now the only class that can use sniper rifles; this makes them much more than a novelty class. And you didn't NEED and infiltrator to hack a base -- I hacked CC's plenty of times as a rexo guy.

[Chinchy]

Originally Posted by Vetto

Ehhh... No.. No I do not, it make getting basses far harder then it should, cause then it boil down to having to baby sit one class to take a base.

I agree. But I am not opposed to having them cert into hacking significantly faster than all the other classes, that makes more sense to me.

[BigBossMonkey]

Should take 20-30ish seconds to hack a point as anyone not an infiltrator.

Infiltrators with hacking certed up hack it in 10-15 seconds.

[Resolve]

Originally Posted by Vetto

There hardly Novelty, there the snipers and back stabbers, There the class that will head shot some one in the middle of the night while everyone scrambles to find out were he is while he already moving to a new spot.

Originally Posted by BigBossMonkey

Should take 20-30ish seconds to hack a point as anyone not an infiltrator.

Infiltrators with hacking certed up hack it in 10-15 seconds.

This is a good idea. I hope it's true.

[HEISTT]

Originally Posted by BigBossMonkey

Should take 20-30ish seconds to hack a point as anyone not an infiltrator.

Infiltrators with hacking certed up hack it in 10-15 seconds.

This sounds like the right way to go about it. No need to make control points hackable by infiltrators only, but giving the infiltrators an edge with regards to hacking seems reasonable.

[Stew]

Ill say no i think they sould implement few thing later on like generator and stuff like this thats can only be destroy or repair by a certain class etc.. but infiltrator will aready have the ability the be the only ones to hack ennemi turrets inside the ennemy base etc..

[Noivad]

Voted keep it all classes. Bring back hacking tool. Bring back Hacking skills as a seperate learning tree. Bring back a timer to capture to ensure there is some defensive play for the area hold by ones who are making the capture.
Make capture time 5 to 7 mins instead of 15 mins like PS1.

Seems way to easy to capture one point right now. A capture should be earned not given in 60 seconds. All for speeding up game play, but not to the point capture becomes meaningless.

[Dairian]

Originally Posted by BigBossMonkey

Should take 20-30ish seconds to hack a point as anyone not an infiltrator.

Infiltrators with hacking certed up hack it in 10-15 seconds.

As always everything needs a little bit of thought and twinking. But the idea is sound.

[Chinchy]

Originally Posted by DjEclipse

Infils in PS2 is a sniper class, they should just rename it that.

Rename it Sentinel.

[Sifer2]

It's not an entirely bad idea. For the same reason it would be dumb if they just made the Medic, and the Heavy Assualt the same class like in Battlefield. Letting everyone be the hacker kind of takes away from the role of trying to get that specialist in there to do the job. But if you look at the general design of Planetside 2 they have been cutting a lot of the teamwork promoting aspects out to speed up the pace. And this is just another big cut they made.

At the very least I would like to see some inventory customization elements brought back in. An have hacking require a tool again. Just let any infantry class choose to carry the tool at expense of something else. Would also like to see the process be more involved than just standing there. Maybe a minigame where you defenseless while your doing it so you need people to cover you.