AOE heal, revive

ThGlump · 2012-02-24, 08:19 PM

Did they turn medic class into mage class? Using SKILL to aoe heal and reviving? If its there i really hope its some sort of deployable, or consumable and not some lousy skill. And of course reviving should take some time. This aoe revive sounds like instant.

Also did i hear correctly about healing and reviving GRENADES? (healing/reviving at distance). That also looks like that reviving dont take any time.

NewSith · 2012-02-24, 08:20 PM

I say beta on this one. If it's cooldown-based (as stated), than spamming shit wwith them won't work.

Myomoto · 2012-02-24, 08:22 PM

Healing 'grenades' sounds pretty crazy. I'm guessing that the 'grenade' will just stick around and create a small AoE healing zone for a little bit of time, instead of actually 'exploding' with health.

NewSith · 2012-02-24, 08:25 PM

Being a medic as a second spec I support this tool. Brink had that lazarus grenade that didn't look mage at all. But I say again - this one is beta-decision only. You just won't have enough people in an internal test to see how it works.

DaddyTickles · 2012-02-24, 08:27 PM

I love the idea of healing grenades. I just hope they explode with little pink flowers or hearts, lol.

I think Higby is an old fashioned hippy at heart.

Sighpolice · 2012-02-24, 08:31 PM

Any form of reviving is counter productive to any defence/assault.. if it took you 15/20 seconds of using a reviving tool and pretty much all of your medic gel (planetside 1 style) then it wouldn't bother me, it was hardly any use in any real fighting situation, only when the fighting was over

the idea of "instant" reviving is just.. pathetic, everyone knows how it feels to play bf 2 (yes, 2) and bc2 will tell you that its so shit when you are fighting the same 3 guys over and over in the same building cause their 4th squadmate is bouncing around like a small dog on cocaine magically reviving them. Its not fun, its not strategic, its just flawed boring grinding gameplay

Conq · 2012-02-25, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by NewSith

Brink had that lazarus grenade that didn't look mage at all.

+1

It worked well, wasn't overpowered and looked good.

NEWSKIS · 2012-02-24, 08:21 PM

Like everything else for PS2, there are no specifics on how it will work, for all you know there could be some major drawbacks to it.

Knightwyvern · 2012-02-24, 08:21 PM

I believe they are one and the same. I.E., the AoE heal/revive IS the grenade choices for medics.
I do hope they are quite limited in number of use.

Traak · 2012-02-26, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by Knightwyvern

I believe they are one and the same. I.E., the AoE heal/revive IS the grenade choices for medics.
I do hope they are quite limited in number of use.

Yeah, a clip size that is just one round higher than what a Jackhammer carries would be satisfactory.

Hmr85 · 2012-02-26, 08:13 AM

I'm not a fan of any of this. I firmly believe they should stick with the tried and true Planetside 1 heal and resurrect mechanics. It worked very well.

1. It forced the player to run out and heal/resurrect the fallen comrade thus exposing them to enemy fire.
2. It wasn't instant you had to wait a set amount of time to revive somebody.

Wakken · 2012-02-24, 08:21 PM

Im a pries... I mean medic!

DayOne · 2012-02-24, 08:22 PM

I'll be waiting for the youtube videos where 20 guys get mowed down in a corridor by an AI MAX and someone throws a revive grenade!

I agree though, it's very mage like.

MooK · 2012-02-24, 08:28 PM

Cooldowns. AoE. Really sounds like some generic MMORPG. I'm not a fan of healing grenades either.

I want my medic to perform surgery during battle, damnit.

Myomoto · 2012-02-24, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by MooK

Cooldowns. AoE. Really sounds like some generic MMORPG. I'm not a fan of healing grenades either.

I want my medic to perform surgery during battle, damnit.

Surgery seems like such a crass and outdated thing when you have NANO MACHINES!