What happened to the Squad Leader class or equivalent of?

[megamold]

Originally Posted by Ratstomper

I'm not sure I like the idea of the command trees sharing the same cert point pool with everything else. The whole point of CRs in PS1 was that it encouraged you to get experience leading a squad to gain ranks and abilities. PS2 will have even more things that a squad leader can do to be effective. I wonder if it will have an adverse effect on squad leaders in general.

so you would rather there be hundreds of cr5's in a couple years time with 90% of those being totally useless ?

as in ps1 the good commanders will just come to the foreground out of merit instead of an arbitrary number.
i'm pretty sure that a week into ps2 you will be able to name all the good commanders on your faction and maybe even some on the enemy side. just from having played with or against them.

[Arcticus]

As with everything else in the game (certs), the game will allow you to unlock it with time/effort/money. Whether you know what to do with those abilities is something for your outfit to determine.

I freely admit I don't know anything and the only thing I'll know at release is whatever I learn during beta.

[qbert2]

The NC OS will be like a FF summon. A 100 barrel space shotgun will descend from the sky,but it won't be able to get close enough to the ground because of a tree, therefore it's spread will be too much so it won't hit anything.