News: Community Interview with Jon Weathers

[Bags]

Originally Posted by waldizzo

Nice interview. There were many reassuring things revealed such as platoons and way points.

Not sure how I feel about the "Entire Foothold VOIP" channel that was mentioned. Hopefully they let us pick and choose what VOIP channels we want to hear, if at all.

I'm sure with the game being F2P things like that would be off by default, or easy to mute.

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by Bags

I'm sure with the game being F2P things like that would be off by default, or easy to mute.

yeah, he said VOIP would have a whole page to itself in the UI, so I would be confident all those on/off options will be there.

[Stardouser]

Set waypoints? Assuming that means you can set waypoints other than capture points only(ie, freestyle to anywhere you want), that's victory #2 over DICE.

[Turdicus]

My favorite part was when Jenny got demolished by the MAX suit. That tickled

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by Stardouser

Set waypoints? Assuming that means you can set waypoints other than capture points only(ie, freestyle to anywhere you want), that's victory #2 over DICE.

It was that way in PS1, so we're hoping for it to stay the same.

[Atheosim]

Originally Posted by Turdicus

My favorite part was when Jenny got demolished by the MAX suit. That tickled

Yeah, many flashbacks of being a lone agile running face first into a scatter cannon

[Jennyboo]

Originally Posted by Hyiero

at 12:25 was that max suit capping a point?? Dunno if I like that if he was...

No that was a Maxs tking me in a cap point area

[Atlas]

Some good info there .

The thing that stuck with me most was (i realise this can all change at the stage the game is in), the SOE chap said that squad sizes are currently 10 max...A Galaxy can hold 12 (Sunderer can take 11 + a driver) on the wiki, seeing as Gals are the respawn points once deployed, would it not be a sensible idea to make the squad size the same as a Gals capacity?

Or is that a little too numerically OCD ? Or are the capacities of the Sundy/Gal different than on the wiki?

[CrystalViolet]

The Platoon system integrated with the VOIP stuff is really exciting. It's one of the things I asked for back in the days of the Planetside Next survey. Ideally I'd like to see this done using a an automatic bracket system.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Stardouser

Set waypoints? Assuming that means you can set waypoints other than capture points only(ie, freestyle to anywhere you want), that's victory #2 over DICE.

Yeah in PS1 each squad lead could put 3 WP wherever they wanted to.

[Hamma]

Originally Posted by Higby

They were just running around on the dev server off playtest times, some people have invuln on, they're testing animations, sound effects, etc. That server isn't remotely a valid gameplay example.

Yea there were dev hax galore on that server!

[Mastachief]

Great interview, once more Hamma and Jennyboo providing awesomeness for the community.

[KTNApollo]

Originally Posted by Atlas

Some good info there .

The thing that stuck with me most was (i realise this can all change at the stage the game is in), the SOE chap said that squad sizes are currently 10 max...A Galaxy can hold 12 (Sunderer can take 11 + a driver) on the wiki, seeing as Gals are the respawn points once deployed, would it not be a sensible idea to make the squad size the same as a Gals capacity?

Or is that a little too numerically OCD ? Or are the capacities of the Sundy/Gal different than on the wiki?

2 of the Galaxy/Sunderer spots would be specifically for MAXs, right? So those spots may be vacant if nobody in the squad is using a MAX.

[Baron]

Originally Posted by Stardouser

Set waypoints? Assuming that means you can set waypoints other than capture points only(ie, freestyle to anywhere you want), that's victory #2 over DICE.

In PS1 you could set waypoints where ever you wanted...hopefully we will have similar freedom.

[p0intman]

first point, if resources aren't transferrable to other players, you can use them to buy vehicles with one account that then give them to another account which makes the restriction moot to begin with.

See how easily exploitable your design is?