First Details on Merit Commendations

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Sporkfire has finally released details on the long awaited first wave of Merit Commendations:

Our January update will include the first wave of achievement-based Merit Commendations. These Commendations will be awarded for proficiency on the PlanetSide battlefields. For the first wave of Commendations, we will be starting with merits based on total kills across infantry and vehicle certifications.

Merit Commendations will add new incentives for all soldiers to achieve combat excellence, and we expect them to make the fights across Auraxis more tactical and rewarding for all sides.

For a kill to count toward a Commendation, it must be a unique kill. Unique kills are defined as an enemy who has been alive at least 30 seconds, and whom you have not killed in the last 20 minutes.

Infantry Medals
For Infantry, there will be a series of Merit Commendations associated with each different weapons certification:

• Standard Assault
• Medium Assault
• Heavy Assault
• Special Assault
• Anti-Vehicular
• Sniping

Each series of commendations will have five different levels to pass through, for example Standard Assault I, Standard Assault II, Standard Assault III, etc. There are different kill total and streak requirements for each Commendation, in order to fit with data accumulated on their real use and level of achievement on the battlefield.

Vehicle Medals
We will start with two different types of vehicle medals:

• Ground Gunner: Earned for the number of kills you have scored while gunning in a ground vehicle. Kills earned by drivers with a driver mounted weapon will count toward this commendation (as opposed to Cavalry Driver).
• Aerial Ace: Kills scored while piloting a Reaver or Mosquito will count toward this Commendation.
• We are also testing functionality for driver-assisted kills to count toward a Cavalry Driver Commendation, but this may not be a part of the first wave.

Other
In addition, there will be Merit Commendations for MAX units and Combat Engineers.

• AI/AV (Ground-based) MAX: There are three levels of MAX commendations, earned for kills while using either AI or AV MAX. Kills in either of these will count toward the same Commendation.
• AA MAX: Three levels of Merits will be available for kills earned while using an Anti-Aircraft MAX.
• Tactical Engineer: This commendation is earned for kills earned by using Combat Engineering deployables.

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