PS in PC Gamer

[Diviant]

I just got my copy of PC Gamer in the mail, and I happened to stumble onto an article on Planetside. I read down a little, after I got out of the shock from the pictures, and something caught my eye. I quote:

"For instance, if you want to be a Sniper, then you should consider Agile Armor, or even a cloaking Infiltration Suit, plus a Bolt Driver (sniper rifle), perhaps a Silent Running implant and a Medical Applicator, and possibly a Wraith (stealth quad-cycle).

Now, I know there's been some speculation about Stealth Snipers and how that would be unbalanced, but this is comming straight from Dave, who PC Gamer quoted.

Edit: Just looked through some more to stumble across some |337 empire adds. Very cool.

[Warborn]

PC game magazines aren't always accurate. They might have been simply trying to fit as much cool sounding equipment in to get people excited as they could. I seriously doubt the devs would be short-sighted enough to give someone with a long range, highly accurate, high powered weapon the ability to become invisible.

[Camping Carl]

It's gotta be in response to the CGW thing on planetside. Or perhaps they've realized what a awesome game planetside will be. Have they stopped going on about everquest 2 and star wars galaxies yet?

This has to be said: EVERQUEST 2 IS THE SAME AS EVERQUEST!!!

[afex]

dave would never say that b/c we all know that stealth suits can't snipe. this has been said time and time again.

pc gamer was just making shit up.

[�io]

Well like most of the things said on forums this is again unknown. We don't know how the stealth suit will work, if it uses up a battery pack like in Tribes then a stealth sniper wouldn't be much more powerful since he can't stay cloaked forever.

[Camping Carl]

Wait a sec. any good pics? You didn't say anything about that.

[Zarparchior]

If snipers can cloak, I quit.

[Powerflux]

Which issue of PC Gamer?

[Diviant]

Which issue of PC Gamer?

This months.

Wait a sec. any good pics? You didn't say anything about that.

Well, they're O.K. There's a pic of 3 TR guys and 2 TR tanks advancing down an open field, a pic of 2 TR guys and a TR truck taking on a Vanu in what looks to be medium armor and what looks to be a Vanu mosquitos, and a first-person pic of somone taking on 2 NC tanks and an NC light guy.

[Camping Carl]

I see....nothing interesting then, thnx for telling us tho.

[afex]

shit that sounds very interesting!

scan em.

[Diviant]

I don't have a scanner. Poor, deprived me.

[THrONeBeaST]

If no one has got a scanner and scans them , ill go pick up a copy of PC gamer and scan it

[CrazyMike]

Dave has said in the forums over and over that you can't carry a sniper rifle while wearing a stealth suit. They KNOW it will unballance the game. What would you rather listen to.. direct quotes from dev posts in our forums or an article from a gaming magazine?


CrazyMike

[�io]

Oooh! ooh! I would rather listen to a post by a dude named Crazymike!

And as i said a stealth sniper wouldn't be overpowered if he isn't always cloaked. Anywhoo i doubt the devs will change their mind about it anyway.