Twitter devchat question list!

[basti]

Once again, as always: Post your questions, I collect them, Hamma asks them during the QnA for you, and you get answers pretty fast after it, or follow it live.

And also as always: remember the freaking Character limit!
125 MAX! NOT MORE!

Also, it would be quite helpful if you just post your question like this:

Blablabla im awesome can i haz stuff


Dont do " or Q: Blabla or whatever crazy stuff you think makes it easy to see that you have a question, because its useless. I know that you want your question on the list, so no worrys! :P


Oh, and one last thing: There seems to be no theme this week. If we end up having only a few questions, i still have a long list of questions from the other QnAs, so no worrys, we have plenty of ammunition to fire at them.


Ask away!

And we go:

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What are the System/Hardware requirements for planetside 2? At least give us a general idea!
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Will PhysX be hardware or software based? Will one benefit from a Nvidia card?
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Is Amerish, or any other continent, being remade faithfully?
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Higby's haircut, intentional homage to patrick swayse in Red Dawn, or happy coincidence?
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Can the galaxy be spawned at every base?
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What is a low-ball estimate of the population cap on a single continent?
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If 2 sunderers are head to head ramming each other will a blackhole be created from the impact?
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Can spawns points be deployed within bases for the attacking force? Would that be Galaxy or other object?
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Do you still plan on adding sandbox elements post-release? Can we have an example of what you aim to do?
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Where will the weapons be positioned on the galaxy?
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What kind of anti-air weapons will the Galaxy be able to have?
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What will stop Galaxies from being nuked by an OS the moment they set up?
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Will we see any dense urban environments in game that aren't base courtyards?
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Will the Liberator be a 2 or a 3 seater, and what can it do that the ES fighters can't already?
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Any plans on allowing the Gal or Lib to be customized with support stuff like radars (AWACS style) and such?
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How many continents are expected to be at launch? How many of them are already in development process? NAMES?
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Does the Sunderer have an EMP ability? Can it pass through base shields (if there are any?)
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What element of the game announced so far has been the most difficult to implement effectively?
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are the NS vehicles more customizable than empire specific vehicles due to their common pool nature?
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ATV: TR = chaingun, NC = Rockets, VS = lasers?
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Celebrity deathmatch at Fan Faire: Higby vs T-ray?
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Where is the Lightning?!
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Does the Gal have a vehicle slot for light vehicles (ATV and lightning)?
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Can MAX units spawn on gals, or reequip at sundys? How many max slots in each?
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Can sunderers float?
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How much effect will vehicle motion have on a gunners aim?
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Will we be able to customize ammo? Take fewer bullets so you can fit more rockets?
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How long will the shell of destroyed Vehicles last?
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Snow Continents will we see small details like tank tracks in Snow or Foot prints from cloaked infantry in the snow?
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A few examples of Player deployables -walls?
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How small a space can a deployed gal fit into? Is it as simple as any where the gal can land?
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What kind of Deployables does the Engineer have at their disposal? Spawn Points?
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Will there be an option to certify flying a galaxy and certify squad spawning so that the squad leader can create an airborne spawn station?
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Will NS vehicles have ES upgrades/customization? Like an energy cannon on a VS Galaxy?
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How many upgrade/sidegrade slots does a vehicle have? IE- how many factors can be customized?
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Will NS weapons have some ES sidegrade/upgrade options, or will they be identical across factions?
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Can the Galaxy driver "Green Light" the drop? Or force full deployment of personel it is carrying?
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Will vehicles pilots/drivers be susceptible to damage directly? is: Shoot the pilot through the glass?
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What kind of sidegrades did you have in mind for engineers?
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Will the Lib be able to drop bombs through a specialisation?
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Will platoon leaders be a squad leader, or be separate from the squads?
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Will we be able to deploy vehicle stations in the field?
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Will the Gal be the only aircraft to have the "hot drop" safety feature?
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Will the Gal be able to cloak (perhaps when deployed) through a specialisation?
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What vehicles for TR and NC can be used to cross water?
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If "staging grounds" ('sanctuaries') on each continent create threeway stalemates constantly, do you have an alternative system planned?
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How effective is the infiltrators cloaking ability? Comparable to the last PS mechanics?
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Any chance of customizing galaxy as a heavy lift vehicle? Think sky crane!
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Will there be combat/support engineering deployables like the AEGIS and TRAPs returning?
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To what extent can you customize your inventory loadout? Can I bring 10 grenades in lieu of 4 boxes of ammo?
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Will AA weaponry mounted on the Lightning be superior to that on an MBT?
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Wasn't the Gal supposed to spawn troops in mid-air? Was this changed based on community feedback?
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Will Indar be the biggest continent on Auraxis? If not what is the biggest one?
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Can we get a circumflexing compass rose on the minimap instead of the compass bar we see in the screenies?
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TRay, for the love of VAnu PLEASE put a buttstock on the Pulsar.
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Since the Beamer has "self-charging" cells, does this mean it will never run out of ammo?
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Since MBT's can be solo, how are you making the Lightning an attractive alternative?
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What design changes/deviations are being made to the Lightning compared to the PS1 version?
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What is the VS MAX special ability that's replacing JumpJets?
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If the average maps are 8km x 8km in size how many km's up do they go for aircraft?
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What is considered "veteran" status with regards to beta invites?
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Will there be a common pool MBT?
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Can you tell us anything about how implants will be implemented?
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Will ground vehicles have any sort of rear-view camera so they can run and gun without driving into trees/rocks?
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Is there going to be a way to reduce the effectiveness of emp or are continuous emp chains gonna beable to lock down a tank?
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When someone dies will spawn options be comparable to PS1, such as being nearest base, tower, Galaxy and perhaps squad leader?
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Will there be a feature where we can pipe our own music to our platoon during ops?
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Within bases, is there a basement area? Are there passages to the buildings placed on the CY?
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What levels organizational will be given, other than squads and platoons?
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[Magpie]

What are the System/Hardware requirements for planetside 2?

Is there a Sniper/Recon class if yes could u tell us more about it?

Can a normal assault can two main weapons or is that limited to heavy assault?

[Crazyduckling]

Will PhysX be hardware or software based?

Also, the obligatory:

When's beta?

[Ale]

Q: Is Amerish, or any other continent, being remade faithfully?

Q: Thresher, Enforcer, Marauder?

Q: Outfit owned bases?

Q: Dinosaur survival mode? confirm / deny?

Q: Higby's haircut, intentional homage to patrick swayse in Red Dawn, or happy coincidence?

[SKYeXile]

Can the galaxy be spawned at every base?

[Yetiee]

What is a low-ball estimate of the population cap on a single continent?

If 2 sunderers are head to head ramming each other will a blackhole be created from the impact?

[Lorgarn]

Originally Posted by Crazyduckling

When's beta?

Or, to make it somewhat serious:

Q: When can we expect seeing a Beta announcement/schedule/timeframe?

[LongBow]

Will a galaxy still have to fly “tail up?”

Which direction does the Liberators primary weapon face when in the centre of its CoF?

[ringring]

Can spawns points be deployed within bases for the attacking force? Would that be Galaxy or other object?

[bmfof]

Do you still plan on adding sandbox elements post-release? Can we have an example of what you aim to do?

[Vash02]

Where will the weapons be positioned on the galaxy?


What kind of anti-air weapons will the Galaxy be able to have?



What will stop Galaxies from being nuked by an OS the moment they set up?

[ringring]

Can guns on the Gal be customisable, for instance to be either AA, AV or AI?

[Xaine]

Will we see any dense urban environments in game that aren't base courtyards?

[Sabrak]

Q: Will the Liberator be a 2 or a 3 seater, and what can it do that the ES fighters can't already?

Q: Any plans on allowing the Gal or Lib to be customized with support stuff like radars (AWACS style) and such?

Q: How many continents are expected to be at launch? How many of them are already in development process?

[Death2All]

Does the Sunderer have an EMP ability? Can it pass through base shields (if there are any?)