News: Jason Good, Sr. Game Designer, answered some questions

[Sifer2]

Some of this is already out dated. I'm pretty sure they had said somewhere they already planned to change squads to 10 man limit. I really didn't like the part about what happens on one continent not effecting others though. I want a persistent war not a bunch of separate instanced maps. I'm sure the community will feel the same an convince them to change it.

[Typherian]

What about the goal of a 1 second TTK with a 1 on 1 engagement... That's half a second to react if 2 people are firing at you which with so many people playing will happen a lot. I think a higher TTK raises the skill cap as you have more time to eaither miss or hit your target and also makes team work mean more. If I come up behind 2 people and I can kill them both in 2 seconds why would I wait for a friend or try to work as a team. In CoD I would never run near my team mates because we would just both die almost instantaneously when an engagement started . In PS1 I felt like keeping with my team mates was actually worth it as it would take time for our enemy to swap from 1 target to the next.

TL/DR: 1 sec TTK is too low. Higher TTK encourages team work.


Thoughts?

[adddemon]

he did say optimal firing ranges, which probably means scoped standing directly in front of an infiltrator shooting him in the face.

[Sunrock]

Originally Posted by Typherian

What about the goal of a 1 second TTK with a 1 on 1 engagement... That's half a second to react if 2 people are firing at you which with so many people playing will happen a lot. I think a higher TTK raises the skill cap as you have more time to eaither miss or hit your target and also makes team work mean more. If I come up behind 2 people and I can kill them both in 2 seconds why would I wait for a friend or try to work as a team. In CoD I would never run near my team mates because we would just both die almost instantaneously when an engagement started . In PS1 I felt like keeping with my team mates was actually worth it as it would take time for our enemy to swap from 1 target to the next.

TL/DR: 1 sec TTK is too low. Higher TTK encourages team work.


Thoughts?

Well yea... 1 sec TTK sound a bit low. But he sad 1 sec TTK on an average range. What ever that means. So this can mean that this 1 sec TTK will promote more long range combat and less close quarter combat.

Our goal for the TTK is around 1 second at the average engagement range, though that will scale as the range changes. Recoil and deviation will vary based on weapon, but I’d say we’re a moderate recoil, low deviation model.

But I would not say that a low TTK does not promote team play. Sure if you run close to gather like you where fighting with swords in a roman turtle formation you're a bit screwed but if you use modern infantry formations team play is still a valid.

[Typherian]

Originally Posted by Sunrock

But I would not say that a low TTK does not promote team play. Sure if you run close to gather like you where fighting with swords in a roman turtle formation you're a bit screwed but if you use modern infantry formations team play is still a valid.

Ahaha just pictured some roman soldiers running at some TR chain guns.

I guess what I mean is the higher the TTK the more likely a 2v1 engagement will end up with the 2 people wining...

Also stops camping from being as effective.