News: Matt Higby doing a Q&A at reddit!

[CutterJohn]

Originally Posted by Redshift

i enjoyed outfit wars, but it's not something i'd like to see too often as it's too small of a scale, maybe they'll do it once a year, like the superbowl

Why? If people want to play outfit wars they should be able to. If you don't like it, don't participate.

[Bags]

Because Planetside is an MMOFPS not an arena round based shooter. Plus having outfit wars willy-nilly makes them less special.

[Shogun]

if medics and engineers get that awsome abilitys, i am all set.
supporters should not have big offensive capabilitys, but a nice defensive weoponry should be possible because medics will be the primary targets in most battlesituations.

after ps1 support was overhauled and the assistkill system kicked in, i had no problem advancing my character without weaponcerts at all. in my last playsession i had only 22 kills, was killed 50 times, but had 1200 assistkills and a big amount of xp. i didn´t even miss heavy assault or even medium assault.

but now with all veterans being br40 it is getting harder as a supporter because everybody is selfsufficient and you have to hurry to repair someone before he did it himself. so the one man armys are not only a problem for the enemy, but also for the dedicated supporters of the own team, who cannot get as many assistkills as they would if their team would concentrate on the kills and rely on the supporters for their healing needs

[Bags]

Just about everyone had med/eng at BR25. They need to buff support, but doing it by nerfing everyone else puts too much value in support and we become your slaves.

[Aractain]

Slaves eh? Sounds kinky.

But less seriously I doubt they will make medics (or other support) so required, probably more for rezzing than healing. I don't think you need to worry.

[LostSoul]

Big question I have is if troopers will have an armour value again or if it'll be integrated with their health.

If the latter would be the case engineers would only be needed for vehicles/maxes. (my preference)

It would seem a bit odd to me if a heavy assault grunt would need to rely on two (2) persons to keep him effective.

[Shogun]

yeah! obey your medic-masters! ;-)

oh man i would so love it if matt would contact psu to arrange a Q&A exclusively for us! where we could ask about the medic and engineers nifty superpowers, abilitys and skilladvancement.

i would miss any aspect of ps1 battleengineers because i love every deployable ce option there is. but how much of that will make it to ps2?

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by Bags

Just about everyone had med/eng at BR25. They need to buff support, but doing it by nerfing everyone else puts too much value in support and we become your slaves.

First, I call BS on your first sentence. But you know what, it doesn't even matter, because it is a complete waste of time for any of us to debate somebody that doesn't think Engie/Med/AV/HA is NOT a 1-man-army. The only things you don't have listed there are sniping and hacking, so yeah, thats not 1-man-army at all.

Grunts won't be able to do EVERYTHING in 1 loadout. Guess you're just going to have to deal.

[basti]

Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml

Bags, you have been diminishing this game for the last month.... It's not planetside... it's planetside 2............. Planetside EVIDENTLY didn't work bro... so they are making it more modern.... I'm expecting BFBC2 + planetside = planetside 2. and that game sitll has 20000 people playing daily... SOOOO.... ya.....


The instant vehicle boarding is going to create problems..... but at the same time, i'm personally gonna abuse the shit out of it.

Good point on the first one.

And as for instand vehicle boarding and animations for it: Higby, prepare not a, but THE shitstorm during beta. I wont stop until i get those animations, because they are such a giant part of planetside.

[LostSoul]

Originally Posted by basti

Good point on the first one.

And as for instand vehicle boarding and animations for it: Higby, prepare not a, but THE shitstorm during beta. I wont stop until i get those animations, because they are such a giant part of planetside.

Higby, easy solution! Don't let him in!

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Raymac

Guess you're just going to have to deal.

there's no need to get so angry about this

Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml

Bags, you have been diminishing this game for the last month.... It's not planetside... it's planetside 2............. Planetside EVIDENTLY didn't work bro... so they are making it more modern.... I'm expecting BFBC2 + planetside = planetside 2. and that game sitll has 20000 people playing daily... SOOOO.... ya.....

I'm probably going to get some flak for this but... okay I like posting too much to say what's on my mind.

Planetside didn't die because people could do too much at once; when it began dying you couldn't do too much at once

It died due to:

1.) Lack of development
2.) Poor support
3.) No game moderation
4.) BFR implementation
5.) Tech requirements too high
6.) Players were not used to subscriptions (comparatively. There were no 12 million subscription games like WoW)
7.) Low advertisement
8.) General poor management

You can't use the logic of "planetside didn't work as a whole thus we need to shove as much modernization into it because games with those features do well", because that's not correct. Could the lack of "modern" features hinder it? Maybe. Is there any proof that this is the case? No.

It's also facetious to compare a modern game with a once purchase model to an 8 year old subscription game.

[Aractain]

It dosn't really matter about PS1 IMO. I belive it to be a bad game design to allow so much 'core' stuff on one character. It has no trade off, instead of making it a trade off (and probably for future reasons) the devs made it a hard choice.

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by Bags

there's no need to get so angry about this

I'm not angry at all, so don't play that "u mad bro" crap. You're better than that, dude. I actually just wonder what you consider a "1-man-army" loadout in PS1 if it's not Eng/Med/AV/HA? That's what confused me.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Raymac

I'm not angry at all, so don't play that "u mad bro" crap. You're better than that, dude. I actually just wonder what you consider a "1-man-army" loadout in PS1 if it's not Eng/Med/AV/HA? That's what confused me.

I don't consider any loadout a one man army because it's not possible in PS1.

and sorry

[Crator]

Originally Posted by Bags

I don't like BR40 either, because that allowed you to do FAR MORE than AV/MED/HA/AV.

Grunting is one role. One.

LOL, grunting is a role? :P