News: Infiltrator Week

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by Triple A

I presume medics have the about the same TTK as a light assault.

Should be correct. We know that 1) Light Assault can use carbines 2) Medics can use full sized rifles.

We also have a fairly good reason to suppose that Light Assault can also use full sized rifles. Medics using carbines make more sense than full sized rifles imo, but either way I doubt carbine would equal to at least faster TTK.

[duomaxwl]

http://www.planetside2.com/news/infi...-republic-2012

SpiderMa.. I mean, TR is up.

[Triple A]

Originally Posted by Coreldan

Should be correct. We know that 1) Light Assault can use carbines 2) Medics can use full sized rifles.

We also have a fairly good reason to suppose that Light Assault can also use full sized rifles. Medics using carbines make more sense than full sized rifles imo, but either way I doubt carbine would equal to at least faster TTK.

I used TTK in the wrong way. I was thinking more along the lines of TTDeath. In other words infiltrators, from what I could see, if they can kill a light assault in 3-4 shots then a medic would drop in roughly the same amount.

[Bazilx]

[Malorn]

Here is all three infiltrators side-by-side

[Mightymouser]

They've made some slight changes since those screenies came out Malorn. Specifically; the VS's helm color and the TR's lighter grey are both darker in the new shots. Incidentally those are both things that the community complained about when the first shots were released...

Edit: Oh and the awkward triangle thing on the TR's stomach is gone too, another request from the community. It's interesting to see a blatant before and after shot of them incorporating player feedback... Makes me hopefully about beta's chances...

[Malorn]

I think the VS one looks better in the picture above than current.

[Skitrel]

Originally Posted by Malorn

I think the VS one looks better in the picture above than current.

Presumably they're not changes, but infantry at various levels, or with various different visual apparel.

[Knocky]

Originally Posted by Malorn

Here is all three infiltrators side-by-side

VS...protecting their virginity at all costs.

NC...hell yeah sweetheart, that's all me.

TR...it just gets in the way so we cut it off.

[sylphaen]

Originally Posted by Knocky

VS...protecting their virginity at all costs.
NC...hell yeah sweetheart, that's all me.
TR...it just gets in the way so we cut it off.

Nice summary.

I'd still say that for the VS, the reason is more about to keep the sexiness inside and under control at all costs. Looking so awesome has its toll.


Some will remember the "Lasher" thread on SOE PS forums.

[Raka Maru]

Originally Posted by Knocky

VS...protecting their virginity at all costs.

NC...hell yeah sweetheart, that's all me.

TR...it just gets in the way so we cut it off.

This is so wrong. :P

[Kran De Loy]

Originally Posted by Knocky

VS...protecting their virginity at all costs.

NC...hell yeah sweetheart, that's all me.

TR...it just gets in the way so we cut it off.

Originally Posted by Raka Maru

This is so wrong. :P

But oh so right.

It was exactly the same thing I was thinking, just put better then I could have.

[Kilmoran]

Originally Posted by WellWisherELF

Intel.

You can easily.. easily do this without cloaking. Especially given the fact that they have infantry with jump jets. That mobility will make scouting far easier than simply being invisible ever did.

So far this is the feature set of Infitlrators... Cloaking and Sniping. Now... 50% of that has nothing to do with infiltrating, and the 50% that does have to do with infitlrating, so far, is not described as having any thing to do AFTER you infitlrate other than look around. BUt if you are also a sniper, you can do that from long range.. but if you are long range.. why do you need to cloak?

Unless there are more options or features... this "class" is going to be somewhat pointless other than to be a flavor. It has no /real/ squad potential. Yes, you can say they are "better" at gathering intel because of cloaking, but that's not at all to say cloaking is necessary to gathering intell.

I've been doing this sort of stuff for... 16 years now. I was a full support cloaker in PS 1 (If it could be hacked, virused, rezed, repaired, or built, I could do almost all of it while cloaking). I completley understand nto being able to do all of that... but some key things i still think are necessary to make cloaking more than lone wolf wet dreams.

• Tools for espionage
• Tools for sabotage
• Laz pointing/Target Painting of some sort
• Perhaps something to aid in team stealth (Like smoke nades for the Light Assault)
• Silent/Quiet CQC weapons (depending on how the knife works which i realized in PS 1 worked perfectly fine for this if you used it right)

Doesn't have to be all of these, or any of these if there are better ideas... but it just cna't be stealthing snipers.. .that's next to pointless. I'd rather just have a sniper rifle with armor, and if Light Assault Jetpackers could have it, ti would literally make cloakers doing it beyond pointless.

[Triple A]

Higby let it be known that infiltrators are currently the only class that can hack. And with 5-7 capture areas in each base they will be a must no matter what.

[Kilmoran]

Originally Posted by Triple A

Higby let it be known that infiltrators are currently the only class that can hack. And with 5-7 capture areas in each base they will be a must no matter what.

I would also disagree to making it so that a cloaker are the only ones that can hack bases. That means an entire base offensive can be literally stalled/defeated due to an increadibly small portion of a team (or a loner) being killed or preoccupied.