Weapons

[Notso]

Not sure if this has been brought up, but does anyone know if there will be looting of weapons/ammo as there was in PS1. If there is, will anyone be able to use the weapon he/she loots or for instance say I have a upgrade on a weapon that another player does not have. If they pick up my weapon will they be able to use that weapon with the upgrade or will the upgrade be nullified since they have not spent the resources to buy it.

[Sirisian]

I think that was their reason for not allowing looting. They didn't want to have to deal with upgrades and such. It's the same reason we can't hack vehicles or give people driver of our vehicles I believe since you'd end up having people pulling items/vehicles then just handing them off to people that haven't spent the time to train for that mod.

Regarding looting ammo they haven't said. I hope so.

[Magpie]

There's a pic with a TR with a NC gun so I don't no

[DayOne]

I think this would be okay if they took out the locker function. Or there are lockers but they have just lots of different ammo types in them, no weapons. So you can refill your ammo if the gen is out.

[Mastachief]

Originally Posted by Magpie

There's a pic with a TR with a NC gun so I don't no

Where did you see that?


As for vehicle jacking i thought they had changed direction on that.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Mastachief

Where did you see that?


As for vehicle jack i thought they had changed direction on that.

There's a picture somewhere of a TR holding a guass. It's one of the few I didn't save, I guess.

[Higby]

Originally Posted by Bags

There's a picture somewhere of a TR holding a guass. It's one of the few I didn't save, I guess.

That wasn't looted, we can spawn whatever weapons we want on whatever class we want using internal commands... it was either that or a loadout that was bugged because we were switching factions around for something.

[Gwartham]

I'm all for non wep looting as long as we have enough ways to resupply during prolonged firefights.

[Hmr85]

Originally Posted by Higby

That wasn't looted, we can spawn whatever weapons we want on whatever class we want using internal commands... it was either that or a loadout that was bugged because we were switching factions around for something.

Thanks for the clarification Higby. So there you go no looting.

[basti]

Originally Posted by Higby

That wasn't looted, we can spawn whatever weapons we want on whatever class we want using internal commands... it was either that or a loadout that was bugged because we were switching factions around for something.

And there was me, being happy for month's that we have weapon looting again, and now you just crush my happyness.


Still think it should be in. Whats the problem in just letting some random loot my weapon? He dies, and the thing is gone. Hes out of ammo, and the thing is useless.

[Warborn]

Loot "bags" people left when they died were a performance issue in really big battles, too, so there's that for a little extra incentive to not have looting.

[basti]

Originally Posted by Warborn

Loot "bags" people left when they died were a performance issue in really big battles, too, so there's that for a little extra incentive to not have looting.

Erm, thats why those bag dissapeared in bigger battles...

[Rumblepit]

i was wondering about this too. there will be items within these bags that are of value.
seeing as you have to spend resources to get nades and other items. also was wondering about lockers.... have they said anything about them? if there is looting i would like a place to store my goodies.

[EASyEightyEight]

Considering we spawn in equipped for battle (last I heard,) I don't think needing a locker for a power outage is all that critical.

Looting is almost moot, with weapon customization. Sure, a cycler will never be a Gauss rifle, but one may yet get it close, we don't know for sure. Keeping ammo pick ups out of the game makes any alternative method they implement all the more important, such as keeping galaxies and sunderers on the front lines and easily accessible. They're like supply trucks in that regard. Don't think the Gauss rifle will fire the same caliber ammunition a cycler does this time around.

[Warborn]

Originally Posted by basti

Erm, thats why those bag dissapeared in bigger battles...

That's super. Anyway, loot "bags" people left when they died were a performance issue in really big battles, too, so there's that for a little extra incentive to not have looting.