News: Community Interview with Jon Weathers

[Hyiero]

Originally Posted by Jennyboo

No that was a Maxs tking me in a cap point area

Awesome then that's what I like to hear

[Warborn]

Originally Posted by Johari

AGN strikes again with a very informative video interview. Thanks Hamma and Jenny.

Just past 7 minutes in Jon states that you collect resources from the territory that you own on that continent. Would that decrease the incentive to fight on another continent that your empire currently has less land on? Why fight on Esamir w/ its 15% captured rate when I could fight on Indar with its 45% capture rate?

Continent population caps.

[waldizzo]

Nice interview. There were many reassuring things revealed such as platoons and way points.

Not sure how I feel about the "Entire Foothold VOIP" channel that was mentioned. Hopefully they let us pick and choose what VOIP channels we want to hear, if at all.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by waldizzo

Nice interview. There were many reassuring things revealed such as platoons and way points.

Not sure how I feel about the "Entire Foothold VOIP" channel that was mentioned. Hopefully they let us pick and choose what VOIP channels we want to hear, if at all.

I'm sure with the game being F2P things like that would be off by default, or easy to mute.

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by Bags

I'm sure with the game being F2P things like that would be off by default, or easy to mute.

yeah, he said VOIP would have a whole page to itself in the UI, so I would be confident all those on/off options will be there.

[Shogun]

thanks hamma and jenny! great interview and awesome intro

AND best music choice ever felt so like reallife planetside harting to soe!

[Stardouser]

Set waypoints? Assuming that means you can set waypoints other than capture points only(ie, freestyle to anywhere you want), that's victory #2 over DICE.

[Turdicus]

My favorite part was when Jenny got demolished by the MAX suit. That tickled

[Atheosim]

Originally Posted by Turdicus

My favorite part was when Jenny got demolished by the MAX suit. That tickled

Yeah, many flashbacks of being a lone agile running face first into a scatter cannon

[Mechzz]

Originally Posted by Stardouser

Set waypoints? Assuming that means you can set waypoints other than capture points only(ie, freestyle to anywhere you want), that's victory #2 over DICE.

It was that way in PS1, so we're hoping for it to stay the same.

[Atlas]

Some good info there .

The thing that stuck with me most was (i realise this can all change at the stage the game is in), the SOE chap said that squad sizes are currently 10 max...A Galaxy can hold 12 (Sunderer can take 11 + a driver) on the wiki, seeing as Gals are the respawn points once deployed, would it not be a sensible idea to make the squad size the same as a Gals capacity?

Or is that a little too numerically OCD ? Or are the capacities of the Sundy/Gal different than on the wiki?

[KTNApollo]

Originally Posted by Atlas

Some good info there .

The thing that stuck with me most was (i realise this can all change at the stage the game is in), the SOE chap said that squad sizes are currently 10 max...A Galaxy can hold 12 (Sunderer can take 11 + a driver) on the wiki, seeing as Gals are the respawn points once deployed, would it not be a sensible idea to make the squad size the same as a Gals capacity?

Or is that a little too numerically OCD ? Or are the capacities of the Sundy/Gal different than on the wiki?

2 of the Galaxy/Sunderer spots would be specifically for MAXs, right? So those spots may be vacant if nobody in the squad is using a MAX.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Stardouser

Set waypoints? Assuming that means you can set waypoints other than capture points only(ie, freestyle to anywhere you want), that's victory #2 over DICE.

Yeah in PS1 each squad lead could put 3 WP wherever they wanted to.

[Hamma]

Originally Posted by Higby

They were just running around on the dev server off playtest times, some people have invuln on, they're testing animations, sound effects, etc. That server isn't remotely a valid gameplay example.

Yea there were dev hax galore on that server!

[Mastachief]

Great interview, once more Hamma and Jennyboo providing awesomeness for the community.