Ammunition

[Hamma]

Rocket you have to understand not everyone on these boards has been following the game since day one and has an inside track.

If you dont lighten up a bit with your responses Im going to be an upset Hamma :|

[Ir0nRaven]

/ me sits back and watches the bitching begin

[Hamma]

uhh.. no

/me delete's irons post

[Tobias]

Another Ammo question : will the guns all fire like 1 calaber of bullet, so you could have ammo for all your guns (unlikely), or maybe grouped into catagorys (Pistol, energy, rifle, Machine Gun, etc.) or will each weapon have its own ammo types....also can you take someones ammo/gun if you capp em?

[Hamma]

Dunno on the ammo.. id assume its different for each weapon.

As for taking weapons, I believe its possible to steal off of ded bodies, but I am not sure on this

[Sadfre]

well, in most the screenshots you can see the people of different factions using each other's weapons. But i don't know how much you can trust those cause it could just be the Devs having fun

[Unregistered]

Well we know you can steal the enemy vechicles if you have the right certs, so I'd hope you can grab their guns.

[Sadfre]

yea, that is true. but i wonder about if someone stole Vanu weaponry, where would they get the extra ammo for it since they have a completly different stock. But i guess you could always just keep killing Vanus to keep your stolen laser gun fueled

[Unregistered]

Interesting.

I hadn't thought about where you'd get Ammo for stolen guns. In most cases, I don't think I'd have much need to reload a stolen weapon. Genrally the only time I pick up a guys gun is if he has something I need right now.

An example would be in BF1942 and I spawn as a Medic, there is an enemy tank in the area, and I see a Bazzoka lying around I'll pick it up, take care of the tank, and then try and get rid of it for a gun more suitable to my situation.

[Enkidu]

If they had kept the economy in, that would make for an interesting black market. Selling vehicles, weapons, ammo etc to opposing sides.

[Sadfre]

black markets would have been a nice touch, but as you said there is no economy...

Unregistered- i could see someone coming across a gun of the same type the person uses, but is better for certain situations(like a vanu laser version might be better against certain types of armor than regular bullet version) and the person would carry both around so they could switch *shrug*

but of course if they do have different ammo types, then that may not be something you'd do. unless you want to show off your trophy from a kill

[Kussy]

even IF you could grab an enemy's gun AND he has a lot of ammo left AND you could get more ammo from another enemy you COULD'NT use that gun cause you don't have the nedded certification for it

And in Planetside there won't be econemy and so there will be no black market

[Sadfre]

well, there hasn't been much detail on what the certifications cover exactly. it may be for specific weapons like you mentioned, or it could be for the class of weapon(rifle,smg,etc). if it is just for the class of weapon, then it is possible that you can use it. either way, we won't know till we've played it, or the release that info

[Kussy]

The kind of weapons would be ok for the common pool weapons, but i think that you will have to get a certification for the kinds of special empire weapons too but sure qou are right, we will have to wait at least for the beta to know it exactly

[Sadfre]

i was just re-reading the faq on the main site about the weapons and it said:

"Many of the weapons are "common pool" meaning that all Empires have access to them, but some are Empire-specific, ensuring that each Empire has a distinctive "flavor" to it when playing."

this does lead me to believe that you won't be able to use another factions weaponry, to maintain that "flavor."

I just think it would be interesting if someone turned my friends pulsar against me, adds to the tension of the situation