News: Video: Terran Republic Character Turnarounds

[Tikuto]

Originally Posted by Bags

The Tr don't have any purple.

purple man-panties

[TRex]

The light armour variant was niggling me all morning , reminded me of something and couldn't quite place it . Then it came to me : Boba Fett from Star Wars episode 2 . Rocket pods on the back , the mask. Hope theres a wrist bound grabbling wire we can shoot up walls .

[duck]

Amazing character turnaround. Thank you, devs!

I'm surprised no one commented on the music! The original Planetside theme with a nice, modern touch. Can't wait to listen to the rest, and see the NC design.

NC characters next time, please! Go blue!

[SuperMorto]

Im sorry I just sprayed white goo all over my keyboard, mouse and TV!

[Tikuto]

I suspect Light Assault is to compensate for no more individual hotdrops from individual aircraft, which I do hope is true.

Originally Posted by duck

I'm surprised no one commented on the music! The original Planetside theme with a nice, modern touch. Can't wait to listen to the rest, and see the NC design.

Yeah it's pretty militarized, which suggest to me that is TR music. I likes.

TR: drums & drums???
NC: bass & trumpets?
VS: eletronic & dubstep?

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Bravix

Very awesome, but uh, where's the purple?

I don't think you'll see much of the VS right now. They'll probably show the empires in a series according to the chronology in the story. So, TR, then NC, and finally VS.

[Baron]

Did anyone notice that on the very first soldier (Standard), the middle gear slot said:

Mk.I Personal Shield Unit

:o

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Baron

Did anyone notice that on the very first soldier (Standard), the middle gear slot said:

Mk.I Personal Shield Unit

:o

I think it is just referring to the chest metal. I don't think it is powered.

However, the heavy assault is "powered." What does that mean exactly? You can charge your cell phone on it? Or is there a built in shield generator?

[Bags]

Originally Posted by basti

I think you assume that there is no more MCG? Well, from what i could gather, i think there is now more than one Empire specific Heavy Assault Weapon.

[nathanebht]

WHY IS THE TEXT SO TINY! I must read it but I can't.

The video is very nice. Does much more for me than just a screenshot.

[Traak]

Originally Posted by Aaron

I think it is just referring to the chest metal. I don't think it is powered.

However, the heavy assault is "powered." What does that mean exactly? You can charge your cell phone on it? Or is there a built in shield generator?

Movement augmentation. In order to not be as slow as a heavily-laden soldier would be packing lots of armor AND the Heavy Cycler, the Heavy Assault armor needs to be powered.

Note how the "Lesser Assault" guys in the screenshots all have Cyclers, but the Heavy Assault guy only has his pistol?

They sure don't want to show the Heavy Cycler or MCG, whichever. Funny.

BTW, the Heavy Cycler uses different magazines than the Cycler.

And, also, that blocky ugly MAX on the cover of PC Gamer UK looks so NC, and not much like the ultra-cool artwork we saw for the three Empire MAX's earlier.

My vote goes to the artwork we saw earlier. The one on the PC Gamer cover with those rotating bangles on his wrists just looks wrong. Too blocky, weapons too huge, just wrong.

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Traak

They sure don't want to show the Heavy Cycler or MCG, whichever. Funny.

I blame Bags.

[Tikuto]

I think it's already been said that personal shield will be part of standard body protection in PS2 and this video just shows that it's not an implant anymore. I sort of like the idea even though it may be ugly-looking. It is the future after all.... :P

[Xyntech]

I think that the Personal Shields will replace the little blue armor bar, in the sense that we won't be sitting there repairing or getting our armored repaired, it will be regenerating by itself.

Those various pieces of armor are probably going to more directly translate into our health bars.

Like infiltrators having 75 health, pajamas having 100, light assault having 150, heavy assault having 200.

You could even do a MAX the same way. Just give it 500 health and an extra powerful shield generator that only a MAX can use. I still think it would be more awesome to make MAX armor be like vehicles and require a vehicle repair tool to fix them. It would allow them to have even more survivability while being balanced with the fact that it will take a very specialized support character to heal them. An engi wouldn't always be around like in PS1 and if there was a dedicated engi healing a bunch of MAXes, the engi would be a prime target for snipers and cloakers.

[Hamma]

Nice breakdown Mastachief!

I must say this is some very impressive looking stuff. Can't wait to see the other empires as well I am sure they will follow the same release as this week.