News: Higby Ama on reddit - Page 7

**Malorn** · 2012-03-23, 01:52 AM

The only things I saw in this entire Q&A that I didn't like were...

1) AI in the 5-year plan. wtf?!?

2) Indar being the largest sized continent so far. It just seems small to me. Maybe it's the size of Cyssor in PS1 and I just dont' realize it yet but that's the impression I get. Hope I'm wrong.

Bags · 2012-03-23, 01:52 AM

maybe it's just the largest of the launch continents?

Atheosim · 2012-03-23, 01:56 AM

Originally Posted by Bags

maybe it's just the largest of the launch continents?

Yeah, he did say that it's their max size content "currently" so in my mind that leaves room for bigger ones in the future. But we'll see how Indar plays before we hold too much judgement.

Bittermen · 2012-03-23, 01:57 AM

Originally Posted by MooK

Infiltrators are the only sniping class? Oh come on.

I feel that same way.

Atheosim · 2012-03-23, 01:57 AM

Originally Posted by Bittermen

I feel that same way.

I feel like with any other class it would be highly imbalanced.

Carbanu · 2012-03-23, 02:02 AM

Originally Posted by Higby

Sorry if I missed your question! I tried to get to all of them that didn't seem like obvious duplicates.

OH COME ON! I didn't see one question about caves and I still didn't get any love lol.

CutterJohn · 2012-03-23, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by Bittermen

I feel that same way.

Well, it does guarantee that returning fire to them, via a sniper rifle, or a long range tweaked battle rifle, will be more effective, since infils have dick for hitpoints.

And even if you extended the sniper to different classes, it would still be arbitrarily limited, since I doubt anyone would agree to MAXs or vehicles having sniper accuracy.

RNFB · 2012-03-23, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by Carbanu

OH COME ON! I didn't see one question about caves and I still didn't get any love lol.

Having caves right in the continent would be boss.

I'm predicting an expansion that exposes a series of caves on all the continents.

Coreldan · 2012-03-23, 04:08 AM

Please Higby. PLEASE. When it comes to the hats, they have to fit the style and the game. No stupidly silly stuff. Dont want to see this game ruined due to them. Immersion plays a huge role, please dont mess it up with some fucking hats.

As for the "faster respawns vs. pay2win", I also see pay2win as something that will make me win the firefight directly at hand. However faster spawns do sort of come fairly close on an empire level, but on the other hand on the empire level also the other side is likely to have the same things, so it would even out. I personally dont really mind, but I'm sure some people will totally go nuts over that.

Also, please no AI faction. Thank God we have several years to talk you out of that. Planetside should be pvp only, the end

Everything else I pretty much love and love you very much for doing this Q&A thingie! But I promise if you allow stupid hats to the game I come haunt you in your sleep

Skitrel · 2012-03-23, 04:14 AM

I really doubt that hats will be a major issue, lets remember that hats in TF2 directly fit the aesthetic of the game, there may be hats but I'm sure that everything visual will be tailored to directly fit the aesthetic.

As for an AI faction, I dunno, I remain open minded to it. Done right it wouldn't be a bad thing. An incredibly powerful alien menace type faction that doesn't necessarily take part all the time but more at specific times, kind of like a special event type thing. Something to the effect of a greater threat that all 3 factions need to stop their fighting and battle against in order to survive, something like that.

Coreldan · 2012-03-23, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by Skitrel

I really doubt that hats will be a major issue, lets remember that hats in TF2 directly fit the aesthetic of the game, there may be hats but I'm sure that everything visual will be tailored to directly fit the aesthetic.

As for an AI faction, I dunno, I remain open minded to it. Done right it wouldn't be a bad thing. An incredibly powerful alien menace type faction that doesn't necessarily take part all the time but more at specific times, kind of like a special event type thing. Something to the effect of a greater threat that all 3 factions need to stop their fighting and battle against in order to survive, something like that.

I foresee Enclave picking up a bunch of Liberators and helping out the alien menace

That said, I'm still 100% against it.

oosik · 2012-03-23, 04:21 AM

Kudos to Higby for his 10 hour stint in the community mines. Thanks for all the great info.

cellinaire · 2012-03-23, 04:59 AM

Originally Posted by Malorn

The only things I saw in this entire Q&A that I didn't like were...

1) AI in the 5-year plan. wtf?!?

2) Indar being the largest sized continent so far. It just seems small to me. Maybe it's the size of Cyssor in PS1 and I just dont' realize it yet but that's the impression I get. Hope I'm wrong.

We will see about that. Maybe, the actual travel time can be longer than that of Cyssor.

(and KUDOS to Higby =) )

Bazilx · 2012-03-23, 06:10 AM

I like Higby

earlydeath · 2012-03-23, 07:07 AM

A: We may have to institute a cool down on MAXes although we don't have one at the moment... like many things we're going to really see where the rubber meets the road once we get to betA:. did anyone notice in this qoute he capitalized the a at the end and made it pure white? i think this is very important and i think beta is in april why else would he have done that randomly? it cant be a coincidence i think it was a hint what do you guys think?