a new weapon for infils

[hex222]

as a new support cert, i was thinking of a pistol sized dart gun, the darts are loaded with nanites which can be made to do different things to a persons home nanites...

for instance, an infil can take over an enemy's body, shut down their implants, blow them up (perhaps) or listen in to their squad's conversations...

now that i'm describing this however, it doesn't sound as good as it used to, but something like this could make being an infil alot more fun...

also, a deployable panel which allows you to change weapons or get ammo on the feild, good if your sniping at a bridge or on top of a tower or something...

[FatalLight]

take over there body: no, what of the person who's playing that body u just took over? not fun for him/her

shut down their implants: jammer nade can do that but ok

blow them up:... blow them up with a dart??? eh probably not

listen to squad conversations: that'd be cool

I would give other suggestions if i could think of them... :P

[DeepStrikeck]

how about the dart drains stamina, kills implants and/or does damage over time or like 20 health.

also with the deployable eq, it would have to be limited to 1 every hour or something to keep people from theoretically camping the top of a tower forever or staying in the field sniping for hours and hours, never running out of ammo.

[Warborn]

No, but I'm saying no mainly because I really don't want infiltrators to be the alternative form of 'grunt' in Planetside. Meaning, I want their job to be sabotage and infiltration, not assassination. So while the idea might have some merit to me if indeed I felt it was a good direction to take infils, I'm disagreeing on the basis that I'd rather additional infil work be directed toward giving them meaningful ways to impact the battlefield aside from killing people or blowing gens/spawns/terminals.

[FatalLight]

Well killing implants is sabatoge

[Warborn]

Originally Posted by FatalLight

Well killing implants is sabatoge

You can do that with jammers. Hell, jammers even have an area of effect. I can't see any good reason why you'd want something that disables one guy's implants at a time when you could throw well-placed jammers and do four or five at once.

[Lartnev]

The answer I've seen many infils give is that jammers aren't very quiet (although I guess if someone loses their implants, it's probably a dead giveaway that you're there anyway)

[FatalLight]

What would be cool is if it maybe gave a false sense that your implants are on, like it still showed them as being on but when you try to activate you get an error or something.

[Jaged]

How about a small, directional, quiet jammer pistol. It blows up mines, and disables implants just by aiming it at the target. It would have a fairly limited range. (No jammer sniping BFR's from a mile away.) And a cooldown of say... 30 sec.

[Warborn]

Originally Posted by Jaged

How about a small, directional, quiet jammer pistol. It blows up mines, and disables implants just by aiming it at the target. It would have a fairly limited range. (No jammer sniping BFR's from a mile away.) And a cooldown of say... 30 sec.

What is wrong with jammer grenades anyway?

[Jeffey]

a pistol would be safer and easier to aim.

[FatalLight]

Everyone can see the blue splash when you throw it

[Warborn]

Originally Posted by FatalLight

Everyone can see the blue splash when you throw it

Usually when people detect a cloaker they v-w-c anyway. Plus, shooting makes you more visible temporarily. Shooting some guy when he's got friendlies around isn't a good idea no matter how you look at it. I can't see this pistol thing being exactly a revolutionary addition to an infiltrator's arsenal. It seems to me that most infiltrators suit up to kill people, not to disable implants.

[drsomewhere]

How about blurring an enemy's vision for a few seconds (5) or so, enabling the cloaker to get a jump on him or possibly sneak past. Or maybe make it work as a tranquilizer, slowing down movement, decreasing accuracy, etc.

[Warborn]

Originally Posted by drsomewhere

How about blurring an enemy's vision for a few seconds (5) or so, enabling the cloaker to get a jump on him or possibly sneak past. Or maybe make it work as a tranquilizer, slowing down movement, decreasing accuracy, etc.

There are so few areas for infiltrators to really attack (cc, gen, spawns) that avoidance is the best tool in their arsenal. If you do something that obviously marks you as a cloaker in the area, most people will '/b Cloaker in base around X area, watch out', and then you're pretty screwed.

Honestly, I do not believe new tools are what cloakers need. They need more ways to impact a base that are away from the very high profile targets we have now.