Classes? FUCK NO

[p0intman]

Source: live stream, they're implementing 'classes' ala bf2 and such with planetside 2.

FUCK NO, TERRIBLE IDEA. Let me customise MY character regardless of what I pick.

[SKYeXile]

yea, thats one off the good things about the current planetside you build your own character. i think if they wawnt a high amount of customisation like they say, classes isnot the way to go.

sure when you have to many cert points like the current PS, its OP, but with 23, its fine.

[Raymac]

Lets hear how it will be implemented. It sounds like they want to emphasize customization, so it may just be a launching point for your loadout.

[dpranker]

personally I don't see the issue, people already have their "class" loadouts, I always had my pilot loadout, HA/REXO loadout, MAX Loadout, etc, so if they make it easy to switch I don't think you will even see much of a difference

not to mention it could open up a lot of interesting progression paths to do (more leveling up of seperate classes = people playing for longer)

[Sirisian]

wow that skill thing and classes honestly scared me. What the hell are they thinking? Are they going to go micro-transaction on this and try to charge us to get skill points early? What is this? We're supposed to be all on a level playing field in the game. Not a "subscribe for 2 years and you'll do 10x more damage with an upgrade".

[Baneblade]

Considering there are only four 'classes' in PlanetSide Uno... agile dropper, Rexotank, infil, and newbie... I doubt this will be a bad thing really.

[etheral]

From the way they talked about, it seems that raymac is right. Also, Im sure they did mention that you can change classes on the fly (please correct me if im wrong)

[Surge72]

There were classes in Planetside anyway. What were 'Agile', 'Rexo', 'Max' and 'Infiltrator' if not classes?

[morf]

They said you can switch from class to class at will. But each one will have it's own progression tree. So you might be a lvl 18 max and a level 2 medic and from the way they worded it it seemed like you could switch when you respawn.

[SKYeXile]

they talked about having medic and enginner classes, thats not really like the planetside armours.

[Sirisian]

Good point it can't be that bad. I mean you'll just need to get your learning skills up and you can unlock heavy assault in 3 months after you unlock the suppressor after 1 month. :P

[wolfkrone]

I hate shooters with classes...

[Dorest0rm]

Hamma, ask classes questions.

LOTS OF THEM

[Surge72]

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

they talked about having medic and enginner classes, thats not really like the planetside armours.

Suppose not, but I wouldn't freak out about what they have said. They made it clear that it won't be classes in the same sense as MMORPG classes. Perhaps the idea of classes ala Battlefield isn't too bad, and they also made it clear that there will be a lot of customisation, so I'm sure we'll still be choosing our own load out.

[MgFalcon]

I can see this as a familiarization for players who have never played the first. The ones who also have been stuck playing shit like Battle Field and such, bringing in more players from other games