Gamescom exclusive interview... any questions?

[Major Tom]

Hello

I am part of the GameOverCast team, an enthusiast video gaming podcast. We are going to Gamescom this week and have been lucky enough to get a chance to see Planetside 2 and will interviewing members of the development team.

All of the Gameovercast presenters are massive fans of the original game and keenly await Planetside 2 - it’s been a fight over who gets to do this interview, sadly it’s not me.

However my colleague radarhead has lots of questions lined up but would love to ask some directly from the fans and those in the Beta so if you have any do post them here and he will do his best to ask as many of them as he can - I will post a link to the podcast with the interview when we get back next week.

Thanks

Major Tom

[HeatLegend]

Will they allow server-switching and if so; does that apply for EU-NA switching aswell?

[ringring]

Originally Posted by HeatLegend

Will they allow server-switching and if so; does that apply for EU-NA switching aswell?

Do you mean having characters on different servers or moving a pre-existing character to another one, perhaps as a paid service as other companies do?

In your look-ahead after release, what do you have in mind as additional content (hopes he says more continents)?

[Diehard]

Southeast Asia will fall under which server? NA?

[Piper]

Good luck with the interview radarhead via Major Tom.

Been racking last remaining brain cell for something a bit left-field to ask and failing. How about...er...


Are there plans to use the Forgelight engine in other games, like perhaps a more traditional fantasy spells 'n' swords MMOFPS?

....not actually wanting one of those personally, just er....interested in the answer itself.

[Ivam Akorahil]

Will it be possible to have more than 2000 players per continent should beta test reveal that its possible?

[AThreatToYou]

Compared to PlanetSide 1 and other Free-to-play shooters, how big will the damage radius be on explosive weapons, and will they use a scaling damage model or a pre-set AOE damage amount at specific distances from the explosion?

Are there separate damage classes for specific unit types, i.e. LightArmor for LA, Medic, Infil; HeavyArmor for HA, Engineer, MAX Unit; LightVehArmor for Sunderer, ATVs, Lightning; etc. If the answer then is "yes", will MAX units have their own damage class, or will they be classified as either Infantry armor or Vehicle armor?
(To rephrase that: Will a tank shell/HAs missile/Infils sniper do the same amount of damage in theory to all units or will the damage dealt differ depending on the units "class" of armor)

[Heaven]

I would like you to ask them, when do they plan to show us/add the classic weapons. etc...

NC- Jackhammer and the Pheonix
TR- MCG and the Striker
VS- Lasher and the Lancer

Thanks

[VikingKong]

Originally Posted by Diehard

Southeast Asia will fall under which server? NA?

You can play on any server you want, regardless of location.

edit/ Assuming the asian service is comparable to the NA/EU ones.

[Duskguy]

will there be an option of transferring an already made character to a new server?

any thoughts on adding support type aircraft with illumination flares, smoke, etc?

are they considering making lighter armed units move faster than heavy units, or will they all be the same?

and if they can talk about it, how would they implement a seemless world and naval units?

[Zehtuka]

What do you have planned in terms of outfit appearance customization? (think clan logo's, uniforms etc)

[MacXXcaM]

Originally Posted by Piper

Are there plans to use the Forgelight engine in other games, like perhaps a more traditional fantasy spells 'n' swords MMOFPS?

Or like a Mount&Blade/PlanetSide mix... *hint hint*

[JoCool]

Do you plan on having full joystick support for the countless aircraft on release?

[Duskguy]

Originally Posted by JoCool

Do you plan on having full joystick support for the countless aircraft on release?

i believe they will as matt higby mentioned he uses a stick, throttle and rudder setup. but wouldnt mind it confirmed anyway.

[Tatwi]

Here's one:

Can we have door, walls, enter/exit animations, the voice macro system, and vehicles that are actually fun to operate (better turning, more ammo), like we had in Planetside 1? PS2 is after all, a Planetside game.