News: Higgs GDC gametrailers interview - Page 4

Atheosim · 2012-03-20, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by Malorn

Ya clearly looks like some sort of super-shielding ability that is temporary. Shield glows bright as a clear visual indicator that it is on and he absorbed many shots. Might be invulnerability, or just really strong damage reduction. Seemed to last about 5-6 seconds.

Is what you're referring to the same effect in the GDC videos when any class was shot? I remember Light Assaults and Medics and such also glowing brightly when being shot.

Graywolves · 2012-03-20, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by Malorn

srsly, all you people focusing on the knife and you completely missed the invulnerable rexo, lol

It looked like the player could barely hit the Rexo more than a few times so I haven't given it thought.

NCLynx · 2012-03-20, 08:22 PM

The reaver on fire is awesome, can't wait to see near death flaming vehicles in game.

Bags · 2012-03-20, 09:06 PM

Yeah, shield glow should stay, but not as bright.

The Desert Fox · 2012-03-21, 05:28 AM

Personally I hope they keep the backstabbing in. They need to watch to make sure it's not OP but I would really enjoy the thrill of backstabbing.

DxC · 2012-03-21, 06:51 AM

Did anyone else hear Beta in a few months?

Also I dont mind to much about backstabbing / if people get that close to you aka a cloaker then fine but if someone say a light assault started jumping around stabbing people then that will be a problem

sylphaen · 2012-03-21, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by DxC

[...]if someone say a light assault started jumping around stabbing people then that will be a problem

You mean a situation, for example, where a light assault could get on a roof to ambush players exiting the door below and instant ninja-jump-knife them in the back ?

The main reason I am against instant kills with knives is because I think it makes using the knives too trivial. You could still make knife kills in PS1 even without OSOK backstab and it required quite a lot of skill to do.

In the midst of a large battle, I got low on health and retreated for cover. I pulled my med app and... got knifed by an infil. Everyone around was too busy to catch the guy. Said more simply: I got owned.
>.<

If anything, I would ask for knife kills to not show up in the public kill list and/or to make almost no noise.

I find instant kill backstabs hardly to be exciting... In PS1, even boomers gave players a chance to survive should they react asap to the threat (i.e. at once when they hear the beep).

I'm trying to remember the name of that NC cloaker who always seemed to manage to get inside VS spawns and boomer people... He had a funny character name that involved pop... or something like that.

LZachariah · 2012-03-21, 09:06 AM

Really good Infiltrator footage in this video. I think all of that looks solid; you can notice the Infiltrator, but you quickly lose sight of them. I think that a one-knife-kill out of stealth, or from behind, is perfectly reasonable.

~Zachariah

DxC · 2012-03-21, 01:43 PM

In many ways it reminded me of the spy from TF2 I hated that class so very much going around as a pyro setting fire to everything was the only way to be sure!

I guess another way to look at this is wait and see till it starts and then get a feel for it see how it plays out so far its just looking and not touching id rather do looking and touching!