[Kurtz]

I am by no means advocating prone in planetside 2, but I do want to dispute the theory that prone leads to camping.

Prone is necessary to avoid headshots from snipers, grenade launcher & AT spam on your position.

BFHeroes and other games without prone are annoying because you can only crouch behind things which doesn't protect you 100% from aoe spam and headshots. Dying to something that wouldn't have killed you if you could only have gone prone is more annoying that the 1 random idiot who lays in the corner and gets maybe 3 kills tops before hes knifed.

As for adding in prone after beta, It would be very unlikely but not impossible as they would have to redo every character model to include the prone animations and add the code in to trigger them in addition to all the accuracy balancing from the new stance.