What's your role going to be?

basti · 2011-07-20, 08:37 AM

What about we first learn what we can do, before we decide? :P

Death2All · 2011-07-20, 08:41 AM

I'm fairly certain I'll just run around as a grunt as I always did in the original PS. Outdoor MA fights were always my favorite and I'd love to have a pimped out Pulsar and destroy people. I'm really interested to see the kind of things you can increase in the talent tree system with your weapons/vehicles. Hopefully it doesn't give a veteran player too much of an advantage.

Destroying noobs is always great fun, but I don't want to deter people away from the game because I weapon stats are vastly superior to their default weapon.

Bags · 2011-07-20, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by DeeTwoEh

I'm fairly certain I'll just run around as a grunt as I always did in the original PS. Outdoor MA fights were always my favorite and I'd love to have a pimped out Pulsar and destroy people. I'm really interested to see the kind of things you can increase in the talent tree system with your weapons/vehicles. Hopefully it doesn't give a veteran player too much of an advantage.

Destroying noobs is always great fun, but I don't want to deter people away from the game because I weapon stats are vastly superior to their default weapon.

This, essentially. Though I don't think a noob will be able to tell that they're losing because of 20% more power. :x

Death2All · 2011-07-20, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by Bags

This, essentially. Though I don't think a noob will be able to tell that they're losing because of 20% more power. :x

20% just seems like a pretty significant percentage. If they lowered it to 5-10% it wouldn't be quite as daunting to me.

Kurtz · 2011-07-20, 03:13 PM

Buzz killer.

Bags · 2011-07-20, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by DeeTwoEh

20% just seems like a pretty significant percentage. If they lowered it to 5-10% it wouldn't be quite as daunting to me.

That's an extremely specialized vet versus a complete noob. I don't support it, but I don't think it will be very noticeable.

Tigersmith · 2011-07-20, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by DeeTwoEh

20% just seems like a pretty significant percentage. If they lowered it to 5-10% it wouldn't be quite as daunting to me.

They could change it during beta. Its all about balance. You never know.

Logit · 2011-07-20, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by Tigersmith

They could change it during beta. Its all about balance. You never know.

They seem pretty adamant about keeping skill is the deciding factor on who wins. So if during Beta it seems these "options," whatever they may be, are too much of an advantage I would have to assume they would scale them back somehow.

Clearly they don't want to chase everyone off before the game is even released.

Bing · 2011-07-20, 04:12 PM

I always loved getting a friend or two around or behind the enemy lines to unleash any kind of havoc we could. (Be it with engineering, hacking, infiltration or just well placed weapons fire.)

So I guess small quick transport combined with a versatile setup that adapts to whatever we find out there is my game.

Bags · 2011-07-20, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by Logit

They seem pretty adamant about keeping skill is the deciding factor on who wins. So if during Beta it seems these "options," whatever they may be, are too much of an advantage I would have to assume they would scale them back somehow.

Clearly they don't want to chase everyone off before the game is even released.

You can't be "adamant" about keeping skill the deciding factor and then give people +1 chaingun damage for playing longer.

ShowNoMercy · 2011-07-21, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Tigersmith

They could change it during beta. Its all about balance. You never know.

I assume dmg increases happen pretty high up the skill tree, so people may not get there in beta unless they provide an accelerated skill gain for testing purposes.

Logit · 2011-07-20, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by basti

What about we first learn what we can do, before we decide? :P

Speculation my friend.

I always play Medic in most every game I play. It's a fun play style to me.

IN SWG, I went Combat Medic. In EQ2 I was a Warden Druid, in WoW I played Resto Shaman.

I'm hoping they expand a lot more on support roles in PS2, and make the class trees very detailed so they can be super fun.

I think Adv Med was the only cert I always had.

basti · 2011-07-20, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by Logit

Speculation my friend.

Ah well, then: Commander. Someone needs to give your tarts directions.

Zulthus · 2011-07-20, 08:45 AM

OP's post made me think about how one has to specialize in flying to use a mosquito. So... Galaxy pilots will be useful once again as we won't be having mossie hot-dropping outfits/players anymore