What role do you want to play

[Zarparchior]

Ugh... That reminds me of playing Half-Life with my brother. HE CHEATS with that god-forsaken Sniper Crossbow. One hit kills, even if it's in the foot.

I hope for my sake snipers are toned down a little... If they're over-powered this'll turn into SniperSide.

[Hamma]

well on the bright side, they cant lie down.. only kneel

[Gooey]

For every advantage there will be a equal disadvantage.

Stealthsuit anyone?

Snipers will be recon and support units. I am pretty sure that this game will be designed with teamplay in mind, so that no lone snipers can just run around without the danger of getting taken out.

I hope so anyway, heh.

[Tetsugaku]

Ah, so many choices . . .

Playing a heavy looks good for the same reason being the big dude in TF2 is fun, stand still and FIRE! but I think we'll get bored quickly

Second choice was a lone sniper, get a bike and / or a stealth suit, one big long gun and sit on a hill for ages, but thats OK in CS, u know 8 terrorists are gonna run round corner A or corner B in the next 4 minutes - If I'm playing PS I could be there for 5 hours before somebody gets in my scopes

So a new plan. Now I quite fancy leading a DSV Rapid reaction force using my squad, nice couple of dropships, armed up with a couple of tanks, few heavies and some nice fast troops, pop other the horizon, drop off the troops as near to the target as possible. Then take off and offer covering fire from the gunners whilst coordinating the attack from the sky. Now I have this planned to such detail - I practically dream about it, pls don't spoil my illusion!

[Flashingfish]

/me pops the bubble

The Bolt Driver (Planetside's only sniper rifle to be announced) has a very slow refire rate, because you have to reload after every shot.

This means we won't get close combat sniping ala UT =]

Also, it's been said that there aren't one shot kills (don't quote me on that) so all in all you'd have to be a good sniper to have any real effect.

[Shiver]

If you watch one particular video (I have one called spelletjesgarnaal_ E3_2001_PlanetSideMovie_1.wmv) which shows the bolt driver in action.

"My heavy weapon right now happens to be what we call a bolt driver, it's our sniper rifle. One shot ... a lot of damage but it only carries one shot at a time."

I'm sure I see the odd close range one shot kill when it's being used (whoever he shot at must have been low on health), but my main point is that the reload time/refire rate is not bad at all! I'm looking forward to that weapon, if you've got the aim it could be acceptable at close range as long as you're not up against anything particularly devastating (ok so it's probably useless short range ).

[Sky Marshall]

I think pilot or commander. But the pilot role is going to be incredible. That is something I really love in T2 and I know that PS is going to make it unbelievable. The commander role will be superb as well, I love to design tatics and battle plans and adjust on the fly during the course of battle. Man, I cannot wait for this to come out!

[Tetsugaku]

Being a Pilot will be even better if they implement the multiple controls that I want to have

Mouse n Keyboard for shootin, and a proper joystick for flying

[TheSHiFT]

dropship

[eMaGyN]

my role : Queen Biznatch.




eMa

[ChrisMOG]

I wanna be a high-tech redneck. You know in StarCraft in one of the first terran movies, there are some rednecks driving around on patrol in their dunebuggy? I wanna do something like that, however I dont wish to be eated by Zerg.

[TheSHiFT]

lol

"i love u sarge"

[The~Analog~Kid]

"There was nothing to do. He set the rifle down. This was an execution. As if by signal, Russian troops began to file down Groski Prospekt. Repp, firing since 0930, checked his watch. 1650. An eight-hour day, and not a bad one. He chalked up the score in the seconds he had left. Three hundred and fifty rounds he had fired, couldn't have missed more than a few times. Make it ten, just to be fair. That was 340 men. Then the three on the stairway with the pistol. Perhaps two more in the grenade blast. Three hundred and forty-five kills. 345. Three hundred and fo--.
The shell went into the tower forty feet below Repp. The Russians had gotten fancy, they wanted to bring the tower down with Repp inside it, poetic justice or some such melodramatic conceit. The universe tilted as the tower folded. The line of the horizon broke askew and dust rose chokingly. Repp grabbed something as gravity accelerated the drop..."

-- Stephen Hunter's "The Master Sniper"


I'm defintely going to start out as a sniper. The stealth suit and a sniper-friendly set of implants really appeal to me. I doubt I'll ever match Heir Repp's feat, but it's good to have a goal, don't you think?

[Draco062]

Sniper mainly, & gunner for any vehicle.

[Zarparchior]

I rest my case.

SniperSide.