Abilities and upgrades

(crazyfoolish) #1

The new customization videos have led me to believe that upgrades and ‘perks’ will not be balanced. For example what could be the advantage of a standard magazine compared to a sub machine gun magazine.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing but what do you think about this?

(tokamak) #2

Weapons with a lot of upgrades switch very slow.

(Exedore) #3

There are positives and negatives to every weapon upgrade. We have not begun aggressively balancing those yet, but we’ve taken care to make sure it’s very easy for us to iterate on.

(Zarlor) #4

Every perk probably raises some attribute and at the same time lowers another for balance. They have many attributes to work with from what I’ve seen (damage, range, rate of fire, accuracy, stability, reload speed, equip speed, ammo clip). For instance, one that raises damage probably lowers rate of fire. Higher rate of fire = lower accuracy? Maybe increasing the clip size lowers the equip speed? This is the stuff they’ll work out balancing I’m sure.

(BomBaKlaK) #5

I find this :

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and this :

classes et equipements:

Soldier:
Sticky Grenade - Throw grenades that stick to surfaces, and players.
Improved Resupply - Your ammo kits give more ammo
Double Whammy - Throw 2 grenades instead of one, every time you throw a grenade. Each grenade does less damage than a standard grenade.
Grenadier - You have double the amount of grenades
Explosives Expert - You take less time to arm your charges

Engineer:
Grease Monkey - Building and repair time are decreased
Turrets Syndrome - Your turrets have more health and do more damage, but cost more energy to build.
Increased Mines - You have double the amount of landmines.
Turret Sentry - When your turrets detect enemies, their position will be revealed on the minimap.
Firewall - Your turrets cannot be hacked, but deal less damage and cost less energy to deploy - Quantity over Quality.

Medic:
Adrenaline Boost - Allies that you revive will gain a boost of speed for 3 seconds.
Epidemic - Allies that are healed by your medkits gain a small health regen ability that will affect any nearby teammates for 5 seconds.
Second Wind - You have a self-revive skill with a long cooldown rate.
Overheal - Your medkits heal for 120%, but cost more to use.
Transfusion - You can convert ability points into health, and vice-versa.

Operative:
Saboteur - Can hack turrets to turn against their allies
Quick-change - Disguising time decreased
Hacker - Hacking times decreased
Cross-Examine - Every time you interrogate the same player, the amount of information he reveals will be increased.
Feign Death - Appear dead to enemy players, in hopes that they ignore you.

General:
Battle Hardened - Your health bar is increased slightly
Cyanide Capsule - After you are incapacitated, you have the option to swallow a pill and kill yourself, making it impossible for Operatives to interrogate you or steal your disguise.
Fast Hands - Increase reload speed with all guns
Heavy Hitter - Melee attacks deal more damage
Idiot Savant - Killing grants less xp, but everything else grants more.
Last Stand - The more damage you take, the more damage you deal.

(Seyu) #6

[QUOTE=BomBaKlaK;230690]
Operative:
Saboteur - Can hack turrets to turn against their allies
Feign Death - Appear dead to enemy players, in hopes that they ignore you.

General:
Cyanide Capsule - After you are incapacitated, you have the option to swallow a pill and kill yourself, making it impossible for Operatives to interrogate you or steal your disguise.
Idiot Savant - Killing grants less xp, but everything else grants more.[/QUOTE]

lol These ones are really awesome. :cool:

(Ragoo) #7

[QUOTE=BomBaKlaK;230690]
Second Wind - You have a self-revive skill with a long cooldown rate.
Overheal - Your medkits heal for 120%, but cost more to use.
Transfusion - You can convert ability points into health, and vice-versa.

General:
Battle Hardened - Your health bar is increased slightly
Fast Hands - Increase reload speed with all guns
Last Stand - The more damage you take, the more damage you deal.[/QUOTE]

Next Strogg Rambo-Medic, I love the game already : D

(tokamak) #8

I’m loving the abillities so far. Really nice job.

PLEASE rename this ‘Epimedic’:smiley:

There are quite a few nostalgic ones indeed.

How about a ‘the more damage you take, the faster you run’?

(BomBaKlaK) #9

ROFL !!! I saw the same about the Cyanide Capsule - “After you are incapacitated, you have the option to swallow a pill and kill yourself, making it impossible for Operatives to interrogate you or steal your disguise.”

sounds good for new type of missions :wink:

(DarkangelUK) #10

Where did you ‘find’ this information?

(Exedore) #11

I was wondering the same thing! Some accuracies, some innacuracies… but overall quite impressive!

(MILFandCookies) #12

If im not mistaken, those list of abilities were from a “what abilities would u like to see” sort of thread on the Bethesda forums?

edit: My belief was correct LINK

(Seyu) #13

By the way do you guys think there should be a xp award for using the Cyanide Capsule ?

Edit:

[QUOTE=MILFandCookies;230701]If im not mistaken, those list of abilities were from a “what abilities would u like to see” sort of thread on the Bethesda forums?

edit: My belief was correct LINK[/QUOTE]

/facepalm

(BomBaKlaK) #14

Our Clan //|AIE|\ got spy everywhere !!! :infiltrator:
Be carefull Paul, Locki, Ed, Richard, Exedore, and your team !! We have an eye on you !! :stuck_out_tongue:

Big Brother |AIE| is watching you !!! :infiltrator:

(tokamak) #15

I bought it fully. Those were really great abillities.

(Exedore) #16

It’s the image I’m mostly wondering about, there’s some effort there! I skim the Beth forums so the abilities list isn’t much of a surprise. :wink:

(BomBaKlaK) #17

I dont saw any rocket launcher but a lot of différent types of grenade launchers !!

If that’s true I say a big : >>>>>>>>>>> THANKS !!! :stroggbanana:

(SebaSOFT) #18

Did some of this information leaked from the BRINK booth to the Bethesda forums?

(SebaSOFT) #19

Did some of this information leaked from the BRINK booth to the Bethesda forums?

(tokamak) #20

The pictures are definitely photographed of a screen. They look gorgeous btw.