whats up with the backpacks?

[Nail]

“Please don’t lie. Nobody likes liars.”

people like assholes even less

[trigg3r]

[QUOTE=AmazinGLarrY;284849]Did nobody here play ET? Especially Nail? I know he didn’t…

Backpacks in that game were class specific, and they were pretty easy to spot. QW was a bit different, but only just. It was still easy to recognize different classes in that game. I really doubt (again) based on their other games, they’d limit class recognition to a pair of freakin gloves.

Please god, don’t let me be wrong.[/QUOTE]
if you watch the latest videos, every class is wearing the same backpack

This is from another thread:

the class gloves are for first person rather than third, and they’re more of a fun bit of detail/subtle hint than a primary indicator.

As for enemy players, you can easily tell what class they are by the cunning expedient of just looking at them. Their class icon pops up right alongside their health bar. HUD icons get a bad press, but they have the useful ability of always facing you and always being visibly lit. In the end clarity was the over-riding priority : )

[amazinglarry]

[QUOTE=Nail;284908]“Please don’t lie. Nobody likes liars.”

people like assholes even less[/QUOTE]

Yeah that’s true, but that doesn’t stop everybody from having one.