Stats and abilities

[Slimjim]

Will there be say, as you level stats that will increase your hp and armor and what not? I know its a fps and all, but will you recieve stats that you can stack in those kind of catigories? And will there be class specific little abilities to make it unique (yes yes, I know its a fps, not everquest or WoW) Like say the enforcer is the front man of the battleground, he will have a ability in his arsenal that will reduce damage taken by 15% for 20 seconds? The Avenger could get a ability to alter his rate of fire for a few seconds, and maybe the phantom gets like a 25 second stealth or like a high charged sniper shot that will be on a lengthy cooldown?

[Benny]

There will be class and race specific abilities that you gain access as you level up. Enforcers will have heavy armor and can take much more damage, naturally making them the ones you have fighting in the front. Avengers got medium armor. Phantoms got light armor, and dosen't take much damage. They need to be sneaky and have a good aim (I think the phantoms have cloaking / invisibility as a class ability. Heard someone say that in an E3 video)
We'll probably not have damage reducing stats, but there's an ability that causes headshots dealt to you not to be instant-death. Maybe other abilities that enhanches your survivability? We don't know that yet.
As for stats on your performance, I think we'll have stats such as aiming and speed...and similar things. Strength and intellect dosen't have much to say here though.

[Slimjim]

Hmm neat, but I know they have related attributes, like what they do and the armor they can wear, but have you heard anything about enforcer or avenger abilities yet?

[Benny]

Nope, not as I can remember atleast. But they will most certainly have that too.

someone said, though, that this game will not feature "classes", and that we build up our character from the bottom. We chose where to spend our points, on speed, stealth, firepower, and such things. I'm not sure, I personally think there will be classes. But it would be cool to build up your own character too. I've heard rumors there will be a limit to only one character per account on each server. I'd like to play both Avenger and Phantom, and I'd prefere to play both on the same server.


Hm, I lost thread on whatever the hell I'm writing. Need sleep now. Goodnight!

[Guyver]

No, there are the 3 classes as previously stated. But, weapons and armor are taken care of via licenses. You use points earned from battle to earn licenses. Alot like how FinalFantasy 13 did it. Of course, the idea of wasting points just so you can wear a hat is not very appealing. Heres an example, any idiot can't walk into a gun shop and ask for a shotgun. Any idiot can't just drive a car with out getting in trouble with johnny law.

[Grind]

Technically any idiot can walk into a shop and get shotgun, but some classes have to spend more license points to get a certain gun. Say you pick to be a phantom (by the way I'm pretty sure they stated that you pick your race and then your class, so it's safe to say that there will be designated classes, the point is that those classes can be customized a HUGE amount), now the phantom is labled as the sneaky sniper, but you want your phantom to have a shotgun to go with his sniper rifle. You can do this but you would have to spend more license points to get it. The difference being, if you were an enforcer maybe you would only spend 1 license point for the ability to use a shotgun, and if you were a phantom you would have to spend two.

So there will be classes, but as you level your character you will be able to customize him/her into a character that meets your playstlye perfectly.

As to having basic stats that you can put points into or that get upgraded with every level.

Ex: you reach level 6! your stamina increases by 2 and you do 6 more damage with each bullet.

I'm pretty sure there won't be anything like that. Rather, you will gain abilities in the form of sockets on your armor. These abilities are attatched to your armor and let you do things such as: double jump, headshot protection, stealth, to name the few that we know about.

That's pretty much what is known as of now anyway, as you'll see a lot all over these forums is pretty much just the little bit we know and then the rest of how we think it will be or how we hope it will be

[Guyver]

That's the thing though. Bullets won't do more damage depending on your stat. Guns are placed at ranks and each rank of the gun has a set damage. A class guns do the most damage while E class does the least damage. And new licenses allow you to use better classes weaponry. The source for this information is the latest issue of MMO Magazine. I wanted to scan the article and post it but my scanner is broken.