Combat gameplay/objectives

[ChrisPsY]

hey, just a few questions about this game.
At the mo i play planetside and love it but i cant help feeling that im putting all this time into a game thats dying, Im yet to play a game from the start i always end up starting it when every on knows so much about the game and its on its last legs.
so i know u can level up in 2 different ways, fighting and quests. My questions are on the fighting part.
What is the main fighting objective, like in planetside its global domination taking it facility by facility untill you controll the cont and moving on to the next cont getting benefits for your empire and gaining exp points as you go. Will there be multiple camps/bases to fight for or is it just 1 big place with different arenas to fight for the sole goal of gaining exp. Im a massive quake fan and loved the fast style game play in quake 3 where as games like cs are slow and dull full of people willing to sit in a corner for minuits on end with a sniper rifle. Planetside kinda combined quake and cs alittle accomodating killwhores and snipers and added the extra for people who enjoy supporting/artilary.
so if anyone could clear up the basic objectives of this game other than leveling up and doing quests id be greatful

also do you see enemy races in neutral zones where you cant kill them? because it would kinda ruin the game to have to be in specific areas to fight, fair enough there has to be a 'sanctuary' but not one shared by both sides. has there been a video released on the ingame combat yet does any1 know?

thanx alot

[ThaDoggPound]

I'm pretty sure the objective is to get these lunarite power node things im not sure what they are exactly tehy coukld be inside an encampment etc but imagine these nodes as the computers in bases in planetside.

[Landain]

Originally Posted by ChrisPsY

What is the main fighting objective? like in planetside its global domination taking it facility by facility untill you controll the cont and moving on to the next cont getting benefits for your empire and gaining exp points as you go.

For PvP control of the Lunarites is the objective. They are what give power to your facilities.

Originally Posted by ChrisPsY

Will there be multiple camps/bases to fight for or is it just 1 big place with different arenas to fight for the sole goal of gaining exp?

There is one large PvP Arena. Kijong Kang says in one interview that it will hold 120 people. In another interview, he says it will support "hundreds" of people. The speculations in these forums is that it will be 60v60 but the bottom line there is that Kijoing Kang and Webzen haven't answered that question yet. When he said it will support "hundreds" of people, that implies that it supports at Least 200. WE can only speculate further in attempting to answer that question. We'll have to wait for E3 in May. There will be several PvE instances for you and your clan mates to fight the Hybrid in order to gain XP which leads to Levels and additional Skills, armor, weapons and equipment. There will also be smaller PvP instances that you and your clan mates can fight the opposting faction much like you may have done in Core Combat or possibly in BattleGrounds of WoW.

Originally Posted by ChrisPsY

Im a massive quake fan and loved the fast style game play in quake 3 where as games like cs are slow and dull full of people willing to sit in a corner for minuits on end with a sniper rifle. Planetside kinda combined quake and cs alittle accomodating killwhores and snipers and added the extra for people who enjoy supporting/artilary.
so if anyone could clear up the basic objectives of this game other than leveling up and doing quests id be greatful.

Kijong Kang is focusing on the PvP aspect and the "twitch" FPS of Quake. He is developing Huxley to be more advantageous to the FPS gamer rather than the RPG or slower combat style gamer. Your question, here opens up a host of other questions that Kijoin Kang has not answered yet and we'll have to pay attention in may to what comes out.

Originally Posted by ChrisPsY

also do you see enemy races in neutral zones where you cant kill them? because it would kinda ruin the game to have to be in specific areas to fight, fair enough there has to be a 'sanctuary' but not one shared by both sides.

There are two major cities in Huxley. Nostalonia is the Spien City with no Alternatives allowed and Eska for Alternatives with no Sapiens allowed. In his last interview he hints at a third City in a PvP area. Expect combat in built up areas.

Originally Posted by ChrisPsY

has there been a video released on the ingame combat yet does any1 know?

nothing this specific yet. the trailer showed combat, you can only derive conclusions from that. Although that did show Hybrid attacking Alts and sapiens attacking Alts who are already in combat with Hybrids and then hybrids attacking sapiens--a little 1 on 1 on 1 action going on. Kind of like those continents with VS, TR and NC all going at it together.

[Mjolnir]

i'm actualy for ingame areas where both sides can work together against Hybrids. granted these would be few and far between but they would be something interesting from the norm.

[connnnn]

Any time you have a mission area with 3 sides (Hybrids being the 3rd), you have the potential for 2 sides teaming up against another. If the Hybrid side is tough enough, you'd probably see the 2 opposing human sides fight together... to a point, at least. Then you might see them fight vs each other for the spoils.