Marksman Q/A

[Paek]

I spent the whole test playing with my oh so lovely Marksman of doom and would love to share with you all the information I can(including using Tyler's Pistol xD) ....


Ask away

[dirtiestdamhip]

Did you personally go for Dual one handed guns? or one BFG?

[Scourge]

Is there a Crosshair/reticle in 1st person mode? I didn't see any in the videos.

[Paek]

Did you personally go for Dual one handed guns? or one BFG?

I enjoyed using one BIG gun as it allowed me to focus on the strength of that gun and using my skills effectively.

Is there a Crosshair/reticle in 1st person mode? I didn't see any in the videos.

Yes, unless you hit tab(AUTOMAP) twice, which brings automap in the center and covers the crosshair.

[LFox]

Any chance you can list the skills and what they do? As well as an example of how more points benefits? Alot to ask but yeah that's what i'm interested in.

[maiku00]

how do nades work? like them?

[TPJ]

Originally Posted by maiku00

how do nades work? like them?

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA *deep breath* HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Man, you asked the right person.

[Paek]

Originally Posted by LFox

Any chance you can list the skills and what they do? As well as an example of how more points benefits? Alot to ask but yeah that's what i'm interested in.

Sure, <reminded to email Tyler for that list> xD

Here is an example, using the "developer" names as I don't remember the Bill Roper fancy sounding names other than SHOCK AND AWE.


Wait.. YEAH THATS RIGHT SHOCK AND AWE

The marksman class has a few "main" skill trees, one is a beacon AOE effect.. like a call down ability that emanated from a grenade. They cover the different damage types with different skills.. like a Fire one, electric one, and physical one.

The electrical call down is called "SHOCK AND AWE".

There are also grenades which can bounce around and then blow OR if you hit a monster directly with them they EXPLODE right there and then. AOE effect.

This would be a good time to go into the different damage secondary effects. Each time you do damage you have a chance to produce a secondary effect based on teh secondary effect rating on the weapon. Vanilla like fire->burning(5% health or some crazy dot that doesn't last long) and neat ones like phantasm -> shifted/planarwarped/uh uh uh COOL PURPLE EFFECT(2x damage).

okay! So grenades aren't meant to do damage so much(though as before level 10 they did do DAMAGE heh hehheheheeh) but rather cause the secondary effects. When you put points into a grenade skill it ups the value for causing the secondary effect more than damage.(grenades are on a global cool down with each other, so no spamming). They also don't cause your weapons firing delay to reset so you could have a HUNKER of a weapon(like Tyler's pistol<a huge rocket rifle>) to become a spammer of death. They may change that xD. But yeah pistols don't slow you down at all and happen fast.

All skill effects(like damage) naturally go up when you level as well.

The grenade skills are my favorite ones as no other MMO or even FPS makes them feel really right except HGL. (this is why I prefered 2handed weapons) I'd bind left click to fire weapon and right click to the grenade of choice as their cooldown was rather fast. It let me make the most out of any situation with an accurate one person at a time gun and nice AOE skill for CC. Also it made for the ultimate panic button when you throw it in the monster's face as its on you.

ALSO STANCES! I love'd me some stances for hunters. You could get two different stance skills, tactical stance(crouch) and sniper stance(zooom+crouch). Both of which obviously have their advantages and disadvantages. These two skills also had passive skills that buffed them or made them do more. The Marksman also got a sweet skill we'll call Rapid fire which essentially fired three fast bursts of a weapon... great for those long delay weapons when you just absolutely gotta kill everything in the room.


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[Syl]

can you switch the view to a third person view ? (accordingly to the video, yes...)
is there an attribute which improve his damage ? (templar is about strengh and cabalist is about magic, what about the hunter)
is there really a difference in gamplay between a marksman and a templar with guns ? I mean... reduced hit box or something ? does it feel like a FPS ? (even if HGL isn't a FPS)
the marksman is about ranged damage, does he have some skills to deal some melee damage without relying on bots/drones ? (edit: I've just read your previous post about the grenade )
does he have some kind of protection like the templar shield ?

[Paek]

Originally Posted by TPJ

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA *deep breath* HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Man, you asked the right person.

I think I freaked out a few devs when I missed a monster with my first grenade so I sat there grinning as it damaged me waiting for my cooldown to be up :X...

I did it all for the gibs.