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Should Terminator Armour And Armaments Be Restricted To Those Who Pay For It?

Discussion in 'Space Marines' started by BortherFury, Dec 25, 2013.

  1. Don't forget if the suits are awarded at the councils discretion, it'll become favouritism gear going towards only council members friends/guild mates/people they owe favours to or worse they'll auction the suites to the highest bidder.

    If it was awarded to the top X% of players in a given campaign period automatically then it wouldn't be so bad. Only the greatest members of the Chapter may recieve a suit.
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  2. Krake Hakula Arkhona Vanguard

    Well there little choice here.

    As much I do like the ideas that people are giving how to give terminator armors to only a selected few it is a bad bad idea from the business point of view of things and the community would not take it lightly. That's why I hope that BE will put allot of though into this before they make up their mind what to do.
  3. They should just let people do what they want. The whole point in a 40k mmo is that people will get to do and be everything they wanted to be in a 40k universe, dont take that away from people by forcing them to have to spend hours at a time doing stupid things just for some armor.
  4. Casper spar7an211 Subordinate

    I do not think everyone would be playing terminator cause it's just one class out of many and a team needs variation. How would a team in TF2 do if everyone was a heavy?
  5. Fireeye Fireeye Well-Known Member

    If on a pub server? Stomp everything in sight, given that two or three players are medics.
    If on a clan server? Perhaps less so.

    To get back on topic: As far as it regards me, I think that Terminator Armor has two defining qualities:
    a) It makes you dead 'ard.
    b) It is exceedingly rare, so you don't see hundreds of Terminators on the battlefield.

    The easiest way to incorporate those two features imho would be to make Terminator armor a temporary "buff" that lasts for a fixed amount of time or for a fixed number of respaws and costs a good amount of requisition. In turn, wearing Terminator armor would allow you to shrug of fire that would cut other marines in half, an having a stormbolter, machine cannon or a heavy flamer naturally is its own rewards.
    Of course there are those who want to play a Terminator, and who want to play them right know, but I think that simply allowing everyone and his mom to play Terminator right off the bat would require the latter to be nerfed so heavily that they would lose much of their appeal.
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  6. That's the point, but termis are'nt just an ordinary class , they are resource based. And if anyone who plays this is smart, then only some will play termis. Don't forget the other races and their termi class.
  7. XRuinX XRuinX Preacher

    Exactly. Termies should be available to all but upgradable as well. I think it would be better if a small achievement was aquired though to make it so that absolute new guys cant get in it first thing. Something small like 100 kills achieved. Players should be forced to grow accustomed to regular battle before they can don the terminator armor. Not because of lore, I even feel it should be that way with planetside 2 and their MAXs.

    An achievement that proves they understand how to play the game would not only make it so that the Terminators never look like bumbling idiots, but make it so when its unlocked it feels like you just unlocked a monumental achievement... even if its easy to get
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  8. Al'Chir Alchy Subordinate

    I don't want to be a termie, don't want to look fat. As for the question of this thread: HELL NO.

  9. Say to get Termie armour you need an achievement "Terminator Honours". Only players with the achievement can purchase, wear,repair and upgrade the armour and it is rewarded for say:

    Terminator Honours - Scored 1,000 Killing Blows in a single Campaign & Captured 1,000 Requisition Points in a single Campaign or recieved achievement "Hero of the Chapter".

    Hero of the Chapter - Achieved a heroic feat. e.g. Single Handedly defeated a super heavy tank/Taken down a Greater Daemon with 10 or less allies/Killing Blowed 8 of the enemies 10 War Council members.
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  10. XRuinX XRuinX Preacher

    I like your last two points but i feel the first is a little harsh. That is, i like achievements for the second two but dont believe that 1000 kills or so should be required to wear the armor in the first place.
    I was thinking more like 100 kills or if the character load-outs aren't permanent like RPGs but are interchangeable like COD/BF4/PS2 then 20 kills or so as each class. Just a test to make sure that the player should be accustomed to the game before they get the chance to wear the sacred and deadly Terminator armor.

    I love achievements though and hope there will be plenty of them, even when nothing is unlocked! What astartes doesnt want to show off their past glories?
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