just to clarify, is this kits that dead soldiers have dropped or ones that spawn

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You just don't know when to give up, do you Ty ?

For pick-up kits myself. Except from fallen soldiers. I actually don't miss those, strange as it might sound. Let dropped special kits be retrievable, though, I'd like that. This'd allow for things like Pilot kits on That Combined Arms map, as well as splitting up classes so that you don't have to have few classes with many weapons and equipment.

If everyone are to be able to pick up every kit, there should be a delay between picking up kits so that you can't just pick up a medic kit, heal yourself, and go back to your old kit. I'm actually fine with doing things like this, but switching right back to your kit after you do it gets on my nerves.

Edit: This has been tried before.

Edit: Reply to stardestroyers: There are already armouries, with weapons racks and everything, they're just all empty.

Heh heh, consider asking them? Ty's been harping about this for as long as I can remember. This is just his latest ploy !

So, does that mean you'd consider asking them about pick-up kits?

Having specialist kits would be cool. PR does a great job with it - limited pick-up kits work great there, increasing the number of classes available while keeping the number of specialists down.

For the alternate class models, though (which hasn't really been commented on yet)... I'd say that having Rebel Support use a Wookie model wouldn't be too much of a stretch - they've already got Bowcasters, as well as that different machete-like melee weapon. I'm split on having a female class in particular, though - first of all, it's stereotypical to have certain kits be female... but it's just as stereotypical to have an all-male army.

...but, hold on - if pick-up kits aren't allowed because of voice commands, mightn't adding Wookie/Female voices be just the problem the devs are thinking of? AFAIK, all voices on each team use the same soundset, and even if they don't... is it possible to bind a voice to a specific kit? Not to mention that picking up kits would look strange - if a Wookie grabs a pickup kit, do they change into a human? I'm possibly mistaken, but I assume that each class has one model tied to it. If that model is human, then a Wookie would no longer look like a Wookie after grabbing a human kit.

Gah. I just discovered that I really know almost nothing about the 2142 coding engine. If a dev can take a break from testing/developing 1.2, could they give us a word on the feasability of these potential changes?