Engineer / opertive, ultimate sabatouer

Im a fan of specialization, but gun to my head Id say a soldier / medic combo bc those are two classes that I feel are going to be always needed on the front lines.

The reason I put this thread out is that you have 20 ability slots. Each class has 9 abilities. That leaves you with 11 open ability slots. Granted 5 of them will be universal. So you can have seven open slots for other class abilities.

Ah thought there were 9 universals, are you only able to have 5 / character? If so link please

I was reading a thread and decided to make a thread about this. What are good class combos and what are their Pros. Im thinking a operative soldier for big time sabotage behind enemy lines.

That's going to happen for a while until people start to settle into the idea that "soldier" is a specialty in Brink. It was probably a poor class name considering how specialized the other names sound and how interchangeable all the classes are as actual combatants.

I'm starting to consider Double-Class Utility Players (I'm going to coin the acronym now as D-CUPs) a bit more as we learn more about abilities; it seems more likely that a character will be able to fully develop and still specialize in two classes without giving up much over a single class Specialist.

Which begs the question, what combos might be the most beneficial? I'm thinking an Op main with a Medic secondary could be quite useful, and maybe Medics doubling with Engineers.

If the information in the videos remains accurate, there 9 abilities that can be chosen per class (and used in addition to the 1 or 2 abilities that default with that class).

Level 1-4 characters must choose Universal abilities. This leaves 16 class-specific abilities that can be chosen. Therefore, you can completely spec out one class with 9 abilities and a second can be almost completely spec'd out with 7 abilities (or 6 if you want to throw in another higher-level Universal ability like Silent Running).

Still, assuming my guesses are relatively close to the reality that soon shall be revealed, we should be able to have pretty competent dual-spec'd characters.

I personally favor these combinations:

Engineer + Medic
Medic + Assault
Operative + Engineer

Their are nine universals, but 3 or 4 of them are unlocked at higher levels. The reason i said 5 is because you can't pis any class specific abilities until level 6

Engineer / opertive, ultimate sabatouer

There are 5 ranks:

R1: lvl 1-4
R2: lvl 5-9
R3: lvl 10-14
R4: lvl 15-19
R5: lvl 20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUv0MoP5Qs

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Rank 1.

Grenade shooting: you can shoot your own frag grenades out of mid arir

Battled hardened: One extra pip of health

Supply boost: Gives one extra supply pip

Combat Intuition: You know when an enemy has you in their sights

Sprinting grenade : you can cook and throw a grenade while sprinting

Sprinting Reload: Reload while sprinting

Sense of Perspective: Third person view when completing objectives, you can watch your own back

Rank 3.

Unsure

Rank 4.

Silent running: Footsteps and clothes make no noise. Sprinting and use SMART near enemies will not cause you to appear on radar

Rank 5.

Downed fire: Can use secondary weapon while incapped but have much less health while incapped.

Engineer abilities: Shown at 42 secs on the new vid.

Rank 1.

Standard Engineer kit: Ability to repair objectives and buff teammate weapons. (Also looks like they may gets mines with the kit)

Rank 2.

Kevlar plate: increased armor buff

Gearhead: (unsure)

Nerves of Steel: Quicker disarms

Turret 1: First turret

Rank 3.

Upgrade command post: doubles command posts effect for team

Turret 2: Second more powerful turret

Rank 4.

Increased mine capacity (unsure)

Improved weapon buff: you can't use the improved buff on yourself

Rank 5.

Gattling turret: level 3 turret and most powerful

Medic abilities: Shown at 1:01 in the new vid (looks like lots of new buffs, pity we aren't shown what is what)

Rank 1.

Standard medic kit: ability to buff teammates health and toss revive syringes.

Rank 2.

Adrenaline: temporary invincibility buff, but you take all damage at the end. can't self apply

Transfer supplies: gives one of your supplies to a teammate (unsure)

Rank 3.

Supplies buff: makes your supplies regen quicker (unsure)

Fleet of Foot: boosts sprint speed

Rank 4.

Improved life buff, cannot be used on yourself

Self Resurrection: revive yourself when incapacitated with long cool down

Rank 5.

Lazarus grenade: AOE revive grenade

Operative abilities: Shown at 24 secs and 52 sec (because apparently everyone loves operatives :ninja: )

Rank 1.

Standard Operatives kit: Allows you to hack and disguise yourself.

Rank 2:

Firewall: allows you to firewall CP's which makes it harder for enemies to take it back.

Homing beacon: allows you to track an enemy (unsure)

Comms Hack: gain intel from downed enemies, makes enemies appear on teams radar for a short time

Sticky nade: A grenade that sticks to the enemy and they only get 5 secs to get a teammate to remove it or boom, replaces standard nade

Rank 3.

Caltrops: Releases smoke and caltrops that will damage any enemy that attempts to move through it (round grenade)

Hack turret: reprograms turret to be friendly, more effective when done from behind :spotted owl: (turret wit operative mask)

Rank 4.

Control turret: allows you to take control of friendly turret and use it in a first person mode (remote control)

Cortex bomb: allows you to self destruct when incapacitated (exploding head)

Rank 5.

EMP grenade: slows HE charge, disables turrets (EMP nade)

Soldier abilities: seen at 10 secs (lots of unknowns as well)

Rank 1.

Standard Solider Kit: uses HE charge, resupply ammo, and access to molotov

Rank 2.

Armor piecing ammo (possibly): ammo supplied is more damaging (shield with bullets)

Flashbang grenade: temporarily will blind the enemy

Increased grenade cooldown: (unsure)

Scavenger: allows you to resupply supplies from dead enemies (bird claw)

Rank 3.

Kelvar armor: self armor buff (unsure)

Incendiary ammo: Hand out incendiary ammo to teammates

Rank 4:

Increased explosive range (unsure)

Increased explosive damage (unsure)

Rank 5.

Satchel charge: Like c4 can deploy up to 3 charges that can be remotely detonated.

Edit: This is the update with new abilities added and better layout.

Thanks Wraith, so in the "Rank 3: Unsure" part of the universal abilities list, do you know how many abilities become available?

And do the numbers add up to 58?

The Rank 3: Unsure refers to there being an Ability that you can get at Rank 3, but there has been no information regarding it other than the icon. No name, description, anything. We literally know nothing about this Ability. Hence, Unsure.

I counted 48 total Abilities off of that list just now. Is SD holding out on us with 10 cool Abilities or did they cut 10? :spotted owl:

i didn't know you could have DUAL class combo thingies!
i'll probably be a MEDIC (main) and ENGI (2ndary) i'll be the ultimate support guy

The idea is that you can setup your character to be able to play both, and then switch between them at command posts as the need arises.

Engineer / opertive, ultimate sabatouer

Engineer / operative, ultimate sabatouer