Classes: Difference between revisions

A class is whatever you build in the '''Build-a-class''' window: four items from the [[Loadouts|loadout system]] and a split of 10 points in the '''spec system'''. Your items decide how you fight, and your points decide how fast, how tough and how quick to recover you are. Then give it your look with [[Cosmetics]], body colours and skin tone.

Every class has 10 spec points to share between three corners: '''Pick''', '''Power''' and '''Support'''. In the editor you drag one handle inside a triangle; the closer it sits to a corner, the more points go there. The handle always works out to whole points that add up to 10, and the triangle takes on a blend of the three colours, which your class tile uses too.

! Corner !! Colour !! Gives !! At 0 points !! At 10 points

Hover the triangle to see your current split and what it gives. Some items change your stats on top of this: the [[Pet Rock]] adds 100 health and slows you to 80%, and carrying the [[Sniper Rifle]] halves your speed. A server can change how long regeneration waits after damage.

Each item has a '''cost''' in Pick, Power and Support. A cost is a minimum your split has to reach, not a price you pay: on each corner, your points must be at least the highest cost among your four items. The [[Minigun]] needs 8 Power, so a minigun class is a tough, slow one; the [[Bauble of Condensed Air]] needs 7 Pick, so its class is fast. Free items such as the [[Shotgun]], [[Pistol]], [[Pulse Rifle]] and [[Cast Iron Pan]] fit anything. Every item's cost is listed on [[Items]] and [[Weapons]], and in each item's infobox.

[[File:Spec triangle constrained.png|right|220px|With an 8 Power item, only the full colour part of the triangle can be chosen]]

With '''Limit to valid''' ticked (the default), the handle stays inside the part of the triangle your items can afford and the rest is greyed out. If your items together need more than 10 points, the triangle shows '''IMPOSSIBLE''' and the class cannot be applied until you swap something out.

To give you somewhere to start, the game comes with ten preset builds. A new profile gets all ten as its first classes, and the '''Load preset loadouts''' tile in My Classes adds them again at any time (as copies, so nothing you have is overwritten). Once loaded they are ordinary classes of your own: play them as they are, or change their items and points into something else. The presets can change between updates.

| Engineer || 2 / 2 / 6 || 200 || 6 m/s || 15 || [[Shotgun]] || [[Pistol]] || [[Hammerench]] || [[Struction Console]]

| Grenadier || 3 / 5 / 2 || 275 || 6.5 m/s || 5 || [[Grenade Launcher]] || [[Shotgun]] || [[Cast Iron Pan]] || None

| Gunner || 1 / 8 / 1 || 350 || 5.5 m/s || 2.5 || [[Minigun]] || [[Shotgun]] || [[Cast Iron Pan]] || None

| Marksman || 5 / 2 / 3 || 200 || 3.75 m/s || 7.5 || [[Sniper Rifle]] || [[Revolver]] || [[Cast Iron Pan]] || None

| Medic || 2 / 2 / 6 || 200 || 6 m/s || 15 || [[Mender]] || [[Shotgun]] || [[Cast Iron Pan]] || None

| Pyro || 7 / 3 / 0 || 225 || 8.5 m/s || 0 || [[Flamethrower]] || [[SMG]] || [[Cast Iron Pan]] || [[Bauble of Condensed Air]]

| Rocketeer || 2 / 6 / 2 || 300 || 6 m/s || 5 || [[Rocket Launcher]] || [[Shotgun]] || [[Cast Iron Pan]] || None

| Tank || 0 / 10 / 0 || 500 || 4 m/s || 0 || [[Minigun]] || [[Desert Eagle]] || [[Cast Iron Pan]] || [[Pet Rock]]

| Telekinetic || 4 / 4 / 2 || 250 || 7 m/s || 5 || [[Telekineater]] || [[Pistol]] || [[Cast Iron Pan]] || None

| Trooper || 3 / 4 / 3 || 250 || 6.5 m/s || 7.5 || [[Pulse Rifle]] || [[Pistol]] || [[Cast Iron Pan]] || None