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[Doomblade187]

Ran with Imposition tonight on Amerish and had quite a bit of fun. It was busy on Amerish, it seems- something that doesn't always happen.

Also, ridge-fighting is always fun.

[Silent_Thunder]

So things are about to get interesting on Matherson. Seems some drama went down regarding The Enclave and AoD, the two largest TR outfits. No clue what the deal is ; and that isn't a discussion for here anyway, but the important bit is that TR numbers seem to be down quite a bit compared to before, to the point they actually got gated on Indar during primetime tonight, and barely had a pop advantage on Esamir. So if they stay the way there are, seems our neighbors to the north might soon be our biggest threat, not the TR.

[kaian-a-coel]

sooo... I tested the Lancer in VR today, and I concluded that it is utterly worthless.

First: you cant aim down/out of sights while charging. Can be slightly annoying sometimes. And a bug: sometimes it won't charge.

Now the low, low, low damage:
You need two fully charged shots to kill a single guy. That is about 6sec TTK. Same for MAXes.
Against armor it fares a bit better. Two fully charged shots plus two non-charged to kill lightnings, MBT and ESF. Ridiculously useless against liberators. Untested against sundies and gal. Silver lining: only one fully-charged shot (or four non charged) to destroy a flash.

On the plus side, the projectile speed is super-high.

So meh, won't buy.

[Jim Groovester]

I'm trying to learn the aerial game.

I enjoy pulling a mosquito, sort of flying around, shooting at stuff, missing, getting shot by an AA turret, a reaver, a skyguard, a liberator, and then maybe a lock on missile or two, dying, then waiting ten minutes before I can try again.

If I want to give some jackass 400 xp over and over as fast as I possibly can, shouldn't I be able to? I don't understand why vehicles are limited by both resources and timers.

/ragequitthenwhineaboutitonforums

[Flying Dice]

Mostly to make it slightly more difficult for masses of people to keep pulling vehicles and swarming some poor facility. Though frankly I've rarely been in a situation where I need to re-pull a vehicle and can't, and I only have the first three or so timer reduction certs for the ones I use. As long as you live decently long the timer will run down and the resources recover before you need to pull again. With ESF work the name of the game is survivability; it's better to come in low and fast, get a few hits, and get out, rather than coming in slow and level, getting a kill, and then being picked off.

Also of course rocketpods and A2A missiles. They're probably the most substantial incarnation of P2W in PS2, given that ESFs are pretty much worthless without them.

[Haschel]

I'm sitting on 1300 certs right now, maybe another 200 by the time the 2x exp is over if I'm lucky. I can't decide what to get though- rank 5 Flak armor for engineer or extended clips on MAX bursters. Engineer and MAX are my specialties, I try to focus on MAX more and fall back on engineer if I somehow am stuck on timer but really I just stay engineer most of the time because I don't do much teamplay and MAX needs support to really get the most out of it. The extended magazines seem like they would be really helpful regardless, as most ESFs start flying away with just a couple shells life to spare and going solo as a burster is pretty easy/effective. That last 11% explosive resistance on engineer would be nice though...

[TolyK]

I got 3k XP yesterday somehow. It said it was a liberator kill with some people, but I hadn't even put anti-tank mines on any pads, let alone shot anything at the sky...
Was it my flash that was somewhere in the middle of nowhere? o.0

Is flak armor that important for engineer? I use it about a third to half the time, usually to lay down mines and fix things.

[Toaster]

At rank 3 flak you can survive an AP mine from full.   Makes it a lot easier to run from a rocket podder as well.

And honestly, the other options aren't worth much.  I guess if you love grenades or want to carry around five tank mines, you could go that route.

[TolyK]

I've been going nanoweave so far... >.>
That probably makes me a derp.

[Knight of Fools]

You can survive one extra bullet of any damage with one rank of the armor upgrade. The fifth rank allows you to survive two extra bullets of the lowest damage.

This may not seem like much, but since most combat takes place well over 10 meters, where damage drop off begins, in practice the higher levels can help you survive quite a bit of getting shot. I've been able to feel the difference even at Rank 4. Fair warning, though: Rank 5 costs 1000 certs.

Of course, for fighting vehicles or storming explosive ridden hallways, Flak Armor is a heck of a lot more useful that a few more points of health.

[palsch]

I tend to only run nanoweave in smaller scale biolab fights. Ones where I know there won't be any armour or air to fight, where there won't be much in the way of grenade or rocket spam to dodge and where the mines will be in predictable places (or bugged like they are now and no threat at all).

That is to say, places where flak is totally worthless.

Nanoweave does help, but despite being universally more health, that health actually matters in far fewer situations than flak helps out. And the situations where flak does help it tends to be a huge advantage over nanoweave.

EDIT;
New use for Galaxies.

[Jim Groovester]

I unlocked the TR rocket pods with certs. Now I get to be the oppressor.

What other necessities do I need for a mosquito? Flares? Stealth? Radar? Nanites? M18 Rotary? M14 Banshee?

[Flying Dice]

Flares. After that, either A2A missiles if you can stand the grind, or the A2A primary if you can't. If the TR has anything comparable to the Light PPA, consider getting that (I get more use out of it than the photon pods).

[TolyK]

EDIT;
New use for Galaxies.

Tried this once... it's easier to use Scythes/your faction's ASF.

[Toaster]

True, but a Galaxy falling on your head is pretty damn distracting, which is nice when you're trying to throw mines.


Speaking of falling on your head, I was on a ridge over Splitpeak Pass firing down on the occupying VS when I got splattered by a friendly drop pod.  It was too funny to be mad.