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[Bikari]

I played a little planetside 2 earlier and the other day, I've had .. Mixed feelings about it, the first time was join a game, finally manage to reach the frontline, die in 12 seconds to a galaxy hovering overhead. This went on for 40 minutes before I decided I'd had enough. The enemy teams just dominated the air, and when I tried to take a fighter up, an allied dropship slammed into me as I tried to takeoff.

The second time I tried to play, I spawned in on a squad part of a VERY large group of people defending the Crown from invasion, I setup a tank on the ridge and started helping to defend when I was pushed off the cliff by a friendly who wanted my spot. To say the least I was pissed but continued anyway to go on to about 20-22~ infantry kills, destroyed 3 tanks and a fighter. It was fun.

So far in my time, when I'm in a vehicle. I end up killed by my own team, at least once. And I'm still not great on the rate at which I gain certifications. 500-1000 for a new weapon, when I get 12 a day, and earn about 10-15 during play. It does feel like quite a bit of a grind from a free player standpoint and that kind of irritates me though I understand it's a free to play game. But still, the rate at which I gain these feels ridiculously low unless I'm missing something, or not doing something that just drops 300 on me at a time.

[majikero]

If you want free experience, join a base capturing team going for non-contested areas. You could stay behind a recently captured base and repair the base turrets and generators. Or you could get 30 certs and upgrade the sunderer for advance deployment plop it in a safe place near the enemy base.

[Imofexios]

Planetside2 is team oriented game and takes time to get into it. At time it is frustrating but generally i had really fun playing it.
You just need to find nice Outfit you like to play with.
What comes to earning certs. I make 200 certs a day and don't think its any grindy at all.
Capping bases gives more certs in hour than sitting in crown trying to kill BR50 players.
Pick class you like and start mastering it.
Engineer and medics get your certs up nicely by doing the supportive role.
Never find that deploying sundy get that much, 2xp for spawning troop and repairing turret gives 50 or so.
I do not care about making certs, i'm all for winning more fun.

[Satarus]

Added option to toggle off inverting steering controls when a tank goes into reverse.

YES!  Yes!

[majikero]

Most of the repair certs if from the repair gun certification thing.

[darkrider2]

Its perfectly normal for an entire front to be bogged down in one facility (*cough* biolabs *cough*) while the third faction just captures the rest of the continent.

I used to play engineer almost exclusively, but since then tank mines have been nerfed, they are still useful, now that I don't have my instant C4 of sundy death I just use engineer while piloting vehicles. AV turret is still amazing, though people have learned how to counter it better nowadays, and it makes you target #1 on every tankers list.

Medic is my second class, for infantry firefights, having medics around exponentially increases your teams fighting ability. I wish more people would play medic. I use it when playing solo too, cause a medic can heal himself, which is just amazing when you don't have a team around.

I only use heavy to spam pheonix's out from cover. Apart from that I don't know why this class is used so much, it seems every second person I kill is a heavy.

And I'm trying to get good at infiltrator sniping, ever since the splash damage nerf, tank battles aren't prevalent and its pretty much infantry zerg all the time, so this class just became way more useful.

[miauw62]

Yeah, it takes some time to get into PS2. You have to learn where to walk, where not to walk and to use the pubbie masses as meatshields and danger indicators. You should also find a good outfit, not even join them, but just join their platoons whenever they're up. Also, you should play NC because fuck yeah NC.

[Toaster]

If you play to have fun and not to get certs, you'll find yourself doing both.


That said, if you engineer even a little bit, get the first rank of tank mines.  Even if you only switch to engy long enough to throw down mines in a good spot then switch back to whatever other class of choice, they're still awesome.  Nothing like seeing "+500 XP Magrider Kill  +300 XP Extreme Menace Kill" pop up randomly to brighten your spirits.

[darkrider2]

It is truly the best feeling in the world when I can say to my outfit "hey, remember when we mined that road?"

[TolyK]

Same here.
I somehow got a triple sunderer kill with 2 mines at one time. Made me and my friend laugh, and laugh, and laugh...
And then I opened the silencer for my sniper rifle, and went to playing infie/engie 40/40% of the time XD

[Bikari]

Well, there were about, I dont know? Must have been about, 9-11 tanks in this area? I did nab some screenshots of it all >: the minimap only manages to show about half the aircraft and vehicles in the area.

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That 'you have committed suicide' in the chat is from where I'd been pushed off the cliff in my Lightning, but screw you guys I still got a Prowler.

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And then we were finally able to push across the bridge cause some nutjob in a Max was killing anyone who dared approach their vehicle spawn and prevented tanks from shooting back. So yeah, this was my the first time I enjoyed the game, because two squads were actually coming together to push across the bridge, my usual experience in the game has been a squad of 12 random individuals who all want to do their own thing so more often than not I'm stuck behind enemy lines on my lonesome with a sniper rifle and all the time in the world as I hang around for people to pop up.

[Toaster]

Let me second the recommendation that instead of joining random squads, look for outfit-based squads in the social list.  You'll quickly figure out which outfits are organized and competent versus which ones are filled with morons.

[miauw62]

I see what you're doing wrong: You're not fighting for freedom

[Toaster]

Well yes, that too.


At least he's not Vanu.

[miauw62]

True.