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1: NC

2: NC and TR

3: NC, TR and Vanu

[Blizzlord]

I'm still holding out for counter-counter-intelligence though.  Enemy brings in a Galaxy, lands it cloaked.  Friendly sends out an infiltrator.  Drop pods provide orbital bombardment to the enemy galaxy.

As long as the impact does not kill the person in the drop pod, this may be a viable strategy.

Just remember to bring a few Heavy Support classes if the galaxy still holds.

[Rakonas]

I'm still holding out for counter-counter-intelligence though.  Enemy brings in a Galaxy, lands it cloaked.  Friendly sends out an infiltrator.  Drop pods provide orbital bombardment to the enemy galaxy.

Cloaked Galaxies?.. How does this work?
So long as I'll be able to hack an occupied galaxy and fly away with it I'll be happy with PS2.

[miauw62]

Okay, so:

• Drop pods can kill things when they hit.
• Drop pods are slightly aimable.

Sounds like cortex command.
(or what i heard about it, since i dont have it)

[forsaken1111]

Maybe Butthurt priests, but priests with aircraft that can out outmaneuver your VTOL crafts.

On the downside, purple jumpsuits. I think I'll go with a less maneuverable craft and not looking like a complete berk, thank you very much.

A group of CoD kiddies join the NC, hoping to score some 360NOSCOPE headshots with their bolt drivers.  They act like they're in a military, calling each other "sir" and yelling "tango down" every time they get a kill.  They're defending a base when a purple bus barrels through the gate.  Purple Rain plays over voice chat as dozens of Vanu soldiers drop from galaxies, turning their gritty military shooter into a disco laser rave.  As the final smurf is cut down by a force blade, his last sight is the purple spandex-clad man-ass of a Vanu infiltrator strutting away.

Cool fiction bro.

[Siquo]

He likes microcline, what did you expect?

[Nilocy]

Vanu are probably the most dishonourable of the 3, from my experiences in PS1 all they ever did was gen drop and ghost hack.

[cerapa]

Okay, so:

• Drop pods can kill things when they hit.
• Drop pods are slightly aimable.

Sounds like cortex command.
(or what i heard about it, since i dont have it)

It would be like Cortex Command if those drop pods were filled with hundreds of crabs, creating a lag-inducing amount of crab shrapnel that destroys everything in the immediate area. But I suppose the crabless approach works too.

Im personally gonna go Vanu if I can do 2 accounts with the other being in NC(for you guys).

[forsaken1111]

Im personally gonna go Vanu if I can do 2 accounts with the other being in NC(for you guys).

Should be able to do Vanu on one server and NC with us on another server, no?

[Rakonas]

Vanu are probably the most dishonourable of the 3, from my experiences in PS1 all they ever did was gen drop and ghost hack.

How are either of those things dishonourable, though?
The only thing I can say on the matter is that fuck Lashers, the doom of infiltrators. Also VS seemed to always jump in on battles to make them 3-ways at least during the return month.

[Nilocy]

Eh, its like a gentlemans agreement that if you don't have to, don't drop the gen so everyone gets to fight. The VS, specifically a few outfits, always dropped gens the second the fight started, denying everyone exp.

[forsaken1111]

Eh, its like a gentlemans agreement that if you don't have to, don't drop the gen so everyone gets to fight. The VS, specifically a few outfits, always dropped gens the second the fight started, denying everyone exp.

That is more a flaw in the game mechanics than a bad tactic. Game shouldn't punish you for doing something legit which hampers the enemy.

[Nilocy]

Its not a flaw, its entirely valid. Its just boring.

[miauw62]

What is "gen dropping"?
Didnt play PS1, never even HEARD of it before all the hype around PS2.

[Glowcat]

What is "gen dropping"?
Didnt play PS1, never even HEARD of it before all the hype around PS2.

It's where you destroy the generator to disable the base's equipment terminals and respawn tubes completely.

[zombat]

Every base had a power generator, blow the gen and the base looses power.
Which means no one can use equipment or vehicle terminals, and the base holder can't spawn directly at the base.

Sometimes dropping the gen was a valid tactic which would give the attacker just the edge they needed to push into the base, the defender could get the gen back online provided they had a glue gun in their lockers (they were self powered) and could retake the gen room.
Which was really possible if it was just a ghost bomb.

I was an infiltrator who specialised in ghost bombing. That is wearing a cloak suit, surging past the defenders guarding the stairwell, getting into the basement (for most bases, biolabs had the gen on the roof, in a isolated room, which the defenders could only get to by crossing a very exposed roof(GG game design)), hacking into the gen room, planting four boomers (high explosive, remote triggered bombs), hacking into locker room (which was located under the spawn room for the most part), grabbing an extra two aces (boomer makers) emp grenades and a side arm, sneaking back into the gen, planting the extra two boomers then tossing the emp nade at a wall which would set off all 6 boomers at once and make the gen go crit.
Then you'd run the fuck away before the angry enemy came to see who turned out the lights.


A harder tactic was ghost bombing the spawn tubes...