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1: NC

2: NC and TR

3: NC, TR and Vanu

[kaian-a-coel]

Oh sweet! :3

[Knight of Fools]

That was an unexpected air nerf. I'm unsure if this'll fix everything (Flak does more damage, but that's the biggest change), but hopefully we'll start seeing some aircraft that actually are afraid of stuff that's on the ground.


I don't think I'll be happy until aircraft can't just hover around without fear of unguided rockets and small arms fire, though. Deadfire rockets move so slowly that it'd be a nice reward to take half an ESF's health by managing to hit one. I hope they start adding more ranged anti-vehicle weaponry to infantry, as I think that's what the game really needs, not flak gun buffs.

[PTTG??]

I wasn't really serious about the faction-merging thing. Though I will point out that TF2 managed to handle it.

I suppose my problem is that they're in an awkward middle ground- if the sides were really unique, like, one team doesn't have real tanks, but their MAXes and aircraft are versatile enough to mostly fill that role, or there's a team where all the units have cloaking, but none of them have shields, or maybe one side regenerates health but they don't have any way to rez each other. In such a situation, then there's enough "texture" for someone to take advantage of the other side's weaknesses- as it is, it's hard to imagine a strategy that revolves around your side being able to fire one additional bullet per second. Not that I'm saying that any of this actually should be implemented- I mean it more as a scholarly thought experiment on the topic of balance in general.

On to less controversial topics, I have found the engine for Planetside 3.

[The Scout]

There's nothing like spawning in to find your entire base is overrun with purple spies.

[Flying Dice]

I guess what I was getting at was that while it would be easier to balance the game by making each faction a different colored copypasta, it will be much more worthwhile to keep pushing for a game that has three different factions that are still balanced properly.

Also, that looks bloody amazing.

[miauw62]

It's always fun to play in a platoon lead by Synth3tic. For some reason I keep running into him. I just logged in and wondered what I was going to do today, when I saw him running around in the warpgate and asked for an invite.

That leads us to our next point:

Fuck the Crown. We had a sundie behind their base at one point, managed to hack+blowup all their terminals (so they couldn't repair them anymore), and still we couldn't get in. Raaah. We had a full fucking platoon and tonnes of pubs. I just hate that base.

[Jopax]

Dude aircraft, If you can land enough people on the main tower the rest should be fairly easy to take since it's only defensible in one direction.

[Flying Dice]

Funny, Mattherson VS just took the Crown from entrenched TR forces in about ten minutes

[Glowcat]

Funny, Mattherson VS just took the Crown from entrenched TR forces in about ten minutes

Probably because they were all partying down at Tawrich in their prowlers for some reason. Kinda like how they decided a massive tank invasion would be perfect against the NC in the middle of our attempt to remove VS's cont benefit. I'm starting to suspect that the TR don't have a strategy per say. Their only goal is to fulfill their unending spite for the New Conglomerate.

Also: despite the anti-air buff, it seems flying is still in vogue with tons of liberators out in force tonight. I managed to nuke a few on suicide runs but they just kept coming back...

[Knight of Fools]

In some twist of luck, we (the NC on my server) managed to prevent ourselves from being gated on Indar, despite the TR and VS literally working side by side to take us down, and having a population in the 20%s for most of the morning. Eventually they grew tired of throwing themselves against us and finally got distracted by each other, allowing us to keep a hold on the infantry resource discount we've had for several weeks now.

As someone who uses a lot of C4, AP mines, and grenades, I love me my infantry discounts.

[Flying Dice]

Finally got the Drifter jets. No idea why people rip on them, the niche they fill is just as useful as the jump jets.

[Vattic]

Loving the AA changes so far. How is it for you flyboys?

[forsaken1111]

I've been tearing planes up with my skyguard...

[Darkening Kaos]

The Phalanx turrets still have shit aim, but then again, we seem to have a lot of hackers on Briggs - a flying, speeding VS MAX was causing havoc last night, wouldn't be surprised if some planes also had adjusted hit-boxes.  I can swing that turret through 180 degs hitting a Scythe with every shot as it goes around the tower and then decorates the landscape with used scythe parts, but a hovering liberator doesn't get hit once - it just doesn't scan.

Noticed I've been followed around by a 'ghost', probably an SOE investigator because I've been reporting a lot of players lately.

I did have one really strange occurence which defies explanation:  I shot up a magmower and somehow the driver/pilot was killed twice, crediting me with his two deaths.  Odd².

[Sordid]

I did have one really strange occurence which defies explanation:  I shot up a magmower and somehow the driver/pilot was killed twice, crediting me with his two deaths.  Odd².

Are you sure it was the same guy? Could've been two guys with a similar name. I've seen some poor dude named HeIIraiser, which in the game looks identical to Hellraiser due to the game's font. If both of those got into the same tank, it might look like you killed one guy twice.