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2: NC and TR

3: NC, TR and Vanu

[BurnedToast]

I don't even know why outfits / guilds / etc. are such a big deal in MMOs. There's nothing there! It's just a menu with some people marked as leaders and some marked as members. Yet it's surrounded by unimaginably stupid drama constantly.

1. Some people like stupid drama. It seems hard to believe, but that's an upside for some people.

2. MMO creators LOVE guilds because when you join one you feel an obligation to help them out, keep playing with them, etc, so even if you personally get bored of the game you might keep playing (and paying) just because you don't want to let your buddies down.

3. It's become expected, you play an MMO you join a guild... it's just what people do regardless of if they really want to be in one or not... You read forums or whatever and it's just a constant refrain from EVERYONE "join a guild join a guild find a good guild guild guild guild" so everyone just feels like that's something they have to do.

4. Spam invite guilds will constantly bombard you if you don't have one. Many people probably don't realize you can auto-decline guild invites (in most mmos anyway) so they just accept one to make the bombardment stop.

5. Guild leaders (and officers to a lesser degree) get to feel like big shots who are in charge, even if their guild is full of 100's of people who they randomly spam invited and who don't listen to them ever... they still feel important so they love guilds.

6. E-peen value. If you're in a guild that accomplishes something you get to take credit and feel better then all the peons even if you were on vacation that week and didn't help in any way.

[Siquo]

Wow, you guys have really not been in any good guilds...

[TolyK]

I don't (semi-)professionally game, so I haven't either, but I think that's fine for where I am currently.

[Duuvian]

Cahal: escaped from secret tank driver cloning facility?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Um11nas9_o

I've gunned for this guys vanguard many times and let me tell you, he is very good.

(Legit too, I've seen him miss occasionally)

[Ozyton]

Suddenly my skyguard feels inferior.

[Jim Groovester]

Yeah, and Anchored Mode got nerfed because it was too good against aircraft. Vanguard AP is totally fine though.

Pssssssssssh, whatever.

[Ozyton]

If you can manage to hit an air target with that thing I think you kinda earned the kill |3

[Flying Dice]

Cahal: escaped from secret tank driver cloning facility?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Um11nas9_o

I've gunned for this guys vanguard many times and let me tell you, he is very good.

(Legit too, I've seen him miss occasionally)

HAH! Check 2:47, he got me! xD

[darkrider2]

One of the best things you can do with the vanguard

I love you instagib AP cannon, don't ever change.

[Toaster]

My outfit parked outside the VS warpgate on Esamir (by Two Stone Beach) and shot down Scythes and Libs heading to the front line like this.  Ammo + Rep Sundy and several Vannies, tank down air erry day

[Jim Groovester]

I discovered something last night when I was wondering why I couldn't hit anything with the CARV-S.

Guns with bad hipfire take longer to reach scoped CoF accuracy than guns with good hipfire, even if the ADS CoF accuracies are the same. I.E., the time between when you right click and when the red dot is at the center of the screen is sometimes not enough time to reach full accuracy. If you start shooting right when the dot is at the center of the screen, too bad, you miss half your shots.

This isn't so much a problem with ARs and Carbines since they have decent enough hipfire so that it's not an issue, but it's really noticeable and annoying with LMGs. This probably explains why the hipfire LMGs were so good, and to some extent, still are, since they can return accurate fire quicker than other LMGs.

This provides a good reason to use laser sights even if the gun barely benefits from the actual hipfire accuracy bonus.

[Tylui]

If I could like posts ala facebook, Groovester would just have gained one. It makes sense, once you know it, but it's one of those things that have no visual cue so it's hard to think about. I had suspected this was the case, but mostly because I remember this is how it worked in PS1, but with visual cues. Sniping was a bitch. When ADS, the slightest twitch would set the cone to ridiculously large and you'd have to wait a long time for it to get completely accurate again.

[zombat]

Yeah, and Anchored Mode got nerfed because it was too good against aircraft. Vanguard AP is totally fine though.

Pssssssssssh, whatever.

8 seconds of invulnerability is fine too

[Toaster]

Huh.  Good to know.

I thought lockdown got nerfed because LOL HE SPAM CROSSROADS WATCHTOWER ERRY DAY

[darkrider2]

Yeah, and Anchored Mode got nerfed because it was too good against aircraft. Vanguard AP is totally fine though.

Pssssssssssh, whatever.

8 seconds of invulnerability is fine too

Not actually invulnerable, just really damn close. There are a lot of NC who don't even know it has a health pool, heh, however the ONLY time I've ever seen something throw out enough damage to eat through it, was striker squads, and I mean 5+ striker volleys hitting simultaneously.

And before anyone says "herp derp bad positioning cause you're bad", it was a gal drop of striker heavies, nothing I could do.