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2: NC and TR

3: NC, TR and Vanu

[Tiruin]

Is it just me or does joining an outfit completely change how the game plays? Is this what competitive gaming feels like?

Yeeeeeeep.

Really? I didn't notice. :c

[Aklyon]

I need to find an outfit at somepoint. But ya'll are all busy with NC or TR as far as I can tell the last few pages.

[beorn080]

The darklight is required to spot stalker infiltrators.

So short ranged. >.>
So mostly useless. <.<

You have to leave SOCA and reach BR 10 to join PG12, you know ...

I'm...21? I think? And mostly just by repairing or healing up peoples. :<
I can't drive an aircraft for my life and really wonder how many MANY other people are able to fly in one direction...SIDEWAYS DX

The starter pistols are relatively blah compared to the Commisioner most infiltrators run around with. Considering headshots with it can one shot other infiltrators, and two shot anything else, yeah, there is a big difference, plus it has a bit better range. If you really want to hunt infiltrators, you put a flashlight on your main gun, but that slows things down, so probably not a good idea.

Personally, I am of the opinion that if there is something you want to do better, just do it constantly. I couldn't snipe with an infiltrator for the life of me, 3 days of nothing but infiltrator, and I'm passable with it. Want to bring galaxies to fights? start spamming them whenever I find a full squad that seems relatively competent. Now, I can actually get a galaxy to the fight.

[Glloyd]

I need to find an outfit at somepoint. But ya'll are all busy with NC or TR as far as I can tell the last few pages.

I'm VS on Connery, as are a couple other Bay12ers. Not enough for an outfit though.

[TolyK]

Not enough you say? 1 is enough to make one, 2 is enough to have an outfit squad, and 12 is a good enough outfit to actually have a meaningful tag.

[Tiruin]

Personally, I am of the opinion that if there is something you want to do better, just do it constantly. I couldn't snipe with an infiltrator for the life of me, 3 days of nothing but infiltrator, and I'm passable with it. Want to bring galaxies to fights? start spamming them whenever I find a full squad that seems relatively competent. Now, I can actually get a galaxy to the fight.

Err, yeah. On that matter...

I mean the controls.
The bloody controls.
I have no idea how to fly the darn plane correctly, to hover in midair or do those eagle-swoops I see most other pilots do!
I can't even slow down and point my nose correctly: the Mosquito (TR Fighter aircraft) keeps on moving.

Also Infiltrator is easy. I hear NC and VS get bolt-action rifles on the get-go? >_> Get a 10x or so long range scope, 'shift' for stability, headshot. :3

Also on another note: What I hate about big games is that I can't join them at all.
Everything starts to literally flip around.

[Aklyon]

I need to find an outfit at somepoint. But ya'll are all busy with NC or TR as far as I can tell the last few pages.

I'm VS on Connery, as are a couple other Bay12ers. Not enough for an outfit though.

Where is Connery at? I don't have the greatest of fps as it is, I doubt I could go very far.

As for Aircraft, I'd like to use one. But I can't figure out how to fly the bloody thing, not the Scythe or the Lib or the Galaxy. I can tell it uses the keyboard and the mouse, but not what does anything besides shooting things and crashing into VR terrain. Moving forward works.

[Aseaheru]

That's when you put a couple bricks of C4 on the underside.

Sadly, I dont have that yet.


As for what I play with, I am NC on Connery, NC on another server and VS on... Ceries?

[Toaster]

I can fly well enough to reliably not crash into the terrain, assuming I'm in a Reaver.  Lib... the ground is still a good possibility.


Best still was one time in an outfit squad with a seriously drunk gal pilot, who managed to crash it into a tree about three feet outside the warpgate, killing everyone on board.  It was so absurd it was just funny.  The best part was he pretty much just passed out five minutes later, just going afk and not coming back.

[Niveras]

I mean the controls.
The bloody controls.
I have no idea how to fly the darn plane correctly, to hover in midair or do those eagle-swoops I see most other pilots do!
I can't even slow down and point my nose correctly: the Mosquito (TR Fighter aircraft) keeps on moving.

Some of that is cert unlocks. The default ESF frames can't hover, for example. They kind of can in the sense that you can reduce your horizontal speed to zero or near zero and then constantly manage your vertical speed to stay in relatively the same location, but with the proper certifications the ESF can be made to hover in the same location without any further input.

Likely the same is true with swooping since it improves pitch/yaw acceleration, letting you pull up or roll/bank faster (I don't remember if those are separate frames, though).

[MasterFancyPants]

The darklight is required to spot stalker infiltrators.

So short ranged. >.>
So mostly useless. <.<

Useless compared to what? The laser sight? If you are using your sidearm at a range where you need to use the laser to be effective, you should be ADS.

[Jim Groovester]

I mean the controls.
The bloody controls.
I have no idea how to fly the darn plane correctly, to hover in midair or do those eagle-swoops I see most other pilots do!
I can't even slow down and point my nose correctly: the Mosquito (TR Fighter aircraft) keeps on moving.

The ESFs have two modes: cruising mode, where the engines point back (or there are contrails if you're a VS weenie), and hover mode, where the engines point down (or the contrails disappear). All the cool swooping around maneuvers and shit are done in hover mode. In hover mode, engaging the afterburners actually pushes you upward instead of forward like in cruising mode. It's my understanding that doing this, in combination with keeping your nose pointed at your target, is the basis for advanced flight maneuvers.

I'm no pilot though. I can fly around but I can't dogfight worth crap.

Of course, if you do figure it out, you can join the ranks of the truly elite; those who engage in the most noble and purest form of combat known to man, which is to say, hover nosegun dogfights. All other fights, like infantry fights or tank fights, pale in comparison to the glory of those who battle in the heavens.

Useless compared to what? The laser sight? If you are using your sidearm at a range where you need to use the laser to be effective, you should be ADS.

But if you put the laser sight on, then at those ranges, you don't need to ADS, which is extra mobility.

[Toaster]

I'm most impressed with the guys who can do this.

[Tiruin]

I mean the controls.
The bloody controls.
I have no idea how to fly the darn plane correctly, to hover in midair or do those eagle-swoops I see most other pilots do!
I can't even slow down and point my nose correctly: the Mosquito (TR Fighter aircraft) keeps on moving.

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Of course, if you do figure it out, you can join the ranks of the truly elite; those who engage in the most noble and purest form of combat known to man, which is to say, hover nosegun dogfights. All other fights, like infantry fights or tank fights, pale in comparison to the glory of those who battle in the heavens.

You write things to masterfully poetic.

I'm most impressed with the guys who can do this.

Bookmarked for later when I can actually watch this

[Niveras]

I'm most impressed with the guys who can do this.

I'm more impressed by the "I hope they fixed that" of the cloaked flak running over people.