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[zombat]

I used to use my engineer with munitions pouches to throw extra c4 on flash, and then switch to infiltrator so I could be an invisible bastard that went around crashing his flash into parked Sundies and detonating the c4 with the flash's grenade launcher.

Never got a negative comment or admin slap for it, and I did it everytime there was a double xp event.

[Ozyton]

This is a legitimate tactic and is often referred to as jihad flashes. Typically you get one guy to strap a ton of C4 to a flash and have an infiltrator go sacrifice himself. Or you could get an engineer on the back of the flash and drop tank mines.

It's funny this topic popped up today, I played for the first time in several weeks/months and it's always a fun surprise to return with new features implemented. I know they changed the sound of the Basilisk and added the Gorgon for the MAX, but I wonder what other goodies I'm missing.

[Orb]

Wrel does suicide flashes all the time. He's done it in his youtube videos at least a dozen times. I feel like he puts C4's on his flash whenever he takes one out "just in case" at this point. Wrel is part of the development team so it's probably fine.

[ParsleyPWG]

My favourite thing about this game is the emergent tactics that players come up with. I recently played with an outfit where we had a huge number of Sundies (something like 15+) running around the map and shooting down anything we came across. The key was to keep moving in a tight formation, so the enemy could never single out one Sundy to be taken out. Was some of the most fun I've had in an MMO.

[Kanil]

Yeah, it's fine. I find it quite unreliable, as often the server decides your C4 isn't next to the vehicle, despite it being so on your screen... but it's worth trying out for the lulz. Magriders are the easiest to get, as your Flash will happily drive under them and get jammed.

If you're holding down W when you bail, your Flash will continue to drive without you for a little bit. This can give you a little extra range, if you're trying to survive the adventure.

[miauw62]

My favourite thing about this game is the emergent tactics that players come up with. I recently played with an outfit where we had a huge number of Sundies (something like 15+) running around the map and shooting down anything we came across. The key was to keep moving in a tight formation, so the enemy could never single out one Sundy to be taken out. Was some of the most fun I've had in an MMO.

That might have been when DBG accidentally made Basilisks really really powerful.

[Akura]

I wonder if it'll work with AT mines. Experience has shown that AT mines dropped on top of a tank will stay on the tank if it moves(before they arm), and they're a pain to disarm from up there and you can't shoot them off, and unlike C4 they don't despawn if you respawn. It'll be tricky to get them to sit right on a Flash, though.

Now that I think about it, I've got another question, how many mines can you have active at once? I know I've dropped my stock of mines, rearmed, and dropped some more, but I've never repeated that until I hit any limit.

My favourite thing about this game is the emergent tactics that players come up with. I recently played with an outfit where we had a huge number of Sundies (something like 15+) running around the map and shooting down anything we came across. The key was to keep moving in a tight formation, so the enemy could never single out one Sundy to be taken out. Was some of the most fun I've had in an MMO.

That's really powerful if most of them have vehicle repair auras.

[Cyroth]

I wonder if it'll work with AT mines. Experience has shown that AT mines dropped on top of a tank will stay on the tank if it moves(before they arm), and they're a pain to disarm from up there and you can't shoot them off, and unlike C4 they don't despawn if you respawn. It'll be tricky to get them to sit right on a Flash, though.

Something like that was a popular novelty tactic for some Woodman/Miller Reaver pilots a long time ago.
Drop AT mines on the large flat part behind the cockpit and fly towards an enemy tank zerg. When you're in range do a front-flip, the tail fin will hit the mines and launch them forward like a catapult. If you do it at the correct altitute and speed you can get quite a long range out of those things.


On another note, I've heard ANTs are out now? (Have not played for over a year)
Are combat setups possible or is it backline duty only?
Driver/Gunner/2 Passenger, on an armored vehicle (as in, not damageable by small arms) would be the vehicle me and my outfit always wanted but never got. Especially since it can also hold a scout radar.

Kobalt or Walker, Scout Radar, Vehicle Stealth, Rival on that thing would be the kind of IFV that'd have given us nerdgasms back when we still played.

[choppy]

You can use the ant as a heavy harasser. Which could work like a IFV.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cYNpSTsOmHQ

[Akura]

Yeah, it can be a fairly dangerous combat vehicle. It can make itself invulnerable as long as it has cortium in it. Not sure how long the shield lasts under fire, but apparently long enough for the top gunner to do damage.

[Micro102]

Well this sucks. I log in after getting a computer that can finally run this well and i find that my alpha squad status and all the stuff I got form it is gone. Did I miss something? Why did this happen?

[Ozyton]

Try asking customer support.

Are you in Europe? I know that they changed the way accounts work a long while back so that might be the issue.

[Akura]

New update today. Quite a few changes. A2A missiles have been both buffed and nerfed. They have more ammo and are now fire-and-forget, but they do less damage to ESFs and Valkyries - but more damage to Liberators and Galaxies. Skyknights can masturbate harder with all-around buffs to ESF mainguns. ESFs also have max-leveled Engagement Radar inherent to them, certs already spent were refunded.

Significant change to player-base walls, they can no longer be destroyed if there's a repair module present - you must destroy the module before breaking down the wall. There's a couple of new modules. A reinforcement module, which flags a playerbase with a nearby deployed Sunderer with the Reinforcements Needed indicator in the spawn screen if it's under attack. There's a decorative banner, which is just cool. There's a tower for infantry to stand in. There's also a shorter version of the anti-vehicle turret tower.

They've also nerfed the underbarrel smoke launcher - it now lasts for less time. I've tried using the smoke launcher before, and I find that the smoke only lasted about 3 seconds, I don't know why it needed a nerf.

They've reintroduced the Infiltrator's Decoy Grenade.

They've added scopes to faction-specific pistols.

They've added revive timers to the map respawn screen - before, if you went to the map screen after dying instead of just sitting there, you had no way to see how long you had for a medic to revive you. Damn straight.

The NS-61 Emissary has been tweaked. Base damage is up, but recoil and headshot multiplier are worse.

Flash ATV can now get the GSD, same as a Sunderer.

[Man of Paper]

Gotta love them making aerial combat even less fun for everyone else.

[Aklyon]

Well if you only get skyfails talking about aircraft, you only get buffs to pewpews. Someone needs to go shout over them and nerf the skyknights.