Planetside 2 Thread v2 - Beta floodgates open GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY - Games

I only just found out that there's crouch toggle. Time for celebrations!

What happens when you control the entire map? Been steamrolling with the Vanu, and we conqeured the world, but then we just kinda started camping their warp gate area. What comes next? [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] I also still don't get how you guys are making 30-40 certs an hour. I was really quite active, and doing fairly well, and I still only managed to scrape up about 20-25 per hour, tops.

You get a faction bonus for that server. Also I'm really bad at this game. :v: I can't aim and always end up with a K/D with like, 1:3. I'm lucky if I get 20 certs an hour.

My first match was really good TBH I newbie dropped straight into a massive trench fight with no tanks nearby, mobile spawns on either side of the airdrome and dogfighting happening overhead I spent two hours fighting in those icy trenches alone already having way more fun then I usually do It's just all so immersive [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] And then a massive fight breaks loose where the 2 zerg waves meet and everything is dying oh dear god 20 people just blew up and 40 more are just outside of that single doorway oh jesus fuck

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;38561765]What happens when you control the entire map? Been steamrolling with the Vanu, and we conqeured the world, but then we just kinda started camping their warp gate area. What comes next? [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] I also still don't get how you guys are making 30-40 certs an hour. I was really quite active, and doing fairly well, and I still only managed to scrape up about 20-25 per hour, tops.[/QUOTE] 10% discount on buying vehicles, aircraft, or infantry consumables like grenades, depending on which continent it is

Light assault trooper is my favorite class, it's decided. It's just so fun to fly up on top of something, out of the way, and pop people in the back of the head. I had a streak of about fifteen kills on one part of a map, because there was this big latticework construct above the area where everybody was fighting. I was directly above the enemy group, and nobody noticed me! Chucked a grenade and landed myself five kills, then just sorta periodically popped my head out to shoot easy targets. [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] I practiced a bit more with the fighter aircraft, too. I'm a bit better at taking out ground targets, but I suck at dogfighting unless it's basically handed to me. Had a point where I was just hovering, looking at the ground below for a target, when a half-dead Mosquito casually pulls up in front of me. I was just kind of like, "well, okay."

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I get the feeling that you get nothing done in a fighter with out a rocketpod. The NC shotgun thing sounds fun as hell in theory but using it now it seems as ineffective on tanks and the like as the stock heavy gatling gun. Dive bombing with it is fun as hell though.

[QUOTE=1239the;38561804]I can't aim and always end up with a K/D with like, 1:3. I'm lucky if I get 20 certs an hour.[/QUOTE] I was that way when I started. Then I grabbed a Prowler and was rollin in certs in no time. Goin engy and repairing+droppin ammo during assaults also can net tons ya of certs.

Excellent teamwork really does make the difference. We had infiltrators hack turrets in Mao tech plant, which provided AA while we attacked the opposing NC base. My squad and I proceeded to completely maintain air superiority with just a couple mosquitoes escorts, while I took liberator gunner. Ended with like 50+ infantry kills before being taken out by our own dipshit Galaxy pilot.

[QUOTE=mooman1080;38561942]I get the feeling that you get nothing done in a fighter with out a rocketpod. The NC shotgun thing sounds fun as hell in theory but using it now it seems as ineffective on tanks and the like as the stock heavy gatling gun. Dive bombing with it is fun as hell though.[/QUOTE] I just use the stock reaver with the express purpose of killing everything else that flies you have absolutely no ability to attack anything bigger than a flash on the ground, but the default cannon is probably the best thing for dogfighting and it's not bad against libs also AA is pretty gimped at the moment, so it's really no danger unless you chance sitting in its range for too long :v: [editline]edit[/editline] i find it fun as hell and very rewarding to sit in the same reaver for an hour, repairing and rearming, cruising around looking for shit to kill, even if I only get like 20-30 kills

So what's the general consensus on shotguns? It seems like they're the best bang for the buck since they can be used by LA, engie, and HA. I just rarely ever see them, and the offerings seem so similar (two with identical stats, one with automatic fire) that I can't tell why one is different from another.

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Oh for fucks sake. I spent $45 on station cash today and now theres a black friday sale for 2x station cash. Fuck my life seriously

[QUOTE=Drakortha;38562415]Oh for fucks sake. I spent $45 on station cash today and now theres a black friday sale for 2x station cash. Fuck my life seriously[/QUOTE] send in a support ticket cool companies sometimes do something to compensatw

Welp, I'm almost broke and I probably shouldn't have done it but £4 for 1000 smedbux is pretty damn good.

Just bought 10k more Station Cash... Balance is now about 20k Station Cash... TIME TO SPEND IT ALL TONIGHT!

Lightnings are the best and most fun vehicles in any video game ever

Just bought 4k smedleybux, still not gonna spend them until they introduce inter-character unlocks though. I hop servers too much for it to be useful.

So what faction should I start off with? NC looks fun since they seem to be the underdogs but losing all the time could be frustrating. Terran seems like they are the most powerful.

Looks like I'm gonna main VS now, since I can actually get a lot of kills with their weapons. I started off as NC, then I got tired of most of my bullets missing at anything beyond medium-range. I love hover tanks too, reminds me of BF:2142.

Is it the slight hue difference with the Vanu that let them take Esamir on most servers? it's a weird phenomenon

Damn smedbux sale. I think I'm gonna be three guns- the Lasher, a shotgun, and then either an assault rifle or the Saron.

TR only ever get tech plants when they pull shit like this... (looking at Indar, but all are terrible too) [t]http://imgur.com/5Hitm.jpg[/t] ...and flood 200 people in, making all the defenders only able to see enemies when they are standing almost within knife range. It seriously sucks to stand on the stairs at the generator, aim down at the cap point and see it completely empty of enemies, but go down there and there are 20 MAX and a billion infantry. Turrets and anything other than a shotgun becomes utterly useless. Not even hurling grenades at the cap point helps, because if you can't see them you can't hurt them. Empire population distributions need to be fixed fast, by increasing bonus XP incentives for low-pop places and eventually locking continents at somewhere >50%. Adding an XP penalty might work well too, since the only reason they've all turned up is to farm easy points. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Isjgc0oX0s[/media]

[QUOTE=krail9;38558772]do any of the NC sidegrade weapons have less recoil?[/QUOTE] The Gauss Saw S handles a lot like the TR Carv, if that helps.

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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiUV84tL_pE[/media] This is basically what kills me every god damn time. [editline]24th November 2012[/editline] And by that I mean some cock will run out in front of me and I can't draw a bead because my hands shake too much.

I like how the vanu lasher doesn't have a firing sound, excellent job.

Is there any point to buying another LMG or is it not worth going past upgrading the standard?

HOLY SHIT THE LASHER IS TERRIBLE DO NOT BUY IT. [editline]23rd November 2012[/editline] Five shots of those plasma globs don't even take down a LA's shield.