[QUOTE=Blueridge;33695758]I understand that someone would want the bases to have little defense unless you powerhouse it, but the map is designed so that your generator can not be up at all. Other maps? Defendable for about 2-3 minutes at a time, seems alright if you're defending because then you can kinda focus on the flag too. This map? Absolute hell, the generator room is a contest to see which heavy can spam more grenades down the pathways. Every match I have played on Bella since the patch has been this way. Last match I did was even worse, when a technician was placing turrets at our base. Why could he get over there and do it? Because defending the map is fucking useless so you might as well just go camp their flag room.[/QUOTE]
That's a good point, it is utterly impossible to defend.
Hilariously though it seems the best way to defend is to simply drive a tank down the conduit and blast anyone who comes down :v:
hell yes i can consistently pull off airshots with the jumper's bow
this game's amazing
[QUOTE=LittleDogX;33689327]When one team is composed of Rank 18+ with every defense imaginable, and the other team is rank 1-12, constantly getting flags stolen, and can't seem to recover them ever, and it's the same thing match after match. That is a problem. The game may not be "pay to win" since you are able to unlock everything, with the amount of time it takes, it might as well be a pay to win game. Don't get me wrong, I'm having fun when playing it, but the unlock progression speed is ridiculous, and if your team doesn't have anything unlocked, you will likely lose.[/QUOTE]
The key point here is that games can feel terribly unfair because teams are regularly unbalanced; not in terms of equipment, but in terms of skill. That doesn't make it pay-to-win, it just means they need to take away the ability to choose teams and auto-assign them.
[editline]13th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Blueridge;33695758]I understand that someone would want the bases to have little defense unless you powerhouse it, but the map is designed so that your generator can not be up at all. Other maps? Defendable for about 2-3 minutes at a time, seems alright if you're defending because then you can kinda focus on the flag too. This map? Absolute hell, the generator room is a contest to see which heavy can spam more grenades down the pathways. Every match I have played on Bella since the patch has been this way. Last match I did was even worse, when a technician was placing turrets at our base. Why could he get over there and do it? Because defending the map is fucking useless so you might as well just go camp their flag room.[/QUOTE]
What makes Bella Omega even worse is that not only is the generator really difficult to defend, it being destroyed confers the opposing team a major advantage, by opening up flag-capture routes, that you just don't see in other maps. Add in the rather poor terrain for skiing and you easily have the worst map of the roster.
The only thing I like about Bella Omega is the skybox; what are those strange spirals?
Juggernaut is the best class.
+150km/h flag caps at Katabatic, no enemy can follow the juggernaut, because mortar and heavy spinfusor.
The mortar is probably my favourite weapon right now. It's especially hilarious indoors, since you can either force an enemy to take another route (into your spinfusor) or then have them blown to bits because mortar does ridiculous damage.
infiltrator is disappointing
you can see the outlines of cloaked people making it impossible to hide near enemies that have eyes, when using the pistol past point blank range you have to lead your target by a few meters which makes it incredibly hard to hit a moving target, and to take out a heavy you have to get atleast one sticky on them and then finish them with the pistol because even a melee hit will only take them down to like 75%
also the cloaking gets bugged sometimes where it acts like you're being jammed even though you're not
why do i do best when i'm trying the less? i just got "the slayer" (25 kills without dying i think?) playing technician, i had 2 well hidden turrets that kept killing those damn pathfinders that went in our base and i was just killing so many people with the smg, 2 orbital strikes later with 2 quadra kills i had it
in another game i was literally playing the game with 1 hand as doombringer, i had a forcefield on katabatic that was going along a popular capping path, i killed a bunch of pathfinders that kept trying to cap the flag and i was killing people with the saber launcher constantly, mostly a lot of grav cycles, i finished the game 26-1
[QUOTE=JerryK;33697371]infiltrator is disappointing
you can see the outlines of cloaked people making it impossible to hide near enemies that have eyes, when using the pistol past point blank range you have to lead your target by a few meters which makes it incredibly hard to hit a moving target, and to take out a heavy you have to get atleast one sticky on them and then finish them with the pistol because even a melee hit will only take them down to like 75%
also the cloaking gets bugged sometimes where it acts like you're being jammed even though you're not[/QUOTE]
I think I remember you in a match. I saw you standing right next to a corridor and sat there watching you.
i don't use the name JerryK in most games
Jerry, you do know that when you do shit(melee, shoot, etc) your cloak gets fucked for a few seconds, right?
[QUOTE=Crazy_Farmer;33697510]why do i do best when i'm trying the less? i just got "the slayer" (25 kills without dying i think?) playing technician, i had 2 well hidden turrets that kept killing those damn pathfinders that went in our base and i was just killing so many people with the smg, 2 orbital strikes later with 2 quadra kills i had it
in another game i was literally playing the game with 1 hand as doombringer, i had a forcefield on katabatic that was going along a popular capping path, i killed a bunch of pathfinders that kept trying to cap the flag and i was killing people with the saber launcher constantly, mostly a lot of grav cycles, i finished the game 26-1[/QUOTE]
You sound like a fellow technitian I would like to play with. I usually top the scoreboard.
My in game name is "Username"
Okay I think I've decided to change skiing to toggle and something like mouse 3, because otherwise I'm going to kill my spacebar :P
[QUOTE=Crimor;33698274]Jerry, you do know that when you do shit(melee, shoot, etc) your cloak gets fucked for a few seconds, right?[/QUOTE]
well duh, i'm talking about when you get near someone they can see your outline
[QUOTE=JerryK;33704621]well duh, i'm talking about when you get near someone they can see your outline[/QUOTE]
You're never 100% invisible.
Also after getting the egocentric perk, now I'm gonna stop hating on people with it, because holy shit it's hard to get.
[QUOTE=JerryK;33704621]well duh, i'm talking about when you get near someone they can see your outline[/QUOTE]
are you like 2 feet infront of them the whole time or what?
there's been like 1 time I've been spotted before I've de-cloaked
been caught essentially with my pants down quite a few times though since I always run out of energy in the middle of a room and have to rush to some corner
What ive learned from the beta so far: i cant ski for shit
[QUOTE=Jimmyshimmy;33706375]What ive learned from the beta so far: i cant ski for shit[/QUOTE]
It's pretty easy when you get the hang of it. Before I joined any games I tried the maps solo in the tutorial section (or w/e).
I keep on dropping connection about 5 minutes into a game. Is it just me, or does it happen to anyone else?
[QUOTE=AtomiCasd;33703279]You sound like a fellow technitian I would like to play with. I usually top the scoreboard.
My in game name is "Username"[/QUOTE]
are you atomiccal? because if so i remember you from planetside lol
Hm, what class should I level up next, thinking either soldier for the money perk, or infiltrator because I love anally stabbing people.
I kept getting disconnected for some reason. odd.
Also, Hi-rez needs to sort out their world models. The heavy spinfusor, Light spinfusor, Spinfusor MKD, the double barrel and auto shotguns, the boltcaster and the thumper have no worldmodel. The raider's SMG doesn't either. yet the preview images of the jumper, brute and pathfinder have the proper models. odd.
Unlocked the Brute last night and my god fractal grenades are awesome...maybe too awesome.
[QUOTE=little.sparrow;33707580]I kept getting disconnected for some reason. odd.
Also, Hi-rez needs to sort out their world models. The heavy spinfusor, Light spinfusor, Spinfusor MKD, the double barrel and auto shotguns, the boltcaster and the thumper have no worldmodel. The raider's SMG doesn't either. yet the preview images of the jumper, brute and pathfinder have the proper models. odd.[/QUOTE]
Weird as hell how they have it in previews but not in-game.
Hopefully it's just a beta thing they'll work out, since it would be helpful in telling the difference between say a jumper and a pathfinder.
So, is that button that says "Key for friends" infinite, or is it just the one it shows me that I can give away to somebody?
Gave me two keys at first... Gave one to a friend and it disappeared from the list. So I take they're limited.
Wow.
I havent been keeping up with tribes. It fell off my radar.
But the game looks terribly imbalanced.
Good news everyone!
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/FZHdq.png[/IMG]
(From the hi rez forums)
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;33708764]Wow.
I havent been keeping up with tribes. It fell off my radar.
But the game looks terribly imbalanced.[/QUOTE]
What makes you say that utterly retarded statement good sir? it's as much if not more balanced than tribes 2 imo
[QUOTE=wombo;33709573]Good news everyone!
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/FZHdq.png[/IMG]
(From the hi rez forums)[/QUOTE]
I'l be interested so see how this works out
[QUOTE=theharribokid;33709730]I'l be interested so see how this works out[/QUOTE]
I just hope they give the tech smg a small buff, maybe bring it alongside the raiders, because holy fuck it's weak atm, easier to just walk up to people and melee them.
[QUOTE=Crimor;33709810]I just hope they give the tech smg a small buff, maybe bring it alongside the raiders, because holy fuck it's weak atm, easier to just walk up to people and melee them.[/QUOTE]
It's tough to balance, because combined with turret fire the tech deals huge damage, but without the turrets (say the gen goes down and techie has to go down and fix it) it's too weak.
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