Planetside 2 V6 - VS capped Indar? It's more likely than you think - Games

[QUOTE=Onule;42876242]What about the other weapons? Should I get a 250 cert weapon to replace the pounder for the time being or just don't bother and save up?[/QUOTE] Dual bursters are always useful but less gratifying than fractures Dual AI weapons actually aren't as bad as everyone complains about All depends on what you want to do.

The 250 cert minigun for the TR MAXes is pretty solid. They all are, to be honest. Some are just a bit more niche than others. The TR MAXes are pretty versatile (at least compared to the NC MAX)!

my god what have they done to the optimization, I'm running this shit well above 60 FPS on a shitty rig from 2008

[QUOTE=Mastahamma;42876671]my god what have they done to the optimization, I'm running this shit well above 60 FPS on a shitty rig from 2008[/QUOTE] The took a large stop towards what the game should be. It's truly glorious

I have developed a hatred for everything that is the striker. Fracture Max squads take a close second. Double AT Vanguards take third. Honorable mention would be Halberd Harrassers that end up being stronger then MBTs (I pilot crabs.)

How come I am the only one I see using the lancer? It feels a ton more useful than any standard rocket launcher and is usually more useful than any lock-on other than anti-air launchers against air.

[QUOTE=jiggu;42876864]How come I am the only one I see using the lancer? It feels a ton more useful than any standard rocket launcher and is usually more useful than any lock-on other than anti-air launchers against air.[/QUOTE] It is literally a kill stealing machine. Point at smoking ESFs, receive certs. I wish I bought it to be honest. The Vortexes for the MAX are also beast if you can hit them too. As a bonus if you spam fire with ZOE active it will scare the fuck out of the enemy and usually make them disengage you.

[QUOTE=Jdeedler;42876890]It is literally a kill stealing machine. Point at smoking ESFs, receive certs. I wish I bought it to be honest. The Vortexes for the MAX are also beast if you can hit them too.[/QUOTE] I still have the memory ingrained in my mind of me sniping a mosquito from that place south of the Elli amp station as it was returning for their warpgate. [IMG]http://puu.sh/5jtA4.jpg[/IMG] It took several seconds before the shot connected and I almost fell off my chair laughing.

I feel if squads actually coordinated with Lancers it would probably be more scarey then striker squads. No lock on indicators or anything just pure unadulterated laser beams murdering ESFs like AT tank shots.

[QUOTE=Mastahamma;42876671]my god what have they done to the optimization, I'm running this shit well above 60 FPS on a shitty rig from 2008[/QUOTE] I'm glad they improved performance, but the pc version isn't anywhere near fast enough to run on the playstation 4. We'll probably see the biggest improvement when they finish the ps4 version and backport all the optimizations the ps4 team made.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;42875532]I'm also mad jealous of the Mosquito's anti-infantry chaingun and its explosive rounds.[/QUOTE] Don't be. I got it, and gave it thermal for infantry hunting, and I still regret it to this day. It has less than half the damage per bullet compared to the rotary and default, the explosions radius is non-existent, it has a 25 bullet mag by default, takes 3 seconds to reload, bullets so slow you could outrun them by jogging, and massive bullet drop. You would be lucky to kill more than 2 infantry in one sweep, and you are left entirely defenseless against enemy aircraft as they can shoot you easier, and get far better DPS. All-in-all, we have a choice between default, the rotary (which every faction basically has, just under a different name and coloured slightly different), and a chaingun that might as well shoot water balloons.

Compared to the Air Hammer, which has three rounds, and needs all of them to kill a single target, I'd take it any day of the week! You'd have to be very lucky indeed to get two kills in one sweep with that!

[QUOTE=Mastahamma;42872991]I'm TR and I hate my guns. Why? We're supposedly "High rate of fire" and yet, we don't have a single gun that would at least get to 1200RPM. When they said, "TR has lots of dakka", I was expecting MG42s and miniguns, not average assault rifles.[/QUOTE] This is a critical failure of SOE's that can never be fixed. Thinking aspects of weapons critical to certain shooting styles and for balance tweaks should be given to particular factions in broad strokes was incredibly unimaginative (if not outright lazy) and not thought out at all. They had to compromise on them anyway to keep things from being over-the-top (certain types of gun are objectively better than others in certain roles, which is why every faction now [I]has[/I] compromises), the fact that people whine about them [I]as[/I] factional things instead of balance hurts the reception of fans to balance changes (and is reponsible for killing two statistical aggregators), and they make choosing a faction less an affair of style and more an affair of guessing what you do and don't mind never getting to do. The fact that all tanks have a functionally-comparable main weapon and literally identical secondary by default, yet infantry start out with and mostly keep weird permutations on a unique schtick, is ridiculous. [QUOTE=BananaMed;42874033]Well no wonder that TR always gets the short end of the stick. The dev team is far from being fair. The heavy favoritism towards both NC and VS is evident.[/QUOTE] The majority of the balance team is TR and all statistical aggregators using the API have found that their inexpensive weapons perform better than the NC and VS inexpensive weapons for low BR characters. Average players notice average shit. The TR have the worst skill caps on their gear but the most easy-mode crap for the average F2P baby, which is what typically riles up NC and VS players.

[QUOTE=BananaMed;42874033]Well no wonder that TR always gets the short end of the stick. The dev team is far from being fair. The heavy favoritism towards both NC and VS is evident.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry but this is the absolute most retarded complaint ever, and it pisses me off to no extent that it keeps being brought up. Do you seriously think the devs are stupid enough to [i]deliberately[/i] make weapons unbalanced? With all the effort and money they are putting into MLG and being competitive and all that shit, do you really think they're [i]trying[/i] to drive competitive players away from their game? Yes there are unbalances in the game, but it's fucking retarded that you think they are deliberate because of favouritism among the devs. [QUOTE=l337k1ll4;42874081]The TR are the most powerful faction though...[/QUOTE] This has been untrue for a while now. TR have decent easy-to-control weapons (even after their many nerfs), but as Xeno said, their skill ceiling is a lot lower than the other two. NC weapons are harder to control but damn powerful when used right, while VS are I don't know. Can't really say much about them except ZOE.

i saw a friendly TR harasser at the NC warpgate tonight. [t]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/506948546315946058/CA21D23CF05B1BF6EEA4F5456D43733CA9C9A8F9/[/t] also, does anyone have any good advice on a reliable way to kill a ZOE seriously. in my experience if your see it its already to late for you and up to 8 friends. if you shoot at it you die. if you try to rocket it you die. if you run you die. if you try to C4 it you die. the only way ive found to sometimes kill one is by using a conc nade and a rocket and hope the concussion lasts long enough to gun it down. even then it isnt a sure thing. i mostly will either hope it shoots someone else while i run or conc and run.

[QUOTE=dracotonisamond;42879732]i saw a friendly TR harasser at the NC warpgate tonight.[/QUOTE] I had that happen the other day. It was parked right next to a friendly sunderer and almost rocketed it in the arse before I noticed the friendly tag. As for ZOE, only reliable way is for you and a bunch of allies to focus fire it. One or all of you will die but it's worth it as long as he does too.

Wow, the default Lightning weapon is very fun. Why have I never used this before? I just went on a 44 man kill streak. Shapow! I've decided to play as my TR character on Mattherson for a while, since the TR and VS on Waterson have decided that NC should be their bitch (been getting constantly steamrolled this past day or so). I really want to cert up and learn to fly the Mosquito, but after that Lightning spree, I'm considering looking into that instead.

Grab Air to Air and just run sorties from the warp gate. It might not be fast on Certs or in the action all the time, but it's fun

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;42879891]Wow, the default Lightning weapon is very fun. Why have I never used this before? I just went on a 44 man kill streak. Shapow! I've decided to play as my TR character on Mattherson for a while, since the TR and VS on Waterson have decided that NC should be their bitch (been getting constantly steamrolled this past day or so). I really want to cert up and learn to fly the Mosquito, but after that Lightning spree, I'm considering looking into that instead.[/QUOTE] TR and VS always seem to be teaming up on Waterson, or at least avoiding eachother

[QUOTE=dracotonisamond;42879732]i saw a friendly TR harasser at the NC warpgate tonight. [t]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/506948546315946058/CA21D23CF05B1BF6EEA4F5456D43733CA9C9A8F9/[/t] also, does anyone have any good advice on a reliable way to kill a ZOE seriously. in my experience if your see it its already to late for you and up to 8 friends. if you shoot at it you die. if you try to rocket it you die. if you run you die. if you try to C4 it you die. the only way ive found to sometimes kill one is by using a conc nade and a rocket and hope the concussion lasts long enough to gun it down. even then it isnt a sure thing. i mostly will either hope it shoots someone else while i run or conc and run.[/QUOTE] vehicles are like the only thing which have a chance of killing them. This also makes me worry how the underground battles in some of the bases will continue. I'd love to have infantry-only fights if it wasn't for ZOE max rushes always taking over everything possible (see tech plant battles, biolab battles, amp stations)

Funny, I start playing again and bitching about NC on Mattherson, and suddenly they get their shit together and are now ripping apart both factions on a regular basis. From what I'm gathering this is caused by NC using more vehicles (less footzerg yay) and VS/TR putting half a cont worth of guys into the biolab grinders.

[QUOTE=scratch (nl);42880086]vehicles are like the only thing which have a chance of killing them. This also makes me worry how the underground battles in some of the bases will continue. I'd love to have infantry-only fights if it wasn't for ZOE max rushes always taking over everything possible (see tech plant battles, biolab battles, amp stations)[/QUOTE] It's not like ZOE's will escape the big balance pass they're doing. They're touching on just about everything. I just hope the Flash makes it in too!

i don't think this is right [t]http://i.minus.com/iFp7lw0cVOUs0.png[/t] also [t]http://i.minus.com/iHHXmDyXN346e.png[/t]

maybe it'd be cool if they add something else than just weapons for a MAX. Not something like a repair kit or healing thing because that's what the medics and engineers are for, but maybe some kind of flasher device to function like a short-duration flash grenade? it could be OP unless they add like a one minute reload time.

[QUOTE=scratch (nl);42880201]but maybe some kind of flasher device to function like a short-duration flash grenade?[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15inFGKO9yQ[/media]

[QUOTE=JerryK;42880181] [t]http://i.minus.com/iHHXmDyXN346e.png[/t][/QUOTE] The pre-Max ability nightmare.

You don't know pain until every exit of your spawn room has a line of 8+ NC Maxes, all holding a shield, with their engineers and medics behind them. I had a screenshot but I have no idea where it is, I can't find it in this thread

[QUOTE=TheTalon;42880786]You don't know pain until every exit of your spawn room has a line of 8+ NC Maxes, all holding a shield, with their engineers and medics behind them. I had a screenshot but I have no idea where it is, I can't find it in this thread[/QUOTE] At least it's not 8+ VS Maxes obliterating everything immediately with ZOE with medics and engineers supporting them

Is there any way to boost movement speed for infiltrators? I'm sick of running hundreds of metres just to catch up with some unwary fool who's running in the same direction at the same speed just to gank him.

I don't think I've seen a lot of TR use the lockdown ability on the MAX, yet it seems really good for defending bases (or I just don't notice it which is more likely)