Planetside 2

[WayAbvPar]

I added the rotary gun and the dumbfire rockets to my Reaper. Everyone else seems to have added the A2A missiles, so I added flares  I also learned to dodge locked missiles much of the time by trying to put myself behind solid objects (more than 1 is ideal).

[kaid]

I really love engineer.  Got mines, a deployable gun, can repair my own tank and drop ammo packs in big fights for sickening amounts of XP.  It's probably the best class for learning the game as you run around with people earning certs without the whole "have to be good at shooting or even understanding what the fuck is happening" thing.  I was hanging out with some AA MAXes last night outside the enemy spawn keeping everyone topped up while they just wrecked shit - it was mad fun.

Other memorable moments include a big tank column that successfully stopped an enemy push and a prolonged infantry standoff where I actually managed to kill a dude maybe!

I have been enjoying engineer as well. Got a fun weapon combo the other day. I plunked down a bit of money to unlock the track 5 s carbine and used certs to get the under barrel grenade launcher. That thing is awesome. Gives my engineer that little extra punch for when I need to do some shooty stuff. Its is a one shot one reload grenade that goes off on impact has really decent range. Its a one shot kill on a direct hit or two shot to an aoe. One nice thing is light assault shares the same weapons as engineer so gearing one up helps gear the other up as well so good bang for the buck.

[01101010]

I have been enjoying engineer as well. Got a fun weapon combo the other day. I plunked down a bit of money to unlock the track 5 s carbine and used certs to get the under barrel grenade launcher. That thing is awesome. Gives my engineer that little extra punch for when I need to do some shooty stuff. Its is a one shot one reload grenade that goes off on impact has really decent range. Its a one shot kill on a direct hit or two shot to an aoe. One nice thing is light assault shares the same weapons as engineer so gearing one up helps gear the other up as well so good bang for the buck.

I got this on my medic's gun. Since I was an M203 junkie in America's Army Online, I was really looking forward to this. Sad part is that you need a term to rearm it since ammo packs are strickly bullets for infantry. I am ok with that because not doing that would turn the game into a spamfest. I am very glad the range operates pretty damn close to what I am used to in other games. I likes it.

[kaid]

Ya you have to hit the term but I think it would probably be OP if you could recharge yourself with ammo kits that would be a bit to one man army. Heavies can almost do it but they need an engy to power them up letting an engy do it themselves would be a bit crazy.

Even with just two shots its still damn useful its pretty acruate once you get the hang of the lob even over pretty long distances and basically giving you two more grenades for 100 cert points that don't take infantry supply to restock is pretty uber.

[Falconeer]

I wished mines were a little more useful, or that you could carry more than one. Can you? And have of you been able to make real good use of them? The best I could attain with it has been killing one enemy I was dueling with who exploded the moment he turned the corner, but never been able to kill plenty at once as I was hoping to do, no matter how close to their spawn I placed it. Grenades are so much better that I can't justify to myself spending 100 Infantry resources on a mine instead of 75 on a grenade.

[Mrbloodworth]

Mines are rather useful. In fact they annoy the hell out of me over the past few days. Fuckers. YMMV

[Viin]

Crank up the mouse sensitivity as far as it will go for aircraft.

You guys don't use joysticks for the flying?

[Falconeer]

I forgot to say that while I've died 629 times since launch already, I've never died to a mine yet.

About flying, I am very comfortable with mouse and keyboard, but I am not that good at staying out of trouble so I seldom last more than two minutes anyway.

[Mrbloodworth]

I have been dieing more and more to tank mines and also Inf mines. I assume people are starting to cert into them, and the proliferation of Videos showing how to use them seems to have risen.

[Megrim]

Does the, uh, Lasher (?) have a down side? Are the equivalents for TR and NC just as awesome? I ask, because I trialled it last night for 1/2 an hour, and wow.

Lasher is incredibly situational. As in it's pretty damn useless unless you are shooting it at a large gathering of enemys. Way to long TTK, but decent splash-damage

Most of the side specific heavy weapons are situational. The MCG is pretty awesome IF you are fighting really in close and you have time to ramp it up and let the bullethose work. The lasher is good in areas full of enemies and the jackhammer is good if you are fight up close and personal. The LMG the heavies get default is more of a solid overall performer so its good to have one configuration with the side specific toy and one with the more normal LMG for when you cannot be in your optimal distance.

If you are in big brawls the lasher is awesome but if you are getting in one v one fights you are probably better off with the LMG.

Coolies, thanks for the feedback. My impression of Lasher was that it was very good, but then I had spent most of that 1/2 hour fighting at close and medium range.

[Mrbloodworth]

Lasher is the new Thumper. :)

EDIT: Should be called the Splasher.

[WayAbvPar]

You can carry two mines at a time (at least with the first cert..not sure if you can bandolier them or whatever). It takes 2 to kill most vehicles. I have had a couple of lucky kills where I left one in a road and a Flash hit it, but most of my mine kills are from sneaking in and placing them under stationary vehicles like deployed Sunderers 

As for flying with a joystick- the weird combo of hovering and fixed wing aircraft makes joysticks tougher to use, imo. System was designed for m&kb, so it doesn't work too badly. I might try my ancient Saitek if I get motivated enough and see if it makes a difference.

[Mrbloodworth]

Re: Aircraft. For me, it helps to fly everything like its a helicopter from any other game.

[Megrim]

I've read that the best results come from flying with a gamepad, actually. No idea if this is true, but k&m does feel awkward.

[01101010]

I have been dieing more and more to tank mines and also Inf mines. I assume people are starting to cert into them, and the proliferation of Videos showing how to use them seems to have risen.

Place one mine 30m from the vehicle pad where they launch out at. Then another at 50m - staggered. Ruin someone's day by starting that long as timer/resources. Even better if it is someplace with only one avenue out, then two mines 10m staggered apart down the road and hope you get a full sundy. 

And BW only dies while looking at the map - or playing as my decoy.

[Surlyboi]

You can reload the grenades in the over/under launcher from engineer ammo packs, you just have to crouch on 'em for a while to get it to click.

[Mrbloodworth]

And BW only dies while looking at the map - or playing as my decoy.

TRUTH!






Not really.

[01101010]

You can reload the grenades in the over/under launcher from engineer ammo packs, you just have to crouch on 'em for a while to get it to click.

ORLY?! I'll have to give that a try tonight. And that sounds awfully OP in the right situations. Though makes sense given they don't pull from your grenade supply.

[Goumindong]

I am not sure how you all can fly aircraft with their weird "mouse horizontal axis is roll rather than yaw" thing going on.

[Surlyboi]

You can reload the grenades in the over/under launcher from engineer ammo packs, you just have to crouch on 'em for a while to get it to click.

ORLY?! I'll have to give that a try tonight. And that sounds awfully OP in the right situations. Though makes sense given they don't pull from your grenade supply.

Totally. I pissed in a lot of peoples' cheerios last night, spamming grenade fire as an engineer. The only person I missed was a speed hacker, but it was ok, I talked about his mom incessantly for about half an hour.

[kaid]

I wished mines were a little more useful, or that you could carry more than one. Can you? And have of you been able to make real good use of them? The best I could attain with it has been killing one enemy I was dueling with who exploded the moment he turned the corner, but never been able to kill plenty at once as I was hoping to do, no matter how close to their spawn I placed it. Grenades are so much better that I can't justify to myself spending 100 Infantry resources on a mine instead of 75 on a grenade.

I started using my claymores more often and I have to say they are pretty darn nice. In a contested base each one is pretty much a guaranteed kill if you put them in good locations near cap points or generators. Honestly the resource cost has not proven to be much of a big deal. I just stock up when I start the day and just blow all my points on grenades and mines and then I am all set for the rest of the day. I can still pull maxes out pretty frequently as needed doing this as well so the system works pretty well. The tank mines are great in that friendly tanks do not trigger them. So if you think a tech plant is going to get capped or a base is going to get capped drop a couple right in front of the vehicle station its pretty much guaranteed a kill on somebody.

[Viin]

When the hell do you people play? I never see anyone online ..

[Sky]

I was having some decent success (meaning not crashing, not that I was killing people) flying with a gamepad. The movement controls were decent, but there are just enough controls to make a 360 pad cumbersome. And the throttle up/down on the triggers doesn't seem to work well. Throttle down doesn't seem to stick, so I was always jumping ahead. Didn't notice that until I was comfortable enough with forward flight to practice hovering...and with my layout I can't hover.

So, rather than going back to the drawing board I scrapped flying for now.

I do have a USB flight stick my dad gave me when he moved, but I don't see how that would work without a throttle (it's also couch-unfriendly).

[Der Helm]

The default heavy assault rocket is pretty solid vs ground vehicles. You can unlock two upgrades for it one is a ground to air lock on missile and ones a ground to ground lock on missile.

When you write unlock upgrades , you mean buy a completely different weapon, don't you ? Because there don't seem to be any unlocks for rocket launchers.

[kaid]

I have been dieing more and more to tank mines and also Inf mines. I assume people are starting to cert into them, and the proliferation of Videos showing how to use them seems to have risen.

One thing to note the mines are pretty damn expensive cert wise. Probably just starting to see them more and more as people are finishing up their primary certs and starting to work on the more fun stuff like anti tank  mines, claymores.

I see a lot of griping on the forums about mines but really for how expensive supply wise they are they are about as strong as they should be right now.

[Falconeer]

By Claymores you mean the Bouncing Betties? Or there's actual Claymore mines hidden somewhere in the cert maze?

[Der Helm]

By Claymores you mean the Bouncing Betties? Or there's actual Claymore mines hidden somewhere in the cert maze?

NC gets Bouncing Betties, Vany get Claymores and Terrans get AP mines.

[Mrbloodworth]

Haruhi at artificialaiming.com was just banned. all 3 of his accounts. Goodbye you scumbag. Find a new hobby or get good at the game.
by John Smedley about 16 hours ago

 

artificialaiming.com Now seems to be a Holding page.

[Kageru]

I'm glad he's enjoying himself... though I'm not sure getting into a personal feud with someone trying to hack your game is really a great idea.

[Falconeer]

It's kind of childish to publish anything about banning the maker of the hack. Cause as far as I can tell he's getting the last laugh. First, accounts are free so what's the use in banning someone anyway? Second, his hack works very well apparently, so it's only going to become more and more popular.

Make a public announcement after killing the hack, not after tickling the hacker.

[Miasma]

I just bought the infantry mines, is one enough to kill someone?  Sometimes they go away but I don't get the "+xp" centre screen notification.  Pretty sure I'm going to stick with engineer, it helps that I also like the Gauss Compact S.  My enjoyment of the rifle is probably just because it coincided with a switch to firing in bursts instead of spraying.

It's kind of childish to publish anything about banning the maker of the hack. Cause as far as I can tell he's getting the last laugh. First, accounts are free so what's the use in banning someone anyway? Second, his hack works very well apparently, so it's only going to become more and more popular.

Make a public announcement after killing the hack, not after tickling the hacker.

He'd lose any station cash/certs.  It could be a good warning to people using it that they will be caught and banned.  It's something.  Not sure they'll ever be able to stop cheating due to the f2p nature of the game.

[Zetor]

It's kind of childish to publish anything about banning the maker of the hack. Cause as far as I can tell he's getting the last laugh. First, accounts are free so what's the use in banning someone anyway? Second, his hack works very well apparently, so it's only going to become more and more popular.

Make a public announcement after killing the hack, not after tickling the hacker.

Yeah, this. So you banned the hacker based on his youtube videos, big whoop -- all you did was tell all the l33t kiddies about the hack, so you've just made the problem worse while patting yourself on the back. See also: WAR banhammer.

[Mrbloodworth]

Um, he never said how he was detected.

[kaid]

By Claymores you mean the Bouncing Betties? Or there's actual Claymore mines hidden somewhere in the cert maze?

NC gets Bouncing Betties, Vany get Claymores and Terrans get AP mines.

Actually TR gets the claymores and vanu the AP mines. TR kinda has the raw end of the stick since the claymores are WAY more visable if you know what to look for than the other two but still I am having good luck with them. Its fun to mine a cap point and then 10 minutes later get 100 xp for some infiltrator trying to back hack it and gets blown up.

[Mrbloodworth]

Flak Armor suit mods are going to get a small buff to help infantry survivability vs rocketpod, HE rounds, grenade & zephyr spammers! - Higby