Oh my. Wouldn't that, you know, hurt the ribs a bit?
I remember playing PS when it was in the public beta. It was pretty boring then, but I'm gonna check this public beta out to see how it has changed. (I'm gonna use the 7-day trial, since I'm not in the UK. Anyone in the UK want to send me a key for the 30-day trial?)
ThansalThe New ScumJoin Date: 2002-08-22Member: 1215Members, Constellation
well, it dosn't crash as much now <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
and the crash is CTD instead of freeze my fusckering computer <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Poofle+Apr 5 2005, 12:42 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Poofle @ Apr 5 2005, 12:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->If you think the Striker is overpowered, try using it against a tank.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> It was far better then the Phoenix.[stuff] <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> You obviously haven't fought against phoenix users much. There is NOTHING more annoying and frustrating than someone that can hit you without you being able to hit them back. At least the TR have to show themselves for a second so they can lock on, during which your friendly neighbourhood snipers can plunk them down.
Hmm, I might get this when DSL gets activated for me.
I too have the same money question, ie how much per month is this going to cost?
Also, to any vet PS players out there...
Any good sniper weapons? If so, which side are they on? I like to pluck em from a mile orf! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Nope, no [<b>OMG CENSORED</b>] sniper weapons that totally pwn anyone else that tries to have fun. There are sniper rifles, but they are so bloody hard to use that they are actually fair.
Well theres the Phoenix which you can be a **** with, but its more mildly annoying as a sniper weapon than doing any serious damage. And the rifle itself is pretty constrained. I usually end up doing the best DoT with a Cycler or even a Gauss over medium outdoor ranges - often times to the point where a sniper at the same range is screwed.
That really is the best thing about PS, no gaysauce from concentrate AWPing. That and the freaking Liberators 20mm AC.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Nope, no [OMG CENSORED] sniper weapons that totally pwn anyone else that tries to have fun. There are sniper rifles, but they are so bloody hard to use that they are actually fair.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> And you're telling this to someone who has a lovely recorded match on Halo killing some of the best darn Ghost riders in the IGUK league. With a sniper rifle. Ghost travelling at maximum speed, perpendicular to the shot path...
You're telling *ME* that the sniper rifle is hard to use? Best you take cover then me-laddio... (Red Dwarf fans will get the reference)
...No, the game mechanices make it hard to use. Im pretty sure the Halo rifle is pinpoint even while youre jumping. If you so much as breathe when holding the PS sniper rifle it'll go miles off.
wow... I have no idea who anyone you mentioned nor the accronyms were either XD
I seem to have a knack with snipes as well though <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> Even in XMP where you need to hit people twice with the snipe to drop them I was a lethality that could get over half the opposing team cursing and swearing :3
"OMG! bs!" "no way I was in cover!" "I was in friggin mid-air!!!" etc
Then again I got the same results in halo from my odd knack with throwing grenades with unnerring accuracy and the fact that being in a vehicle when you were after me, even if I only had a pistol was pretty much your death sentence :o
Guess it makes up for the fact that I can't pilot half the vehicles in the game to save myself; I just stick to turrets and staying stationary to gun things in the tank/banshee if I need that extra firepower. If I need to actually get somewhere I need someone else to drive or we'll all die strange and horrible deaths at the hands of my 'wonderful' driving skills ^^;
ThansalThe New ScumJoin Date: 2002-08-22Member: 1215Members, Constellation
/me remembers to not get in any vehicle gem is driving <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
oh, and the batle frame thingys are frike COOL!
I got one assault in before work to day.
droped in with light assault stuff (shotgun, jack squat armour) and jumped in as a tank gunner to help assault a base. Along with like 3 battle frames <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
droped all their defences, folowed my driver in and help the place as it was hacked.
Oh, and Nil, or any one else familiar with the game: Basics about capture/hold/objectives? what is the order? what are we suposed to do?
For now I am basicaly just roaming aorund behind some one, pounding anytihng that aint red <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Nuh huh. Not the 2-body-shots to kill. I'm talking headshots all the way.
See if you can find me in a Halo game, on Timberland, or Danger Canyon. You'll be afraid to go anywhere on the level.
But then again. I can also be the getaway driver, and held the records for a Race session round Infinity, Death Island, and Timberland at CBL. The nearest person was nearly 4 seconds behind me.
no I meant the <b>XMP</b> (unreal 2 multiplayer) sniper not halo; it took 2 shots minimum to kill. Even headshots. I still totally creamed most people though with it :3
As for halo I'd often setup a position near a turret and when they finally resorted to a vehicle to get me out of there (they usually failed miserably to outsnipe me) I'd just hop on in and blow it up with the turret before hopping out and resuming the pindown... only problem really was ammo for the darn thing forcing me to move to resupply eventually lol ^^
Pistol was just as nasty as the rifle half the time though :s
<!--QuoteBegin-Geminosity+Apr 5 2005, 06:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Geminosity @ Apr 5 2005, 06:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Pistol was just as nasty as the rifle half the time though :s <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Amen to that. 3 shots to the head kills anything not wearing an overshield...
Necro<insert non-birthday-related title here>Join Date: 2002-08-09Member: 1118Members
<!--QuoteBegin-Venmoch+Apr 5 2005, 04:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Venmoch @ Apr 5 2005, 04:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Also, is it possible to sabotage stuff?
Half the fun in BF:V is planting booby traps to the US Helicopters and watching fly-boys blow themselves <span style='color:red'>up</span> (DAMN YOU GEM I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME!!).
Has me laughing like drains all the time. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> as a combat engineer you can set turrents and mines and remote controlled mines.
you can destroy a bases generator and weapons too.
<!--QuoteBegin-Align+Apr 5 2005, 06:45 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Align @ Apr 5 2005, 06:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Really now, the Halo sniper rifle was essentially a railgun with a scope, you hardly need "a knack" to use it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> No, the sniper rifle in Halo needed a careful amount of lead on each shot. Plus the fact that it left a big white line back to where you fired it from means that it needed a knack to kill people, and not get found out where they got shot from.
Many people forget the lead needed on the sniper rifle. The amount of people who I've whipped in sniper faceoffs who are clearly not leading their shots is getting pathetic now.
Half the fun in BF:V is planting booby traps to the US Helicopters and watching fly-boys blow themselves <span style='color:red'>up</span> (DAMN YOU GEM I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME!!).
Has me laughing like drains all the time. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> as a combat engineer you can set turrents and mines and remote controlled mines.
you can destroy a bases generator and weapons too. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> now that we are back to PS (instead of Gems E-Wang <3)
are those turrets/mines/what not you can put down any GOOD?
so far I have not seen any one fall to em.
yah, they might be great for AP, but there is always a MAX or tank around to take em out...
hehe, pouinding turrets with a locked down max is fun <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Half the fun in BF:V is planting booby traps to the US Helicopters and watching fly-boys blow themselves <span style='color:red'>up</span> (DAMN YOU GEM I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME!!).
Has me laughing like drains all the time. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> as a combat engineer you can set turrents and mines and remote controlled mines.
you can destroy a bases generator and weapons too. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> now that we are back to PS (instead of Gems E-Wang <3)
are those turrets/mines/what not you can put down any GOOD?
so far I have not seen any one fall to em.
yah, they might be great for AP, but there is always a MAX or tank around to take em out...
hehe, pouinding turrets with a locked down max is fun <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> As a mossie/reaver pilot as well as an advanced hacker, I often get shot down near/over bases or try and get a ghost hack on, and I can tell you from repeated experience that well placed Spitfires (the turrets) and Mines are a serious pain in the **** and have killed me on many occasions (hit a mine while being shot at by a turret = lose).
In most situations they're just like turrets / Ocs in NS: They won't really kill anything but they'll weaken/distract someone well enough for you to kill them. And mines are hell for tank drivers.
heyyyy! I didn't start it ~pokes than in the ribs~ meanie <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I should really go buy that magazine though... will it still be in the shops? Been a loooong time since I bought a magazine ^^;
Well that sucks. This thread made me want to sign up for a month for some reason, but as it turns out a supplier seized and closed my mom's bank account so right now only my dad has a card... Oh well
Btw Geminosity- They usually sell magazines in stores <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> If you can't find it at a grocery store or newsstand or whatever try a bookstore like Borders or something, they generally have a huge selection of magazines.
<!--QuoteBegin-http://www.newconglomerate.com/tyranny.jsp+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (http://www.newconglomerate.com/tyranny.jsp)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The Vanu Sovereignty seceded from the Terran Republic during the same period as the New Conglomerate. But unlike us, who see the freedom to live as we choose as the future of the human race, the Vanu Sovereignty see a future in which our humanity is a liability, a flaw that they will strip from the species, by force if necessary. By exploiting the technology left behind by a lost alien race, the Vanu Sovereignty seeks to mold the human genome into a shape that fits its own fanatical vision, and in the process wring out every last drop of human spirit, individuality and passion that makes us who we are. What's left--a human husk fused inseparably with cold, lifeless machine--is their dream of perfection, a soulless techno-wraith. The evil of their vision and the zeal with which they pursue it is horrifying. The Vanu Sovereignty must be stopped at all costs or the human race will cease to exist.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The thing with the PS sniper rifle is that if you move YOUR CROSSHAIR, you have to wait to recenter (the CoF expands while your crosshair is moving and settles while it remains still). So its essentially you having to predict a spot where your target will be half a second before he passes through, so you can get an accurate shot.
Thats really it. I'm not sure if you can move your character, but it doesn't matter - its the crosshair movement that really makes sniping in PS non-insane.
Oh right, so it's like sniping in Neocron only it takes a few less years and the target doesn't flinch off the blast like it was a scratch <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Ok, a brief how-to-take-a-base guide for Thansal then.
Every base has three areas of interest, the generator, the spawn room and the control room.
The Control room is the heart of the base. Most bases have control rooms in the lowest underground level, but amp stations and tech plants have them on the roof. This is the terminal you need to hack (with your REK, which everyone should carry at all times, advanced hacker or not) in order to take the base. It takes 40 seconds to hack the base, 30 if you have the hacking skill, 20 if you have advanced hacking. Once the hack is on, you either have to:
A: Hold the hack for 15 minutes, i.e, do not let the enemy re-hack the terminal
B: Get an LLU (latice logic unit) from the hacked base to the nearest friendly base's control console. Think of this method as "capture the flag".
The hack will fail, and the base will instantly be back in the enemy's control if:
A: The enemy re-hacks the control console
B: The LLU is destroyed (on contact with water)
C: The LLU fails to reach a friendly base within 15 minutes
The spawn room is where the enemy spawns. It is usually the primary target of any attack, as once it is taken you are free to hack the base at will, and only have to watch out for enemy counter-attacks. There are three spawn tubes, all of which must be destroyed for the spawn room to be disabled. The equipment terminals can also be destroyed, but there's really no point.
The Generator powers the base. If the generator is destroyed, you're basically screwed. You can't spawn troops or use equipment terminals in a base with a downed generator. It can be repaired after destruction by an engineer. Destroying a base's generator is generally considered a last-ditch tactic when everything else has failed to work. It will usually mean less experience points all round when the base is finally taken, it means you can't hack enemy terminals for your own equipment while the hack is going through, and it is generally considered unsporting.
And poofle, get ingame. Most of the issues you mention are already gone. The striker is no uber weapon any more, although I would consider it the best of the three AV weapons. The VS are considered to be the most powerful empire at the moment, with the NC and TR close behind. The NC were previously the most powerful, but have had the nerf bat applied.
X_StickmanNot good enough for a custom title.Join Date: 2003-04-15Member: 15533Members, Constellation
We sure did have the nerf bat beaten liberally over our head... the cycler and pulsar (i think) are pretty much better than the guass (in my opinion at least, I mean, I always get beaten if i'm using a guass and they're using a cycler/pulsar, but I usually win if i'm using a cycler/pulsar) and our main weapon, the Jackhammer, while being pretty damn powerful and very, very useful up close (say, in a tower fight) is pretty much useless in a base assault as the TR and VS have long range weapons (the MCG is like death incarnate when you're running down a corridoor towards it with a shotgun)...
I mean, consider it. Nil_IQ pretty much just described a base assault and how to capture it, but he left out the part where you fight your way through the base through 50-100-ish troops to get there in the first place. The bases are mainly corridoors until you get into the basement (which is like a storage area, full of crates etc). Now imagine charging down a corridoor towards 6 people who have an MCG (Mini-Chain-Gun, 100 bullets per clip, very fast firing and quite painful) or a Lasher (which shoots large balls of energy which do a load of damage on contact, as well as "lashing" out towards other troops near you). That's pretty painful right there. Then imagine that all you have is a shotgun that loses all it's usefulness at above a range of, say, 6 feet. 'Nuff said.
Then again I'm just a bit bitter at an incredibly embarassing assault the NC just utterly messed up. So i'll let Nil correct me where necessary <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-X Stickman+Apr 5 2005, 05:07 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (X Stickman @ Apr 5 2005, 05:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> We sure did have the nerf bat beaten liberally over our head... the cycler and pulsar (i think) are pretty much better than the guass (in my opinion at least, I mean, I always get beaten if i'm using a guass and they're using a cycler/pulsar, but I usually win if i'm using a cycler/pulsar) and our main weapon, the Jackhammer, while being pretty damn powerful and very, very useful up close (say, in a tower fight) is pretty much useless in a base assault as the TR and VS have long range weapons (the MCG is like death incarnate when you're running down a corridoor towards it with a shotgun)...
I mean, consider it. Nil_IQ pretty much just described a base assault and how to capture it, but he left out the part where you fight your way through the base through 50-100-ish troops to get there in the first place. The bases are mainly corridoors until you get into the basement (which is like a storage area, full of crates etc). Now imagine charging down a corridoor towards 6 people who have an MCG (Mini-Chain-Gun, 100 bullets per clip, very fast firing and quite painful) or a Lasher (which shoots large balls of energy which do a load of damage on contact, as well as "lashing" out towards other troops near you). That's pretty painful right there. Then imagine that all you have is a shotgun that loses all it's usefulness at above a range of, say, 6 feet. 'Nuff said.
Then again I'm just a bit bitter at an incredibly embarassing assault the NC just utterly messed up. So i'll let Nil correct me where necessary <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Ok, now imagine the situation sticky just described, except you're defending, and 6 ScatterMAXes are bearing down the coridoor towards you, and behind them, several hundred NC all armed with jackhammers. That is why the NC do not need buffing. Except for the sparrow MAX.
Funny story, happened just now.
The NC hacked one of our bases, one with an LLU. It doesn't look like they can hold the hack, but I decide to go after the LLU anyway. I arrive to find several wrecked NC vehicles, and the hack is resecured, but then I see a dot on my radar. I swing around, SQUISHIE! I point my crosshairs at him, but he doesn't try to fire at me or anything, he just stands there and salutes. I felt bad, so I just saluted back and flew off <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I need to know your character's names and empires so that I can get you an outfit invite if applicable, then you will see some co-ordinated goodness. You will also get shouted at by a crazed Norwegian military police officer, but that's just Ostekake.
And yes Gem, the magazine is still on sale, the may issue doesn't come out until the 21st.
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I remember playing PS when it was in the public beta. It was pretty boring then, but I'm gonna check this public beta out to see how it has changed. (I'm gonna use the 7-day trial, since I'm not in the UK. Anyone in the UK want to send me a key for the 30-day trial?)
and the crash is CTD instead of freeze my fusckering computer <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
It was far better then the Phoenix.[stuff] <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You obviously haven't fought against phoenix users much. There is NOTHING more annoying and frustrating than someone that can hit you without you being able to hit them back. At least the TR have to show themselves for a second so they can lock on, during which your friendly neighbourhood snipers can plunk them down.
however 2 CTDs and 1 freeze (even after updating drivers and fixing any possible heat problems) seems alot.
Any one know of any known issues with the game?
How much a month it cost in £ and what games do i exactly need to buy?
Planetside and Core combat?
I too have the same money question, ie how much per month is this going to cost?
Also, to any vet PS players out there...
Any good sniper weapons? If so, which side are they on? I like to pluck em from a mile orf! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That really is the best thing about PS, no gaysauce from concentrate AWPing. That and the freaking Liberators 20mm AC.
And you're telling this to someone who has a lovely recorded match on Halo killing some of the best darn Ghost riders in the IGUK league. With a sniper rifle. Ghost travelling at maximum speed, perpendicular to the shot path...
You're telling *ME* that the sniper rifle is hard to use? Best you take cover then me-laddio... (Red Dwarf fans will get the reference)
*edit for my appalling spelling*
"Hats off to you mate that was a good shot!"
Rather than
"OMG WTH HAXOR! SNIPER ****!"
I seem to have a knack with snipes as well though <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Even in XMP where you need to hit people twice with the snipe to drop them I was a lethality that could get over half the opposing team cursing and swearing :3
"OMG! bs!"
"no way I was in cover!"
"I was in friggin mid-air!!!"
etc
Then again I got the same results in halo from my odd knack with throwing grenades with unnerring accuracy and the fact that being in a vehicle when you were after me, even if I only had a pistol was pretty much your death sentence :o
Guess it makes up for the fact that I can't pilot half the vehicles in the game to save myself; I just stick to turrets and staying stationary to gun things in the tank/banshee if I need that extra firepower. If I need to actually get somewhere I need someone else to drive or we'll all die strange and horrible deaths at the hands of my 'wonderful' driving skills ^^;
~signs up to be a pilot in PS~ XD
oh, and the batle frame thingys are frike COOL!
I got one assault in before work to day.
droped in with light assault stuff (shotgun, jack squat armour) and jumped in as a tank gunner to help assault a base. Along with like 3 battle frames <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
droped all their defences, folowed my driver in and help the place as it was hacked.
Oh, and Nil, or any one else familiar with the game:
Basics about capture/hold/objectives?
what is the order? what are we suposed to do?
For now I am basicaly just roaming aorund behind some one, pounding anytihng that aint red <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
See if you can find me in a Halo game, on Timberland, or Danger Canyon. You'll be afraid to go anywhere on the level.
But then again. I can also be the getaway driver, and held the records for a Race session round Infinity, Death Island, and Timberland at CBL. The nearest person was nearly 4 seconds behind me.
I still totally creamed most people though with it :3
As for halo I'd often setup a position near a turret and when they finally resorted to a vehicle to get me out of there (they usually failed miserably to outsnipe me) I'd just hop on in and blow it up with the turret before hopping out and resuming the pindown... only problem really was ammo for the darn thing forcing me to move to resupply eventually lol ^^
Pistol was just as nasty as the rifle half the time though :s
Amen to that. 3 shots to the head kills anything not wearing an overshield...
Half the fun in BF:V is planting booby traps to the US Helicopters and watching fly-boys blow themselves <span style='color:red'>up</span> (DAMN YOU GEM I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME!!).
Has me laughing like drains all the time. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
as a combat engineer you can set turrents and mines and remote controlled mines.
you can destroy a bases generator and weapons too.
No, the sniper rifle in Halo needed a careful amount of lead on each shot. Plus the fact that it left a big white line back to where you fired it from means that it needed a knack to kill people, and not get found out where they got shot from.
Many people forget the lead needed on the sniper rifle. The amount of people who I've whipped in sniper faceoffs who are clearly not leading their shots is getting pathetic now.
Half the fun in BF:V is planting booby traps to the US Helicopters and watching fly-boys blow themselves <span style='color:red'>up</span> (DAMN YOU GEM I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME!!).
Has me laughing like drains all the time. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
as a combat engineer you can set turrents and mines and remote controlled mines.
you can destroy a bases generator and weapons too. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
now that we are back to PS (instead of Gems E-Wang <3)
are those turrets/mines/what not you can put down any GOOD?
so far I have not seen any one fall to em.
yah, they might be great for AP, but there is always a MAX or tank around to take em out...
hehe, pouinding turrets with a locked down max is fun <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Half the fun in BF:V is planting booby traps to the US Helicopters and watching fly-boys blow themselves <span style='color:red'>up</span> (DAMN YOU GEM I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME!!).
Has me laughing like drains all the time. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
as a combat engineer you can set turrents and mines and remote controlled mines.
you can destroy a bases generator and weapons too. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
now that we are back to PS (instead of Gems E-Wang <3)
are those turrets/mines/what not you can put down any GOOD?
so far I have not seen any one fall to em.
yah, they might be great for AP, but there is always a MAX or tank around to take em out...
hehe, pouinding turrets with a locked down max is fun <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
As a mossie/reaver pilot as well as an advanced hacker, I often get shot down near/over bases or try and get a ghost hack on, and I can tell you from repeated experience that well placed Spitfires (the turrets) and Mines are a serious pain in the **** and have killed me on many occasions (hit a mine while being shot at by a turret = lose).
In most situations they're just like turrets / Ocs in NS: They won't really kill anything but they'll weaken/distract someone well enough for you to kill them. And mines are hell for tank drivers.
meanie <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I should really go buy that magazine though... will it still be in the shops? Been a loooong time since I bought a magazine ^^;
Btw Geminosity- They usually sell magazines in stores <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> If you can't find it at a grocery store or newsstand or whatever try a bookstore like Borders or something, they generally have a huge selection of magazines.
EDIT: Btw
<a href='http://www.vanusovereignty.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.vanusovereignty.com/</a>
<a href='http://www.terranrepublic.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.terranrepublic.com/</a>
<a href='http://www.newconglomerate.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.newconglomerate.com/</a>
An excrept from Conglom-o's page about us:
<!--QuoteBegin-http://www.newconglomerate.com/tyranny.jsp+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (http://www.newconglomerate.com/tyranny.jsp)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The Vanu Sovereignty seceded from the Terran Republic during the same period as the New Conglomerate. But unlike us, who see the freedom to live as we choose as the future of the human race, the Vanu Sovereignty see a future in which our humanity is a liability, a flaw that they will strip from the species, by force if necessary. By exploiting the technology left behind by a lost alien race, the Vanu Sovereignty seeks to mold the human genome into a shape that fits its own fanatical vision, and in the process wring out every last drop of human spirit, individuality and passion that makes us who we are. What's left--a human husk fused inseparably with cold, lifeless machine--is their dream of perfection, a soulless techno-wraith. The evil of their vision and the zeal with which they pursue it is horrifying. The Vanu Sovereignty must be stopped at all costs or the human race will cease to exist.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In other words, we're totally badass.
Thats really it. I'm not sure if you can move your character, but it doesn't matter - its the crosshair movement that really makes sniping in PS non-insane.
ok, so mines/turrets are good for antistealth.
I just keep seeing people put em out side the base where they just get messed up.
Every base has three areas of interest, the generator, the spawn room and the control room.
The Control room is the heart of the base. Most bases have control rooms in the lowest underground level, but amp stations and tech plants have them on the roof. This is the terminal you need to hack (with your REK, which everyone should carry at all times, advanced hacker or not) in order to take the base. It takes 40 seconds to hack the base, 30 if you have the hacking skill, 20 if you have advanced hacking. Once the hack is on, you either have to:
A: Hold the hack for 15 minutes, i.e, do not let the enemy re-hack the terminal
B: Get an LLU (latice logic unit) from the hacked base to the nearest friendly base's control console. Think of this method as "capture the flag".
The hack will fail, and the base will instantly be back in the enemy's control if:
A: The enemy re-hacks the control console
B: The LLU is destroyed (on contact with water)
C: The LLU fails to reach a friendly base within 15 minutes
The spawn room is where the enemy spawns. It is usually the primary target of any attack, as once it is taken you are free to hack the base at will, and only have to watch out for enemy counter-attacks. There are three spawn tubes, all of which must be destroyed for the spawn room to be disabled. The equipment terminals can also be destroyed, but there's really no point.
The Generator powers the base. If the generator is destroyed, you're basically screwed. You can't spawn troops or use equipment terminals in a base with a downed generator. It can be repaired after destruction by an engineer. Destroying a base's generator is generally considered a last-ditch tactic when everything else has failed to work. It will usually mean less experience points all round when the base is finally taken, it means you can't hack enemy terminals for your own equipment while the hack is going through, and it is generally considered unsporting.
And poofle, get ingame. Most of the issues you mention are already gone. The striker is no uber weapon any more, although I would consider it the best of the three AV weapons. The VS are considered to be the most powerful empire at the moment, with the NC and TR close behind. The NC were previously the most powerful, but have had the nerf bat applied.
I mean, consider it. Nil_IQ pretty much just described a base assault and how to capture it, but he left out the part where you fight your way through the base through 50-100-ish troops to get there in the first place. The bases are mainly corridoors until you get into the basement (which is like a storage area, full of crates etc). Now imagine charging down a corridoor towards 6 people who have an MCG (Mini-Chain-Gun, 100 bullets per clip, very fast firing and quite painful) or a Lasher (which shoots large balls of energy which do a load of damage on contact, as well as "lashing" out towards other troops near you). That's pretty painful right there. Then imagine that all you have is a shotgun that loses all it's usefulness at above a range of, say, 6 feet. 'Nuff said.
Then again I'm just a bit bitter at an incredibly embarassing assault the NC just utterly messed up. So i'll let Nil correct me where necessary <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I mean, consider it. Nil_IQ pretty much just described a base assault and how to capture it, but he left out the part where you fight your way through the base through 50-100-ish troops to get there in the first place. The bases are mainly corridoors until you get into the basement (which is like a storage area, full of crates etc). Now imagine charging down a corridoor towards 6 people who have an MCG (Mini-Chain-Gun, 100 bullets per clip, very fast firing and quite painful) or a Lasher (which shoots large balls of energy which do a load of damage on contact, as well as "lashing" out towards other troops near you). That's pretty painful right there. Then imagine that all you have is a shotgun that loses all it's usefulness at above a range of, say, 6 feet. 'Nuff said.
Then again I'm just a bit bitter at an incredibly embarassing assault the NC just utterly messed up. So i'll let Nil correct me where necessary <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ok, now imagine the situation sticky just described, except you're defending, and 6 ScatterMAXes are bearing down the coridoor towards you, and behind them, several hundred NC all armed with jackhammers. That is why the NC do not need buffing. Except for the sparrow MAX.
Funny story, happened just now.
The NC hacked one of our bases, one with an LLU. It doesn't look like they can hold the hack, but I decide to go after the LLU anyway. I arrive to find several wrecked NC vehicles, and the hack is resecured, but then I see a dot on my radar. I swing around, SQUISHIE! I point my crosshairs at him, but he doesn't try to fire at me or anything, he just stands there and salutes. I felt bad, so I just saluted back and flew off <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I need to know your character's names and empires so that I can get you an outfit invite if applicable, then you will see some co-ordinated goodness. You will also get shouted at by a crazed Norwegian military police officer, but that's just Ostekake.
And yes Gem, the magazine is still on sale, the may issue doesn't come out until the 21st.