Planetside 2

My gameplay is irritatingly inconsistent. Some days I'll be doing really good, and reacting to things faster than I have any right to be. others it feels like I can't turn a corner without being shot from every direction. Same deal with my aim, I'll seemingly go from being able to headshot people who are moving (which I normally can't because I don't know how to properly compensate with the phaseshift's shitty velocity) to being unable to hit people with a shotgun at point blank.

That paragraph more or less describes my sum experience online with Battlefield 3: some days I'd kick ass and be the main reason why my team managed to hold the objectives, and others I'd be nothing more than cannon/sniper/gunship fodder.

it still frustrates me that the lasher is not as useful as either the chaingun or the jackhammer. I really like the concept of this gun, like a lot of the strange VS stuff, I really want it to be good, but outside a few situations where it really shines there's just no reason to ever think of using it over the orion.

For all the flak the outfit blowhards like to shoot at us lone wolves, I am so frustrated when time and time again I cannot get it through my allies thick skulls to KILL. THE FUCKING. SUNDERERS. KILL THEM FIRST. Clear a path, and nuke them from orbit. I don't care what it fucking does to your KDR, objectives come first you insolent child.

I went 4/22 very nearly killing (or assisting ONCE) 4 different sunderers but failed either because C4 isn't powerful enough, or they had mineguard (which is why I started using c4). None of my team seemed to be able to understand that getting to their sunderers was easy, and that they'd die in short order even if we did too.

so despite my frustrations earlier today the rest of the day was a little more enjoyable. I gleefully C4'd some teammates who insisted, after much urging, on sitting in the spawn shield, and racked up a good number more kills with my phseshift. I must say it's annoying when they twitch that hair's breadth to the left or right, hear the bullet whiz past their heads, rotate 360 degrees and quickscope you though...

my aim is just plain awful today, but on the upside, I managed to kill two people with their own mines! one was an infiltrator too close to their claymores, and the other was an engie thinking he was being clever by mining his vehicle bay to prevent us nasty infiltrators from using it! oh man, he must have been so mad when his mines blew up beneath him.

Looking forward to seeing how the great liberator Nerf of 2014 will shake things up. Haven't seen that many yet.

Woo! Almost saved enough for my engie AV turret of unadulterated winsauce. Then it's more certs into my battleflash so I can ninjaneer

edited 21st Jun '14 4:57:44 AM by Lanceleoghauni

Hmmm... Now that Hossin's coming (supposedly) tommorrow, what are your general thoughts about it?

I haven't even bothered looking at it too much. The next few months are shot as as SOE bugfixes and tweaks hossin, that's a given. but hopefully after that there can be time for tweaking the various weapons and other gear, so that everything is a bit more usable. I'm mostly excited about hossin's release because it means for the most part it's DONE. I'd really love to see say... the lasher end up with higher Rate of fire and a projectile velocity that can beat a flash on the downhill.

Here are the update notes for the "Hossin, Continent Locking, and some extra Outfit tools" release

https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/update-notes-06-26.191225/

Take a look at the buffed continent capture benefits...

edited 25th Jun '14 11:25:06 PM by Delvarian

I'm most interested in the locking and gate rotations. It means I might actually get to play somewhere OTHER than indar and not be staring at a TR or NC 50% pop. I'm not sure VS will have the pop to routinely win alerts to get the benefits, but when we do they look veeeery nice. unfortunately I can imagine this leading to "winning faction stuffs pilots/tankers into the warpgate of a locked continent to recover ALL OF THE RESOURCES then return to the fight" which sucks giant moose testicles because both are already too numerous.

Is my playstyle unusual? Infiltrator and heavy assault are the only classes where I really focus on infantry that aren't in my way. I play everything else to be anti vehicular or objective support.

Hmm... Heavy Assault (and MA Xs) are the upfront fighters. Infil are generally either snipers or ambushers.

I mainly play the six classes as follows:

• Light Assault: Flanking mid-range.
• Infiltrator: Long-range sniping and SMG-support
• Combat Medic: Support and med/long range combat (thanks to self-regen)
• Engineer: Support
• Heavy Assault: Short to medium range and in front.
• MAX: Short range and in front.

Heavy Assault, MAX, and Light Assault (in that order) are my anti-vehicular infantry classes.

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On a side note, how's Hossin now that we've had some time to play on it. We had an epic first continent alert for Hossin where the NC won by just 1-2% (TR and VS were both 32%).

edited 26th Jun '14 8:53:26 PM by Delvarian

I haven't tried it yet. My bf forgot to pay the internet bill so my morning play time was canceled :/ I'll post my thoughts once I have some.

edited 26th Jun '14 8:59:30 PM by Lanceleoghauni

So far my feelings are mixed. Aesthetically, I find it pleasing, and the lowlands mist means snipers won't be camping three different hexes from the same mountaintop unless they can discern one offwhite blob from the next. The terrain is useful, but not as difficult for tracked vehicles as I'd hoped. I was really hoping the swampy terrain would make the magrider king. The base designs seem to be a tossup as well, Some of them (Like Hunter's Blind) are REALLY NEAT. Others seem to have taken months of "these base designs are far too easy to capture" and somehow made them WORSE.

I haven't seen anything north of hunters blind though, the VS can barely hold onto it's 28% territory, and the NC and TR have their outfits pushing every direction all at once.

edited 27th Jun '14 1:00:17 AM by Lanceleoghauni

Hopefully SOE doesn't give in to the whiners and Nerf the fog. I miss the super dark nights and I was pleased as hell when I realized the fog meant camo would actually work closer than "at render range"

edited 27th Jun '14 4:16:48 AM by Lanceleoghauni

It also makes everything super pretty. Don't nerf the fog, SOE...!

Yeah it's really weird to finally break through the mist on a mountaintop. You feel really exposed.

Ugh, I probably won't be playing much until probably a week or so from now, I get so fucking sick of losing. Every time there's a significant update the NC and TR get revitalized and I'm stuck with the same old VS that just kind of exists. scraping Pyrrhic victories here and there and facing effortless defeats everywhere else is not my idea of a good time.

Go play on Emerald if you're that unhappy with losing, the VS there never stop spawncamping.

so I played a bit more hossin, and it may be because the map's new, but I don't feel like it flows as well as the others. I tend to have to check my map a lot to figure out what to do next. This may be because of my "Roads = death" mentality, however.

I nabbed the XM 98 to try it out and after using the phaseshift so long it's REALLY WEIRD to have the bullet go off when I pull the trigger. also bullet drop is weiiiiird.

edited 28th Jun '14 5:11:13 AM by Lanceleoghauni

The only way I'm going to learn how to handle the XM 98 is to force myself to use it, but I'm just so much more effective with the phaseshift. The "one shot, reload" mechanic is so unusual. My initial frustration with the intensity of the NC and TR push has deadened considerably, and while NC consistently has their mild-to-moderate overpop as the "Murrica" faction, they're not really as dangerous as their numbers would suggest.

o_o wow, the phaseshift really IS underused. If I'm reading this data right I personally account for 1%ish of all phaseshift kills. 227/18,117

edited 29th Jun '14 3:40:11 AM by Lanceleoghauni

so on a whim I bought the eidolon, and so far I'm liking it a lot. It's a good support weapon, but probably not something I'd primary. the damage is really good, I end up just plinking people to death as they sprint for cover a lot of the time. up close it's... not good. If you haven't tried them before seriously, try to keep people 30-40m+ away from you. it does good damage but it just can't fire fast enough up close to matter, and even if it could it's Cone of fire is gaaaaaaaaaaarbage.