Planetside Saturdays - 12/6/2008 - Bomber/Air Night

[CaffeinePowered]

Moving back to saturday for our friends across the pond

This week we'll try doing bombers and general aircraft, I highly recommend you log in on your own and try flying both in VR and on the battlefield. Dealing with other aircraft and AA can be very very difficult and flying is probably one of the harder things to master in planetside. While flying your main threats will be enemy AA and aircraft.

A few other things to note, spacebar is afterburners, e and c are raise and lower elevators, and they fly like VTOL aircraft, so you do not need to maintain any sort of speed.

Air Threats:
Mosquito - 1 man scout aircraft, has a 12mm chaingun, lowest threat gun wise, but good luck running from it
Reaver - 1 man anti-ground aircraft, 20mm cannons and rockets, more heavily armored/armed than the mosquito, good dogfighter as well
Wasp - 1 man anti-air aircrarft - mosquito varient, eats air craft with lock on missles, dive for ground cover if it locks on, if he loses lock the missles miss
Liberator - Low level threat, if it has a tailgunner keep your distance and peck away at the health
Galaxy - keep a reasonable distance from the guns and shoot down
Galaxy Gunship - keep as far back as you can, unlike the gal, the guns are more accurate and do a TON more damage
Lodestar/Phantasm - Unarmed, laugh as you shoot down

Ground Threats:
Miscellaneous Ground Fire - Depending on the gun/vehicle - low to moderate threat
Man Portable AV - Low threat, but strikers are very very annoying because they lock on
Burster - TR AA max, you get no warning and die in seconds if you dont immediately afterburn
Sparrow - NC AA max, it takes a second for it to lock on, but any missle that it fires will hit almost 100%, dive for the ground to break lock and line of sight
Skyguard - Threat at close-medium range, flack is difficult to hit at long ranges, just run, the only way you will kill this if you are in a reaver and surprise it
BFR (w/AA) - unless you are in a reaver or a liberator/vulture just run, if you are in other aircraft you should be able to get an attack run in, if you spam one with multiple reavers it dies very fast
Turrets (Can have flack) - do not attack flack turrets in anything thats not a bomber/reaver, actually, just dont shoot turrets as a rule


Required Certs:
Air Support (Liberator/Galaxy/Lodestar) 3pts
Engineering - 3pts

Recommended/Optional:
Air Cav Scout (Mosquito) - 3 pts
Air Cav Interceptor (Wasp) - 2 on top of 3 for scout
Air Cav Assault (Reaver) - 2 on top of 3 for scout

A good way to build levels/experience for tonight, get Air support and engineering, put a lodestar on the front lines and just repair people, and you will rack up experience very fast.

Day: SATURDAY
Time: 7pm cst

Ventrilo is mandatory

If you make a character please post their in game name here

Fun in this game increases exponentially with the more people that join up so I hope to see more of the people that stated they were interested in the initial thread to come out, the game is FREE, but you are restricted to BR6. If you get "suspended" or banned since the trial accounts are loopholes just make another one. Conversely you can spend $20 to pick up the game at direct2drive, which comes with a free month, this removes the restriction on your battlerank.

TRIAL INSTALLER

Remember, the trials sometimes will RANDOMLY suspended you, just a heads up.

[at0m]

I will not be there.

I will be at my company christmas party busy drinking and getting hit on by my boss' wife.

[Dave]

respecc'd and liberating the shit out of people all week.

what do i need to ride a mosquito?

[CaffeinePowered]

respecc'd and liberating the shit out of people all week.

what do i need to ride a mosquito?

Mosquito is Air Cav Scout, check the first post for what aircraft correspond to what certs

[cbre88x]

In all honesty, this sounds fun, but I have finals week next week. After finals I will come out and join the crew for realz.

[Dave]

came on today after the patch, says my client version isnt the same as the server, what do i do?

[CaffeinePowered]

came on today after the patch, says my client version isnt the same as the server, what do i do?

Open the launcher and do a full scan


Edit: FUCK YA LASHER BUFF

Lasher

Increased Clip Size to 40 
Added Armor Piercing Fire Mode (right-click) 
Armor Piercing Orbs have a new color 
Decreased Lash Damage & Radius 
Increased Lasher Orb Velocity (the Rate of Fire was not changed)

Jackhammer

Reduced Triple-shot Damage.
Sweeper Shotgun

Ammo Clip adjusted to 12 rounds

Punisher

Reduced COF

Pulsar

Damage Degrade is now more on par with the Cycler and Gauss Rifle.


Heavy Scout Rifle

Decreased COF 
COF recovery time slightly increased
Thank you and we'll see you on the Battle Field!

[Dave]

did a full scan, it went to 100, launched the game got to authenticating and said the same thing, repatch, how cn ai repatch?

[ScottyGrayskull]

Sunday I might've made it... depending on how I felt after getting home. Even if I was home on Saturday though I likely wouldn't be in.

Couldn't it just be earlier on Sunday? Say... like 5cst instead of 7? Or possibly even earlier like 3?

[copulatingduck]

Sunday I might've made it... depending on how I felt after getting home. Even if I was home on Saturday though I likely wouldn't be in.

Couldn't it just be earlier on Sunday? Say... like 5cst instead of 7? Or possibly even earlier like 3?

Or on Saturday like it always is?

[CaffeinePowered]

Sunday I might've made it... depending on how I felt after getting home. Even if I was home on Saturday though I likely wouldn't be in.

Couldn't it just be earlier on Sunday? Say... like 5cst instead of 7? Or possibly even earlier like 3?

Cause then the people over in ye old england can't play, and if you do it outside of prime time populations on server are a lot lower

[Wedge]

Oh wow, they buffed the lasher and nerfed the jackhammer a bit.  Nice.  I might actually bother with builds that have Heavy Assault now.

Also is that a buff or a nerf for the Pulsar (I'd assume a nerf since I always thought I did allright with it at range, but if it's a buff, grate)? 

[Dave]

im a mosquito badass now.

took out a wasp on my own!

[CaffeinePowered]

Oh wow, they buffed the lasher and nerfed the jackhammer a bit.  Nice.  I might actually bother with builds that have Heavy Assault now.

Also is that a buff or a nerf for the Pulsar (I'd assume a nerf since I always thought I did allright with it at range, but if it's a buff, grate)? 

Its actually a buff, they reduced the damage fall off, for example a shot at point blank does 20, 10m 15, 20m 10, 30m, 5

They reduced the rate at which it falls so now it might be like 20 - 16 - 12 - 7

[shadowcast]

Oh wow, they buffed the lasher and nerfed the jackhammer a bit.  Nice.  I might actually bother with builds that have Heavy Assault now.

Also is that a buff or a nerf for the Pulsar (I'd assume a nerf since I always thought I did allright with it at range, but if it's a buff, grate)? 

Try it out in VR first.  Personally I am ditching HA on all of my characters because the "Buff" is really a nerf as the pulsar is now better than the lasher in every single way.  The ONE thing the new lasher is good for is killing maxes.  17 Shots in AP mode = dead max, you can imagine what happens when you have 2+ people with lashers, maxes melt.  The sad part is it takes MORE shots to kill infantry at point blank...with every shot hitting.  The new lash is like 2 inches so now it is basically a DD weapon and in that regard the pulsar kicks the shit out of it.  If you want a CQ weapon, go with the tried and true (and now buffed) sweeper, or the dragon flamethrower. 

Mind you this is just my opinion, but as an example, I managed to kill more maxes with the new lasher than I managed to kill infantry last night while testing it.  The sad fact is, 1v1 vs anyone in Rexo with the sweeper or any TR or NC HA, if you miss ONCE you die and they live.  IE:  MCG vs Lasher = 6 shots all hit and lasher user lives with 12 health .  Miss once = dead.  The morale of the story is this:  Who care if you get 40 rds in the lasher, you are already dead.

There are a few situations that are ideal for the new lasher, but they only matter for killing maxes very fast.  IE:  Back door hallway spam = maxes will make it about 2 feet and flop.

Good news is new pulsar is brutal.  I even think they stealth buffed the COF or COF recovery.  It just feels alot tighter to me.  My new primary loadout on my HA guy is Pulsar/Deci or Pulsar/Lancer.  It is that good.

[Benito Mussolini]

Yeah! They buffed my shotty! I'll get more aircraft kills with it now!

[Wedge]

I never really used the Lasher before, so I didn't have much trouble with it.  It was certainly easier to use on MAX's than lugging out my Lancer when inside a base.  However I didn't try out the Pulsar much, but it did seem a lot more accurate at range on the shooting range now.  It was always my favourite gun anyway, so that's good.  I'll probably just switch back to MA/AV, since I can't carry MA/AV/HW with my cert limitations.

[CaffeinePowered]

Bump for reminder

[rumsfald]

dunno if I will be available, but I got certed up

[Wedge]

Was a little meh, awkward battlefield tonight.  Until everyone left and Caff, Shadowcast, and I got in a Thunderer and got like 50 kills.  1 shot infantry kills ftw.  We were pretty much unstoppable until we got split off with Reavers too many times.

Which makes me want to roll a mixed armour setup next time we have open vehicles.  I think a Thunderer, Skyguard, and Magrider would make a good combo for 7 people, or maybe a Thunderer, Raider, and Magrider if we had a full 10, for a fully amphibious force.