I haven't bought shit. I might buy some aesthetic things to support them, but I can roflstomp any vehicle/person into the ground. They are minor upgrades at best. Position > firepower.

Groog

127 Posts

November 22 2012 16:17 GMT

#1522

On November 23 2012 00:55 Divine-Sneaker wrote:
Cert progress definitely seems a bit over the top slow. Anyone know the numbers behind actually earning cert points? I'd like to know what could possibly be a way of speeding up the gain.

Think it's 1 cert point / hr (even offline) and 1 point / 500 xp

Talin

Montenegro10532 Posts

November 22 2012 16:41 GMT

#1523

Yesterday was fine, but today people are just warping around on my screen, literally unplayable.

Coriolis

United States1152 Posts

November 22 2012 16:57 GMT

#1524

250xp per cert actually.

soullogik

United States1171 Posts

November 22 2012 17:59 GMT

#1525

i've made 1000 certs already w/out premium bonus xp

it definitely isn't fast but its where it should be for a game to last a long time

Infernal_dream

United States2359 Posts

November 22 2012 18:08 GMT

#1526

On November 23 2012 02:59 soullogik wrote:
i've made 1000 certs already w/out premium bonus xp

it definitely isn't fast but its where it should be for a game to last a long time

You've made 1k? I have 500 kills so far in 10 hours and I haven't made 1k in certs. What the hell have you been doing to farm that many certs.

Deleted User 101379

4849 Posts

November 22 2012 18:09 GMT

#1527

On November 23 2012 00:56 Infernal_dream wrote:

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I haven't bought shit. I might buy some aesthetic things to support them, but I can roflstomp any vehicle/person into the ground. They are minor upgrades at best. Position > firepower.

There are some big upgrades, most notably the Aircraft weapons.
A Reaver/Mosquito/Scythe with a peashooter is a lot weaker than one with dumbfire missiles or air-to-air lock-on missiles.

However, i think the Cert gain is actually quite fast, in the 2 days that i've played about 6-7 hours a day i earned around 300 certs. I'm not even a good player, my K/D is probably around 0.00001, i'm happy when i manage to kill someone between 2 deaths. I somehow manage to always be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I spawn a reaver, fly near a base we try to defend, suddenly 3 ground-to-air missiles hit me at the same time. I sneak into the biodome and go to the generator and when i turn around the corner, there are suddenly 3 heavys that were just walking by. I spawn a vanguard to deal with the enemy tank column, move 5m away from the base and 2 mosqs with dumbfire rockets just happen to fly across the base and blow me up.

You can still earn a ton of certs by doing supporty stuff, like providing spawn sunderers at the right places, repairing, healing, ammo and by just being there when a region gets captured (=> instant 1-4 cert points). If you are in a squad, you even get a ton of bonus XP by doing the same stuff you'd do otherwise.

Other than that, just use AoE weapons into enemy groups and get tons of assist XP.

Edit:
Just checked it, K/D 0.665 (212/319), earned a total of 304 certs.

Coriolis

United States1152 Posts

November 22 2012 18:17 GMT

#1528

900 certs, 858/308 kdr. To be fair I did use a 50% XP boost though.

Divine-Sneaker

Denmark1225 Posts

November 22 2012 18:44 GMT

#1529

I think the main difference might lie in being online/on a highly populated server and continent in the thick of a 3 way battle or being on a less populated server and daytime while trying to cap the smaller border zones.

Ettick

United States2434 Posts

November 22 2012 18:50 GMT

#1530

wow the bolt action snipers make getting kills so much easier lol

LoLAdriankat

United States4307 Posts

November 22 2012 19:07 GMT

#1531

This game needs a tutorial for attacking bio labs, or make the teleporters and jumppads more obvious somehow. So many newbies underneath the bio labs not contributing, can't blame them either.

Deleted User 101379

4849 Posts

November 22 2012 19:12 GMT

#1532

On November 23 2012 04:07 LoLAdriankat wrote:
This game needs a tutorial for attacking bio labs, or make the teleporters and jumppads more obvious somehow. So many newbies underneath the bio labs not contributing, can't blame them either.

Thats why i say "/y capture the outer bases, they have teleporters and jump pads" every 3 minutes when capping a biolab.
I like the system and the flow of biolab battles but yes, it's really not the most intuitive.

soullogik

United States1171 Posts

November 22 2012 19:22 GMT

#1533

people will eventually tell them lol

On November 23 2012 02:59 soullogik wrote:
i've made 1000 certs already w/out premium bonus xp

it definitely isn't fast but its where it should be for a game to last a long time

i usually lonewolf ~ flying mossi or playing light assault
if i'm with my outfit, i play a lot of max/la/ha

with a good engi behind me, i will never die on my max and just fn pump out kills
not to mention my engi will make tons of certs repping/ammo

Resisty

United States375 Posts

November 22 2012 19:40 GMT

#1534

On November 23 2012 03:50 Ettick wrote:
wow the bolt action snipers make getting kills so much easier lol

How do you do it? It always takes me like 4 shots to kill someone and by then they'll have ran to cover. Also aiming is so hard since I can only hold my breath for what seems like 3 seconds D:

Ettick

United States2434 Posts

November 22 2012 19:44 GMT

#1535

On November 23 2012 04:40 Resisty wrote:

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How do you do it? It always takes me like 4 shots to kill someone and by then they'll have ran to cover. Also aiming is so hard since I can only hold my breath for what seems like 3 seconds D:

Headshots lol
Try holding your breath just before you shoot and line up the shot to their head as fast as you can, that's how I do it at least. They really should make it so you can hold your breath longer though, it's pretty short atm.