Planetside 2 - Page 92

On November 28 2012 02:56 EchOne wrote:
Tank mines, C4, or an old fashioned rocket in the rear grill all can put the hurt on armor. 3 or more people spawning heavies can easily get rid of a stray tank or two if they flank and use terrain properly. Though against an organized armor column a ragtag gang of infantry will have a hard time effectively stopping it... which stands to reason imo.

Burster MAX seems to be the best option for an infantryman who wants to clear airspace atm. Air does seem annoyingly strong.

On WORLD OF VEHICLES, feet on the ground are necessary to obtain every single relevant objective in the game. You can't cap ABCD, destroy generators for those unbreakable force fields, destroy SCUs, capture satellite bases with spawn points, defend or repair any of the previous, or even fight in the confines of many places like Bio Lab domes without getting off your goddamn vehicle and going toe to toe with the enemy.

On November 27 2012 22:35 Adila wrote:
Video of someone from my outfit flying a Scythe with Keyboard + Mouse with some key rebinds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH8yiArDqcw&feature



You can do some pretty sick stuff with some practice.

On November 28 2012 02:34 Crownlol wrote:
The game feels far too vehicle vs vehicle to me, with much too short respawn timers on tanks and jets. It seemed that many people would just spawn an aircraft and never do anything with it, just fly around being invincible- which brings me to my next point. The starter anti-armor and anti-aircraft weapons are abysmally bad. I hope that gets better- it's quite impossible to shoot down aircraft with the NC starting rocket launcher. You essentially have to be in a vehicle to hurt a vehicle.

On November 28 2012 03:24 ryndaris wrote:


Holy shit that video is too awesome T_T I need to practice this flying thing, seriously

On November 28 2012 03:51 Southlight wrote:
Infiltrators playing pure sniper are practically worthless except on defense. And on defense you're never going to find a "safe" spot (mainly due to other snipers who know where you are and light assault who have a field day crapping all over snipers). Just deploy and figure out a decent killing location and kill as many as you can before you die. Rinse repeat.

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Tanks are surprisingly weak against infantry, to the point where unless they're fighting braindead people who keep stubbornly spawning on things that have no means of fighting back (primarily unupgraded engi/medics and infiltrators in general) they're useless. Furthermore you can really annoy tank-spawning by just grabbing an infil and hacking or destroying their vehicle spawner, then forcing a fight there. Heavies (as mentioned by Echo) place a hurt on tanks due to the RPGs (or lock on G2G, though I'm not sure how effective that will remain once smoke becomes more prevalent), and all you need are like two heavies and an engi to basically form an iron wall against tanks defensively. Offensively if a bunch of infantry hold a bunch of tanks in a single location they're doing their job, as the tanks should really be on the offense. And again slow terrain-aided pushes with RPGs and mines and c4 and such will force tanks back, because it's remarkably difficult to maneuver tanks without being axed. Proper usage of sunderers/spawn beacons/etc. will allow you to flank and surround tanks as well except in certain wide-open areas, and in wide-open areas, because tanks can't cap and because they can't really shell inside buildings that well, it's fine. And if tanks DO roll into an area with buildings... well, I can tell you now as a light assault that's delicious. Mm. IMO tanks are very much like siege tanks. They're very effective at hunting enemy sunderers and creating a backline, but they're very pointless on their own... regardless of the fact that they're currently birdfeed for air (due to the gva balance fluctuation throughout beta into release).

Also, the whole point is that you need teamwork. A bunch us from TL play on West, and we usually only have like 5-6 of us around but we get a decent amount done. Although we could certainly do with better class arrangement... >_>;

On November 28 2012 02:34 Crownlol wrote:
I have lots of questions!

After playing for about 3 hours, I feel that there are just far too many vehicles in the game, and no one has any idea what they're doing. Our warpgate was packed with idiots just jumping around and shooting wildly, or putting turrets in doorways to grief people.

I had to lead a squad of 4 (my friends) to actually get anything done.

I feel like vehicle respawn times are absurdly short, and defender's advantage is too high. Several times 30 or 40 infantry were being held up by maybe 8 defenders as they simply constantly spawn tanks. Tanks that move and turn faster than infantry, and just run people over.

The game feels far too vehicle vs vehicle to me, with much too short respawn timers on tanks and jets. It seemed that many people would just spawn an aircraft and never do anything with it, just fly around being invincible- which brings me to my next point. The starter anti-armor and anti-aircraft weapons are abysmally bad. I hope that gets better- it's quite impossible to shoot down aircraft with the NC starting rocket launcher. You essentially have to be in a vehicle to hurt a vehicle.

Anyone know why at some capture points there's an unbreakable forcefield? What a waste of time getting 20 people together to go siege a resource node that is uncapturable for some inexplicable reason.


So, apart from the game being WORLD OF VEHICLES, it was ok so far. Decent hit register, good recoil (not CoD sprayfest). Infantry are really underpowered vs both tanks and aircraft, which blows. However, the scale and intensity of the game are just amazing, and I still had fun, despite being very disappointed with the power level of infantry and sheer volume of vehicles.

On November 28 2012 04:04 Crownlol wrote:



Tanks are definitely killable- I haven't used c4 yet, but maybe that'll help. However, I've noticed on defense if they spawn several tanks with a few engi's, the engineers can outheal damage from 4 heavies NP- mostly due to the slow reload and silly-slow missile travel speed of the RPG.

On November 28 2012 04:12 kollin wrote:


Now I'm no tactical genius, but have you considered just flanking the tanks with light assaults or using infiltrators to kill the engis?

On November 28 2012 03:51 Southlight wrote:
Infiltrators playing pure sniper are practically worthless except on defense. And on defense you're never going to find a "safe" spot (mainly due to other snipers who know where you are and light assault who have a field day crapping all over snipers). Just deploy and figure out a decent killing location and kill as many as you can before you die. Rinse repeat.

On November 28 2012 04:04 Crownlol wrote:



Tanks are definitely killable- I haven't used c4 yet, but maybe that'll help. However, I've noticed on defense if they spawn several tanks with a few engi's, the engineers can outheal damage from 4 heavies NP- mostly due to the slow reload and silly-slow missile travel speed of the RPG.