Max Hunting

[Excalibur77]

For the first time since getting Special assault last night i had a sudden urge to seek out max's and unload decimator rounds into them.

They were all Vs max suits last night. and nothing pleased me more then seeing a Vs perched happily on the roof off the interlink facility taking potshots.. thinking iam quite safe up here..

*boom *boom

ouch. :)

Has anyone else had this crazy urge to take max's on head to head.. cant say ive had more fun. Alot of people out there last night looking at a 5 minute timer. lols.

Just a quick side note. I saw a friendly last night repeatly hunted down and ran over by a friendlt lighting driver.. it was out of spite because they had an argument.. i dont think its very nice..if i see you at it again ill unload my decimator clip into your trunk

:D Ave a good one all.

[sniper4evr26]

u know, its a much better feeling to kill a max with a gauss rifle at point blank range, in good condition too. :D

[gonnagetyou]

Yep, once you get your hands on a Decimator, MAX units don't seem all that scary any more. Happy hunting!:)

[smccord313]

I find myself doing this all the time. I used to die to MAX's when I met them in a hallway and went one on one with them with my striker. Then I decided to give special assault a try just cause I was gettin bored of the same certs. Once I tried out the decimator and took out a MAX in two shots, I decided to never go back to AV again. I feel so powerful when I have one of these things around, which is almost always now.

[Eliaas_Demens]

The Decimator definately has some advantages over AV. But the Decimator is really best for MAX killing. Sure it does plenty of damage against vehicles, but it does have the ammo capacity, or speed/control of the AV weapons.

[1024]

Me + teh boomer + surge = FUN

[Xenar]

Yeah getting a clean kill on a max is fun... today I popped out of the spawn tubes and found a TR max waiting there for me... I equipped my standard rifle and paraded around him and he and no clue what was happening. Eventually I killed him with a few full clips, and damn it felt good. A competent MAX wouldn't have let that happen to him though, he just stood there going around in circles trying to shoot at me, rather than running around and making me alter my pattern.

[Excalibur77]

I took out a few skeets, a reaver or two. even a lone Nc.. rare as hens teeth these days.. tides of purple i tell ya lol.

Must have been crappy pilots. One skeet was hovering a few metres right in the middle of the base.

he was damaged already so 1 round finished him off.. i always though of the skeet as a hit and run vech, not really built to hover in a field of soldiers and take them on.

One Vs max jumped onto the rampways surrounding the base.. and turned the cornor.. i was on the other side so he / she was hidden from view because of the staircase. I didnt see them emerge either side so i figure they jumped off again.. so i jump across and peek around.. there it is sitting there filing its nails.. So i promptly put an end to its untimley grooming



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[Bismarck]

I brought down a mosquito with a repeater yesterday :) . I have the most fun jacking ams's right out from under your pitiful asses. Yesterday I jacked one, and all the NC just stood there, staring at the AMS that was now red and black. It was weird, they didnt try and re-jack it, they didnt try to destroy it, they just stared at it.....

[Queensidecastle]

Yeah, Jacking an AMS is about the coolest thing in PS you can achieve :D

[Gauntlet]

Hunt MAXs with a Decimator? Come on. I choose the Jackhammer as my MAX hunting weapon of choice. Nothing is more satisfying than going one on one with a VS MAX in an open field and winning.

The only MAX worth fearing in the game is the pounder. For those, by all means my special assault friends, have at it. ;)

[Nixon]

I remember seeing a base being hacked last week, and went in only to find a Squeeter and one MAX sitting in the CC. A couple of friendlies were there, warning me that they'd tried rushing in to hit him but ended up dying from his NC scatter cannon and there was only a good three minutes left on the hack. Figuring it was an Inf who hacked the base and switched to a MAX, the three of us rushed in there... one with weak armor went down right away, while the other fell back with little health.

After sending a clip of AP sweeper rounds into the MAX, I heard him try firing and, sure enough, he was out of ammo. While I hacked the base back, the other guy came back freshly healed and blocked the door... where we proceeded to knife the MAX until he went down. Though I can't recall his name, we tried sending him a tell but he apparently logged off...

[Lonehunter]

Originally posted by Gauntlet
Hunt MAXs with a Decimator? Come on. I choose the Jackhammer as my MAX hunting weapon of choice. Nothing is more satisfying than going one on one with a VS MAX in an open field and winning.

This statement right here proves the Jackhammer is too powerfull. All a NC has to do is use the secondary fire mode at close range, and your dead. I don't think ANY HA weapon should be good at killing MAXs. 4 guys with Jackhammers gaurding a hallway is just as good as 3 MAXs gaurding a hallway. Instead of improving the other HA weapons, they need to just tone the JH down, A LOT.

[Xenar]

Well I can tell you for sure that the Lasher isn't as good as a MAX-killer as people put it out to be... put me up toe to toe with a MAX and I have a lasher, the MAX will win if he's not retarded. Assuming that every shot hits him directly (not a "lash"), then it still takes at least a full clip to do him in (tested in VR). Unless you are REALLY good at strafing + shooting at the same time, you're either going to have to stand there for that kind of accuracy and take a beating from the MAX, or you're going to be dodging and strafing which hurts your accuracy a bunch.

[Dryoc]

Originally posted by Lonehunter187
This statement right here proves the Jackhammer is too powerfull. All a NC has to do is use the secondary fire mode at close range, and your dead. I don't think ANY HA weapon should be good at killing MAXs. 4 guys with Jackhammers gaurding a hallway is just as good as 3 MAXs gaurding a hallway. Instead of improving the other HA weapons, they need to just tone the JH down, A LOT.

That's completly untrue, the Jackhammer, first of all has the ability to switch to AP ammo, unlike the lasher. Secondly the Jackhammer on secondary-mode sucks, it is much better to use the first-mode just because you get more shots fired quicker, and it is more accurate. Please do not start a "Nerf the jackhammer" thread again, you guys had your HA beefed up(quite a bit,) now quit complaining.

[Spider]

Your TR no wonder you want to take max's head on :( vanu cant or they get raped by pounder :(

[Madcow]

Originally posted by Xenar
Well I can tell you for sure that the Lasher isn't as good as a MAX-killer as people put it out to be... put me up toe to toe with a MAX and I have a lasher, the MAX will win if he's not retarded. Assuming that every shot hits him directly (not a "lash"), then it still takes at least a full clip to do him in (tested in VR). Unless you are REALLY good at strafing + shooting at the same time, you're either going to have to stand there for that kind of accuracy and take a beating from the MAX, or you're going to be dodging and strafing which hurts your accuracy a bunch.

I went one on one with a MAX in a hallway and destroyed him with 4 shots left in my clip, and I didn't hit him directly with every shot, and he was full health when I came across him. I've done the same with a Jackhammer and an MCG, each was significantly more difficult (solo the JH is the hardest of the 3, the only one where a reload is necessary). I personally think it's pretty stupid that a single infantry could take out a MAX without a miracle situation happening, but that's just me.

[Xenar]

Well that's not possible if he had full armor as well as health. If he didn't have full armor though (that's the bulk of his protection, he has 100 health just like everyone else) then sure you can take him out with a couple lashes. But, test this at the VR. Point blank range try killing one of the maxes with a lasher.

Most likely he was already pretty far down on armor which you can't detect. Maybe like 200 armor left (1/3) and 100 health. Take a full armored MAX (test this a few times at VR - just to make sure someone didn't take some of the armor off the spawned MAX) and you'll see what I mean.

[Caspertoo]

Eh i'd say the JH is definently the toughest to take out a max. 2ndary is just way too eradic beyond 5 feet. When I played a vs quasar i'd take out JH weilding folk all the time.


I personally think the JH is great the way it is. The MCG could stand a higher ammo amount. 100 instead of 50 round boxes.

But the lasher is just a bit too powerful. I've seen max's taken out short order by them.

Question I'd pose is this: Is the lasher more powerful than the comet? It shouldn't be. The JH isn't more powerful than the (forget the NC anti infantry max) Nor is the MCG more powerful than the TR anti infantry max.

And thats another problem. The lasher is basically a anti vehicle weapon (hello the comet) sped up and with enough splash damage to be used anti infantry. There's a reason most VS max's don't use the comet over the quasar.

[Gauntlet]

Originally posted by Lonehunter187
This statement right here proves the Jackhammer is too powerfull. All a NC has to do is use the secondary fire mode at close range, and your dead. I don't think ANY HA weapon should be good at killing MAXs. 4 guys with Jackhammers gaurding a hallway is just as good as 3 MAXs gaurding a hallway. Instead of improving the other HA weapons, they need to just tone the JH down, A LOT.

Let me defend the JH a little before you stick to that Nerf it statement. I use the normal fire mode, I pretty much use the triple cocktail only for tube camping, and I wear Reinforced Exosuit. I also have surge on so I can stay on the opposite shoulder from the MAX's weapon. I usually end up refilling at least once sometimes more.

Usually the net result is a dead MAX, but I don't fare too well either. I survive barely clinging to life with no armor, and 20hp left over. It just really plays out like a death duel.

[Xenar]

The lasher is pretty much worthless against vehicles if they aren't standing still and not within 20 feet of you. If they're standing still then they're asking to be taken out by any weapon, and if they're within 20 feet of you they should've ran you over by now.

Also, the comet sucks - comparing the lasher to the comet makes no sense, the comet needs a buff, the lasher is where it needs to be. The comet should be compared to the other MAX's, rather than a HA weapon.

[Piith]

Originally posted by Xenar
Well I can tell you for sure that the Lasher isn't as good as a MAX-killer as people put it out to be... put me up toe to toe with a MAX and I have a lasher, the MAX will win if he's not retarded. Assuming that every shot hits him directly (not a "lash"), then it still takes at least a full clip to do him in (tested in VR). Unless you are REALLY good at strafing + shooting at the same time, you're either going to have to stand there for that kind of accuracy and take a beating from the MAX, or you're going to be dodging and strafing which hurts your accuracy a bunch.

yeah I never saw the Lasher as any threat when I was in the MAX, but I hate them Lancers, most of my deaths are prolly from a Lancer