MajorTom
2004-06-17, 04:10 PM
Ugh, it seems this week I just can't be pleased by this game, I am confronted with one thing after another that makes me wanna round up all the devs and stuff em in a hurt locker. Wheither it be the fact that EVERYONE has HA and that it is what SOE said they wouldn't do (just an all out better killing machine. I beleive somewhere they stated that the intention of gaining new certs is not to be more lethal, just more versital...) or the horrible base layout, or the fact that I have to go get a gig of ram in order to play a year old game on the lowest settings! But my newest greif has nothing to do with that...
I was previously playing my sniper character due to the fact that up close combat makes my relativly nice machine (2.0 AMD XP, 512 PC2700 and a Geforce fx5900se) break down and cry. But I got tired of long distance sniper fights so I figured I would go for the other job that is ok to due without worring about lag: The Infiltrator.
But I began to play, I began to ask myself, why am I doing this? As the infiltrator I coudn't accomplish darn near anything. I'm not any idiot newbie either, I played him from br1 to br14 (he was my first character, before I knew about training) and I used to do great things with him, but the last time I played him was before the rexo buff. Now I can't do anything! Killing is about impossible unless the guy is injured, in agile, afk or something. The big 3 objectives are unaccomplishable, I can't hack the CC, cause its full of darklighters, can't blow the tubes cause they normally have a darklighter in there running interferance, and I can't blow the gen, because it would entail numorous trips to and from the gen and locker to get ACEs and in that time, somebody will have capped my due to DLV.
The Infiltrator just can't seem to do the same amount of good as a standard grunt. I don't give 2 flips about XP, I have about all the certs I want right now, I just want to feel like I am making a difference in the fight. I used to get that back when I played him, but not anymore...
The reason is that in most fights, its either a zerg on zerg battle, or a small group vs an empty continent.
In a zerg on zerg there is far too many people to slewth around the enemy base and get anything done, other then a stray lucky kill.
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? Is there some special way to play infiltrators now that I don't know because I haven't played him in a while? Some sort of gypsie curse? :D
PS:My certs are as follows: Infil, CE, Adv Hack, Mossie, AA Max.
If I can't make nay use out of this character before I get my gig of ram, I am just gonna change him into a pilot or grunt or something...
Also, I thought I would take this time to share with yall a little escape trick I just learned:
If you use grenades, then whenever someone sees you and gives chase, go around a corner, put the grenade in secondary mode, and tap the triger. The grenade will be dropped at your feet, but will not go off for a couple more seconds. Nobody ever sees this grenade and will often times walk right into it if timed right, if not it will at least freak them out on where the explosion came from out of nowhere. Just make sure you keep moving away from the grenade after you drop it, lest you get cought in the blast...
I was previously playing my sniper character due to the fact that up close combat makes my relativly nice machine (2.0 AMD XP, 512 PC2700 and a Geforce fx5900se) break down and cry. But I got tired of long distance sniper fights so I figured I would go for the other job that is ok to due without worring about lag: The Infiltrator.
But I began to play, I began to ask myself, why am I doing this? As the infiltrator I coudn't accomplish darn near anything. I'm not any idiot newbie either, I played him from br1 to br14 (he was my first character, before I knew about training) and I used to do great things with him, but the last time I played him was before the rexo buff. Now I can't do anything! Killing is about impossible unless the guy is injured, in agile, afk or something. The big 3 objectives are unaccomplishable, I can't hack the CC, cause its full of darklighters, can't blow the tubes cause they normally have a darklighter in there running interferance, and I can't blow the gen, because it would entail numorous trips to and from the gen and locker to get ACEs and in that time, somebody will have capped my due to DLV.
The Infiltrator just can't seem to do the same amount of good as a standard grunt. I don't give 2 flips about XP, I have about all the certs I want right now, I just want to feel like I am making a difference in the fight. I used to get that back when I played him, but not anymore...
The reason is that in most fights, its either a zerg on zerg battle, or a small group vs an empty continent.
In a zerg on zerg there is far too many people to slewth around the enemy base and get anything done, other then a stray lucky kill.
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? Is there some special way to play infiltrators now that I don't know because I haven't played him in a while? Some sort of gypsie curse? :D
PS:My certs are as follows: Infil, CE, Adv Hack, Mossie, AA Max.
If I can't make nay use out of this character before I get my gig of ram, I am just gonna change him into a pilot or grunt or something...
Also, I thought I would take this time to share with yall a little escape trick I just learned:
If you use grenades, then whenever someone sees you and gives chase, go around a corner, put the grenade in secondary mode, and tap the triger. The grenade will be dropped at your feet, but will not go off for a couple more seconds. Nobody ever sees this grenade and will often times walk right into it if timed right, if not it will at least freak them out on where the explosion came from out of nowhere. Just make sure you keep moving away from the grenade after you drop it, lest you get cought in the blast...