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PlasticGEAR
2003-03-20, 09:38 AM
lets say there is some that just sits at a warpgate and lets say there camping outside a warpgate with a sniper rifle, can you shot into a warpgate, im assuming not because of that big fricking bubble, but i mean you never know.

edit: and it'd be punkish of NC sitting in bushes somewhere near by, waiting with a pheonix rocket flying in circles waiting for people to leave, most likely ANTs. yes, their ammo would run out, but that doesnt make it not very annoying.

mr_luc
2003-03-20, 09:42 AM
No can't shoot inside it.

Yes, you can follow people around until they leave . . . but if you're outside, and they're in an ANT inside, bear in mind -- they're safe, you're not. They can have some friends show up and deal with you, or to provide them cover.

Incompetent
2003-03-20, 09:42 AM
ok, three things, warpgates are just inconceiveably huge, you can't shoot anyone inside them, and just about everybody will be on a vehicle when they go through one. I.E. anyone who gets the bright idea of camping a warpgate as a sniper deserves to get owned even worse then they will.

mr_luc
2003-03-20, 09:50 AM
I can see some crazy stuff happening at Warp Gates. (Good thing).

An ANT is all filled up and ready to leave. But an enemy tank pulls up right alongside. (Yes yes yes, I KNOW that the person inside the circle can take off the other direction, but we don't know how much faster/slower the tank is than the ANT -- besides, he could be in a Reaver, whatever).

So the ANT sends for backup. At the same time, that tank crew is saying to his friends "Guys, there's an ANT at this warpgate, I've got it pinned down! Come on over!"

A couple of Reavers show up to escort the ANT -- at the same time that three reavers and four Mosquitos come barrelling over a nearby hill! Quickly, the 2 friendlies hop inside the Warpgate. The bad guys are outside the Warpgate, waiting.

This process is repeated for the next half-hour, until the inside of the warpgate is swarming with all kinds of bitter enemies -- Vanu, NC, TR, all packed in there, in vehicles, MAX armor, etc. Close to three hundred, all waiting, weapons ready . . .

One mosquito tries to leave! Instantly, six AA MAX armors hop outside the forcefield and blast away at it. BOOM! The mosquito goes down from the 12 missiles it took up the keister.

But that was all it took. The MAX armors are outside! The exodus begins, and the war is ON!

Mmmm. I can't wait for the game. That's the kind of unique, unexpected stuff that makes a game so memorable.

echoghost
2003-03-20, 10:03 AM
And people say driving an ANT will be a boring job.

mr_luc
2003-03-20, 10:07 AM
Who are these people????

I WILL RAPE THEIR PET FISH!!!

Fire_Monkey
2003-03-20, 10:10 AM
:rofl:


Looks interesting

Revulsion
2003-03-20, 10:17 AM
:lol: sounds interesting.

echoghost
2003-03-20, 10:19 AM
http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4449

The fish await your affections.

mr_luc
2003-03-20, 10:25 AM
One of my first posts ever on this forum, during the TW invasion. You have to understand it in CONTEXT though. :lol:

I've never met you before, and I'm already threatening to fuck your dog. Oh, wait, I hadn't gotten around to that yet. But if I said it now, it wouldn't be funny, so I'm going to fuck your FISH and watch its puny body stretch massively over my throbbing tube, the scales sticking out like half-dimes from its grotesquely swollen body until its skin splits along the length of its puny body. Damn it all to cunt, I used 'puny body' twice, that's fucking repetitivetivetive.

K my work here is done.

mr_luc
2003-03-20, 10:27 AM
(I was just playin' though . . . followed it up with this, in the Lounge).

Hmmm.

You Bohica people have seemed very reasonable, levelheaded and cheerful so far, in spite of my clearly implying that I would rape the pet fish of one of your members.

You're all right in my book.

Kyonye
2003-03-20, 12:23 PM
if people camp the warp gates, they should all be thrown from the game. besides, they probably wouldn't do it for long considering it would get repetitive and boring. i will kill all gate campers. since i will be vanu, for all vanu gate campers, have fun NC and TR. tear em up.

Mauser101
2003-03-20, 12:50 PM
I'd say to hell with it and just gate out of there personally. Either that or get out of the ANT and intentionally walk out of the warpgate and get killed. Then respawn and drive, buy another ANT and drive it to a differant warpgate.

A better option will be to request a Galaxy pickup. The galaxy would simply leave via the opposite side of the warpgate.

I personally belive warpgate camping will be a viable strategy. Waiting a ways down the road from a warpgate, patiently anticipating the arrival of an enemy ANT may very well be lame, but a strategy that denies the enemy of resources and givesyour faction and advantage is still a winning strategy nomatter how much the loser cries about it. NTU resupply groups will have to adjust their strategies on the fly.

Revolution
2003-03-20, 12:59 PM
*Having flashbacks of Asheron's Call on DARKTIDE camping drop offs...........Killing Blood bitches..... Khao bitches...... Hell, just killing bitches.........*

Ahhh the memories.......:love:

NapalmEnima
2003-03-20, 02:34 PM
I wouldn't be at all suprised to find that gate SCOUTING becomes quite common. The powers that be on a given continent are going to want to know when a platoon of hostiles jumps through the gate and heads north.

Having a fast attack group ready nearby would also be Real Helpful. You wouldn't need that tank shadowing the ANT inside the bubble... just a scout with his eye on it. The ANT would feel safe, and leave the bubble... at which point scout could notify the attack group, which shows up and mugs the ANT. No goofy stand-offs, just a dead ANT.

That same attack group could strike at specific targets of a larger convoy (say the AMS[s])... or be part of a larger attack. Tanks from the front... let them move the lighter stuff to the back, then reavers hit'em from behind... that sort of thing.

Hamma
2003-03-20, 02:56 PM
They are a bit too large to camp.

mr_luc
2003-03-20, 02:56 PM
Originally posted by Revolution
*Having flashbacks of Asheron's Call on DARKTIDE camping drop offs...........Killing Blood bitches..... Khao bitches...... Hell, just killing bitches.........*

Ahhh the memories.......:love:

W3RD, *****!! HARDCORE AC PLAYA IN DA HIZZOUSS!!

Christ kid ;). You a gangsta-ass AC-er. OLD sk00l, y0.

mr_luc
2003-03-20, 02:57 PM
Originally posted by Hamma
They are a bit too large to camp.

Yeah I just mean, you know following people around inside them . . . it'd basically be like an open tail, you both know that you're following them, but what are they going to do about it?

I can see some really fun stuff happening around the Warp gate area. :)

1024
2003-03-20, 07:47 PM
Originally posted by mr_luc
I can see some crazy stuff happening at Warp Gates. (Good thing).

An ANT is all filled up and ready to leave. But an enemy tank pulls up right alongside. (Yes yes yes, I KNOW that the person inside the circle can take off the other direction, but we don't know how much faster/slower the tank is than the ANT -- besides, he could be in a Reaver, whatever).

So the ANT sends for backup. At the same time, that tank crew is saying to his friends "Guys, there's an ANT at this warpgate, I've got it pinned down! Come on over!"

A couple of Reavers show up to escort the ANT -- at the same time that three reavers and four Mosquitos come barrelling over a nearby hill! Quickly, the 2 friendlies hop inside the Warpgate. The bad guys are outside the Warpgate, waiting.

This process is repeated for the next half-hour, until the inside of the warpgate is swarming with all kinds of bitter enemies -- Vanu, NC, TR, all packed in there, in vehicles, MAX armor, etc. Close to three hundred, all waiting, weapons ready . . .

One mosquito tries to leave! Instantly, six AA MAX armors hop outside the forcefield and blast away at it. BOOM! The mosquito goes down from the 12 missiles it took up the keister.

But that was all it took. The MAX armors are outside! The exodus begins, and the war is ON!

Mmmm. I can't wait for the game. That's the kind of unique, unexpected stuff that makes a game so memorable.



:lol: hilarious....a post that actually made me lauhg in real life...

Hellsfire123
2003-03-20, 08:29 PM
it was the ant drivin comment after that topped it off lol

Leprechan
2003-03-20, 10:52 PM
ahhh.. campers need to die

BUGGER
2003-03-20, 11:20 PM
Originally posted by Hamma
They are a bit too large to camp. Not really.....tho if ya want to make sure of it that NOONE would enter or leave (95.1274% or the time) into or out of the bubble/gate. Ya get 3 Mosquitos and 2 Reavers hovering or ringing the bubble and 1 of each on the ground incase a slip, 2 tanks and MAXs both opposite of each other, 3 snipers triangling the bubble, and possibly a quad or buggies incase someone somhow slips past. So thats about15-17 people guarding the gate.....Not bad....considering 1000+ people may be on the server.......Other wise just get 3 snipers and reavers-same tatics.


And if so I may camp....just a warning.....well wait no, if nothin to do i will patrol the skys.

Hamma
2003-03-21, 08:22 AM
The people inside have the advantage anyway. If they see a force waiting for them they can go out the other side, or call for some help.

NeoTassadar
2003-03-21, 08:37 AM
Originally posted by Hamma
The people inside have the advantage anyway. If they see a force waiting for them they can go out the other side, or call for some help.
Or turn around.
Hmmm...can you run people over in a warp gate?