5 Cert Points to Burn

Biohazzard56 · 2003-10-19, 12:38 AM

I recently traded in HA after balance batch cause JH sucks now and its about time to stop useing n00bcannon i still get most of my kills from snipeing/deci/and guass. Im almost BR15 and once i hit that ill have 5 cert points to spend. So far im looking into combat engineer , or adv hack.

My Certs:
Standard ExoSuit
Agile ExoSuit
Standard Assault
Medium Assault
Reinforced ExoSuit
ATV
Sniping
Special Assault
Engineering (could trade in for the total of 5)

My charectar is mostly an anti-everything infantry,vehicles, and pilots that are stupid enough to hover when i have my deci. Vanguard is hardly good anymore except for that main gun.

Veteran · 2003-10-19, 12:45 AM

My advice and opinion is that you should ditch ATV and Sniping for Mosquito and AMS. Everything else looks good tho. Sniping doesn't really help your empire, though it's fun for the individual, and ATV is easily surpassed by Mosquito, the ultimate ride. Just opinions.

Nitsch · 2003-10-20, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by Veteran

Sniping doesn't really help your empire

Very wrong. Snipers really help your empire by keeping badguys off the walls where they can keep your grunts from assaulting the base. When there are snipers about, the thumpers cant rain down terror when you have a squad or two assaulting the backdoor, but mostly they keep your foes from taking the "high" ground.

They are also good for scouting...especally when trying to find out where the AMS's are.

1024 · 2003-10-19, 12:45 AM

adv hakcing is great, but so is combat engy. ENgy defientley gets you more kills directly, but adv hackings always nice when you spawn into a hacke base.

Biohazzard56 · 2003-10-19, 12:47 AM

you dont know how good of a sniper i am though. i had an idea to drop engineer and get mosq anyway then trade in ATV and get AMS.

thing is that mosq is only a transport ill have to give that config a shot though.

Veteran · 2003-10-19, 01:48 AM

Mosquito is much more than a transport, although it is the best transport for a single soldier.

It kills Reavers in dogfights pretty regularly, and has Overflight Radar, which is a boon to your whole empire. It can carry ammo for tanks, buggies, MAXs, etc. and ACEs in its trunk.

A great way to spend three certs.

ZionsFire · 2003-10-19, 03:50 AM

Did you also know the wraith has a trunk? I didn't figure that out till like few weeks ago.

Happy lil Elf · 2003-10-19, 04:16 AM

Sniping doesn't really help your empire

That depends entirely upon what you do with it. Acting as a scout with 8x/12x zoom can be very effective.

VashTheStamped · 2003-10-19, 09:54 AM

bio's in my outfit and i can say hes a pretty good sniper

EDIT- just thinking back to beta, first day i was like- "Whats a 'cert'??"

Jagd · 2003-10-19, 11:26 PM

I have to agree with the others, if you're going to waste any certs on a "selfish" vehicle it may as well be air. Being able to precision drop onto roofs is invaluable, and the Skeeter is by far the best choice for that task as when you're in a Reaver you tend to miss your drops because it's more fun trying to rocket spam the enemy courtyard, and before you know it some AA max has shot you down and ruined your whole plan.

SilverLord · 2003-10-20, 09:20 AM

Drop Sniping for a MAX and get Adv hack and drop ATV for Infiltrator suit, then you can sneak into a base and hack a term and get yourself a MAX and kill all the terms ad tubes, be fun

Trebor95 · 2003-10-20, 10:41 AM

Get medic and advanced medic

Rbstr · 2003-10-20, 10:52 AM

i say keep sniping, its one of the better certs in the game and it does help your team, you kill the guy before he can do any damage, or you kill that enemy sniper so he stops shooting your guys.

And with Reinforced armor ATV, or and open toped buggy is esencial[sp] people that arn't mobile realy are far less efective. An open toped buggy is the way to go if you want Reinforced transport and somthing to do damage with.

now if you want a vehicle that does damage get lighting, if been beefed consderably, on saturday i took out 2 mags in a row, they didn't have gunners but i still took them out. just watch out for maxes because its hard to kill them, the gun barly niks them and the cannon barly does anything eccept on a direct hit.

Kikinchikin · 2003-10-20, 12:09 PM

ah so im not the only person that thinks they stealth nerfed the jackhammer.

Found out while playing NC on markov the other day, i hit a reinforced 6 times he didnt die. So that makes sense now.

Indecisive · 2003-10-20, 01:21 PM

ah so im not the only person that thinks they stealth nerfed the jackhammer. Found out while playing NC on markov the other day, i hit a reinforced 6 times he didnt die. So that makes sense now.

Yes, yes you are. JH kills in 2 hits. Period. What you expericanced was lag of the player you hit. You hit them 6 times before he reg'd the two it took to kill him. Was he moving? If not. This reason right here. If he was. Is called medpacks, regen and second wind.