Recent Memorable Gaming Events

ZjinPS · 2004-01-11, 04:13 PM

I have not seen one of these threads in a while. So in an effort to talk about something other than what has been overnerfed or what needs to be nerfed I'll start this thread out with one of my recent experiences in PS.

A few nights ago on Emerald myself and 2 complete strangers piled into a Prowler. The prowler driver was insisting that anyone who climbed on had teamspeak. Seeing a chance to use Teamspeak I jumped in the main gunner's seat. Soon after circling in the Sanc for a while and tweaking teamspeak we found another.

We were off. We arrived in Hossin looking for a fight. By now we started to get a feel for everyone in teamspeak during the long drive there. We looked for hotspots but it seemed everytime we got there the fight was over. So we kept driving and driving. We stumbled across a few hostile mines and then I found out all three of us were engi's. That made for a very quick repair. So we continued on...we eventually came to a tower raid in the making. The NC were setting up AMS outside an all to valuable air tower while 3 ScatterMax kept the doors covered. We got there just in time for the machine gunner to see the cloak bubble drop over the AMS. Using teamspeak he was quickly able to give me the exact location as we drove to it. I put one or two rounds into the area and saw the AMS bubble flicker. I set my sights on it and let her rip. The top gunner was actually doing very well with the machine gun. He was able to rack up a half dozen kills before I destroyed the AMS. Next we went to support the tower. It was still surrounded by NC and unknown to us another NC AMS was up and running near by. The driver was able to leave treadmarks on 2 of the scatter max, killing both of them with in 20 seconds. The 3rd one and a few infantry fell to the big guns. Only then did we see the 2nd AMS. At this point we were moderately damaged. So we found a defendable spot and the other 2 guys hopped out. Keeping the Prowler in between the enemy and them they were quickly able to get us back on the road. They climbed back in and we took off. By now the tower getting swamped by troops spewing from the 2nd AMS. We moved into position and started pounding it. The fight didn't go as easy as the first as there were some Striker troops spawning. So we positioned the tank, the crew got out and started repairing while I spammed the area around the AMS. I could see the Striker rounds coming out of the trees but I couldn't see the soldiers firing them. There for about 45 seconds it was pretty hairy. I know at one point we were down to less than 20% armor. But the driver and machine gunner kept repairing and was a loosing fight. They could not repair faster than he Strikers could hit us. Luckily the burst effect of the Prowlers mainguns were enough to eventually drop one of the Striker toting NC. We were eventually able to take out the AMS and clean out the woods. The tower remained secure and proved to be a key point for the reavers that were attacking the streaming Vanguards. The three of us were the only prowler I saw in the area during that battle. So instead of going toe to toe with 3 or 4 Vanguards we just ran the perimiter and provided support for the tower. Later a pair of Lightnings appeared and ran thru the minefield around the tower. Amazingly the top gunner got the kill and the 2nd Lightning limped with sparks and smoke trailing behind it.

All in total, we took out 2 AMS, 1 ANT, 1 Lightning 6 or 8 MAX and probably 20 infantry inside an hour or less. Obviously it was no clash of armor but we never took a fatal hit and we kept the air tower repairing and rearming the Republics finest.

Moral of the story: Invest the time in setting up Teamspeak. I know many outfits do it. But for just 3 guys w/o outfits we made a huge impact on that evenings battles. Teamspeak was the key.

so anyway.. thats mine. I wont get into the many times I've climbed in my burster max and never got a shot off or the times I've spawned in an AMS only to get run over by a Vanguard as I picked up my gear. Happy thought only guys!

Im sure someone is still having a blast in PS.

DeadTeddy · 2004-01-11, 04:40 PM

first of all, I think you should replace everything that says "striker" with "phoenix" unless the devs switched them lately.

Today, on Cyssor werner there was and probably still is a huge fight that probably won't end until everyone goes to sleep. NC had most of the cont around 5 pm GMT, TR had the 3 top left bases and the VS had the two bottom left. so basiclly NC was fighting 2 zergs who didn't meet each other. the fight wasn't going anywhere, then we got one of the VS bases leaving them with only the tech plant. there was so much artillery I actually had to navigate my mosquito between it. at some point 2 hours later I noticed the VS started comming from orisha and had 3 bases already, but got blocked over there as well. one thing I noticed was we decided to beat the VS at their own game. if they send mags over the river, we send deliverers. there were so many of them crossing it not as troop transports but just to fight. 3 man crew trying to take out the flails and all the CE stuff over there. was pretty awesome. they had a module though so we had some problems. I left at 7:40 GMT and it was still stuck like that. I think this was what PS is supposed to be about. hopefully the devs can find a way to make all battles like this.

Vis Armata · 2004-01-11, 04:57 PM

I'll vouch for that, Zjin. Teamspeak indeed makes a huge difference. I can't even play PS without a squad or platoon linked via VoIP; it just feels empty.

DeadTeddy · 2004-01-11, 05:11 PM

teamspeak isn't that good. if you want a real voice chat program try ventrilio. my america's army clan uses it and it's much much better.

Edit, decided to add a funny story as well. I was leading a squad a few months ago on chery, we were attacking a base defended by abouy 20 ppl, not a big battle. a prowler came to take back the tower we hacked, but a few decis got the driver and gunners to bail out. instead of blowing it up we shot the crew and hacked it, then fixed it. so there we are, a squad on chery, looking at a gold blue and white prowler manned with two gunners, each one spammming his outfit's chat looking for someone with a vanguard cert. that's right, we hacked it, fixed it, but forgot to check if we even had a driver. we used it as a stationary turret for about half an hour before we gave up on it and let the reavers have it.

NoSurrender · 2004-01-11, 08:16 PM

this is about a full gal and picking up a galaxy in the middle of nowhere on ishundar. ok so CDL was doing spec ops and we had finished and one person had been doing ant runs. so i flew over to him after we all loaded up. now when i try to land on the road. i suddenly get hit by a invisible train and shoot across half the continent and do about 10 flips. no damage just ended up halfway across ishundar.

Rbstr · 2004-01-11, 09:08 PM

Just yesteday i was flying my reaver and i caused a lib to go out of control and kill another lib.

And a long time ago on ishundar i managed to OS the cortyard next to me and take out 3 vangs and 5 other people(not even CR3 yet). I had just finished using show all friendlies. and when i'm done i see the beginings of a TR OS (the red streaks the go up and so on) i start to run, and when it whent off it gave me the credit for the kills, I got lots of angry tells and even a cont broadcast calling me a traitor.