New Patch Experiences

[TheN00b]

Post your experiences here with the new patch. Here's mine:

Tonight, the first night of the new patch being in effect, I was in Esamir with a small zerg trying to attack against a much larger VS force (I am NC). We were pushed back to the bridge between Freyr and the mainland, and one of the major contributing factors to that was the increased Lasher suppression that the new clip size enabled. However, once we were at the bridge, with the VS controlling a tower at one side and trying to come over, something amazing happened. Rather than having a couple of haphazard snipers and trying to push vehicles constantly over the bridge , we simply pushed through a few Vanguards by providing huge suppressing fire with our plethora of Pheonixes. At some points, there were up to 50 Pheonix missiles in the air , and their charging Mags and MAXes were simply cut down in their tracks. Good times .

[HawkEye]

oh yea everyone and there mom has phoenix now, which is cool. but i hate what happened to the tripel shot it sux.

[321]

Originally Posted by HawkEye

but i hate what happened to the tripel shot it sux.

The Jackhammer is just as usfull as it ever was. I mean I am a NC on Markov and always use the jackhammer but I never use the triple shots and I still get a bunch of kills.

[GreyFox]

Been surviving 2 shots from snipers several times with the P.shield.

Having lots of ammo with both the Bolt Driver and Lancer has been fun.

And yes, I did notice a lot of AV out there. Especially the Phoenix.

[flypengy]

Phx is a lot of time spent with little reward.

[Scorched_earth]

Yeh you won again by shire numbers with vangaurds and ur aa gun! Hide behind a tree or hill and use them to take off troops! Noobs!

[Dyentious]

The thing that kinda pisses me off about cyssor is, ok.. NC have their camera guided missiles that everybody has now, and the vanu can just come right over the water at you with their vehicles, but what the hell is the tr supposed to do in that situation?

Sucks to be TR on cyssor when the bridge battles are goin on

[BadAsh]

I just think it's cool now to fky over a TR base and actually get a lock on warning Looks like the TR will be able to put up better fights with hordes of strikers and the DC MAX being able to work with friendly infantry without bein a grief machine.

[Fragmatic]

Originally Posted by Dyentious

what the hell is the tr supposed to do in that situation?

Snipers taking out the Phoenix users, and fully loaded Deliverers driving Over the water in between the bridge struts, works a treat

[Liquidtide]

Originally Posted by Dyentious

The thing that kinda pisses me off about cyssor is, ok.. NC have their camera guided missiles that everybody has now, and the vanu can just come right over the water at you with their vehicles, but what the hell is the tr supposed to do in that situation?

Sucks to be TR on cyssor when the bridge battles are goin on

You can lock down that Max of your's and keep the grenades or flak or what ever that TR stuff is flying at the bridge, you can't get anywhere when you have even 3 or 4 Maxes doing that.

~Tide

[prbountyhunter]

A locked down TR max = fodder for my phoenix.

I'm pretty happy with the patch because I've had AV for a long time and I get a new toy to play with. I'm also happy about the JH nerf. I hope it will make a lot of people drop HA in favor of support certs

[MidnightDave]

well I had a first for me last night. Im TR on Markov and I have (had now) a simple plan. Ill fight NC over VS anyday. I perfered fighting JH's rather than the Lasher which seemed to bypass my armor completely and go straight for my health. Well, although the lasher has gotten worse (not bitchin, just sayin) I now perfer to fight the VS than the NC, our outfit left a battle with an NC force to go pick a fight with the VS. Why you may ask?

CAUSE THERE WERE ABOUT 600 MOTHERFCKING PHEONIXES BEING USED TO SNIPE INFANTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Isnt the pheonix suppose to be an AV weapon as in anti-VEHICULAR!? Why then are the NC able to effectivly use it to snipe us infantry without ever opening themselves up for attack. Even the Lancer, Boltdriver, anything has to open itself up to attack infantry, why should the NC be special. Now I was getting owned by them in my lighting but I didnt mind, they are AV and If u can hit a fast moving lighting from the side, more power to ya, i cant shoot those things to save my life. I am not bitchin about the camera part of it, if u can fly a missle into a moving tank, good on ya. But for the love of god the damage vrs infantry needs to be (I hate to use the word) nerfed just a bit. I dont mind the JH, even though im not noticing the supposed nerf. Hell, I dont even really mind the lasher buff, it sucks but ill manage, just need to pack med packs and grab med cert when I have the points.


Thats my rant, no flames please.

[Fragmatic]

Originally Posted by Scorched_earth

Yes, you won again with your sheer amount of troops, Vangaurds and Phoenix users! Hide behind a tree or hill and use them to take off troops! Noobs!

1. Quote Fixed

2. Numbers don't count, it's tactics that matter. As far as I can see, the NC were using their weapons effectively. Do you think they'll charge out in a bridge battle with a Jackhammer? No, of course not! Just like you wouldn't dare use a Lasher at long range, because it's - a. Useless at distance, b. People could EASILY dodge projectiles.

Anti Vehicular weapons are MEANT to be used from cover (Phoenix has guided missile, Striker has lock-on, and Lancer has barely any time for projectile to reach the target).

So, In conclusion, THINK before you reply.

Don't come out with this "OMFG THEY WERE HIDING!!!"�!$�!" bullshits, they (The NC) were using their weapons effectively, and you had absolutely NO justification WHATSOEVER to throw the insult of "noob".

It's because of people like you who automatically assume something's everybody elses fault, that the weapons have changed so much. In beta, the game used to be alot more tactical, and, since release, weapon CoF bloom has been tightened so much on weapons, you can now jump as much as you want (but it cost's more stamina) because of people whinging.

The Punisher is (I think) the only weapon left with it's original CoF bloom, which was the highest anyway, but look how shit it is... the game used to be like that.

Quit whining, quit complaining, don't throw insults like that for no reason.

Grow some pubes and play the game.

[RagingSpeedhorn]

Woo Fragster, how's the anger management classes going

It's early says for the patch, however I was a bit dissapointed with the Jackhammer nerf (basically less ammo and no quadshot). However, saying that it's the other buffs that will make the JH less attractive.

I believe the point was to stop noobs getting easy kills, especially taking out vereran players. The JH is still deadly at short range and still deadly in the hands of an experienced user, however what I am finding is that:

1. In field combat they get no where near me, it takes two plasma nades to take down Rexo, so I just fire off two thumper nades, switch to my primary weapon and they're dead before they get close.

2. The MAX buff means that indoors a Dual Cycler and take down Rexo in seconds, and there are a hell of a lot more MAXs about.

So, all in all, those who can handle a JH will continue, those that can't and got easy kills because there was no major opposition will uncert, whine, stamp their feet.....

[Fragmatic]

You know me rs, cool as a cucumber :P

Seriously though, if you were on teamspeak last night, I apologise for shouting about twats 99.9% of the time