Most Underused Class?

Sp3ctre · 2004-05-12, 02:29 PM

Hi, I haven't been to these boards for AGES, but i've finally got Broadband so I can play PS!

Anyway, in games like this (MM FPS) I like being the most underused and most challenging classes (Pyro in Team Fortress Classic and Set in Age of Mythology). So what sort of classes of players are desperately (or not so desperatey) needed in PS?

At the moment I'm a Air and Ground Transporter, using the Galaxy and Deliv/Sund. I don't see too many MAXs and I don't see ANYONE use the Quad Bike things. There are quite a few Medics and Hackers. There are LOADS of reavers and mosquitos...

What should I be?

Onizuka-GTO · 2004-05-12, 02:36 PM

Anti-Air Max, Anti-Air vehicle like the Skyguard or An infantry with anti-Vehicle Certificate.

Never short of Targets, and guarantee to be a prized asset to any squad

Red October · 2004-05-12, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by Onizuka-GTO

Anti-Air Max, Anti-Air vehicle like the Skyguard or An infantry with anti-Vehicle Certificate.

Never short of Targets

I agree, Anti-Air...don't seem to be enough of them as of late...Anti-Vehicle in general would be good to. There have been so many vehicles as of late, that I'm actually considering creating another charachter specifically for that purpose alone. Lotsa BEP out there...

Wraithlord · 2004-05-12, 03:15 PM

definatley anti-vehicle grunts, most grunts are so concerned with killing each other they dont care about vehicles beyond complaining how unfair it is that they kill them....
what most grunts dont do is DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, as for the best av weapon at the moment that is debatable, it has more to do with your playstyle, but all of them are better in groups, solo however I would put my money on the pheonix, seeing as you can chase the vehciles down while remaining in relative saftey I would take 1, if you want some anti-air power I would pick up a striker, which is alright too

TheN00b · 2004-05-12, 03:50 PM

I disagree that AV grunts are hard to find. As a Terran, I can readily expect that a my bases' defenders will have at least 30 Strikers among them. Personally, I find that I love people who do something as simp,le as have Medical and Engineering

Nereid · 2004-05-12, 04:04 PM

If you go TR we are in short supply of Prowlers so picking up the cert to drive one would help. People are way more eager to get on the guns then drive the vehicle.

321 · 2004-05-12, 06:03 PM

I think all of the empires are pretty even.

Sp3ctre · 2004-05-12, 06:28 PM

Does refueling get you BEP? I don't know, as I am a n00b...

I think I will get an AV Weapon License and Anti Air MAX. I still have enough Certs to keep my Air Support and Ground transport too. I think I'm gonna base myself on vehicles: Driving and Killing

Lartnev · 2004-05-12, 07:14 PM

20xp per second or something for refuelling a base.

HawkEye · 2004-05-12, 07:47 PM

yea everyone and there mom has AV cert. so pick up AV. decis own maxes and the striker and phoenix can really do damage to tanks when used in groups.

MrCovertMan · 2004-05-12, 07:49 PM

I am tempted to say medics and engineers are the most underused class
then ant drivers came up
Ant drivers are going the way of the dodo.
enemy vehicles love hunting and eating ants and nobody bothers to protect the ants.
If ants had a 300mm direct fire cannon mounted on it's hood asan ornament i bet there would be more ant drivers.

Lartnev · 2004-05-12, 08:47 PM

They wouldn't be using them for nanite runs either :E

SilverLord · 2004-05-12, 09:49 PM

Yea, drive ants 24/7/365

JetRaiden · 2004-05-12, 09:57 PM

Id have to say...I have no idea. it seems pretty balanced. never seen a severe shortage of anything.

Seer · 2004-05-16, 01:40 PM

I was mistaken. Actually, since this game isn't really classed based, it is playstyles that are underused.

What you need to be is part of your empire's rapid-reaction defense. It consists of hopping in a mosquito and quelling the normally less than 20 players of other empires that are trying to break your continent lock. Or capping empty enemy towers on your continent.

After you're done, you also have to wait until someone else tries to break into your continent. This type of player is rare, highly necessary, and must normally very versatile, skilled, and above all patient. Most people can do it for a couple rounds, but they start getting bored in the interims and want to go on the offensive. Don't.