Flashes

LoliLoveFart · 2012-12-25, 04:51 AM

Im really interested in the use of flashes in outfit play. My outfit uses them almost exclusively for transport but i want that to evolve to jihad flashes, roaming mobs of tank vultures and such.

How do you use flashes?

Any ideas of how to best utilise flashes?

This was my outfit pissing about for two days around christmas, nothing spectacular.

Sidenote flashes need a buff

Tooterfish · 2012-12-25, 05:04 AM

I find flashes to be a gamble at best, and work best when picking off small squads or stragglers. Other than that, I use them to do cartwheels down mountains.

LoliLoveFart · 2012-12-25, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by Tooterfish

I find flashes to be a gamble at best, and work best when picking off small squads or stragglers. Other than that, I use them to do cartwheels down mountains.

Haha it is kind of a 50/50 driving a flash down a mountain. I reckon with enough practice the flash could be a damned effective hit and run tactic for harrassing zergs.

The Messenger · 2012-12-25, 06:11 AM

Haha, if I would've seen that barrel roll in game I would've been yelling "Damn VS and their hover tech, NERF!"

Loved the fury flash in beta. Haven't spent much certs on it since release though. I heard the speed is a waste since it's a marginal increase in speed.

Ghoest9 · 2012-12-25, 09:43 AM

I have fun using my Flash - one time I drove up behind a sniper in a building and shot him which i think was my most insulting kill ever.

But over It would be pretty hopeless for me to try and build a stratgey arund them - they are great transport and good for oppertunistic kills - but they are weak against anyone who knows how to respond.

ShadetheDruid · 2012-12-25, 09:49 AM

I feel they would be good in an organised situation, where a group of people (or an outfit etc) could send out some scouts on Flashes to assess enemy ground movements without attracting too much attention.

I think they mostly get used as disposable transports at the minute. At least that's what I use them for (which isn't often, because they scare me

).

Brutal Magikarp · 2012-12-25, 10:11 AM

Scout Radar:

Hide your Flash in an enemy building and all enemies instantly appear on radar.

http://wiki.planetside-universe.com/ps/Scout_Radar

Electrofreak · 2012-12-25, 10:31 AM

I have a Basilisk on mine and I enjoy it. I've killed a few vehicles with it... it's great for chasing down that fleeing, burning tank, and pumping some rounds into the rear armor. It's also good for sniping at infantry with, as it only takes a few rounds for a kill and it has reasonable accuracy.

I've been thinking about the grenade launcher, but I figured it's probably harder to fire on the move than a direct-fire weapon. If you're on a Flash, sitting still is an easy way to get killed quickly.

ShadetheDruid · 2012-12-25, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by Brutal Magikarp

Scout Radar:

Hide your Flash in an enemy building and all enemies instantly appear on radar.

http://wiki.planetside-universe.com/ps/Scout_Radar

I actually really like this idea. Especially if you combo it with the stealth upgrade, then you've got a mobile radar station that doesn't appear on the minimap.

Sturmhardt · 2012-12-25, 06:42 PM

Actually... I don't use them at all. If I want action alone I deploy somewhere near the action, if I'm with friends we take a sundy or a tank.

SeraphC · 2012-12-25, 07:21 PM

Were you remote detonating it?

Fear The Amish · 2012-12-25, 07:31 PM

yeah my outfit has used recon flashes before. Send them ahead of the platoon with radar dishes hide them in buildings so the main force knows were the enemy is concentrated.

Rolfski · 2012-12-25, 08:03 PM

Their handling is way too troublesome to make them tactical useful imo. Which is a pity because I would love to see this vehicle become more meaningful in the game besides a disposable A to B transporter

LoliLoveFart · 2012-12-25, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by SeraphC

Were you remote detonating it?

Yes, 2 c4 on the front and I'll tell you this, Getting it to destroy what you are aiming it at is really iffy, the flash has to be right up against it or under it for it to work, a little bit away or to the side and it does nothing to it.

Originally Posted by Rolfski

Their handling is way too troublesome to make them tactical useful imo. Which is a pity because I would love to see this vehicle become more meaningful in the game besides a disposable A to B transporter

Yeah i had to get it to lvl 2 on the surger chassis to get it to turn well if at all.

GLaDOS · 2012-12-25, 08:20 PM

I've found them useful for getting me right next to enemy Sundies to suicide bomb with AT mines.

Also, I'm just waiting for the day when someone recreates (is that even the right word?) the bicycle jump scene from ET with a bunch of Flashes over a canyon on Indar at night. That would be golden.