LLU Discussion

[Lonehunter]

Originally posted by Doppler
...I am glad to see the devs turn out something I just wish it'd been platoons or the loadmaster.

I think you mean Lodestar. Lodemaster, that does sound kind of cool though.

[noxious]

I think there is a real life military transport called the loadstar. That is where they got the name.

[Lonehunter]

I don't know about that, I do some research.

This is what I found, Linkage
Yes it is work safe

[NCG JMan]

Originally posted by Lonehunter187
I think you mean Lodestar. Lodemaster, that does sound kind of cool though.

Just an FYI:

Lode Master is a title of a position in the Airforce. They are the individuals that load (or help load) the aircraft :o I have a friend who was a "Lode Master" (sp) in the Airforce.

As far as what a Lode Star is, I have know clue.

[Lonehunter]

You've seriously never heard of the Lodestar? The air vehicle the Devs announced that is used to transport heavy vehicles like tanks? You've never heard of it?

[Eilerson]

lol we're discussing the origin of the name

[AztecWarrior]

The LLU and everything about it sucks. If I want CTF, I'll play Tribes 2.

But Nav summarized it best: It doesn't fix any problems, it will add new ones, and they didn't even ask the community on this: they just shoved it down your throat.

[Cobalt82]

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron

All in all, there's no point to the LLU. It's not more fun, and it doesn't address any of the issues people are complaining about. It's not neccessarily bad, it's just CTF instead of King of the HIll. I'm a fan of CTF. My main beef with this is that it has absolutely nothing to do with fixing the problems with this game, and it's going to create a plethora of new ones. It makes me worry about the dev teams focus, or what they think is wrong with the game.

EDIT: In case it matters I had a 109 ping, 140 fps and almost no packet loss.

If anything I find the LLU frustrating. Its hard enough trying to hold on to outposts when there is intense fighting going on, but now we have to divert people to chase the LLU's around. Its bad enough diverting people to chase the LLU, but once you kill the carrier you have to babysit it until the time runs out. Why cant the other team take the LLU and use it their advantage?

[Doppler]

Actualy I am in the airforce and I had been building crates for shipment that morning so i had my mind stuck on loadmaster. In other news the Galaxy in the game is roughly based on airforce (and cross service variant) C-130 hercules. I can only imagine that the loadstar (almost punched in loadmaster again) will be based on the true C-5 Galaxy which is a stupidly massive plane but whould easily carry tanks/AMS/ into battle.

[Lonehunter]

I used to think the LLU ideas was ok, but now it's the worst idea ever. There are too many people out there who want to kill the person with the LLU, so they can have it themselves. Last night I was on Ish, I just got the LLU. My outfit wanted to see if we could get it into a Marauder, then into a Gal, since they say it can't go in air vehicles, but I'll be in land vehicle. Anyway I tell everybody not to kill me becouse I am trying an experiment. Now you should know that there are no enemy bases left on the continent except one, my outfit has secured it, and it's hacked. I get knifed, WTF? The most ignorant and idiotic dumbasses in the gaming world, AOD, say "Surrender the LLU" as they knife me to death, ruin the experiment, and take the LLU away. I try to get him in my skeeter, but he delivers it. Then I kill him, "Paybacks a bitch isn't it AOD?" If anybody here is in AOD or knows somebody who is, please notify them that the hatred I have for them is greater than Satan's hatred towards God. My in-game name is Cifer, let them know, spread the word. The particular guy who killed me was, AODShadowmant, or Shadowmant.

Edit: When I say AOD I mean Angels of Death

[Paingiver]

I think that they should have caves in the moutain areas, wich would serve as a staging and fllback are for guerrilla fighters who could ambush troops in the mountains, also i think that troops should be able to lie down and fire.

[Hamma]

I think its time to unstick this