squad play is it true!

[LesserShade]

they must be playing during off hours. When I get home from work, the servers are usually down. When they come back up however, Beryl has 3000 on it immediately, and there is definitely not a shortage of fighting :/

[BeerJedi]

I think this game is extremely Squad based to be successful. I've been chillin' with some folks for a few days now, they invited me into their Outfit and we've been tearin' it up.

Last night, we found ourselves in a 3 faction battle for four bases on Sear. It was intense. We had captured Pganur (is that spelled right?) and moved onto to Pele while more of our TR brethren began fillin' the other base up. Well, it didn't take long for NC to mount an attack from the Tower near Pele.

I did see a true first for me. Parapet Base defense. There were enough people on both sides to have gun turrets mounted, and men manning the walls trying to defend, while NC troopers did an excellent job using terrain around the base to their advantage.

My squad and another worked extremely well together keeping Pele cleanly defended from NC. But the NC folks played it smart and also launched an attack on our other base. Myself and a squad mate made a suicide rush to try and rehack the base (before the NC could capture).

I think we caught them by surprise cause we got into the CC room and nearly made the rehack. they got me at 95%... doh!!

But our two man raid caused enough confusion that Pele was secured. Throw in the fact that VS held one of the bases in the same area, it made for some crazy crossfire. And it wasn't a zerg fest. All sides were working extremely with their respective factionmates, and there really wasn't too much "blind" rushing (except for maybe our rehack atempt).

[simba]

I wanted to be a medic too, but when I saw wot a non-teamwork game this really is in which medics cant do nothing I realized I cant be one.
Thx to this-you HAVE TO have AV weapons, everyone has, they take space as hell which sux for a medic.
You need to shoot 200 shots at someone to kill him, and that means u have to load more ammo in ur inventory, which means u dont get any space for Medical Applicators.
And couse Medical applicators simply suck at this time, anyway thats wot every1 says.

[Ubernator]

Well, if you want to be a dedicated medic, don't expect to be able to also tote around an AV weapon and tons of ammo. Apparently, the devs wanted the game mechanics to require that medics need to stick with a squad that will protect them. How does this make PS a non-teamwork game? If you want to carry around a bunch of ammo and frag a bunch of people don't be a medic. On the other hand, if you want to heroically heal squadmates while pinned down by enemy fire with only a Suppressor to protect yourself, by all means consider being a medic.

[FoRaKiOn]

yea, to me medics are the most important in squads, cause they help out more than ya think... they give ya health..... they can bring ya back to life at a high cost lol..... and they get a weapon to protect themselves... medics are a must in squads when attacking bases and gettin into fire fights.

[WeaponssBug]

Being able to convey your ideas clearly and concisely is important in every aspect, not just a message forum. If you appear to be a moron when typing, more than likely, you are a moron. Just how it works.

It isn't much taking 30 more seconds perhaps on something you just typed to make sure it makes sense, and looks okay so your able to get your point across. Sure saves you from double, triple, or quadruple posts explaining how your not in english or some such excuses.

[Civilian]

This is where I believe alot of the people that say the game is "boring" come from. I still occasionally see 1 or 2 players walking to a base to assault it on their own, but that rarely accomplishes anything. There is no question that getting into the fray with squad-mates make the game MUCH more enjoyable. You will see the occasional infiltrator hacker running around away from the fighting, capping bases to gain BEPs, but that doesn't strike me as being fun at all.

I do have an advanced VS hacker, and I did take 1 base with only 1 squadmate after entering. I hacked and the 2 of us defended an entire base against the NC, but it wasn't well defended at all because we only killed about 8 NCs trying to re-hack.(It could also be that the NC is really dumb )

[Spinnaker]

I said to use AV weapons agiasnt MAX's yeah but i dotn think i will use them i am allready goign to have half an inventory full of medic stuff and applicators, plus i will get advanced engy, so i can heal your amror, Heh i will probally only have a pisol and MAYBE a rifle as a weapon lol

[Feign]

Hehe, I was in that Searhus battle for hours last night, it was still raging at 3:30 when I left. One of the better long term all sides wars I have been in for sure. All 3 sides were working very well to both gain and protect territory with a lot of variety in types of units around. Its nice to be able to work in one area for a long time and be able to go make some strikes and protect at the same time.

All sides seemed to be made up of mostly decent squads, so always coordinated attacks and defenses, which is great for my Adv Eng, Adv Hack, Infil.

Boomers Mwahaha.

[BeerJedi]

Feign,

I left at 2AM (right after the TR gained control of Pele - my hack even though I'm straight infantry. Our hacker was killed ) Where were u? Did u see the kamikaze TR harasser?

heh heh heh.. that was me. slammed it right into the side of Pele trying to crush a NC MAX unit. My squad leader asked me to create a diversion, apparently it worked as my and a mate just drove (he gunned) all around Pele for 5 minutes. i had Two reavers and a couple of maxes shootin' at us until I slammed into the wall.

ouch. We did manage to hop out and get safely inside.