Tips by Noobs from Noobs

[Phaden]

OMG its a major misconception that bringing the tubes down actually lessens your XP. The reason people started saying this, was that when the tubes are down, no more people can spawn to the base, therby stopping the death xp pool from filling even slightly from camping the tubes. AFAIK there is no magic switch that lowers XP when the tubes go down, its just less fighting in the SOI to count for the hack.

[LimpBIT]

Originally Posted by Dorest0rm

this tip will only work for NC

If there's a max near you walk behind him when his shield is activated it will kinda protect you from rocket blasts

helped me 2 years ago while i played it...returning now

ahh a very popular technique

[Ait'al]

Originally Posted by DSSevPayne

One of the biggest mistakes noobs make......

• Don't go off by yourself if your infantry (rambo style = Dead soldier).
• Always stay with a group so you have someone watching your flanks and you watch theirs (at least 2 guys with you).
• Keep good spacing so one grenade or rocket doesn't blow you all up.
• The guys who your with shouldn't all have the exact same loadouts. somebody has to have anti-air/anti-armor weapons (if you all have assault rifles, only thing your gonna kill is other foot soldiers which does you no good when you have a MAX or Misquito barreling down on your position).
• If you don't know what to do, ask the squad leader, platoon leader, a vet or someone. In general, when in doubt, follow others and cover their backs.

I'd change something about this one:

If you are near two people just cover their flanks. If the split up follow one and simply cover his flank.(just think logically about the flow of troops and see which one you most need to cover their flank. AKA not the stupid fight the one who will later have the least.) If you are anywhere near one person just cover his flank!!! I don't care who he is or what he is doing you can figure that out after you save his butt. If you are within a mile of someone doing something you don't even know or care about. Just get over to his stupid butt and cover his flank!!!!!!!!!

If you don't know where his flank is look in opposite direction of his butt or any of his hips or even his front pelvis. It doesn't matter. Just do it! And for the love of all sanity make sure your gun is out and has ammo in it when you do it and you are capable of doing damage.(unless you have a specific reason to put it away) And preferably to what they are doing damage to unless there is a reason not to. (Which there really never is.)

Then learn to aim with MA! 8) AK kneel, learn to be patient. Keep distance, And learn to aim specifically ahead. The calmer you are the better damage you will do. The smallest bit of hyperness in you(especially as VS) and you are likely the dead end of a Medium Assault shoot off!

And make sure your patient kneeling is in proper range. Basically not within firing range of most HA and not so far your bullets don't hit.

And as of a patch atleast a year or more ago you can no longer run around the lone max who is supposed to be vulnerable to infantry by himself. He can now outturn you and rip you apart unless it is a group effort.

And always attacka a max out of spawns with ap ammo. And firing at the same target. Don't make the mistake of thinking a group effort means standing in the same room shooting at the same enemy empire. It's standing in the same room shooting at the same person then the next then the next. Death is the only thing to defeat the enemy in PS. Even if people say other wise today. And the only way to kill someone is with blazingly fast speed. So fast they don't even know what type of weapon or weapons could have possibly been involved in hitting them. It's called multifire! (And no it doesn't matter if there isn't more than one gun type involved. It just matters that there is more than one. The enemy doesn't have to know they are all the same thing. Unelss it's obvious and they are all HA. Then die unless you do it in a very creatively laid out and stretegic way. Mostly meaning without them having ever seen you there!)

And you can't say I'm not a noob!!!!

[Zanduar]

If people followed half of these rules then I wouldn't be pissed off after playing PS for more then an hour.

Sad thing is, people who have played the game for a year still do stupid things...

[nickboy333]

u got any tips about which server to join in the first place ? east coast or west ? i live in La I should go west but I heard east is better...

[EVILPIG]

Originally Posted by Phaden

OMG its a major misconception that bringing the tubes down actually lessens your XP. The reason people started saying this, was that when the tubes are down, no more people can spawn to the base, therby stopping the death xp pool from filling even slightly from camping the tubes. AFAIK there is no magic switch that lowers XP when the tubes go down, its just less fighting in the SOI to count for the hack.

..and you have just stated yet another misconception, that Capture XP has anything to do with enemy deaths.

It cracks me up that 4 years down the road, so many still do not know how capture XP works. I still see even old school CR5s vehemently argue about blowing gens, killing tubes and even killing enemy counting towards capture XP.

Capture XP is all about enemy presence in the SOI during 300 time slices which happen during the 10 minutes before a hack is set and ending once a hack is completed. Removing the enemies' ability to spawn has an effect on this, but is not a part of the actual equation. In fact, it is BEST to ensure that enemy remains in the SOI to maximize the CAP XP. This is best accomplished if the enemy holds the tower. Simply surround the tower with vehicles and keep the enemy suppressed inside. Every enemy in the tower will continue to pump the CAP XP. Granted that the complete removal of the enemy's spawns is the most secure way to complete a hack, but not always the objective of the CEP hungry.

[exod1a]

lol

[kilitra]

13. If you are a cloaker and behind enemy lines, do not use any overt actions. (i.e. voice commands, shooting at groups of enemies...exploding boomers etc.) Until you get fairly good at taking single enemies out, shoot them from LOOOOOOONG range. Shoot only once or twice and then MOVE.

[B0B]

Originally Posted by GeneralRazor

I disagree wholeheartedly. But I agree wholeheartedly if you don't know how to aim through your minds eye

i agree completly u need flails hey pack a punch but r a pain to get

[Traak]

Originally Posted by kilitra

13. If you are a cloaker and behind enemy lines, do not use any overt actions. (i.e. voice commands, shooting at groups of enemies...exploding boomers etc.) Until you get fairly good at taking single enemies out, shoot them from LOOOOOOONG range. Shoot only once or twice and then MOVE.

You DO know no voice commands from cloaked cloakers are audible to enemies, don't you?

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by Majik

If you are not in a Max, carry a REK.

WRONG SON!

Everyone carries a REK. PERIOD.

Those orders come direct from the Supreme Commander of the Allied NC Forces... some douche named ActiveX.