How many vs have you seen that are good with the lasher?

[Metalsheep]

Noone comes to mind for me in particular, but the Lasher isnt THAT bad. It could use some work though. The gun has always had problems.

[Baneblade]

The Lasher is the only HA weapon I really like. I have a locker full of them... but like no ammo. Damn that VanuTech.

[vVRedOctoberVv]

This one VS I saw tripped and shot himself in the face with it, one shot kill. He was pretty good.

[jakaul]

Originally Posted by Baneblade

The Lasher is the only HA weapon I really like. I have a locker full of them... but like no ammo. Damn that VanuTech.

I may have given you some ammo last night if you'd asked nicely.

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by jakaul

I may have given you some ammo last night if you'd asked nicely.

I meant unused ammo.

[jakaul]

Was that your group on Searhus Drakulu last night?

[Baneblade]

Fuck no, I was soloing and trying to help that Sturmgrenadier clusterfuckup at Sina. I would have OSed them trying to footzerg from the tower... but loltimer, urgh.


I did some Barney huggin at Pele though.

[jakaul]

I think I was 19 or 20/1 before I left there to handle the TR up at Tara. The AC guys were tearing the ones up in the base while I got to feast on the zergers lol.

[Baneblade]

Those were my AMSes ya'll kept blowing up, was driving them from Akua until Pele capped.

[TopDawg]

I always wondered why they didn't let every empire take energy ammo, since the Vanu could still take all ammo for other looted empires (except ESAV - which is also more rare comparatively of looted weapons).

Anywho, the Lasher has always been kind of a flawed weapon. Before, it doubled as SA; now, it's sort of like an alternate MCG with a worse COF. The problem being, up close it still has a faster TTK on Rexo than an MCG, so if you buff the COF too much it's going to completely negate the MCG.

As for best users, I always considered Visigodo to be the best Lasher user in game. I don't really play all that much anymore, but before I quit Angel definitely came into his own as one of the best Lasher users.

[MCYRook]

Originally Posted by TopDawg

the Vanu could still take all ammo for other looted empires

Well the VS do have regular access to the Punisher and Sweeper, so there's your 9 mm and shotgun ammo.

Still could've made the energy ammo common pool as well, but meh.

[Baneblade]

Would have been fun to have at least one CP energy weapon.

[Gunuko]

Back when I was good, I pretty much held off a yellow alert with the old Lasher, I killed 20 enemies before finally being killed with no help. Or actually there was one vs who spawned in, picked up a quasar max, and proceded to use anti vehicle mode on infantry, he died within 10 seconds. lol. And not all the guys I was fighting were noobs either, a couple almost beat me. Also the interlink facility benefit + fighting only 1 max helped greatly! The lasher was a lot harder for me to use when I was lagging, the first portion of the time I played in 2006 I was using a completely out to date computer, my computer I used back in 2004/2005 broke down, and I couldn't buy any good parts . Then I finally got me some good fps, and bam, I almost held off a yellow alert single handedly! Not a boast, I actually didn't even notice I did this till a couple years later when I was looking at my old footage I recorded. Edit: Let me add there were 1 or 2 vs in cc, but I defended the rest of the base

[jakaul]

I took a video of myself using the lasher awhile ago, but I'm not allowed to post it because it displays too many crimes to humanity.

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by Gunuko

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Nice video, ah the days of when the Lasher was amazingly OP and fun... no way I could have done that myself most likely :P