Is it just me, or have the VS gotten better?

Jaged · 2003-06-22, 04:52 AM

Sience the patch, the VS have been owning us NC everywhere I go. I never had a problem with them before the patch. What is going on? Could they be replacing the TR as one of the two stronger empires? I havent had much of a problem with TR lately.

ZionsFire · 2003-06-22, 05:12 AM

ColdbringeR · 2003-06-22, 05:13 AM

Well Vanu did receive a couple well-needed weapon improvements. They "slightly" increased the damage on the Pulsar for one. And they increased the Quasar MAX's ammo clip from 40 to 60, while "slightly" reducing the damage for that weapon in AP mode only.

Smaug · 2003-06-22, 05:21 AM

Also the pulsar ap rounds fire at the same rate as normal rounds.

ColdbringeR · 2003-06-22, 05:22 AM

Originally posted by Smaug
Also the pulsar ap rounds fire at the same rate as normal rounds.

Doh! I was gonna say that too!

Let me add that the Pulsar damage was only increased for regular rounds as well. Not AP rounds.

Arakiel · 2003-06-22, 06:15 AM

The Pulsar and the Quasar MAX changes leave both weapons as the worst in their class still, but the gap was narrowed for both.

Why are we doing better? No idea. On Emerald, both TR and VS are getting reamed by NC on a daily basis these days. At one point yesterday VS had zero (yes, zero) bases in the world. A few hours later TR was down to one (yes, one.) NC is remaining fairly dominant throughout this.

ShortBurst · 2003-06-22, 06:55 AM

VS weapons=lots of lag

well on werner we are getting buttkicked by VS and NC

seems NC plays early on cet and VS very late, TR is something in between, every morning i go fight NC on VS continents en every evening i fight VS on NC continents :P pretty funny tho :P

Navaron · 2003-06-22, 10:11 AM

I'm not yelling stealth nerf or anything, but...

The VS have some weapon, it's a full size rifle I believe, that kill me in 2 shots sometimes, and from waaay the hell away. It's not the bd, cause it's full auto. What the hell is it? I'm not bitching, I just want to know what it is. Any clues?

Navaron · 2003-06-22, 10:24 AM

I'm thinking it's the lancer, what kind of damage does that thing do?

Robot · 2003-06-22, 10:40 AM

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
I'm thinking it's the lancer, what kind of damage does that thing do?

it's the lancer. it can kill an agile armor in two or thee hits, if the hits are dead one. but it's very hard to aim with, and you have a limited ammo supply. it also fires somewhat slowly

Navaron · 2003-06-22, 11:01 AM

Nah, I'm in reinforced all day long. Drops me in 1 or 2 hits every time. Bug maybe?

Spider · 2003-06-22, 11:27 AM

Yea probly bug.... or else its a sniper rofl

Navaron · 2003-06-22, 12:03 PM

No unless there like 10 snipers all shooting at me at once with blue BD's. That thing is evil.

Lonehunter · 2003-06-22, 01:05 PM

Originally posted by Jaged
Is it just me, or have the VS gotten better?

No, the Barnies still suck.

gonnagetyou · 2003-06-22, 03:12 PM

Most of the VS success boils down to experience. We have a lot of die hard players who have stuck with it over time.

Last night on Markov we took Esamir and then invaded Ishunder in force. Instead of just sitting in bases waiting for the cap most of us kept advancing taking towers and eliminating TR strong points. It was very cool to see everyone working together so well and keeping the pressure on. We took all of the northern bases before the TR were able to regroup and counter attack in force. Those were some great battles with a lot of fighting happening in between bases.

A big thanks to all the TR and Vanu players that made it so fun last night. Ishunder is always a hard nut to crack for the Vanu. TR usually keep it locked down real good.