Questions about core of base....

[Joe-Azlin]

Aight I'm kinda new to the game so any help at all would be possible. I was in this base taking over with my squad and I found the core, but all that was left in the base was me and my allys. I started shooting it, but I didnt destroy it because I didnt really realize what it would do. So can someone tell me?

[Hertston]

"Core" ?

Do you mean the control centre or the generator ?

In the first case, shooting it will just waste ammo. In the second, if you destroy it you will cut power to the base until it is repaired.

Either way, if you are new to the game be very careful what equipment you choose to destroy. You need some experience to know whether or not it's a good idea at a particular time or not, and you'll win few friends for destroying something that is needed. Soon an enemy base will be YOUR base, and even before a hack is complete people may wish to hack into equipment and vehicle terminals etc. Only destroy anything if you are absolutely sure it will benefit your side... if it needs doing a more experienced player will probably already be doing it.

As a general rule, if the enemy are not a significant threat, DON'T DESTROY ANYTHING . That doesn't mean the reverse is necessarily true.. that's where the experience comes in.

[HawkEye]

i think he means then generator. shooting that is bad. it will make people mad and they will kill you/ like me, if i see gen is being attacked message i go to the generator. if i see the guy shooting it i kill him without hesitation. if i get there and i dont see ne one shooting it i leave.

[ONiel]

As a general rule, if the enemy are not a significant threat, DON'T DESTROY ANYTHING . That doesn't mean the reverse is necessarily true.. that's where the experience comes in.

I really wish people would follow that bit of advice. I can't count the times I've been at a base cap and had some idiot blow the gen when we completely had the hack and surrounding areas of the base. IMO, one of the the only viable reasons to blow a gen is if you are VASTLY outnumbered on a base you're assaulting, and you have an AMS setup in a VERY secure location inside (or very near) the base. Even in that case, you had better have the tower nearby cap'd too or the enemy is only going to zerg you from there.

[Spider]

Althought you can draw alot of friendly fire from this I found a way to get alot of ennemy kills being an infiltrator.

Some bases are hard to take (tech plant) because people can be anywhere they are the most fun to defend and to attack but the indoor battles never seem to end... and the rule when getting your gen attacked is running to it so you can keep spawning and taking care of the offender...

Well 1 beamer 2 to 3 aces (boomers) and a jammer can rake up kills since they can rush in groups!

Shoot at the gen in normal mode the message will repeat itself alot making them go crazy because they think it's under serious attack. Now wait there with your jammer and wait for them to pour in with boomers placed a good spots ... stand still and wait when they rush in throw it! Everything goes boom and you get kills galore with luck! Now find a REK and repeat!

[Hexen]

Hehe damn.

With people using tactics like that, people are gonna have to adopt a more slow and cautious style of play.

[slytiger]

People should. PS isnt a very good game if u dont use some tactics or strategies. If a single squad or a platoon(3squads) were highly trained they could probably own a whole continent together and maybe even 2 till the zergs get to them.

[Bismarck]

One time I was in my outfit squad and we took half of hossin before the zerg came. It was fun though. We ended with more bases than people. And we hacked every single one of them too with very little help.

[Doppler]

Me personaly when I get set up for the hack one of the first things I kill are the inventory terms in the spawn rooms. ALl bases have a inventory term either in the entryroom or somewhere else in the base so your team can usualy get its goodies as needed. Some people agree with this, some dont, for those who consider TKing as a response that's why LAG has my back.

Gen take downs are usualy only advisable in a few situations. An enemy *cough* vanu *cough* are raping you with vehicles pouring from the base. I.E magriders or in some cases van's and prowlers. Or when the CC is just too tough a nut to crack and you need to stop the spawn externaly. But as the above inf stated sometimes entertainment involves a few potshots at the gen and a boomer at the doorframe waiting for some poor shmuckola to run through.

[Aegis]

Why take out the temrinals when you can just take out the spawn tubes? That seem like a real noob tactic to me. If i can get enough troops into the spawn room i like to camp it and not destroy the tubes even, then we can just rack up the XP while noob keep spawning there. Especially good if you get a couple of AI MAXs in the room.

[ZionsFire]

ah your one of the xp munchers

i play the game to have fun.

[Aegis]

Shooting almost defenceless spawners is fun, maybe not if i was a grunt, but i rarely get to do it. Unlike a typical FPS spawn camping IS part of the game, its not an exploit in this case. If you are dumb enough to spawn at tubes that you know are held by enemy then you deserve to get shot to pieces.

[ZionsFire]

yeah that is quite fun so i will delete my older post forgot those standards only give out little xp

Damn cant delete

[Joe-Azlin]

Well thanks for the help guys.

[Madcow]

Originally posted by Aegis
Shooting almost defenceless spawners is fun, maybe not if i was a grunt, but i rarely get to do it. Unlike a typical FPS spawn camping IS part of the game, its not an exploit in this case. If you are dumb enough to spawn at tubes that you know are held by enemy then you deserve to get shot to pieces.

Personally, unless the spawn room is MAX camped I'll spawn there over and over. You can enjoy your 2 xp and an embarrassing standard armor kill in your stats, it won't take me too many spawns to kill you with my Supressor which I find far funnier than killing defenseless spawners.