New Patch Experiences

[TheN00b]

Post your experiences here with the new patch. Here's mine:

Tonight, the first night of the new patch being in effect, I was in Esamir with a small zerg trying to attack against a much larger VS force (I am NC). We were pushed back to the bridge between Freyr and the mainland, and one of the major contributing factors to that was the increased Lasher suppression that the new clip size enabled. However, once we were at the bridge, with the VS controlling a tower at one side and trying to come over, something amazing happened. Rather than having a couple of haphazard snipers and trying to push vehicles constantly over the bridge , we simply pushed through a few Vanguards by providing huge suppressing fire with our plethora of Pheonixes. At some points, there were up to 50 Pheonix missiles in the air , and their charging Mags and MAXes were simply cut down in their tracks. Good times .

[HawkEye]

oh yea everyone and there mom has phoenix now, which is cool. but i hate what happened to the tripel shot it sux.

[321]

Originally Posted by HawkEye

but i hate what happened to the tripel shot it sux.

The Jackhammer is just as usfull as it ever was. I mean I am a NC on Markov and always use the jackhammer but I never use the triple shots and I still get a bunch of kills.

[GreyFox]

Been surviving 2 shots from snipers several times with the P.shield.

Having lots of ammo with both the Bolt Driver and Lancer has been fun.

And yes, I did notice a lot of AV out there. Especially the Phoenix.

[flypengy]

Phx is a lot of time spent with little reward.

[Scorched_earth]

Yeh you won again by shire numbers with vangaurds and ur aa gun! Hide behind a tree or hill and use them to take off troops! Noobs!

[Dyentious]

The thing that kinda pisses me off about cyssor is, ok.. NC have their camera guided missiles that everybody has now, and the vanu can just come right over the water at you with their vehicles, but what the hell is the tr supposed to do in that situation?

Sucks to be TR on cyssor when the bridge battles are goin on

[BadAsh]

I just think it's cool now to fky over a TR base and actually get a lock on warning Looks like the TR will be able to put up better fights with hordes of strikers and the DC MAX being able to work with friendly infantry without bein a grief machine.

[Fragmatic]

Originally Posted by Scorched_earth

Yes, you won again with your sheer amount of troops, Vangaurds and Phoenix users! Hide behind a tree or hill and use them to take off troops! Noobs!

1. Quote Fixed

2. Numbers don't count, it's tactics that matter. As far as I can see, the NC were using their weapons effectively. Do you think they'll charge out in a bridge battle with a Jackhammer? No, of course not! Just like you wouldn't dare use a Lasher at long range, because it's - a. Useless at distance, b. People could EASILY dodge projectiles.

Anti Vehicular weapons are MEANT to be used from cover (Phoenix has guided missile, Striker has lock-on, and Lancer has barely any time for projectile to reach the target).

So, In conclusion, THINK before you reply.

Don't come out with this "OMFG THEY WERE HIDING!!!"�!$�!" bullshits, they (The NC) were using their weapons effectively, and you had absolutely NO justification WHATSOEVER to throw the insult of "noob".

It's because of people like you who automatically assume something's everybody elses fault, that the weapons have changed so much. In beta, the game used to be alot more tactical, and, since release, weapon CoF bloom has been tightened so much on weapons, you can now jump as much as you want (but it cost's more stamina) because of people whinging.

The Punisher is (I think) the only weapon left with it's original CoF bloom, which was the highest anyway, but look how shit it is... the game used to be like that.

Quit whining, quit complaining, don't throw insults like that for no reason.

Grow some pubes and play the game.

[Fragmatic]

Originally Posted by Dyentious

what the hell is the tr supposed to do in that situation?

Snipers taking out the Phoenix users, and fully loaded Deliverers driving Over the water in between the bridge struts, works a treat

[RagingSpeedhorn]

Woo Fragster, how's the anger management classes going

It's early says for the patch, however I was a bit dissapointed with the Jackhammer nerf (basically less ammo and no quadshot). However, saying that it's the other buffs that will make the JH less attractive.

I believe the point was to stop noobs getting easy kills, especially taking out vereran players. The JH is still deadly at short range and still deadly in the hands of an experienced user, however what I am finding is that:

1. In field combat they get no where near me, it takes two plasma nades to take down Rexo, so I just fire off two thumper nades, switch to my primary weapon and they're dead before they get close.

2. The MAX buff means that indoors a Dual Cycler and take down Rexo in seconds, and there are a hell of a lot more MAXs about.

So, all in all, those who can handle a JH will continue, those that can't and got easy kills because there was no major opposition will uncert, whine, stamp their feet.....

[Fragmatic]

You know me rs, cool as a cucumber :P

Seriously though, if you were on teamspeak last night, I apologise for shouting about twats 99.9% of the time

[RagingSpeedhorn]

I was on MoX TS, you would have been on Oskake's, so I didn't hear you bawl like a child

BTW I got some good fraps footage of the Gal raids last night, might put them into a mini movie...

[Fragmatic]

Noice

I haven't had alot of time to test the new patch.

I do like the striker though, brilliant for VS maxes, and scring aircraft off.... and you can carry alot of ammo now

[KIAsan]

Back on topic,
I think the devs have managed to get the balance almost perfect. Most of the battles we had last night were very long, drawn out, and depended on strategy/opponents mistakes to turn the tide. A good example was that one fight on ISH last night. With both sides evenly matched, NC and TR were deadlocked. Luckily, we managed to take their tower and pull enough of their troops from offense to defense, which enabled us to switch to the offense. It was at that point that their attack faultered and we were eventually able to lock Ish back up again. All in all, it was a great battle.

I also saw more strikers in use than ever before. During the start of that one tower battle, we had so many strikers out, that the life expectancy of an enemy plane was measured in seconds. What a sight. It took a lot of armor to suppress us back into the tower (which pulled them off the offense).

FYI, loaded my "max av" favorite, and discovered I had 95 striker rounds!!!! OMG, I was in striker heaven! The flip side, I saw more pheonixs in flight than ever before as well (although they kept trying to suppress troops for some reason). Don't think they got very many infantry kills, but our armor had a lot of problems operating close to the target.