Planetside 2: State of Vehicles & GU04 Notes

A lot of the GU04 notes are about a week old, but you might still learn something. The real interesting discussion starts about 5:15 where I get into my thoughts on the current state of the vehicle game play. Let me know your thoughts.

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[Chris Bingley]

I used to complain about rocket pod spam, but hey, rockets are supposed to be devastating against infantry. So what I did is I saved up 1000 cert and I bought the Nemesis lock on launcher. Now the tables have turned and I farm aircraft... :-)

[blood60ft6in]

Sounds like you adapted. Exactly what I was trying to get at :) Nicely done!

[XDarkxSteel]

Do you still get a cert per 250 xp? because he was getting like 1000+ per vehicle kill and nothing was popping up... sorry, I don't play the game yet.

[blood60ft6in]

Nope, it's been changed. Much higher rewards on vehicles now. Assists boosted up significantly too.

[kodansha0]

So sick of my mossy being nerfed constantly, dont get me wrong, it is a powerhouse in the right circumstance. IMO the best ESF in the game, but with my rockets doing shit damage and having paper thin armor im getting sick of flying. I dont get why a engi with tank mines can just try up to a sundy in a flash, blow it up and get a tons of points with no effort. But i can put LITERALLY 400+ rounds from my vortek into a sundy NOT being repaired. and still not destroy it. Dafuq sony.

[blood60ft6in]

I'm even fine with mines destroying Sundies easily, but mainly because you have counters in a sundy (mine guard, gunners, you can be mobile vs deployed). It is a power house in the right situation, but a lot of that is dictated by what the enemy is doing.

[Rob H]

First off, love what you're doing here! the vids on flying have been a major help to my own mediocre skills. Wanted to chime-in a bit on ppl playing intelligently. When I can sit with my AV Mana Turret (un-certed) above a recently stolen Watchtower and get 10+ vehicle kills before someone wises up, that let's you know this game is being played by those with a zerg mentality and with little independent thought. Sorry for generalizing but I hope I was able to prove a point.

[omeslasher]

So true updates make it bad

[Anthony Calderon]

I never thought any vehicle was overpowered, but I find that all vehicles are overused. I hate being attacked by columns of tanks and planes one after another. I don't think they should nerf vehicles, but I do think they should make the resources more difficult to obtain or at least increase the cooldown before you can spawn another one.

[Prka01]

I love going up against aircraft with my ASP-30 Grounder. Two missiles are all that's needed most of the time and if it's a fighter, my T7 Mini-Chaingun can do the trick too, if the pilot is reckless enough. As far as picking up an aircraft myself, I'm more likely to crash the damn thing before I even make it out of the warpgate then actually getting a kill or two with it. As a pilot, I'm hopeless.

[joesgotmore]

Agreed, plus you can only carry so many mines in the first place before you have to run to a terminal and resupply. I am a Sundy driver and I use mine guard most of the time. Saved my many a time. Lately I see less mines due to mine guard and see more rockets and c4. Causing me to start investing in Blockade armor.

[hi14993]

I'll still take my ESF against tanks until they come out with an ESB (empire specific bomber) so yes I want my ESF to hurt armor until then and seriously I am not ditching my ESF to run headlong into a massive group of enemies grouped around a sundy to throw down AT mines AS A PILOT. Just NO.

[avienated]

We've talked about in my outfit that a nerf would probably come. The skillcap in air is high and for that reason it has taken some time before the majority of the pilots are decent at it. While we are all proud of our airskills, it would be lame if air could dominate everything else. Yes, it's harder nowadays, but you could take that as a challenge too.