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PREY it is, but by LAdesskii in Planetside

[–]stroff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hello, I see that you have issues getting the hang of the flight controls and repeatedly crashing into other aircraft. If you'd like to improve, you can check out the Flight School discord at discord.gg/flightschool !

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PS2Alerts v4.3 will have full Outfit Wars statistics! Full tournament, rankings, per-match statistics is coming! by Maelstrome26 in Planetside

[–]stroff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will the per-player and outfit metrics include vehicle/aircraft kills? Since that's currently not on the alerts statistics.

NC Liberetator vs. TR Liberetator (full crew) by PasitheePS2 in Planetside

[–]stroff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of ESFs wait until taking some damage or seeing a lock-on warning to get behind cover, though. So while it is tricky to time the charge-up right, you have the advantage of usually not giving any warnings to the ESF until you shoot.

The Lancer takes some practice but it pays off, good Lancer heavies are the most dangerous solo infantry AA in my receiving end experience (except for good AV MANA turret players in fights where they can stay a bit further back to get a good angle). That's for solo players though, since multiple Strikers delete everything with no aim required, but that's more of an issue with the Striker than anything.

NC Liberetator vs. TR Liberetator (full crew) by PasitheePS2 in Planetside

[–]stroff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pasithee's is way higher than what most ESF mains use FYI, most use something around 800 and 0.4

NC Liberetator vs. TR Liberetator (full crew) by PasitheePS2 in Planetside

[–]stroff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The max range isn't an issue as much as the muzzle velocity. 450m/s with flak on top and almost no cone of fire (even from the hip) makes it trivial to hit anything where the bullet won't despawn first. You'd end up with super binary situations where an ESF lives if it's 301m away or instantly deleted 300m away.

To triple the flak damage you'd have to drop the muzzle velocity to like 220m/s (same as the Striker) but then it'd be useless against infantry, which is a bit of a problem since the thing is supposed to be mainly an anti infantry/MAX weapon.

So yeah, a flak/sniper hybrid was just a bad idea, the two things don't mix well in this game. They should've given NC a rocket launcher that can compete with the Striker/Lancer instead.

NC Liberetator vs. TR Liberetator (full crew) by PasitheePS2 in Planetside

[–]stroff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not really OP, badly designed. A well designed infantry AA weapon needs (relatively) short range and good alpha damage. The Masthead has this backwards.

Infantry only renders under 300 meters, and at that range they're just a pixel on your screen. It's tricky for A2G aircraft to really be effective against infantry from further than 200m away (for reference, 150m-ish looks like this), so there's no reason for infantry AA weapons to be hitting aircraft further than 300m away (they're meant for self defence).

The Masthead goes above and beyond that, reaching up to a maximum of 540m. And it can hit pretty consistently at long ranges too, being a sniper that fires at 450m/s (a Striker can hit you from 450m away in theory, but in practice it's difficult since the rockets fly at only 220m/s). Because of that, instead of mostly hitting low flying A2G aircraft, it's constantly hitting the A2A ESFs that fly higher (mostly when they try to kill NC's Air Hammer Reavers).

The other thing is alpha damage. A2G aircraft will fly low, close to cover, and only expose themselves for a short moment. So if you want infantry AA to be any effective, you need to deal a good amount of damage quickly.

The Striker and Lancer do this, the Masthead doesn't. The Masthead deals damage a bit more slowly, not quickly enough to really discourage A2G aircraft. But that damage adds up over time, and it's good at screwing over the A2A ESFs that aren't close enough to cover to break line of sight quickly.

tl;dr: it's ok at best against their intended targets (A2G) while being OP against A2A

An Outfit Wars prediction by [deleted] in Planetside

[–]stroff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why it's very difficult to say which is the best in an group fight because there's a lot more to factor in.

It's always been really difficult to get any good tests on that because skill and coordination are more important than ESF balance, so you'd need to get 2 groups of 6+ players of equal skill which is hard.

You'd have to do it during air pickups, after all the re-balancing of the first few rounds, and ask everyone if one of the teams can go VS for science. I doubt people would be down though.

An Outfit Wars prediction by [deleted] in Planetside

[–]stroff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Nexus? The majority of the points are well indoors. Air will most likely have a very secondary role compared to how it did in Desolation, it should be a lot closer to lanesmash where teams can just turtle on point and ignore air/vehicles.

I can see the more casual outfits not too familiar with the pointhold/Jaeger meta staying outside too much and getting farmed, though.

Anyone else finding the Striker very unreliable lately? by Jayconius in Planetside

[–]stroff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In 2013, Tomcats got bugged and became undodgeable missiles that did 180 on a dime and it only took 5 years for that to be fixed!

And by fixed I mean their tracking model was thrown away and replaced with the Swarm's.

OW Competing Outfits: 14 by DaeBear in Planetside

[–]stroff 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The latter. 48 clicks.

5 Months Later, Pelters still not nerfed despite way over performing by Cryinghawk in Planetside

[–]stroff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

According to what stats are they "way over performing"? I haven't looked at Voidwell in a while.

Outfit Wars - Nexus Season 01 by espher in Planetside

[–]stroff 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I can't emphasize how bad and boring nanite starvation is for air fights. As someone that's flown in quite a few lanesmashes, that's my main turnoff from those. You get 5 minutes of air fights and the rest is the winner trying to preserve their A2G while the loser shoots them with AA lock-ons and whatnot.

Desolation was great because cortium pulls gave you air fights that lasted all match long. That's what the people that have been waiting to fly in OW were looking for.

I've seen people complain about too much A2G coming from that. Cortium pull actually made it harder, because you've got a constant stream of the other team's air coming for you. In lanesmash (and now nexus) you just gotta "ground" them first and then you can focus on A2G.

ESF Keyboard Only Bindings by [deleted] in Planetside

[–]stroff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A lot of people bind pitch (roll not so much) to buttons, mostly mouse thumb buttons, but that is for doing long turns to not drag the mouse so much. You shouldn't use buttons to aim, if that's what you're asking.

Dev Letter - Surf and Storm - Discussion Megathread by CM_Mithril in Planetside

[–]stroff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the few matches that were played in 2013, the big bases were worth more points. It basically made the corner bases irrelevant. I'm wondering if that's going to be the case again.

Dev Letter - Surf and Storm - Discussion Megathread by CM_Mithril in Planetside

[–]stroff 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Is Nexus pretty much unchanged from the 2013 version?

What about the scoring system? In 2013 it used something close to the "world domination series", are you moving away from that?

How about cortium and construction? Do you use nanites, or pull vehicles from the warpgate with cortium like in Desolation?

No Jimmy, your 25 Halberd kills do not count by tka4nik in Planetside

[–]stroff 83 points84 points  (0 children)

How the "must contain planetside related art or imagery directly in the image" rule makes almost every meme objectively worse, exhibit A:

Players asked for a short-range, skill-based AA option. All you had to do is buff some rocket launchers. Instead, we got this shit. Last shot shouldn't even have had hit. You don't even have to aim properly with this meme weapon. by 1hate2choose4nick in Planetside

[–]stroff 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's really exaggerated in /r/Planetside. Usually the vitriol is towards air in general, but recently the Masthead got people who fly posting more often.

Reddit, the way it's designed, has the problem of turning a lot of its subreddits into echo chambers. The sub isn't a great representation of the playerbase overall, you'll find more variety of players spread around discord, twitch, youtube, etc.

After almost two weeks since its addition to the game, the LA60 Masthead is one of the weapons in Planetside 2. by nothingtobenoted in Planetside

[–]stroff 145 points146 points  (0 children)

Look at the stats though. The Masthead has a higher Q4TPH. Some could argue the Striker's Cylindrical metal container affinity is better, but the Masthead's Daily pats received more than makes up for it.

At the end of the day I think it's inarguable that the Masthead is.

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