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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    Yeah outfit base ownership is coming in June. Back before beta they talked about outfit-built structures. They also talked about wanting to do naval combat though, so some of this stuff may be quite a way down the line.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    "There's no metagame" seems like a common complaint, but I'm not really sure what kind of 'meta-game' this could have that people would actually want.

    Doing anything that provides an advantage for the overpopulated faction only exacerbates the population balance issues that already exist. Outfit-owned bases are sort of interesting I guess as a way for a group to 'plant a flag' and kind of challenge opposing outfits, but outfits already do that with the crown or allatum. It can be fun, but it's nothing terribly interesting.

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  • eeSanGeeSanG I slice like a goddamn hammer. Registered User regular
    Of course there's a meta game.

    Pilots below amazing seem to hate flying now due to Annihilators and other g2a buffs.

    Rocket pods.

    Tank mine pizza delivery.

    Outfits running circles ghost capping around each other due to the perceived lack of defensive incentives.

    The Crown and TI Alloys.

    People have a weird definition of metagame if they think a sandbox mmo can't have one.

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  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    Higby put up a 30 second or so livestream that was titled "nothing to see here, move along". It was just him standing in game in what looked like a swamp base.

  • drunkenpandarendrunkenpandaren Slapping all the goblin ham In the top laneRegistered User regular
    Tank mine pizza delivery is the best metagame by far.

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  • f3rretf3rret Registered User regular
    Okay, I'll bite. What is tank mine pizza delivery?

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  • Ratsult2Ratsult2 Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    Well, we have two definitions of metagame here.

    One is the RTS version, how strategies slowly shift over time. For example: 2 base timings were popular in SC2, but now people know how to defend them, so they are not used very much anymore. You can call that a metagame shift.

    The definition of metagame for PS2 is a little harder to define, but it boils down to "another reason to play". People want to take over a base or continent and have a long term effect on the game. I can see their point, it's a little weird to have a massive assault on a continent, take it over, then log in the next day and see that someone took it all back during the night. However, I don't think their solutions are going to help the game.

    Continent locking is great in concept; When you take a continent, enemies can't take it back for X time. This allows the defenders to move somewhere else... but (at least on my server) when one faction takes a continent, the defenders all abandon it anyway. It's already been mentioned that if you add better rewards for taking a continent, it's going to make the overpopulation problem worse.

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  • eeSanGeeSanG I slice like a goddamn hammer. Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    GU3: http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/server-downtime-and-gu03-02-20-2013.95936/
    All servers will be brought down at 6:00 AM PT for a game update. Downtime is anticipated to be approximately 90 minutes. Players may note the following changes:


    General Updates

    · Tweaks have been made to render distance values

    Infantry Updates

    · Corrected an issue while using HR-NV on an SMG on low settings that would make it difficult to see other players within 20m
    · Dying and reviving with the VS Eridan SX5 HS/NV Scope equipped will no longer cause the scope to become misaligned.
    · Icon for the VS Eridani SX5 should no longer be misaligned
    · If an engineer turret is placed on or near a vehicle pad, they will be deconstructed when a vehicle spawns.
    Vehicle Updates

    · Optics will no longer persist when switching from gunner to the driver’s seat in various vehicles
    Item Updates

    · New SMG’s and customization items

    UI Updates

    · Players with outfit tags should be able to see kill messages in chat
    · Made it so players can see hotspots on continents they are not on.
    · While using the Enemy/Ally HUD color scheme, the influence pie chart will only display 2 wedges (ally vs enemy) instead of three (two of them being red anyway)
    · Squad leaders should now be properly added to the Command Chat voice channel
    · Squad leaders that belong to a platoon should now be able to promote a member of their squad to the role of squad leader.
    · Fixed an issue where changing an outfit member’s rank would not always work on the first attempt
    · Corrected an issue where multiple consumable tints could not be purchased at once in the Premium Early Access section of the depot
    · Submachine guns should now appear properly in the depot when filtering for Infiltrator or Heavy Assault weapons
    · Influence percentages on the HUD should now update more dynamically
    · Fixed an issue where purple generator icons were being displayed on the respawn map instead of the appropriate destroyed generator icon
    · Will no longer display a “Killed by []” message in chat when you are killed by a pain field

    Facility Updates

    · Fixed the spawn location for Xelas South Bridge
    · Made fixes to the coverage of multiple spawn room pain fields including:
    o Zurvan Pump Station
    o Zurvan Network Complex
    o All forward spawns for Dahaka
    o Saurva Data Storage
    o Mao Southeast Gate
    o Mao Southwest Gate
    o Rashnu Cavern
    o Rashnu Southern Pass
    o Allatum Broadcast Hub
    o Allatum Research Lab
    o Hvar Northgate Garrison
    o Auraxicom Substation
    o Wokuk Shipping Dock
    o Wokuk Storage Yard
    o Camp Waterson
    o Elli Barracks Complex
    · Should now be able to successfully capture the Freyr Substation forward spawn point
    · Fixed the spawn point at the NS Refinery
    · Made fixes so the spawn room shields will properly change faction when the point is captured across the following areas:
    o Hvar, Southeast Forward Spawn
    o Mekala, North Forward Spawn
    o Tumas, Northeast Forward Spawn
    · All jump pads at Tawrich Depot should work correctly again
    · All teleporters at Andvari Bio Lab should have functioning shields again
    · Amerish’s East Hills Checkpoint should now display correct region info in the HUD
    · All jump pads and air vehicle pads at Elli Amp Station should now properly recognize the Empire in control of the facility
    · Saerro Listening Post’s teleporter room has had its pain field re-enabled
    · Fixed an issue where specific door shields at Zurvan would be invisible when viewed from certain angles
    · Corrected some missing wall textures at Tawrich
    · Corrected ramp geometry errors across all amp stations
    · Regions of the Vanu Archives should no longer display as part of Snake Ravine in the HUD

    Audio Updates

    · VS Flare audio should no longer cut out when running low on ammo

    Not really worthy of being called a GU though...

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  • Lt Muffin360Lt Muffin360 Registered User regular
    eeSanG wrote: »
    Not really worthy of being called a GU though...

    Its nothing special, yes, but there are a lot of changes there to fix things. It looks like they are trying to stabilize things more before doing another round of additions to the game.

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  • EricsErics Charming to the last Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
    Dirtyboy wrote: »
    Higby put up a 30 second or so livestream that was titled "nothing to see here, move along". It was just him standing in game in what looked like a swamp base.

    (it's the inside of a biolab)

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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    edited February 2013
    "There's no metagame" seems like a common complaint, but I'm not really sure what kind of 'meta-game' this could have that people would actually want.

    Continent locking I think is what they really mean. Right now what's happening is that someone attacks a continent and the owner rushes in, zergs the shit out of it, and either gets soundly beaten or notices another faction is attacking them. Basically each faction is spending more time defending and zerging territory it already owns than anything else because fuck if I know. If things get shaken up then it's during off hours when the main armies are all zonked out in bed and then the status quo gets restored in the morning.

    It's kinda like this: http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=B36BXid7iQ0 or a Weebl's Stuff looping song (badgerbadgerbadgerbadger).

    The real downside to all that is that half the time finding a bunch of really awesome fight can be a pain in the dick. The last time I was on a few days ago we had some good fights going and then things just petered out. Each faction had once again resorted to zerging their own territory to kick whoever was attacking off. It gets kinda tiring after a bit. With the addition of continent locking a lot of things are going to change. The game will get a lot more intense and fights will get a lot more brutal. Overall faction strategy and tactics will matter for a lot more than just bragging rights which will alter the mentality of a lot of players.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    the idea being that you'd lock indar, and then people wouldn't be able to take stuff there for 24 hours or something? And then after whatever amount of time it'd open back up and people would be able to take stuff again?

    I don't hate that idea but I also don't see how it helps. At least in the current state of things it seems amerish is already 'locked' at least 50% of the time and indar is usually pretty lively. I guess like, once in a blue moon you'd force everybody off indar for a while but most of the time it wouldn't make much difference.

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  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    Continent locking would mean not having to keep an eye on a small fraction of an enemy population taking away your continent bonus and bleeding away players from the offensive and the associated big ass battles that should be PS2's bread and butter.

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  • eeSanGeeSanG I slice like a goddamn hammer. Registered User regular
    f3rret wrote: »
    Okay, I'll bite. What is tank mine pizza delivery?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNQSCAekZl0

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  • f3rretf3rret Registered User regular
    Then in that case, I am often a pizza delivery man. :)

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  • Lt Muffin360Lt Muffin360 Registered User regular
    Everyone loves pizza.

    Everyone loves explosions.

    This seems like the only logical way to do this. Just saying. (p.s. I am now hungry for pizza)

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  • citizen059citizen059 hello my name is citizen I'm from the InternetRegistered User regular
    Tank mines are addictive. They're the thing that made me stop hiding from armored vehicles and start running toward them instead.

  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    Roadmap Update, Players Site, and Server merges
    The following servers will be getting Merged:

    US West:
    Genudine and Helios -> Helios

    US East:
    Mattherson and SolTech -> Mattherson
    Waterson and Jaeger -> Waterson

    EU:
    Cobalt and Lithcorp -> Cobalt
    Ceres and Mallory -> Ceres

    Connery, Woodman, Miller and Briggs will not be part of the merges.

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  • f3rretf3rret Registered User regular
    Yay, we're getting some more fresh meat on Waterson!

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    I'd like to thank @TOGSolid for showing up in my "People who actually killed me with Friendly Fire" list! :D

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  • TaranisTaranis Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    f3rret wrote: »
    Yay, we're getting some more fresh meat on Waterson!

    awww yeah


    Hopefully SOE was smart about it and Jaeger's pop will balance the server's faction distribution.

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  • VedicIntentVedicIntent Registered User regular
    f3rret wrote: »
    Yay, we're getting some more fresh meat on Waterson!

    Of course Jaeger is where I deleted my character a few weeks back in order to move him to Waterson.

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  • TaranisTaranis Registered User regular
    f3rret wrote: »
    Yay, we're getting some more fresh meat on Waterson!

    Of course Jaeger is where I deleted my character a few weeks back in order to move him to Waterson.


    Try contacting customer support. They've been super accommodating.

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    Taranis wrote: »
    f3rret wrote: »
    Yay, we're getting some more fresh meat on Waterson!

    awww yeah


    Hopefully SOE was smart about it and Jaeger's pop will balance the server's faction distribution.

    There isn't really much choice, so I assume they are going to focus on getting the total populations into line, really. I would think all the severs have pretty even numbers on each empire anyway.

    From our point of view, I'm certainly not worried. Waterson VS do quite well even with small population disadvantages.

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  • MegaMekMegaMek Girls like girls. Registered User regular
    Oh hey. Me an my NC buddies will be on Waterson. Cool, I guess.

    Is time a gift or punishment?
  • VedicIntentVedicIntent Registered User regular
    Taranis wrote: »
    f3rret wrote: »
    Yay, we're getting some more fresh meat on Waterson!

    Of course Jaeger is where I deleted my character a few weeks back in order to move him to Waterson.


    Try contacting customer support. They've been super accommodating.

    Nah, it's all sorted now and the character wasn't high-level or anything. I just went through a few days of BS to get my character name released after a bug wouldn't let me reuse it. I just wish I'd been lazy about it and saved myself some grief.

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  • mccartmccart Registered User regular
    The recent patch seemed to fix my performance issues. When I first logged in I was dismayed as I flew around and had absolutely awful stuttering. After a few minutes though, the problem went away and I had good performance for the rest of the night. I did encounter that flickering bug after a couple hours and had to restart my game, but everything else was good.

    If you had GU2 break the game for you give the newest patch a try.

  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    MegaMek wrote: »
    Oh hey. Me an my NC buddies will be on Waterson. Cool, I guess.

    You can run OPs with the DVS crew and I some nights.

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  • ArthilArthil Registered User regular
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    I'd like to thank @TOGSolid for showing up in my "People who actually killed me with Friendly Fire" list! :D

    I'd yelled out "Oh god, WHY?!" So many times.

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  • f3rretf3rret Registered User regular
    That_Guy wrote: »
    MegaMek wrote: »
    Oh hey. Me an my NC buddies will be on Waterson. Cool, I guess.

    You can run OPs with the DVS crew and I some nights.

    Were you guys running a cloud of Reavers on Indar last night? If so, well done. You were an absolute nuisance the entire time, and made me want to cert some anti-air ASAP. :)

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  • MegaMekMegaMek Girls like girls. Registered User regular
    I took AA rockets a long time ago; mostly so I could sit at TI Alloys and pester all the air jocks at the Crown. Sometimes I'll sit there for hours at a time, just lazily locking on to mosquies and scythes, shooting them down one by one, or watching them jet away in random directions. It's pretty cathartic actually.

    Is time a gift or punishment?
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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    f3rret wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    MegaMek wrote: »
    Oh hey. Me an my NC buddies will be on Waterson. Cool, I guess.

    You can run OPs with the DVS crew and I some nights.

    Were you guys running a cloud of Reavers on Indar last night? If so, well done. You were an absolute nuisance the entire time, and made me want to cert some anti-air ASAP. :)

    I was not on last night, but that sounds like something we would do. Its a lot of fun to get 150ish people together to all do something at once. The other night, about 3 platoons hot-dropped on the crown and took it right from under the VS's nose. It was raining drop pods for a good minute or two.

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  • f3rretf3rret Registered User regular
    That_Guy wrote: »
    f3rret wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    MegaMek wrote: »
    Oh hey. Me an my NC buddies will be on Waterson. Cool, I guess.

    You can run OPs with the DVS crew and I some nights.

    Were you guys running a cloud of Reavers on Indar last night? If so, well done. You were an absolute nuisance the entire time, and made me want to cert some anti-air ASAP. :)

    I was not on last night, but that sounds like something we would do. Its a lot of fun to get 150ish people together to all do something at once. The other night, about 3 platoons hot-dropped on the crown and took it right from under the VS's nose. It was raining drop pods for a good minute or two.

    We hit the Crown for a bit last night too, just to see if we could break it. After about 15 minutes, we said to hell with it. Good fights though! :hi5:

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    edited February 2013
    f3rret wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    f3rret wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    MegaMek wrote: »
    Oh hey. Me an my NC buddies will be on Waterson. Cool, I guess.

    You can run OPs with the DVS crew and I some nights.

    Were you guys running a cloud of Reavers on Indar last night? If so, well done. You were an absolute nuisance the entire time, and made me want to cert some anti-air ASAP. :)

    I was not on last night, but that sounds like something we would do. Its a lot of fun to get 150ish people together to all do something at once. The other night, about 3 platoons hot-dropped on the crown and took it right from under the VS's nose. It was raining drop pods for a good minute or two.

    We hit the Crown for a bit last night too, just to see if we could break it. After about 15 minutes, we said to hell with it. Good fights though! :hi5:

    Yeah, last night, as short of it was, was pretty fun. Even the Crown part was reasonably fun - best part was a bunch of ... TR tanks up on the hill to the south of the Crown, and me sitting in the cannon at Ti Alloys shelling the hell out of them, making them all run away and stop shooting at the Sunderer we had somehow managed to get up onto the Crown. And the Galaxy who decided to make a low, slow pass right in front of my gun, so I hit him ... 6 times? ... for some G2A Damage XP and a kill assist.

    It became somewhat less fun when I realized that I'd been shelling them for 5-10 minutes, I'd achieved an entire 1 kill (on a Lightning who wasn't fast enough to move, I think) and ~300 XP. Otherwise, I'd mostly just fed the TR engineers repair experience and sort-of annoyed them. Then two tanks came down from the hill to attack the gun I was manning, and I knocked both of them down to 1-more-shot-to-kill before they just hid behind, alternately, the very small hillock directly south of Ti Alloys and the Ammo Tower. I decided to try some pizza delivery on the tank behind the Ammo Tower, but right before I got there, he started moving, and ended up shooting me before I could make it back to the gun emplacement.

    So, with almost nothing to show for my efforts, I decided to call it a night. Plus, it was kinda late.

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  • StrifeRaZoRStrifeRaZoR Registered User regular
    Oh man, last night was fantastic. DVS Douchebags decided it would be a good idea to try to push us to our warpgate. Pulled a liberator and my buddy hopped in the upgraded Dalton. In a single run, we killed over 15 vanguards, 8 sunderers, countless lightning, and he Dalton'd 4 DVS Reavers. I think he got a few hate tells from them. Which made is super pumped, so we just kept ambushing them over and over as their vehicle timers went away. I deemed it 'The Golden Liberator' and could not bring myself to let it get destroyed. After using DVS for a solid 150+ cert points, I just parked it in the warpgate and called it a night.

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    Oh man, last night was fantastic. DVS Douchebags decided it would be a good idea to try to push us to our warpgate. Pulled a liberator and my buddy hopped in the upgraded Dalton. In a single run, we killed over 15 vanguards, 8 sunderers, countless lightning, and he Dalton'd 4 DVS Reavers. I think he got a few hate tells from them. Which made is super pumped, so we just kept ambushing them over and over as their vehicle timers went away. I deemed it 'The Golden Liberator' and could not bring myself to let it get destroyed. After using DVS for a solid 150+ cert points, I just parked it in the warpgate and called it a night.

    Well, at least DVS can fill a platoon. 8 people does not an outfit make. It's kind of sad that no one in your outfit actually plays the game.

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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    edited February 2013
    That_Guy wrote: »
    Oh man, last night was fantastic. DVS Douchebags decided it would be a good idea to try to push us to our warpgate. Pulled a liberator and my buddy hopped in the upgraded Dalton. In a single run, we killed over 15 vanguards, 8 sunderers, countless lightning, and he Dalton'd 4 DVS Reavers. I think he got a few hate tells from them. Which made is super pumped, so we just kept ambushing them over and over as their vehicle timers went away. I deemed it 'The Golden Liberator' and could not bring myself to let it get destroyed. After using DVS for a solid 150+ cert points, I just parked it in the warpgate and called it a night.

    Well, at least DVS can fill a platoon. 8 people does not an outfit make. It's kind of sad that no one in your outfit actually plays the game.

    So when somebody other than you posts stories of kicking some ass your response is to stomp your feet like a child and go "Oh yeah!? Well..well...your momma wears army boots!" because it involved DVS being on the receiving end.

    Gotcha.

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  • EnigEnig a.k.a. Ansatz Registered User regular
    Maximum goosery, ENGAGE. On the other hand, don't call people douchebags. Maybe it was meant as a "NC are dumb" kind of Planetside thing, but that doesn't always come across well in text.


    Saying "my outfit is bigger than your outfit" is still pretty silly though.

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