Re: Games Discussion Thread
Getting in a vehicle is easy as pie actually Slicer. You can be driving a tank out to battle within a minute of starting if you know which spawn terminal to run up to. The limitation with vehicles is that they all have a spawn timer, mostly around 15 minutes. Which means you've got to survive in that thing for 14 minutes or so, or you're going to have to wait to get a new one. Spending a tiny amount of cert points can reduce that timer to 11 or 12 minutes without too much expense. The timer is individual for each vehicle though, so there's nothing stopping you piloting a gunship for a while instead if your light aircraft gets shot down. Also three buddies sharing a gunship could mostly likely take turns piloting and stay in the air indefinitly, provided they can survive at least a few minutes each.
The basic weapons seem okay to me, though I did only unlock two alternative weapons during the beta, so never had much to compare to. Got a single fire pistol for TR, and a supposedly more accurate lower capacity assault rifle for the NC. The pistol was a big improvement over the spray and pray thing you start with, but honestly couldn't tell the difference with the rifle. Spent most of my cert points on the other minor passive upgrades and things like C4. The basic NC carbine will still pick off people fairly swiftly at 200+ meters if you use select fire (and provided they're not paying enough attention to get down).
I didn't like the games strange take on the LMGs much, where it's basically just a bigger gun with no ability to control recoil when firing at range, yet a generally superior gun for medium range fighting and point blank assaults. Not exactly a flaw in the weapon game play wise, but just not how an LMG is supposed to work is all.
The alternative vehicle weapons however are a clear game changer. Give a tank the dedicated AP rounds, and you'll notice how enemy tanks are squashed in record time, but you end up fleeing from a tiny rabble of infantry. Get the plasma cannon for the Vanu Scythe and everything on the ground becomes a nice target, whilst you find yourself vulnerable to enemy aircraft.
