Lu Posted February 3, 2013 The Hot Drops squad was in full effect tonight! Yea, just look at those handsome devils. They conspired to murder me shortly after this shot was taken, the monsters. It was pretty great. We had a full squad for a large portion of the night and many mans were shot and some died by crashing their air vehicle into rocks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
youmeyou Posted February 3, 2013 That picture came out great (i'm on the tail). I'll upload a few shots shortly. Good times! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scratch Posted February 3, 2013 Moments before taking that squad picture, Snooglebum was attempting to ride atop a moving aircraft. I managed to grab a screenshot of that. Also some asshole was flipping over vehicles that we had just spawned in our base. From the reactions everyone had, I gather this is popular way of trolling in this game? Mumble crashed on me twice and the game lagged like hell every so often, but I had fun nevertheless. I wasn't expecting that session to go on for that long though, considering I hadn't had lunch when we started and six hours later it was almost dinner time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
youmeyou Posted February 3, 2013 Here's a few selects from the ridiculous amount of screenshots I took today. Consider me your embedded war correspondent! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lu Posted February 3, 2013 Great shots! This reminds me that I like grassy fields and trees way better than sandy desert and canyons. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ItsMeYourFriend Posted February 3, 2013 sorry i left so abruptly yesterday! i had to let the dog out and then go run a bunch of errands. it was fun though! we should make this a thing! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
negatendo Posted February 3, 2013 Hello! Sorry I don't visit the forums very often. Enjoyed our Planetside session yesterday. Let's play more! Also, nice hot drop shots. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eftervind Posted February 3, 2013 I can't believe I played for 6 hours with you guys. It went by fast. Chill drop squad to the rescue. Also, I'm sorry for crashing straight into you guys yesterday with my plane, I figured out what I did wrong. I pressed shift which apparently is boost. Pro tip for the newbies: Don't fly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
youmeyou Posted February 3, 2013 Everyone's gotta start somewhere! (Though maybe that "where" is in a one-man fighter as opposed to a carrier with your teammates on board) CTRL makes you descend and SPACE makes you ascend btw. "=" is cruise control, "W" is throttle up "S" is throttle down. "A" is yaw left and "D" is yaw right. Now go fly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Geremy Tibbles Posted February 3, 2013 In relation to war journalism: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Justin Leego Posted February 4, 2013 I can't believe the patch took 6 hours to download. Scuppered! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lu Posted February 4, 2013 Hello! Sorry I don't visit the forums very often. Enjoyed our Planetside session yesterday. Let's play more! Also, nice hot drop shots. Hey, welcome to the forums and it's cool! And yes, let's play more. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scratch Posted February 5, 2013 Guys I got talked into coming in for work on Saturday. I have to start an hour before the hot drop squad is called into action. They have promised me it'll only be for a couple hours. If you guys end up running a longer session again I might show up in the latter half. Otherwise count me out and have fun! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ItsMeYourFriend Posted February 6, 2013 i haven't played in a few days, have they worked out the issues they were having after the big game update came out? i was getting some pretty massive graphical glitches at times. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lu Posted February 6, 2013 There has been at least 2 hot fixes, last I checked. So maybe! EVENT SCHEDULED. IT'S ON. Again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
youmeyou Posted February 6, 2013 It was actually running better for me than it ever has before. 6 hours and it didn't crash until the very end. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ulotrich Posted February 7, 2013 i haven't played in a few days, have they worked out the issues they were having after the big game update came out? i was getting some pretty massive graphical glitches at times. Second patch fixed framerate issues for me, I finally got the game to run properly in lowish res with low details, which decent given my rig. Anyhow... looking forward to the event. I have been practicing a bit with Liberators. I can now land it safely on small platform. Will post Flying 101 over the weekend. If I get some playtime over next few days I might be able to get a tankbuster with zoom / infrared on that thing so that we can fly with style. Two days ago I also found out that you can crash Scythe into a tank kamikaze style to great effect. I believe that very first Thumbs Aerial Doctrine was born on that day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lu Posted February 7, 2013 Yep! Pro-strat: If you're light assault and you're in a scythe and it's damaged with no engineer in sight, just fly it into an enemy tank, but bail out, hover above the enemy tank and throw down some C4. DOUBLE PUNCH, WHABAM! I did this once after I got a multiple lock ons and I blew up a lightning tank. The first time I did it, I missed both the tank with my plane and with the C4. By the way, if we have at least 10 people playing again, I'm for splitting them up in 2 squads and then making a platoon. My reasoning being that we can form tighter groups and there is less confusion when we're taking a point, because we can just go "alpha will take C" or whatever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Geremy Tibbles Posted February 7, 2013 Pro-Tip: The Dalton is the best belly gun you can get on the Liberator. That with IRNV basically turns you into that CoD4 AC-130 mission. Also remember to drop the 2 certs to up your ammo capacity and give your gun some zoom on all your vehicles, ESPECIALLY the secondary or tertiary guns. Makes a huge difference. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
negatendo Posted February 9, 2013 Two days ago I also found out that you can crash Scythe into a tank kamikaze style to great effect. I believe that very first Thumbs Aerial Doctrine was born on that day. FOR VANUUUUUUUU! *crash* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coods Posted February 9, 2013 Reminder that we deploy at in 30 minutes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lu Posted February 9, 2013 The Hot Drops, platooning it up. This week felt like a bunch of unorganized chaos way more than previous weeks, but maybe that was because the enemies were being jerks, not letting our do our Hot Drop strats. Either way, check out this group of cool folks: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eftervind Posted February 9, 2013 Here's Hyllu taking the screenshot above Here's ten seconds later: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
negatendo Posted February 10, 2013 For the record I enjoy the goofing off just as much as winning the space war. Thanks for the fun session everyone! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coods Posted February 10, 2013 I TOLD YOU RAPIDLY SWITCHING WEAPONS WOULD WORK: I look buff as hell. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites