Planetside 2

[eKo]

n00b !! (just for old times sake! )

Come play PS2 with us, Las, they just released the Harasser, a 3-man vehicle .

I'm really liking my Engineer even though I'm far from a killing machine, but dropping ammo, repairing maxes & turrets can mean the difference when you're pushing an attack or repelling attackers. Got into a really cool platoon last night and managed to upgrade my gun. The Solstice SF + under barrel grenade launcher is great fun, shame it only carries 2 grenades, but I guess that's what ammo packs are for. I think I'll grab sticky grenades as next upgrade or maybe a second anti personnel mine as it's fun to get a kill ages after you put one down .

I'm also considering grabbing some vehicle certs later, but I don't like the 1-man vehicles much and I can't fly (I crash against trees in VR). It looked like the Harasser certs were cheaper than the rest so might go for it eventually, but it needs a gunner really to be effective. Might get the anti-AA gun to drop those pesky reavers & mossies, hehe.

[Lasiien]

I think I prolly will as it sounds worth a revisit, problem is atm with my kinda limited gaming time i got into Witcher II so want to finish that off. If you're still both playing in a couple of weeks I'll prolly come say hello and see if the lags gone

[Brigh]

will still be playing I'm sure

Like Eko I struggle to fly and even trying to use a joystick it's a struggle - the harasser is great fun though as you can kit it out with many options

Brigh

[Lasiien]

Alright, so I'm a year late to the party I know this, but started playing some PS2 now that I have a new gfx card that doesn't blow up when I try to play it

I realise prolly no one but Brigh is playing or intends to, but thought I'd post briefly. Lasiien on Cobalt (VS), being a newb.... (but I see you in the outfit I joined Brigh! Happy Accident!).

[eKo]

I spent the certs I had (wasn't much unfortunately) into the Harasser since Las and I had a lot of fun in one yesterday. Ok, maybe not at the start with me running into rocks & trees . It went a lot better once I switched to 3rd person view. Didn't think I would have as much fun driving the thing since in PS1 I didn't much like driving tanks. Actually I still don't like driving tanks, but speeding around in the Harasser is awesome. It's a 3-man vehicle and even a MAX can sit in the backseat (and shoot afaik). By the way, I also found out you can repair the vehicle while in the backseat (best aim sideways as the repair icon is finicky).

Most fun was when I drove over a hill near a base we held and landed in the middle of some infantry, I drove over the Max while Las was blasting some others, then we turboed away. Didn't expect anyone over that hill and don't think they expected a Harasser jumping over and landing smack in the middle of them . Was also cool to see gunner xp stream in at some point while repairing the Harasser. 

[Lasiien]

Cool, I'll invest in a few harasser things too so that when yours is on lock down we can still get one I had fun in it too, most of the talk is that it isn't very good but I think as long as you use hit and run tactics it can be very effective. Didn't realise you can repair in the back seat lol, nice

And yeah that was cool jumping into that whole group of infantry, I am pretty sure we rotated 360 degrees on that one but landed right side up

[eKo]

We always landed right. Tried it in VR before and managed to land on the roof a few times (at which point it goes BOOM!), good I didn't tell you eh? Though that was with the racer chassis. Think I'll go with Scrapper chassis (tighter turns), Vehicle Stealth (longer to lock on and won't show on radar unless close) & IR Smoke(lose lock iirc). I bought the PPA AI gun since I heard good things about it and from the little testing I did it feels great (awesome accuracy & range) and also have one of the AA guns (not sure if ranger or walker, but the faster shooting one). Not sure if AV is really worth it, since the Harasser can't take many hits itself, though outflanking tanks and hitting them from behind could work depending on how many shots you need to destroy one.

And yeah you need hit & run tactics with it, but with its fast speed & tight turns you can (try to) avoid being targetted. Standing still is just asking to get blown up .

It was a bit confusing to drive at first, since the camera can face away from where you're driving and due to it being so fast you can end up rather far from the battle as well. Suprised you managed to kill so many LAs with me driving like a maniac trying to avoid getting hit too much .

[Brigh]

I've been absent these last few weeks while I finish my degree, my final paper is handed in on Thursday so you should see more of me.

I like the idea of the harasser so I'll have a look at the certs you can upgrade on it as well - the ability to repair without stopping is a great asset

Brigh

[Lasiien]

Cool Brigh, will be good to see you and get you out of that Max suit ;-)

[eKo]

Nice Brigh . Actually you can stay in the MAX suit and hop in the back of my Harassar .

[eKo]

Come on Brigh, where are yoooouuuu?

I even used a load of SC from my membership to pimp my Harasser (Lumifiber, Tires & Camo) .

Added the screenshots, with and without lumifiber active.

[Lasiien]

looking cool eko :-)

[Brigh]

nice ride eko will be back very soon!

[Lasiien]

The real trick to looking cool though is hammering the 'g' key to put lumifiber off and on whilst also driving like a crazy person :-)

p.s. ping keeping me away atm eko, I'm like 200+ all the time, any better after update?

[eKo]

Nope, since the server merge it's gotten worse . Login times are horrible and ping varies a lot tbh, it depends on the continent/population.

Driving like a crazy person I can do .

BTW the resources reform & Harassers only costing 150 nanites, means you can pull Harassers non-stop. So even when you flip one right at the start you can immediately pull another. Even Lightnings at 350 nanites can be pulled almost non-stop. I've abandoned some when pulling the wrong one (AP instead of SKyguard or vice versa) which is nice .