12-02-2008, 04:37 PM
Moving back to saturday for our friends across the pond
This week we'll try doing bombers and general aircraft, I highly recommend you log in on your own and try flying both in VR and on the battlefield. Dealing with other aircraft and AA can be very very difficult and flying is probably one of the harder things to master in planetside. While flying your main threats will be enemy AA and aircraft.
A few other things to note, spacebar is afterburners, e and c are raise and lower elevators, and they fly like VTOL aircraft, so you do not need to maintain any sort of speed.
Air Threats:
Mosquito - 1 man scout aircraft, has a 12mm chaingun, lowest threat gun wise, but good luck running from it
Reaver - 1 man anti-ground aircraft, 20mm cannons and rockets, more heavily armored/armed than the mosquito, good dogfighter as well
Wasp - 1 man anti-air aircrarft - mosquito varient, eats air craft with lock on missles, dive for ground cover if it locks on, if he loses lock the missles miss
Liberator - Low level threat, if it has a tailgunner keep your distance and peck away at the health
Galaxy - keep a reasonable distance from the guns and shoot down
Galaxy Gunship - keep as far back as you can, unlike the gal, the guns are more accurate and do a TON more damage
Lodestar/Phantasm - Unarmed, laugh as you shoot down
Ground Threats:
Miscellaneous Ground Fire - Depending on the gun/vehicle - low to moderate threat
Man Portable AV - Low threat, but strikers are very very annoying because they lock on
Burster - TR AA max, you get no warning and die in seconds if you dont immediately afterburn
Sparrow - NC AA max, it takes a second for it to lock on, but any missle that it fires will hit almost 100%, dive for the ground to break lock and line of sight
Skyguard - Threat at close-medium range, flack is difficult to hit at long ranges, just run, the only way you will kill this if you are in a reaver and surprise it
BFR (w/AA) - unless you are in a reaver or a liberator/vulture just run, if you are in other aircraft you should be able to get an attack run in, if you spam one with multiple reavers it dies very fast
Turrets (Can have flack) - do not attack flack turrets in anything thats not a bomber/reaver, actually, just dont shoot turrets as a rule
Required Certs:
Air Support (Liberator/Galaxy/Lodestar) 3pts
Engineering - 3pts
Recommended/Optional:
Air Cav Scout (Mosquito) - 3 pts
Air Cav Interceptor (Wasp) - 2 on top of 3 for scout
Air Cav Assault (Reaver) - 2 on top of 3 for scout
A good way to build levels/experience for tonight, get Air support and engineering, put a lodestar on the front lines and just repair people, and you will rack up experience very fast.
Day: SATURDAY
Time: 7pm cst
Ventrilo is mandatory
If you make a character please post their in game name here
Fun in this game increases exponentially with the more people that join up so I hope to see more of the people that stated they were interested in the initial thread to come out, the game is FREE, but you are restricted to BR6. If you get "suspended" or banned since the trial accounts are loopholes just make another one. Conversely you can spend $20 to pick up the game at direct2drive, which comes with a free month, this removes the restriction on your battlerank.
TRIAL INSTALLER
Remember, the trials sometimes will RANDOMLY suspended you, just a heads up.
This week we'll try doing bombers and general aircraft, I highly recommend you log in on your own and try flying both in VR and on the battlefield. Dealing with other aircraft and AA can be very very difficult and flying is probably one of the harder things to master in planetside. While flying your main threats will be enemy AA and aircraft.
A few other things to note, spacebar is afterburners, e and c are raise and lower elevators, and they fly like VTOL aircraft, so you do not need to maintain any sort of speed.
Air Threats:
Mosquito - 1 man scout aircraft, has a 12mm chaingun, lowest threat gun wise, but good luck running from it
Reaver - 1 man anti-ground aircraft, 20mm cannons and rockets, more heavily armored/armed than the mosquito, good dogfighter as well
Wasp - 1 man anti-air aircrarft - mosquito varient, eats air craft with lock on missles, dive for ground cover if it locks on, if he loses lock the missles miss
Liberator - Low level threat, if it has a tailgunner keep your distance and peck away at the health
Galaxy - keep a reasonable distance from the guns and shoot down
Galaxy Gunship - keep as far back as you can, unlike the gal, the guns are more accurate and do a TON more damage
Lodestar/Phantasm - Unarmed, laugh as you shoot down
Ground Threats:
Miscellaneous Ground Fire - Depending on the gun/vehicle - low to moderate threat
Man Portable AV - Low threat, but strikers are very very annoying because they lock on
Burster - TR AA max, you get no warning and die in seconds if you dont immediately afterburn
Sparrow - NC AA max, it takes a second for it to lock on, but any missle that it fires will hit almost 100%, dive for the ground to break lock and line of sight
Skyguard - Threat at close-medium range, flack is difficult to hit at long ranges, just run, the only way you will kill this if you are in a reaver and surprise it
BFR (w/AA) - unless you are in a reaver or a liberator/vulture just run, if you are in other aircraft you should be able to get an attack run in, if you spam one with multiple reavers it dies very fast
Turrets (Can have flack) - do not attack flack turrets in anything thats not a bomber/reaver, actually, just dont shoot turrets as a rule
Required Certs:
Air Support (Liberator/Galaxy/Lodestar) 3pts
Engineering - 3pts
Recommended/Optional:
Air Cav Scout (Mosquito) - 3 pts
Air Cav Interceptor (Wasp) - 2 on top of 3 for scout
Air Cav Assault (Reaver) - 2 on top of 3 for scout
A good way to build levels/experience for tonight, get Air support and engineering, put a lodestar on the front lines and just repair people, and you will rack up experience very fast.
Day: SATURDAY
Time: 7pm cst
Ventrilo is mandatory
If you make a character please post their in game name here
Fun in this game increases exponentially with the more people that join up so I hope to see more of the people that stated they were interested in the initial thread to come out, the game is FREE, but you are restricted to BR6. If you get "suspended" or banned since the trial accounts are loopholes just make another one. Conversely you can spend $20 to pick up the game at direct2drive, which comes with a free month, this removes the restriction on your battlerank.
TRIAL INSTALLER
Remember, the trials sometimes will RANDOMLY suspended you, just a heads up.