I spent some time hacking around the other night in my Max - Tried a cavern battle. It's definatly not fun when someone whips by you in a stealth suit and jumps into an ancient gun turret and introduces you to some artifact power. Think i lasted all of 3 seconds on that one. After multiple times of getting blown away by the invisable guys - I decided to try my like on forsal - the NW (blue guys) were picking on the red guys (Terran's) and it was a full out war.

I did get one bit of revenge in the caves however - I came across a parked AMS (Spawn point - Truck thingy) I couldn't destroy it in an anti infantry Max, but i could make people's lives difficult, Pop, Spawn, Wham. Dead. I was having all kinds of fun untill one of my team mates shot it up with a tank. Oh well, It's war.

Back to forsal - It was a messy fight. Capture a tower, Attack a base, lose the tower and be forced to recapture it. I'm begining to find that any time i spawn in a undefended tower - I have to jot my way up the stairs and blow some rounds into the tower control. More often then not i'll shred some stealthed hacker trying to get a tower on his own. Annoying having to back track all the time. Good Combat xp however.

Anyway, I've managed to make BR 6 - While this isn't super spectacular it does allow me to get an implant - I'm probably going to take the one that allows me to so how much a health/armor/shield a person has, as it will allow me to see that i'm actually hitting someone... I don't think the regen one is particuarly useful - Maybe for a sniper, but i run around in max's If something can blow through my 600 points of armor then regening health isn't going to do much for me. Neither will the fast feet one - In a max you can either plod or run like the wind. There's no medium speed. Besides i don't think fast feet will work in a battle suit..

So thats it for now, I'm hoping to get back into the action on saterday. SO many things to do, so little time
-B-

Planetsiders is a comic strip done by the same artist who does "A Miracle of Science". Since I didn't get a chance to play PlanetSide last night, I figured I'd share the URL:

http://www.project-apollo.net/ps/index.html

(Miracle of science is at http://www.project-apollo.net/mos . It's a good comic, too!)

It looks like some of my guildmates want to switch to Vanu for the forseeable future. I prefer TR because I like their "look", their gear, and their "philosophy" better in the game...but I want to play with my friends.

Sigh.

At least with less cert points it'll be easier to decide how to cert.

So it looks my group will be playing on Wednesdays. Some of us will be out of town next week, so it won't be then, but after we get back hopefully we'll get rolling.

I may try to get some in today/this weekend, at least, until I leave town for Cali.

One of the things that keeps me from playing a lot of my online games - especially PlanetSide, a game that rewards tight squad play - is when my guild is scattered and/or just not interested in the game.

We've had a bit of a revival of interest in PlanetSide in the Hrafn Warband, but we're still scattered. So we're going to set up a schedule of when to play - that way we're all online, and on TeamSpeak, at the same time. We seem to have the most fun playing together.

But I'm going to try to play on my own and with pick up groups more. I've got to figure out for one thing what a good load out will be for me again, seeing as how I have all my cert points and they've redone the costs on some things.

If you're on TR/Emerald, let me know! In the past, I was typically loaded out with Prowler driver, Advanced hacking, and a plethora of infantry weapons, but I'd love to see what else to do, as well as maybe hook up with a good outfit or two (or even just a few good people) to put the smack down on the Vanu and the NC.