Was wondering if anyone would be interested in forming an outfit that primarily specializes in using the Reavers, Liberators and Galaxies in various ways as a team. I've been putting together pick-up groups in my liberator lately and it's been quite fun. I've been piloting/gunning with some veterans who have shared some fun and effective tactics for capturing bases with aircraft. So far it's been just me and a buddy + a few stragglers getting together and using the liberator, but I'm working on putting together a battle galaxy and I need more people to man all of the guns. Plus it would be nice to have a little bit of air support from one or two reaver pilots. I would also love to see more reavers flying as wolf-packs and controlling of the skies. As it stands lately, I've seen some really good organization from the Vanu on this server (scyth squads). It'd be fun to start accepting that challenge So yeah, comments? Suggestions? Should we do this? Let me know. I really am interested in doing this If you want to learn how to pilot better too I can help out with a few tips/tricks. I've found it's best to learn how to pilot by flying the liberator. (I can explain my reasoning in detail later). *edit* one more thing: My name in game is freedomfighter1985, you can message me on there. If I'm not piloting an aircraft I'm usually on the ground as a MAX but I'm almost always up for ditching the dirt to get in the sky.
Friend me in game. I'm in a small outfit with a few friends, but I'd love to get a public squad of pilots together whenever we have the personnel online. Even better, throw us in a platoon somewhere so we can give proper air support where it's needed. Edit: Oh right. I'm "JPJ" on Helios-NC.
Hey TR member here, Nice idea, but a couple things might hold you back. The biggest being aircraft cool down timers. Second being unable to fill galaxies with your outfit, so your gonna get a lot of pub drops (unless you work together with another outfit). Not trying to bash you in any way, and i wish you the best of luck!
Thanks for the heads up. Actually I already planned this out. If one or two of us loses a reaver, we can pull a liberator and use that instead. Then if that liberator goes down, the gunner pulls a liberator and they switch seats. If THAT liberator goes down, hopefully it's been long enough for them to pull reavers again. So it's mostly a matter of cycling. That only leaves on more: resources. Hopefully we will own enough territories to have resources coming in faster than they are going out. Overall though, if we have pilots that are doing so bad that they're constantly landlocked because of cooldown timers/resource, I'll take the time to teach them how to pilot better. I'm no pro myself, but I don't usually run into problems with cooldown timers or resources. I'll add you right now
Man, I'm slow. Just figured out that was you tonight trying to find our squad. We were in the middle of dropping bombs on those EXE chumps outside our warpgate. It was glorious! -=D
And libs. Don't forget libs. You ate 2 of ours before we figured out the right approach. The kill spam almost made me crash from maniacal laughter! -=D
Alright so I've added a few more novice/veteran pilots to my friendlist here on Helios. I've got a massive friendlist though so I'll need to weed it out of the random friend adds and focus on people who might be a part of this. I've found out that the second most important part to a battle galaxy is the gunners. I've flown with a fair share of people now and this is what I can say: A GOOD GUNNER: *Has a mic and uses it *Tells me if I need to pivot, tilt, ascend or descend so they can get the kill *Knows when to switch seats (ie switch to AA guns when aircraft are chasing us) *Watches the mini map and looks for spotted enemies *Spots enemies *Knows how to accurately hit enemies with the bulldog or walker Last night I was playing and I made the following notes: Gal has huge HP pool = 1% of hp regen could be really useful (going to test this in the future, I currently have composite armor) Fire Extinguisher = BETTER than flares (for me anyways) On Helios server we've attracted escorts without having to ask (Thanks to the friendly ESF pilots). 2 Walker + 2 Bulldogs = Destroy Infantry/Air, weak against armor. We were having trouble with armor so I switched the tailgun back to the drake (all purpose). Galaxy lacks anti-armor weaponry :/ I've heard some good things about Galaxy pilots of fly low and fast. Currently I am more of a high flier, and I take it slow so my gunners can get easier kills, but I will practice flying low and fast, dodging obstacles and stuff because it doesn't hurt to add more piloting skills for combat situations. *edit* a couple other observations I want to add :It seems that vehicles are becoming more prominent than infantry. I don't see as much infantry on the ground and this is even more of a case because the galaxy is flying out in the open, but the infantry are in places like bio labs or inside tech stations. This makes the bulldog weapons less than optimal in my opinion. I'd rather have anti-tank explosive weapons because we come across waaaay more enemy tanks/sunderers than enemy infantry it seems. Infantry can quickly hide under cover as well, which again makes things difficult for the Galaxy gunners. These are just my observations.
I'm interested in joining. I wouldn't mind galaxy/liberator piloting/gunning IGN: Shamannnnnn (6 n's)
Hello. My in game name is Swenma. I have a bit of money/certs put into my Lib. Feel free to friend me as I love to fly and gun and sometimes have a lack of available gunners. I am an officer for The Legendary Rebels. http://www.legendaryrebels.com/home. We have several top notch pilots so if you are putting something together, hit me up, and I will pass on the info. Also, if you don't use it, I recommend Team Speak 3 for higher quality communications.
I'd love to fly in a group of reavers with some coordination. add me in game and message me if you want a wingman. ign-JBHop All weapons unlocked but I usually fly in a reaver with an AH and the extra boost for my first run to see what's going on in the map.
I haven't been playing as much lately. I have sank a surmountable amount of money into this game so I don't plan on quitting indefinitely, but after spending many hours trying to get a battle galaxy working, I realized that it's just not as effective as I was hoping it would be. I am taking some time away from PS2 to play other games. I want to see more battles on continents other than Indar so I'll probably come back after server merger, however I am definitely hoping to see some buffs/changes to the Galaxy because it's not as useful as it used to be. *edit* wow I was under a rock. I didn't even know the server merger had already happened! Popping on for a bit tonight to see how things are going. I really do hope to see some more action on the other 2 continents.
I run a Clan that is primarily a Mechanized Infantry Column (with Armor Support) but could use some more talented pilots if your interested in joining forces? I'm starting to get a bit annoyed with never having Zergling Reaver/Lib support and could use some talented dedicated Pilots to help us out. Would also as a bonus give you a goal to work towards as a pilot, keeping your Battle Brothers alive. If your interested holla at me, click on my sig that links to my site and msg KILLFACE the Clan Leader. Also, I'm a bit of a Pilot myself, shot down some of the top 20 Pilots in BF2142. (link) ((To be real though I ran into Pilots I'd rate above any 'top 20' pilot, only reason they didn't hold the rank was because of hours on the game, nothing more, my favorite duel was against a Pilot on a Japanese Server, man I'll fly against him any day of the week, dude was fun to fight) Shoulda seen me before I took a break from FPS for 3 years, there isn't a second of that video I don't consider sloppy in comparison.)
Met a friend who I began doing runs together. He was investing heavily into his Lib at the time and I got lucky enough to get into the pilot seat a few times. After awhile he graciously stepped out of the pilot seat and went to gunner on his own Liberator, Allowing me the privilege of flying his lovely craft. Flying as a Liberator in Indar as the NC, there's only so many scythes and Mossies you can dodge till you have to make a stand lol... I've had moments where My partner and I have been backed into a corner a few times and at the start you develop this "FIRE ESCAPE" routine of finding the quickest way back to the Warpgate whenever you come across an ESF. Lol in the beginning as soon as I felt a trace skim my Wing, i'd be telling him "TAIL GUNNER NOWWWWWWW" before I'd start a procession of extremely low altitude stupid manuvers... till we pass the shields at Warpgate. Now we've learnt abit and started holding our ground now kinda, Even against scythes 1 on 1 in the heat of the moment, hah... had some funny moments. But its got to the point now, where I'd love to not be the lone Air Support Gunship in a squad or platoon, We can take our chances still but... it would be nice to link up with an Air Squadron and play the wildcard. Yeah sounds like fun! CaptainAngel
Angel, I have seen you in-game and have discussed this with you I believe. Your outfit is welcome to operate as its own separate entity under ADK and our website/TS3. You would still be your own outfit, we would just have better coordination being "partners". We have a huge team speak, and a great website. Feel free to check it out www.ADKGamers.com and you can hope in our TS3 and chat with us at any time.We are very organized and rather large. I run an Air platoon quite often and am looking for somebody to carry the torch when I am not around. I love the idea of an air outfit/platoon. Give this some consideration, we would love to join up with you all and take over the skies. Let me know your thoughts.
Name: Captsavexho typo on forum name hah... but I would like to be a gunner while learning how to pilot let me know if theres a spot
This outfit needs to join with ADK. I love air platoons. It is what I do. I need somebody to help run them when I am not able to. We will let you have your own TS3 channels and subforums. Let us know, we can work some things out and this merge would GREATLY benefit the NC.
I recommend coming over to VVAR. We have dedicated platoons for Air, Armor, and Infantry. We are constantly growing all of these divisions and would love to add anyone from any outfit to the Air division.
