Mattherson/Waterson Merger coming sooooooooooon YESSSS

Everyone lets have a spandex party. I'll bring the spandex, NC, TR you'll need some butter otherwise you will get seriously bad chaffing

do you have any idea what youre talking about?

IF it is going to be, then I should spend some time on my waterson NC alt.

This game should be a lot more popular than it is now. It's easily the best FPS game out and it's free

Finally i can run with another like minded tanker looking at you eskimo.

Travel times and the strength of vehicles and maxxes will keep it, Niche.

People want the action of quick infantry gun figths. This is what makes games like CoD CS and Team fortress so popular

So it's basically no different than the Matterson TR...

NOOOO!!!! i already lost the jaeger name, not waterson too...eh its ok im just glad to have some higher pops

I wouldn't get to excited. By time Nov rolls around the new merger server will have less than thousand on it. The bleeding won't stop, it will accelerate.

People will get tired of the drama, hackers(they love 2xp weekends) and crap that Matterson is good for. Plus SoE will dog pile on, they are going to really screw the pooch this year.

We think you'll do fine too! We just enjoy boasting about our server's unique meta of being hideously, insanely anti-vehicle and the culture shock people experience when running into it. We also have a bunch of the best infantry players in the game but obviously we don't have a stranglehold on them.

We're getting elusive1 though aren't we? I think we just might now, actually.

You guys need to be bragging about all the ways YOU are going to be helping US, like how our Vanguard meta is going to get much, much better, especially considering it wasn't half bad to begin with! I'm stoked for the merge and I think Waterson will provide a lot of quality players. Especially since this merge is blatantly pro-NC in the same way that the last was blatantly pro-VS

You and lots of others. This is going to bring more people back to Mattherson than PU02, which is saying something

GOOD NEWS! Now instead of just one AOD mega hellzerg to mindlessly push one lane, you have MULTIPLE mega hellzergs to push MULTIPLE lanes!

j/k they'll all be in the same lane

The main "problem" with Mattherson NC is that a lot of us are sick to death of alerts. The global biolab alert last night was the first one I'd seen people willing to participate in in ages, and we freaking dominated it. It's the reason we tend to win territory alerts but lose global ones - the fights are worse and more scattered than in territory alerts. We are very much a primetime faction though, which is why you see the VS dominating the server alerts so hard and the TR ahead. Being the probable winners in a 4 hours timespan means you'll lose most alerts overall. The TR have weekend swagger and the VS have pop on off hours.

It'll be great getting an influx of players though. Even if our command stays concentrated on primetime, as ignoring alerts will be even more profitable than participating thanks to big fights on multiple conts.

"Loves" here is the most egregious of understatements. Alarox will probably appreciate being on the server with the #1 Phoenix/Raven SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Meta though. Any experienced tanker fighting against the NC will just BOOK IT as soon as they start smoking because that's the #1 thing a Phoenix user homes in on. I've seen tanks start smoking and suddenly 4-5 Phoenix rockets moving toward something else swerve wildly toward them

Counterpoint: the PS4 release and E3 press for it is going to give this game a bigger boost than it's ever seen simply due to a) NOTHING else on ANY console will be doing anything even remotely close to what PS2 does and b) huge damn market. Think this won't give it the free press it will need to bring people without a PS4 (a lot of people) to try it if they've got a computer? PC ports for Final Fantasy 8 and RE4 and Dead Space and Dark Souls didn't sell because they were high quality ports, they sold because they'd already made a huge name for themselves elsewhere.

Now imagine if they had been free

Nah, NC has not been underpopped in the past couple of days.

I usually play 4-6 on weekdays, and anytime on weekends, and NC is usually not underpopped globally.
Their population usually matches that of the VS, sometimes more, sometimes less.

We've lost alerts in which we had like 36% population, but only had 1 ampstation.

I never said we were underpopped. I said a lot of us are horribly fatigued and sick of global alerts. Which actually EXACTLY lines up with what you observed.

I'm not quite so pessimistic. The game isn't going to shed everyone, and most of the ones inclined to leave probably already have. Many who would stay leave due to low populations and lack of activity. After the merge there will be a larger number of dedicated players (the sort who stick around for years) and enough action to keep those who enjoy the game interested.

But, time will tell.

Also, for the Waterson NC... Good luck dealing with Wisdomcube. Even the other factions know he's an ***.

Is this a joke or have you never seen BWC/903rd/VG on the server, not to mention we have plenty of smaller outfits like 1TR or HNYB, or DOG

It was half a joke. I was referring to AOD and how they pretty much run zergs 24/7. As a Honeybadger and former 903rd, of course I know the Matterson TR has its moments.

You gotta train your guys on how to use their Phoenix's better or I'm just going to keep liquefying them whenever there's a battle at Howling pass. On second thought.... don't train them

I'll say that out of all the AV Maxes, NC's definitely are the best by a long shot. My number one issue with them isn't their damage though, it's their ability to have a range greater than the range the Max renders. I hate trying to fight against invisible enemies, it's so freaking lame.

Well apparently Waterson TR has plenty of Zerg fits so I'll be interested to see what happens. Hopefully one of them can transform into a VCO type outfit since we don't need 3-4 AOD type outfits. The only thing that is somewhat good about the TR not having a lot of decent outfits is I'm assuming a lot of people on Waterson will be encouraged to join the more organized and coordinated Mattherson TR outfits unless they want to get farmed relentlessly.

Oh I try, I even put smoke down on your usual spot as soon as I saw the BWC tag and told people to focus fire there. Blame your comrades for bringing a giant wave of easier targets right to our gates and just kindof...sitting there, for us to kill them. Also the Phoenix uses flight controls and so the default is pretty bad but nobody thinks to adjust them. Slowly but surely, I am educating my brethren in the ways of hitting targets hugging the other side of a tall wall. To be fair it did look like you guys were pretty harassed that whole fight. Didn't spot anybody locking down for too long

It was a lot of fun pegging at you guys from the northernmost of the western towers with my Falcon MAX The Falcon doesn't have drop so much as it has "drop", whereas the Ravens are range limited, meaning that the Falcons are the clear choice for me

Vortex and Fractures are just as capable at this, though, so it isn't really an NC-specific thing. We've just got the most alpha to make our hits count the most

We can use the unending zergs to our advantage if we can get them to put pressure on the right places while us smaller outfits do the dirty work.