Server Downtime for PU02 December 17, 2013 9:30 AM PT (6:30 PM CET)

NC was having same problem and we got better organized against VS. Recently I have seen TR getting organized and there have been times when TR kick our butts. Just means we have to up our game.

Agreed, but when you can not effectively counter one zoe max as a full squad. Thats not right. Sure you are going to say C4. Because in open ground or an open base you will have lots of chance to get close enough and its not like they can use ZOE to run away so fast you cant keep up as infantry is it ?!?

Im sorry but unless you are a crack squad 9/10 squads at least lose half their squad if not all.

bah im ranting .. sorry ... but ive played as all three factions and I cant believe how blind some people are to their own BS.

Before you express an opinion like ahh this didnt need nerfing .. go play as another faction for a few days. no not once or twice .. not for 10 mins .. a few days at least. if you suddenly find yourself saying arrghh another motherducking zoe max crush .. then thats point proven.

You are indeed correct. Connery desperately needs more TR. I'm seen on average 28% TR, 36% Vanu (or higher) and 38% NC (or higher).

Also, on a personal note [and i mean no offense when this comes out, i respect the devs but this is what's up.]
Half way through living the dream playing PS2, i realized something. There is not one Dev that i can think of (other than the guy who has the TR Emblem on a plaque in his office) that really supports the TR. I already know T-Ray, and Margret are heavily on Vanu's side, and then you have Higby and a few more for NC. There isn't a single person i can name other than the previously mentioned that likes us. On top of that we get a lot of random nerfs while the Public test is active [the 40% AI accuracy nerf for our max, though it never went live it's proof enough.] Hell, during the WDS pre-series, Margret even openly said that the NC and VS need to team up on the TR. Seriously, how messed up is that? We hardly get any love to begin with then we have biased devs, who i remind you are supposed to maintain balance in the game's grand scheme, who seem to be against us. In my eyes it ain't right.
Rant over, that's all i gotta say. o- o

We can still get wiped out by ZOE but there are ways for less than a squad to take them out. Sorry, I am intentionally being vague since we still would like to take them out. One method works particularly well for defending points. ZOE go boom.

Just nerfing an ability is the wrong way to go about it. Its basic game design. When people complain about an ability look at why people don't like it or like it instead of just nerfing it.

This update is focusing on balance over counter play. ZOE makes the other teams use tactics that they would not normally use. When a glass cannon walks up to the point the other team needs to use new tactics to beat it. The same way if a TR Max walks into a room with the opposite set up as a ZOE max, Health verse damage, it causes the other team to use new tactics.

This is want makes the game more fun. Balance is boring. Allow us to use new tactics by fighting enemies with varying straights and weaknesses.

The first thing I am going to do is buy a AE lightning on Esamir and go looking for ESF mofos that are wasting their time looking for flash mofos that are looking for snowmen and just blast them down from the air like the mofos they are .

HOW DARE YOU SOE! I'll ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO FARM INFANTRY WITH MY ESF!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_(video_game)
It's the game sony bought and I am pretty sure they based this game off it...
AND I WANT MY PLASMA CANON V2 IN THE TR DEPOT RIGHT NOW!
:>>>

Good luck. I will be flying low looking for snowmen.

Also nanoweave certs are bieng refunded...

As I understand it, infantry is more vulnerable to rocket pods now? (nanothing not applying and rocket pods not nerfed against infantry), can't find it in the macro notes.

You turned Jaeger back on to update it but did not lock it. This is causing an issue where people attempting to log in see the character creation screen because the client can only connect to Jaeger, which has no accounts on it, so they believe their characters have been deleted. Set Jaeger to MAINT mode to save yourself a bunch of support tickets.

Just my two cents on why factions should be different
{
(NC) Guerrilla faction that plays for the advantage by waiting
•Hard Hitting which is good for close quarters when you have the drop on someone or a group
•Durable vehicles good for allowing you to sustain yourself long enough to expend all your armament then getting out
(TR) Medium Faction that plays for sustained drawn out fire to soften targets
•Fast firing low damage weapons allow for good direct single target take downs at close or medium-long range
•Fire superiority is easily achieved but easily subverted due to lock-down assets
(VS) Highly agile and maneuverable faction that plays like NC but assets and weaponry can outperform in mobility not damage
•Damage drop off lowers effective range but combined fire makes up for it due to negligible recoil, high range and low spread
•Mobility is key to succeeding therefore hit and run applies to this faction as apposed to NC's ambush strategy

}

Honestly, we need more aircraft. We need the inside of the aircraft to not look so 1998ish. Seriously, privateer beats the interiors. Star Wars Battlefront even beats it. It's sad.

You know that's MAXes in general right? With all these complaints about ZOE people tend to ignore that the TR MAXes are good verse infantry and VS MAXes are good verses vehicles. If anything the NC MAXes are the ones who need to be changed. Play that faction for a while. Their faction ability really sucks.

Very good call alopix. Good thinking.

Ack! No gaming on my birthday!!! Its a conspiracy!!!

See my issue with that statement is that a ZOE max can perform too well in too many roles where as other factions need to fill those roles by swapping to different classes or building task specific squads.

I'm just sitting here pressing update. Update. update. Update. update.....