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Wow Beer, that had to be some investment, but glad to hear you’re lovin it 🙂 Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen are two games I’m really looking forward to in the next year or so.
Actually I disagree, Miller NC on it’s day is pretty organised, especially compared to Woodman and Ceres. On it’s off days, and when outpopped NC do struggle in alerts there, but I’ve found command on miller to be the best of all the servers I play on.
Ceres must be the worst server for Vanu, and the outfits there rarely seem to even try at alerts, so I’m normally left frustrated. If you are lucky enough to hear someone talk on command channel on Ceres, it’s probably someone asking for help at allatum biolab during an Amerish alert. Miller is frustrating at times, but the TR are both really good there and have a massive population. It’s a good place to find some challenging fights.
Woodman is sort of in between the two for me, as TR has come on a bit lately and we hold our own against the vanu zerg a lot more often. Our outfit there is also pretty good.
There is a chance we could join up with 252 on Miller who don’t strike me as being too bad a bunch but it would mean abandoning the XDC tag here. We could move the XDC tag to Ceres though and focus on making a good outfit there, but I imagine you’d probably have to create a new character there, which I guess would be tough?
Pleasing all members of the old guard here is probably too difficult to make that a realistic expectation, but we still get the odd game which pulls in a good number of us. In recent years, BF3 was certainly the biggest pull, closely followed by DayZ, and to some extent BF4 (although as that was a bit too pricey on release I’ve had to give it a miss), and obviously you’ve seen a good number of us in eve as well over time, and those aren’t the only games.
There are two problems in getting “all” of us together for a game, the first being different tastes, and the second being contrasting levels of time. If you consider our history with battlefield games, starting with BF42 we had a lot of people really into it who had a common interest in what was a groundbreaking game, but over the years it’s become evident that we all liked it for different reasons. For me and probably most of us, it was the first game to have good combination of vehicle and infantry combat, but that was not necessarily the main attraction for all because quite a few still regularly express nostalgia for the WW2 theme. Since BF42 people have gone different ways (and this happened even before BF2 came out), some preferring ultra realistic settings, perhaps along with a WW2 theme, others preferring less realism in exchange for faster gameplay, and then MAX who just loves EA. That may be a little too simplistic a generalisation as some people just didn’t like the modern setting of BF2, the futurism of 2142, or the COD like mechanics which crept into the BF series with BF3. Some people also fell behind in terms of hardware, and have struggled making a comeback, either because games have changed so much since the days of BF42, or family commitments just make gaming a lot less accessible/desirable than it once was.
I personally wish more people would give PS2 a chance, as it would be perfect for a group like us, but it’s very difficult to get into, requiring a lot of patience and time which many people just don’t have, especially when BF4 and world of tanks take up a lot of their time already. We also missed a massive trick with TF2 which is generally considered one of the games of the last decade, yet had few admirers in XDC. I’ve no doubt that DayZ will pull a large crowd of us together again once the game’s developed a bit beyond just running and eating, as even within the last year it gave us some of the most memorable moments I’ve had alongside XDC. I’m currently getting the same kind of thing out of planetside, especially when teaming up with Paddy, Recoil, and Automaticmeat, I know the guys in world of tanks are enjoying it just as much, and I’m sure Max will tell us how awesome BF4 is.
The thing is that over the years we’ve become a collection of cliques who each prefer a particular type of game, and with some people drifting between cliques, but tbh that’s not a bad thing, until you find yourself preferring a game which noone else really plays (the reason why I bang on about PS2 so much). There are ways we could improve the way we do things, but as they require a lot of work and motivation, we normally just content ourselves with the status quo.
Anyway, what are you into these days yourself? Back to eve yet?
How did you survive so long in that tunnel 🙂
Anyway, looks like it’s working well for you, that’s was good quality.
Thanks again guys for those who turned up for this, it was great seeing green dots on my overview and knowing they represented people who could be relied on to play the objective, and I’d take that over 7 random higher ranked players any day of the week. Obviously with the relative inexperience in the squad we found it tough going at times, but this was compounded slightly by the state of play on the continent we were playing on.
My goal was to find us a smallish scale battle to involve ourselves in but unfortunately right after the Alert, the TR seemed to focus on taking Amerish, and this meant there was a large force attacking or defending each point of the line. On Indar we had a similar situation, and on Easamir we had far too easy a situation. I wanted to find a fight were we could ease people into the game, but unfortunately the only options available to us were big fuck off zerg fests, or easy mode capping of an empty continent. I had access to the command channel for the session and there were a lot of people cursing the fact we had so many people on Easamir while the main fight was on Amerish and Indar.
With the new lattice system on all continents, this is unfortunately the current state of the game during prime time, with options limited for a small squad like ours was, but this should improve over the next few months with a 4th continent coming which should spread the numbers out a bit more. Last night we’d have had to open the squad to randoms to build our own platoon to have had a realistic chance, but that’s the next level and something I didn’t want to have to do while trying to show people the game.
Anyway, that’s the explanation for how we ended up in that bitch of a fight on the NC Arsenal (the fight where we couldn’t go around a corner without being shot), and it’s also why we were pushed back off a couple of the other bases we had attacked. That being said, we forced the TR to pull forces away from the main thrust of their attack 3 or 4 times, and that at the very least relieved the pressure on the friendly platoons defending against that attack. We did have a couple of moments which were very well played, for example the defence on Moss Ravine. We spawned here at a slight numerical disadvantage, gathered up in the spawn room and pushed out. The enemy squad responded quite quickly in trying to cover the routes towards the flag, so we had to work our way there carefully, advancing from cover to cover, popping up to do some killing, rezzing, some more killing and rezzing, advancing some more, kill, rez, etc. We succeeded, capped the flag just in time and went to work on their sunderer (mobile spawn point) with the help of the randoms in the are who we were supporting, taking it out fairly quickly and securing the successful defence. This was actually very well played as the guys we fought off here were all fairly high in terms of battle rank, so they were not exactly inexperienced. Unfortunately it was after this fight that I realised I’d forgotten to press record on Afterburner, which is a shame as it was a great move worthy of an upload to youtube.
Anyway, we pushed on from here, started capping another point but were pushed back by twice our numbers (no shame in our squad being wiped here – we were outnumbered by experienced players who had good air support), and then made the mistake of joining that NC Arsenal fight. I only spawned here because we were about to lose it and you can sometimes pull off a miracle save, but it wasn’t to be and we got ourselves caught up then in the fight to retake it for a few minutes. This fight was just brutal and is the kind of fight I normally avoid in this game, so I’m sorry for dragging us into it, even if it was only for a few minutes. After this we found a few bases we could cap in the south against the Vanu, but eventually ran into a squad twice our size on Auraxis firearms corp who killed our sunderer quite early, preventing us making a fight of it, although it would’ve been difficult anyway.
There were still 5 of us in squad, so we decided to switch over to Indar and help on a push towards Tawrich tech plant over there. This was fairly straightforward until we ran into some opposition on one of the satellite bases surrounding the tech plant, and an annoying couple of engineers bombarding our sunderer from the top of the cliffs to our South. We dealt with this, and pushed on to secure the southern flank which had opened up here (and I took great pleasure in shooting the two guys who’d been bombarding us in the face during this attack).
At this point we more or less called it a night, although Steve and I stuck around for a few more hours. After prime time passed we certainly had a better time of it, possibly because the zergs were smaller, but possibly also because a bit more support from our faction helped in securing the objectives. In any case, I had a good overall session, made all the better for having some XDC team mates. There were frustrating moments for the newer players, but I hope also some good ones. It is a difficult to get into, and it can sometimes take a while to find a fight which can be influenced by a small squad. It obviously possible to assist in larger fights, but that’s a harsh environment to learn the game in. The more experience people get in the game, the more we can do as we’d become more effective, but last night we really needed more numbers as well. On Miller I’m going to start running some public platoons going forward, and maybe start recruiting some players, so if anyone wants to join in and assist me with that, just log in and let me know you’re there on TS 🙂
Just a reminder, we’re still on for 7pm tonight, and the more who can join the better it’ll be.
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Just dropped off miller after an afternoon alert there with Steve, some good fights at a small level. Got me thinking about last night on Woodman which was just crazy. Not sure if it’s the new lattice or whether it was just last night but sometimes you get on and every fight is just huge and it makes it really difficult to help new players. That being said if there had been more of us last night when Beer was on we might have been able to protect the group a bit better.
I’ll be there for it, and don’t forget to jump on TS mate, I was trying to grab your attention during last night’s alert but you mustn’t have seen the chat.
If we do this along with some newer players, I might be inclined to avoid NC as it’s a little less accessible a faction than the others from the point of view of someone coming from playing BF3 or 4. Vanu in particular is like playing BF3, while Terran’s not much more difficult.
Having said that, we can decide on the night, and it might boil down to simply where there’s an alert on at the time.
In all seriousness though, Vanu is still my preferred faction but I’m conscious of where other people have put the effort in developing their characters and tbh it makes little difference to me. My Vanu and Terran characters are at a similar level, and even on NC the server’s just brilliant at times so I’m easy what we go with.
