Alzir

I was surprised when you said you were doing ok as Infiltrator tbh, but I guess you’re on a one man mission to change my perception of sniper’s in games by actually being useful 🙂 I obviously play a lot of the class as well, and while 99% of the time I’m equipped with a SMG, if you’re playing in CQC you might appreciate two tips which I found very useful in learning the class.

1. Use recon darts as often as you can and upgrade them to at least level 3 (higher if you can) asap. If you’re on or near an ammo pack, resupply and keep spamming those darts everywhere. Not only does it massively help both yourself and your team mates in terms of situational awareness but you will also rake xp in at a fairly steady rate, especially when it’s a huge fight like several last night, and at that tech plant on Miller the other night. The upgraded darts are well worth the investment, especially if CQC is your thing, as they increase the duration of the darts and range at which they detect enemies, while also adding to the amount you can carry each level after lvl 3. It’s one of the most important class traits but often underused.

Oh and before I leave darts, you can move around cloaked when enemy darts are out and not show on their minimap, although obviously they’ll hear your cloak, and they can do the same vs your darts.

2. Understand how the cloak works. You’ll have noticed yourself that the cloak is not entirely invisible (the exception being the new stalker cloak which is very difficult to spot – but you can’t carry a primary weapon if using it). In daylight it’s easy for most people to see the other cloaks if they’re paying attention, and it’ll be visible out to about 40 or 50 metres at times (obviously the further you are the harder it is) so use cover when you can and if you can’t avoid moving in front of people, try and keep in their peripheral vision. When you slow down your movement or stop, the cloak becomes less visible (by design), and the most invisible state you can achieve is sat still crouched.

The base layouts are easy enough to learn and that obviously comes with game time, although perhaps we should play more on Amerish while you learn the other game mechanics, as pretty much everyone is learning the lay of the land there again with the update which more or less completely changed it last week. Great map for infantry btw.

In terms of tactics, there’s a good bit going on across the whole server at any given time, and especially during the alert, but you’ll not hear or see the chat unless you’re in a leader position within the squad or platoon, and also have the command channel unlocked (100 certs – and believe me it’s not a priority investment so leave it until level 25 or 30 at least). The channel is quite often a pain in the ass tbh as too many people on it have they’re microphone’s set to transmit at too low a volume, so I have to whack up the volume just to hear them, but then when others talk, I can’t hear squad chat or TS – which is why you may hear me say something then cut off for a few seconds. The best thing last night was in having Alex in the 2CA squad as that way we could follow what is normally a half capable squad who try things like MAX crashes and operate quite effectively. The one draw back with not being in the main platoon was that we couldn’t hear the organisation of the MAX crash, and so had to largely rely on our own experience in knowing what to do. Next time we’re on Woodman, we can get in to the 2CA squad itself and you’ll see what I mean.

The overall strategy was obviously to take biolabs, so the territories we attacked or defended were all on the path towards a biolab, which the lattice system means we have to cap before we can make our move on the biolab itself. This is fairly straightforward, but getting around the various obstacles we encountered along the way is where subtlety is – eg in finding our way around that tank battle in order to cap the base before the biolab. That was actually a very simple move but worked so well that we had most of the capture timer progressed by the time the masses of Vanu out on the plains even had a notion of what was happening behind them. By the time they did, few wanted to get out of their vehicles, and those who did soon died vs our guys on the point since they were trying to move in drips and drabs.

Anyway, better check what’s going on tonight instead of turning short replies into walls of text.

atm i’ve missed you by an hour this evening Line, are you likely coming back because we have a few guys on ts possibly willing to join in?

Not to put too much pressure on you line, but I need a realistic idea right now of how likely you are to be able to help with this during normal hours? I need to know because it involves station cash investments, but since mentioning the idea of an outfit I’ve not seen you online.

Oh and Line, what time are you normally online at if you’re working nights atm? And are you normally on Steam?

Shadowplay’s actually really good so just use that of you have it. I wasn’t on yesterday but will be tonight now i’ve got a ton of work out of the way. I try and throw in a session on miller, so i’ll look out in case you’re on. You’re right that we could do some serious damage in this game if we a bunch of us teamed up and it would be brilliant if we did however too many people around here are still hooked on bf4. We could make a go of the oufit on miller though if you were up for that?