TRID and the Lettice.

Opinions from the VS side? We are hardly impressed by it.

At one hand close to what we wanted with no backcapping to be seen but at another just realized how little sense the pubs and NC in general actually have. Been fighting mostly TR and once the ball starts rolling it feels like it's impossible to contain the zerg because there is nowhere for it to decipate and leaving the blues at defensive task while moving to cap an area ahead of them all to often has resulted in them scattering or getting rolled over when population advantage is still at our side in the hex.

Maybe if we were fielding more than one platoon things would be different but as it stands a single platoon with mindless blues in the hex that move on outposts that are impossible to take is simply depressing.

Few days back we rolled the TR straight to their warpgate with my platoon setting up the task of covering the flank and neutralizing the armored threat. We took out probably 40-50 prowlers in span of 20 minutes and supressed 1/4 of warpgate with AV turrets. Anything going for firing range or the road leading to Mao got taken out the moment it left their warpgate. but at the end the NC got overun anyways and our platoon was doing constant retreat against ever growing TR numbers.

Need to fight you guys to see if things are any different on VS side of the map.

 

The thing that separates PS2 vs other FPS MP's is huge battles. This is a step towards more of that which is good. I see it as just one of many changes towards that and hopefully it will be improved over time. Ghostcapping might be one of the most boring things to do so anything that makes that go away is positive.

Can't say I see anything amazing or gamebreaking about the lattice system but this annoys the hell out of me:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comm ... sperately/

I don't agree that you should be able to spawn anywhere along the lane back to the WG but at least the area closest to where you died. Atm it just feels b0rken.

 

it does focus the big battles rather then ghost capping around which is good. It makes it easier to defend i.e. we held 50+ of indar the other day by holding 5 bases at crucial interesections. We had an awesome battle vs smurfs - huge zerg pushed us all the way back to peris amp - but it was a slow retreat awesoem tank and infantry battles. We got backup - the forces you had were huge -and rolled you back all the way to crossroads - promotes huge battles imo - I think the NC need to get more organized to better utilize the lattice system, whereas we have ourselves, owned, phantom +others the NC outfits don't seem to co-ordinate well together (atm) and usually just zerg in a direction leaving the other front/key points undermanned. Yeah the respawn locations are seriously messed up and need fixed asap - i.e. you cant respawn at the base next to you - but you can at one the other side of the map with no activity. The other day on esamir - me and ulti could spawn at any of the eisa tech outposts but not the main base :S.

 

Welcome to the First World War. No real room for strategic activity, no distractions or feints. It's all: plow on to the next obvious place, in the usual obvious way, to fight the same old fights. I've played other games with this mechanic, and they were, at the end of the day, dead boring.

 

I have two minds about the lattice system. On one hand, it does force people to fight in massive battles (which is the whole point of PS2). On the other hand, it forces you to fight in massive battles (bye bye, framerate).

It certainly makes capturing a base much, much harder - on Monday, I was fighting at Tawrich. Before SOE mangled the maps, we'd take the satellite bases and then move in. Now that the satellites are separate from the main base and because of these lattice lanes, we can't take the Northern tower before the main facility. You guys pushed us out of Tawrich using the highly defensible tower as your base.

Also, their broken respawn system doesn't help matters much. "Oh, you can still flank around the sides of the lattice lanes" say its advocates. Well, no I can't. If I'm going to do that, the "closest" spawn is the warpgate.

 

The frustration comes from lack of coordination and innability of zerg to actually do anything without us. There was a massive NC push on Snake revine some days back and with the numbers in hex being somewhat overpowering against you guys we decided to bounce the two squads we had available on the Vanu archives which are almost impossibru to take without prepartions in advance.

To absolutely no surprise the zerg was contain by a bunch VS firing from the spawn room.

 

Yesterday evening, we tried to retake Scared Mesa Skydock. We failed. Then the idea was to push through Tawrich Tech Plant to take Scared Mesa from the rear. We succeded. All I want to say here is thanks to the new Lattice system people has started to think more strategically. Despite the argument of "only one solution to cap a base", we discover that more strategic moves were possible.

I (personnaly) prefer strategic thinking rather than push like dumb soldiers towards a stronghold held by 40 maxes or 25 armors.

 

I see both negatives and positives - the positives mentioned earlier. It makes the game more predictable like jaf said, it makes it less tactical offensive wise. it gives more defensive strategy options because you know where they are going - you can flank around them set up ambushes. I havent had a chance to do much platoon leading on.indar since its been implemented so ill see how that goes first

 

they could.maybe bring back influence instead of set times, with the new.system it would make sense. I.e. to cap the hvar system of bases takes twenty mins - if theres no one there thats a waste of time. In reality now if you are an organized platoon you should rarely lose a base thats under attack unless theres.overwhelming numbers as defending is so much easier now.