So... Anyone going on connery as NC?
I'm NC Connery: Goldigga.
Just got off a tech plant alert, Draw, got 6 certs. I feel like alerts are a complete waste of time because I spent a lot of time looking at a loading screen after getting 100% stomped by 4:1 odds pretty much every time without getting a kill, even though we had even pop. Some highlights:
After dropping on Tumas, I struck an engi in the leg with a shrike rocket and didn't kill him, then he turned around and instantly two-shotted me in the head with his carbine and I died.
After dropping on Tumas, I shot a rocket at a turret and jumped off the roof to deny the mass of men up there the kill. After falling about 100' without harm I come upon the ground-level entrance and enter, making my way up to the A point. Knowing I wouldn't be able to flip it alone because there was a MAX camping from a balcony, I chose to engage the MAX. Took my time, aimed for a headshot with my shrike and swapped to SAW and started firing. He calmly turned around and instantly headshotted me and I died. He wasn't even down to half health.
After spawning at the west side-base on Tumas, I peek outside and see a sundy and about 15 friendly infantry getting clobbered by TR firing from their spawn barracks to the east. No advance that way. I make my way around south using some man-height hills to hide when I come upon two TR at a tree playing ring-around-the-rosie with an NC buddy. I move out from the wavy ground at a sprint and am instantly headshotted by a sniper.
I respawn at the same side barracks, pick up a Lightning, and drive straight into the Tumas ground complex. I come upon a heavy tank with its butt pointed at me and its turret pointed away, so I land my shots into his butt. He ignores it. I fire my second volley. Now he un-stations his tank and moves straight forward, moving his turret. I unload a third volley straight into his butt. He's not even smoking or on fire yet, and he had side armor which I was missing. Someone kills me from behind with C-4.
I spawn at a sundy someone brought up on the east side behind a mountain. I come out and find the place being bombarded by at least a dozen infantry and three tanks. The ground is carpeted with NC corpses. I turn and try to get into the sundy because nobody is in the turrets firing but instead take a pleasant visit to the class selection loadout screen because I wasn't exactly at the back or front, and died horribly to some unknown cause.
At the spawn screen I spot a second sundy north of the one I just died at. Oops, two tanks up there too and both sundies go down.
There was an hour and a half of this. Along the way I earned 50 certs just by capping bases and occasional kills. For instance, a galaxy landed on a rooftop and the driver got out, probably because TR had just capped the base. I killed him and started grenading his galaxy because that was the best I could do at the time. Three guys get on the roof and I dance around the roof barriers, killing two but dying to the third.
So if I can get 50+ certs in 90 minutes doing my normal routine, and I get 6 certs as a bonus for our side (as usual) not winning an alert, why should I care about alerts at all? Why shouldn't I just go wherever the certs are easiest?
And why the hell is the Lightning hitting like a cough from a sick child?