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[Flying Dice]

Big sales coming up.

From 18 Dec. to 1 Jan. there'll be daily category sales with everything in that category (e.g. shotguns, vehicle camo, etc.) 50% off. In addition, the item of the day will be available for 1SC for members, or 99SC for non-subscribers.

Damn, this is actually better than 3x SC.

[Metalax]

Big sales coming up.

From 18 Dec. to 1 Jan. there'll be daily category sales with everything in that category (e.g. shotguns, vehicle camo, etc.) 50% off. In addition, the item of the day will be available for 1SC for members, or 99SC for non-subscribers.

Damn, this is actually better than 3x SC.

Nice, I have a little over 2000 SC left from the alpha squad bundle so should be able to grab some new weapons on offer. Hopefully the featured items will be weapons rather than cosmetics.

[Sonlirain]

Tried the TR minichaingun... it's a very silly piece of hardware.
For one thing it's suprisingly effective against ESFs (not really a flak cannon but it would be the closest thing i'd consider to be a non rocket effective AA weapon for non MAX infantry.

Sadly like most infantry weapons it does jack to liberators and gals... but that's not what the gun is for anyway.

Well how about the weapon itself?
If you run out and meet someone behind a corner pointing his gun at you you're most likely dead.
It's SUPRISINGLY accurate for the first few shots... to the point that shooting people over 100 meters away is not a stupid idea.

During those 30 minutes i either died like a lost goat or went on 5 man rampages even killing distracted MAXes from time to time.
And if i buy it the thing will be even better due to the double mag size.

I'm 300 certs away from 1000 but i know what i'm buying next... it's just too funny to pass on.

[Toaster]

Here's hoping some good stuff goes on the daily sales for those weeks.  I'm wanting to buy the Jackhammer, and... it's tempting to pick up membership for the huge sales, because there's really no reason not to buy something you don't have at *one* SC.  Everyone should have gotten that easy 170 or whatever it was SC anyway.


EDIT- Irony is that Black Friday sale would have gone better if people had known this was coming.

[PrimusRibbus]

I've seen healing grenades used a couple times before and was considering picking them up to see how useful they were. Many times there are chokepoints that seem impossible to get through, even with MAXes, or maybe we're just not coordinated enough.

The only time I've ever seen Healing grenades be of any use is in super-organized ops play with a platoon's worth of people, where two medics are throwing Revive/Healing grenades into a room one after the other in order to bring a whole squad back to life with full health.

In solo, semi-organized, and most organized play they're just plain not as useful as the Revive grenade.

[Kanil]

EDIT- Irony is that Black Friday sale would have gone better if people had known this was coming.

Yeah. It seems like SOE is trying really hard to make everyone regret either spending or not spending money.

I've been waiting for the next triple SC sale, only to find that they split it into two without warning anyone and now by missing out on the first one, I've screwed myself over for the other half. I suppose there's always next year...

'course, they could just charge less than $15 for a set of camo, making it more palatable to get at full price.

[Flying Dice]

Eh, you can buy 1mo. of subscription. That'll get you one 700SC item on its sale day plus every single 1SC special just from the 500SC you get for subscribing. That's probably what I'll do, maybe add another $10 of SC.

[TolyK]

Oh how I hate that I currently can't spend actually buy anything from where I am right now. ;(

[Flying Dice]

Eh, you can buy 1mo. of subscription. That'll get you one 700SC item on its sale day plus every single 1SC special just from the 500SC you get for subscribing. That's probably what I'll do, maybe add another $10 of SC.

Oh, as clarification for this:

IIRC membership is account-wide, so you can get all 15 1SC items for each of your characters, though there'll probably be some overlap with NS stuff. That means an absolute minimum of 16 items (50% off 700SC + 15 NS items) and the benefits of a month of membership for the $15 or whatever that it costs, and a maximum of 46-47. Even if a lot of that is cosmetic, damn.

[Toaster]

If they're smart, they'll offer a useful 700 SC weapon as the first member sale.  That way people are much more likely to say "screw it, I'll buy membership" and take the plunge.

I'm in that boat- it's tempting, but I'm not sure.

[palsch]

IIRC, you only get the 500SC once you pay for renewal of your membership, not up front. Anyone know the details of this for sure?

[Flying Dice]

IIRC, you only get the 500SC once you pay for renewal of your membership, not up front. Anyone know the details of this for sure?

Ah, you're correct.

Still, you have that free 170SC that you can get. If nothing else, 500SC is only $5.

And honestly, even if they only offer a single weapon day on that, that's 3SC for one weapon for each faction, or 1SC for a NS weapon. I don't think they have enough cosmetics to cover all that unless they literally put every single camo pattern on sale, and even SOE would probably balk at the backlash from doing that.

[zombat]

Single shot is pretty useless when you can just tap the trigger for the same effect. If there were some kind of magical accuracy bonus then I would use single shot on guns like the DMR and then just rapidly click to get the full auto effect.

Ironically single shot is actually less accurate then burst/autofire.

The first shot has 2-3x the recoil of the rest of the shots

[Flying Dice]

Single shot is pretty useless when you can just tap the trigger for the same effect. If there were some kind of magical accuracy bonus then I would use single shot on guns like the DMR and then just rapidly click to get the full auto effect.

Ironically single shot is actually less accurate then burst/autofire.

The first shot has 2-3x the recoil of the rest of the shots

Depends on the weapon. A single-shot mode would be pretty useful on the GodSAW.

[Ozyton]

The first shot multiplier actually applies to each weapon, as the name implies it multiplies the recoil from the first shot by a set amount determined by the specific weapon you're using. I've never tried firing in single shot mode fast enough to see if it counts every shot as the 'first shot' of a burst though.

That weapon swap thing after knifing someone is neat, I'lll have to try to switch to pistol immediately after knifing in case they didn't go down the first time. Can you swing the knife quicker with a pistol out?

EDIT: More melee weapons, as ridiculous as they woulld probably be, would be something interesting to see put in the game. Question is what would they be, or would you swap your melee weapon out for some kind of special item?