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[Akura]

Practice in VR, and try the engagement radar. I'm starting to get the hang of aircraft myself, though I can in no way win a dogfight yet. I've looked on the Daybreak Games forums for tips and such and discovered that A) their forum community is fairly toxic, and B) their aircraft players are especially toxic, especially in regards to the use of the air-to-air missile.

I've been considering getting the air-to-air missile, since my main gun doesn't really cut it against other aircraft.

[Ozyton]

You said you checked the forums, but did you check Reddit?

The sky knights are part of the reason nobody can really get into the air game very easily, even with the very simplified flight model in the game.

[Aklyon]

...sky knights?

[PTTG??]

I can't wait to set aside some time to play MMOinecraft!

Where are Cortium nodes? Only on Indar?

[Aklyon]

I can't wait to set aside some time to play MMOinecraft!

Where are Cortium nodes? Only on Indar?

Anywhere. ANTs can use a mineral radar if you cert it and equip it, for easier searching.

[Chiefwaffles]

Well, they spawn randomly I think but they definitely do have some requirements for where they spawn. Cortium nodes are annoying though. I only ever find them in A.) A firefight where getting close to the cortium, let alone with an ANT, without dying is impossible or B.) When for whatever reason I'm not in a position to mine the cortium in the near future.

Whenever I go looking for Cortium I never find it. I kind of wish they made it so you could pick up Cortium from some of the bases (maybe even only the Warpgate) to ferry to your construction site, kind of like the ANT from Planetside 1.
That would be cool. Put some Cortium automines/loaders/whatever in some center-but-rarely-contested bases, and make them strategically important.

[Greiger]

I think it's more the excitement of the new system is still fresh.  I tend to find plenty of nodes.... in far off corners of the map where noone is looking.  The thing is probably about 30 or 40% of the playerbase right now is driving around in ants hoovering the stuff up, so the moment some spawns it gets sucked up.

I suspect the stuff will get more 'common' as the novelty wears off and there's less people playing Araxium truck simulator.

EDIT: I do like the idea of being able to pick up some of the stuff from the warpgate.  But they would have to find some way to make it not as valuable so theres still a point to going out and mining some.  Maybe make it some special long storage variety or some handwave that causes the same amount of it take up 3x the storage space in an ant, but as soon as it's transferred into a silo it becomes normal.  So you can just pick some up from the warpgate, but a ant with 10000 capacity would be filled up by only 3333 of it, making it inefficient for it to be your only source.

Or maybe just cap the amount you can get from the warpgate, if yer ant is over 1/3rd capacity it can't get more.  That has the advantage of allowing you to pick up more if you find some on your way to the destination, and it's probably easier to code the warpgate just not giving you anymore past 1/3rd capacity than making a second type of the stuff with special cases.

[Ozyton]

So Wrel made a tutorial that may be worth a watch. It mentions some things that don't seem especially intuitive, such as holding LMB+RIMB to be able to place objects closer or further away, the fact that there's a special button in the ANT loadout screen to increase storage capacity (similar to how engineer has a button so you can cert the turrets), and holding control spins objects slower. I don't know how that would work for me though, since control is my jump button...

[Aklyon]

Its not exactly a special button, its the same one that engineer and medic have things in, as well as anything else with passive or mana turret certs.

[Itnetlolor]

Just recently updated my rig to finally handle this game. Nice to actually know where I'm going, aiming, and everything at a nice 10x FPS than I'm used to playing at, even on crap settings. But now, even with ultra settings. It's so nice. Maybe I'll actually be a competent soldier this time. Already started getting into some of my old habits though (from Delta Force and other games like it); like finding the most screwball path to an objective, and somehow sneaking past enemy lines, and getting my job done efficiently/effectively enough.

[Aklyon]

2x xp this week.

[Sonlirain]

...sky knights?

Kinda late but...

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If i understand it right those are simply a bunch of prima donas who will cry about anything that kills them unless it's a nosegun.
Heck you don't even have to kill them. The sole act of using or even having them on your ESF is enough to trigger them.

Use coyotes.
They will fling invective.
Use tomcats
They will fling invective.
Use a G2A launcher they might consider overpowered (like the Striker pre nerf) as a HA.
They will fling invective.

They were the reason G2A launchers where nerfed to the ground and then some (the lockon ranges used to be halfway decent before)
Tomcats were repeatedly slammed with nerfs untill they became borderline useless because they couldn't stand being shot down by a fighter equiped for air combat.
Admittedly tomcats were OP as hell in the begining but they were constantly battered by nerfs that reduced damage and finally made it necessary to keep the target in your crosshair until it hits.
Then people found out that you can lock into people by holding MMB and looking around the cockpit.

But since anything that wasn't a nosegun is persona non grata they whined to nerf tomcats further by reducing the margin of error you get when keeping the crosshair on target and removing the "cockpit" lockon.

So nowadays after all the nerfs the tomcat is an A2A option that needs laser targeting to keep on target and has to hit an ESF 3 times to kill (unless it was nerfed even further after i gave up on the airgame) while an ESF with a nosegun can kill another ESF in seconds.
Basically you are better off with A2G rockets.

Also there were coyotes but since SOE (at the time) didn't want to offend the nosegun pilots with an effective non nosegun weapon they were hot trash from the very beginning.
Of course the prima donas still whined about it so it probably got nerfed since i last played as well.

Oh and they form pacts to farm non "knights" so if you are following a rank 100 pilot and are attacked by a "knight" from the opposing faction there is a good chance that he won't help you... or even attack him after he kills you.

And if you manage to kill one he will usually consider you unworthy (especially if you used lockons) bail and DC while falling to deny you a kill.

tl;dr
Sky Knights are scumbags.
Screw aircraft.
Get a skyguard and learn to lead.
Or even better, get a skyguard and cert in racer and stealth so you can park somewhere in enemy territory and take down damaged ESFs that hang back waiting for autorepair.

[Aklyon]

Ah, so air assholes, gotcha. More reason to shoot down everything!

[darkrider2]

= basically this =

YEP. I used to be a pilot on mattherson (an old outfit called AACE at the time). We had a lot of fun and good times and didn't really act too elitist about it (IIRC). But everyone slowly left, and TBH flying has gotten less and less fun ever since, to where I barely ever bother anymore.

Those "air elites" actually were cancer to their own playstyle, more and more people moved away from flying (for one it didn't really affect base captures) since repeatedly getting dunked by misquito/reaver/scythe "gank squads" was completely unfun, so without anyone to kill you'll see a lot of the air elites of past ground pounding as heavy assaults and what have you. So now the question of flying is whether anyone actually even bothers to pull a plane anymore these days.

Every time SOE caved to the demands of the air knights, it made air knights "nosegun-only" policy stronger and stronger (who woulda guessed???), until everyone else left, then so too did the knights of air. And this is why considering the opinions of your whining players is dumb, my greatest criticism of old SOE was that they listened to the reddit too much. If you're going to balance patch, use STATISTICS FIRST, players opinions second.

Oh and, these changes to air are on PTS right now.

Yeah that's right. Tomcat missiles might get nerfed AGAIN, and this time, it's the nail in the coffin if those changes go live.

...

My apologies, I went on for much longer than I originally intended. But the "air meta" is still something of a sore spot for me, don't even get me started on the mishandling of the liberator by SOE.

[Sonlirain]

Ahaha.
Tomcats now need 5 missiles to kill... so what's the TTK now? Probably over 30 seconds by now.
Meanwhile someone in the comments wants every ESF to have built in flares.
Just amazing...

Well at least you don't have to keep your crosshair on the enemy ESF after actually firing the missile.

Read some more.
Nosegun buffs across the board.
The Tomcats might actually be worth a damn against fleeing ESFs and do some actual damage against liberators and gals.

It's not THAT bad.
Still 5 missiles to kill a ESF... damn i hope that at least the lockon range is good.