Holy Shit - Infantry is Freeplay Again

[Duragar]

Screw it if it's old news to you guys - This is all too awesome to me.

I don't know about Al or the Ng's, but I know Josh, Craig and I spent ENTIRELY too much time playing this game... and it's freeplay again.

Granted, there's no more Warzone Alpha, But CTF: Twin Peaks is almost as customizable, and CTF is still a fun game, imo. (Though it is basically the only game people play in Infantry anymore).

I can tell you right now I'll be wasting a good deal of time on it for at least a month or so, so if you're interested...

www.station.sony.com/casualProduct.vm?Id=039

Feel free to join me.

My Username is Aetherbane, and my Aliases will all start with Aethrion, and have different endings based on the class of the alias. Right now, my base Aethrion is an Infiltrator, but I'm planning on having alts for the other classes. I.E. Aethrion (hvy) for Heavy Weapons, Aethrion (inf) for Infantryman, and so on.

So, if you see me... well... um... I don't pay all that much attention to global chat, because it's a mess of retardation, so try to get on my team and talk to me, or PM me. Or hell, call me on my cell and tell me you're on.

Hope to see you guys online.

[Duragar]

Just a little thing to note in the event you guys actually remember anything from the game. All classes have Repulsor Coils -the ability to slightly knock back people and eliminate any weapon fire in their proximity. I have... mixed opinions on this change. It keeps Heavy Weapons from being GOD, but it means that any group of 3 or so mooks can just push their way through a good defense with stupid brute force as long as they each bought up their 3 repulsor coil limit. That's kinda lame. Just a warning for those of us who love Heavy weapons.. particularly energy based ones.

[Pikachu]

Oh god... Infantry. Ugh on the Repulsor Coils.. I really don't wanna deal with shit like that.

[dyuman]

sadness. error when i try to run it.

[buhwhyen]

what kind of error?

[dyuman]

some proccess x.00072347 or something in memory doesnt allow function xxxxxxxxxxx to work properly. reset comp and got samething, installed several times too. Hate that lame Sony window that stands in for IE crap.

[buhwhyen]

Randomly logged to play infantile. And apparently War Zone Alpha is back.

[Duragar]

Yeah... Noticed that when I got home from work and hopped on... promptly played till 1am.

I hope it stays up... Why they took out Twin Peaks is beyond me, and that they took it out at all is unsettling.

I like how straightforward all the weapon names are. No digging through 10 different rifles to find the one that actually works, you know you're buying a plasma cannon without having to read all the flavor text to figure it out, and all the old graphics are there as well.

Also, it might actually get Craig to get Nick's comp working and play infantry, too.

WZA will probably keep me occupied with the game until I a) Get a fully decked out Commando again, or b) they close it down again.

EDIT: I also laugh because Heavy Weapons are pretty broken again, don't see that repulsor coils in as much abundance as in CTF. Gauss Cannon is fun, but not having AoE damage is painful if you're fighting anyone with armor, and don't have human shields to back you up.

[Pikachu]

Gauss Cannon should still have some penetrate (no homo) damage, right? Time for Chain Fisting people again (no homo).

[feedback]

Hurray wza. I'll be playing frc and be sitting in channel yesfive for anyone who cares. ?chatadd yesfive to join. ; to chat. If you look at the help file for chatting it tells you how to change the color of the channel you join.

[Duragar]

Yes, GC still has hella AP damage, but you don't get any of the glorius kinetic damage with it if you're shooting at someone with Carapace+PF, so it takes 3-4 shots to down them, meanwhile you're getting gunned down by all his butt buddies.

Either way, I hit 5k exp last night, so I class changed to my presonal favorite class - commando.

Commando is fun as hell to play... but it does get a little tedious when EVERYONE stops what they're doing to take you out. Doesn't matter if two teams are going at it, if it's an all out brawl, or whatever - You've got no armor, and they'll be damned if they don't make you eat shit and die. But either way, learning how to line up snipes again, and hitting with all my plasma rifle shots. Plasma rifle is highly effective as long as you keep the hits coming. About everyone except Infantry with Carapace will die to 6-8 shots, which is about how many you get while they try to turn around and ruin your shit (running on the assumption that you aren't vulching, which you tend to do half the time.) I just need to re-learn how to compensate for people randomly moving when they panic from getting shot in the back.

Also need to learn to aim Plasma Bombs again. Fun times when a group is going through a door, and they get their shit wrecked by a bomb to the face.

[Duragar]

Sigh... So much for Commando.
After my foray into Sci Ops, I realized just how many people were Sci Ops as well (from the color scheme of the chest area). Furthermore, people are finally starting to get equipped again, so practically everyone takes my full energy bar to take out because of PF Generators and full armor. Top that with the fact that, again, EVERY-FUCKING-ONE stops to make sure you don't get jack shit for kills, and, well, you have a little shit who runs around invisible and dies a lot. Also... The Particle Accelerator blows now. It does less damage than it used to, costs twice as much energy, and has twice the recycle time. I used that weapon all the time back in the day, and I KNOW they changed it. Nevermind the fact that for some reason whenever I zoom out to long range on people, I get this weird time delay between when I fire a shot and when it actually hits. I'll see people in one spot, and they'll be stopped, then suddenly as soon as I pull the trigger, they're gone. So, the PA being downgraded is pretty moot, since I can't hit anything anymore, anyways. Will fire into a full on melee, and hit nothing but air. Fucking BS.
I did see some successful commandos who made excellent use of the Plasma Projector (8-in-one shot all around), but that's just not my style. (And I know I'd fuck it up somehow, and just die a lot from running up to people).

So screw that, Time for Infantryman with Battle Rifle, Power Fist (no homo) and Chain Fist (No homo). Might switch out the chain fist for a more utilitarian weapon (like a shotgun), but for now I'm happy with being a melee Juggernaut (particularly one that hovers along on a flightpack... really stupid easy to outmaneuver people in the open, or run away if the fight goes sour.)

Incidentally, while I was messing with Sci Ops, I tried out the Maser. Was it... always so sucktastic? I mean, yes shooting through walls is vicious, but it's a slow ass shot, and it doesn't do that much damage (at least from my perspective). Any of you guys get the Maser to work well?

Lastly... Craig got infantry to work (as some of you already know), but dammit, he won't fucking hunker down and stick with a weapon, so he just ends up wasting money constantly. He used to be Herr Ficker, but now he's BlackLentils, because he flat out ran out of money on Herr Ficker. He's not getting any money on his character (doesn't help his kill count is currently low), so I'm worried he'll just keep the cycle going, until he gets fed up and stops playing. But, I don't know what to tell him to ge thim to focus on learning a weapon and getting it to work for him. Any advice for him?

[feedback]

No homo.

Eight plasma shot weapon is the pulsar not plasma projector. Plasma projector is the one that shoots 3 plasma pistol rounds in a shotgun like fashion. Shotgun is completely useless, don't use it. Maser has always been a fun, but ultimately useless weapon unless your hunting with a group. By itself it can't do nearly enough damage to kill someone. The fact it weights 22 kilos also doesn't make it all that attractive.

As for Craig's problem, what class does he want to play? Most of us just figured out what we wanted to play, played the prereq class to 5k xp, and then switched and were happy. I can't comment too much on heavy weapons since I don't play them, but gauss cannon laming is extremely effective. The no minimum range is rather fucked up. As for infantry, just stick with an assault rifle, grenades, and assorted fist weapons. If people would bother joining a chat channel, doesn't have to be mine, then we could all discuss random things and actually group up, ie know when it is safe to attach. No I don't talk in team chat because I don't like helping the other losers on my team.

[buhwhyen]

Hmm..what class? I assume heavy weapons? My set up was GC/light machine gun. Otherwise..RPG is pretty shitty by itself, its more a set up thing now, I've never really liked plasma cannon much cause it leaves your anus wide open (yes homo). Recoiless rifle is still an option, does pretty reasonable damage and the splash is good. Auto cannon is good if you can aim, mortars are hella good. Sonic cannon is pretty bad, micro missile launcher is scrub tastic. So really.. the only really good heavy weapons are like gauss cannon, recoiless rifle, mortar and auto cannon. All of which you get a light machine gun or machine gun with and thats pretty much it, except maybe the RR cause its so damn heavy.

[Duragar]

Well... I think the crux of the problem is that he doesn't know what he wants to play, and he didn't retain as much of his memories of the game as we did. I think he wants to eventually be a Nova Trooper for the Nova Pulse (Don't think that's what it's called - it's the green energy based Incinerator), but so far my read on him is that overall he just wants to wreck people. So... Guess I'll reccommend to him that he should go back to GC or RR. Think he's currently sporting a Machine Gun, and maybe another weapon... dunno which.
Though, if he does go Nova Trooper... what the hell else do they get other than Nova Pulse? I know their demo pack changes based on their upgrade choice (either Demo Trooper or Nova Trooper), but that and Nova Pulse are the only two dinstinct weapons I remember for Nova Trooper.

As for my own questions and comments:
Dur... I should've known Plasma Projector was wrong... should have gone with my second guess -_-;
Bah on shotgun sucking. But now that you mentioned it, I never got killed by shotgun as a Commando - bullets were too slow. Thanks for reminding me of that.
How's the Incinerator, by the way? I've had my shit wrecked by it as a commando, but commandos get their shit wrecked by everything.
By the way, For class changing, you don't need to play the prereq class all the way up to get the class you want - you just switch to the prereq class then to the advanced class. But you guys probably already figured that one out.
EDIT: By the way, I tried talking to you on the channel last night, and it didn't look like you heard me, Jon. Dunno what's up with that, but oh well. If we had more people, I'd suggest we just form up the Lone Wolves again, but we have no Sulgit or Bellomi, and Josh has yet to make his presence known on WZA. Granted, that doesn't necessarily stop us from making a team anyways.