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[Strumdor]

Hi guys,

Downloading the beta from fileplanet now (lost the email for my beta invite,doh). Hopefully i'll be on tomorrow. Was gonna try a medic since they seem needed. What other skill would go well with that? I have alot of learning to do to catch up with the rest of you-see ya in game.

[Sleyn]

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[SuperHelix]

I hate engineer now after playing it hehe.. but its needed and good.

Im going to try hacking over the next couple of days, then go rein and heavy infantry. Take out towers while the inf hackers concentrate on the bases.

[Supreem]

Hey guys! I've been playing planetside for about a month now.... I've been so into it I haven't checked the boards. Let me post my feelings:

First about empire....TR is the best empire right now imo but I play my NC guy mostly. He is BR11. I love being heavy assault/anti vehicle. These are my certs:

Reinforced Armor: NECESARY for any infantry/med/engi/hacker units
Medium Assault: needed to get the heavy weapons
Anti-Vehicular: The NC Pheonix used to ROCK but now its nerfed and I'll probably be unlearning this cert.
Special Assault: This gives access to the Thumper (grenade launcher) and Rocklet Rife (AWESOME RL)
Lightning: Light armor one man tank. It does nice damage and has a chaingun and a mortar cannon. Unfortunately it doesn't withstand much pain.

I suggest everyone have atleast one vehicle cert by BR10 because its very handy gettting from base to base.

For commanders: Run your squad like you would run a group in DAOC. Everyone follows the leader and stays in a tight squad! Squad leaders have to be tightasses to have a good team. These are the certs I find it handy to have as a squad leader:

Sunderer: heavy armor transport unit accessible at any base
Galaxy: big air transport
Adv Med: revive fallen squad members so the squad doesn't get split up

Its important that the squad leader is also the transport driver.

My name is Cypha on NC Beryl....I will definately start on the same server/empire as you guys at release ... right now I'm just getting a taste of all the empires and all the certs that are available. And gundorf in response to your originial post....You need heavy infantry/anti-vehicle units in your squad.

[Mourningblade]

I'm leaning towards the heavy infantry/anti vehicle myself.

TR has the best Anti vehicle weapon and I really enjoy swatting Reavers and Mosquitoes

I'll go either engineer or medic with that, whichever we need most. I'm trying Combat Engineer out atm, then I'll give Medic a try.

[jLuv]

i'm just getting into PS myself... i envisioned going the infiltrator or sniper or hacker route... i've never been much into the heavier armours. i'd be glad to be a pilot (transport or air support). if i go pilot i'll probably try to cert up towards a galaxy or a sunderer first then (after medium assault weaponry) then on towards whatever (prolly infiltrator/hax0r if i don't hear other needs from the group). regardless, i've only played PS for a couple of days, so i'm still getting my feet wet. i hope to see some of y'all on Dalton this weekend 5/3-5/4 i'll be playing under MumRa.

=justin

[slythetove]

For retail so far I think:

Medium Armor (more slots which I need for my engineering)
Medium Assault
Engineer
Combat Engineer
AMS
Medic
Potentially more medic or Galaxy / Sunderer