Good example of the average skill of a Planetside player. 48-96 at that base. Only 2 Lightnings, probably farming infantry instead of hunting the Sundys.. And ~6 are actually flanking.~4 are just camping inside or close to the spawnroom, and the rest is camping in front of the 2 west entrances to the building. That building has 5 or 6 entrances. Plus, if they don't have a router inside, they are coming from the staircase, east of A point. But no, 95% are sheep that try to squeeze through the 2 chokepoints with enemies pointing at that doorway. Those lying on the ground around 3min and those 2 pushing from the other side @ 3:21, are the 5% that asked themselves "is there a better way?"
Yeah, it can be frustrating to see the same thing happen over and over unfortunately a large part of why it happens is because this is the only way many average players know how to fight at this base, and planetside as a game rewards strength in numbers, so while it is tempting to try to go around and flank, in larger uncoordinated pug fights like this all that will happen is you will end up flanking with an insufficient number of allies versus a steady stream of enemy reinforcements coming from the sundie they had parked upstairs inside the hangar (edit: looking at the map at around 1:55 it does look like a small flank was attempted on the northern side; dunno why i missed it, but that was more or less what i was looking for during this fight) so people tend to 'stick with the group', and i admit i am guilty of this also but as a HA in this base during a pug fight my options for flanking are fairly limited if this base were defended by a proper outfit, it would have gone like this: EMP/frag spam > flashbang/stun > LA C4 drops > followed by a half dozen MAX's with pocket engineers and HAs for mop-up duty but hey, part of the reason i always list these videos with the name of the base in the title is because each fight at each base is its own story, and sometimes fights at the same base go very differently from one time to the next, as i'm sure you and most players know and speaking for myself this does keep things interesting, although it's a double edged sword cheers!
Good example of the average skill of a Planetside player. 48-96 at that base. Only 2 Lightnings, probably farming infantry instead of hunting the Sundys.. And ~6 are actually flanking.~4 are just camping inside or close to the spawnroom, and the rest is camping in front of the 2 west entrances to the building. That building has 5 or 6 entrances. Plus, if they don't have a router inside, they are coming from the staircase, east of A point. But no, 95% are sheep that try to squeeze through the 2 chokepoints with enemies pointing at that doorway.
Those lying on the ground around 3min and those 2 pushing from the other side @ 3:21, are the 5% that asked themselves "is there a better way?"
Yeah, it can be frustrating to see the same thing happen over and over
unfortunately a large part of why it happens is because this is the only way many average players know how to fight at this base, and planetside as a game rewards strength in numbers, so while it is tempting to try to go around and flank, in larger uncoordinated pug fights like this all that will happen is you will end up flanking with an insufficient number of allies versus a steady stream of enemy reinforcements coming from the sundie they had parked upstairs inside the hangar
(edit: looking at the map at around 1:55 it does look like a small flank was attempted on the northern side; dunno why i missed it, but that was more or less what i was looking for during this fight)
so people tend to 'stick with the group', and i admit i am guilty of this also but as a HA in this base during a pug fight my options for flanking are fairly limited
if this base were defended by a proper outfit, it would have gone like this: EMP/frag spam > flashbang/stun > LA C4 drops > followed by a half dozen MAX's with pocket engineers and HAs for mop-up duty
but hey, part of the reason i always list these videos with the name of the base in the title is because each fight at each base is its own story, and sometimes fights at the same base go very differently from one time to the next, as i'm sure you and most players know
and speaking for myself this does keep things interesting, although it's a double edged sword
cheers!