[Miller - Vanu Outfit] More disco (lasher) and lazershows (lancer)
I find it a bit sad that we don't whip out these guns more (Lasher & Lancer). I can understand that we have a lot of new members, and not everyone can spend cash on these weapons.
But our faction specific guns really only shine when used in a platoon compared to the other Faction specifics. Which is a bit of a shame. I'd love to solo with them aswell, but it just isn't as viable.
When will we see more discoballs and lazershows? When will Disco Inferno be appropriate battle music?
Well I am saving up for my lancer at the moment so i would be up for more lazershows once i get it.
If you want it to happen, ask for it on Mumble some night. I'm sure you're not alone in wanting to show the Smurfs and Elmos some lasherspam fireworks. You don't need to want to lead something to get it to happen, but you must ask. No harm in asking for someone to lead a lasher/lancer squad, just for the heck of it.
I'd also love to do that some time!
Hmm, a lot of people run the Lancer in their general HA kit I believe.
Not many run Lasher a lot, I think I'm probably the only one who runs with it most of the time? It takes some getting used to, but its my favourite weapon for the following reasons.
- Highly Visible shots. This has a massive impact, one generally underestimated I feel. It makes the lasher the best suppression weapon in the game. Want to stop enemies shooting out of a window? Fire the lasher at it. Want to stop enemies coming through a door? Fire the lasher through it. It also has the massive benefit of your own team being able to really obviously see where you are shooting. So they know to shoot that way too, or just that you are suppressing the enemy at that location and they can move up.
- Splash damage. People like to take cover behind things, especially in buildings. You can often kill people you can't see with a Lasher just by shooting at the sides of cover. You can also kill people by shooting at their feet. Which is funny.
- Its satisfying, I find the audio and the visuals very satisfying to use. Plenty of "oomph", well it also has real oomph too, can 1v1 maxes and occasionally win! It also has buckets of ammo and its pretty easy to handle the recoil.
- You can kill yourself by shooting while being too close to things. E.G. Walls, balconies, enemies, containers, friends, sunderers, trees, the back of harassers, SVUs, fences, bushes, main battle tanks, boxes, blades of grass, generators, some snow, the back of flashes, crates, lightnings and the ground.
OK perhaps the one isn't quite so good.
Not me:
I have a Lasher/Lancer heavy who needs to see more action. I'd happily lead/be part of a squad of 10 disco heavies and a couple of medics. With an SL calling targets, even heavy tanks will melt in a single volley.
I use the lancer all the time, and used to use the lasher as standard until I joined the SVA-88 crowd.
We've got a pretty large pack of Lancers most evenings. If you set up a AV spot for them, they will come and lay waste to every vehicle in range.
The Lasher though I'm not sold on. For the SC, you can get many better weapons and except in some very specific situations (biolab meatgrinders), you'd be far better off with a SVA-88.
I kinda have a love/hate relationship with my Lasher. I almost always have it with my HA and sometimes I love it (especially against MAxes who think they are smart and can own everything) and sometimes I hate it, which most of the times is in 1on1 scenarios against people who can aim (Lasher is pretty bad in 1on1) and also friendly fire. Vanu seem to be drawn to those energy balls like moths to the flame.
Bobby is going home
Now you're being efficient/boring, cfftble!The Lasher is fun! We put a Lancer squad (5-6 Lancers, an engineer and a medic on top of the rocks overlooking the canyon warpgate on Indar one time. Blew up all of the Vanguards and Sunderers rolling out of the WG. Good times. Would love to do it again.
I have a Lasher/ Decimator/ Conc Grenade set-up for use in biolabs, specifically for upsetting Max's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClgpxBV7p-w
Lancer is awesome. I run with it by default and while its not great for soloing... what is? At least I get a chance to hit air rather than completely fail to lock on while esfs stay low. Also for wounded armour / sundys theres nothing more satisfying than finishing them with a few quick bursts.
Would love to get with a dedicated unit and ruin some heavy tanks days.
As for the lasher, we did this already and bewildered the occupants of a biolab successfully. Im on the worlds shittest phone typing this so cant link the video but its called lashers (nm its only inserting it at the top)
Last edited by jaguar skills; 17-05-2013 at 01:04 PM.
The Lasher, if used correctly, is an amazing weapon, but it requires coordination. It is especially useful in towers and biolabs.
As for the Lancer, we use it, but not to its maximum potential.
We need to get into the habit of setting up more of these light shows. Find a good raised position, and enlighten our enemies. Point them to the guiding light of Vanu and shower them with orbs of illumination.
I've got a build like this though with AV grenades (concussion might be my next purchase since people have been raving about them). It's also effective against infantry rushes: you can hold back and Lasher spam the crowd, watching the assists roll in. Sometimes you even get a killOriginally Posted by laldy
I'd like sometime to just try to use concussions and AV grenades in a coordinated manner: half HAs with concussions, half with AV. We take turns stun-locking them and then wiping the MAXes out with AV grenades, while all the time raining Lasher orbs of love and disco on them.I've got a build like this though with AV grenades (concussion might be my next purchase since people have been raving about them). It's also effective against infantry rushes: you can hold back and Lasher spam the crowd, watching the assists roll in. Sometimes you even get a kill
By the way, during an episode of FNO, SOV was max-crashed by CONZ at Vanu Archives. Their response was Heavies with a ton of Medics supporting them, and they wiped the Scat-MAXes out. It's about at the 30min mark:
http://www.twitch.tv/planetside2/b/365433415
A similar approach, but with Lashers, Concussion and AV grenades might be a good answer against scat- and frac-MAXes.
(Courtesy of our very own Jaguar Skills)
That video, so rowdy. <3
I think it's the only video where I actually left the game sound in. I love the sound of the lasher, the music almost gets in the way of that futuristic beat of a gun.
It kinda sounds like how i would imagine Andy Roddick serving a tennis ball into the fifth dimension would sound.
That's it! Destroy them with Lazer Tennis
Get the extended mag for the lasher, you can fire for ages and ages. In fact I'm not sure I have ever managed to get off a 150 shot magazine before I was killed
what mrpier said, extended mag and you can suppress and area for minutes at a time.
My experience of the Lasher is that it is our best suppression weapon, bar none. It does turn you into a magnet for snipers though so do strafe or at least minimize your profile.
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