[VS] For Vanu, thank you all! (CTA4)

[QuantaCat]

I want to thank Laldy, Rei, Kiwi, Esoteric, mcnight, cmaster, the other PLs and all of their wonderful ROs for tonight, without you this would not been as fun as it was, but most of all, I really want to thank Sinomatic, who ended up being the greeting person again.

thank you thank you thank you thank you. I assumed I would have time to do it all myself, but surprise surprise, I didnt.

So thank you all, especially sin, for being there and making tonight a very enjoyable and I think successful night.

[madmoxxi]

Have some fighting giraffes ppl! Good job tonight!
Yes, i was quiet tonight but I had lots of fun

[NuclearPangolin]

Hey guys, just created a user here to say: good fight tonight you guys definately did'nt make it easy being TR
had massive fun fighting you guys - and eventually our last stand at hidden ridge/jagged lance mine was brilliant.

[EsotericReverie]

Brilliant, but oh so frustrating! They've made it really hard to get to Hidden Ridge. The continent bounds are really restrictive.

Thanks for putting up an excellent fight! I was a bit afraid we'd be stuck ghost capping all night, but that was certainly not the case...

How did you manage to pull all those Prowlers though?

[meloncrab]

Well done and thanks to everyone

[NickWhite]

(Me and Quanta at the end)

Words fail me to describe how utterly amazing everything and everyone was tonight. It was more like an MMORTS for me and Quanta, only, the units were you guys! The utmost praise for everyone involved, on all levels of contribution and effort. We started off being warpgated and ended up nearly gating the TR (during prime time) and pushing for the lock. It was brilliant to see so many new (and old faces) faces!

Moments like this, for me personally, really underline how amazing this community is. We should be so proud.

[Rizlar]

It was more like an MMORTS for me and Quanta, only, the units were you guys! The utmost praise for everyone involved, on all levels of contribution and effort. We started off being warpgated and ended up nearly gating the TR (during prime time) and pushing for the lock.

It's easy to lost sight of exactly what we achieved in all the madness and carnage of the night. At the end we were basically single-handedly fighting to boot the largest pop faction off their only continent lock. No wonder we ended up facing a sea of prowlers!

Was indeed amazing fun, sad that I left just as we gathered for the massive Gal drop, I take it things formally ended soon after? Cheers to SL Cei and the many new players that made Green Charlie so much fun to play with, and CMaster, Quanta et al for moving us all around like awesome giraffe-shaped pawns.

[sinomatic]

That's very kind Quanta, but it's all you folk in the command chain who are doing the hard graft, and it sounds like you got everyone into some great fights, so nice job everyone!

[Znea]

Just wanted to pop in to say thanks to everyone who ran and organized this rather fun evening.

It was my first foray with the giraffes and went down amazingly well (from my perspective anyhow).
It was somewhat suspicious that giraffe armor camo was on sale today.

So yes, thanks to all and a
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to Sinomatic for taking on the roll of baby giraffe herder.

[TheAssistMaster]

As has already been said, thank you to everyone in Red Platoon, especially Laldy, our extremely competent PL and all the little giraffes, new or old, who operated under us. Sadly I had to leave early but it was an absolute pleasure to RO for you all and especially enjoyable to actually outnumber the TR!

[Fishpig]

Just a short note to says thanks to everyone involved in the organisation of last night. I'd been giraffing around during the week leading up to it and was a bit concerned operating on such a scale might reduce the fun-factor - but it really didn't! I've nothing but praise for all the good-humoured hard work everyone put in, particular props to the dedicated (in every sense) Skywhale pilots who got us safely through some hairy moments in the air.

[almondygoodness]

Just registered to say a big thanks to all involved last night, especially the organisers (and Red platoon) for a great evening! I've played PS2 solo before and was underwhelmed but last night really drove home how great a game it can be when played as part of a (well organised) group, and how welcoming to newbies (like myself) the community can be. I'll just have to sink more time into the game (and as part of a squad) in hope that I can be of more use in the next CTA! Hell, I might even have a working mic by then.

[EsotericReverie]

Just log on and hop into whatever squads RPS might be running at the moment. The Call to Arms is an event primarily about publicity and showing random readers or Rock Paper Shotgun a good time in Planetside 2. It's not really an event for the outfit, the way I see it. I mean, we make it possible, sure, but it's primary target audience isn't current members of the outfit as much as those who are not yet members.

The point I'm trying to make is you're part of [RPS] now, so come play with us and have fun! You'll "be of use" long before the next Call to Arms.

[MarcH]

I spent the first half of the night in Cyan platoon Charlie/Delta comms channel and that Platoon had at most 6 veteran RPS in with the rest being people who were completely new on that night and all I heard was good things about the whole night from the welcome and the ease of getting into the Platoon to the organisation from the PL getting us good fights top just the great atmosphere on Comms. All in all after talking to a few of the new players the night was a massive success so well done RPS people who were involved in this (all of you who did more than just shoot things like me)

[sinomatic]

I'd like to thank McKnight, who was co-hosting the welcome channel in the afternoon/early evening before the CtA started. He did a bunch of that, and then went into the CtA to do whichever position he ended up taking (PL I presume?) - so he deserves a lot of credit.

[stoopiduk]

I've been playing with RPS for a few days in the run up to the CtA and I have really enjoyed the game every time I logged on, so much better than solo play.

Thanks to Sino for the clear instructions in the lobby (hope you got some game time) and to Laldi and all of Red Squad for their patience and leadership.

Quick question for Laldi - there were a couple of times you were calling for a push at a certain place and chastising people for being in the wrong area. I was off to one side providing sniping cover and raking in the kills/certs. In those instances where you're killing hordes of enemies taking pop shots at the platoon, is it best to stay and snipe or redeploy as a light assault and join the charge?

I opted for staying in the target rich snipe-fest, but on reflection should have asked I guess!

[Qw33r]

Just as a note for you:

There are two ways of playing Infiltrator:

a) Sniping - this is the only option with the default infiltrator, as its default gun is a sniper rifle

b) Infiltrating - with a SMG you can go for the frontline, you'll have advantages with your invisibility and you can hack strategic terminals. This is important, but unfortunatly not possible with the default loadout, a SMG is 1000 Certs. If you keep on playing Inf in PS2 I recommand that you save up for one.

In general you'll get more kills with b), but get more killed, too (my experience).

[stoopiduk]

Thanks Qw33r, I had no idea you could SMG up with an Inf, will try that once I've saved up some certs.

Are there class specific guides in the forum? I've found the general cert guidance on the outfit website and that's handy. I would be happy to expand that and gather infiltrator related advice from the forums/web into a newbie friendly guide if it'd be useful to the group.

[LordKiwi]

A good time was had in Blue platoon, thanks to all involved

[Qw33r]

Are there class specific guides in the forum? I've found the general cert guidance on the outfit website and that's handy. I would be happy to expand that and gather infiltrator related advice from the forums/web into a newbie friendly guide if it'd be useful to the group.

So you found the a bit hidden link to the full cert guide, too?
There is a general guide, too, but I think nothing class specific like "HOWTO: play Infiltrator".
As you keep on playing you'll learn the different roles of the classes in Squatplay, keep asking and trying