Suffering some teething issues today apparently. I've been looking forward to this game on PS4 for over a year now, eventually I just forgot about it and moved on, imagine my surprise when I saw the announcement on my facebook feed
I played this on PC for about 18 months, not hardcore but let's say... "dedicated". I was a member of an outfit (clan) and paid the monthly fee for the resources boost and perks. A few thought which might help some of the newer folks:
-solo sucks. The first thing you should do when playing is find a squad. I don't knkw what the buttons are on the ps4 but on the pc we pressed Insert to auto-join a squad. There must be a button for this. Look for squads where you'll be the last person joining. This means you'll have more team mates to help out (focus on support at first, kills come later). You get boosted rates of certs and xp for helping squad mates.
-When first starting out, I highly recommend a medic or engineer. These guys are always in demand and will help you gain certs quicker. As an engineer, drop ammo packs in choke points, repair anything that needs repairing and look for sunderers. Sunderers are the huge van things that serve as mobile spawn points. They are critical to every fight so will almost always be a target. This means they'll always need repairing so stand next to them and repair. This, together with an ammo pack strategically placed (keep an eye on this, they despawn after x seconds, to extend their deployment time you need to upgrade them) will keep certs raining in. As a medic, look for busy fights and heal / revive the hell out of people. The best is buildings where you have a bunch of team mates shooting out of doors and windows. Camp those buildings and heal / revive. Your team will love you and you'll be making tons of certs.
-certs. The currency of PS2. These babies are what makes the game what it is. You want them, your enemy wants them, your best mate wants them. Upgrades, weapons, toys, tools, all bought with certs. All classes have upgrades that you can do with one cert. Whether it's armour, speed, reload time, the first tier of these can often be bought with a single cert, and as you'll learn very quickly in PS2, everything helps. Once you have the basics, I recommend spending certs on things that will help you gain certs faster. For the medic, this is the healing gun. This heals faster and will also revive team mates with more health. Any seasoned soldier will tell you that there's nothing worse than getting revived by a level one healing gun as it only takes one shot to be killed again. Upgrading this also increases the time it takes to "overheat", so you can heal longer. For the engineer, it's the repair gun and ammo packs. As mentioned above, upgrading your ammo packs will allow them to remain on the ground longer so they provide ammo for your team and certs for you, for longer. If you want a vehicle, I suggest starting with a Sunderer. This is an armoured van which carries a load of troops but when equipped with an S-AMS it also turns in to a mobile spawn point. A well placed sunderer will annoy you with the constant cert pop ups, that's how good they are. If you place one correctly, in a good fight, it will literally rain certs on you. Remember to be an engineer and repair it as the bad guys WILL want to take it out asap. I usually drop an ammo pack near it too so anyone returning to change class (also done with a sunderer) will walk by your ammo pack and give you a few xp. I will also sit in kne of the manned guns and keep a good look out for any sneaky baddies running in. A light infantry can fly overhead with his jetpack and drop a few bricks of C4 on your battlebus and end the party very promptly, so keeo an eye out for them. ALSO! Remember that you need to deploy the sunderer for it to work. I promise I didn't spend an hour driving around trying to figure out why nobody was spawning at the damn thing
-whilst in combat, spot everything. Anyone familiar with the battlefield series will know this already, but spotting is very important and very good for certs. If someone else has a Sunderer up and a C4 Fairy flies close by, spot it so your team can kill him before he takes out the sunderer.
That's all for now folks, I'll post some more later. Hope it helps someone!
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