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RicoT
post Oct 2 2014, 08:40 AM

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Try with US servers, I think you can get lower ping with US servers compared to AU. Besides, they have more population. Briggs is almost dead after the loginside period, a lot of players changed to US Connery. I migrated to EU Cobalt to play with popular PS2 Youtubers. There is a huge difference in strategy and gaming experience when playing in high pop servers. US peak time is at our daytime as time zone differs by about 12 hours, 9am to 1pm. EU peak time is about 11pm to 4am. Check out the link below to see which server suits your playtime and population.

http://borderlinetactical.net/rsnc/world-population/

Don't worry about the ping, it is expected from MMOFPS for us Malaysian, we have to live with it. But hey! Planetside 2 have ping compensate. Check the youtube below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3fUok2AoaU
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post Oct 8 2014, 02:17 AM

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QUOTE(hafizushi @ Oct 2 2014, 03:46 PM)
I have try both emerald and connery, all have higher ping but for connery their peak time is afternoon msia time which i my gametime are around 8pm -11pm msia where at that time connery are pretty much dead. But emerald are different, u will find good fight even late night msian time

i have one char on connery, but deleted my emerald one. Now my char slot full, i reckon i need to buy one char slot extra just for emerald as NC since briggs server smash practice force will now play on emerald

btw why u chose cobalt, isnt the ping there worst then connery or emerald? i know one popular youtuber/twitch from cobalt -gyllebmf, watch couple of his stream especially the serversmash match
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Yes, I do admit I suffered some sort of lag from skill activation, such as Infiltrator cloak, or Heavy Assault shield. It takes about 0.4s to activate. My sort of play style is medium pace like tanks, harasser, and battle sundees. For infantry, I mostly play Light Assault, Medic, and Engineer, as I do not suffer a lot from the skill activation lag. The game has lag compensation and smoothing, so the enemy tanks and infantry still move smoothly for me to shoot them. Although, I recommend getting more than 5Mbps fibre optic connection for the massive upload/download when facing 100+ players battle. UL/DL speed can be a bottleneck in these situations. My play time is the same as yours and extend to 3am on weekends/public holiday eve. I should try Emerald once. biggrin.gif
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post Oct 16 2014, 01:33 AM

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QUOTE(Davidtcf @ Oct 14 2014, 02:12 PM)
this game nice? was thinking to try it since it's F2P
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If you want to experience how it feels to be part of a 100+ player zerg, with tanks and air, feel free to join! smile.gif

It's free.

It will take a while to get use to the game mechanics, but when you fill lost, you can join a squad/outfit and ask around. Most players are very helpful. Learning curve for air is steep, but it is rewarding.
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post Oct 16 2014, 01:36 AM

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QUOTE(hafizushi @ Oct 13 2014, 09:28 PM)
never thought using coyote to attack ground, i will try this load out
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I had tried coyote, not really effective A2G, but it is a good way to bug some tanks/sundee with hit and run. Let them feel they are not untouchable. For A2A, it take some time to familiarize with the lead distance. It is a good sneaking up weapon, but when your opponent starts turning, noseguns are better. Just my experience.
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post Oct 16 2014, 01:42 AM

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QUOTE(-hobo- @ Oct 14 2014, 11:30 AM)
it's not really efficient but at least you can still deal damage to armored vehicles.

Not really, with the triple continent lock implemented on Briggs we still have fierce fight all over maps.
ball of zerg of 96+ will still meet another ball of zerg 96+.
but people like XinniX from NC that uproot and left Briggs while bringing along his band of followers are still hurting Briggs.
and now the said person back to play on Briggs, but it hard to say about the people that he brought out whether they also came back or not.
people that act like this will only make matter worse.

i cant really play on other server other than Briggs.
other servers will give me higher latency and higher frequency of spiking lag even in a 48+ vs 48+ fight while i still can play without much of a problem on Briggs with 96+ vs 96+.
my account got 6 slots so i have a char on all servers to test this myself.
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It is not fair to blame people who migrated away like me. This is because of the effect of loginside2 and it happened in the span of 3 months+, and I am really frustrated as well. Although I still keep my Briggs SOCA TR, I played more on Cobalt. Will jump in this weekend to see how is things going. Is VS TROL still zerging? I heard their leader left them a while back and he is planning to play again, but this info is Jurassic era info.
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post Oct 16 2014, 09:30 AM

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QUOTE(-hobo- @ Oct 16 2014, 06:42 AM)
i think you misunderstand my post.
if you read again you will notice that i said

i have no problem if people want to leave the server and play on other server.
but dont poison others to leave the server and then when the server population dwindled the same person said the server is dead even though he the one that lead to that.
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No offence taken mate, just pointing out my reason for leaving Briggs.

I cannot comment how much damage it had done to the NC population and fighting strength as I mostly played TR in Briggs then. Briggs is a tight community after all, that is for sure as I had stick with an outfit that is active and well organised. Other players may had the same feeling with XinniX and simply left for another server. At one point, it is really a big annoyance when you have to wait 10 mins to login and the game simply crash halfway (before the stable 64-bit patch). It totally ruined the fun. SOE too had no immediate solution to this problem and it felt like they had abandoned AU Briggs then. shakehead.gif

Maybe they like the larger crowds on other servers, like me. biggrin.gif

Anyways, it is good that loginside is a thing in the past and let Briggs grow steadily again.


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post Oct 30 2014, 05:16 PM

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Is it just me or is everyone in Malaysia using Unifi connecting to Briggs or Cobalt is having lag spike? I do not have this problem on Monday.

 

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