Think before you Lock - Tutorials - PlanetSide 2

Here is a little tip that could make your anti-air experience a bit less frustrating. Hope you enjoy!

[The_Moe_Szyslak_Exp_feat_Homer]

In my point of view, people who complain about ground pounding are the toxic ones. Do they seriously expect aircraft to only engage other aircraft? What's the damn point of that? Why would any army even use aircraft if that was the case? There's a reason it's called AIR SUPPORT! They're SUPPOSED to bomb infantry, like they did in every real modern war. The reason air dog fights happen is to fight for complete air dominance, but the GOAL is to eventually engage infantry and actually help the battle. People who want to completely segregate air, vehicle and infantry are the reason this game is only a shell of it's true potential...

[JP-xnsi]

Always run Awareness implant. It makes max stealth ESF useless because it auto-spots them when they dmg you. Also you can immediately identify where lock ons, or skyguards are.

[norfsideshxrty]

Happy new year Renzor! I really wish you would come back to planetside. I also want to thank you for all your videos, they have taught me alot :). I hope to see you both in game and on your channel.

[Mallchad]

Another thing you can do is not use the annihilator. the one major difference is you can dumbfire, so even after you get that first shot, and you have reloaded the second but can't quite get the second lock before you are getting shot at, you can dumbfire then 9 times out 10 you will be left with scrap and be a happier infantry.

[TheRogueWolf]

"Tracers work both ways." - Murphy's Laws of Combat

Same goes for big, glowy rockets. (Especially VS ones; those things leave a pretty visible trail.) And while many lesser-skilled pilots will bug out on taking any sort of damage, not everyone will. Personally, in a situation like this I would just start to lock the enemy ESF but not fire- play some mind games and make the pilot hunt for me.

[Red-funb]

As a person who was on both sides of the barricade, I can give you one golden tip: get 2 friends, climb a hill with cover and synchronize locks. Instakill on any esf unless he has flares. But even if he does he is basically forced out of combat for at least 25s. With 3 people and 0 nanites you can 100% clear the skies of any esf.

With 8 people equipped with annihilators you can one shot any vehicle from up to 400m, except for the galaxy and the vanguard from the front(requires 9) so with a small pack of friends and some cooperation you can absolutely destroy whole zergs.

[zerojee]

Very good advice. I learned real quick after getting wtfbbq'd a few times.

[samuelmorales]

Not sure if lock-ons should be a hard counter, considering you don't expend any resources for it. Skyguards are suppose to be the hard counter for lone ESFs in theory. If you got a buddy with you, Harasser with a G-40 Ranger. I think G2A weapons need more diversification away from lock-ons, or rockets, and more of a AA gun that heavy assaults can use. There is a concept I remember from episode of Future Weapons, where it's like a box gun with rounds stacked one after another, and shoot out straight like bees.

[becauseitscurrentyear]

what they need to do is buff dumbfire velocity and gravity alot and remove lock ons

[dwaynecollignon]

I must say I respect pilots in planetside 2 with a high regard. I have spend hours trying to learn to fly fighters for dogfights but never got it propperly under control. So I became a lock on guy for pure a defensive role. I primarily use it to lock on to ground vehicles but if we are in a giant battle and defending a base I will use it to scare away the pilots and maybe get the bad once to crash. I am not doing it because I like it but becuase I want to defend my fellow brothers in arms from air attacks and get the fighters from my faction to focus on incoming galaxies. Again nothing personal, it’s just that I want to have all the ground pounders and incomming galaxies as far away from our bases possible.

[mas]

I've shot the missile right before the targeting goes green before, and it always sucks.
This usually happens when a TR musky is coming at me shooting those mini guns at me.

[thechampionawesome]

Are you using the mouse to control because i want to use the mouse to control the aircraft

[shadowstorm]

My question to you directly is how do you deal with solo players using the swarm? I know alot of people think it is useless but I personally find it to be one of the best deterrents out there for anti air. If you fire two fast rockets and one slow, most people try to out run the one rocket that is still following them in fear of death.

[dominik]

Amazing fps, did you ever post your hardware? Good tip by the way.

[nanotechnicianhq]

It's in the game, it's just another factor to consider.

[samtalus]

does anyone have tips for a2g pilots? I don't expect to kill everyone without resistance but the a2a pilots are way too good. fully loaded a2a loadouts vs me, any tips?

[BlackRainEntertain]

the main reason why i love ground pounding is, that those lockers ruined my dogfights way too often^^ i dont want anyone to lock my enemy while im dogfighting him, so i dont want to get locked too. for every lock on who kills me while im doing a dogfight, i kill 100 ground targets in a raw. dogfights are the only way for an esl styled experience in planetside, cause all other areas are surpressed by FPS and latency. you can't kill people with skills on ground. the best tactical ground gameplay is Zerging at the moment lol...

[nicholaschernis]

Use the T2 Striker, no lock on means bitches don't have a chance to run before they're down to half HP

[sixten]

The only time I pull ESF anymore is to hunt a vehicle after they farm me as an infantry. It's like hey you wanna play that game, even if I don't kill your tank I'm going to annoy the absolute shit out of you.
If someone is farming in an ESF or whatever, I dedicate as an AA MAX. If you wanna hover farm infantry you're gonna have to work for it.

[LuceanChristianity]

i a2g tr all the time infact i have rocket pods, guilded missiles, banshee, hover airframe, and flares were the first thing i bought for my esf call me a shitter all you want im helping my comrads on the ground and there cool with it