Jacqueline

Assassin Strike!

What? I did say I could come back at any minute...

I did actually get the shakes last night as I imagined my PvP rating leaking away... *sniff*

Hopefully i7 will bring a lot of new vict... err... players to Bloody Bay, so I can quickly get back into triple figures. I rarely one-shot anything without three red insps anyway, so it won't be a switch for me to impale then AS.

Anyway... you're all still safe. For now.

Muhahahahhahahahhaha! <cough cough> Ha.

Just a quick note to anyone who's been annoyed by an invisible Stalker in BB recently, that Mellon Orasi is signing off for a few months, so you'll have to wait until Augustish, at a guess, before you can once again, umm <god I hope I get this right> ph34r my 1337 running away skills. Err, sk1llZ!!1.

There have been a lot of fun people in BB, but I'd most especially like to say thanks to Frosty McNeil and the tanker Miss Blue for making the whole thing fun and a convert out of a strictly non-PvPer, just by playing the game in the right spirit.

I'd also like to apologise to anyone I got a bit carried away with on broadcast (YOUR BLOOD TASTES GOOD AS I LICK IT FROM MY SPINES! (errr...sorry!)) and a big round of apologies to hero Gin Zia, who I killed over and over and over.

But seriously, coming near me with a toon called Gin? What were you thinking!

Anyway, I won't announce my return on the forums, you'll just be standing around BB one day and.... GURRK! Assassin Strike!

Beneath the usual dimwits there is an awesome layer of PvPers here, on Co* - Don't lose that while I'm gone.

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the best story i have is, im in warburg for the first time with my scrapper katana/dark armor with my cloak on. i was near the villian base were i like to pester stalkers till they can figure out i can see them. this one stalker got brave and decided ( i still don't no how stalkers see cloak is it in ther hide like cloak of darkness?) to AS me i simply turned on my Soper speed when i saw his build up and ran a circle around him . most people seeing this run as they relise i can see them,. i spent 20 minutes doin the sam ething untill i finally killed him. I thin stalker forget that some scrappers , and i think ice tanks can actually see them and that they are not as hidden as they think, that and we scrappers have more hit points, soo trying to take us on one on one isn't the smartest.

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my blaster hasnt yet found a stalker that i cant see

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Although if it had, you wouldn't necessarily know about it...

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Claws and Spines have something which none of the others do - a ranged attack (Focus or Impale). Both of these can be very hard hitting, Impale will also immobilise.

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I kill many, many more opponents with Impale than I do with AS. It's also great in PvP for shooting down people who are flying above a group of your friends. Hovering Trollers think twice about getting too close after they've been -Fly'd into a gang of five villains a couple of times.

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See. Cheating.

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And surrounding yourself in Caltrops has to be cheating too!
How is anyone supposed too 2-hit kill you then?
Doesn't make sense to me

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That's right! Frosty is so very clearly overpowered, it's not true!

He's just lucky that I would never call for a nerf of a power, especially one like targeting drone, which has already been nerfed.

NERF TARGETING DRONE! <clamps hands over mouth>

See. Cheating.

I'm fairly sure that Neo has a team of Longbow crafting BFs for him in Sirens.

Oh yeah, I got him too , a few times - once in Bloody Bay, but I managed to finish him off now and then in Sirens too.

Note "finish him off" though - I was cleaning up someone else's hard work, dirty Stalker that I am.

Frosty and I have this cute little dance we do in Bloody Bay now - I bounce in and hit him with impale, then placate and try and get in with AS before he gets caltrops down, or hits me with iceblock.

Then he turns me into an ice cube and throws some collection of ice shavings from the back of his fridge at me and then I make use of my six-slotted "Run Away" power.

Rinse, repeat....

It's always fun, though and Frosty is one of the few you can properly taunt on /broadcast, because he's funny and always plays in the right spirit.

Even if he does cheat by having a targeting drone.

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hey.
I was on hero side as Frosty McNeil, logged in just as heroes were penned in there base, died, came back and pulled a shivan out my sleeve
Frosty isnt quite big enough to kill yet, so I spent a lot of the night revealing stalkers and interupting there AS to reduce the hero casulties.

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So you're Frosty!

I'll get you soon

(Mellon Orasi)

I'm only on chapter three, but I wanted to say now, that it's very good.

Well done!

And you have to come back and finish it before the wednesday after that, as that's when the clone arrives and I'll be missing for a while.

Less farming, more writing!

First off, I play an Empath. I have her slotted so I can see Stalkers in PvP and I try to annoy them by knocking their hide off, even though I don't think I could kill one if you gave me a week.

My other half had a stalker up to level 8, so I thought it'd be nice to level it and see what the Stalker AT was like, really and see if I could find any obvious tactics and any obvious weaknesses, that would help me play my Empath better.

Only I sort of fell in love with the Stalker.

So, grand tale number one (you may want to bring a packed lunch).

I'm bouncing around Bloody Bay and I see a blaster, all glittering green, whacking away at some auto turrets on a firebase.

He's taken some damage, so I drop in, AS... dead blaster. Oh dear, he'll have to collect all the meteor parts again.

So I take a rough guess at which meteor he must start at to be --here-- at the finish and bounce, bounce, bounce that way. A few minutes later, there he is.

Build Up. AS. Dead blaster.

Cue some of the usual anti-stalker chat over broadcast, which would be [CENSORED] here... to which I say nothing.

Fast Forward >>> I next find him at the next meteor in the chain and I notice now he has a Tanker trailing behind. I INFO the tanker and whooooo level 50.

So when I kill the blaster shortly after, the tanker starts calling me a coward and a slang word for a cat and other choice things over broadcast.

"y dont u [censored] fight me then!"

Err, because you're a level 50 and I'm not totally insane, perhaps? Just an idea.

So the blaster's out and around again and the tank's ghosting him pretty close now. I'm following, waiting to see if there's an opportunity, but there isn't really, until... ooh... hello... I spot another blaster, just standing in the middle of the road.

I land, Build Up, queue AS and, as usual, zoom waaaaaaaaaay out, in case someone wants to sneak up on me. Dead blaster... but ooh, our tanker friend lands right behind me in the second AS leaves me rooted, but I manage to SJ away before he can hit me and the usual bounce-bounce-bounce-drop-bounce-drop stuff gets hide back on and now the tank is just incandescent.

Broadcast is going blue and even I'm learning some new words. Or, some new misspellings of words, at any rate.

One thing I've noticed though is that our tank is one of the clever sausages who has the old "SSShhhh, I'm talking" above his head when he's typing. And I can see it.

So I'm watching this thing blink on and off as he's typing out badly spelled swear words at me and decide to tickle my funny bone.

I see the SSShhhh, I'm talking blink on again and SJ in right in front of him, drop hide and throw brawl at him, which misses. I pause a second to let what he's seeing sink in, then hit placate and run as fast and as far as I can, laughing to myself that I landed in front of a big scary tanker who would have given his right arm to kill me, dropped my knickers and then ran away¹ and he couldn't do a thing about it.

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My second story is much shorter, you'll be pleased to hear.

On broadcast I see "VILLIAN AT VILLAN BASE!" (What is it about heroes and their typing?)

So I type in the name and send the guy a /tell

<--"What AT? Stalker?"
-->"Corrupter"
<--"Where are you? We're on our way."

Cue blaster telling me exactly where to find him.

AS.

Dead blaster.



(I'd like to apologise for the lack of smilies in this tale. If it helps at all, I was smiling a lot during the making and recounting of both)

¹ Please don't point out how difficult it is to run after dropping knickers - it won't be as funny as it sounds in your head.

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HAs anyone else realised this?

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Anyone who has played a Stalker for a decent nummber of levels?

Fame at last!

Now, where my gin? You promised me gin!

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Really? I was in Bloody Bay just yesterday...I asked if you were around, and all the NPCs just laughed at me.

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Because there are two types of NPCs in there - the ones that haven't seen me and the dead ones.

I was in there last night too - playing with a blaster. He was very good.

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Jac, I love you.

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Despite this, I'll still be killing you if you come anywhere near Bloody Bay. But I promise to feel slightly sad afterwards.

Nerf Aid?

Well tonight thank god it's Tanks instead of you?

This is good, Sis. Although you did forget to put unyielding on, you nubbin.

ok, I got the numbers wrong (bah!) but I still think the two chaps were talking about two different things.

Stupid numbers.

I think there are crossed purposes here with a confusion over terminology - Sirens' cut off is indeed 25 and everyone in the zone is level 30.

Everyone in the zone is lifted/dropped to 30, but you have to be level 25 before you're allowed in.

So if one takes stealth at 30, you can use it in Sirens. But if you intend to start PVPing in there the minute you hit lvl 25, then you may, as Valk says, want to take it before then.

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i dont have any pron in PvP

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I don't want to know what the "P's" stand for in your version.

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Ew! Mental images, go away!

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It's a new Stalker placate power.

Look at this mag I found in a hedge!

<Assassin Strike!>

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i dont have any pron in PvP

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I don't want to know what the "P's" stand for in your version.

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And again! And, indeed, again.

And again.

But that's it.

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Why do I think you've had more to drink tonight than I have?

Anyhoo, to go wildly OT for a second, g'night, all. I'll be back tomorrow evening with the next thrilling installment of....The Ever Burning Fire!

(What do you mean, you've never heard of it?)

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It's Auto Assault beta night! Remember kids, don't drink and drive... Unless you have a sodding great sword on the front of your car¹.

Also, you can do the Snaptooth, then again, again, again, again. Not because you've turned into some sort of redcap-hunting Mrs Doyle sound-alike, but because you have to do it five times for the badge.

Variety. It's gone to the Americans.



¹ And then only in computer games, m'kay.

And again! And, indeed, again.

And again.

But that's it.

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... I shouldn't have made that joke earlier. I'm banned for 55.6824578 years.

Nothing like being banned from chatting for half a century to give you time to reflex and pause.

On the plus side, though, I can still do the Snaptooth mission, so life isn't all bad.

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And there's yet more good news, because afterwards... you can do it again.