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If you got one toss it, don't worry it takes amazing timing to waste one (you have to click it at the exact same time). Even if you do, you can always get more.

It better to keep him 'pacified' lower resists then it is to worry about clearn a small spawn to get another temp.

This has been a tactic that has been popping up all over the forums. Hey Major/Mental guess what FF are good again!

Ele I think after watching teams on the last 4 BAFs we can identify where *most* of the "leakage" is occuring.

I would say the least likely culprit is the west exit door the area around that door is flat and you can easily see anything making its way to the door (on all runs I've been on I've seen 0 commados make it to that exit).

Of the remaining two exit points, I would say the one that "leaks" the most is the South exit, with a very good reason. There is a point where the refugees split and 1/2 of them go behind the building the exit door. I can't tell you how many times while I was guarding the West exit point I would run down to the door and see a whole stream of refugees coming from behind the building.

The 2nd most likely culprit is the North exit door, because it seems to have the shortest path from the south buildings (most west building) to the North exit, again the trail veers off behind a building which may lead to people missing them.

I think we will be running a few of these tonight with a new strategy:

Team 1 covers West exit and locks down the North Spawn point (north of the tennis courts). This team can be made up of pretty much anything. As I think the West exit is the easiest to defend.

Team 2 covers the south building- but we move them to directly south of the tennis courts. This team will be team "Stacked" if we get two bubblers we can position them on the northeast and northwest corners of the western most building that will effectively lock down the south exit. This team will also need quick spikers to run north and south of the tennis courts spiking any commandos they see.

Team 3 will cover the East exit- now if team two is doing its job, they shouldnt worry too much about the spawns leaving the spawn point (because the south exit will be effectively locked). I want to try to position a bubbler again between the two buildings which will cut the flow by 50% and allow the team to just focus on the stream that goes around the side of the building to the East exit point.

I have to echo Lin's sentiments about teaming with friends. Honestly, that best times I've had in the game were not necessarily our most epic sucesses but some of our craziest escapades:


2 hour late late late night STF with Chumly playing healer on his PB.

Freakspec where I RP'd a WoW refugee.

Master (almost) of Kahn where someone said "ok everyone get into melee, go go go".

Escher narrating the cut scenes of the LRSF and STF.

LvL 5 kill clowns PvPec event where we were accused of being a PvP cartel going to the various servers stealing their prizes.

And finaly, pretty much anytime someone said "Hey guys I got an idea, I want to try something..."

Good friends can make even the most mundane tasks enjoyable. (Of course 20ish minute Apex/ITF/LGTF/Kahn/STFs are always fun too).



Almost forgot the most epic statement ever uttered on vent:

"I will take the ......" -Sarrate
Dude come back to CoH.

Leadership might get passed, or people who DC will be on a new team (3) but the teams should stay the same as the way the League Leader created them.

(This passing of leadership is seen a lot in arena matches where you have fast zoners and slow zoners, the first person who zones in get the star).

It is not a client, mapserver or being booted out of the trial.

Basically the instance crashes, I believe this is the same type of issue that used to happen in the arena (old bug new system?) pre i13. If people try to rejoin the instance by clicking on their LFG tab and then hitting rejoin, there is a message stating something along the lines of Map Error.

I haven't experienced this yet, just tried to help people who had it happen to them on one of the global channels I am in.

Hey welcome to forums-

You have a very valid point about melee damage vs range damage on team pvp.

However, honestly though, stalkers do lock, stalkers do evade, and they do need to spike.

We do appreciate your input though.

So yeah, some people might lag dc when loading in (used to happen with arena matches as well back a few issues). There is way to fix this though, if you click your LFG tab, then click rejoin, you are back on the trial.

The trials both are very fun, as far as PUG, I think you are ok as long as you have good leadership and people will read league chat and follow directions. For the Lambda- you will need to speed the 2nd part (where you need to destroy glowies to get temp powers) so a few well built scrapper/brutes/tanks are important. For BAF- honestly, to keep the prisioners from escaping, its helpful to have a few good holders (maybe as many as 6) to hold the minions at the spawn points while the high damage dealers patrol the paths to make sure the commandos don't get away (since they are mez proof).

They are fun Ryxx and we should be able to burn them pretty quick.

But KM/elec > Kat/regen ....lolwut?

Same thought crossed my mind, but someone has vouched for this player.