Over the last couple days I have noticed people doing a plethora of suicidal charges with ghosts to splatter as many people as possible before dying. I counter with a well placed plasma grenade but afterward I wonder just what have they accomplished other than wasting a vehicle better used in a different fashion.
Are the plasma cannons on the ghost just weaker than I think they are or have people developed the mindset that a ghost is a battering ram in a vain hope at stealing an enemy tank or mantis.
I AM NOT SAYING BUFF THE GHOST, MERELY ASKING ABOUT THE BEHAVIOR PATTERNS OF GHOST USERS.
Well that makes sense. I don’t mind splattering people but it does get a little irritating to spawn take two steps and once more be run over by a speeding ghost (friend and foe both happen just as frequently).
The ghost is just fine as is but I think that if splattering unlocks something that it could at least be done without spawn camping. Especially on Ragnarok where we are trying to get out of our base but unable because either 1) a guy has come in running us all over as soon as we spawn or 2) they come in and hijack freshly spawned ghosts, warthogs, banshees, and mantis’s and spawn camp us until we start spawning elsewhere.
You get a cool visor for mastering splatters, (Verdant Green), and the Ghost is by far the easiest vehicle to splatter with. I’ll admit I splatter with it a lot more than I use its guns. However, this isn’t for the commendation, it’s just how I’ve always used the Ghost.
> You get a cool visor for mastering splatters, (Verdant Green), and the Ghost is by far the easiest vehicle to splatter with. I’ll admit I splatter with it a lot more than I use its guns. However, this isn’t for the commendation, it’s just how I’ve always used the Ghost.
I’m going for the commendation myself, unfortunately i can never find a ghost because they have already been taken, probably for the same purpose, so I’m usually stuck using a mongoose. And the mongoose is just terrible for the splatter commendation, very easy to avoid because of it’s small size.
I splatter when I see an opportunity (ex. a bunch of people running in the same direction as me in a cluster out in the open) but I usually just stay back and troll with the plasma cannons.
> What I see happen most often is they charge in and get decimated by plasma/frag grenades, vehicles, and power weapons before accomplishing anything.
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> Tis a misuse of war materials no?
That’s because they are just impatient, ideally you want to wait until they aren’t paying attention before you go for the splatter. Otherwise they either hit you with a grenade like you said, or they just jump over the vehicle and hijack it from you.
I just think that the obsession over a commendation for a visor hurts my team a lot with reckless use of vehicles (people will even waste a warthog to get splatters). People need to think a little longer about the team’s situation before going on a vain blaze of glory with our vehicles that could be put to better use elsewhere.
> I just think that the obsession over a commendation for a visor hurts my team a lot with reckless use of vehicles (people will even waste a warthog to get splatters). People need to think a little longer about the team’s situation before going on a vain blaze of glory with our vehicles that could be put to better use elsewhere.
After a while when people have gotten the commendation that will stop. The game is still new and people are trying to unlock stuff. You may as well join them now and get your unlocks out of the way while you can.
It will be harder to get when people start getting better at the game and playing seriously.
I splatter when it will be efficient for my team, but overall I tend to be too busy aiding my team with a light rifle or BR or swatting speeding ghosts away with plasma grenades because they seem to constantly steal ours.
> I splatter when it will be efficient for my team, but overall I tend to be too busy aiding my team with a light rifle or BR or swatting speeding ghosts away with plasma grenades because they seem to constantly steal ours.
That’s all well and good when your team is doing the same thing, but if they are all just running around trying to get splatters you may as well join them since no one else is playing as a team. That’s what I usually do.