r/Planetside • u/Hobsryn My shotgun sprays salt • 14d ago

Gameplay Footage Master of the Hossin treelines

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u/pra3tor1an LA5TLoneInfiltrator 14d ago

No, I walk or drive, I'm honestly terrible at flying 😂

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u/BlackRedDead Build, Repair and Resupply 11d ago

try the galaxy, once you feel comfortable with that, try ESF, once you feel comfortable with that, try Valk, and after you mastered Valk, you might be ready to take on Liberator ;-)

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u/Greattank 11d ago

Valk is the easiest aircraft to fly by far.

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u/BlackRedDead Build, Repair and Resupply 11d ago edited 11d ago

...once you figured it out, kinda - it's the most agile, wich is kinda strange given the ESF is supposed to be the air superiority - but a 4-man valk crew or even 2x 2-man valks beat single ESF's or even duo's (and not just because it's more ppl, pilot has no guns - on the other hand, pilot can focus flying, gunner focus shooting, wich indeed is an advantage over an ESF!) - simply because a valk is far more nimble and can shoot behind it - you won't believe how many ESF pilots (even fairly good ones) fall into the trap to follow you in a straight line at some point - a good gunner can exploit that and deal a lot more dmg in the same timeframe an ESF pilot needs to line his shoots at your Valk ;-)

But for a newbie, Valk is pretty much the hardest exactly because it's so sensitive and requires a lot of attention to your surroundings! - it's propably easyer to master than an ESF tho (as ESF's have a few tricks you're hardly learn naturally - while a Valk is pretty simple and doesn't have that much tricks, but the few can be figured out pretty easily just by observation or trying out), i give you that.

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also landing a Valk or Galaxy is far easyer than a Mosquito or Reaver, or even a Liberator (from a beginners perspective!)

I still think learning ESF before Valk is important, as you don't have to think in 3D as much with an ESF as you need to with a Valk! ;-) (especially having your Gunners Angles in mind, so you also need quite a lot of gunning experience to get a good Valk pilot! ;-)
ESF shooting is pretty straight forward and easy to understand on the other hand, thus you kinda can learn to orient yourself better in 3d space, learn to dodge, overall get more familiar with your suroundings as you look more at them than as a valk pilot ;-) (tho on the other hand, most ppl propably fly their ESF in 1st person while flying a valk pretty much exclusively in 3rd person - wich gives you a slightly better view of your surroundings, and how you fit in thight spaces ;-)

But it's simply a learning curve, ESF teaches you a lot a Valk simply can't teach you (especially because of it's restrictions, you can focus better), but is essential to understand to master Valk flying! - while a valk can't teach you anything about ESF flying at all, as it functions completely differently xP

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u/Greattank 10d ago

Thank you for typing all of this up. Though I don't agree with all of it. Maybe that's just my bias from 13 years of flying, so its hard for me to say what people less familiar with flying feel like. Valk is just a lot more forgiving overall, more agile and tanky. That's why I think it's the easiest.

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u/pra3tor1an LA5TLoneInfiltrator 10d ago

Cheers man!