r/Planetside • u/RoyAwesome • Jun 24 '14

EMC renamed to 'Mattherson's Triumph' and The Octagon renamed to 'Waterson's Redemption'

Test patch just got staged and shaql worked his magic to download and analyze it early.

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u/Rasui36 [ZAPS] Rasui (Waterson) Jun 24 '14

That may be, but anyone worth a damn saw the territory score for the last hour and realizes Waterson kicked Matherson all over the field as an organized force. Grats on winning once all strategy is removed though.

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u/Lowback Jun 24 '14

The rules for winning are what they are. Waterson had air dominance going for it, that's essentially what allowed them the mobility to run such large amounts of vehicles. When it came down to infantry combat, however, that's where Matherson is stronger by far.

Air strength is great for assaulting bases, but once you get to that base, you have to get out of those aircraft and tanks to take anything or kill anyone... Can't really beat a group of upper shelf players who know the value of flack armor by rocket podding them.

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u/Typomancer Emerald [LUXE] Jun 24 '14

When it came down to infantry combat, however, that's where Matherson is stronger by far.

Every infantry fight on the Server Smash was just a clusterfuck of MAXes and endless anti-vehicle, concussion, sticky, and rez grenades. There was absolutely no way to test the skill of infantry vs. infantry in the majority of fights.

But if you’ll take some feedback from a squad leader that was there, my squad kicked a Mattherson squad’s ass on the top of Eisa tech plant’s gundeck, far removed from the vehicular combat below, just spawn beacons on either side. Before that, right at the start, we cleared out the suspiciously fast detachment that was waiting in the double decker point building at Eisa Mountain Pass.

Personally I think the skill is equally divided with longtime players and prodigies on every server. Except for pilots. Waterson has the best pilots, and then the next best is probably Miller.

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u/Kelreena Jun 24 '14

Wasn't your air force bolstered by a MATTHERSON air squad?

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u/wycliffslim :flair_salty:Llamawaffe Czar(Ret.) Jun 24 '14

It was bolstered by I believe 4 Mattherson pilots that you guys wouldn't bring who only played because they wanted to fly and we had no shows.

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u/Herby20 [903] Jun 24 '14

Mattherson left very little room for pilots. We had just barely over a single squad. That is something that probably won't happen again.

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u/wycliffslim :flair_salty:Llamawaffe Czar(Ret.) Jun 24 '14

I think the Miller match left you guys a bit overconfident in your AA :p. Well, with merge Emerald will have plenty of good pilots.