Thread: Global Agenda (mmorpg + fps)

Originally Posted by kyle700

I wonder if it has improved a lot since Alpha...

It was pretty fun, but eventully on me and Dancing were playing.

Really, any game will improve between alpha and launch. That is, after all, the purpose of alpha. In this case, GA has become quite a game. Tag in, you'll enjoy it.

It's fairly even across the board. There are only 4 to choose from and it is by far the most balanced game I've played. Play whatever class you want. Assaults are a blast, as are medics. I haven't played much of the other two, but they are very versatile.

Another nice thing about the game: You have the same name across all your characters. No more "oh, I was on my alt, sorry." Plus, it makes it easy to know who is who and why they suck at a class because they are used to playing another.

I expect steam messages or you on vent when you get in, Pizza. You can also find the agency center, look up disorder, and apply through the game if you can't find any of us.

Originally Posted by PizzaSHARK!

I WILL say that Robotics fairly sucked until around 9 or so; your little basic peashooter ain't very effective (it's a semi-accurate weapon, yet isn't hitscan, and Robotics doesn't seem to have trouble fighting people at a distance, it's close range that causes problems) and lack of tools like the autocannon turret (which has like double the effective range of the personal turret) and especially the medical station makes it hard to be useful for your team.

I also feel that Recon is wildly overpowered, but somehow I think this is because they're something of a counter to Robotics - they either snipe me and my minions while I'm trying to get setup (force wall helps here), or they run up while invisible, spam their little bombs, then run away before I can kill them.

Everything sucks below 10. Try playing an assault and sucking wind after two or three seconds of shooting. It gets much better past ten, once you can throw points into jetpack and powerpool, as you've mentioned. They are just bigtime quality of life boosters. I usually go full balance on my medic for the extra health and recharge and juggle my other points between poison and healing. The shotgun is nice, especially once you have rocket turret to handle your long-range needs. The force wall is also useful on point captures, it provides cover AND breaks the opponents heal beams, which can mean dead medics a lot faster. A minor correction: Both of your guns are hitscan. In fact, the only things that aren't hitscan for robos are Rocket Turrets and Hornets. All Medic stuff is hitscan while sniper rifles, rocket launchers, and grenade launchers are projectiles. It makes it tough playing a medic and going to a recon and having to lead targets, I can't hit a damned thing.

As for recons, you're going to hate them the entire game. For a turret robo, it only gets worse later when they have all kinds of bombs to drop on you. You do, however, get sensor. It uncloaks them, plus provides a fairly sexy AoE damage buff to your team. Most recons that want upclose (either bomb or melee) are fairly stupid and won't kill your medcrate before they try to kill you. If they go after you, your medcrate will cover a lot of their damage. If they go after the crate, whack them once for the power sap, then shoot them in the kidneys.

Start watching for patterns in melee attacks, too. You'll notice most people will hit your block shield 2 or 3 times before they figure it out, then about 75% of the time they start blocking in hopes you'll retaliate. Now that you have a shotgun, plan for this. Block a few, then switch to shotty and pound them once or twice. If the're alive, they'll either try to run (keep shooting) or pull out their gun (keep shooting or melee, they might switch back which costs them dps time).

As for snipers, there's not much you can do as a robo. Just try to keep you and your medcrate out of their LoS. You'll start figuring out where they are and hopefully can get someone on your team to punch them in the face. Later in the game, the classes balance out, but a lot of people have crappy low-level recons just like there are a lot of crappy rogues in WoW.

Ya i agree Recons are a robo's worst enemy unless you actually encounter a assault with a medic on him coming up behind you lol.

I wanted to quit robo so many times because of recons. But im getting it to 50 first only lvl 36 atm.