MAG Discussion Thread

Finally unlocked the claymore, which should be great for when I'm on defense. Is that subject to friendly fire?

I'm Valor, for anybody that's interested.
 
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[quote name='enufs8d']frank - what other load outs do you recommend?

ive been using the vispera2 with full medic gear + grenade and AP mines. but i noticed that its really hard to get lots of kills, especially for those 30+ kill ribbons. once in a while, i scavenge assault rifles with scopes. wow, its so easy to kill people.

i havent noticed a lot of CAGs playing the game. Is it because there's not a lot of interest?

on brighter notes, im way half to being an OIC.[/QUOTE]

I got my 30+ kill medal with the PSK LMG on Sabo, in the last level we played tonight (I forgot what it's called.) I've only gotten it once though and came close to getting another time by one kill.

I got 3 different loadouts for different situations. Engineer, Medic, and destroying bunkers/APC's.

Soodmeg, if you play on SVER. I know what I'm doing... for the most part.

Also, you don't need a special kit to breach. Just press circle and arm a door that's destructible when you're on offense.
 
[quote name='refusedchaos']im still on the fence for this game...i want it, but $60 for online only...grr![/QUOTE]

Me too. Even after my last outing with an online only multiplayer game(Warhawk), I still wanna give this one a whirl. But full MSRP for an online only game is fuckin' nuts. I'd pay the full $60 if the game came with the official Sony headset(that I could resell and recoup some of my costs with), but otherwise $20 and under is my buy price for something like this.:D

But by the time I get into this game there will probably be people who play 24/7/365 and will kick my ass within half a second(just like Warhawk) and I'll end up quitting out and never playing it again.
 


FrankySox said:
I'm thinking about Raven, I'm going to try them out later and if I end up choosing them I'll add you.
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Raven = Hard mode. Base maps are lacking and lots of scrubs on our team. :lol:

Valor = Normal mode. Base maps are balanced so it depends on team skill and level communication to win the base map of other PMC.

S.V.E.R = Easy mode. Their base maps allow easy wins and everyone is joining them.
 
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frisky - your teammates won't trip the mines. they might die from them if it was set off by an explosion.


almost an OIC. i played a game of domination as a squad leader. then someone claimed that i didnt have a mic and shouldnt be one. then i turned mine on and introduced myself as the SL and a medic. And as a medic, I'll call you out to you to bleed out or hang in there and i'll reach you. guess what? they still didnt listen to me.

despite me not talking often, im getting good as a SL, especially setting good fragos. they make a whole world of difference from making crappy xp to something worthy.

for people that are concerned about fp skills, don't worry. be a medic or an engineer. im a high level medic. you just basically stay in the back and go around tranq-ing people with your medic gun. once in a while, you have to shoot people. but its secondary. commando/assault person with a medic backing him/her up is a nasty combo. one bit of advice as a medic, always try to "rez" resurrect your commanding officer first. they provide "buffs" for people around them.

on the forums.mag.com site, its a brief intro to everything (too much detail to absorb)
http://forums.mag.com/mag/board/message?board.id=generaldiscussion&thread.id=124392
 
[quote name='Supplice']Raven = Hard mode. Base maps are lacking and we have lots of scrubs on our team. lol

Valor = Normal mode. Base maps are balanced so it depends on team skill and level communication to win the base map of other PMC.

S.V.E.R = Easy mode. Their base maps allow easy wins and everyone is joining them.[/QUOTE]

europe is coming online next week. so maybe they'll be an influx of raven.

i only think that the sver sabotage is really nasty to attack. raven has the highest accuracy weapons. i like to take them off dead bodies. lol. but i hear raven's people just want to snipe and not go for the objectives. well, on acquisition, its really hard to break through sver's base. hmmm.

and it doesnt help that SVER has 2 contracts in both sabotage (5% + 5% exp bonus) and acquisition (5% + 5% leadership aura range) .
 
enufs8d said:
almost an OIC. i played a game of domination as a squad leader. then someone claimed that i didnt have a mic and shouldnt be one. then i turned mine on and introduced myself as the SL and a medic. And as a medic, I'll call you out to you to bleed out or hang in there and i'll reach you. guess what? they still didnt listen to me.
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Communication really is key since we are able to steam roll SVER on Acqu and Sabo. :D Unfortunately, this is not the case with the rest of the faction at plays. I guess its a big difference if you hop on with randoms vs a clan of high levels actually communicating. :???:

As far as Raven's problems, I think we just need more medics and organization, especially during Dom. I've seen my fair share of snipers from both Valor and S.V.E.R. but that is just to be expected of an FPS game. I agree with you though about medics. For those that are not good at FPS games--medics are highly valuable to any team/squad. :)

 
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Does this game also do explicit matchmaking in the sense that newbs will be against newbs if possible? Or is more implicit where more experience players tend to play in certain match types, because newbs haven't unlocked that type? This game is possibly a month down the road for me, and I am wondering if I was just get slaughtered becase I am a newb to it.
~S
 
[quote name='Supplice']Raven = Hard mode. Base maps are lacking and we have lots of scrubs on our team. lol

Valor = Normal mode. Base maps are balanced so it depends on team skill and level communication to win the base map of other PMC.

S.V.E.R = Easy mode. Their base maps allow easy wins and everyone is joining them.[/QUOTE]

Thats a good break down. Some of these Sver maps are damn near not winnable because of the location of some of the objectives. Although I took some pride in beating SVER in Domination under 12 minutes the other night. The OIC was a annoying bastard but knew what he was doing.


I play Valor Frank but when I reach 60 I will switch to Sver and we can play then.

[quote name='Neo-Nut']The game is terrible.[/QUOTE]

When did I get to Gamefaqs?
 
[quote name='snowsquirrel']Does this game also do explicit matchmaking in the sense that newbs will be against newbs if possible? Or is more implicit where more experience players tend to play in certain match types, because newbs haven't unlocked that type? This game is possibly a month down the road for me, and I am wondering if I was just get slaughtered becase I am a newb to it.
~S[/QUOTE]

Suppression > Sabotage > Acquisition > Domination

You have to unlock the latter three to play them, but it's easy as pie to do that.

So, new players will try out suppression to get their feet wet in 'war games' (i.e. deathmatch with your faction).

I wouldn't say SVER is easy mode. Since it has more people in it, it's more likely to have more people with mics and thus more strategizing and teamwork.

With that said, there's been rare instances where I've said 'wow, look at valor/raven working together!' on the SVER defensive SABO maps.
 
Is it easier to get XP as a medic assuming you're a just a mediocre player? I feel like I'm grinding away and not getting much per match (only up to 5) and I average around 40XP in the first 3 modes available.

I know one thing...I suck with the assault rifles. Levels 1 to 3, I was playing exclusively with the ARs and racked up 30 kills. In a few hours of play as a sniper, I'm up to 29 kills so far. Now I feel like I wasted those skill points on AR upgrades.
 
[quote name='SteveMcQ']Is it easier to get XP as a medic assuming you're a just a mediocre player? I feel like I'm grinding away and not getting much per match (only up to 5) and I average around 40XP in the first 3 modes available.

I know one thing...I suck with the assault rifles. Levels 1 to 3, I was playing exclusively with the ARs and racked up 30 kills. In a few hours of play as a sniper, I'm up to 29 kills so far. Now I feel like I wasted those skill points on AR upgrades.[/QUOTE]

Being a medic is the faster way to level up, however, PLEASE don't go only for the experience, be a smart medic!

Don't worry about the spent skill points, once you get the 3k something you can reassign anything you've spent (and purchase the second/third tier sniper rifle, which is much better!)
 
[quote name='SteveMcQ']Is it easier to get XP as a medic assuming you're a just a mediocre player? I feel like I'm grinding away and not getting much per match (only up to 5) and I average around 40XP in the first 3 modes available.

I know one thing...I suck with the assault rifles. Levels 1 to 3, I was playing exclusively with the ARs and racked up 30 kills. In a few hours of play as a sniper, I'm up to 29 kills so far. Now I feel like I wasted those skill points on AR upgrades.[/QUOTE]

Respec. Press square in the skills tree page and you'll get all your skill/level points back once you have your respect bar filled.

and yes, it's easier to gain xp as medic.
 
The claymores are a great tool for defending an area or keeping your back as clear as possible. I took out five guys in a Sver map just taking advantage of the inevitable traffic into one part of the map.
 
[quote name='FriskyTanuki']The claymores are a great tool for defending an area or keeping your back as clear as possible. I took out five guys in a Sver map just taking advantage of the inevitable traffic into one part of the map.[/QUOTE]

in one game of sabotage, i had a 6 mines in a sver B base. fun times.
 
So how is the final game? And how are the wait times now? In the beta they sometimes got a bit lengthy when trying to join a 256 player match.
 
[quote name='Fjordson']So how is the final game? And how are the wait times now? In the beta they sometimes got a bit lengthy when trying to join a 256 player match.[/QUOTE]

Domination takes a decent bit as Valor, but Sabotage and uhh, crap, the other one are near instant for me.
 
As usual the booklet has limited information about the settings of MAG like many games these days, I might be asking a dumb question but, What is up with the setting adjustments for "Rotation & Pitch" adjustments? does it really change anything ?

Not the invert (Y/N) one. I'm referring to the 'scale-able" setting ?
 
Picked up the game today and absolutely loving it. I love the longer range-of-engagement and the larger feeling of it.

Though, the manual is REALLY shitty. Like, there's a ton of icons that I have no god damned idea wtf they mean.

Still, I'm only lv 5, can't wait to unlock Domination.
 
Love this game. My expectations were much exceeded. It would be cool if updates could be made occasionally to change the locations of objectives and stuff in the maps.

I also can't wait to be eligible for leadership, cause all the leaders I ever have suck.
 
[quote name='Romis']As usual the booklet has limited information about the settings of MAG like many games these days, I might be asking a dumb question but, What is up with the setting adjustments for "Rotation & Pitch" adjustments? does it really change anything ?

Not the invert (Y/N) one. I'm referring to the 'scale-able" setting ?[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure which one does which since I like the default settings, but they control the sensitivity of aiming (scoping) and turning, IIRC.
 
kandal - congrats. a whole new world opens up if you're an officer. conveniently, when we played, my mic died. at first i couldnt hear what you were saying as the volume was low. later i heard you better. so you werent talking to yourself.

well im an OIC. but i decided not to use it since I only can use my mic for certain hours of the day as not wake up others in my household.
 
Frank Deluded said:
I wouldn't say SVER is easy mode. Since it has more people in it, it's more likely to have more people with mics and thus more strategizing and teamwork.
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I stated they are easy mode because of the defense advantage their maps have which is a major draw those who do not want a challenge. So they jump ship to have easy wins and it is then that the player factor comes into play when communicating. :p

Well servers should be up soon.

 
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how in the hell are you supposed to get 30 knife kills in a match? or 30 sidearm kills? And you have to do each 5 times.
 
After finally unlocking the For grip, silencer and 4x scope for my Assault rifle I am raping people. Just went 37-8 with something like 500+ points.

I love being a assaulting medic/repair guy.
 
sure seems odd, I played last night (SVER) for about 2hrs and each time was "Acquisition - Defending"
at times it was even the same opponent as attacker time after time
 


enufs8d said:
how in the hell are you supposed to get 30 knife kills in a match? or 30 sidearm kills? And you have to do each 5 times.
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Its actually easy with knives, I haven't done the sidearms yet though. Your best bet is to spawn camp the other PMC or find a group of snipers hiding out somewhere. Here is a vid that might help, but it requires you being on the field...plus its funny. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Gq3-6HCME
 
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For me the only thing appealing about this game is the long-distance shooting.

1) Stale world and factions. Any "theme" would make this game better.
2) Battlefield 1/Counterstrike beta style objectives? There are still first person shooters where you hold down a button to plant a bomb/move a switch? When I was playing the beta I couldn't believe they would make objectives in small 10x10 rooms where 30 people are assaulting. Who the fuck would do that in a real life battle?
 
[quote name='darknight88']Could anyone hook me up with an AMAZON MAG Home code please? PM if you want to work something out. Will trade other DLC/PP/codes.[/QUOTE]

U lucky dog (no pun intended, lol), I was never gonna use it and just saw your post. Will send ya PM with my code from Amazon's Home space. (Done)


Also, I am looking to play with a couple of people and decide to ask here from the CAG community. If anyone wants to play and has a mic preferably, send me a fr, I am on SVER.
 
[quote name='Supplice']I stated they are easy mode because of the defense advantage their maps have which is a major draw to the lazy "good" players who do not want a challenge. So they jump ship to have easy wins and it is then that the player factor comes into play when communicating. The ones willing to communicate that use to belong to Valor or Raven are now with S.V.E.R. and are able to win when attacking against common Raven/Valor squads. That is just my opinion though. I've seen my fair share of unorganized S.V.E.R. groups, same goes for Valor, and I'm sure any of you have experienced the same situation.

Well servers should be up soon.[/QUOTE]

Hmm, then I can agree.

[quote name='enufs8d']how in the hell are you supposed to get 30 knife kills in a match? or 30 sidearm kills? And you have to do each 5 times.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, 30 knife kills seems impossible. Sidearms too, they suck in this game. Well, for SVER anyway.

[quote name='Romis']sure seems odd, I played last night (SVER) for about 2hrs and each time was "Acquisition - Defending"
at times it was even the same opponent as attacker time after time[/QUOTE]

That's one thing I don't like about the game. I was playing Sabo a couple of time and I played the same SVER defending level. I'm almost tired of that level.

[quote name='nightmare452']U lucky dog (no pun intended, lol), I was never gonna use it and just saw your post. Will send ya PM with my code from Amazon's Home space. (Done)


Also, I am looking to play with a couple of people and decide to ask here from the CAG community. If anyone wants to play and has a mic preferably, send me a fr, I am on SVER.[/QUOTE]

I'll send you a friend request.
 
I'm kind of tired of fighting Sver on their maps, so I'm hoping there are plans for updates or DLC to add some variety. It's just three maps per mode with one map for each side to defend, right?
 
Their maps are all the same (at least outside of domination since I haven't unlocked that yet) with their defense points being the same kind of boarded-up bases that are hard for anyone to crack.

It's hard not to lose, especially when you're picked to fight them more than half the time.
 
Yeah, fighting Sver is a pain in the ass. Although most of the time its a mix between sver crazy ass fortresses and all other teams just sucking it up.

When people really work together as a squad shit will get done and you can win a game. Most of the time people are still to busy trying to get kills than taking out objectives.

The few time in which my squad really worked together it was glorious, we beat sver 4 times in a row (we all friend ed- each other can played after) because AS A GROUP we crushed their AA, Turrets, Gates, everything.

People just need to really start working together more.
 
[quote name='FriskyTanuki']I'm kind of tired of fighting Sver on their maps, so I'm hoping there are plans for updates or DLC to add some variety. It's just three maps per mode with one map for each side to defend, right?[/QUOTE]

the maps are the same. but i suspect as time goes, the game will develop mature better as more people join your side and better leadership emerges (and better strategies). eventually, all the sver veterans will have to change factions, including me.
 
Kandal said:
u mean ur tired of losing to Sver on their own turf ;)
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My platoon has a great win ratio against S.V.E.R. on sabo and acqu. I kind of wish the rest of our faction had that kind of communication/team-work, but sigh...Anyway, here is hoping for some good games against Valor. :D Speaking of which, I will join Valor after Veteran mode (along with my clan). So Its going to be interesting.

Frank Deluded said:
huh?
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Veteran mode.

 
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[quote name='Supplice']My platoon has an 85% win ratio against S.V.E.R. so its getting boring plowing them on sabo and acqua. I kind of wish the rest of our faction had that kind of communication/team-work, but sigh...Anyway, here is hoping for some good games against Valor. :D Speaking of which, I will join Valor after Veteran mode (along with my clan). So Its going to be interesting.
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once you switch pmc via veteran, you're forced to quit your clan?

im interested in joining your clan for valor. its probably the only way to get that gold. ::sighs::
 
Yeah, but you guys are assuming everyone's going to go for the platinum trophy and switch factions which isn't the case. I could care less about trophies. I'm sure a lot of people will stay put with their level 60's and make the faction even stronger.
 
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