[Ten Years of GSF]

There is fun to be had, I don't have anything to post for proof of said fun, I do know that fun is being had by myself and many others and for that and all those who are having fun, I guess I am grateful.

GSF is why I play this game.

And that's all I have to say about that.

[Time to call it a day.]

Luc Nodaro!

 

I am so glad you're feeling well enough to enjoy the outdoors!

 

You were the first pilot I ever added to my friends list to avoid queuing when you were online - the comment next to your name "Fricken Luc" you were scary to play against! Eventually that stopped.

 

I watched your videos to learn stuff and to this day, I encourage new pilots to watch them.

 

We never spoke - but I am your biggest fan

 

One time I shot in your direction and grazed your hull - it was an epic match for me.

 

Be well, have fun!

chuppy/old bird

[Seasons Pilots read here.]

"Chuppy - I am always happy when you are in a bomber and on my team. You seem to know a lot of tricks. I am having some fun with the bombers now too. LOVE my heavies lol. I have been flying mine a lot more aggressively than I probably should. I go from 0 to bored to death in 1.3 seconds. In TDM I have been trying to set up near the front lines. Dump my payload in a likely spot and fly off a bit. This gives me chances to use my heavies while waiting for tourists. If we have gunship pilots set up near by I can also try to help cover them a little bit. Have to move a lot because the battles are so fluid but it suits me.

 

Is this really bad bomber flying?"

 

I haven't a clue what I am truly doing, I play bomber out of necessity - I have visual vertigo. My goal is to be annoying, move around, try not to die-- similar to what you describe, I don't tick it's not my thing. I prefer the bomber that drops the beacon, but I played the reloads bomber early in my bombing adventures. I fly strikes and scouts too, not well though!

 

This thread is great and I have clicked links and read stuff - thanks to you and everyone else who has replied.

 

Have fun!

chuppy/old bird

[Seasons Pilots read here.]

Gundahar! What's your in game name?! Also Bombers are fun to play, they're my favorite.

[Seasons Pilots read here.]

This is great advice. Engines are life. spatial and directional awareness at 360 degrees doesn't exactly come naturally. Not while inside a gyroscope anyway.

 

Well I almost chickened out. On the story. Then I sat here and read through your post again and was reminded that when this all happened I still had not realized "up" was whichever direction I needed it to be. Maybe shared experience will help someone. Maybe just entertaining. Maybe a waste of time. I will have a go.

 

Not sure I had competed in 10 matches yet when this all happened. Definitely less than 20. I was sooo green and in a really bad place with GSF.

 

Going to roll back a few matches first. Try to give a sense of how frustrated I was. Maybe some of you will remember these same feelings from when you were new. 2 matches earlier I fell for the ol "grab a gunship and fly around the bottom of the map" routine. I had never taken my gunship out of the hanger. I was thinking - great idea, I can shoot my opponents from below where they can't see me. Lol yeah yeah dont judge me. I was really green.

 

My first obstacle was that my screen turned into a big giant circle that wouldn't shoot no matter how many times I right clicked .... and I get this message. "do damage or interact with an object". Ok. Alright. I will circle back to this circle gun business. Decided to try my blasters out! Message again "do damage or interact with an object". Im thinking I had better hurry so I hit the space bar. My ship runs out of gas after 10 feet. Piece of junk. Now I get the countdown. "In 30 seconds you will be removed. do damage or interact with an object." I'm getting upset. I was trying to shoot ppl 30k meters away with obstacles between us. with blasters. Cmon just give me one lucky shot ...

 

"Your teammates have voted to remove you from the match" WAT DE HAIL! YOU ALL CAN'T GIVE SOMEBODY 5 MINUTES TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO WORK THEIR CIRCLE GUN?????????

 

I was hot. Qued right back up. Being stubborn and overconfident is a way of life for me. Grabbed my piece of junk Gunship and hit it. Im thinking - I will stay visible and out in the open this time so people can see I am working out this circle gun mystery. Maybe I can have 5 minutes this time. Flew into the only open space on the map and parked. Got shot down instantly. Spawned right into a campers guns. Guess who it was? If you guessed "fly a gunship" guy then you are right. Didn't matter which spawn point I used he was on me in 15 seconds or less. Absolutely nothing I could do. It was brutal. Can't run because I have a 2 cylinder moped engine with 1 oz of fuel. Can't shoot because my gun is broke. I seem to be the only person on my team so no help there. Can't change my ship out because I AM figuring out this circle gun no matter what. I really tried but the end of this part of the story is that I got shot down 11 times. Mostly by spawncamper fly a gunship guy. I decided to make a career out of shooting that person down. Wrote their name on a post it and stuck it to my monitor. Went to bed.

 

Next day I did some reading and learned that my circle gun was actually a railgun. And also read how to fire it. I was done with the gunship by then. I looked over my goods and settled on the blackbolt! That looked pretty sporty. Surely it has a Hemi Hellcat with a full tank of 108 octane! And those wicked looking guns poking out the front? Yeaaahhhhh! this baby can get me some revenge for sure. Qued up.

 

[chat timestamp] Chuppy: looks like we have a bunch of (sprouts?, cherries? - can't remember) again today. You guys stick together and look out for each other and we have a chance to win this.

 

Me thinking: nod nod nod. Nice! we have General Kenobi on our team!

 

Countdown ends; gates open. My team goes in at least 496 different directions. Before I could blink three times the score was 1 to 12 - them.

 

Me thinking: I need to at least find one person to fly with. Then I can some revenge! I start flying over to where 3 of my mates are. By the time I get there they are star dust and I am on my own. The enemy was everywhere. I hit the road burning rubber all over the place. I see a green glimmer of hope at the edge of my screen. Punch it! Forgetting rule #1 I straight lined it to that beautiful green circle. I had what felt like every Drakolich that had ever lived chasing me and shooting at me. Ran out of gas. Crap. ship smoking and burning everywhere.

 

That green dot saw me in a bad spot and charged at full speed. Blasters pew pew pewing at everything. shooting missiles 26 at a time it seemed like. It was in my eyes so heroic and awesome. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen anyone do in GSF. I eventually noticed my new green dot friend had a name over it. It was Chuppy. We were both shot down in short order.

 

While at the spawn I noticed Chuppy was flying a striker. I grabbed my Rycer and spent the rest of the match shadowing Chuppy best I could and trying to shoot whatever they shot at. At some point I noticed Chuppy was shooting at people who were shooting at me. Lightbulb moment. I started trying to keep ppl off of Chuppy. I doubt I managed 7% accuracy and I know I was still seeking my first kill but I WAS THERE. For the first time I had some FUN in a GSF match even though our team was completely crushed. I learned so much in that match that you could think of it as a watershed moment. This story doesn't quite end here though. best part is yet to come.

 

End of Match, waiting for timer so we can leave.

 

{chat timestamp} Chuppy: Nice flying ladies. You sure looked pretty out there.

 

I fell out my chair laughing.

 

Good night everyone.

 

Hah! I remember saying this. The girls need to know when they're doing well, and looking pretty.

[Seasons Pilots read here.]

hi! Glad you're having fun and helping others! My advice is to spin in circles until you can figure out which way is up. AND manage engines so you can get away from the baddies - until you can poke them.

have fun!

chuppy/old bird