Guide [PS2] General Intro to Vehicles

Odin047 · October 29, 2014

General

Setting a vehicle to "squad/platoon" allows your squad/platoon mates to drive the vehicle.
You can use the Vehicle Management menu (Page Down) to lock a vehicle down (only you can enter) or to only allow people in squad/platoon to enter.
All vehicle weapons have a 1 cert each upgrade for basic ammo capacity and added zoom.
HE = High Explosive. Great against infantry. Less effective against heavy armor.
HEAT = High Explosive Anti Tank. Not great for anything, small splash and not great armor damage.
AP = Armor Piercing. Great against heavy armor. Less effective against infantry unless you can hit them.
You can use cruise control with vehicles to make them go forward without having to press any buttons. Press the = key to enable and disable cruise control.
Use the function keys (F1-F12) to change seats in a vehicle. If you try to change to an occupied seat, the person on the seat will be can choose whether to change seats or not.
Set up your personal waypoint by right clicking the map screen. You are less likely to make a wrong turn if you know the general direction you wish to go to.
Any squad member can spawn in any Sunderer or Galaxy that is owned and occupied by another squad member.

Ground vehicles

Press B to deploy the sunderer, allowing friendly troops to spawn in.
When driving close to infantry with no nearby hostiles, press T to enter third person mode. This gives you more vision on possible nearby friendly infantry.
As a gunner, do not shoot at everything moving. This will only alert the enemy to your presence without really doing any damage to that Liberator flying a mile away.
The default 20mm dual-barreled machinegun on main battle tanks and Sunderers does damage even to main battle tanks. Help out your gunner when he is engaging armor. You shooting at the tank too can be the deciding factor.
Parking a vehicle where people using a jump pad land on kills the people coming in flying. Avoid doing this to friendlies.
Do not park vehicles on vehicle spawn points. When someone spawns a vehicle there, yours will be destroyed.
Turn off your lights by pressing L. Using them only attracts attention.

Air vehicles

Fly in third person mode (T) for better view on your surroundings.
Rebind air vehicle exit to something you won't hit accidentally when reloading.
There is no parachute, if you have to bail out, get low and get slow, then jump out. If you are going too fast or too high, you will die, the exception being if you are in a Galaxy or some Valkyries.
Consider binding the pitch controls to your keyboard or (if you have them) your additional mouse buttons. This allows you to turn at the maximum possible turn rate, for faster maneuvering.
Set your personal waypoint to a safe location you can use to resupply and repair. This way, you'll instantly know where to retreat to if you get ambushed. Many a good pilots have "retreated" straight to an even greater danger in an adrenaline rush.

Edited October 29, 2014 by Odin047

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