WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IN PLANETSIDE 2 BEFORE FRIDAY

I'm a PS2 veteran, so I volunteered to help out Motre conscripted me, so I guess I should help out or something. You're a cunt, Motre.

Things you should do before Friday:

1. Refer to this to find out wtf I'm talking about if you don't know.

2. Install and patch the client. Patching involves running it. It's gonna take a while. Get onto the Emerald server on the NC side.

3. Join the Brave outfit. It's set to auto-accept applicants.

4. Play the game a little to get the controls down. Make sure you can use the in game voice chat. Set up push-to-talk keys for ingame squad, proximity (no, enemies cannot hear you through this), and outfit chat. Those are the bare minimum.

5. Figure out which class you like the most, and put some certs into him.

6. Fuck around in the VR training area to figure out which weapons and attachments you might like.

7. In general, just fuck around.

8. If you are fucking around, and are in the outfit, check the outfit page in you escape key menu to see if anyone is online. If there is, group up with them.

9. http://planetside.wikia.com/wiki/PlanetSide_2_Wiki Go there and learn if you are the type to want to know everything.

10. Get the stalker cloak unlocked for the Infiltrator. We'll be having some fun with this one. It allows you to cloak indefinitely, as it recharges when you aren't moving. It also restricts you to pistols and such only, so it's a bit interesting. And remember, you are most invisible when crouched and not moving.

11. If you want to make certs and such fast, grab a medic, find a meat grinder, and revive people. Point your medic gun at a body with a death icon over it, and press RMB to make sick XP. Press F to heal everyone near you when in a blob for even more sick XP. 1 cert = 250 XP, so get at it.

12. Many things can be unlocked with a single cert. Things like vehicle weapon zoom and shit like that. And remember, make sure the thing you want to equip to you or your vehicles must be selected. Just unlocking it doesn't suffice.

13. Familiarize yourself with the map. Blue is friendly freedom fighters. Red are imperialist fascists. Purple are gorram purple-bellies. I highly recommend recoloring the purple-bellies to pink in your options menu.

14. ASK QUESTIONS HERE. I can answer them, and so can many others here I'm sure.

15. Give me something humorous to put in the MOTD of the outfit in game.

16. Discover just how OP Magriders are, and curse SOE for ever thinking they were a good idea.

17. Remember, this is an out of Eve event with separate comms. We may get folks playing with us from other alliances and coalitions in Eve. Please don't be shitlers to them: we're all just here to have some fun.

18. Wrote a wall of useful info in the comments here

19. EDIT: Stickied? I guess it's time to update it. These will be periodic updates when I have the time.

20. Classes: Light Assault: You have short range weapons, a jetpack (press and hold space), light armor, and should unlock C4 for it. You are the most mobile. Use this to flank enemies, take out Sunderers (more on vehicles later), and get into trouble. Your role is to hit those clutch points that no other class can, or get somewhere really damn fast. Heavy: You are heavy weapons guy. You have big gun with lots of ammo. You have rocket launcher. You have heavy armor. You have super shield (hit F). You're job is to keep enemies pinned down, and blow up vehicles. Combat Medic: You have the ability to heal as resurrect people. You are not a from lines fighter. You stay with a group, and keep them alive. Your priorities are other medics, MAXes, and engis. You can resurrect MAXes, but cannot heal them. You also have the second longest range weapons, so use them to take out pesky enemies when no one is dead. Engineer: You have a repair gun. You have a deployable ammo box. You keep vehicles healthy and keep infantry ammo full. You also heal MAXes. You also have the same short range hard hitting weapons as the light assault. You also have a deployable manned turret. Infiltrator: You have a cloak, and the longest range weapons. You also have SMGs, just like all the other classes. Use the cloak to get around areas stealthily. Use your weapons to take out and harass enemy positions. Use your mines to piss off enemy infantry. MAX: You are a walking tank. You start with an anti air arm, and a shotgun arm. You can have rocket launchers, dual AA, dual shotgun, etc. You have armor instead of shield and health. Your roles depend on your loadout, but, with the appropriate loadouts, you are the best at room clearing, charging, AA, AT, etc.

21. Ground Vehicles: Sunderer: Party bus. Troop Transport. When deployed, it can also be a spawn point. Press B to deploy. Has two guns on top, and lots of HP. Also known as a Sundy Vanguard: NC MBT. Lots of armor, fairly slow, big gun, and secondary gunner's seat. Lightning: Fast, lightly armored tank. Single seat. Not as powerful as the Vanguard, but good anti-personnel. Harrasser: It's a jeep with a gun. Not much more needs said. Flash: IT'S A GODDAMNED ATV WITH A GUN. HOW COOL IS THAT?

22. Air: Reaver: AA and AG in one hard to fly package. Paper thin, like the other ESFs, so be careful. Liberator: Gunship. Use it to rain hell on your enemies. Galaxy: Troop transport, squad spawn point, and even better gunship with the right gun and upgrades. Valkyrie: Jeep of the sky. Treat it like a Blackhawk.

EDIT: Whoever stickied this, pls PM me. There will be another alliance mail and reddit post tomorrow that explain the final plans and details of the event as well as tips and tricks tomorrow. When that goes up, having that stickied instead of this would be beneficial, as it will refer to both this and Motre's post, as well as have a hell of a lot of new information for newbros to Planetside 2.