How to Planetside (Vanu Edition)

If you are new to Planetside, please first check out

• Planetside 2: The Basics (updated May 2015) by Baby Koala
  
• A Less Confusing Planetside 2 by GodofDrakes

• Killing base turrets and unmanned enemy vehicles counts towards mission kill counts
  
• Using tanks will get you mission kills faster
  
• Hacking terminals and turrets in neutral territory counts towards infiltrator mission
  
• Damaging land vehicles and construction buildings counts towards the air mission (I don't remember the name of the mission)

Check out Daily Missions and You by Youngling Slayer to learn more about completing missions

Equip any gun with a underbarrel grenade launcher. Use this over everything else. Lashers are not so great because they warn the enemy in advance that their taking small damage before they die. With grenade launchers, the enemy dies instantly.

Primary - Corvus 5A55 (HPR Reflex 1x, Short Barrel, Laser Sight, Lashing Ammunition)
Ability - Nano Regen Device
Suit - Flak Armor
Grenade - Nanite Revive Grenade
Utility - Medical Kit
Implants - Combat Surgeon / Carapace OR Sidewinder / Survivalist The corvus with lasher ammo with make it so you never miss your targets ever again. You can shoot enemies hiding behind cover as well.

If using combat surgeon note that reviving allies (this includes throwing revive grenades) will recharge your recharge your Nano Regen Device. The strat here is to only engage the enemy when your regen device is maxed out. And fall back and revive allies when it starts depleting. Note that enemy kills also recharge it.

If using sidewinder you will be able to strafe faster (hold A or D to strafe). Strafing combined with laser sight / short barrel on corvus is something to be reckoned with. Survivalist implant because if your shield breaks you will be able to strafe even faster making it even harder for the enemy to hit you.

Darkstar - S Tier
Corvus 5A55 - S Tier
CME - A Tier (med to long range engagements)
H-V45 - A Tier (close range engagements)
Equinox VE2 - C Tier (underbarrel grenade launcher good for farming)
Pulsar VS1 - D Tier
Terminus VX-9 - ? Tier
VE-A Lacerta - ? Tier
Pulsar Burst - ? Tier

Utility - Fire Suppression
Defense - Nanite Proximity Repair
Performance - Racer High Speed Airframe
Top Weapon - A30 Walker (1.5x zoom, Reload Speed)
Tail Weapon - A30 Walker (1.5x zoom, Reload Speed)
Left Weapon - Pelter Rocket Pod (1.5x zoom, Reload Speed)
Right Weapon - M60 A - Bulldog (1.5x zoom, Magazine Size) Assuming you are flying with someone else with the same loadout in hot enemy territory. Never let go of 'W' key, glue your fingers to this key. The lead galaxy should never hold down 'Space Bar' unless the rear galaxy pilot is experienced. This way the rear galaxy pilot can easily catch up by holding down 'W' and 'Space Bar'. If there is a lot of AA, rotate around it counter-clockwise, the pelter gunners will do their thing. While rotating always tilt towards the center of where your rotating around so your top gunners have something to shoot at. If it's safe to do so, slow down (or don't slow down!) and switch to clockwise rotation and bombard the ground targets with the bulldogs. Always have a fallback waypoint if things go south. If you have the dudes and coordination you can bring 2 anti-lockon galaxies to prevent the nemesis of galaxies; anti-repair lock-on havoc missiles. Passive Systems - Maxed out Magburner
Utility Slot - Recharge
Defense Slot - Multi-directional Exhaust
Performance Slot - Rival Combat Chassis Rival Combat Chassis is faster than Racer High Speed Chassis when it comes to a magrider's strafing speed. Just hold A or D and Shift to boost and you will be able to get anywhere, whether it be a steep cliff or on top of your friends galaxy.

If it's your first time leading a squad check out Leading a Public Squad by LowBitLovecraft

Tell all your squad leads to go to the allied base defending against an attack and tell the rest of your platoon to go to the warpgate. Once all squad leads are at the base, tell your entire platoon to press the [Insert] key to teleport to where your squad leads are. This will override any pop hex limits. Tell everyone to bring multiple valkyries per squad to a location safe behind enemy lines. Then once everyone are in the valkyries, drop everyone on the enemy base point.

Occasionally check where 'J' (Join Combat) key takes you.

If you are asking if anyone has XYZ loadout in your squad. Tell them to put a 'x' in squad chat if they have it. This will help tremendously and tell you exactly who has the loadout. If for example you are forming a sundy ball or a galaxy ball. Tell everyone who has gunners to wait at waypoint A and everyone who does not have gunners to wait at waypoint B. Place alpha, bravo, charlie, delta markers in tactical positions and tell all alpha to go where alpha marker is and all of bravo should be near bravo marker and so on. Do this for every base you defend or attack.

• 20YearsPlanetSide (NSX-P Tengu)
  
• EXTRALIFE2022 (Benefactor helmet)
  
• LEGACY2022 (NS-11C Carbine and NS Harrower knife)
  
• SURF2022 (UBR-300 Swordfish-P Amphibious Rifle)
  
• PS2Escalation (NS11-P rifle and NS Helmet)
  
• 6YEARSPS2 (NSX-P Naginata and decal)
  
• NSOPS2019 (NSX-P Tengu)
  
• PS2WelcomeBack (NSX Tanto and NS Helmet)
  
• MLGREPORT (decal and 1 hour XP boost)
  
• PSUARMORDECAL (decal)
  
• PSUVEHICLEDECAL (decal)
  
• 5YEARSPS2 (decal)

• You can construct your own router (even if someone placed a router in that base already) in someone elses base