I loved it! Got to do everything in the game except piracy and punching a bitch! I get to tell my grandchildren that I was a starboard top turret gunner on a Retaliator bomber with 3 xeno kills to my credit and got wounded.
Once, I got killed when I crashed my Avenger landing on Jericho to drop off supplies. When I woke up in the hospital, XT had just ended but my corpse was still out there and I got to go out there and loot it! My own corpse! How many games let you do THAT!
From that incident, I learned that unless you are fully intending to do FPS, expensive armor and weapons don’t do any good in the cockpit. Now I fly with a white beacon undersuit and helmet, a cheap core armor for EVA mobility and to stow a burrito and a bottle of H2O, and an arc light pistol with a couple extra mags.
I also found out that when you’re wounded, you have to accurately diagnose yourself or all those fancy med pens won’t do dooky.
When I got wounded on the ‘tali, I used the standard red pen and nothing happened. I was staggering around, breathing heavy, falling down a lot and had blurred vision. Finally figured I was concussed and used the right pen and got better.
But the absolute BEST thing about this round of XT was being part of a team, and fighting for a worthy …..oh, who the hell am I kidding. The best thing about this was going from 73K aUEC to over 512K in about 4 hours. I freakin’ loved that! Maybe next time I’ll get to punch a bitch!
