A few days ago, I’d finally been obliterated by an orbital cannon, but just about an hour ago, I got an opportunity to try out the ‘live bait’ counter to orbital cannon strikes.
Courtesy of GhilleMaster, the live bait strategy involves a Avenger and by being on the turret(or just in the Avengers hold.), you won’t die when the Avenger gets blasted, but the game still considers the strike a success and doesn’t refund the player who called for it.
So this player heads to his facility, I call the Avenger in the LS storm drain and park my Stromberg next to it, go inside and jump on a turret.
He’s in there for about 5-10 mins and then sure enough...
(You can even see the shot too.
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The buzz I got from someone pretty much spend at least 500k to blow up my car and my Avenger and not kill me was damn good.
Turns out, this wasn’t a tryhard though, this guy hadn’t played the game in over a year and had “money to burn” and was testing the news toy out, quite civilised player in fact.
So I gave the guy some pointers, like don’t orbital strike static Avengers or MOCs for example and after he got blitzed by a randoms Pyro in his Hydra, I recommended it to him as the best dogfighter to fight jets with.
Earlier in the night, I did a sale run and was chased by a Avenger, Before I went to the first drop I trusted my gut feeling to call my Anti Air trailer in and hook it up to the Insurgent and then set off.
Happily my gut call was right on, all the MOC’s feared the Flak cannon.
Second attempt was also shot down, but by my Mk2 Heavy Sniper which somehow oneshoted it,
they did eventually wreck my shipment, but I only lost one crate and the payback I doled out with the help of a likeminded random more than made up for it, even went from a 1.65 to 1.68K/D (Not that I actually care about it mind you.
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Aside from that one minor setback, it was good fun night of GTA Online. 👍
