PS2 Alert Metagame Analysis: 4th Jan - 4th Feb 2021

Hello everyone to the first monthly Alert Metagame Anaylsis for the month of January 2021! This will be a monthly series where I detail the changes between each month and how well each metric / faction is doing towards the overall metagame.
All data and information is sourced from the PS2 Alert Tracker.Data is correct as of Friday 4th Feb 15:40 UTC.

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Alert Victories All Activity Levels (every server w/ PS4)

• Activity levels are calculated based off an average of alert population. They are broken down into the following brackets:
  • Prime = 4+ platoons each side
  • High = 3-4 platoons
  • Med = 2-3 platoons
  • Low = 1-2 platoons
  • Dead = <1 platoon

Current leader: VS!

Over the past few weeks NC really have upped their game and have started to challenge VS for the top spot in the all bracket tier, with only 27 alerts between them. TR is lagging behind in every single metric possible right now, including server level brackets, in exception to Cobalt TR, where they are sitting at 31% Prime wins, whereas on all over servers they are sub 30%. TR is really suffering right now!
Prime AlertsCurrent leader: VS!

VS remains the dominant force globally for all prime bracket wins, in exception to VS on Emerald who are behind NC by 3% (3 alerts between them!). Miller VS are tryharding and leading the faction with a whopping 48% win ratio.
Best faction performers VS (all alerts): Cobalt VS with an impressive 46% victory rate.
VS (prime alerts) Miller VS with a staggering 48% win rate! Two weeks ago this was Emearld VS, just goes to show how early in the metagame stage how the numbers can swing!
NC (all alerts): Ceres NC with 43% victory rate. On PC, The win goes to Miller with a 41% victory rate. BHO ghostcap stronk mateys, Mikey needs his Blues!
NC (prime alerts) Emerald has taken the crown from Connery with edging a 35% versus 34% win rate. Two weeks ago this was SolTech.
TR (all alerts): Terrans are consistently underperforming across the board with sub 30% win rates on all servers except Genudine who's on 33%. Please note, Genudine's Alert data is a little behind due to recent DDOS attempts, causing alerts to crash and skewing the stats, so I chose to turn them off for a period.
TR (prime alerts): Out of the best they can do, Cobalt TR is leading the faction with a 31% win rate.

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Best PlayersGloballyCurrently, we're using raw killing potential to determine this award, which could be rebranded into a "Alert Farmer League", who knows. Globally, the top player for kills is [1RPC] ursuak (NC) hailing from Miller with a whopping 9,721 kills. His KD is 3.21 (3,030 deaths).

Server	Player	Faction	Kills	Deaths	KD	Comments
Ceres	Dhearcore	VS	6,671	3,249	2.95	Outfit is Hentai Kun... whatever that means
Cobalt	[BLNG] DefinitelyNotZodiacZia	TR	8,045	3,856	2.09	Wonder what his Zodiac sign is?
Connery	[UN17] Methodis	TR	7,667	3,285	2.33	I wonder what his method of farming is?
Emerald	[RTLS] Igotyoubaby	VS	7,539	2,745	2.75	I gotchu stats fam
Genudine	[FOM4] RandomCrits	TR	2,589	1,250	2.07	Interestingly only battlerank 83, while the rest of this list are ASPed.
Miller	[1PRC] ursuak	NC	9,721	3,030	3.21	Surprisngly the only NC player here!
SolTech	Y1M2019	VS	6,973	1,429	4.88	Highest KD player here, clearly hacking ;)

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Best OutfitsGloballyGlobal award goes to, unsurprisingly, yet again, [SKL] KSoKaars Legion (VS) with massive 327,072 kills, 404,070 deaths and a measily 0.81 KD. They also have captured 1,971 bases. A true zergfit fitting of the game's meta.
Note, I realise that for many people they would like to see "kills per player" of an outfit stats. I'll be working on those soon.
However, Outfitless players on NC Emerald outshine any singular outfit by approx 18k more kills. Emerald NC,

RECRUIT YOUR GUYS
Per server

Server	Outfit	Faction	Kills	Deaths	KD	Captures	Comments
Ceres	[FERO] Feros Initiative	VS	52,246	55,347	0.94	610
Cobalt	[BOIS] The Boys	VS	187,517	220,402	0.85	1,028	The bois are back in town...
Connery	[TCW2] THE WILD CARDS	VS	246,158	294,280	0.84	1,521	One of the highest farmers / farmed outfits out there.
Emerald	[SKL] SoKaars Legion	VS	327,072	404,070	0.81	1,971	They are the true zergift, all hail SKL
Genudine	[TRSF] Terran Special Forces	TR	25,514	33,797	0.75	229	The first TR entry on this list!
Miller	[DIG] Dignity of War	VS	236,370	283,661	0.83	1,311	I'm naturally biast, but DIG's captures of 1,311 bases is quite impressive! 2nd place is BHO with 901 caps.
SolTech	[HHzs] HH Warp Corps VS	VS	177,214	244,996	0.72	1,146	The lowest KD outfit out of this list!

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Best WeaponsI'm not going to do a per-server breakdown of these the interest of keeping this post shorter (you can all means view it on the website itself if you're interested), so I'll give you the top 5 globally:

Weapon	Facton	Kills	TKs	Suicides	Headshots	HSR	Comments
NC6 Gauss SAW	NC	537,359	17,021	0 (N/A)	160,296	29.83%	As if there was any doubt!
Orion VS54	VS	462,824	12,797	1?!	150,769	32.58%	Not sure how someone manage to suicide themselves with this weapon! But the stats don't lie!
Betelgeuse 54-A	VS	425,664	6,936	0 (N/A)	155,241	36.47%	The ever controversial Battlegoose is here to stay at 3rd place. Highest HSR of all weapons in this list.
MSW-R	TR	384,895	7,408	0 (N/A)	129,490	33.64%	This 2 weeks ago was the Punisher which has been toppled off the top spot by ~3k kills!
NS-66 Punlisher	NS	380,888	9,476	46	94,470	24.05%	Somehow 46 people managed to kill themselves with the grenades...
Roadkills	ALL	360,154	204,817	81,309	0 (N/A)	0% (N/A)	I normally would only put 5 weapons here, but this is an interesting metric!

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Best Vehicle CategoriesThe stat breakdowns on this are a little light as there is a TON of data for vehicles, please visit the website for a increased breakdowns, below is a summary.
Sorted by KD, here are the top 3 vehicles types (excluding bastion as the API doesn't give us "bastion died" data.
SpecialColossus with 16.69KD, 38,507 kills in total.
MBT / TankMagrider with a 5.62KD, 375,993 kills in total.
AircraftLiberator with a 5.53KD, 238,333 kills in total.
Note on this, the Scythe is massively underperforming with a 2.05KD, whereas the Mosquito is at 2.52 and the reaver is at 2.57.

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Hottest BasesA recent addition to the data collecton, we are starting to get a picture of the most captured bases. They are:

Unsurprisingly they're all the 1-minute bases, there's going to naturally be more of them. Below are the top Amp, Tech and Biolabs:

• Tech: Eisa Tech (Esamir) with 269 caps
• Biolab: Acan Biolab (Hossin) with 358 caps
• Amp: Baldur Amp Station (Esamir) with 301 caps

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And there you have it! Vehicles, class information, Faction Combat metrics and much much more are available on the official PS2 Alerts website
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