*** Official Planetside 2 Thread ***
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Soldato
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you guys and girls decided what faction your sticking with? before you lot seem to be pretty much exclusive to T.R. (supresses a giggle), and was wondering if you though of changing sides to the winning side..
TR born and bred!
Massive scale combat - although PS was 133 (399 total) players per cont, they say PS2 will be 1000+v1000+v1000+.
Graphics look great for an online shooter which should have hundreds if not thousand of players all at once.
Even SP games don't achieve that texture quality sometimes.
Graphics don't bother me, don't play games because they're "pretty". The gameplay is/was immense in PS and can only see PS2 being even better.
Out of all the MMOs I have ever played, nothing comes close to the fights I've had in Ultima Online and Planetside - probably due to the fact it was PvP from the start.
If PS was anything to go by, very accessible, but hard to master
The premise is simple, start off with not so powerful weapons, kill/capture/heal/mend stuff to get experience to get better armour and weapons
Ultimately it then gets interesting when you join a large platoon/squad as you'll then start to co-ordinate on your strengths, so someone may be a good driver and be specced for a lot of vehicles, they might also be an engineer to repair the squads vehicles etc.
Other people might be born snipers or stealth players. Others might be really good with heavy weapons etc.
you get to the point where as a squad you can start acting together to accomplish certain goals
it really is a great game!I shall share a vid of old planet side (it has not aged well ) but you'll see the integration of peoples strengths into platoon sized fighting units.
Having a hugh running firefight from location to location just puts any other FPS to shame, people get excited over 64 player BF3 maps, it doesn't even come close to PS
) but you'll see the integration of peoples strengths into platoon sized fighting units.Having a hugh running firefight from location to location just puts any other FPS to shame, people get excited over 64 player BF3 maps, it doesn't even come close to PS
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got into the beta for this and could only play it for around a half hour. While i liked the jetpack type action and the ski-ing, which was a nice addition btw. I got really tired of the repetitive use of the old "noob tube" way of fighting.9 out of 10 ppl were doing this and this only so after playing 3 maps i decided to uninstall it. not my cup of tea playing like that. Though the engine seems nice and capable.
You able to give us some more info on the jet pack/ski-ing thing you talked about.
Also what do you mean noob tube way of fighting, what do you mean playing 3 maps? There is only 1 map surely, just different continents?
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I signed up to it ages ago and never played the 1st game. Visually its very nice, plays very smoothly and hitboxes arent a joke like BF3's. I only saw 3 maps (or as you say 3 continents) which ranged from tropical beach with massive ships overhead, ancient ruins and the 3rd i only saw for a few minutes which had a lot of hills and slopes to ski down and gullies to hide in. I only had 2 weapons to try out. Machine gun and grenade launcher and my gripe from it came from the majority of the people i was on with using nothing but the launcher. The skiing was fun to do, slide down a big hill then blast upwards with the jetpack. There were ammo poins you walk into to reload all ammo.
The game mode i played was CTF and dont get me wrong it was fun for a little while. I just got tired of the constant use of the same tactic by people. (namely tube tube tube) fighting them was as easy as judging where they are going to land and firing at that spot but it got old fast for me.
I don't want people to think that im slating the game here as from what i have seen it has a good engine that ran the game at a fast pace with no problems at all, my only gripe is about the afore mentioned spamming of tubeshots to the point that someone actually shooting at you with the machine gun was rare (well, rare in the half hour or so i played it for)
Ill reinstall it later and give it a more in-depth go while its had a few days to settle but i hope that same style of play is not the prevelant one as that style is not for me.
The game mode i played was CTF and dont get me wrong it was fun for a little while. I just got tired of the constant use of the same tactic by people. (namely tube tube tube) fighting them was as easy as judging where they are going to land and firing at that spot but it got old fast for me.
I don't want people to think that im slating the game here as from what i have seen it has a good engine that ran the game at a fast pace with no problems at all, my only gripe is about the afore mentioned spamming of tubeshots to the point that someone actually shooting at you with the machine gun was rare (well, rare in the half hour or so i played it for)
Ill reinstall it later and give it a more in-depth go while its had a few days to settle but i hope that same style of play is not the prevelant one as that style is not for me.