I just played this game for a few hours as a medic and it ran ok and looked ok i guess, i can see it being fun for a bit but it's just a constant battle and shifts around a huge area which feels disorganised and not very interesting or social, hardly anyone chats and the you can't really win, it all seems a bit pointless?
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Just under 35 is the lowest it goes in any battle I've been in (on Miller so pretty large battles).
I have a good system though pushed to the max - i7 2.7 overclocked to 4.6-4.7, 16 gb fast ram, SSD, EVGA 580 and running at 'low' resolution (1280x1024). Machine is clean as well (i.e optimised for gaming).
Join a squad/outfit.
Think of it like a large BF1942/BF2. There was no more point to those games. You just fight over massive territories killing stuff. Each base is a victory/loss. No situation is ever quite the same.
I was with one by default and tried to get them to communicate but hardly anyone said anything, i ran around with them and healed etc, it's fun for a bit but i think the size and chaos makes the game feel a bit pointless, if it was more interactive on a small scale, like working together inside buildings and vehicles to achieve some objective it might be better, something i think most mmo's lack with their large scale and static environments.
Team objectives... lol. It would be awesome to have something like Natural Selection 2 (wish objectives to build/construct etc), and maybe some team things like in TF2.... but then you see people doing things like shooting the generators as they clearly have no idea what the score is. If you join a public squad, people are rarely on the microphone, which is pretty much essential for this game. Or at least for the SL to be on a mic.
Yeah it would be pretty good if it was like ns2, even some sort of mini commander which can drop items and structures and mix rts and fps game play it could be quite fun, this game even feels a little like what i imagine it would be like on the ground in supreme commander, if only we had a game like that...
Planetside 1 was fairly pointless too, but still hugely enjoyable as well.
Find an outfit to join. You can't beat it if you find one you like / get along with. Doing outfit events can be lots of fun, listening to the voice comms chatter, etc...
If I hadn't been in good outfits & got to know other players in Planetside 1 I'd have stopped playing it years ago, rather than playing it from beta up until around 9-10months ago when the hackers+low pops killed it for me.
Great fight at Torremar Storage Yard on Amerish (Miller) for me tonight, just under 2 squads from Digital Legion [DL] (NC outfit on Miller) holding off a couple of TR platoons for about 20 mins. The amount of sunderers, tanks, aircraft and troops attacking was just insane, the whole minimap around the point building/spawn was a swarm of red.
We were just moving between bases and thought we'd cap it on the way. We take it and a couple of TR squads turn up and quickly cap it back. We then storm it again and take it, whole thing starts snowballing as more and more TR show up and we just dug in around the point and held on as long as we could which was surprisingly long given the forces involved. Moments like that in a good outfit really make this game for me.
Also, think I saw mehuk there, hope it was a good fight from your side if that was you, first ocuk'er I've actually seen in game if so.
We were just moving between bases and thought we'd cap it on the way. We take it and a couple of TR squads turn up and quickly cap it back. We then storm it again and take it, whole thing starts snowballing as more and more TR show up and we just dug in around the point and held on as long as we could which was surprisingly long given the forces involved. Moments like that in a good outfit really make this game for me.
Also, think I saw mehuk there, hope it was a good fight from your side if that was you, first ocuk'er I've actually seen in game if so.
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Yeah we were there, same as you in a sense.. got dragged into it more than planned it. We were moving off from Tumas Tech, something like that im useless with names... as the mass zerg was around.
Was a good fight, nice room that you guys held... NC maxes are 'insert swear word'
Yeah we were there, same as you in a sense.. got dragged into it more than planned it. We were moving off from Tumas Tech, something like that im useless with names... as the mass zerg was around.
Was a good fight, nice room that you guys held... NC maxes are 'insert swear word'
To be fair we only had a couple of maxes
great work from our engineers and medics to keep them up, especially when the TR first max crashed us.Anyway good to see you're still about/enjoying it and nice to finally see someone from here in game, even if you're TR
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To be fair we only had a couple of maxes
Anyway good to see you're still about/enjoying it and nice to finally see someone from here in game, even if you're TR
Yeah its good fun, and imo will only get better - people just need patience, rather than instant gratification. Even if Planetside was perfect, people would still moan and run off to every new game coming in the slight chance that they could be the best at it.
Enough of that rant though. I think that little battle proved what fun can be had with Planetside, im sure you have been on both sides of the coin... last night you tucked up nicely, worked out coverage and supported each other. For us, we had to plan in and around the other TR trying to crack the building... and that's what the game is about... team work both in defending and attacking, and then the smaller skirmishes that mix in with the big wild battles.
Im sure our paths will cross again - Blue ********
Totally agree, would even be willing to reroll for this if there was enough of us.
Digital Legion? I think I work with one of your members.
Those smaller fights, where you have a couple of squads vs platoons can be epic
Woodman has been seeing a fair number of new players in the past week, so our battles are more and more frequent, and now the server is often pop lock on all three continents
Those smaller fights, where you have a couple of squads vs platoons can be epic
Woodman has been seeing a fair number of new players in the past week, so our battles are more and more frequent, and now the server is often pop lock on all three continents
Those smaller fights, where you have a couple of squads vs platoons can be epic
True. The last-ditch stands where you fight to the death are great fun.
Should definitely be one. Would it be TR?
another double XP weekend coming up and news of the mobile android/apple app for PS2.
And this video looking at the stunning PS2 gfx engine in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljLa-gXAaHQ&feature=player_embedded#! - this is a great video showing the power of the PS2 engine. It's been built to last for years.
And this video looking at the stunning PS2 gfx engine in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljLa-gXAaHQ&feature=player_embedded#! - this is a great video showing the power of the PS2 engine. It's been built to last for years.
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Ok, so there is definitely interest in an outfit, but the following needs to be decided:
Server
Faction
Which is obviously a tough decision. Do weapons you buy with certs/station cash carry over to different servers etc?
EDIT: I genuinely don't care as I've only played about 10 hours and only bought attachments etc.
Server
Faction
Which is obviously a tough decision. Do weapons you buy with certs/station cash carry over to different servers etc?
EDIT: I genuinely don't care as I've only played about 10 hours and only bought attachments etc.