*** Official Planetside 2 Thread ***

IronWarrior said:
Yeah, that's what keeps bringing me back, there is no other game like it but I bet DICE could give them a run for their money if they decided to go bigger.

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The Medic Tool level 6 and the 2.0 scope is both 500 certs, while I have 320 so saved, think in the end I stick to my plan and max my Medic Tool. I'm currently playing that a lot now and enjoying reviving people, getting 100-200XP per revive and is more supportive to the team then something as personal as a scope upgrade.
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As I've said before though, Dice may very well be able to do a better job but we've never seen them make a game of this scale before so their past titles mean very little in terms of how well it would run even if they are perhaps better in certain aspects if we're talking in purely fps mechanics terms. I also think I'd be right in saying that they have vastly greater resources at their disposal than SOE both in terms of manpower and finances. If making something like PS2 was simple it would have been done by now, or more companies would at least be trying it.

Sure SOE can do a lot better in many ways but who out there is actually doing it better in mmofps right now? Until Dice step up and make something on this scale bringing them into the debate is pointless imo. Sadly and realistically they'll most likely play it safe and churn out yearly battlefield games with the same old same old rather than try something like PS2.

Regarding medic, yes definitely get the medic tool maxed out, get the aoe heal maxed as well. Revive grenades are obviously a little situational but well worth it too. 2x C4 on the medic is always useful for me too.
 
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Unlocked Medic Tool 6 just a hour ago thanks to the NC and their unlimited supply of vehicles to reap.

Honestly, I swear some players play with none-stop tunnel vision and can't see anything else other then in-front of them.

Most of my tank killing was done on top of a large hill outside Esmairs Warp Gate firing down on their tanks from Northgate to Snowshear. I was running out of Ammo in about 2-3 minutes with about 3-4 vehicle kills each time.
 
PhysicsMan94 said:
Another glorious alert victory for the TR over Amerish very early this morning on Woodman!
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TR just won a Alert Victory in Miller at Amerish!

We was very close to capping it before the Alert and would had done it the Alert didn't happen since it opened the flood gates for NC to pour in, they took all our ground and was pushing us back into the map and inside the half-way point of the map but enough TR must had made it through the Warp Gate because out of no where it seems we started to take everything back and was pushing around the NC Warp Gate when the Alert ended with a TR Victory! :D

I have also bought a 6 month subscription for the game, so was enjoying the 100% XP boost which sometimes jumped to 120% XP.

Was making 700XP to 1000XP for vehicle kills so was recking up the certs! Hoping to make a other 130 tonight to buy the final performance level for my Flash.
 
IronWarrior said:
TR just won a Alert Victory in Miller at Amerish!

We was very close to capping it before the Alert and would had done it the Alert didn't happen since it opened the flood gates for NC to pour in, they took all our ground and was pushing us back into the map and inside the half-way point of the map but enough TR must had made it through the Warp Gate because out of no where it seems we started to take everything back and was pushing around the NC Warp Gate when the Alert ended with a TR Victory! :D

I have also bought a 6 month subscription for the game, so was enjoying the 100% XP boost which sometimes jumped to 120% XP.

Was making 700XP to 1000XP for vehicle kills so was recking up the certs! Hoping to make a other 130 tonight to buy the final performance level for my Flash.
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I wish I had so much time on my hands.
 
Just started playing this and having loads of fun.

My only problem is I keep getting major lag, especially when the map gets busy.

I think it's my connection, shared wireless which I can't change. Moving in a month though so will hopefully be able to do much better. Might make sniping actually possible!
 
Lattice system: They need to introduce this ASAP. The general idea for this game is that you should be working in teams/squads/platoons... but what is happening is that you are having to split your squads and continually going back for ghost cappers for stuff that you have literally just taken via a hard fight. This isn't such a problem during huge population times, but during low/med times, it's incredibly difficult to keep up with these guys just ghost capping, and massively reduces your squads effectiveness due to constantly splitting up.

I completely understand the need to keep new/lone players engaged, but as a team game, it's a total nightmare. It seems harder to keep the line held against ghost cappers than it does against large forces.

Maybe we just need to adapt our tactics or something? (I also appreciate that the lattice system may actually limit strategies and potentially just make the game a 'grind fest')
 
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Only being able to cap areas that share a hex border with ones your empire already holds would work. You might get the odd choke point / grind fest, but that's Planetside ( brings back bad memories of Leza bridge on Cyssor... )

They should still allow people to kill gens, etc... on bases outwith the hex border though to disable any benefit the base brings, like PS1 did.
 
Lil old me said:
Just started playing this and having loads of fun.

My only problem is I keep getting major lag, especially when the map gets busy.

I think it's my connection, shared wireless which I can't change. Moving in a month though so will hopefully be able to do much better. Might make sniping actually possible!
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Wireless is never good. However, lag is a problem for everyone on occasion. It's a by-product of having thousands of people online at the same time in a FPS. They are working on it.
 
Errol said:
Wireless is never good. However, lag is a problem for everyone on occasion. It's a by-product of having thousands of people online at the same time in a FPS. They are working on it.
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I was having lag problems a while back, I nailed it down to the consistency of my wireless connection. Every time there was a flicker in the wireless signal it sent the game haywire. Never seen anything like it.
 
Suarez7 said:
Still debating whether to pay 6 months premium or just slug it out earning certs.
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First and most importantly do you enjoy it? and do you see that continuing? are you in an outfit you're happy with?

Secondly, how much do you play? how much (if any) do you spend on or plan to spend on station cash? how many things are there that you want to unlock now? how many things will they add in 6 months that you want to get?

Personally for the amount of time I spend on it the £46 for 6 months is worth it, but I play this pretty much as my main game with an outfit I'm really happy with. Still, these are the kind of things I'm thinking about with mine up for renewal next month. For me I'm pretty certain I'll carry on with a sub, I'd say if you answer yes to all of the first bit then it will be worth it.

The second part for me would influence how much I'd feel I would playing the grind, playing to grind out the certs for something rather than for fun.
 
In good news... they are keeping the game heavily updated and constantly making improvements. There are times that are massively poor when things don't work, but on the whole the updates are coming thick and fast which is good :-)

Just downloading the public test server :-D (Cue a million people just playing on the test server instead of in game! lol)
 
I highly recommend paying for 6 months to get the 50% XP and then use the 500 SC to get a other 50% XP booster for 100% XP

Ever since I subbed which has only been a few days, am earning certs at a crazy rate, today I earned about 600-700 certs where it would normally take me 4-5 days or so.

At one point, I earned 120 certs in about 45 minutes. It's allowed me to unlock so much stuff. My Medic tools are all maxed now and am currently upgrading it's armour. I maxed out Auto-Repair on my Mossy, that took two days to earn enough certs. Really enjoying having my Mossy repair itself, don't need to land so often now. I'm thinking of unlocking Radar for the Mossy next.

I haven't joined the Beta Server yet, but am not looking forward to the new Hex and Flow system, like someone pointed out on the official forums, it's just going to dumb the game down to a linear system where you are forced to go from point A to point B which will turn into a race between players and their outfits trying to force a huge army down paths which will meet a other zerg of players. Flanking enemies forces and cutting them off will be a thing of history.
 
Surely if you've got 100% xp, you're only getting it in double the rate? So it took you to get in one day what you could normally get in two? o.O
 
IronWarrior said:
I highly recommend paying for 6 months to get the 50% XP and then use the 500 SC to get a other 50% XP booster for 100% XP

Ever since I subbed which has only been a few days, am earning certs at a crazy rate, today I earned about 600-700 certs where it would normally take me 4-5 days or so.

At one point, I earned 120 certs in about 45 minutes. It's allowed me to unlock so much stuff. My Medic tools are all maxed now and am currently upgrading it's armour. I maxed out Auto-Repair on my Mossy, that took two days to earn enough certs. Really enjoying having my Mossy repair itself, don't need to land so often now. I'm thinking of unlocking Radar for the Mossy next.

I haven't joined the Beta Server yet, but am not looking forward to the new Hex and Flow system, like someone pointed out on the official forums, it's just going to dumb the game down to a linear system where you are forced to go from point A to point B which will turn into a race between players and their outfits trying to force a huge army down paths which will meet a other zerg of players. Flanking enemies forces and cutting them off will be a thing of history.
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It's possible to have quite large fronts so flanking will still be viable. The game continues to evolve and gets better with every patch, just wish I had time to play it.
 
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