*** Official Planetside 2 Thread ***

Qel said:
I know people keep coming up with these fantasy ideas of shield walls like we're suddenly going to turn into the Spartans at Thermopylae but I just don't think it's workable in real conditions, nor is it strong enough or big enough and frankly you're going to be really juicy slow moving clumped together c4 targets because that's all I'd be thinking if I was faced with it, sure you will die in the process but think of the xp. At the same time I'm tempted because it's all we're going to get...
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Not quite, but you should be able to break cap point holds with a few shield maxes absorbing all the damage.

I think that if they remove sprint from ZOE maxes that would balance them. Stop us being able to get in kill, and get out. We would have to play it a bit more cautious.
 
House said:
AI its not much good, one less bullet to kill with most AI weapons that's no damage buff, the only thing that's handy is you can dodge a bit now.

It is however pretty good at AV, that said so is lock down. If I played NC I wouldn't be happy, ive only seen the shield twice since it came out on Ceres.

Anyway I have zero certs on my max at BR 61 I think I am (its been moving fast the last few days) so I only know ive had more of them to repair than ever so yes VS are using allot more maxs now.

I love the new Saron and ive had loads of fun with it on a harasser. its great for running up on stupid prowler drivers and ripping them a new one.
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I have been using the 4th level of shield on my Max and takes quite a lot of grief. Had an epic moment crossing the bridge from Skydock to Regent Rock, two or three maxes with our shields out getting pummeled by mag riders and infantry, with our forces following behind on foot behind the shields. We just kept marching forward, with grim intent!
 
IronWarrior said:
Today on Miller. :p
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... I logged onto my Matterson char at 1am GMT... I briefly clicked my Miller char, TR were at 51% world pop. I stopped playing that at around 3am to logon to my Cobalt char.. TR were at 48% world pop on Miller, that's how it's been for weeks and how it was for the first few months of launch on that server.

I'm glad I ditched Miller, the only server comparable to it in the whole of PS2 for just how terrible the game plays on there is Briggs (AU).

You seriously need to start worrying here and lay off the "look how awesome and organized TR are on Miller" nonsense because eventually they're going to offer server transfers and I knew of a couple of NC outfits (one of them was big) that were just waiting for the chance to mass exodus from Miller, dare I say there would be VS outfits considering the same.
 
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Spektor said:
... I logged onto my Matterson char at 1am GMT... I briefly clicked my Miller char, TR were at 51% world pop. I stopped playing that at around 3am to logon to my Cobalt char.. TR were at 48% world pop on Miller, that's how it's been for weeks and how it was for the first few months of launch on that server.

I'm glad I ditched that server, the only server comparable to it in the whole of PS2 for just how terrible the game plays on there is Briggs (AU).

You seriously need to start worrying here and lay off the "look how awesome and organized TR are on Miller" nonsense because eventually they're going to offer server transfers and I knew of a couple of NC (one of them was big) outfits that were just waiting for the chance to mass exodus from Miller.
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I don't think account transfers will happen for a long time, in-fact I wouldn't be shocked to learn if they never do it.

Likely they just do a other server merge if they feel it's getting bad.

But on top of that, checking the server stats... TR only has a extra 1000 player accounts over NC and VS, that's not even 2-1.
 
IronWarrior said:
But on top of that, checking the server stats... TR only has a extra 1000 player accounts over NC and VS, that's not even 2-1.
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... and?

You can first of all have alts, which many TR will do, they don't have to play them for them to be there. I knew that most of BRTD had NC alts, the ones I knew I only ever seen on their NC maybe a couple of times since launch; but they're still there counting towards that statistc.

Even then, what's that got to do with the utterly broken population and how there are far, far more TR actively playing on Miller than the other factions, especially into the night. I know BRTD have a pretty sizable American playerbase to, something which I hadn't encountered in the few outfits I played with on NC / VS on Miller.

And on transfers and mergers the server transfers are coming. When they haven't said, they might kick up about it next week or they might Hossin it and we won't see it for months. On mergers Higby has quite recently said on stream that there are a couple of servers with terrible population issues that can't be merged because it would just carry over, he didn't name names, but there are only 3 servers I know of right now that he could be talking about and I'd rate Miller the absolute worst of them for this issue.
 
Spektor said:
... I logged onto my Matterson char at 1am GMT... I briefly clicked my Miller char, TR were at 51% world pop. I stopped playing that at around 3am to logon to my Cobalt char.. TR were at 48% world pop on Miller, that's how it's been for weeks and how it was for the first few months of launch on that server.

I'm glad I ditched Miller, the only server comparable to it in the whole of PS2 for just how terrible the game plays on there is Briggs (AU).

You seriously need to start worrying here and lay off the "look how awesome and organized TR are on Miller" nonsense
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Sadly IW like many of the TR (though many of them are good guys it has to be said) on Miller seem to think the population imbalance issues just indicate how awesome they are at the game rather than a massive problem in the making which will leave them with nobody to fight when all the NC and VS leave or reroll TR. As you say there are many outfits on NC and VS miller who are suffering declines in players, or outright thinking of moving server if the option appears/leaving the game entirely if nothing is done.

But hey I'm just NC so I guess I must just crying because they're like so awesome and skillful!!111

Spektor said:
On mergers Higby has quite recently said on stream that there are a couple of servers with terrible population issues that can't be merged because it would just carry over, he didn't name names, but there are only 3 servers I know of right now that he could be talking about and I'd rate Miller the absolute worst of them for this issue.
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I'd be interested in seeing that stream if you have a link. They need to do something soon or they will lose lots of players over the coming months, and even the TR will get bored eventually.
 
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Qel said:
Sadly IW like many of the TR (though many of them are good guys it has to be said) on Miller seem to think the population imbalance issues just indicate how awesome they are at the game rather than a massive problem in the making which will leave them with nobody to fight when all the NC and VS leave or reroll TR. As you say there are many outfits on NC and VS miller who are suffering declines in players, or outright thinking of moving server if the option appears/leaving the game entirely if nothing is done.

But hey I'm just NC so I guess I must just crying because they're like so awesome and skillful!!111



I'd be interested in seeing that stream if you have a link. They need to do something soon or they will lose lots of players over the coming months, and even the TR will get bored eventually.
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I initially had a TR on Miller, but switched to Woodman as it has a much better balance between the teams.
 
1,000 player accounts more is still potentially 1,000 more players to pull.

Even if you cut it down by 50% that still leaves TR with 500 more potential players on Miller alone which spread over 3 continent will give you a hell of an advantage.

167 man TR zerg (per continent) will help immensely when you add the already playing TR into that mix too.
 
Think the last one was about 1-2 months ago.

Really wish today was still double XP as the last alert on Esamir was the best farm I had for a long while.

Hunting around the Traverse (Amp station side) and killing VS infantry that was scatted all over the place, pretty sure there was least 70+ all one side of a hill, was like gold mine of kills. Spammed the hell out of it with my fully certed Fury until they noticed me, so drove around further to the left and more until I was right behind them. Kept killing them and being killed myself a few times until there was only a small squad left that I personally wiped out, mostly Maxes and few medics/engineers.

The hunting ground moved towards a hill over the Snowshear tower side and I decided for the fun of it to drive right into the mass of infantry, cloaked in the first part, uncloaked and let rip with 9 shots of fury then cloaked and made it out of there. Got about 12 kills between road kills and the fury. The farm ended and I squad deployed to where my Outfit was farming the NC just around the Nott Amp Station.

Flashed it until I got killed then since everyone was getting Prowlers at the Crash site, I decided to pull mine and attacked the Geo site, was the only one using the light trim on my Prowler out of 100+ tanks there. lol

100's of NC was defending and I moved to the far left of the spawn room on the hills and deployed and started to fire at the spawn area. Must had fired least 300 tank rounds (least 3 ammo supplies for me at 92 rounds per fill). As the cap ended there we moved onto Nott Amp and finally Grey Shipping.

Decided to pull my Burster out there since there was so much NC air flying around, farmed the hell out of everything that flew which gave me the no1 spot for that battle.

Render distance dropped to about 50m in that battle. Couldn't even see anything leaving the NC Warpgate other then Galaxies and Libs. Reavers wouldn't show up until they was well within the dead zone for a Burster max, no esacpe then which isn't their fault since I guess they couldn't see anyone too until they was right on top of us. Been on both sides of that which really ruins the fun in PS2.

Got 2600+ certs at the moment and can't really decide what to spend them on, pretty much have everything I want upgraded which just leaves a few final levels for things. Still need final level for my shield and health for my Heavy, but that's 1500 points. Can't decide if the extra 5% health for 25% health is really worth it, same goes for the shield.

My Sundy really needs some upgrades, but I don't really pull it that often.
 
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Oh does anyone use twitch.tv to watch PS2?

Trying to watch BuzzCutPyscho play but the video keeps freezing every 10 or so seconds which makes it unwatchable. Pinged twitch.tv and got full packet lost.

Am with VM for my ISP and it used to be okay before.
 
I'm just about to run this game for the first time.. I Have some questions...

None of my friends play, is there an OcUK group?
What server & faction should I join?

Thanks!
 
ryder said:
I'm just about to run this game for the first time.. I Have some questions...

None of my friends play, is there an OcUK group?
What server & faction should I join?

Thanks!
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There isn't an OcUK group, afaik the people playing from OcUK play across all factions on several different servers.

I'd recommend Cobalt for the EU and Mattherson for the US. I'd recommend US over EU purely for their playstyle but obviously you have to know you're going to be able to play on or around their peak times to get the most out of it.

Faction I couldn't really tell you. Try each out or check out videos of them to see who you prefer the style of. OP things tend to cycle through any factions and they're pretty quick to be changed quite drastically in patches.

Qel said:
I'd be interested in seeing that stream if you have a link.
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Was a couple of weeks ago, I seem to remember it being what looked like some kind of gaming podcast, like multiple webcasts all chatting about stuff and Higby dropped in to talk shop. It was posted on Higbys twitter so you should be able to dig it up from that.
 
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Hi ryder


I play mostly on cobalt EU server as mainly NC but I change every now and then

Once your on pm me and I will add you as a friend on ps2

delpy8
 
Getting back into this after taking a long break since start of Jan, I feel totally lost and no idea what's good anymore!

Was looking to continue my NC char on Woodman - what are the servers like now? I heard they merged some servers, which? Is Woodman a good server now?
 
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