*** Official Planetside 2 Thread ***

VeNT said:
#tumbleweed#
Anyone bother to pickup the archer?
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I did. it's like RonSeal and does what it says on the tin.

it's good at annoying and killing maxes at long rang.
At a pinch you can use it as slow fire anti max gun in close combat.
It leaves you very vulnerable.

I think engineers need a small smg or machine pistol as a secondary in order for it to work.

Like most Av in game it's very effective when used en mass and with coordination. A squad on a hill can clear an area of maxes, buggies, esfs and light tanks and also cause major problems to mbts.

As someone who plays an engi in a mixed squad and is very mobile up it was a waste of 1k certs.
 
Spils said:
Didnt even realise that had been launched till this thread :P Any other weapons been added in, that one could have missed?
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Not that I can think of.
There was a new pistol on the radar together with max flame thrower and grenade launcher. The latter 2 got canned due to performance impact.

There was supposed to be a balance pass / re-factor of ground vehicle weapons with a few additions to address gaps. (like long range AV for TR). None of this appeared either.

The changes to spawning have "almost" fixed redployside and as a combined arms player rather than an fps player have made the game more fun, challenging and interesting.

They did make some changes to render priority so that stuff that shoots you moves to the top of the render list and infantry AV should render more often to vehicles, but TBH it hasn't made a jot of difference. Sat in a tank I still get damaged by stuff I am unable to return fire on, most of the time with a rate of fire I am unable to respond to.

The PS4 release was last week. It released in a beta state with a few major features missing. But is making more money than expected.

Dev focus is now XBOne.

I think the biggest news was the closure of the Korean Servers and the big **** you to Korean player base. They were given a weeks notice and told there would be zero chance of transferring and characters to non Korean servers. a lot have move to Australian / US servers but have lost all the characters / cosmetics and cash.

On the EU servers, the VET player base is shrinking. Outfits disbanding and merging in order to keep the momentum of those that still want to play.
There are lots of new players and new outfits though so still some good fights. Just not much in the way of leadership , organisation and communication.
The game is pretty stale now for anyone that played in Tech Test or Beta. Some of the games features are worse now than they were at release.
Also every patch it gets less and less shiny as they reduce texture sizes to improve performance.
 
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VeNT said:
not sure if anyone had played with her but Sophia Butler died on friday.
She was a big part of the RPS outfit and will be missed.
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I didn't know her, but R.I.P. :( (and just read... suicide :-( )


I've started semi-playing again. The guys I normally play with are in the UK mainly though, so it isn't quite as fun without having 80 people (or whatever) on chat due to the time difference :)

Sleepery said:
They've been getting ddos'd all day apparently.
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Due to the CEO of Daybreak saying he's going to get more blood from the hacker that called in a bomb threat (etc) that grounded his plane, not to mention a whole host of other stuff. Now the hacking group this kid belongs to has a DDOS on the go in retaliation...
 
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I still give this a poke occasionally. I think I'm in the "played too long, getting a bit stale" crowd. About to give it another couple of weeks play and there's still nothing to touch it from an experience point of view.
 
Got myself an R9 380 4GB recently, the the difference using this compared to the internal gpu is massive. Strangely, not just the graphics, but the minimum frames have gone up as well which is really bizarre, given that was a CPU limited thing, and I'm actually running less OC on the cpu than before. Very happy with my 7850K + R9 380 4GB combo. The game normally shows me I'm GPU limited and only occasionally CPU limited for a second or so.

The game has changed quite a bit since I last played really. Really miss not playing with a team (As mine are UK based, it's hard to join up with them the times that I can play).

Love the Valkyrie, although I think it has limited usage.

My favourite option is still a burster max. Just something so satisfying about wrecking aircraft. I also tend to move around a lot as a max, which repairing aircraft don't expect.

Running on W10 is just great, no issues.
 
I was finding it odd that I was always around 59/60 fps in Planetside 2, but I didn't have vsync turned on. Turns out that the 'smoothing' function seems to limit your max fps as well. I turned that off, and my frame rates rocketted. I then later got a black screen crash whilst in a menu... so need to work on that though lol.
 
So I have finally set my Eyefinity with Portrait - Landscape - Portrait. However, for some reason my mouse cursor has disappeared in Planetside 2. It works, just you can't see it. If I go to alt tab out, I will briefly see the Planetside styled cursor before I see the desktop again. As suggested elsewhere, I am not using mouse trails.

Any ideas?

(Currently having to play in fullscreen windowed to get it to display)
 
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Scougar said:
So I have finally set my Eyefinity with Portrait - Landscape - Portrait. However, for some reason my mouse cursor has disappeared in Planetside 2. It works, just you can't see it. If I go to alt tab out, I will briefly see the Planetside styled cursor before I see the desktop again. As suggested elsewhere, I am not using mouse trails.

Any ideas?

(Currently having to play in fullscreen windowed to get it to display)
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How can you play like that? Be interested to see a photo of the game like that.

Using Eyefinity and with 3 screens in all Portrait mode and no problems, but I do remember a problem like this.

Are you using Steam? If so, everytime you use Steam Overlay it can do wacky stuff. I remember fixing the cursor by switching to Overlay and back to game a few times.
 
IronWarrior said:
How can you play like that? Be interested to see a photo of the game like that.

Using Eyefinity and with 3 screens in all Portrait mode and no problems, but I do remember a problem like this.

Are you using Steam? If so, everytime you use Steam Overlay it can do wacky stuff. I remember fixing the cursor by switching to Overlay and back to game a few times.
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I can give a photo but it will look awful, as I'm still playing around with the settings and I have mismatched monitors. (1440*900 + 1680*1050 + 1440*900). Currently I have it set to have black borders on the tops and bottom of the portrait screens.

I have discovered it is not isolated to Planetside 2. I use windowed mode (it still 'looks' fullscreen, and it seems to work OK.

I am using steam, so perhaps I'll try turning off the overlay as you suggested :-) I will let you know (going out today so will probably have to look tomorrow).

Update: I quickly tried steam overlay off, and also with switching multiple times between game and overlay, and it doesn't bring the mouse back :-( The mouse is there, just seemingly behind the game, as when I alt tab, I momentarily see it.
 
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