Planetside finally gets a server merge!

€ 12 or € 15 or something like that, full price sony sub, which is scandalous really. If they halved it I'm sure they'd more than double their subscriber base.
 
Merge currently underway. Severs predicted to be back up 4pm PST which is midnight our time.
 
It's annoying, I would like to try it but by the time I've got time tomorrow, the free sub will be up. It would have been better if we had about a week to try out the new server. That would have been much better for population.

As it stands I don't really fancy playing on Gemini as it is, but mainly because I have no experience of it.
 
I've heard bad things about the Gemini CR5s anyway and $15 a month (checked) is WAY too much for this game really.
 
Phog said:
As it stands I don't really fancy playing on Gemini as it is, but mainly because I have no experience of it.
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Well from my experiences it's not worth it. Blank shots with the JH / Lasher are 2-3x more likely on there compared to Werner, the Chinese / Russians appear to soak up a LOT of damage at times ( as you can yourself now and then ) and occasionally the odd person would be rubber-banding across your screen due to lag or whatever... Ping would normally be around 110-130+, with 1-2% packet loss & I'm based in Scotland.

So if you suffer from low blood pressure then by all means increase it by playing there :)

Best thing to do it try it if you can, or sub for a month when you're feeling flush. If you squad up with some wernerites it could be fun I guess as they'll mostly be in the same boat as yourself.

Oh and Gemini zergs much more than Werner. Well they did a few months ago anyway.
 
I've not paid a thing and my account's still going :D

Poplock on Cyssor! TR still have Oshur, though ¬_¬
 
ok just played on the merged server.
one word
FAIL
150+ ping.
lossy.
ass hat players.
hacks.
takes AGES to load.
and last but not least.
americans. so many americans!
 
VeNT said:
ok just played on the merged server.
one word
FAIL
150+ ping.
lossy.
ass hat players.
hacks.
takes AGES to load.
and last but not least.
americans. so many americans!
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Had to quote this and agree with Vent, last time I'll ever play this fantastic game :( used to love Werner back in the day. Such a shame SOE killed it.
 
thing is. last few weeks have been AWESOME! playing VS with ISK has to have been some of the best experiances in my gaming life! attacking a base with my MAX and then seeing TWENTY Galaxy/Gunships fly overhead and blow the base to hell and back was brilliant! following that up with ANT races too was so much fun! playing on the new server was just BAD from start to finish.
 
I've been playing for the last few weeks on gemini and so the merge was not such a different experience, there were just more people playing. cyssor crashed last night, that's why it was locked, Forseral was the only pop-locked cont and the other fighting was on Ceryshen.

Re the connection, I had no loss (but it was terrible back in the day) ping was higher and there were no more retards than there usually are on werner (RIP). there was talk of an invincible vanguard driving round but other than the lag associated deaths (and strange deaths to the usual suspects from werner) i saw nothing overly suspicious. plus most people were back on their mains I guess (i was).

i've not resubbed so i expect populations will take a dive as the free time ends. i still enjoyed my time back in it and may come back to it later - but the price is high when compared to other games.
 
I have to say I share some of these views too. Didn't have too much pl but the ping was frustrating and the lasher felt very different. The volume of targets though was great and we did manage to turn around Forseral by the end of the evening (1am ish) which was kinda cool. Am very split as to whether I resub tonight or not as I wanted to give it a month on Gemini to make up my mind but would also like to protest vote to try and get them to reduce the price. When you consider that Europeans have taken a significant hit by them merging our server into a server based in the States it kinda sucks that we are paying for a vastly reduced service for a 6 year old game and paying the same price as modern day MMOs.

I might resub and email saying, I will try for a month but something has to change. I suggest everyone else contacts them too in some way if they want their voice heard.
 
i didn't use the lasher last night but the talk was about the "balance pass" that SOE had done during the merge, causing lasher orbs to do no damage to targets. this was going on back in the day, lurching from OP to borked and back again.
 
they were all the same, it's been a perennial problem of planetside (and any mmo i guess) with balance. as soon as people start being killed by the lasher/jackhammer/MCG then it's overpowered and they whine. this balance pass was supposed to address the too powerful lasher that had come out of the previous patch.

this is SOE we're talking about don't forget.
 
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