Planetside - Some new content

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Hia Folks,
I've recently found out that Planetside has reactivated old accounts for a month, i tried Sunday and it worked for me (got me my 3 year term of service :D

Also there have been some new content as well,
Fortification Engineers, Assault engineers have new tools at there disposable new Turrets, new mines, Dragons teeth and new portable towers of death.

some vehicles have been revamped to have more weapons.

Three new handheld weapons (free to 3 year veterans) a new pistol to replace the AMP, Flame Thrower and long range anti Personal roarea effect rocket launcher (this one is tricky to get the range of so be warned).

Thought it might interest to some of you.
 
Emo_hug said:
Hia Folks,
I've recently found out that Planetside has reactivated old accounts for a month, i tried Sunday and it worked for me (got me my 3 year term of service :D

Also there have been some new content as well,
Fortification Engineers, Assault engineers have new tools at there disposable new Turrets, new mines, Dragons teeth and new portable towers of death.

some vehicles have been revamped to have more weapons.

Three new handheld weapons (free to 3 year veterans) a new pistol to replace the AMP, Flame Thrower and long range anti Personal roarea effect rocket launcher (this one is tricky to get the range of so be warned).

Thought it might interest to some of you.
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I havent really stopped playing for 3 years. I love the game and i dont think there is another game out there that can beat it!

The two new guns are abit bent and so is the new hand gun. Had a wicked time yesterday on my VS alt getting loads of kills in the magrider :D

R
 
Sleepless said:
no one EVER wins. Doesnt that drive you mad?
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Not strictly true, it is possible to win, to force your opponents back to their sanctuary thats what one would call a total win or as close to a win as possable.

it has happened in the past a few times but its rare, that both other factions have been pushed back to there home.

To most planetside users BF2 or 2140 (what ever) battles are small skirmishes with limited players.. and limited room to manuvour your forces. (admittedly i've not played BF 2140).

Only problem is half the time most of the fighting is on certain continets
 
I dont think ive ever seen one empire push both of the other empires back to there home sanctuary...

R
 
Sleepless said:
no one EVER wins. Doesnt that drive you mad?
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Don't really understand the problem myself. If anyone won permanently that would be the end of the game. It's still more changeable than most mmogs, where you can take down the biggest boss in the game 10 times a week and he's still there for you to do it again.

At least in PS when you log in you never know where, who or how many you're going to be fighting.
 
i used to play a few years ago, was a sniper.

only things i didnt like were taking an hour to get a group and decide were to go.

and not being able to get headshots etc
 
Always was a good game, the only problem that i had/have with it is that 8.99 a month is a bit of a ripoff considering there's not actually much to the game, its hardly as deep as an mmorpg or require as much management by the owners.

If PlayNC can make a game like GuildWars and host it for free then i don't see why Sony couldn't have done the same with Planetside.
 
Rossi said:
I dont think ive ever seen one empire push both of the other empires back to there home sanctuary...

R
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I don't think its been done on Werner, but on the US servers and then only because the numbers were stacked heavily against the other two factions (i.e. Vanu & NC players switched to TR) this must have been around 2 years back. there was a big fuss at the time.
 
i loved it tbh, i missed beta but came into about a year or so after and played for a few years. it's been around a fair while and at the time there was no other mmo like it, a few dodgy design decisions (bfr's) and WoW later and the playerbase declined.

at it's height it was absolutely fantastic! massive battles against loads of enemies, last ditch base saves, great teamwork and a good community. they've also recently added new combat engineering tools which look quite good (in concept) but the playerbase has changed i think.

*dons rose tinted spectacles* i dipped in again a few months ago but it's all about the killing now, whereas before it was more about the teamwork and your faction. some of the best gaming moments i've had are in planetside and i've still got friends from my planetside outfit. if there was a big increase in numbers i'd go back like a shot.

oh yeah, the first thing people need to realise when they play it is that it's not bf2, css, unreal, quake or anything like that, it is (or was anyway) unique!
 
Emo_hug said:
I don't think its been done on Werner, but on the US servers and then only because the numbers were stacked heavily against the other two factions (i.e. Vanu & NC players switched to TR) this must have been around 2 years back. there was a big fuss at the time.
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it used to happen a fair bit, "zero-basing" happened to the vanu on werner once to me and we did it to the tr a few times too. when the populations were bigger it was easier, now if you're double-teamed you're in trouble.
 
nin9abadga said:
*dons rose tinted spectacles* i dipped in again a few months ago but it's all about the killing now, whereas before it was more about the teamwork and your faction. some of the best gaming moments i've had are in planetside and i've still got friends from my planetside outfit. if there was a big increase in numbers i'd go back like a shot.
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The teamwork is still there, you just have to find the right outfit for the job. The battles are still massive in the evenings as well. I remember the time where continents (sorry planets :rolleyes: ) never got pop locked but now its a regular acurance again.

R
 
Thats interesting, last time I played it was almost dead, never saw a pop lock on more than 1 continent at a time. I remember for the first 6 months you'd get at least 3 pop locks going at once, they were the days!
 
hmm anyone found a guruanteed work around for vista yet...the last one didnt seem to work for me...wonder if its got any easier lately...i do miss that game :(
 
I have a copy of the game from before all the addons were released, i'm guessing I could install that and play the free month but not have access to the addon areas (underground) and new vehicles? or are they downloadable for free?
 
m0rte said:
I have a copy of the game from before all the addons were released, i'm guessing I could install that and play the free month but not have access to the addon areas (underground) and new vehicles? or are they downloadable for free?
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You will get a free month of planetside without core combat most likely. If the account has been allowed a free month. :) It depends if you have bought core combat in the past.

R
 
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