Planetside - Some new content

At Its peak Planetside was so much more epic than either of those 2 games. Imagine BF2 with thousands of players and a map 100 times the size, proper front lines, sieges, small special forces style assaults , huge invasion forces and real tactics. Some of my fondest gaming memories are me and a 10 or so man outfit squad knocking down a generator and then holding it for half an hour against a constant onslaught of attackers whilst watching the tide of this epic battle on the map turn all because of us. I played for about 4 months as part of the zerg (just join a squad and go out killing) and it bored me. I had a 3 month break and tried it again but joined a 50 man outfit with teamspeak, Its just another game completely like that, so much better. I haven't played in about a year but I might go back and give it a go, I miss it a lot. I can see why a lot of people don't like it but if you really "get it" then there isn't any other game that offers anything like it.
 
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I haven't played properly since last summer. I heard they increased sub costs. :/ I might activate the free account thing when I get my 3 year veteran thing (Mid June).

The new stuff tempts me, is it worth it? I hear MAXes have it bad now :D
 
Nazca said:
I haven't played properly since last summer. I heard they increased sub costs. :/ I might activate the free account thing when I get my 3 year veteran thing (Mid June).

The new stuff tempts me, is it worth it? I hear MAXes have it bad now :D
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As a TR MAX pilot, we always had it bad ;) the only time it eased off is when they nerfed the decimator (or whatever it was called) It was silly making maxes so susceptible to anti vehicle weapons when they have so much less armor than a vehicle.
 
Ooh I played the beta and bought it day of release. Fantastic game. Only thing that bugged me was the "twitch" didnt feel right. I think this is due to the scale of the game more than anything else. If planetside had the responsiveness of Quake/CSS etc.. then it would be unstoppable but I am not sure the technology exists to achieve that yet on such a large scale.
 
Sleepery said:
Don't pay for it then.
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... wait.... you mean..... I have that choice? :o Jeez, all this time I've just been putting up with the monthy charge :(

For the free month I got I did enjoy the gameplay, but I rarely came across any battle bigger than a BF2 map... there may be a larger map overall, but the individual battles are just like switching maps/server in any other game.
 
i guess that you perhaps have not been in many base assults or bridge battles Helium_Junkie?
some times its about having the space to manuvor forces round a map.

If your talking of a battle the size of one of the BF2 maps in its size then probably not or at least not any more, though it does depend on geography.

one of the prolems i had was actually canceling my PS subs the last time round took me quite some time to figure it out.
 
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