Planetside 2

[Jimbo]

I drove all three, the Prowler is still the best, even if we did have to have 3 people to man it.  The Vanguard was 2nd, and that damn Magrider was a way distant 3rd, since I had to re-learn how to drive it, and had to treat it basically like a light tank.

[Slayerik]

I ran out of space on my reaver for magrider kill signs. Now go back to your purple hovershits and your lasher spam, the grown ups are talking.

I loved sniping reavers with the Magrider cannon. All it took was a driver that could keep it level while driving. So many dead, or retreating, reavers.

Try that with a Vanguard or Prowler.....

[Jimbo]

Prowler crews were often under staffed, with only 2 people they couldn't man the 20mm cannon.  Both the NC and Vanu had it easier to make effective use of the tanks.  For a decent fire team we were always needing more players, the tank took 3 instead of 2, the pickup truck took 3 instead of 2, the Raider (troop transport) took 5 instead of 3, but I would find a lot of time we would ride into battle under crewed and pay for it big time.  Prowler crews could defend against air attacks if we had enough people...then again that was always the problem with pick up TR crews.

[shiznitz]

The problem was the TR was filled with solo MCG fanbouys who wouldn't get in the tank.  If the NC had the Prowler, it would have filled more easily.

[Kitsune]

The Magrider and Thresher were the two best land vehicles, hands down.  With experienced drivers both of them were nigh untouchable by heavy weapons and their guns were accurate enough to let even mediocre gunners perform okay.  My roommate once pinned down an entire NC tower in just one Thresher.  After trying and failing to break out for about half an hour, they eventually bailed when the Vanu took the base.

[Slayerik]

I miss strafing through woods and escaping massive firepower with a sliver of armor left. A good run was when you ran out of repair juice/ammo :) We had a column of badass mag drivers along with voice comms and the ability to call in air strikes was a pretty awesome feeling. Something to be said for organized raids in that game, was a shit ton of fun. Hope some of the Vanu guys around here might be down to join my old outfit...

[01101010]

Nothing topped the magrider pre-mowing nerf on an infantry assault. Hands down, the best battle field sweeper vehicle. And this is coming from a TR. Of course, I was a TR cloaker back then, with a tank driver cert. Oh the hilarity of jacking vehicles.

[Mrbloodworth]

Me and my friends were marauder junkies. We got really good at taking out BFR's and other tanks. As well as decimating lines of troops. The lightning "wolf pack" was also really effective.

I miss strafing through woods and escaping massive firepower with a sliver of armor left. A good run was when you ran out of repair juice/ammo :)

Affirmative.

Sadly, I have a felling this wont happen anymore under the new damage models. We shall see though.

[Slayerik]

Ah, lightning raids.... We had twenty some guys in Lightnings and it was fun as hell, cept a lot of guys weren't that good in them and we got picked apart. My favorite was getting on a hill and lobbing death on defenders walkways. If you switched to 3rd person, you could do it without giving line of site for the striker fags (though phoenix fags would get you).

[01101010]

Ah, lightning raids.... We had twenty some guys in Lightnings and it was fun as hell, cept a lot of guys weren't that good in them and we got picked apart. My favorite was getting on a hill and lobbing death on defenders walkways. If you switched to 3rd person, you could do it without giving line of site for the striker fags (though phoenix fags would get you).

I started fucking around with boomers late in my cloaking career... (like month 2)

I loved finding a lightning lobbing courtyards. 

[damijin]

New MAX units look crazy. The NC one looks kinda bulky and unattractive to me though, but Vanu looks insane.

Vanu MAX Concept Art

Bunch of screenshots on the gallery from that Massively interview.

[Simond]

The NC one looks like someone strapped a bunch of armour plate and guns into an Aliens-style industrial loader. Which, to be fair, is probably the point.
Vanu looks like Guyver in the style of Evangelion Unit-01 (or vice-versa) which, again, is probably what they were aiming for. 

[Surlyboi]

Ah, lightning raids.... We had twenty some guys in Lightnings and it was fun as hell, cept a lot of guys weren't that good in them and we got picked apart. My favorite was getting on a hill and lobbing death on defenders walkways. If you switched to 3rd person, you could do it without giving line of site for the striker fags (though phoenix fags would get you).

Yeah, I was one of those phoenix fags. I spent weeks practicing with those goddamn things so I could shoot people around corners and behind barriers. Rexo with sniper rifle and phoenix was one of my favorite load outs.

Edit: Holy shit, those reavers look badass.

[kaid]

The Magrider and Thresher were the two best land vehicles, hands down.  With experienced drivers both of them were nigh untouchable by heavy weapons and their guns were accurate enough to let even mediocre gunners perform okay.  My roommate once pinned down an entire NC tower in just one Thresher.  After trying and failing to break out for about half an hour, they eventually bailed when the Vanu took the base.

The magrider main gun was hilarious in the hands of a good gunner. Me and my friend would often do tank runs both of us had all the driving skills and combat engineering so we would alternate driver/gunner positions. The magrider main gun was amazingly a good anti aircraft weapon. It did not have a ton of elevation but if you were coming into a fight I often sniped 2 or 3 planes on the way in. It had almost no drop and VERY fast shot speed made plinking mossies and reavers pretty easy. With a driver good at strafing the magrider was incredibly hard to hit by the weapons needed to take one out and you could retreat full speed across water where few other forces could follow.

[shiznitz]

But the single best kill in PS was a Magrider fleeing across the water. Watched a few of those.  It didn't happen often but the Teamspeak channel always filled with cheers when it did.

[Slayerik]

The Magrider and Thresher were the two best land vehicles, hands down.  With experienced drivers both of them were nigh untouchable by heavy weapons and their guns were accurate enough to let even mediocre gunners perform okay.  My roommate once pinned down an entire NC tower in just one Thresher.  After trying and failing to break out for about half an hour, they eventually bailed when the Vanu took the base.

 With a driver good at strafing the magrider was incredibly hard to hit by the weapons needed to take one out and you could retreat full speed across water where few other forces could follow.

It was actually slightly slower on water, IIRC. Sometimes it was a deathtrap when too many reavers were swarming. Better to strafe through the woods.

[01101010]

The Magrider and Thresher were the two best land vehicles, hands down.  With experienced drivers both of them were nigh untouchable by heavy weapons and their guns were accurate enough to let even mediocre gunners perform okay.  My roommate once pinned down an entire NC tower in just one Thresher.  After trying and failing to break out for about half an hour, they eventually bailed when the Vanu took the base.

 With a driver good at strafing the magrider was incredibly hard to hit by the weapons needed to take one out and you could retreat full speed across water where few other forces could follow.

It was actually slightly slower on water, IIRC. Sometimes it was a deathtrap when too many reavers were swarming. Better to strafe through the woods.

Just not near a tower or a base. Once I recerted out of the nekkid suit, I ran a minelayer loadout and putting them in a heavy tree area was a guaranteed few vehicle kills. Bonus points if I was on the other side of the continent. 

And yes, all vanu vehicles slowed on the water, but they were still strafing bastards.

[Slayerik]

The real baller mag drivers (me) knew how to use hills and strafe along the the far side of them, giving almost no target for air or land vehicles. I remember watching Vanguard explosions all around, reaver hell raining down, and me smoking a cig telling the gunner "No prob I got this." This was all true until you fucked up, or you ran out of cover.....

I want to resub....UGH. Give us a free re-trial !!!

[01101010]

The real baller mag drivers (me) knew how to use hills and strafe along the the far side of them, giving almost no target for air or land vehicles. I remember watching Vanguard explosions all around, reaver hell raining down, and me smoking a cig telling the gunner "No prob I got this." This was all true until you fucked up, or you ran out of cover.....

I want to resub....UGH. Give us a free re-trial !!!

Just say no. It's like going back to the fraternity house for me. The walls and floors are about the only things that are still there. Time to move on.

[Brennik]

Beta signup is open.

[Slayerik]

http://www.planetside2.com/

[Engels]

Done and done. Thanks for the heads up.

[Yoru]

I haven't signed up for an MMO beta in 4 years.

I just signed up for this one.

[HaemishM]

Signed up.

[Mrbloodworth]

*Squee*

[Speedy Cerviche]

I haven't signed up for an MMO beta in 4 years.

I just signed up for this one.

Heh yeah, this is the first beta since Shadowbane that I have signed up for.

[WayAbvPar]

I haven't signed up for an MMO beta in 4 years.

I just signed up for this one.

Heh yeah, this is the first beta since Shadowbane that I have signed up for.

So it will be your fault when PS2.exe kills the game!

e- so I signed up and see I have 100 Station bucks or whatever. What is that worth?

[Lantyssa]

A dollar.

[Stormwaltz]

Bits of ingame footage. It looks surprisingly pretty. At least with only a handful of combatants on screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rUeRQSRMiFc

[Engels]

Any idea on who this secondary company, the9, is? What's their involvement?

[Mrbloodworth]

Chinese distributor I believe.


EDIT: That looks...Very Battlefield like......

[HaemishM]

PRETTY.

[shiznitz]

The machine gun shots looked more precise than the old accuracy model.

[Speedy Cerviche]

Yeah engine looking solid, probably still not as sophisticated as BF3 but looks to be competitive enough to not be a weak point. So now the key will be the depth of MMO features, like outfit depth, and the sophistication of the resource-economy and its impact on strategic logistics, or even intra-faction trade. So far haven't seen much in way of details on this kind of stuff.

[Sheepherder]

Any idea on who this secondary company, the9, is? What's their involvement?

They used to run World of Warcraft in China.