Planetside 2

[Sky]

I started as Vanu, but when the servers merged I ended up playing my TR guy. The grenade launchers and the badass 4x4 pickup were just too strong a pull for me.

[Mrbloodworth]

I started as Vanu, but when the servers merged I ended up playing my TR guy. The grenade launchers and the badass 4x4 pickup were just too strong a pull for me.

My friend group rolled marauders almost exclusively. We kill Biffers with marauders. With enough stuff in the trunk to deploy a mini ammo depot and hidden nest.

NC Biffers had it the worst, a marauder can go right through the legs.

[Sky]

Wish I had been using voice comms so folks could've heard my rendition of the Jerry Reed classic East Bound and Down.

[shiznitz]

Plus the guys from KAAOS (Hedron's outfit) were great to play with, miss the massive random battles..

I liked those guys.  Even the mandatory training was fun.  They never treated me like the FPS peon I was (am).

[WayAbvPar]

Wish I had been using voice comms so folks could've heard my rendition of the Jerry Reed classic East Bound and Down.

Mere mention of that song is enough to get it stuck in my head for about a week. Thanks so much.

[Sky]

You're most welcome, my good man. I would also like the horn on my badass Bronco in PS2 to play Dixie and have lots of bridges to fight jump over.

[Strazos]

Triple Liberator runs were pure love.

Also, when I played Vanu, I killed a few BFRs solo...just sprinting behind them and nailed them in the shield generator...they mostly tried to just run away.

[Zetleft]

Plus the guys from KAAOS (Hedron's outfit) were great to play with, miss the massive random battles..

I liked those guys.  Even the mandatory training was fun.  They never treated me like the FPS peon I was (am).

3rded for truth.  I had some great times in that outfit in PS.

[Mrbloodworth]

BEHOLD!

The new Reaver.

If by black and red you mean the fluids leaking from a TR soldier's brains when I make them into a smear on the front of my Reaver then yeah.. everything looks better in black and red! ( I like purple too btw... Vanu bleed too!)

NC ftw!

And all you people saying "that looks like a mosquito".. you haven't seen the mosquito yet (I guess I just confirmed that we HAVE a mosquito)...we're striking a balance between old and new that you should judge for yourself when you see it all in the game.

And all you pilots out there. These are not your daddy's toys. They have a whole new physics and feel to them that will require skilled pilots and will absolutely separate the men from the boys in the cockpit. We've put a lot of time and energy into how things feel in this game.

Smed

[NiX]

Hotlinking fail.

[01101010]

BEHOLD!

The new Reaver.

If by black and red you mean the fluids leaking from a TR soldier's brains when I make them into a smear on the front of my Reaver then yeah.. everything looks better in black and red! ( I like purple too btw... Vanu bleed too!)

NC ftw!

And all you people saying "that looks like a mosquito".. you haven't seen the mosquito yet (I guess I just confirmed that we HAVE a mosquito)...we're striking a balance between old and new that you should judge for yourself when you see it all in the game.

And all you pilots out there. These are not your daddy's toys. They have a whole new physics and feel to them that will require skilled pilots and will absolutely separate the men from the boys in the cockpit. We've put a lot of time and energy into how things feel in this game.

Smed

Link is a tad fooked. That said... I does not like dis new fly fly. Looks more like a skeeter actually so I sit with the rest of the crowd echoing that... I liked the heavy feel of the reaver and that just doesn't scratch the itch. Intrigued by the comment on new physics... Hopefully that will keep everyone and their mother out of them just for the sake of kill spamming infantry.

Now...Bring on the Prowler.

[Mrbloodworth]

Hotlinking fail.

Really?

Try this then.

[shiznitz]

I like that flying will be an art/skill.  I just hope other vehicles have similar dynamics.

[Kitsune]

They claim that flying will require skill.  This will not be the first time I've seen such a 'oh you'll have to be elite to do this' claim about something from a MMOG that later turned out to be pretty much a lie.

[Mrbloodworth]

Did you play the original? Because, uh, kinda took skill there too.

[shiznitz]

Did you play the original? Because, uh, kinda took skill there too.

Most of the skill in dog fighting was camera/PoV management though.  It was reasonably easy to fly tight through and around obstacles.

[Mrbloodworth]

But could you hit anything.

[shiznitz]

But could you hit anything.

Not me, heh.  My skeeter cert was just for transportation.  I was one of the worst Reaver rocket spammers in PS history.

[Sky]

I was a decent pilot, horrid gunner. I used to just like flying through trees and doorways and shooting rockets. Living wasn't as important as style.

But I saw driving an ATV as a redneck trying to find jumps and yeehawing across the battlefield as one of the more fun past-times in the game.

I guess I was a roleplayah, yo.

[Surlyboi]

But could you hit anything.

Not me, heh.  My skeeter cert was just for transportation.  I was one of the worst Reaver rocket spammers in PS history.

I was up there. My record for popping infantry in a reaver was abysmal.

[01101010]

But could you hit anything.

Not me, heh.  My skeeter cert was just for transportation.  I was one of the worst Reaver rocket spammers in PS history.

I was up there. My record for popping infantry in a reaver was abysmal.

I wasn't too bad with the reaver...esp when hunting those lone snipers and coming up behind them. Little overkill to bring a fighter "jet" to the knife fight, but hilarious. Actually got pretty good with the off set guns and rarely used rockets on anything without armor. That said, BRING ON THE DAMN PROWLER ALREADY... and the AMS since that was my bread and butter.

[Strazos]

Where's my NC MAX at? Someone has to bring the beef! 

[01101010]

I am getting a sinking feeling that this game is going to be a lobby and at the most 32v32 instanced type game. Not sure why I get that feeling, but I do - and it's becoming more prominent.

[LK]

I don't see a problem with Tribes meeting Chromehounds in a non-subscription, F2P format.

[Surlyboi]

I am getting a sinking feeling that this game is going to be a lobby and at the most 32v32 instanced type game. Not sure why I get that feeling, but I do - and it's becoming more prominent.

I really hope you're wrong. Especially considering how long ago the tech was there to do massive battles.

[Mrbloodworth]

I am getting a sinking feeling that this game is going to be a lobby and at the most 32v32 instanced type game. Not sure why I get that feeling, but I do - and it's becoming more prominent.

From the comments from John Smedley, I do not this this is the case at all.

[Ratman_tf]

Needs external engine wing pods. That thing looks like a ford escort with skis.

[Surlyboi]

If we're lucky, the wing pods will be modular and changeable depending on mission profile.

[Mrbloodworth]

The Game Archaeologist goes PlanetSide: The highlights

Fun trip down memory lane.

And some stuff from the originals pre-birth

[AcidCat]

PlanetSide was the game that made me break down and buy a PC, I was strictly a console gamer before that.

[shiznitz]

So, you only found porn in 2003?  Poor man.

[AcidCat]

Hah, yeah, before then I was still old school - magazines and vhs tapes! Kids these days and their on-demand free 'puter porn will never know how we struggled back in the day - but we appreciated it more!

[01101010]

The Game Archaeologist goes PlanetSide: The highlights

Fun trip down memory lane.

And some stuff from the originals pre-birth

Those alpha shots were always viewed as how the game should have been. Maybe SOE kept those files for use now - given the computing power advances since 2003. Be nice to see what lies ahead was really there all along, but my interest meter is still at meh.

[Sky]

One of the coolest things about alpha/beta testing is seeing things with insanely high-res textures and poly counts, before they pull things back to run on modern computers. Unfortunately, I understand why they do it, people are retarded and complain if they just dropped 2500 on a new pc and can't run everything maxed out. (EQ2, GTA4). No matter that it's all psychological, by cutting it back they just move the halfway settings to max and remove the headroom from the game. I like the ability to tweak things to the balance point myself and have it look as nice as possible without worrying that my penis got insulted because all the sliders aren't pegged to the right.

But to bring it back to PS: no matter how much cool stuff you put into a pvp game, most people will dial it back to minimum to get the best framerates in a furball. Putting in clutter density has to be mandatory or everyone will have to run with it off, it's laughable to have someone think they're crawling through tall grasses when everyone else has no grass and sees the guy crawling in the open.

[pohsyb]

it's laughable to have someone think they're crawling through tall grasses when everyone else has no grass and sees the guy crawling in the open.

I'd love to see some kind of programmatic solution to this, say the server checks your graphics settings and if you are not displaying any grass it doesn't send you information about the player hiding in the grass until you are at much closer distance, effectively making you unable to "see" him.  If you are showing grass, you get updates at regular distances, but actually have to notice the guy hiding in the grass.