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I think you spawn them from a terminal.

Yup, if it is the same as the first one, if you have the required certification you just go to a terminal and select one from the menu, then it appears.

I believe in the other game most of the terminals were in bases, with different terminals offering different options. It made it quite useful to have the bases as a mustering point, with a clan getting all their vehicles together, then moving and attacking in a group.

Well when it comes out I'm down for joining a clan.

Not gonna fly though, I'm a boots on the ground sort of fella.

I hope it has cockpit views for all the vehicles.

Yep full cockpit views, cant wait to see the galaxy cockpit, wanna feel like a airplane pilot and would probably put on the voice before taking off

So this video just popped up; it's their "E3 theater" video, and for anyone who's new or interested in the game it's a great way to find out about the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goNh81Duz90&feature=g-u-u

And here's another recent video showcasing a battle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HNlModij9A&feature=relmfu

The trailer just came out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41QFL4QB3NE&list=UUeDczpHL6Mm-XrfT0ldALjg&index=0&feature=plcp
Gorgeous, but kind of makes the game seem like Halo or some similar single player game.

Glorious.

I cannot wait to pretend it is Warhammer.

I am very much of the opinion that a good trailer demonstrates only what a player can feasibly do themselves in a game.

So unless I can jump from dropship to dropship murdering the inhabitants, have a falling punching duel with an enemy and shoot pilots out of their aircraft by grappling them, I shall be unimpressed.

^Did you see the sign at the beginning saying Not Actual Gameplay???

just downloaded Planetside 2 last night as part of their "bandwidth stress tess" just waiting till later today to try and log on.

Karon wrote:Glorious.

I cannot wait to pretend it is Warhammer.

Imagine if this game was moddable

Wait, how did you get a download link? I've been registered for the beta for a long time and I still don't have one >.<

Deathklaat wrote:just downloaded Planetside 2 last night as part of their "bandwidth stress tess" just waiting till later today to try and log on.

Why...why?

Why you...and not me?

Melissia wrote:Wait, how did you get a download link? I've been registered for the beta for a long time and I still don't have one >.<

There's a tech test before the beta to make sure everything works properly. People sent in their system specs and SOE sent specific invites out because they want to get a wide range of machines tested at once to see what it takes to run this game, and to see if the servers can handle the stress. Some thick/uninformed/entitled players have been whining that they didn't get into the tech test even though they had been registered and all that, but it is a distinctly different release than the beta.

John Smedley said beta should drop Monday or Tuesday, and more and more waves of beta invites will be sent out afterwards. The order will be:
Current paying subscribers > Veterans > PC Gamer beta keys > People who signed up for beta
Someone whined to him and said they would have to wait a month and a half for beta invite since they aren't a veteran or subscriber, and he said they wouldn't have to wait that long.

im gonna test the game with everything set to max. hopefully they will support multi-core so my 8 core doesn't go to waste ( I am looking at you World of Tanks)

Trailer was amazing, me and my Warhammer Chapter are going to bring the pain in the Emperors name!

Oooh, I like that!

was on for a bit last night when the server wasnting booting everyone every 10-15 mins. if you played PS1 then many things will be VERY familiar to you.

Karon wrote:Oooh, I like that!

Thanks, I just went over the PS2 done poster

Deathklaat wrote:im gonna test the game with everything set to max. hopefully they will support multi-core so my 8 core doesn't go to waste ( I am looking at you World of Tanks)

The game has settings for computers that don't even exist yet; I think there's options for 8000x8000 resolution or something crazy like that. You won't be disappointed!

Apparently at the end of the tech test last night they basically said "See you guys at beta!" which should start on Tuesday.

Brother SRM wrote:

Deathklaat wrote:im gonna test the game with everything set to max. hopefully they will support multi-core so my 8 core doesn't go to waste ( I am looking at you World of Tanks)

The game has settings for computers that don't even exist yet; I think there's options for 8000x8000 resolution or something crazy like that. You won't be disappointed!

Apparently at the end of the tech test last night they basically said "See you guys at beta!" which should start on Tuesday.

thats for people with eyefinity setups like I have which is nice because alot of games don't support it so you end up with streched screens instead of true higher def

Today could be the day

Serioulsy wish though there could be mods for this game. Everything is there for 40k, one faction is the imperium, light assaults could be guard, max suits terminators, galaxy gunships as valkyries.

The Eldar could easily be the VS. Wonder what the other faction could be, tau?

I don't think mods for this game could really work, since you need a LOT of people to make the game really fun. MMOs also update really, really frequently and it would be insanely hard for a mod to keep up with that unless it had a huge team of people who were working full time on it. People said the same things back in Planetside 1 as well.

As much as I love 40k, I'm happy having a good game in a different setting once in a while!

Yeah, I will just dream about it then

I just cant wait to see an army of galaxies storm ahead while me an 100 other guys charge over the cliff edge against an enemy base.

Also I only just recently seen the screenshot of the Ice map xD Gunna be sweet rocking a snow camo.

Esamir does look really good, just like everything else in this game! I'm consistently surprised by how beautiful this game is. Beta is supposed to drop today or tomorrow, so I'm guessing 11:59PM Tuesday night I doubt SOE time is any better than Valve time for being punctual.

Once beta starts, waves of invites will be sent via email if you've signed up. Full release date hasn't been announced yet, but people are expecting it to come out by late Fall if I recall correctly.

New beta time is friday or monday now, just when I am working and going camping xD ohwell I wont be in the first wave anyway.

Atleast they give a date unlike the BF3 beta which was imo the most annoying wait ever. "Guys early in the month you will get beta"

Early in the month "dont worry guys soon, very soon this month" This was said numerous times over and over.

Beta release near enough last day of the month.

"Soon" has been something I've been waiting for for a long, long time for Planetside 2. It's just a general games developer thing.

I did play PS1 years ago but since SOE got hacked my account doesn't contain a record of my having been a paying customer. I bought the PC Gamer issue with the beta key anyway but it would have been nice to get an automatic key. Hurry up 2nd round invite!

Smedley said in an AMA on Reddit the other day that beta will start Monday, 2pm PDT. He says he's 99.99% sure of it.