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Don't believe his lies.

Smedley isn't reliable at all, but if he is giving a specific time, that is slightly different.

Come swiftly sweet beta!

I need to fix my computer soon. Before I get my invite.

Also, it's been confirmed that Planetside 2 will be on Steam!

Steam, feth yeah!

Well, I'm sold on it now.

That is good news indeed.

Brother SRM wrote:Also, it's been confirmed that Planetside 2 will be on Steam!

Really?! I'm surprised/elated that this is so. Elated because Steam is awesome and I can get all my friends to play if they don't have to use another gaming service. Surprised since I didn't think SOE would allow one of their games to be distributed through a online service beyond their own. It's a very smart decision.

Well it's free anyway, so it's mostly the DLC and other such purchases that they release on steam. And, well, Sony is probably smart enough to realize that Steam handles dlc better than its service ever will.

Damn, it has been a while since they opened up the the registration for beta, almost 8 months If I am correct. Really hoping for an invite as my rig was just finished last fall.

so i had some spare time this weekend and i put in a few hours of game time. They must have added a bunch more people because the gameplay was great! Assaulting a base with 30+ tanks and hordes of ground troops was sweet. The TR was a red death that moved from base to base and at one point we had 50% of the whole map.

i did some looking around at things you can do in the game and i came across customizable weapons. so far only one of the 3 slots is open to use but you can add stuff to your guns. so i played with scopes. everything from 2x zoom to 6x (or 12 if you are a sniper) laser sights, red dots, night vision. all sorts of goodies to drag and drop on your guns. pistols had different options like silencers or laser sights.

Vehicles can also be customized but none of this is available right now except for headlights which are purely cosmetic.

i did fly a bit and it is actually pretty easy its much like flying a chopper in any Battlefield game but less prone to flipping over at the slightest touch.

there are some things they do need to fix... badly.

the need to bring back vehicle locks from PS1. too often i would see someone repairing their tank to have someone else run by and take off with it.
they need to get rid of the Halo physics. I watched 2 tanks run into eachother at decent speeds and one did a backflip 30 ft in the air. i also had a tank bump into the side of my APC and i rolled over.

however the physics CAN be fun when you jump a quad-bike off the 3rd story of a base or mountain and barely take any fall damage.

Vehicle locks weren't in the tech test, but should be in beta.

Speaking of beta, I just got an email containing a download link and telling me I'm in the beta! I can't wait for the day to end so I can get home and start playing!

Brother SRM wrote:Vehicle locks weren't in the tech test, but should be in beta.

Speaking of beta, I just got an email containing a download link and telling me I'm in the beta! I can't wait for the day to end so I can get home and start playing!

You bastid...

I was a PS1 subscriber from 2005 til like 2008 or so, and I resubbed for a while this Summer so I got first access! I'll let you guys know how it goes when I get back home from work.

Why no beta?

Why you..and not me?

Its not my fault I don't want to pay $15 a month for a game that makes my eyes bleed.

:(

Just played for a couple hours with some buddies of mine; it's still very choppy right now, and I had to play at medium settings despite having a pretty powerful machine. There's definitely a lot of optimization to be done, but that's what beta is for I guess! The gameplay itself is very fun and the gunplay is very responsive. I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

Brother SRM wrote:Just played for a couple hours with some buddies of mine; it's still very choppy right now, and I had to play at medium settings despite having a pretty powerful machine. There's definitely a lot of optimization to be done, but that's what beta is for I guess! The gameplay itself is very fun and the gunplay is very responsive. I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

I don't know if this will help you, but this apparently improved my performance on BF3 by 40% (the program's given figure):

http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

All I know is that I've been able to jump from Medium settings to Ultra/High on said game... so maybe this might be helpful for Planetside? Frees up a lot of your CPU and RAM.

A lot of those types of programs are no good, but I may give that a try! The system requirements for the beta are pretty high since there's tons and tons of optimization left to do. They've apparently been upgrading the optimization with a patch every day or two though; haven't gotten a chance to test it since last night was 40k night and tonight is a night out with my girlfriend. I'll check and see how it is on Saturday.

Henners91 wrote: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.

You know, it might not be so cinematic as the trailer, but I think you actually can do that. I know thta the drop-pods will actually wreck flyers they land through, and jetpacking I don't think stops you from attacking... Also, I think you're able to snipe pilots from cockpits (maybe) so yeah. You can also definitely stand on top of aircraft as well, though you may slide some.

This is the game I have been waiting for my whole life I think. My search is over. Read this http://john-smedley.livejournal.com/2412.html
He discusses the game and also lists some plans for the future and I gotta say, they sound brilliant.

Water vehicles (known for a while I believe)
Player bases
Manual harvesting sounds cool, having a platoon on patrol so the miners can get to work safely.
The best imo is the prospect of an NPC army, the way he describes it sounds like a alien/tyranid type global invasion which would go after everyone. Imagine a huge war between the 3 factions in an open field and then all of a sudden foreign pods start droping in...


Edit: Oh he actually mentions they will list some future plans soon.

They've got a three year plan, with the next year set in stone. I'm really looking forward to seeing what kind of cool stuff gets enacted.

Anvildude wrote:

Henners91 wrote: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.

You know, it might not be so cinematic as the trailer, but I think you actually can do that. I know thta the drop-pods will actually wreck flyers they land through, and jetpacking I don't think stops you from attacking... Also, I think you're able to snipe pilots from cockpits (maybe) so yeah. You can also definitely stand on top of aircraft as well, though you may slide some.

Being jumping on top of drop ships is very doable if you are good

Have they put in the female infantry models yet?

Melissia wrote:Have they put in the female infantry models yet?

I think i heard them having it planned.
They should IMO since they are trying to get full customisation...

They already have I believe.

Female models that is.

Was playing some EARLY this morning and then a couple of minutes ago. It really helps to get with a team. I really dislike the max units. They are Nice, but the way they flail around and the gun portions are just glued to the arms turns me off. I prefer the MAX units from PS1, where they were mean looking, and a bit scary to encounter.

unmercifulconker wrote:They already have I believe.

Female models that is.

Awesome. I await my beta key then, for whenever I finish fixing my computer (I am taking it to a professional today, though no clue when it'll get fixed).

Melissia wrote:

unmercifulconker wrote:They already have I believe.

Female models that is.

Awesome. I await my beta key then, for whenever I finish fixing my computer (I am taking it to a professional today, though no clue when it'll get fixed).

Should well be fixed before the public/key beta starts, as long as its sent in early enough hehe.

I certainly hope so. AT the very least, I hop ethat it's fixed by the time that Guild Wars 2 comes out.

There is one glitch with female character models though: as of last patch, if they got in MAX armor their characters became glitched and in some cases corrupted and unusable. That will hopefully be fixed by the time the game goes back up on Tuesday, as they're trying to iron out bugs and such right now.

Deathklaat wrote:i did fly a bit and it is actually pretty easy its much like flying a chopper in any Battlefield game but less prone to flipping over at the slightest touch.

You mean like flying a chopper in BF3? The flying model actually varied a lot between the various Battlefield games! If it's like BF3 I know I can handle it easily, but if it's like BF2 I'll probably crash.
Do the flyiers have some sort of "auto-stabilization" going on that have them assume perfectly horizontal/vertical orientation when you don't touch anything? Would surely make landings / dropping troops a piece o' cake.

Also, yay for Steam distribution!