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Check this out: http://www.planetside2.com/

This game looks amazing. There can literally be battles with thousands of people on one "map", including vehicles, infantry, etc, and its an FPS. You can already sign up for beta, but the beta won't be out until later this year. With something like this on the horizon, I can finally come to terms with the fact that Star Wars Battlefront 3 will probably never be released

Anyway, what do you guys think? This looks like it could be a revolutionary game and might kick off a new genre of FPS. (Yes, I know there have been MMOFPS titles in the past, but none looked this awesome)

Looks cool, I signed up for the beta.

Cannot wait for this, especially since its the closest thing to battlefront 3 right now

Its going to be so sweet to see a thousand player night battle and see the skies light up with pretty explosions.

Now, if only you could mod this game and add a oh I don't know a little grim far future then my life would be complete.

Dang, that looks awesome. Always wanted to try an MMOFPS.

Been waiting for this for a long time. I played a TON of planetside and theres never been a game that can equal that kind of grandscale combat.

Oh the joys of defending your base and seeing 50 dropships, 50 APCs and 50 tanks roll over the horizon.

Yup, been waiting and waiting for this.
Bring it on.

I propose we make a dakka group of some sort
Does the game support custom heraldry or something?

No clue, depends on what their free to play model will look like I guess. Don't know if it'll be all cosmetic or not.

But IMO, hope not. You are already on a team (and no, you can't switch your character around).

Yeah, I get the whole 3 factions thing, but alot of these games sell on customization, and IMHO it would be cool to have big banners on our tanks, in the colors/types of our factions, but the banners could be our division or whatever you want to call it.

As long as I can sneak around and recon things to locate enemy drop ships and stuff i'll be happy

Banners on tanks would look extremely silly. Doesn't fit with the style of this game. Having marking is fair game though.

That said, you can make outfits (guilds) and even spec the entire outfit to fit specific roles. You can probably expect outfits of tankers or flyboys, things like that.

Nothing like a 50 man outfit all in kitted out gunships doing a strafing run.

well yeah, markings, banners, whatever.

yeeeah, I'm wondering if I can get enough peons to listen to me, I did lead world class 40 man raids so as long as I can organize a radio channel tree so that there is minimal cross-unit traffic I think it would be a blast.
I would love to have 100 people under some sort of general command (which I fully expect to be ignored 25% of the time, lol) while I sort of sneak around as a sniper and scout things out or sit in some mobile command unit or some nonsense.

Reminds me of really big scale natural selection1

Having 1 leader is kind of useless, get picked off and your entire strategy falls to pieces. Besides, the battles in Planetside are of a far to great scale to rely on only a few people to organize it all. In my experience it was best to have clans/guilds/outfits(whatever) devided into squads. Like, a single tank column (10ish vehicles) Full APC's as a single fire squad. Stuff like that. That way they can reliable operate on their own.

I would love to play this game but I'm not sure if my PC can run it...

Lol we could have a Dakkadakka regiment/clan called theTanith 1st

Tanith 1st?

Why not the Praetorian 11th Regiment 'The Elevenses'?
Or the 33rd Jopal Indentured Squadron?
Or the 909th Penal Legion?

Actually there are about a million different names we could choose which would be pretty good...

Yeah, to many choices for that.

A bigger question is, what faction will we play?

Cause my Loyaly lies with the Terran Republic.

Terran Republic, obviously. Any other choice* is just incorrect.

*There is no choice.

The Terran Republic is the only way to go...
That way when fighting the New Conglomerate we can say 'Die rebel scum!'

Whichever faction has loud ballistic weapons, lazers can kiss my butt

Terran Republic - High fire rate
New conglomerate - maximum damage but slow
Vanu Sovereignty - pew pew lazors

Soladrin wrote:Terran Republic, Terran Republic or Terran Republic.

Fixed.

Well i'll see what I like but Terrans sound fine as long as they aren't the super popular "normal" army that always has numbers.

is there long range arty or anything like that?

I'm in, I played Terrans for the short amount of time I played Planetside 1.

Does anyone still play planetside 1? That would be awesome to sort of get a feel for an MMOFPS.

I think the servers are up but it's rather desolate. Also, keep in mind that planetside 1 netcode is horrible and theres no hitboxes. So it's not all that enjoyable anymore after getting used to technologically superior shooters.

The first one was an absolutely bloody amazing game - it was some years ago now, and as Soladrin points out this type of game doesn't age very well generally, but as far as 'team' combat goes it is second to none. Having 10 guys airdrop onto an enemy base and head for the C&C centre to capture it, and the tense wait as there were ten of you covering a door where you knew the counter attack would come, squadrons of Mosquito flyers buzzing around a big lifter craft trying to shoot it down (while guys in turrets on the craft defended it, ww2 bomber style). A 'zerg rush' of Max suits (think terminator armour) trying to jam in through the entrance of a base. There are so many great memories of this game - if they get the team work/clans nailed this time round, and keep the open world balance that they had before, again this will probably be by far the best team-based MMOFPS on the market.

My enduring memory of this game was being in a clan of 'air cavalry' - we would fly over the enemy base and drop maybe 30-40 of us on top of it. Then, the smaller gunships would provide ground support while the big transports stayed in a holding pattern miles above. I was flying once, had about a dozen or so clan members in the back of my lifter (there were about another 5-6 lifters doing the same thing). But, while trying to evade some enemy fighters I messed up and put my aircraft straight into the side of the mountain. There had been a friendly buzz of chatter on our platoon teamspeak, but as the camera panned back to show the wreckage of the aircraft it fell completely silent. There was a short pause, and then my platoon commander (a usually very affable Dutch chap) said in his Northern-European accent, "you fething idiot".

Another Flyboy eh? I was always pilot for me squads/clans. Be it dropship or Gunship.

This looks great, thanks for the link. Signed up for beta and hoping for the best.

I must admit I've missed the original Planetside back then, though I've heard great things about it and seen some pics of course. Given how much I loved Battlefront I & II or the bigger combined arms engagements in BF'42 and BF2, I think this game is something for me, too.

And Terran Republic looks/sounds good. I think I might try my hand as a dropship pilot, depending on how the controls work. Just sounds like a cool job.

I just want to drive a land raider, or drop ship, or something like a maniac, or command people

I miss people yelling at me in battlefield bad company because I flew the helicopter at 200mph 10ft above the treeline playing it like a drop ship and not hovering so pussies can shoot the guns ;P

Another Flyboy eh? I was always pilot for me squads/clans. Be it dropship or Gunship.

Yes definitely! I always thought that was one of the best components of the game. It took a lot of practise to use those things right. I was in a clan that took the game far too seriously, our commander used to have us doing drills in uncontested environments - practise jumps into bases, pick ups (flying directly downwards with the Galaxy, pictured below, to minimise chance of ground fire)



I really hope the new game keeps the skill specialisation that Planetside 1 had - so you could train as a pilot, sniper/scout, heavy weapons guy, medic etc.

But, at the same time I know this might not be a popular opinion, but that the BFR (big robots) get left out. The strongest element of Planetside was the ability to work as a team and support each other with multiple specialisation. Of course you could 'zerg' in planetside; just spawn into a combat zone and mindlessly run at an enemy solo, like in games like Modern Warfare, but that was never the strength of the game. The BFRs were so powerful I thought it kind of ruined the delicate balance of the game, and took some of the emphasis off team play. There would be a group of you travelling in AFVs, with gunners, drivers etc. then all of you would just be outgunned and killed by some guy running solo and spamming the base. I can understand why the add-on pack with BFR's was released, to try and pick up some game sales, but TBH it killed the game for me.