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Haha that reminds me, in the first game one of my clan used to play 'Ride of the Valyrie' before we did an air-drop through the microphone on teamspeak. Also 'Long Tally Sally' sometimes
Those Max suits look great, they are somewhat less bulky than in the first game.
I wonder how the factions will balance out this time? I always liked being the slight underdog with the Terran Republic last time...
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Henners91 wrote:I was too young to play Planetside 1 (not having any internet didn't help either) but I am pre-ordering this the second I am able to do so
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh and I'd deffo be another Terran Republic guy.
What can I say, I love authoritarianism in sci-fi settings... it gets me all aroused.
Game's gonna be free to play, you don't need to preorder anything! Also, I'm very pleased with the amount of TR leaning folks over here. Glad most of you won't be at the wrong end of my gunsights in a few months
Well, I'll be spending all my initial certificate points on getting a fully kitted out liberator gunship, Spectre gunship style. Purple has been planned for tailgunner.
Henners91 wrote:I was too young to play Planetside 1 (not having any internet didn't help either) but I am pre-ordering this the second I am able to do so
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh and I'd deffo be another Terran Republic guy.
What can I say, I love authoritarianism in sci-fi settings... it gets me all aroused.
Game's gonna be free to play, you don't need to preorder anything!
Oh? Nice... I did understand there was some shop for buying items that won't affect gameplay... but we all saw what happened when BF: Heroes tried to do that (and now you can buy guns that'll turn the tables; just more profitable )
I did rather like their old system on BF: Heroes wherein you could buy better guns (for a week) with ingame currency you earned by grinding, but could get them permanently by buying them with real money.
Brother SRM wrote:Also, I'm very pleased with the amount of TR leaning folks over here. Glad most of you won't be at the wrong end of my gunsights in a few months
It's a 40k forum, since the Imperium evidently 'does it' for many of us, I think it's likely that we'll always lean toward the authoritarian human supremacists (Dunno if the TR are supremacists... but they seem to fit that same sci-fi niche as Starship Troopers' Federation, EVE's Caldari, Firefly's Alliance, humanity in Aliens, etc.
Oh? Nice... I did understand there was some shop for buying items that won't affect gameplay... but we all saw what happened when BF: Heroes tried to do that (and now you can buy guns that'll turn the tables; just more profitable )
I did rather like their old system on BF: Heroes wherein you could buy better guns (for a week) with ingame currency you earned by grinding, but could get them permanently by buying them with real money.
That's a horrible system. Being able to buy power is bad. And nothing can be exclusive if it effects gameplay.
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Originally they didn't have stuff that affected gameplay; but they just weren't making money. You made your one-time purchase and that was it.
I do like the old system though because EVERYONE could get the original guns; you just had to grind for like 5 games and then you'd get one for a week... not that hard. You paid real money for the convenience of avoiding the grind. If you played the game regularly, you would always be able to afford to renew your guns because you would (presumably) play at least five games with said guns
Unfortunately not enough people gave EA their dosh methinks.
Hence me leaning more towards a traditional subscription model when it comes to such games - I just don't believe they are profitable when they don't sell something that is in high demand by just about everyone, and the company will be interested in making as much money as possible. And decals alone ain't gonna cut it. Sidegrades ... well, we've seen what this did to APB.
But as has been said before, the scale of the game should balance this. Even if you have a player who can fight for two thanks due to his p2w guns, he's still gonna get rushed by that squad of ten.
I'm currently thinking about a mixed combat medic / dropship pilot build, by the way. Dunno if this is viable or whether I shouldn't specialize all the way, though - I assume it'd be somewhat impractical to combine both roles in one action, so that I'd still have to choose which one to commit to in each battle.
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Besides, you could also have the nightmare of taht ten person squad all having paid to win, so they go around killing everyone with their uberawesome gold plated penis extension gear.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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Melissia wrote:Besides, you could also have the nightmare of taht ten person squad all having paid to win, so they go around killing everyone with their uberawesome gold plated penis extension gear.
And this is essentially what is rewarded on World of Tanks (except, replace the gold plated with a steel penis). When you are sat shooting someone in the back, because you have out-manouvered them, seeing the shots bounce off only for that gun to slowly track around and kill you with one shot because they've paid real money for their ammo. It completely ruins the game IMO, and if they do anything even remotely similar in Planetside I will be very angry and stop playing!
But, perhaps the makers of this game will want to make a good game for, you know, it's own sake rather than just as a means to being able to sip champaign from the edge of their giant pure-diamond cowboy hats.
Also, good point about the fully-geared squads ... didn't consider this. I would hope that this would be the exception from the rule, but I guess that the larger clans would definitively have entire teams devoted to this. :/
winnertakesall wrote:If I may reference the War of the Roses thread, you seem to have a strange obsession with metallic genitalia Melissia
Nah, that would just make him an donkey-cave, and an idiot. And he's not those.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
If we are gonna do this, let's do it right. Is anyone else interested in doing an air superiority fighter squadron with me? I'm thinking Arkangel for the callsign. Because that sounds bad fething ass.
Or some kind of 'air cavalry' ? Anyone who wanted to be a trooper would have a role, and obviously they would need fighter support during transport, and ground support when they arrived at a base.
Did it in the first game and it was a great deal of fun!
Well as said before. I'll be bringing the big guns from sky. Librator all the way. Though after I've got that thing completed I'll be investing in getting a decked out galaxy to do drops.
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