Planetside 2..Free to play..and looking awesome so far!

norseamd · Sep 29, 2014

Red Storm said:
So Hossin is quickly becoming my favorite continent to play on. I like that it seems to limit aircraft spam, and the jungle setting makes it easier to ambush and take on vehicles. One annoying thing though. Was defending a base on Hossin from an enemy outfit, and they had a Galaxy sitting way up high in the trees, and there was a continuous stream of people dropping out of the Galaxy every so often. So we would kill them, but it seemed like they just kept respawning above and would drop back down. We couldn't shoot the Galaxy down either as it just sat above one of the huge trees and couldn't be locked. Is there something in the Galaxy that allows squad respawning? Seems pretty unbalanced to me, it was like a Sundy without the risk.

What server are you on?

TFS93 · Oct 1, 2014

SunnyD said:
Meh, way too much 1-shot kill for the high BR's that make it feel pay2win now. Walked away from the game to play other stuff for several months, so that doesn't help any (not that I'm that good at FPS's anyway). But it feels ridiculous now, anything over BR60 always seems to hit inordinately hard.

That and I've seen stuff that makes it obvious that hacks are running freely in game (still).

Markbnj said:
I agree there is a lot of that now. I'm BR35 and I have been one-shotted so many times by BR90+ players. But the funny thing is I still find the game fun, even with the imbalances and the armor/air zergs. The diversity of ways that you can play the game is what saves it, I think.

What?? Do higher rank BR players get more damage or something? Or do you just mean they have better guns?

norseamd · Oct 1, 2014

TFS93 said:
What?? Do higher rank BR players get more damage or something? Or do you just mean they have better guns?

No. There are more powerful weapons and attachments you can use but otherwise high rank players are no more powerful than even BR 1 players.

Markbnj · Oct 1, 2014

norseamd said:
No. There are more powerful weapons and attachments you can use but otherwise high rank players are no more powerful than even BR 1 players.

So, other than more powerful weapons and attachments ...

norseamd · Oct 1, 2014

Markbnj said:
So, other than more powerful weapons and attachments ...

Well other equipment. Otherwise there seems like a lot of cheating in the game.

JTsyo · Nov 20, 2014

Double XP weekend today through Sunday for 2nd year anniversary. There's a twitch feed on there too.

norseamd · Dec 10, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCVuc2TOc2Q&feature=youtu.be

JTsyo · Dec 10, 2014

norseamd said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCVuc2TOc2Q&feature=youtu.be

Matrix like reflexes on that dude.

Bubbleawsome · Jan 9, 2015

I was messing around on emerald today and get into one of those situations where it makes you glad to play planetside. It was a massive 100+ battle of TR and NC (NC defending) with not much special. A few people get on the /yell talking about giving some grenades as late Christmas presents. It moved into friendly conversation, me being the stereotypical NC heavy that has no brains and makes up for it with a shotgun and rocketlauncher. People joking about ground troops messing up good air battles, stuff like that. No one really made any progress. We didn't blow up their sundie and it was just a general farm for both sides. (It looks like NC still has it as of now.

) Eventually a few VS showed up, chatting about abandoning their brothers, sniping both sides. I struck up a chat with a few. (Lady2x and commander2x) Walking along and get sniped by ladyx2. lol's around in the chat, says she would have let me live. I ended up in a tall tree raining grenades down on the TR and snuck up behind a VS heavy. Ended up getting shot by someone that didn't get the memo.

Once he realized he shot the guy he had been chatting with (me) they realized I was sooo cool and I got a few VS buddies. Ended up eating dinner but it was really neat when people can get together and chat and play without going rage.
I'm not explaining it well, but it was really neat.

destrekor · Jan 9, 2015

Bubbleawsome said:
I was messing around on emerald today and get into one of those situations where it makes you glad to play planetside. It was a massive 100+ battle of TR and NC (NC defending) with not much special. A few people get on the /yell talking about giving some grenades as late Christmas presents. It moved into friendly conversation, me being the stereotypical NC heavy that has no brains and makes up for it with a shotgun and rocketlauncher. People joking about ground troops messing up good air battles, stuff like that. No one really made any progress. We didn't blow up their sundie and it was just a general farm for both sides. (It looks like NC still has it as of now. ) Eventually a few VS showed up, chatting about abandoning their brothers, sniping both sides. I struck up a chat with a few. (Lady2x and commander2x) Walking along and get sniped by ladyx2. lol's around in the chat, says she would have let me live. I ended up in a tall tree raining grenades down on the TR and snuck up behind a VS heavy. Ended up getting shot by someone that didn't get the memo. Once he realized he shot the guy he had been chatting with (me) they realized I was sooo cool and I got a few VS buddies. Ended up eating dinner but it was really neat when people can get together and chat and play without going rage.
I'm not explaining it well, but it was really neat.

It's been so long since I've loaded up PS2, but from what I remember, it really was a different level when it came to the chat. You still had a few immature retards, but the majority of chat, that which wasn't trying to organize anything, was friendly banter.

I really, really need to get back into that game.

TeknoBug · Jan 11, 2015

I swear that I'm in China, because I see the Great Wall of Text!

And Planetside 2 has changed a fair bit, a couple major servers has merged into Emerald, and the server has gotten a bit sour socially as nobody seems to have anything nice or good to say in chat that you may just as well minimize chat and use voice comm over squad/platoon.

destrekor · Jan 11, 2015

TeknoBug said:
I swear that I'm in China, because I see the Great Wall of Text!

And Planetside 2 has changed a fair bit, a couple major servers has merged into Emerald, and the server has gotten a bit sour socially as nobody seems to have anything nice or good to say in chat that you may just as well minimize chat and use voice comm over squad/platoon.

Were you stating that Bubbleawsome's post was a wall of text?

Ooooboy. I must write epics tomes half the time. :biggrin:

norseamd · Jan 11, 2015

Planetside 2 servers and Sony websites were just down.

maniacalpha1-1 · Jan 11, 2015

Game hasn't really changed for the better, I mean it's still better than CoD and what CoD influenced Battlefield, but repairs and revives are still overpowered, having a slowing effect to gameplay that people used as a justification against prone, but far far worse than prone could ever have done.

norseamd · Jan 11, 2015

maniacalpha1-1 said:
Game hasn't really changed for the better, I mean it's still better than CoD and what CoD influenced Battlefield, but repairs and revives are still overpowered, having a slowing effect to gameplay that people used as a justification against prone, but far far worse than prone could ever have done.

Prone would be sweet to have for gameplay. Honestly it is just how balanced is it for the type of gameplay but while I have never thought of reviving as problematic in the fight specifically I have noticed that it would be sweet if air mobility could play more importance as it is kinda refreshing to have to regroup all together in one place and then fly out to your locations of operations.

norseamd · Jan 11, 2015

maniacalpha1-1 said:
Are you an old EQ/EQ2 vet looking to secure the future of EverQuest? Go the to EQ Next forum at https://forums.station.sony.com/ever...t-discussion.1 and the Landmark forum at https://forums.station.sony.com/land...-off-topic.77/ to advocate today! EQ Nexus IRC is at http://eqnexus.com/chat/

You know I did play in the EQ open alpha and at first I did vote in the polls but I have not done that for some very long time now so wondering on what they have decided on as far as settings, content, and gameplay so far.

norseamd · Jan 12, 2015

Sony servers are not working and as far as I know no one is able to log on.

Bubbleawsome · Feb 13, 2015

After being bought and turning into daybreak Higby left the company. :'(
Quite sad, I hope to see him around. o7

PC Master Race · Feb 13, 2015

Planet Side was a shitty game whit terrible game play and optimization that left allot on the table.

JTsyo · Feb 13, 2015

Bubbleawsome said:
After being bought and turning into daybreak Higby left the company. :'(
Quite sad, I hope to see him around. o7

Guess he left on his own, not laid off.

hondaf17 · Feb 13, 2015

Who is Higby? He the main designed of PS2 or something?

I am still having a blast playing PS2 - tons of fun. Best teamwork-based FPS out there, by far, imo.

JTsyo · Feb 14, 2015

hondaf17 said:
Who is Higby? He the main designed of PS2 or something?

I am still having a blast playing PS2 - tons of fun. Best teamwork-based FPS out there, by far, imo.

Basically. From his twitter profile

Creative Director for PS2

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