PlanetSide...anyone else in the Open Beta???

[chizow]

Got accepted to the PlanetSide OBeta yesterday...must say the game is going to be very cool. From what I've seen, its going to be a perpetual BF1942 set in the future, although your character will progress and improve as you play. Game mechanics are very slick as well, not as good as say SoF2 when it comes to player control, but about on par with most FPSs.

Anyways, just wanted to see if anyone else is playing...look me up if you're NC, I'll probably be hulking around in my MAX pummeling softies.

Chiz

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I am in it and have had my cd's for a week now, also I am in an outfit called Exile. We play on beryl server.

 

[Flashram]

Yep I'm in. Been playing about a week now. It's alot of fun whenever it isn't crashing. Also playing on Beryl (now Markov) server.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Does anyone know where you register for the fan club so you can actually play? It keeps telling me I'm not registered for planetside when I hit "PLAY."

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Does anyone know where you register for the fan club so you can actually play? It keeps telling me I'm not registered for planetside when I hit "PLAY."

Hmm not sure but here is the beta site it has register feature on it try there or maybe Sony's site.



Planetside beta site

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Does anyone know where you register for the fan club so you can actually play? It keeps telling me I'm not registered for planetside when I hit "PLAY."

Hmm not sure but here is the beta site it has register feature on it try there or maybe Sony's site.



Planetside beta site

The link doesn't work. I got a link in one of the emails I received, but I still don't see where I am supposed to register for the fan club.

 

[Flashram]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Does anyone know where you register for the fan club so you can actually play? It keeps telling me I'm not registered for planetside when I hit "PLAY."

There should be a button that says "register" on the launchpad. I think it asks you for your station name and password (maybe cd key) and that's it. Mine did the same thing at first.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: Flashram

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Does anyone know where you register for the fan club so you can actually play? It keeps telling me I'm not registered for planetside when I hit "PLAY."

There should be a button that says "register" on the launchpad. I think it asks you for your station name and password (maybe cd key) and that's it. Mine did the same thing at first.

Thanks. It started accepting me into the game. Now If I could actually connect to a server, I'd be ok.....

 

[DefRef]

I got accepted, but when I logged in to download the actual game, it said it would take 18 HOURS(!!!) and I'm on cable. WTF?!? I cancelled the DL and played UT2K3 instead for a while.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: DefRef
I got accepted, but when I logged in to download the actual game, it said it would take 18 HOURS(!!!) and I'm on cable. WTF?!? I cancelled the DL and played UT2K3 instead for a while.

It took me around 12 hours to download the entire thing, still hella slow for cable.

 

[DefRef]

When I was in the Earth & Beyond beta, they sent you to a site where you could DL it in about a half hour or whatever it took to bring down 800 MB. Nice going Sony - couldn't ya do the same?:|

 

[CubicZirconia]

Can anyone else not join a sever at all?

 

[MaTTCNAMCP]

I've been able to play just about all day except for when they took the servers down to apply a patch. It's a little buggy, but it's our job (beta testers) to let them know what's wrong so they can fix it. Also it takes a long time to download because lots of people are trying to download 2.66 GB at once.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Can anyone else not join a sever at all?

I just finished playing for the day 10 hours is enough. Still get kicked playing sometimes so the bugs are there, but all in all its a great game.

 

[DefRef]

Since I'm heading to bed, I figured I'd DL it while I slept and it's now reporting it'll take 2:45 to DL. Thruput is reading in the 250-280 kb/s range, so who knows. I think I screwed up when I told it to install into another partition w/o creating a folder for it. Is it going to leave a bunch of folders lying around and/or will I be able to consolidate them when it's done?

 

[DefRef]

Ah crap, it did what I was afraid it'd do - it DLed to the root of the partition so I now have 130 files and folders totaling 2.66 GB:Q making a mess of the drive.:| Is it possible for me to copy these into a folder and run the Planetside.exe or am I forced to use the Launcher thing in the Setup. I'd just go ahead and try it, but I'm afraid it'll write all sorts of pointers into the Registry and I'll have to reDL. Anyone done this themselves?

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Can anyone else not join a sever at all?

I just finished playing for the day 10 hours is enough. Still get kicked playing sometimes so the bugs are there, but all in all its a great game.

Considering I still can't join a game (and neither can my friend for that matter), I'd definately say there are some major bugs that need to be worked out.

Edit: Turns out my linksys router was the problem. Its great that you basically can't play the game behind one...

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Can anyone else not join a sever at all?

I just finished playing for the day 10 hours is enough. Still get kicked playing sometimes so the bugs are there, but all in all its a great game.

Considering I still can't join a game (and neither can my friend for that matter), I'd definately say there are some major bugs that need to be worked out.

Edit: Turns out my linksys router was the problem. Its great that you basically can't play the game behind one...

We have the same router here and we can play fine, when the servers are up of course lol. But my buddy is the one that takes care of the router and firewall issues here so as long as I can play I am happy.


Good to see you got the issue taken care of Cubic maybe ill see you in there I play using this name.

 

[SaiNRuB]

Im hooked


Planetside is just what I needed for a change.


Edit:

Heres a good link for getting started in Planetside

http://ps.crgaming.com/

 

[Atlantean]

I am working on getting the beta from a friend who got in on it.

 

[chizow]

Cubic, you may want to head over to the Beta forum's tech support threads. You may need to set the correct ports on your router to connect to the game's servers. I don't have to do anything of the sort with my Netgear router, but I've read that some routers require you to do this.

Chiz

 

[CubicZirconia]

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Can anyone else not join a sever at all?

I just finished playing for the day 10 hours is enough. Still get kicked playing sometimes so the bugs are there, but all in all its a great game.

Considering I still can't join a game (and neither can my friend for that matter), I'd definately say there are some major bugs that need to be worked out.

Edit: Turns out my linksys router was the problem. Its great that you basically can't play the game behind one...

We have the same router here and we can play fine, when the servers are up of course lol. But my buddy is the one that takes care of the router and firewall issues here so as long as I can play I am happy.


Good to see you got the issue taken care of Cubic maybe ill see you in there I play using this name.

Care you ask you buddy if he had to forward any ports or anything to get it to work? I really can't keep disconnecting my router to play this game. Nothing I've tried has allowed me to connect to a server behind my router.

 

[Silex]

Well congrats guys. I was a few days late a a penny short. You are all part of making history; playing the first MMOFPS game to date. Update this thread occasionally and tell me how it goes .

 

[chizow]

Cubic, I'm almost positive you have to set your router ports for your router. They put in VoiceIP tonite and Spork or one of the other PS guys said there's a specific port that needs to be set for some routers that require port forwarding. You should be able to get your answer pretty quickly over at the Beta forums. New patch tonite rocks....1280x1024 and even smoother.....

Chiz

 

[chizow]

Hey guys, feel free to chime in over here since you are all testing it. It seems there are some concerns over how the game runs on hardware and the lag issue, so maybe you guys could share your experiences in that regards. It has been bad at times, but they patch almost daily now fixing any issues quickly.

Chiz