Planetside 2 Thread v2 - Beta floodgates open GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY - Games

Good god I just Scattermaxed a DC Max from 100% to 0% in about one second. I'm glad they increased the mag size again but they really need to limit the rate of fire on those things.

Blah, i finally get the beta, i log in on the site and it tells me i have to reset my password so i tried to do that, and then i got this " We currently have a limit on the number of times you can reset a password within a [B]24-hour period[/B]. The account in question has [B]reached the maximum[/B] permitted number of resets and must wait [B]until tomorrow[/B]to reset again. " i call Bullcrap.

I started up the launchpad twice to double my download speed. Am I a genius or what, eh guys?

So, I also got into the Beta this morning. Currently downloading it. Never played the first Planetside, so this is going to be new to me. (From what I can tell, it a mix of Battlefield 3 and Tribes Ascend..., but I could be very wrong)

[QUOTE=Padraig;37782365]So, I also got into the Beta this morning. Currently downloading it. Never played the first Planetside, so this is going to be new to me. (From what I can tell, it a mix of Battlefield 3 and Tribes Ascend..., but I could be very wrong)[/QUOTE] You're wrong about tribes ascend (there is a jetpack on one class, though), but the parallels to Battlefield 3 aren't unfounded. Though I don't blame you for making the aesthetic connection between tribes and planetside.

Just got into the beta. Where can I find information about when servers are open etc? Searched the forums but didn't find anything.

[QUOTE=Forss;37782434]Just got into the beta. Where can I find information about when servers are open etc? Searched the forums but didn't find anything.[/QUOTE] Announcement section.

How does one avoid error G25 when launching the game? I have an older ATI graphics card, and it seems that it's not within the game's minimum requirements, but still I find it unreasonable that it doesn't even let me launch the game.

[QUOTE=KorJax;37780206]I imagine a lot of people ragequit during the character wipe, also certs costing an assload now They'll probably come back once a big update happens/Esamir or something.[/QUOTE] I do think there is a certain type of player that would do best avoiding betas in general, or at least wait until open beta when it is mostly 'pls come play our game now'. They simply flip too much shit over unfinished games. And planetside is laughably unfinished.

Which server does Facepunch play on?

How does the game handle friendly fire punishment? I have been warned a bazillion times (half because people are stupid, other half because i'm stupid). I saw it mention weapon lock once, how long does such a thing last? PS: I really hate it when people run infront of your vehicle and you are going too fast to stop.

[QUOTE=Jimesu_Evil;37781271]Good god I just Scattermaxed a DC Max from 100% to 0% in about one second. I'm glad they increased the mag size again but they really need to limit the rate of fire on those things.[/QUOTE] It's funny because on the forums, everyone says the DC Max is overpowered, but I have never felt that way about it.

[QUOTE=LordApocca;37782986]How does the game handle friendly fire punishment? I have been warned a bazillion times (half because people are stupid, other half because i'm stupid). I saw it mention weapon lock once, how long does such a thing last? PS: I really hate it when people run infront of your vehicle and you are going too fast to stop.[/QUOTE] It depends on X damage over Y time frame. Weapon locks last roughly 30 minutes but apparently it depends on the severity of the crime. [editline]24th September 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=FlakAttack;37782987]It's funny because on the forums, everyone says the DC Max is overpowered, but I have never felt that way about it.[/QUOTE] The forums, like the old PS1 forums where the cesspit of the community.

I got the weapon lock warning when i was forced to drive over 4 team mates after spawning a vehicle. Really unfair.

[QUOTE=FlakAttack;37782987]It's funny because on the forums, everyone says the DC Max is overpowered, but I have never felt that way about it.[/QUOTE]the hell is a DC max

Dual-cycler

[QUOTE=NoDachi;37783083]Dual-cycler[/QUOTE] Only reason people say that is because its decent at mid to close combat. The VS and NC are only really effective at close quarters.

[QUOTE=Senscith;37783130]Only reason people say that is because its decent at mid to close combat. The VS and NC are only really effective at close quarters.[/QUOTE] I find VS and NC to outperform TR at close quarters though.

The bane of any TR attack I was a part of was a VS max. Even their AV weapons rape infantry, it's ridiculous.

Oh fucking joy, defending the Crown as a TR Light Assault, I'm behind some NC dude, he starts shooting infront of him but the bullets were coming out of his ass so he killed me because I emptied 3/4 of my mag and he was still at like 30% health left. Respawn, turn a corner, VS guy in my face, knife his nutsack and empty half my mag in him, I die and he's at 50% still. Decide to respawn as Heavy Assault because I somehow die instantly and can't kill shit anymore even though I've been playing Light Assault to a great extent a few days back, get stuck in the spawntube's ceiling. Decide to redeploy, same thing, redeploy again, same fucking thing. That was possibly the worst 20 minutes of Planetside 2.

My outfit guys are telling me the NC Orion weapon is quite broken right now. Would explain the insane NC pop we've been seeing on Themisto.

[QUOTE=FlakAttack;37783988]My outfit guys are telling me the NC Orion weapon is quite broken right now. Would explain the insane NC pop we've been seeing on Themisto.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that was on Themisto a hour-ish ago, was fighting NC in The Crown and they were all ending my life effortlessly and then VS came around and I started getting stuck in spawn tubes because VS started using their alien magics.

Apparently I got accepted to the beta, but I cannot play it because I have 3 different accounts on the same e-mail and I have no idea which one received the beta. Another problem is that I forgot the password with all of them so I must reset them, however, you can only reset one password per 24 hours, so now I must wait. :| [editline]24th September 2012[/editline] I just remembered the password to one of my accounts but " All users need to reset their passwords. Please click below to start this process. " So I do this, but: " We currently have a limit on the number of times you can reset a password within a 24-hour period. The account in question has reached the maximum permitted number of resets and must wait until tomorrow to reset again. " I mean really? Are you fucking kidding me?

Holy shit, there's some Alamo shit going in on the Crown on Themisto server, VS on one side, NC in the middle, TR on the other side, huge stalemate, eventually some crazy TR rolls in the middle of The Crown with a sunderer and deploy it, TR spawns all inside, we capture the main facility of the Crown and now we're defending the best we can and there's some crazy Alamo shit going on. [editline]24th September 2012[/editline] We just captured it after a good 1-2 hours. Some intense shit.

Vanu is getting decimated in the NC dominated Chaldene. We've been cut off all polymer supplies so we can't get fighters or Lightnings in the field any more. I fear we'll be stuck in our warpgate until servers go down for the day. I hope they'll avert their attention to TR soon but that's optimistic.

Oh what the fuck, I instant action to T.I Alloys because that's where everyone is, the game drop pods me on Rashnu Lab anyway, it's NC and I'm TR so I decided to go around capturing points because I'm the only one there, captured 3 points, suddenly I go to switch to my rocket launcher because some guy spawned a Reaver, the game decides I'm an engineer and switch to an invisible repair gun and make it so I can't run at all, I was stuck with nothing in my hands, couldn't switch weapons and I could only walk so I quickly got killed. [editline]24th September 2012[/editline] Joy, it's still like that when I redeploy and I can't even use an equipment terminal.

Welcome to the world of Betas.

[QUOTE=Gum;37785823]Vanu is getting decimated in the NC dominated Chaldene. We've been cut off all polymer supplies so we can't get fighters or Lightnings in the field any more. I fear we'll be stuck in our warpgate until servers go down for the day. I hope they'll avert their attention to TR soon but that's optimistic.[/QUOTE] Yup the NC have just dropped the hammer on us. We're getting decimated.

Finally got the beta, the game looks fucking TERRIBLE on my system, I don't know how to fix it. 1. Everything is blurry as shit, I tried all my driver anti-aliasing options, I turned everything off, I turned it to every setting. I can't get the game to look crisp, especially from a distance everything looks like my character needs glasses. 2. Really flickery/weird model glitches from a certain distance. If I zoom in to a far away place with my sniper everything is really flickery. These two things basically make the game unplayable, that and the fact that I have no idea what I am doing and every place in the server I am in seems to be abandoned.

VS were invading dahaka and we were defending dahaka south as TR (Because TR are the best end of story) and I sat on the bridge in a little hovel watching as a tank column of VS rolls through with a sunderer filled to the brim of troops and everything. I figured it was all over for me since I'm just a lowly engineer so I pull out my ammo box and run up to the back of the sunderer as a whole squad piles out and they stare at me long and hard I stare back They turn and run towards Dahaka south as I'm yelling on the squad comms "ENEMY INFANTRY AND TANKS WE LOST THIS SHIT" so our guys pull out and redeploy back to warpgate while some other squad of retards try to valiantly defend it even though there's like 6 guys there to stop a full 12 man squad of VS heavy assaults and medics + tanks i think they didn't realize that I was TR or something because I ran around with this squad with my ammo kit out for like 10 minutes before somebody finally shot me i would die laughing if enemies could hear you on proximity (which they should) because i'd be screaming my head off as i get close combat kills. i'd do it until my voice turns to rasp [editline]24th September 2012[/editline] also haha sunderers at biolabs everywhere tbh i love the idea of the APC being the primary spawn vehicle. ever since that change the game has became so much more rewarding other than way fucked up damage