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

[QUOTE=Sharp_Shooter;37931468]Really? But that has nothing to do with loading the main menu.[/QUOTE] Usually it just says that server is locked or whatever on selection screen, nope? CTDing because servers are down is a bit extreme and never happened to me before.

Where are you guys getting referral rewards from? I can't find anything on my station account about referring people

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;37931629]Where are you guys getting referral rewards from? I can't find anything on my station account about referring people[/QUOTE] Facebook

does the patch include the new guns? and is this also a wipe?

Looks like the servers are up, one US and one EU at the top. Time to get started. [editline]6th October 2012[/editline] Whatever the performance improvements were, it doesn't seem to be affecting me much. Still poor fps with medium-large amounts of people.

Graphical design of Esamir reminds me of Tribes, except with actually good graphics.

[QUOTE=Raijin;37932027]does the patch include the new guns? and is this also a wipe?[/QUOTE] Yes and yes.

Esamir is shrouded in really thick fog which i'm 95% sure is a mistake. Wasn't like that in the videos.

Fucking prefab bases. It's Indar but white.

[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;37932681]Fucking prefab bases. It's Indar but white.[/QUOTE] The same goes for PS1. I'm fine with the bases being the same, I would rather they focus on creating unique continent landscape to play on.

Sadly my performance hasn't really improved at all in areas with more than 2 dozen+ or so people. Sucks, but Higby they said they'll be optimizing until the end of time so there's still hope.

TR's warp gate on Esamir is terribly placed, they're tucked away in the corner while NC and VS go head to head

[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;37932681]Fucking prefab bases. It's Indar but white.[/QUOTE] What did you expect? At least in ps2 they tried to make the prefabs look like prefabs... dropped from spaceships with retroburners or unpacked out of crates. It makes sense from the ~lore~ point.

[QUOTE=NoDachi;37933433]What did you expect? At least in ps2 they tried to make the prefabs look like prefabs... dropped from spaceships with retroburners or [B]unpacked out of crates. [/B] It makes sense from the ~lore~ point.[/QUOTE] I pictured a massive lorry spanning the continent just dropping building-sized crates out the back.

I must admit, I'm enjoying the bigger pop and new cont. Even we're getting fucked over by the 50% NC zerg.

[QUOTE=NoDachi;37934289]I must admit, I'm enjoying the bigger pop and new cont. Even we're getting fucked over by the 50% NC zerg.[/QUOTE] Only way we know how to play, baby.

How do you get to Esamir anyways?

[QUOTE=FPSMango;37934370]How do you get to Esamir anyways?[/QUOTE] Inside the warpgate spawn rooms there are consoles with a planet-icon on and above it. Use it.

Fuck the NC.

I'm downloading the update now, and I'm pretty loyal to NC, sorry. I wonder if they'll add a way to travel between continents without using that interface. For example, the entire game is just one huge map, with giant oceans in between continents. Perhaps a few ocean installations too, that could be cool.

Higby said the current system is just a placeholder.

Good, most of the chat at warp gates is people asking how to get to Esamir because they can't look around

when is the beta going open to the people who registered but didn't get a key from one of the giveaways?

Bahaha, me and my friend went undercover on an NC amp station. Blowing up objectives, killing people from behind then spawning a Magrider and killing everyone is hilarious and exciting. [t]https://i.minus.com/iwBrijNcckc0v.png[/t] [t]https://i.minus.com/ibpzFxD6dM5o7D.png[/t] Then getting busted by several NC troopers after several runs. :c

Had a fairly amusing moment on Esamir, we were capturing a facility just east of the TR warpgate that was under VS control. Naturally I decided to acquire a Prowler for the purposes of assisting my glorious empire in the liberation of this facility. A flash passed me from behind while I was shelling some distant VS vehicles, as soon as he went past the edge of the building he was lit up by VS weaponry, they then emptied their mags into the Flash in an attempt to destroy it. Just as they cease fire I roll forward, twin cannons pointing left. Two of them are crouched along the wall, one of them turns to run and the other just sits there, looking at me. I open fire and kill both of them. It's not an amazing moment, nor is it an original one, but it was a brief moment of comedy in a raging battle.

NC should go kill themselves, also, look how fucking stupid the percentage bonuses are towards Empires with lower pops. [img]http://i.imgur.com/ERksU.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Thom12255;37935172]NC should go kill themselves[/QUOTE] [img]http://i49.tinypic.com/2djqb8z.jpg[/img]

This shows how FUCKING STUPID it is to release with 3 continents, one faction will have complete control over one constantly and just farm Auraxium. They haven't thought out the design of the game at all clearly and it ruins everything.

ideally if they release with 3 continents then each faction would have a "home" continent and they'd have to own it entirely to push towards the enemy continents, at least that's how i see it and how it worked in the first game?

[QUOTE=Crazy_Farmer;37935281]ideally if they release with 3 continents then each faction would have a "home" continent and they'd have to own it entirely to push towards the enemy continents, at least that's how i see it and how it worked in the first game?[/QUOTE] The first game didn't have a cash shop which depended on resources earned in-game. Due to the current system, once you have complete control over the continent you are just farming Auraxium and the other resources by just standing around. If you go to another where you have no territory then you are not getting ANY resources at all so why bother? This also means that the pops on one continent will start swinging to one faction that is doing well and thus will have complete control as they progress. Sanctuaries now, 9 continents at least now, lattice system now, keep the hexes but we need a lattice of some kind for the big bases, remove Auraxium in its current form and employ it in a different way. If they don't do this then the metagame will be forever non-existent and the game will die. Where's my fucking continent locks.