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

[QUOTE=dedo678;37973677]It's not horribly optomized but with my Core2duo and HD5770 and 4 gigs of RAM I need to run it at a tiny resolution (1024x768) on my 1080p monitor. [editline]9th October 2012[/editline] On low.[/QUOTE] I heard if you want to keep Planetside 2 from using your CPU, keep all the settings on medium except Terrain, Effects and Particles. Use 85% rendering as well.

[QUOTE=dedo678;37973677]It's not horribly optomized but with my Core2duo and HD5770 and 4 gigs of RAM I need to run it at a tiny resolution (1024x768) on my 1080p monitor. [editline]9th October 2012[/editline] On low.[/QUOTE] you should switch to medium, it'll offload a lot off your CPU and you should get better performance

Another key; 4APP-243E-K3ZD-26XF-K4FD I don't know if it's been posted, but at the bottom of the dumb little email they sent out about this patch, there is an extra beta key

[QUOTE=jaredop;37974422]Another key; 4APP-243E-K3ZD-26XF-K4FD I don't know if it's been posted, but at the bottom of the dumb little email they sent out about this patch, there is an extra beta key[/QUOTE] stole this

anyone got a spare code i am poor and want to play the game. (optimistic)

i like flying around esamir in a reaver, swooping low and pretending I'm a snowspeeder on hoth

Any tips? Slowly learning the game, just confuses me where I need to go to capture points, etc. My i5 2500 and 670 gets 60fps in open areas and 30fps in fights, lowest is 25fps. Maxed out of course.

so I followed some guys, shot some people who didn't have nametags above their heads, captured a point and then bought a bike and drove it along the nearest dirt path. I think I ran someone over too then I drove into the enemy base and a tank laughed at me and I went boom game of the year

i constantly get blow up by grenades in warpgate why don't they just block firing anything while in the bubble

They probably will. Like the PS1 sancs. It's probably not a ~coding priority~.

[QUOTE=The golden;37977499]Jesus fucking christ they need to do something about TK's in the wargate. I had just filled up my liberator with some dudes and was just dusting off when we got pelted by friendly rockets and it exploded, killing us all. For fucks sake.[/QUOTE] Suicide the the TKer at random, with number of suicide being double of TKs. TKed a full galaxy? Enjoy your 24 suicides, spread over whothefuckknows period. [sp]just kidding, but something along those lines might be fun/useful[/sp] :v:

They also need to remove collisions on dead bodies, some asshole was blocking the main exit for the warp gate spawn with his corpse for like 15 minutes once

I used to find it funny when /suicide nuked the vehicle you were in. Including full galaxies.

[QUOTE=The golden;37977499]Jesus fucking christ they need to do something about TK's in the wargate. I had just filled up my liberator with some dudes and was just dusting off when we got pelted by friendly rockets and it exploded, killing us all. For fucks sake.[/QUOTE] i thought your weapons get locked if you tk too many time

[img]http://i.imgur.com/dYiLd.png[/img]

Actually we pushed out of the warpgate on east a little while go with a zerg and pushed VS off with half their pop as NC. Highlight was farming an air tower full of unaware snipers in the liberator. Shredder is delicious.

[QUOTE=Jimesu_Evil;37979757][img]http://i.imgur.com/dYiLd.png[/img][/QUOTE] just make a hard 33% population limit for each faction I can't really think of a situation where you'd have more than that without teamstacking it wont magically make everything balanced but it will stop things getting ridiculously out of hand like the 50/25/25 I've been seeing

[QUOTE=krail9;37981357]just make a hard 33% population limit for each faction I can't really think of a situation where you'd have more than that without teamstacking it wont magically make everything balanced but it will stop things getting ridiculously out of hand like the 50/25/25 I've been seeing[/QUOTE] there's really no good way to implement a population cap in this game and really, population balance doesnt become an issue until it gets to the point where the under-represented factions just end up quitting. but that's something that needs to be looked at as an overall game design flaw, not something that can be fixed with a cap

[QUOTE=krail9;37981357]just make a hard 33% population limit for each faction[/QUOTE] Oh look at that, I can't log in because there are only 20 VS who want to play right now.

[quote]Computers like squares. We're trying to get as much gameplay square footage as possible out of 8km x 8km maps, due to memory constraints we've got to stay within that box. We could make odd shapes, but it starts to really cut into the available square footage.[/quote] Fuck squares.

[QUOTE=Thom12255;37981531]Fuck squares.[/QUOTE] Requesting that someone posts the polygon song. Stupid iPads not being able to hotlink to youtube easily.

Any word of when the servers are going full-time? They don't come on until 9pm here which sucks

[QUOTE=Jimesu_Evil;37981530]Oh look at that, I can't log in because there are only 20 VS who want to play right now.[/QUOTE] what? that doesn't make any sense at all

[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;37981587]Any word of when the servers are going full-time? They don't come on until 9pm here which sucks[/QUOTE] I was just about to come here complaining. I got a beta invite yesterday and I thought they were all just dead :v: What time do they start up in GMT?

[QUOTE=krail9;37981754]what? that doesn't make any sense at all[/QUOTE] You suggested hard cap based on percentage. I assumed you meant percentage based on the [i]number of players online[/i] at the time. That means if there are only around 20 VS on the server, then there can only be 20 TR and 20 NC on that server. That would just be silly. Unless you meant about 30% of [i]total server capacity[/i] (which is currently 1950 players) for each faction (650 per faction), to which I would say... that's exactly how it is now.

They need to add a reverse faction bonus for the faction with the highest population. I.e. NC has 50% population so they get a -10% resource, experience bonus and get an extended re-spawn timers for infantry and vehicles. They could also go even further by giving free, instant re-spawn vehicles for the factions that have below a set percentage of the population. It would give them a better fighting chance against the high pop faction.

[QUOTE=Thom12255;37981531]Fuck squares.[/QUOTE] if only they realized that they can have squares for the maps' shape, but have a more natural shape for the continents at the same time. hint: [sp]sea vehicles[/sp]

[QUOTE=mcattack1092;37981857]They need to add a reverse faction bonus for the faction with the highest population. I.e. NC has 50% population so they get a -10% resource, experience bonus and get an extended re-spawn timers for infantry and vehicles. They could also go even further by giving free, instant re-spawn vehicles for the factions that have below a set percentage of the population. It would give them a better fighting chance against the high pop faction.[/QUOTE] I'm all for this. Some kind of "Imbalance Tax" on resources based on how much your faction outnumbers the enemy on that continent. You want more resources? Go to a continent where your faction needs you.

I like the free vehicles idea. It stands to reason that when shit is really hitting the fan population wise there'd be emergency backup or something.

This guy has comprehensively summed up the problems with PS2 at the current time. I quite liked how he described how the PS1 soundtrack really affected how people felt about the game. [url]http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/mega-discussion-what-can-we-learn-from-ps1-10-9-2012.29516/[/url]