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

[QUOTE=Fisk;37443735]Shame, was hoping for some awesome illumination effects. Flashlights <3[/QUOTE] Mmm, you and me both. Bought it for my primary TR guy. Used it on my Medic. Went on a roadtrip in the evening just to have a broken flashlight...

[QUOTE=Teh Soviet;37443455]Wait 6-7 hours until Tolmek or whatever his name is signs onto twitter, then ask something along the lines of " I am ready to embark upon a quest. " He'll tell you to do something stupid, like paste a picture of cats, then he'll send you a key once you actually complete the task.[/QUOTE] I got a reply from Wudi last night. but Never got a key

Damn, my fps is so much higher since last patch. Now I can play on high while in a big battle :dance:

[QUOTE=Fisk;37443674]Does flashlights work?[/QUOTE] They used to in the tech test, along with vehicle lights.

Finally got a key! I cannot wait to play this!

[QUOTE=scratch (nl);37443858]Damn, my fps is so much higher since last patch. Now I can play on high while in a big battle :dance:[/QUOTE] You mean the small patch? It really improved the performance, even if it got worse with the patch before that, but it's getting better and better.

what ways are there to getting a key except for spamming the @Planetside2 twitter? Need one or two for my friends.

I need one for myself too, but don't want to spam anything/anyone. I played it at Gamescom and now I crave more Planetside 2. :( I registered for the beta a long time ago, but I assume it will take months until I get a key from there.

[QUOTE=Firewarrior;37442962]The fight for the Indar Excavation Site tower on EU1 is amazing. NC attacking the TR tower with lots of tanks and aircraft, looks great man.[/QUOTE] It is still going on. TR has that place really well defended. Was fun being engineer and repairing loads of aircraft that came for repairs. [editline]28th August 2012[/editline] Well, this was bullshit. I spawned a Vanguard and some idiot was standing in front of its spawn with ATV. So my tank crushed him because I had no control of it. Now my weapons will be disabled if I hit any friendly more.

Hmm anyone else ever crash with a "Please insert a disk into the drive" error? I googled it and apparently it happens over a wide variety of games.

Spent a good 4 hours this morning on TR, US West 1. Raged a couple times, asking myself where my team was. There is no .. Teamwork whatsoever in this game, so it seems. That or you have to coordinate with a friend for it too happen. Either else nadda. The HUD needs a vast amount of work, there is so much crap popping up on the screen when you're in a large base, it's hard to focus on enemies at times. AA guns do a piss amount of damage. Being locked on means you may as well jump out of the air vehicle. Going anywhere near an object will make you explode. Landing in areas is batfuck hard, static camera in third person.. can be pushed back a few. Lag compensation is holyfuck bad. I can spray at someone, 20+ rounds down at them and they'll somehow magically kill me. Rockets have no AoE damage, and travel at the speed of a turtle. What else.... Oh, unless you buy a sniper the default one is useless at range, so unless you buy one with money, or Auxarim(so?), which also takes a fuuuuuck long time to build up. After 8 or so hours, I only have 2k aux. Things cost around 12.5k. Yeah no.

A good half of your points I agree with, but there's a few things I'd like to point out: 1. I've never exploded due to being near an object (or ramming straight into it for that matter) 2. You have to ram your shit into the ground to fuck up landing 3. Rockets shouldn't have AoE damage, they're anti-vehicle weapons, not Carl Gustavs from Bad Company. I'd wager the in-game economics (auraxium pricing basically) is going to get reworked before launch. It is quite high at the moment and really encourages idling but its not very high on the list of priorities.

Also with the teamwork thing. It happens every time when they let a slough of people in. They don't know fuck how to play the game, it takes a couple weeks. I also don't get the lag either, even when I'm playing on West, from europe.

I saw epic teamwork yesterday, the West Coast server is just underpopulated right now, try playing East. I saw huge convoys of Galaxies and tanks and epic plane battle and all sorts of fancy pancy gubbinz. Drop podded on a really tall cliffside once, nobody could see me, and I was hundreds of meters above their highest aircraft, could see the giant pitched battle in between two cliffs. Looked like three hundred, some 20-30 dudes defending a dead end against an enemy horde full of aircraft and tanks and such. I just sat there, watching for a good five minutes, until my friends who were currently down there pressured me into jumping down and getting killed.

I did just witness some beautiful 2x VS galaxy dropping at "The Crown" on EU1. Spawn beacon was gone in a flash. Sadly, I was holding with TR at the end.

The thing that needs to go from PS2 is this "instant action" thing, it ruins the possibility of proper defense and frontlines when you can just drop in straight on the enemy, it's ridiculous. But maybe they already have plans to remove it, what do I know.

spawn at VS warpgate start falling through the floor YOU: help YOU: help YOU: oh ohnnooooo

[QUOTE=DanRatherman;37424116][img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/NCapparently.jpg[/img] Apparently NC likes to steamroll.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=goon165;37430298][thumb]http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9944/img20120827134033.jpg[/thumb] [B]MEANWHILE ON WEST03[/B][/QUOTE] Lol from Day One, NC seems to have just taken over. Especially on West03- Here i thought by joining the NC i would be on the losing side. Huzzah. Rebels!

wtf is the deal with weapon locking? Managed to get mine locked by bombing enemies a few meters under the liberator... been locked for the last 30 mins

okay so repairing things was already broken pretty badly but this update made it IMPOSSIBLE to repair anything with any kind of urgency so many situations where I could've saved someone if the bastard repair tool worked top priority for fixing. also I love SOE for finally getting a handle on the flight stuttering, I could actually shoot people down now - if every fuckface and his mother didn't have AA missiles

[QUOTE=Turnips5;37446345]okay so repairing things was already broken pretty badly but this update made it IMPOSSIBLE to repair anything with any kind of urgency so many situations where I could've saved someone if the bastard repair tool worked top priority for fixing. also I love SOE for finally getting a handle on the flight stuttering, I could actually shoot people down now - if every fuckface and his mother didn't have AA missiles[/QUOTE]No fuck that performance should be top priority, I frankly don't give a fuck if the gameplay is broken right now, it's not even officially released so none of that stuff matters atm and it'll get fixed anyway. I can hardly even play the game properly because it's so unoptimized as of now.

I found West 01 pretty evenly matched through the Afternoon periods. 34%-35%-32% last time I was on.

[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;37446088]That's because the map is designed in such a way that whichever faction has their gate up in the north, that faction seems to automatically own half of the map. They really need to re-tweak everything and move the actual warpgates because Indar is horribly designed right now. (Also, check the percentage of population)[/QUOTE] waaah

[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;37446088]That's because the map is designed in such a way that whichever faction has their gate up in the north, that faction seems to automatically own half of the map. They really need to re-tweak everything and move the actual warpgates because Indar is horribly designed right now. (Also, check the percentage of population)[/QUOTE] i dont think you've ever posted a positive thing can you please stop complaining, thanks

[QUOTE=Killerjc;37446534]i dont think you've ever posted a positive thing can you please stop complaining, thanks[/QUOTE] If you don't complain problems in a beta they dont get fixed. Its the point of a beta, this isnt a demo. IN fact, if you haven't been complaining about the mountains of (solvable) problems then your a pretty shitty tester. In fact, he's completely right. The devs are actually talking about that exact problem on [url=http://www.twitch.tv/las0m]this stream[/url] right fucking now, so he's right, you are wrong. Congrats.

But you're not supposed to be complaining in a public forum, there's an ingame bug report button and a private beta testing forum [B]just[/B] for that. They put the NDA up just so the game isn't criticized before it's further down in development, but you guys treat it like it's a finished product. Less complaining, more bug reporting where developers [I]actually[/I] read bug reports.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;37446685]If you don't complain problems in a beta they dont get fixed. Its the point of a beta, this isnt a demo. IN fact, if you haven't been complaining about the mountains of (solvable) problems then your a pretty shitty tester. In fact, he's completely right. The devs are actually talking about that exact problem on [url=http://www.twitch.tv/las0m]this stream[/url] right fucking now, so he's right, you are wrong. Congrats.[/QUOTE] OH SHIT DUDE SORRY I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS ON THE SOE OFFICIAL FORUMS How the fuck am I wrong? It's still needless complaining, and look at his post history. It's literally [B]all[/B] he does here.

Goddamnit, they can complain if they want to. What do you want us all to do? Silently praise the game in every post? A forum is for discussion, we're discussing problems.

The topic is being treated as a bug reporting forum and the beta is being treated like a game demo made for enjoyment. Do you not see where I could get a little annoyed with people complaining?

You know this game can look really pretty at times, even on all low settings. [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/PlanetSide2_2012-08-27_15-56-51-23.bmp[/img]