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

If anyone has a spare key, could someone pm me it? need one for a friend, it's less fun without a crazy brit spraying bullets everywhere.

[QUOTE=Fippe;38325989]it's not like we have any exosuits with humans piloting using two weapons either that would be preposterous[/QUOTE] That's completely different. Things like recoilreduction and reloading and targetting are all expected to be taken care of by the suit. The pilot just sticks out his arms and turns. Then again, it also looks like the people who pilot maxes are bigger than the average auraxiuan so they could be modified as well to be ambidextrous.

Hurf I realised my MSW-R actually became better when I took the compensator off. I forgot that compensator fuck with the hipfiring. My KDR went to 4.3 today running around stomping vanu.

[QUOTE=KorJax;38320655]It's like this for every terrain based engine, and other games can get by with it fine (see unreal tournament or Crysis series). All they have to do is make their models modular instead of all one building. That way you can mix and match pieces and swap out parts in-engine, or in the modeling program, without having to make a whole new building and building layout for every base that shares that same style.[/QUOTE] They are modular or at least seem to be from flaws we've seen in past builds (like walls not touching and collisions not matching parts of the building)

Just tried out the demo. After playing 2 hours and realising that the optimization is horrible, I cannot fathom how are they gonna make it till the 20th of November...

demo lol

[QUOTE=NoDachi;38327563]demo lol[/QUOTE] beta :v:

[QUOTE=NoDachi;38327563]demo lol[/QUOTE] He's right. lets face it, beta's are demos. [QUOTE=Dark RaveN;38327527]I cannot fathom how are they gonna make it till the 20th of November...[/QUOTE] Yeah the community is wondering the same thing. :v:

[QUOTE=kenji;38327907]He's right. lets face it, beta's are demos.[/QUOTE] No lets not face it because it isn't really true now is it. Betas can be used as demos sometimes sure, but demos can never be betas.

Buildings are extremely repetitive with nothing vaguely interesting inbetween bases. In fact the only two/three bases that are vaguely recognizable to me is The Pit and The Traverse and maybe one of the mountain checkpoints.

[QUOTE=hogofwar;38328023]Buildings are extremely repetitive with nothing vaguely interesting inbetween bases. In fact the only two/three bases that are vaguely recognizable to me is The Pit and The Traverse and maybe one of the mountain checkpoints.[/QUOTE] Thats another thing that bothers me. A lot of "buildings" serve no real identifiable purpose, and they all have no real personality to them. You don't need a lot of personality mind you - I mean they are military bases after all. But most bases appear to have no *real* function in the buildings that are in them. Where do people store stuff? Why do the barracks look exactly like the high-tech "core" area of the base, to the point where they dont even look like barracks anymore? etc. I'm not saying to add potted plants and bathrooms or something lol but a lot of buildings seem to serve no real purpose, and the buildings that DO serve a real purpose (i.e. like barracks) get lost because they are made almost exactly like non-barracks buildings, such as having random security consoles in the hallways and such. Also a lot of buildings aren't belivable because there's no real power source going to them, no sanitation or pipes, no anything that makes buildings feel like they are actually functioning buildings. They are basically sqaures, with beveled edges and textured walls. The only thing that really feels like it almost is a real building would be the interior of tech labs and biolabs.

The problem is that they wanted the interiors to still be rather open plan with lots of room, unlike the PS1 two person wide corridor to account for the higher TTK. So you can't have lots of clutter. But yeah, I agree on the whole shit needs more personality. But I do like how they made the exterior buildings look like prefabs dropped from spaceships with retro-burners and landing legs, or unpacked from crates.

I have nothing to add to this conversation but here's a key. EG69-7DXE-TCKF-HNF7-X6MN Try not to crash.

Is there a general consensus on what faction is the most fun to play/best for new players? [editline]5th November 2012[/editline] Right now I'm on VS and every gun looks the same and it's confusing me :(

[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;38329706]Is there a general consensus on what faction is the most fun to play/best for new players?[/QUOTE] If you enjoy sniping, VS is the easiest to get into, as their snipers do not have to compensate for bullet drop and have an extremely high muzzle velocity, and their tank cannons are very accurate and easy to use. If you enjoy flying, NC is likely the best as their Reaver is an extremely capable fighter. If you like raping infantry, TR is likely the best as their Prowler eats infantry alive and their guns have huge magazine sizes.

Literally all my possible names and all the ambulations are taken with the Alpha squad name reserve.

[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;38329706]Is there a general consensus on what faction is the most fun to play/best for new players? [editline]5th November 2012[/editline] Right now I'm on VS and every gun looks the same and it's confusing me :([/QUOTE] NC is full of teamkillers around the warpgate so stay away from that if you can, but their infantry rifles are pretty fuckin cool looking and they sound beast TR is my favorite faction since NS1. I'm a TR fanboy but honestly the playerbase on it are a pretty big letdown VS are full of elitists and a lot of the people on it seem to take the game a lot more seriously, but so do a lot of people on the other teams too. VS are kind of idiot proof though since they shoot lasers [editline]5th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=NoDachi;38329804]Literally all my possible names and all the ambulations are taken with the Alpha squad name reserve.[/QUOTE] i got dibs on fagbasher so i'm good to go

now that attachment cert trees are gone I wish they'd let us refund the certs we spent on things we didn't want so we could get to the things we did want

[QUOTE=69105;38329810]NC is full of teamkillers around the warpgate so stay away from that if you can, but their infantry rifles are pretty fuckin cool looking and they sound beast TR is my favorite faction since NS1. I'm a TR fanboy but honestly the playerbase on it are a pretty big letdown VS are full of elitists and a lot of the people on it seem to take the game a lot more seriously, but so do a lot of people on the other teams too. VS are kind of idiot proof though since they shoot lasers[/QUOTE] Or the reality of the situation: The playerbase of all three empires is pretty uniform and anything else is an artificial construct designed to separate 'us' from 'them'.

[QUOTE=69105;38329810]NC is full of teamkillers around the warpgate so stay away from that if you can, but their infantry rifles are pretty fuckin cool looking and they sound beast TR is my favorite faction since NS1. I'm a TR fanboy but honestly the playerbase on it are a pretty big letdown VS are full of elitists and a lot of the people on it seem to take the game a lot more seriously, but so do a lot of people on the other teams too. VS are kind of idiot proof though since they shoot lasers [editline]5th November 2012[/editline] i got dibs on fagbasher so i'm good to go[/QUOTE] Gonna try some NC I guess, VS guns feel really weak tbh (and I cant' imagine what the TR ones feel like if the VS ones are already pretty weak)

[QUOTE=NoDachi;38329857]Or the reality of the situation: The playerbase of all three empires is pretty uniform and anything else is an artificial construct designed to separate 'us' from 'them'.[/QUOTE] true story a lot of people go NC solely because of the rock and roll music plus i don't know what you mean uniform. i don't mean to sound like a dick but every time i fight the NC we always manage to destroy them. it's either me or it's that TR vs VS is kind of the big rivalry while NC is just over there capturing points and then getting fought back when they're too close. nobody seems to take them seriously from what i've seen [editline]5th November 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=ZestyLemons;38329890]Gonna try some NC I guess, VS guns feel really weak tbh (and I cant' imagine what the TR ones feel like if the VS ones are already pretty weak)[/QUOTE] VS are pretty cool. i might switch over to them on an alternative character but their assault rifles are such an eyesore

[QUOTE=69105;38329897]true story a lot of people go NC solely because of the rock and roll music plus i don't know what you mean uniform. i don't mean to sound like a dick but every time i fight the NC we always manage to destroy them. it's either me or it's that TR vs VS is kind of the big rivalry while NC is just over there capturing points and then getting fought back when they're too close. nobody seems to take them seriously from what i've seen[/QUOTE] And this is why no one seriously uses anecdotal evidence. Because your experiences differ from mine, yet I still play TR the most.

Are the servers down? The PS2 website is giving a "under maintenance" thing and won't tell me why I can't log in when the client fails to.

27mb patch just downloaded. [editline]5th November 2012[/editline] Oh that is why the reserve name thing wasn't working either apparently. Hell I was trying more obscure names like Raskolnikov and all the variations of that name.

Downloaded two patches, still no servers?

"we also have a patch going up right now with 70% of the crashes fixed. Disabling pain fields. Leaderboard stats working and sunderer fix"

Does anyone here have any FPS tips? I've turned my quality on medium to avoid the game overloading the CPU and thus killing the frame, but having a GT520 I'm forced to play on 1024x768 with 50% render quality :C

Does anyone have a list of essential certs?

Hah shit looks like they rolled the server back 2 days.

[QUOTE=NoDachi;38331223]Hah shit looks like they rolled the server back 2 days.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I lost a lot of the things I've certed into, and never got the certs back. Shit sucks man.