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

I have 3 different email-accounts and I still haven't gotten a beta-invite what do I need to do

kill vanu weapon lock, why

My first life was spent pretty much like this: Spawn in the middle of a crowd. Don't know what the fuck is going on. Walk up to a terminal where people seem to be buying crap. Buy a tank. Proceed to drive it in the general direction of enemy territory. End up at some place where action seems aplenty. First kill in PS2: shot an enemy air vehicle (don't know what the fuck it was) out of the sky with a tank. Then proceed on a killing spree spanning 4 infantry and 3 other tanks while driving around the enemy base aimlessly. Die after 5 minutes because of infantry with anti-tank weaponry. I've had worse first lives.

How do I enable joystick flight control? Fucking doing it with a mouse is impossible.

[QUOTE=mastermaul;37407787]So everyone's been having FPS reduction lately? I sure hope that's the case, because this game runs like shit. And I have a pretty decent computer.[/QUOTE] If there are relatively few people around (20-30 or less) then the game runs beautifully on High. Any more and it struggles on Low.

One shooting a mosquito with a vanguard AP cannon, feels good man.

Lags like all hell when in a base with more than 20 people.

So is this game good or not.

[QUOTE=BenJammin';37408817]So is this game good or not.[/QUOTE] Yes lets ask that in a thread which is entirely focused on the game in questionOf course its not :downs:

So what server would be considerd the "best" in terms of performence? (also somewhere the NC could use a few more hands :v:)

[QUOTE=BenJammin';37408817]So is this game good or not.[/QUOTE] Before I loaded up for the first time, I had my doubts. SOE has a history of sudden disappointments, and I was ready for that. Let me tell you, the moment you see beams and explosions lighting up the night sky, you'll know this game is great. It's a bit buggy at the moment, and crashes aplenty, but to say that the game is anything but awesome is simply false.

I'm finding it hard to enjoy with all this lag, hopefully it's something they can fix.

Hope SOE doesn't hunt NDA breakers too religiously. Keeping my Youtube vids hidden should be enough right?

I'm seeing some really awesome teamwork from guys with mics on Vanu right now.

[QUOTE=BenJammin';37408817]So is this game good or not.[/QUOTE] well it's in a beta so lemme break it down for you in my opinion; First, the performance and lag compensation is really, really bad. A lot of people are reporting choppy FPS everywhere, luckily I'm the few person(s) able to get a decent steady fps. Second, the UI is huge, and some of it is just cluttering, even when I'm on 1920x1080. The chatbox just seems useless, as it doesn't have a global chat. So just make it disappear unless someone says something in /say or /yell, instead of constant appearance. The minimap.. could be shrunken down, as well as the HUD of things. My god does it absolutely distract your aim. There are so many things that pop up as soon as you hover over them, and it breaks your concentration. Third, buying stuff(It's locked right now I think?). It seems really.. grindy. Getting points isn't very.. Obvious? It seems to be thrown at you like Battlefield 3's system, where a kill = 100 points, or something. But the actual points to buy upgrades, and very high. So it looks like. Not a bad thing, just.. For a beta it seems a bit high. Fourth, some things are waaaay under powered, while some can wreck balls. AA cannons seem to do piss poor damage at times, and over heat like a bitch. I've steadily hit someone flying right at me(I shit you not) and aiming right at their face, they were able to down me before I could make their vehicle smoke. While the AT at most bases can take out tanks within 2-3 shots, while they take 3-4 shots to take down. The tanks do not shoot very far, until the ballistics/gravity take them into effect. The sniper rifles, or the default one, seem to do very poor long range, and are hard as shit to hit when there is no steadying, or holding your breath(Unless there is?) just my 2 cents at the moment, had some decent times, but had some raging times.

Thread title and all that got me all excited... I still didn't get a key. ._.

God damnit, I am lagging to hell.

Had a fantastic run with a random squad, we had a convoy of 5 tanks going around capping shit left and right. We hit a dead end when we attempted to move into the desert though, a whole pack of NC Heavy Infantry and MAX units put up a hell of a fight. I died fairly early, so for the rest of that engagement I provided sniper fire from the ridge overlooking the outpost, harassing the MAX units and Heavy Infantry so they couldn't line up clear shots. In the end, we failed in moving into the desert, but the battle was so much fun that none of us cared. Later on me and the squad leader flew around in a Liberator raining hell on NC and VS alike, while two Mosquitoes escorted us and provided air superiority. The dynamic and organic feel to these scenarios is such a change of pace from other FPSes and I don't think I've had so much fun with an FPS in the past 2 years at least.

[QUOTE=Spooter;37409287]Thread title and all that got me all excited... I still didn't get a key. ._.[/QUOTE] I know how you feel

God this game can be gorgeous... [img]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/1137411731669405580/F6D90FACF0A34DE5269F4ED29259BDAB11D2247F/[/img] [img]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/1137411731669406688/F24F2F9F2FB557BC44B56556191830A18B5F10E0/[/img]

Are the servers still fucked up the anus with lag for anyone else?

I'm running at 40-50 fps. I can honestly say, the magrider is best empire tank. The maingun is a dream and the secondary turrets are by far superior to anything the NC and TR have (I hope this is a feature, as compensation for the fixed gun).

I always wanted to ask. What's the delay between resources deposits? And if it says +50, does it add 50 between delays that is?

5 minutes. In the last build at least.

[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;37409549]Planetside 2 is gorgeous. Fuck it... i'll post the screens from earlier. (I edited the squad list out though; just incase) [IMG]http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8157/2012082500033.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6969/2012082500034.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] Protip: Ctrl+F10 removes the UI

Sun rising as we conquer a tower. Feels good comrade'.

So I got an email telling me I got in the beta but when I click the download button it says the "The connection to link.e-sonyonline.com was interrupted." Edit: The download link from email is broken for a bunch of people but I found the launcher through the main site instead. Sorry if this has been posted a lot already.

Holy shit had my first crazy battle today since I played beta On VS on East01, and we just capped/defended Taurich, the tech plant on the bottom center of the map. A few clicks north was Zurvan, which we were also defending - and was underattack. IN between was a large conglomeration of Terrans inside the canyon seperating the two major bases, at an outpost they controlled there. Dead of night. We have a rather large batallion of 10+ tanks move in, 2 gals, a liberator and about 4-5 scythes comb the canyon (I'm one of them). Also a good chunk of grunts on the ground too. It was insane. They had SO many people there, that they actually recapped the point while we were attacking it. The battle lasted for about 15 minutes over this one point before we finally broke through and captured it. The army then continued north into Zurvan to strengthen the defensive line there. Most "planetside" style battle I've seen yet since the beta started. Beautiful.

Are there still disconnection issues?

Not had any