Planetside 2
 

anyone here play?
I was on beta and now the game has officially launched.

Im east server, vanu soverence? cant remember the name.


I was surprised at the scale of the game. a friend of mine told me about it and I like it alot, esp its free. Its a futuristic battefield 3 on roids. There are 3 continents you can spawn onto each has different layout and environment.i noticed one of the continents cycles day and night time. A lot of land , air vehicles.

The gameplay is area control, you have a few buildings with aa guns and launch pads that you can control in each region of the large continent. from most bases you can launch air vehicles, land and change class. the larger bases have the air. each team has a main base on corner of map, total of 3 teams to choose from when you create character. to capture you have to "hold" the territory untill the bar fills with your color.


I play as a infiltrator. (sniper)

I played a ton in beta, but have not had time to play recently. It's a badass game for free, probably the best f2p game i've played, EVER. Check it out, gays.

I will have to. And I am glad that I just built a badass PC, because it looks amazing but also like it is a bitch to hardware.

It's a bitch to hardware indeed. But i still get 40+ fps or so on my system, and its FAR from top of the line. (i3 2120 ivy bridge, gtx460, 8g ram)

just in case anyone wants to join me. im on the Soltech east server, vanu

I was in a ton of beta as well. I'm currently downloading the game all 6gb of it. I'm playing with my "guild/clan/groupofonlinebuddys" as NC in the east coast server waterson.

I got a bunch of new computer parts in, i hope to be running this game max settings and still getting 50+ fps always.

I currently have (going to be replaced) GTX460, 4g ram, amd965, ect. All i'm going to say is i bought a 1200w power supply. :)

I might try it next week when my 2 660tis get here with my i5-3570k ivy.

You're going to be running 2 660ti's i'll be running 2 550ti's :D

Though, i have the superior processor.


/juststartedworldwarthree


Actually, i launched the game last night and it was running amazingly smooth. I was shocked. There is a difference between beta and the real game i can tell for sure. That OR there was just less people in the game, i was in a pretty populated area.

Even if you have one of the i7 ivy 6 core 12mb chips I still win as there is nothing other the high end design that needs that chip and the i5-3570k is the de facto gaming chip right now. i7s ivy are just e-pee badges for $200+ more.

Desktop Ivy Bridge. Intel Core i7-3770K and Core i5-3570K Processors Review. Page 6 - X-bit labs

But like I said if you do a lot of application stuff i7 is the chip to have but for gaming is not worth the cash.

I don't need to run word documents. I have a big cache and a fast HT to run one big videogame.

lol

Not starting world war three here. It is what it is.

I take that back, what motherboard you running??

Newegg.com - ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Ordered it while it was $150 shipped, no rebate needed. Was an impulse buy and likely to send it back from a z77 chip board.

Update, Nvm, the board being shipping is the revised z68 or 2.0. Will run 3ed gen CPUs and PCIx3 th same as a z77

Nice. We're going to be running almost identical specs in the grand picture.

So the ivy bridge runs pretty dang hot from what i hear (compared to sandy) you going to use an aftermarket cooler. Or just stock?

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1354121627

Had this a few years. AMD Phenom II X4 840 Was running at ambient most of the time.

Yeah that pushes the air towards the back of the case. Or at least somewhere.

I have a bit of hate for the fans that just sit on top and don't really push air anywhere. Those things don't belong anywhere but the trash. IMO.

Blows to the back top corner where there is a fan blowing up and out.

pffft at your puny 4 cores... I have 8.

Ill start playing PS2 again if you fools are in it.

Also that comparison URL you posted is bias.


My 3Dmark11 score for my FX-8120 was 9946 just for the CPU

I'll play some if you guys are down to chat and strategize. I got tired of playing alone and running around, but had a blast when playing with 1 or more friends.

Also, how much of an improvement was there on the IVY bridge vs Sandy bridge? If i watned to upgrade processors, whats the cheapest one i should go for? I have an i32120 sandy bridge atm.

Play as NC in the east coast server waterson.

Heres to hoping it will be playable on my 7950, might need to throw in this coolermaster fan I have and crank the CPU up a bit.

Downloading now, I'll try it tomorrow,

Started getting BSOD last night.

:(

Changed pc order.

Wont be up and running till next week with new shipping and RMAs

https://www.miataturbo.net/gaming-91...09/

I've been playing VS on Matheson with the TEST outfit, and this game is fucking awesome.

It is stunningly beautiful, and there are a ton of different ways to play, so you can play for 4-5 hours without getting bored. If you like RTS, you can command a platoon or 2 (well if you are in a 1500 person outfit like me). Except instead of NPCs you order to die, you are ordering real people around.

Or you can just get up close and it plays like Halo, except you have 666 people on your team instead of 4, and the map is several hundred square kilometers. The infantry combat is very well balanced, and you can have a boatload of fun just jumping straight into the meat-grinder. Or you can choose a support class like engineer or medic and get a ton of exp that way.

Or you can jump in one of several planes or tanks to get around. The tank stuff is well balanced, but the air-to-ground is overpowered currently compared to anti-air, at least if you have the a2g rocket pods.

Basically if you have a PC that can run this game, you NEED to download it.

Do I have to download a new launchpad? Mine keeps crashing.

No idea, I never played the beta. If you uninstall the launchpad do you have to re-download all 7 gigs?

thats what im worried, ive been a closed beta player so my launch pad is from then. I guess im going to have to find that out the hard way. However, my wife plays everquest 2 from Sony using Launchpad, and she says it just re installs the launchpad and verifies the data you have, and adds or replaces what needs to be replaced.

I was in beta and had to remove and re-download the client when it went live. It kept giving connection errors when i'd run the old launchpad.

That's the way it's supposed to work, anyone who is not an idiot would have programmed it that way. I assume it does, because I heard a lot of complaints about the launch, but that was not one of them. If they flipped the switch from beta to release 2 weeks ago and made everyone re-download 7GBs, people would have flipped shit.

Mother effer. This game got INSANELY busy tonight, i had to stop playing. I was down to like 15-20fps and there were so many people in areas it was just impossible to shoot at people without hitting your own team. Driving a tank pretty much anywhere resulted in running over your own team at least a couple times. The only thing that provided any fun was raining down fire from a liberator.

Installing... because I need another game to play like a hole in the head.

Yeah, it does get bad. I think there is an optimization patch being finalized, I think they want to release it next week. But the render distance bug is a real issue. You have 2000 people on each map, which is normally no problem because you are 10 miles away from them. But when you get 1000 people fighting over the same territory, you need to figure out how to relay the positions of 1000 people without using up shitloads of bandwidth and killing people's CPUs. Right now it just cuts it down to what it can handle, which in the crazy battles is usually less than 100 feet. I just find some empty ones to cap with the outfit, and leave those to the zerg.

Speaking of which, it's still double xp weekend, I've got to join up with the 116th Cert Farmers Brigade and get to farming.

So I'm Splitime on PS2.... shocker i know. Playing on Genudine server atm.

So um... what should I be doing?

lol there are no tutorials, your best bet is to watch some youtube videos.

Then join a squad and start killing people.

You'll figure it out. And once you do, you'll either hate it (unlikely) or love it for the fact that it's unlike anything you've ever played before.

So i hear they might be releasing a new continent. One that's like a swamp, with a lot of fog and foliage. Like the one in PS1. That would be fun.

NC got our ass handed to us all weekend too. :( Though i only put in a couple hours i got ranked way up due to double xp that was nice.

A couple other thoughts.

They need to have more of an XP bonus for defending a base. You get little to nothing by staying back and defending a base. Weather it be a big huge base, or a small little pass with only a building and some rocks. Countless times we would push ahead only to leave a huge void behind us that the enemy would just recapture without issue. Cutting off our supply line and extra troops/fighters.

The game feels like: gather forces, push ahead to enemy owned base, take base, move on until dead. Start from closest base owned and push forward again, over, and over, and over. Which is all fine and dandy, but a good defense is a strong offense. IMO.

Another issue they need to fix is some type of high ping filter. Or just kick high pingers. I had a couple times where people would jumping around an area like they had a lag switch. Not even rubberbanding, just skipping around. Most of the time if you hit their frozen body it would kill them but if they are running around so fast you can't ever hit them. Next thing you know they're on top of you peppering your face with lead. That sucks.

Yeah, we had a couple issues with that this weekend, but mostly because we didn't WANT to push ahead. It's double XP weekend, we were there to farm those certs! Too many times we would defend a tech plant, then the zerg would push ahead, when we just wanted the enemy to keep butting their heads against us. The zerg have no direction, they just do what they want. So you have to plan strategically around them. Go to the bases around the ones they are attacking, try to find where the counter-attack is coming up and stop it, something like that.

That's because they are lag switches. On Mattherson the admin or whoever was constantly spamming messages of "third party programs will get you banned" etc. It was really annoying. Just ban people, don't tell me that you are banning them, because then I know how many hackers you have playing your game. They want attention, don't give them any.

I think I like it... at least twice I co-opted on a couple different planes and the apc, that worked nicely. I also seemed to make a decent engineer when I had someone to revive me around :p

Logging in to play a game and finding a 2654mb upgrade waiting... bleh

Yep, it's changes to the map. If they make one change, we have to redownload the whole thing. Among other things, some balances, Sunderers can have horns (for $6.50 no thanks), and some new guns.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1355494979

If you like this game, now's the time to buy into it.

I hear the way to do it is go to WalMart now and buy the $15 SC card, which comes with a 500SC bonus. That way $15 = 6000SC (that's $60 not on sale). Buy the card now before walmart runs out of them, and activate them on Friday.

Rocket Pods here I come! About damn time.

Finally sucked it up and downloaded my 7GB update, who's playing and what server.

i play on soltech east, vanu


how does that work? i just buy the card and activate on the 21st?

Yep, I had to go to 3 walmarts to find 3 of them. But on the 21st I will have 18,000 SC.

Jokes on you, gamestop has the planetside2 specific station cards that INCLUDE a weapon.

Yeah, but the walmart ones have an extra 500SC, which on 3x sale translates to 1500SC, good enough for 2 weapons.

so does gamestops.

Your mom!

Anyways... I think I can only do this game with MTrs... randoms don't work together and I'm getting eaten up.

we need to make a gaming schedule. I feel the same way.

I joined the Reddit outfit, TEST. VS on Mattherson. They are somewhat organized, a nice mix of seriousness and goofing around.

There's nothing planned, I just jump in teamspeak and go.

Or join one of the outfits on the server you are already on.

The problem is, you noobs always join different servers.

This happened in GW2, after i said over and over what server to join into. So i quit trying.

Why dont we have a TS server?

I guess because everyone wants to join their friends, then we end up on diff servers.

Thats what happened to me on GW2 and none of my friends play anymore and neither do I. LOL.

Like a forum TS?

My clan / group of friends have a 25 or 30 slot TS3 server that is more than sufficient and we can all use.

^^ yeah something like that... how is it that Joe can setup friendly games but we suck at PS2?


Anyways, had an awesome run tonight with the first ever competent team I have played with since closed beta.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1355905668

Headlights on = prepare to get raped by rocket pods :P

I was just going to say that. haha

Perhaps they were on for the screenshot. I've found the best time to travel is at night with the lights off, you can pretty much go anywhere you want because no one will see you. This game is dark at night.

Feels good to be part of the rape train though don't it?

If you mean in TF2... its because its easy to follow someone into the server and play with them. This... its so big... no easy way to pull together that I know of...

eff yeah it does, there were at least 30 of us tanks, 5 full loaded sunderers, 15 aircraft of different types, didnt matter if we had our lights on, we were actually a working team that stayed a tight cluster of royal fuck. I think thats why I love this game, I hope BF4 is going to be this big... you dont have a vehicle cap. I found these guys by deploying to the crown, and I was really hoping all the destruction I was falling into was my team for once...

My full version expired so I have to record in windowed mode, which makes my game suffer and my recording suffer, but this was that game. It was so epic I recorded it. Also while suffering I was still getting a spiky 60fps
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