Planetside 2

[Pudgeinabowl]

-Warning- This is very much a 'working Beta', it is not a media pre-release beta. Servers are taken down EVERY night for devs to run around and fix/test things, there are Devs INGAME in god mode (sometimes), and there are many many many weapons, assets and mechanics NOT in the game yet. There are also MASSIVE imbalances, walls you can walk through (I found one on my first day ). Crashes are the norm, not an exception.

If you want to keep your mind fresh and clean for the actual release, file the game away under 'interesting thing that I should definitely come back and look at upon release'.


My reason for posting this? IGN are giving away keys to the general public on Friday (so probably Saturday for us).
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Server Location and Lag: Servers are European AND United States (west and east, west give Aussies the best ping normally). BUT hit detection is CLIENT SIDE, so there is no 'lag leading' of shots, if you hit him on your screen, he takes damage (his bullets will hit you first yadayada, it's like playing bf3 on US servers, not at all difficult, only takes a minor adjustment).

Main Game page: http://www.planetside2.com/
Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68cq...2&feature=plcp

CGI Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41QF...6&feature=plcp

HOW TO GET A BETA KEY:
Bug them on Twitter, post fanart, jokes, whatever, get their attention.

IGN Promo: http://au.ign.com/prime/promo/planetside2 . (*I am not 100% sure how limited the 'general access' thing is, it may very well crash under the flood of people trying to get themselves a key, or even how it works. Sign up to IGN is the best bet, (don't subscribe unless you want to, I won't, ever, because they're kinda dicks*).


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What is it? Planetside is a Free to play - MMOFPS. Think BF2/3/PR, but with up to 2000 players on a server. All, at, once. Each player can get himself a tank, a jet, a trans hover jet thing, cars, quadbikes, Infantry are NOT at all useless, and there is plenty of spaces for them to fight each other as well as against vehicles.

There is Squad voip (squads are 12men, **** you BF3), there is POSITIONAL AUDIO INGAME, no mumble required, you can yell at the random person next to you.
There is Platoons and Divisions (several squads grouped together form one level, several of those form the higher level, a commander leads the lot and can speak to and order them all with waypoints and things (commander function not fully implemented as of writing).

The thing that almost made me cry, as well as set aside any trepidations I had for the game not delivering on its hype though. The Teamwork. It's what drew me here, and to PR, but it's in this game as well. On a HUGE scale. Consider organising 20 Transport galaxies (a VTOL 12man transport with turrets and a crapload of health), with a fighter escort and bomber wing to attack a single base. It's magnificent to watch, be a part of and even just hear about (it's also hilarious when it goes wrong and noobs fly into each other, because they don't use positional audio to tell the transport next to them that they are banking and landing on point X).

There's so much in the game, but it's the level of organisation seen in the bigger 'Outfits' (think really large clans) that makes it great.

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How it Works - There are multiple 'facilities on the map, that give the controlling team certain 'rescources' (4 rescources can be used to purchase all vehicles, rearm grenades, progress your character (unlock new stuff for classes/vehicles, buy temporary upgrades like increased reload speed, decreased vehicle respawn time (If you lose your jet, you cannot purchase another one for 5 minutes normally).

The best way to describe a facility is like a Whole BF3 map. The larger facilities have 6-7 flags that must be captured in order to take it (at the moment there is an adjacency system, so surrounding territories 'influence' your capture rate), and the bases are large, the ones I've seen have about 1.5km between the furthest flags, and alot of Height (the Light assault class has a jetpack).

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The game is big, I can't describe or do it justice, but just letting all the BigD folk know, there's hope for teamwork outside of PR on the horizon .

[CanHasCoW]

Been following this since the PS2 servers went offline. WILL be playing this.

[McDethWivFries]

That CGI vid looked awesome.

[Python]

Been keeping an eye on this mainly through watching totalbiscuits footage.. I can say I'm excited its got a really good combined arms feel too it, atleast what I get from viewing :p never played the first one though, never heard off it.

I'd like to share these videos of footage TB took from PAX as they really show some solid teamwork and great combat footage that kinda reminds of PR but on an even grander scale( this footage came from closed off testing though its its actually like 1/400 of the actual number of players that can be there.



And the Max Crash strat

[Freelance_Commando]

Aye it certainly seems that their building a game of epic proportions here with combined arms combat, base/territory defence, large squad/platoon organisations and a very, very high player count.
Personally I find some of the flying vehicles to be a bit dead in the air (I'm too used to PR helicopter physics I guess), but if the ground combat is as good as I've seen so far then I'll be eager to give this a try.

[Python]

Originally Posted by Freelance_Commando

Personally I find some of the flying vehicles to be a bit dead in the air (I'm too used to PR helicopter physics I guess), but if the ground combat is as good as I've seen so far then I'll be eager to give this a try.

Yeah, I've noticed this from footage too... the varnu or vanuu( NO IDEA HOW TO SPELL IT, the alien tech guys ) Scythe seems to be the most interesting

[CanHasCoW]

Originally Posted by Python

Yeah, I've noticed this from footage too... the varnu or vanuu( NO IDEA HOW TO SPELL IT, the alien tech guys ) Scythe seems to be the most interesting

They aren't dead in the air, It's just that most of the people piloting them aren't using them to their full potential. I was watching a stream last night of a wraith pilot locking down an entire fortification, It can be done you just need to know how. Kinda like PR

[Pudgeinabowl]

There are 3 aircraft available, they are all VTOL capable and the best analogy to how they handle is somewhere around a BF3 F35 with a bit of chopper thrown in.

The current state of vehicle handling leaves the aircraft feeling a bit 'floaty', along with both the reaver (blue guys jet) and scythe (alien guys jet) being broken and able to achieve much faster speeds than they should (along with all their racial benefits).

The vanu scythe is the most maneuverable, and can practically turn on a dime (this is mostly as intended, as I said above, flight mechanics are a bit floaty at the moment, but it is something that has been acknowledged by the devs and possibly being worked on).

Galaxy = Transport
Liberator = Bomber - Has 3 seats, driver, gunner and a tail gunner (on the stock lib, tail gunner is mainly anti air, gunner fires some sort of uber cannon). Heavily armoured
Multirole fighter = Faction specific vehicle, Reaver is the toughest and slowest, Scythe is the most maneuverable, Mosquito is the fastest. Obviously not the case at the moment, the Scythe is the best and fastest dogfighter at the moment, and the Reaver's dumb fire rocket pods do twice as much damage as everyone elses (TR have the short end of the stick at the moment, but it's beta, and what we're in it for ).

[SmOOvDoGG]

FOR THE REPUBLIC

just saying

[Pudgeinabowl]

Originally Posted by SmOOvDoGG

FOR THE REPUBLIC

just saying

Well I'm not being some hill billy rebel defector .

[Shady]

I signed up within a few days of the beta opening and still no key!
Hopefully I get one soon, the game-play so far has been nothing but breath taking.

[SmOOvDoGG]

email beta keys will take a while, im waiting on moving into my new apartment and the internet being connect before i can play

[Shady]

Apparently you can get a pre-purchase sorta deal now.
http://www.planetside2.com/alpha-squad

$40 for instant beta access and some flashy items on release. That's actually quite a good deal considering that you get the $40 worth of in-game cash as well.

[GuruJR]

yeah i have been in the beta since the start of it. its gone through heaps of itterations but is getting 10x better every week

I AM NC!!!!

[Pudgeinabowl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMceVpV9N4

[GuruJR]

BOOOOOOO NC RULES

[dad556]

Wise i had a beta key....

[Sgt-JoeKickAss]

Dear Lord, I will be playing this when it comes out!

[Pudgeinabowl]

Just an update on the IGN keys promo (which was supposed to be unlimited keys for IGN members), it was actually a very limited number of keys. They disappeared in under 20minutes.

I managed to scrounge one from a twitch channel. But good god this game is awesome.

Also I swear I saw shady kill me over Indar Comms.

[Shady]

SirShady is my ING. I was assaulting Indar comms on US west 1 earlier actually, so it very well may have been.