Planetside 2 Catch-All

How do you get more ammo for vehicles?

I had a really long tank run and couldn't figure it out. So I just bought another tank.

I saw something in the certifications about ammo, but I'm not sure if that's reloads or more capacity.

and Downloading. Vanu? Ew.

MannishBoy wrote:

How do you get more ammo for vehicles?

I had a really long tank run and couldn't figure it out. So I just bought another tank.

I saw something in the certifications about ammo, but I'm not sure if that's reloads or more capacity.

Some but not all outposts have vehicle supply thingys. It's a tall tower with an ammo symbol hovering over it. Just drive next to it I think.

Firing up now. I'm a TR vet so can't turn my back on them in PS2.

TrashiDawa wrote:

Firing up now. I'm a TR vet so can't turn my back on them in PS2.

You make me sad

TrashiDawa wrote:

Firing up now. I'm a TR vet so can't turn my back on them in PS2.

The New Conglomerate wants to know why you hate freedom. Hmmm?

That draw distance thing hopefully will help me. I was about to be determined to not play until I get a better rig. I could play but not hit anything due to frame skipping and tearing. (1 kill and 8 deaths in an hour and a half of play... haven't even made it to BR 2)

I miss the training room =(
I am not enthralled with aircraft piloting. I don't know why they changed it from PS1?!

TrashiDawa wrote:

Firing up now. I'm a TR vet so can't turn my back on them in PS2.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!

Hop into vent so we can all trash talk from the did servers.

Mayfield wrote:
TrashiDawa wrote:

Firing up now. I'm a TR vet so can't turn my back on them in PS2.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!

Hop into vent so we can all trash talk from the did servers.

Mayfield,
I think I was grouped with you last night.
You left me all alone, with others.
Alone with silent others

alone.

I keep forgetting we have Vent. I'll try to jump on so I can find some GWJers to group with in Vanu fashion to crush those TR NC ants.

groan wrote:

Mayfield,
I think I was grouped with you last night.
You left me all alone, with others.
Alone with silent others

alone.

I keep forgetting we have Vent. I'll try to jump on so I can find some GWJers to group with in Vanu fashion to crush those TR NC ants.

That was you! Dammit... Yeah I was hanging out on vent. After I left your group I did some solo glass tank infantry hunting for a bit.

FSeven wrote:
groan wrote:

this was still in my clipboard!

These 2 tips made my game from unplayable to PLAYABLE

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/i...

1. Render quality- most people I know have it set at about .85, but the lower you go the higher your fps will be (and the uglier the game gets but hey, beta).

2. Go to the user options (right click the beta icon, go to open file location) and adjust the render distance. Default is -1.000000, which is infinity- change it to whatever you want in meters. I have it at 1000 and it hasn't effected the gameplay whatsoever, and nearly doubled my framerate.

I'm always willing to strip an online shooter to the bare minimum graphic quality in order to improve performance. As long as I can see a face to shoot it, I don't need to know how many pores are in that face.

EDIT: The tweaks did help a great deal but I still occasionally get a slideshow when there's lots of folks nearby. :(

Wait, you had it on "lowest settings" and yet these two weren't included in that? Maybe the devs need to get on that!

Bear wrote:
TrashiDawa wrote:

Firing up now. I'm a TR vet so can't turn my back on them in PS2.

You make me sad

Seriously! I played both NC and VS and never had a problem... except playing those dirty, facist TR!!

Duoae wrote:
FSeven wrote:
groan wrote:

this was still in my clipboard!

These 2 tips made my game from unplayable to PLAYABLE

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/i...

1. Render quality- most people I know have it set at about .85, but the lower you go the higher your fps will be (and the uglier the game gets but hey, beta).

2. Go to the user options (right click the beta icon, go to open file location) and adjust the render distance. Default is -1.000000, which is infinity- change it to whatever you want in meters. I have it at 1000 and it hasn't effected the gameplay whatsoever, and nearly doubled my framerate.

I'm always willing to strip an online shooter to the bare minimum graphic quality in order to improve performance. As long as I can see a face to shoot it, I don't need to know how many pores are in that face.

EDIT: The tweaks did help a great deal but I still occasionally get a slideshow when there's lots of folks nearby. :(

Wait, you had it on "lowest settings" and yet these two weren't included in that? Maybe the devs need to get on that!

Bear wrote:
TrashiDawa wrote:

Firing up now. I'm a TR vet so can't turn my back on them in PS2.

You make me sad

Seriously! I played both NC and VS and never had a problem... except playing those dirty, facist TR!! ;)

I've never played PS1 but I will embrace any faction/army/society that resembles an empirical unforgiving state. So, yeah, we are fascists but that is what the galaxy needs in order to maintain order. No compromise! No mercy to traitors (NC) and deviants (VN)!

Allright fine, I'll sign up for the NC but I won't stoop to the Vanu.

Vanu crush you.

Was a real slide show as we defended the Altoids or whatever it was called. So many players caused 6fps most of the time.
I'll have to see what it's like to set everything on low.

Awesome epic battle though. Really fun to watch a column of Vanu tanks run down a bunch of NC scum from up on the ship platform.

groan wrote:

Vanu crush you.

Was a real slide show as we defended the Altoids or whatever it was called. So many players caused 6fps most of the time.
I'll have to see what it's like to set everything on low.

Awesome epic battle though. Really fun to watch a column of Vanu tanks run down a bunch of NC scum from up on the ship platform.

The ONLY reason there's still a column of Vanu tanks is because I'm not in the game and my Reaver is sitting on the pad.

Soon you purple filth will learn to fear the sky.....soooooooon.

groan wrote:

Awesome epic battle though. Really fun to watch a column of Vanu tanks run down a bunch of NC scum from up on the ship platform.

Indeed - the bird's eye view of the explosions, air to air combat, and scattered firefights was really impressive. Those moments when all the elements come together really make the game.

Well it looks like priority keys will be getting access to the beta today. And there is a patch to add larger squads and platoons today as well.

Smedley has also said that the NDA will be lifted in less than two weeks. Maybe that is when the open beta will start.

So after looking on the forums, it seems that outfits are working. There are tons of threads of people recruiting. I will have to give it another shot.

@j_smedley[/url]]I have good news - we are also letting in all the priority keys including Twitter and the ones we gave out at E3. This lets in everyone

except the people in the very large and long list who signed up for beta via our website (although some are in since they are vets)

the flagging and emails *should* start around noonish once we unlock the servers. no you can't download it ahead of time.

if you're in that list of people just go to http://t.co/IdFfZEQi and once you're flagged you're in. no need to wait for email

however you must have redeemed your key code. if you haven't we aren't psychic.

I assume that means today?

So, we need to group up sometime this weekend it sounds like.

So I lessened the draw distance to 1000 as recommended. The game still has heavy stuttering that makes it difficult to shoot things. I feel really sorry for the poor sap that was my second kill. The first was fortunate timing with a loner looking to spawn and aircraft and a sniper shot.

The second kill was Mexican stand-off spray and pray. I will give him the benefit of the doubt that his frame rate was as bad or worse than mine...

I'll be on tonight between 9-12 (when I try to get onto GW2). Let's test this Outfit stuff. I'm going to run out of ingame chat keys!
Local
squad
outfit
empire
i guess this is where the Naga Mouse comes in handy

fangblackbone wrote:

So I lessened the draw distance to 1000 as recommended. The game still has heavy stuttering that makes it difficult to shoot things. I feel really sorry for the poor sap that was my second kill. The first was fortunate timing with a loner looking to spawn and aircraft and a sniper shot.

The second kill was Mexican stand-off spray and pray. I will give him the benefit of the doubt that his frame rate was as bad or worse than mine...

I wonder if this would help
http://ultimatecomputers.net/forum/v...

I'm on win xp still.

I'm a PS1 vet, and I'm not in.

Not that I don't already have plenty to play...

BadKen wrote:

I'm a PS1 vet, and I'm not in.

Not that I don't already have plenty to play...

They have delayed servers coming up until after 5pm, and I think that's Pacific. They won't show new accounts are added until after that time according to twitter.

Damn I gotta see if I can find somewhere that has the old pc gamer with the beta key in it. I really wanna play...

Ok, as someone totally new to Planetside 2, who should I join? What's the difference? Why do people hate on Vanu so much? Where's my spinfusor and why can't I ski?

Stylez wrote:

Ok, as someone totally new to Planetside 2, who should I join? What's the difference? Why do people hate on Vanu so much? Where's my spinfusor and why can't I ski?

I joined Vanu because that's what the vote around here said the most people were going to do. But apparently the PS1 people are very loyal.

EDIT: Image removed due to stark terror of violating the NDAMANAMMAMAMAMA.

I'm in. I still had a squee. It was still pretty messy.

As soon as I'm in ill log onto vent. We are going to need separate channels for Vanu, nc and tf.
I can't be in the same room as those non purple scum.