Planetside 2 Catch-All

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You know, Rock Paper Shotgun just did a great article last week about Planetside:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008...

Out of curiosity, why do you think Huxley doesn't look that appealing?

I tried it but never really got into it. I guess I wasn't willing to put in the time. I always had to walk really far, my teammates would never pick me up, and when I finally did find a vehicle I wasn't allowed to use it because it (and the five right next to it) apparently belonged to someone else (who was nowhere to be seen).

So basically it was like the worst part of Battlefield, with worse graphics and no fun to make it worthwhile. I'm sure there's much more to the game than that. That's what turned me off, is all.

Planetside was ahead of it's time. Didnt' have the technology to back up what it truly wanted to do.

Still people are waiting for Huxley and The Agency to jump in and test the waters.

Well, I guess I shouldn't judge Huxley yet because there hasn't been much info on it. I guess I am just very skeptical about it because it seems like it will never come out.

There hasn't been any info on it whatsoever.

TempestBlayze wrote:

Well, I guess I shouldn't judge Huxley yet because there hasn't been much info on it. I guess I am just very skeptical about it because it seems like it will never come out.

There hasn't been any info on it whatsoever.

There is if you're Korean At least i think they recently opened up beta testing, but only for Korea.

If a Planetside remake was announced right now, and all it had was slightly better graphics and a slightly tweaked gameplay to eliminate the base bunny hopping, I would go out and pre-order the super-duper-I-am-fanboy-collector's edition right now.

Tkyl wrote:

If a Planetside remake was announced right now, and all it had was slightly better graphics and a slightly tweaked gameplay to eliminate the base bunny hopping, I would go out and pre-order the super-duper-I-am-fanboy-collector's edition right now.

Here here!

I loved everything that game could have been but was unable at the time to deliver on.

I remeber trying to play that on my crappy dial up. It did help at the time ween me off of EQ for a while.

I loved Planetside. I wish it was recreated, it was such an awesome game to play.

Planetside Vs. Tribes.....It was an easy decision for me as I continued to play Tribes for a good long time.

Devmani wrote:

Planetside Vs. Tribes.....It was an easy decision for me as I continued to play Tribes for a good long time.

Tribes 2 for me, but yeah, same thing.

Me, I'd love a Planetside-style game that realizes its potential in both design and playerbase!

I also remember playing Planetside on my AOL 56k connection. Like I said before that was the main problem with the game. Not enough broadband consumers.

I tried it a few years back...

The firefights were nifty but chugged when there were more than 30 people in it. Yeh, and like Lobster- I hated walking everywhere too.

Usually I ended up just playing Tribes afterwards.

If a Planetside remake was announced right now, and all it had was slightly better graphics and a slightly tweaked gameplay to eliminate the base bunny hopping, I would go out and pre-order the super-duper-I-am-fanboy-collector's edition right now.

The bunny hopping was really annoying. Did they ever put headshots in?

Switchbreak wrote:

You know, Rock Paper Shotgun just did a great article last week about Planetside:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008...

Out of curiosity, why do you think Huxley doesn't look that appealing?

You missed the comments on that RPS article where they pointed to the 'successor' to planetside - using the same engine that's been developed over in the east and is looking like its getting a western release too.

http://azuretwilight.org/index.php?w...

There's also something coming (news-wise) in a few weeks as Jim Rossignol says that there will be a Planetside announcement soon.

I played planetside. I never had any performance issues. And we did the big battles (I was in HMX-1).

Planetside rocked - and it was back in my heyday so I too - rocked.

Duoae wrote:

There's also something coming (news-wise) in a few weeks as Jim Rossignol says that there will be a Planetside announcement soon.

I hope you are right. I'm really excited to play a game like this again. You better not be lying or I will headshot you in your sleep!(not really but , you know that would be messed up)

Another thing I liked about planetside were the various skill levels. For example, not a trigger jerk kinda guy? Drive a tank. More of a hit and run "need for speed" type? Fly a helo/jet thingy. Like to solo or be SF? Take out rear bases to allow the main force to advance. Not like combat? Be support (we used to have HUGE Galaxy transport drops. I'm talking 50-60 guys paratroopin on target at once. Just nasty!)

Whatever your playstyle, it was in PS.

I loved PS as well. In fact, PS is where I first met KarmaJay all those years ago. We (our outfit) had a blast with different themed nights. I loved Vanguard night myself. I was a terrible Van driver, but that's what I did much of the time. I loved watching things go boom with a good gunner in the tank.

And Gal drops were loads of fun too.

Damnit every time I think about it, I want to play it again.

PlanetSide was loads of fun if you could get in with an organized outfit on a good night.

Dude imagine a game like PS with Warhammer40k IP.

Oh man I need new shorts just thinking about it.

I played PS for a few years in one of those bigger outfits from beta. Like any other MMO, it's all about the people you play with.

Tkyl wrote:

If a Planetside remake was announced right now, and all it had was slightly better graphics and a slightly tweaked gameplay to eliminate the base bunny hopping, I would go out and pre-order the super-duper-I-am-fanboy-collector's edition right now.

Me too. Especially if I can drag my full 200 man outfit back, complete with an infantry platoon, a 1 squad air wing and a 2 squad tank brigade during primetime.

I got back into it a bit when I was in College. My friend Alex let me into his outfit called KAAOS. I was just talking to him about this article and he gave me a youtube link of the kind of stuff we used to do.

The Video quality is crap but here it is anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojJshXrUTE0

I really dug planetside - ran a guild and everything. But it's a game that REALLY needs coordinated guilds and squads to be any good, in my opinion. It had a brief peak where it rocked the house.

Here's hoping for the Agency.

I'll come out from under my rock and risk the heaping pile of shame: I have been playing Planetside since its launch and still play in weekly outfit-nights, assuming any of my crew are around to join with me. During the game's heyday, I could log into my group's TS-server and find at least a dozen people. Now, if nobody's around, I boot up TF2.

I'm not a fanboy, however. Those of you who were there for Planetside's brief ascent know that there was a ton of optimism - which Sony then proceeded to crush with minor bug fixes that rendered the game unplayable and expansions that ruined things in a way that I've never experienced before. Want urban combat? We give you the caverns - an un-navigable mess of crystals and ziplines (note to Sony - we wanted buildings in our urban combat). Then when BFR's came out (big robots), they were so overpowered that only a fool would wander around in their armor on outdoor field. That was broken for a while, too.

Sure, years later, and long past the time when anyone gives a damn, the game is smooth and pretty reliable. Of course, a "big deal" is in order - it's so old it had better run smoothly.

Then why play? Well, admittedly, I don't play much. But the fact of the matter it has something that no other game has: large-scale FPS action in a flattened ability environment. If you talk to a Planetside-fan, you'll learn, before long, that the thing that keeps most of these people playing is the idea that their freshly minted level 3 toon can whup the ass of any BR25 expert out there, provided they have the skill.

It's the anti-Warcraft and that's why I like it. There's no shanking possible because outside of what you armor and weapons you have, it comes down to your skill. I have never felt like the game was a giant spreadsheet. No +30 weapons, no graduated damage-increases (by the way, this is why I'm not interested in that potential-vaporware that is Huxley) and there is no problem with people of any battle-rank squadding together. You won't feel useless at all, relative to everyone else.

But it's like a roller-coaster of emotion when I think of the game: you really can spend 40 minutes looking for a fight that feels right. Hell, I've spent the better part of an evening babysitting hacks for the folks that ran off to the next target. I've been alone, with none of my outfit online, and then jumped into a random group only to find that the only reason you call us a "team" is that we can all view each others HP & armor at the top of the screen. It only resembles teamwork in that sense. Also, you can jump into super-hardcore groups and find the game not fun at all because these folks, blissfully unaware that I'm playing a game to have fun, want to bark orders at me like they're General Patton.

This note's a bit longer than I'd planned, so I'll shut the heck up. Why I still come back to this mixed-bag of an experience is a hard one. I will say that I have made friends in Planetside that I still hang with to this day. I guess I just can't let go of the folks that I've had those battle-stories with. But I suppose that coulda happened with any game, it just happens to be PS.

I played Planetside for almost two years - it was the game that made me break down and buy a PC after a lifetime of purely console gaming. I really have no complaints about the game other than the totally halfass expansion, I loved my time there - but like anything, it just got old after a while. There's only so many times you can capture or defend a base before deja vu sets in.

No FPS has really rewarded organized teamwork like Planetside, to this day.

WiredAsylum wrote:

Dude imagine a game like PS with Warhammer40k IP.

Oh man I need new shorts just thinking about it.

Ah, we think alike. New shorts are in order, truly.

Hopefully they pay close attention to what goes on in WAR as far as faction balance and population control.

Color me interested.

I would be all over Planetside 2 if they did exactly what Tkyl stated above. I loved that game, I even got a autographed copy from e3 by the designer still.

el_dino wrote:
WiredAsylum wrote:

Dude imagine a game like PS with Warhammer40k IP.

Oh man I need new shorts just thinking about it.

Ah, we think alike. New shorts are in order, truly.

I think most 40k players/video gamers have the same idea for a loooong time.

Here's hoping that THQ's 40k MMO lives up to the dream.

We played Planetside for a year and a half after it came out. Good times.
I think that bringing back the reserves might give the game an injection of players - I'd certainly be happy to play again, once in a while, and I'm sure that some players would be willing to pay for a full account after being (re)exposed to it for a while.

Hey, I found your link back to us. We're from a large Planetside clan that is building a new english-speaking community for the new chinese MMOFPS Welkin4591: http://welkin4591.com.

We've got all the free open beta game files hosted, translations and account creation tutorials in our Wiki, and we're on Teamspeak as well to help.

So far we really like what we see in Welkin4591 and hope that it will truly be our "next big mmofps".

You are all invited to come check it out. Hop on TS if you need any help getting set up, and after you are, so we can show you around!
--
Francko
http://welkin4591.com
http://azuretwilight.org

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