Planetside 2 Catch-All

how the hell are you guys getting these keys!?
Tell us your secret!

Just googled for my old PS1 outfit. Looks like they are still around. Good times were had back in the day with these folks - Devil Dogs

A Gamespot profile on the Devil Dogs -

Played Vanu back in the day a lot but after our outfit lost interest in the game, I tried out TR. really liked the gritty feel of their weaponry.

Hoping to score a key and try this out!!!

I can't imagine they'll pick me to test from Greece...but I suppose you never know.
Is it really bad that I didn't play enough PS1 to remember which faction I was in?

I actually found a really old thread where I was asking how to find a battle that wasn't 50 vs 5, or lagging me to hell. So I guess I didn't play *that* much.
And yet I remember that the experience still rocked my world and was mindblowing in its implications at the time, since I hadn't really played anything massively multiplayer before.

So what should I pick?

edit: i just looked at the symbols of the factions on the site. Pretty sure I was New Conglomerate. Pretty sure.

Roo, did you run around with shotguns (NC), lasers (VS) or miniguns (TR)?

Man it is going to be hard to choose what to do in this much more than which faction. I was a hardcore TR in PS1 though I did enjoy a bit of VS on an alt server.

I think engineer or stealth is going to be what I focus on. But I do love me some MAX combat. And I love how the MAX's aren't locked into only 1 of 3 roles. The MAX video shows a dozen or so weapons and the ability to equip different weapons in each hand as well as some sort of backpack customization.

Choosing a role will be hard for me too. I was all over the map in the first game. In PS1 you could have a lot of characters. I had a pilot, engineer, MAX, tank driver. Not sure what kind of limits we will see with the new F2P model.

Heretk wrote:

Choosing a role will be hard for me too. I was all over the map in the first game. In PS1 you could have a lot of characters. I had a pilot, engineer, MAX, tank driver. Not sure what kind of limits we will see with the new F2P model.

Apparently you don't need multiple characters (unless if you want to switch sides, maybe?) because every character can earn enough Cert Points to earn every cert in the game.

groan wrote:

how the hell are you guys getting these keys!?
Tell us your secret!

My brothers friend pestered them over twitter and got 2 keys and gave me one.

I will be vanu again, no question. I'll be back playing with my old outfit too. Will be good times.

TempestBlayze wrote:

I am definitely Vanu. Always loved them more :)

I played Vanu as well

Nuean wrote:
groan wrote:

how the hell are you guys getting these keys!?
Tell us your secret!

My brothers friend pestered them over twitter and got 2 keys and gave me one.

I will be vanu again, no question. I'll be back playing with my old outfit too. Will be good times.

Let the pestering begin!

Whoo! Vanu!

Maybe the original post should be edited with different player allegiances?

Registered on the web site for the slim chance of a beta key. Fingers crossed.

I played Vanu in the original.

I had a character of each faction back in the reserve days and I played them all up to the cap which I think was level 7 for free players. I mostly played NC though.

I know the blues are smurfs, the purples are barnies, but whats the nickname for the reds? Oh and I'm leaning red or purple.

You know, I see that barney and smurf thing all over, but I don't remember ever hearing those terms during my few years of planetside addiction.

master0 wrote:

I know the blues are smurfs, the purples are barnies, but whats the nickname for the reds? Oh and I'm leaning red or purple.

Elmos of course.

I'm not sure anyone should be allowed to post in this thread unless they're announcing that the beta invitations have been sent out.

The hope when a new post appears is just too painful.

Maybe we are all in beta already, but are not allowed to tell you about it!

oops.

karmajay wrote:
Uberstein wrote:

KarmaJay and I used to play this in an outfit together. I think he knows what faction to choose. :-)

Those were good times :)

Yes they were. Used to love rolling those tank rushes. Pretty sure I'll settle right back into swapping between roles of Engineer (tank driver) and MAX if possible.

I remember Star Wars Galaxies pretty much destroyed our PS Outfit, lol.

I don't care what side we play for, I just want something big and heavy that gives me chain guns (or cannons) and lots of ammo.

I finally remembered my PS1 station ID and password so when the beta starts, from what I read, PS1 players are auto invited to it. woohoo!

Nuean wrote:

Maybe we are all in beta already, but are not allowed to tell you about it!

oops.

The NDA specifically states don't tell Caddrel.

whispa wrote:

I finally remembered my PS1 station ID and password so when the beta starts, from what I read, PS1 players are auto invited to it. woohoo!

Hmm. Gonna have to try to log into my old station account.
If I can remember the credentials...

Uberstein wrote:
whispa wrote:

I finally remembered my PS1 station ID and password so when the beta starts, from what I read, PS1 players are auto invited to it. woohoo!

Hmm. Gonna have to try to log into my old station account.
If I can remember the credentials...

What was odd is that I used the same email to create a new PS2 Station ID account that I used when I created the Station account for PS1. So when I went to reset the password, it asked me for which ID from the old and new ID.

Got in to my old station account just now. Sure are a lot of Everquest charges there, lol. Four frickin years.
Ahhh memories.
Only two years of PS1 charges.

Ready for my PS2 beta invite.

Yummy

The best thing in 40 years of life happened today. That is only a slight exaggeration, because I was born after all. I guess.

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The lesson here kids is if you beg, plead, whine and make a jackass out of yourself, someone, somewhere, will give you what you want just to shut you up.

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Caddrel wrote:
Arovin wrote:
Nuean wrote:

Maybe we are all in beta already, but are not allowed to tell you about it!

oops.

The NDA specifically states don't tell Caddrel. :P

I'm going to start drilling Higby on Twitter over what he meant by a "couple of weeks".

Oh sh*t. Are we allowed to say we got into beta?

Strangeblades wrote:

Oh sh*t. Are we allowed to say we got into beta?

No, now give me your key.