Planetside 2: Fight for the people, be a horrible facist, or some sort of anime.

Veretas

This game is a sequel to probably one of my favorite games from my early PC gaming days. It was also awful.

Like, really bad.

But it was the first to try having absolutely gigantic scale battles on a persistent battleground amongst three different teams! With vehicles! And transports! Eventually, though, the original Planetside literally designed itself to death with some horrible decisions such as adding essentially brand new continents except underground and really tightly packed caves. The absolute worse environment for the game's engine to handle. Giant robots, which were kinda cool I guess but horribly imbalanced.

Oh yeah they also blew up the planet, scattering the continents into each their own planet. This changed pretty much nothing.

But enough about that because this new game is out and so much better!

There are 3 Empires:


The Terran Republic: The 'original' Empire that colonized Auraxis. They are essentially space nazis. They like powerful orchestral scores.


The Vanu Sovereignty: Space hippies/nerds that believe in trans-humanism and dubstep. They got hover tanks and lasers. Wub wub wub wub.


The New Conglomerate: FREEDOM LOVING HEROES THAT FIGHT FOR LIBERATION OF ALL. BETTER TO BE A POOR AND FREE THAN TO BE A CONTENT SLAVE. NC 4 LYFE.

So yeah I've been playing in the beta and it is pretty fun. It's also FREE. You have no reason to not to at least try it.

HERE IS THE ONLY LIST THAT MATTERS BECAUSE IT IS BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE and not some list of facists or nerds who love anime:

NC on the Connery server:

@Veretas - Veretas
@Dubh - Dubh
@JayKaos - JayKaos
@Bluedude152 - Barrowsbob
@Ranlin - Alendra
@Metalbourne - sehomp
@interrobang - terro
@Metacortex - Nobarg
@BYToady - BYToady
@Ubik - Rubrik

TheStig

...Jeff

Ubik

i was so excited for Planetside 1

and then it was so bad

Bluedude152

What server is everyone setting up in? It would be much more fun to place this with people

Buttlord

yo i picked new conglomerate because they had awesome theme music

everyone else's is chill

kinda serene

new conglomerate is like kickin the door in and rockin your face off

Veretas

New Conglomerate is literally the best(worst) empire because freedom

Darmak

Buttlord wrote: »

Buttlord wrote: »

yo i picked new conglomerate because they had awesome theme music

everyone else's is chill

kinda serene

new conglomerate is like kickin the door in and rockin your face off

I chose Vanu because pew pew lazors and Magriders were my fucking tank of choice back in Tanarus (an old Sony MMO)

Veretas

Basically the best way to determine which empire you wanna join is by the music that pubbies will pipe through their mics

Terran get this stuff:


Vanu get this shit:


NEW CONGLOMERATE FUCK YEA FREEDOM:

Hullis

planetside 1 was legitimately 8-10 years ahead of its time

it was also that far ahead of its developers

Darmak

Veretas wrote: »

Basically the best way to determine which empire you wanna join is by the music that pubbies will pipe through their mics

Terran get this stuff:


Vanu get this shit:


NEW CONGLOMERATE FUCK YEA FREEDOM:

Fuck yeah dubstep

Bluedude152

So I take it everyones going New Coglormate?

Aretè

I played the beta, it wasn't terrible and people seemed to honestly want to work as a team. There was coordinating over the ingame voice chat and team chat. It's F2P so I figure it is worth a shot, though hawkens latest beta has also started as well, begging for my attention.

interrobang

totally going new conglomerate

the vanu have cool-looking armor but all their guns are stupid and it feels like you're playing laser tag

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Terran has the best music. Real talk.

Shorty

I tried this

it's not a thing worth doing if you're not with friends

Shorty

I fucking loved the first Planetside, though

Dongs Galore

why would anyone not play Terran Republic

glorious black and red all day errday

Shorty

I played TR in the first go-round because I wasn't really paying attention to anything but how the weapons worked

this time I went with NC

interrobang

also i don't know if this is just a Vanu thing

but the anti-armor weapons that their light assaults get don't do shit

Jerkbot

Connery TR for life
fascism eff tee doubleyou
also, hooray for not being on the same server as the Enclave

Dongs Galore

NC guns are terrible

TR has a monopoly on dakkadak

denihilist

My Planetside 2 experience:

Spawned twice, died twice
had a 10 minute cool down to spawn again
logged out, was 25th in line of non-premium players to log in.

interrobang

but blue is better than red

Lasbrook

Literally knew nothing about this before this thread. I just kinda saw the huge splash page on steam earlier today, watched a trailer and was like hey why not. Haven't tried it out yet. Vanu seem cool to me just cause i dig transhumanism as a concept.

Antimatter

interrobang wrote: »

but blue is better than red

better red than dead 8-)

Spoiler:

i know roughly jack about this game

MrMonroe

I will download this

the game concept is highly intriguing

Bluedude152

Its a pity the combat isnt as much fun as Blacklight: Retribution.

Jerkbot

reminder- ironic being NC is still being NC

Also, held this godforsaken tower on Esamir against both other factions for like two hours tonight and got 50 certs
TR best R

Tef

Oh hey I played the beta for dis.

It became much better when they added an Aussie server. I enjoyed it and will continue to play it. I probably won't okay with you homps that much because fuck lag

Dongs Galore

I'll play this with anyone who wants to fight for justice, rotary weapons and gasmasks when I get back to my desktop PC next week

Sir Fabulous

Downloading as we speak.
Most probably going Terran Republic.

TheLawinator

Ok, what's the plan?

HyperAquaBlast

So whats the catch with F2P aspect of this game? Pay for each bullet?

interrobang

HyperAquaBlast wrote: »

So whats the catch with F2P aspect of this game? Pay for each bullet?

no it just takes longer to unlock stuff

and there's some cosmetic stuff that costs Planetside Fun Bucks but it's just like, camo

interrobang

yo what server is everyone playing/gonna play on

Machwing

NC are literally lame as hell and need to stop launching missles into land held by Terrans, who are within their right to defend their homeland by targeting NC insurgents with precision rocket pod strikes and demolishing NC neighborhoods in order to establish new terran settlements

(terran 4 lyfe, INFILTRATOR 4 LIF)

Machwing

Connery server for life, as an addendum. Veretas, wanna get a forumer-character name list going in the OP? I am kazhiim

interrobang

my station name is drugtown

Brian Krakow

Barneys for lyfe, yo.

BahamutZERO

NC, Connery server. This freedom rocket brought to you by McDonald's! Ba da ba ba ba, I'm lovin' it!
My character there is BahamutZero.

BahamutZERO

denihilist wrote: »

My Planetside 2 experience:

Spawned twice, died twice
had a 10 minute cool down to spawn again
logged out, was 25th in line of non-premium players to log in.

There's no 10 minute cooldown to spawn, you were probably looking at the instant action thing on the map. You can only do that once in a while, it's meant to allow you to find a fight to jump into when you first log in. After that you want to pick a place to respawn from the list in the deploy screen that's close to where you died. Or else requisition a vehicle and drive to the fight.

The queue is lame but I found it only took a minute or two to get through a queue of 50 people.

Also I died a lot and accomplished nothing for the first few hours I played in the beta, until I got more used to the game and learned how to do more stuff. Give it a chance.