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[Survey On] Planetside 2
Basticle
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What would you like in a new Planetside.
I said players.
What would you like in a new Planetside.
I said players.
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My best memories of Planetside were taking a mobile base out and setting it up with mines and turrets and then watching players teleport in and move on from there. Best "shit yeah, I'm doing My Part!" moment for me.
My best memories of Planetside were hacking those mobile bases and either getting rid of them of turning them to my faction.
And knifing snipers in the back.
My best memories were sniping stealthers trying to knife me or my buddies in the back.
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The only good part of bases, was the top side. Jump jetting over the walls in my max armor and cutting loose before they realized I was there was good times.
I miss Planetside.
LoL: failboattootoot
I used to love flying around in a mosquito taking down reavers, until I was chasing one low to the ground through a forest, and a goddamn land mine blew me up somehow even though I never touched the ground.
Called bullshit and never flew in that game again.
It's been awhile since beta, pre-lattice didn't everyone just run around looking for undefended bases? If I remember correctly the lattice system actually made people fight to capture bases.
No, it was terrible. There was no meaningful fighting, just a circle-jerk of backcapping.
The one exception is when one faction gets completely locked out of the continent the other two are fighting on, and then can't do jack shit because there's nobody to fight. That sucks.
How do you define meaningful? I got into plenty of squad on squad fights just roaming around taking everything in the general area. If by meaningful you mean the retarded useless zergs that happened after lattice was introduced and never stopped happening while anything smaller basically died out hen sure. Ok.
LoL: failboattootoot
If you don't like huge battles, the logical answer is "more lattice links", not "destroy the lattice system".
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
Holy crap this right here. Dibs on the dreadnought certification.
Speece mahrines vs orkorkork
I am leery of a third side being in ps2, since it tended to fragment the fights/lopsided population. On the plus side you did occasionally get those epic 3 way battles.
You tug my heartstrings, sir.
This right here. The idea of a Warhammer 40k MMORPG remains the most retarded thing ever.
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I think what I loved most was the whole combined arms aspect of the battles. Something I hope they build on.
Having three full dropships going towards a target, full of buddies, and then one of the dropships explodes
Really ups the tension
They need to get that IP and...
...yeah that's it really. I would buy that game in a heartbeat.
It makes so much frigging sense it will never happen. Hell, even the sides right now are similar (with weapon/vehicle design) to the factions in Warhammer. NC=Imperial guard, TR=Ork and VS=Tau.
Edit: My brothers were part of this outfit that was together for years, most of them moved on to Eve online and they play in the same Corp. They even invited people down to Florida for this big thing so my brother met a bunch of the people they played with. He even got this snazzy looking award. They were the Nighthawks or something like that. The one that went down was a pretty sweet pilot.
PlanetSide was the best. I am still waiting for the next MMOFPS. There are too many awesome battles to remember. Gal drops, basement fights, tower-to-base, 3-ways, bridge battles. It goes on and on..
Steam (Ansatz) || GW2 officer (Ansatz.6498)
I think that a properly executed MMOFPS could be amazing.
I was actually crushed when I heard that the major announcement for Starcraft was that they were doing Starcraft 2, and not a MMOFPS based on the franchise.
Man, that was sweet. I loved the idea for Planetside and there were quite a few battles that were epic, I'd love for them to find that balance to keep it that way. WHen I played the population was pretyt low and it was about to get spread thinner with the underground expansion pack I never played.
But Vehicles + dropping in squad mates + returning for more mates = glorious even though I didn't get shit for points for doing that.
No, there's plenty of free to play Arena shooters with shitty rpg elements. The only other MMOFPS in existence is WW2 online.
Steam (Ansatz) || GW2 officer (Ansatz.6498)
Edit: It's more than one page. You better believe I ripped on BFR's in the free write sections. Also put in a plug for using/aquiring the WH40K license. It would be so easy for them to take that franchise and print money if they used the Planetside framework. But on the other hand, this IS SOE we are talking about here. They would be just as liable to take that awesome potential and channel it to create a homosexual zombie prostitute.
Also, screw all you Barneys and Smurfs. I hate your stupid Shotguns and Lashers. Though, you better believe whenever I killed a Smurf I would take their Lasher off their corpse. That gun was so rediculous.
Oh boy, that's an old flame-fest if ever there was one.
Steam (Ansatz) || GW2 officer (Ansatz.6498)
it went back and forth between too good and not good at all in the beta as well. Much like the lancer, which used to work as a long range sniper, anti vehicle and anti infantry all in one
When I left the game the balance was pretty decent though
True snipers were very annoying in PS though.
Steam (Ansatz) || GW2 officer (Ansatz.6498)
Wasn't much motivation to do some of the shit team support jobs like driving an AMS when some jackass in a stealth suit would blow it up via satellite 30 seconds after you deployed it.
I had such a love-hate relationship with Planetside. I've got some great memories, but I quit in disgust when they added kill tracking and it started feeling a lot more like some retarded death match game.
That was the worst expansion I've ever seen a MMO get, too.