Planetside 2

Dcully

Gaunty wrote: »

Is this guy any of you lads? Miller TR, outfit name is Wexford Farmers Co-op.

http://www.planetside-universe.com/character-5428010917251111329.php

haha class outfit name lol

Lemming

Ha ha, that's a class outfit name alright; never once run into anyone from it though. And I'm Miller TR.

Nody

To those asking about team play and if this is worth playing; ever one of those galaxies (the green airplanes on the radar, 20+ of them) were taking 12 people for a 4+ location drop last Friday On top of that we had a airwing etc. running as well and that's one side (out of three).

Gaunty

Today is a good day to get back into Planetside 2. Amerish is a new continent now basically after todays patch. Lots of new bases. The most impressive bases in the game now imho. It also now has lattice links. Sign up today as a Miller Vanu Sov recruit!

Sarky

Had a go last night, dropped into the NC Arsenal to help take it from the TR. Great layout, lovely mix of landscape, corridors, warehouse open spaces and the like. Very fun to navigate and fight through.

Of course nobody in NC seems interested in tactics during then hours I'm able to play, so it was eventually taken back by some admittedly clever teamwork from folks in one of the Goonswarm outfits.

Kiith

Can't wait to get my pc setup and get stuck back into this.

Gimpylung

Dcully wrote: »

haha class outfit name lol

I nearly choked when I saw that outfit name last night, cracked me up.

My danish mag gunner had no clue why I thought it was funny. I think we were in Connery twr at the time.

Kiith

Right, so i've not played for over a year, and have around 6000 SC to spend. Are there any must have upgrades for general play? I'll probably focus on my Heavy Assault or aircraft skills.

Nody

Kiith wrote: »

Right, so i've not played for over a year, and have around 6000 SC to spend. Are there any must have upgrades for general play? I'll probably focus on my Heavy Assault or aircraft skills.

HA; nothing new you need except possible the crossbow if you're desperate for a silenced up to medium ranged weapon as secondary (can also add sensor darts if you're paranoid).

Airplanes have two new missiles (the ground laste guided is suppose to be meh, the air to air one is suppose to be OP if you listen to the forums) and a new nose gun (not to hot, big clip lower damage). Standard A2A is nose gun + the dummy missiles with fire extinguisher (buffed greatly) from what I see in what's killing me and of course Libs with Daltons flying upside down.

In general terms though there has not really been anything significant added in terms of weapons (but a ton of nice camos and other cosmetics). Be careful about spending to much certs into shields as they'll go from today's instant activation to a delayed activation soon (tm).

Kiith

I've no idea what i bought when i was playing originally tbh, so i'll need to check that when i get online later. Will probably end up wasting half my credits on something that looks cool though...ooh, shiny.

Sarky

Depends on what you're into. I never liked infiltrators because snipers are the scum of the earth, but an infiltrator with a silenced SMG, that's a different story.

Heavy Assault with a shotgun is a lot of fun. Dunno if the other factions have one but the NC have shottie with a full auto firing mode, it's great for clearing rooms. I've had a lot of success with a HA with Decimator, AV grenades and some C4. You can take out a Sunderer single-handedly with one shot from each, then switch back to your main gun and mop up survivors.

Varik

So I've not been on in ages and now among other things I've got a new custom loadout and getting a free Irish camo today.

Also they made me do a questionnaire and I got a camo and weapon out of it, some of the weapons I already had so not sure how that works if you choose something you've already got.

kingtiger

can anyone point me in the direction of a noob guide for this game?


I can't figure the fecking thing out for the life of me, playing games for 25yrs and this is probably the first one I haven't a clue whats going on

Sarky

The PS2 website should still have a series of tutorial videos to explain the basics of the game.

I'm liking the look of the new air vehicle coming along. I sometimes run in a small squad of 6 friends, it looks like the Valkyrie might cater to that quite nicely.


NC have some new railgun sniper rifle thing too, had a look in VR training. It's almost a hitscan weapon. Almost. I'm sure someone's already complaining about it.

kingtiger

Sarky wrote: »

The PS2 website should still have a series of tutorial videos to explain the basics of the game.

call me old school but is there any tutorials that I can read? don't really care for video tutorials

Nody

Sarky wrote: »

NC have some new railgun sniper rifle thing too, had a look in VR training. It's almost a hitscan weapon. Almost. I'm sure someone's already complaining about it.

Yes; NC is complaining that's it not fast or good enough (no joke).

Sarky

Heh. Well snipers are the scum of the earth in every game, and every faction

Monty - the one and only

kingtiger wrote: »

can anyone point me in the direction of a noob guide for this game?


I can't figure the fecking thing out for the life of me, playing games for 25yrs and this is probably the first one I haven't a clue whats going on

try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dacgocUt4s

its alot better than the tutorials

Lemming

Does anyone know how to turn that new and highly irritating filter off? Whatever about swear words, but when a word such as "beacon" - a term used within the game itself - is being caught it is deeply frustrating.

MadYaker

This is cool. Apart from the guy talking at the beginning and end.

Dave_The_Sheep

MadYaker wrote: »

This is cool. Apart from the guy talking at the beginning and end.

That was excellent actually. It's at a completely different level to the way the normal zerg plays, and even most outfits, I'd guess.

Shaneoh

That was awesome thanks for posting it!

Nody

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

That was excellent actually. It's at a completely different level to the way the normal zerg plays, and even most outfits, I'd guess.

I don't know other servers but I know VS Miller has run this type of things through the Vanu Accord (basically a coordination between all major outifts on VS side) to go 200+ coordinated against TR or NC. I also remember the first attempt at this event; no one had told SoE about it and Miller people REALLY wanted to play so we crashed the test server with over 1.000 people trying to get in (their login server was not able to handle it so the whole thing went down) :P

Dave_The_Sheep

Nody wrote: »

I also remember the first attempt at this event; no one had told SoE about it and Miller people REALLY wanted to play so we crashed the test server with over 1.000 people trying to get in (their login server was not able to handle it so the whole thing went down) :P

I remember that, it was a bit farcical to be honest. I missed the follow up too, unfortunately.

Ravenid

Ok.. who had 1 year 9 months in the "How long till they pull their finger out and release Hossin." raffle?

Shaneoh

The pessimist in the group I assume

Dcully

Had a blast playing this lastnight.

http://www.pcgamer.com/uk/2014/07/03/planetside-2-2/

kearneybobs

Kind of tempted to give this another go. My PC wasn't good enough to run it competantly a year ago and it would lag pretty bad for me. Think it was my CPU (Q6600 OC'd that was the problem) Since upgraded.
Think I'll end up downloading it and see if I can get (back) into it.

Varik

Had a PSG account and now on SOE, but sadly can't merge any other SOE account but there was some good news. All codes that I've already used on the PSG account and still have the reward for work again.

ShadowHearth

So who they are using now for accounts? The reason I did not bothered to play more, because I spent 20eu on damn thing and then they made EU servers being handled not by SOE, but some bull**** third party.

Is it back to SOE?

Nody

ShadowHearth wrote: »

So who they are using now for accounts? The reason I did not bothered to play more, because I spent 20eu on damn thing and then they made EU servers being handled not by SOE, but some bull**** third party.

Is it back to SOE?

All SoE now.

kearneybobs

Since installing it on my new-ish Pc it's running perfectly. Not a problem at all at all. Enjoying it but I'm feeling grossly underpowered. I feel like I'll have to play for weeks to get anywhere.

Varik

kearneybobs wrote: »

Since installing it on my new-ish Pc it's running perfectly. Not a problem at all at all. Enjoying it but I'm feeling grossly underpowered. I feel like I'll have to play for weeks to get anywhere.

Mine runs fine at over 60 on high mostly but there a few errors lately, excluding Hossin specific ones. Players sometimes don't render even at close range and loads of UI errors but that's mostly after spawning ( more so than previously).

Looking forward to this on PS4, I'd rather angry kids yelling than the nasally stuck up ****s taking it far too seriously.

Lemming

Varik wrote: »

Looking forward to this on PS4, I'd rather angry kids yelling than the nasally stuck up ****s taking it far too seriously.

I'd rather neither tbh. An irritating ****wit is an irritating ****wit regardless of age or how they go about being irritating. The end result is the same; you wanting to murder them in grotesque albeit deeply satisfying and amusing ways, then realising they're just mongs and ignoring them and/or headshot/knife-killing them to troll them.

kearneybobs

I get min 30 fps on Ultra @ 1920x1080. Everything on highest. Really happy with that since my old pc was a laggy laggy mess. Unplayable.

Just wish objective markers were a little more visible/noticeable but I've yet to delve into the UI options much.

Lundar.

Really enjoying Hossin atm, Some really good fights atm, The Cont locking and lattice make it much enjoyable for me. Been playing on the miller server as TR , with Better Red Than Dead, BRTD.net/join

Dave_The_Sheep

Lundar. wrote: »

Really enjoying Hossin atm, Some really good fights atm, The Cont locking and lattice make it much enjoyable for me. Been playing on the miller server as TR , with Better Red Than Dead, BRTD.net/join

Yeah, the continent locking tend to focus the action alright. I'm also in BRTD - DaveTheSheep. Quiet enough though, so I am.

Everyone's trying to lock ... Esamir is it? Whichever one gives you the cheaper infantry purchases.

Hossin's great, but I'm almost OD'd on it at this stage. I'd even go back to Indar for a while...

Nody

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Yeah, the continent locking tend to focus the action alright. I'm also in BRTD - DaveTheSheep. Quiet enough though, so I am.

I think I've killed you or been killed by you a few months ago :P (NodyVS or my alt I've started to play more NodyTR)

Dave_The_Sheep

Nody wrote: »

I think I've killed you or been killed by you a few months ago :P (NodyVS or my alt I've started to play more NodyTR)

Is there anywhere you can look up your stats versus another user I wonder?

Nody

The European server merges have been announced:

Hello all -

We know there is a lot of interest in the merges, so we want to keep you as up to date as possible. I'll be positing here as we make more final decisions. Here's what we know:
We'll be merging the following servers:
Woodman + Miller
Ceres + Cobalt
This combo was determined by various factors, but the main goals were to prevent excessive queues while maintaining a robust server pop and extending prime playing hours
We'd like to run MergeSmashes similar to the one we did for the previous merge
We'd like to let the name be decided by the MergeSmash event (i.e. winner keeps the server name)
Here's what's left to be determined:
When the MergeSmashes will be
When the merges themselves will happen
I'm keeping this thread stickied and locked, and I'll update it as more official decisions are made.
-DCarey

From what I've read Woodman is suppose to be more relaxed then Miller so happy pew pew for us Millerites :P

Varik

How are they handling the character limits on this or names?

All Good, I've characters on servers that I've no one to play with.

Nody

Watch and enjoy; all recorded in game (excl. music)

Dave_The_Sheep

So, SOE have been sold off to Daybreak?

Details here.

Not really sure how to take this. Doubtless things will change, but hopefully it won't be for the monetisation/cash grab side of things that PS2 has been spiraling towards recently.

Nody

Well I'm going to remain subscribed for now at least; I already got most stuff I want and I'm still interested in Everquest Next so can always use the SC there but yea, I'm worried about the "multiple console" part that it's going to be focusing on mobile games rather then the existing PC once... At the end of the day both Everquest Next and PS2 are F2P atm and I've got more then enough back from both games based on the money I've put in.

Dave_The_Sheep

I'm the same. Until I get a few signs that it's going down the tube, they'll continue to get my sub - and I only play Planetside. I've enjoyed the game enough, 500 hours so far. Worth it, for me.

BeerWolf

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

I'm the same. Until I get a few signs that it's going down the tube, they'll continue to get my sub - and I only play Planetside. I've enjoyed the game enough, 500 hours so far. Worth it, for me.

Paid for a year's sub [€99?] way back in November 2013... Stopped playing it before December 2013...

I blame my excitement then of buying a high rig gaming PC back then playing ANYTHING on absolute max settings with a 24" 144hz monitor! :pac:

PS2 looked amazing during night battles... but the game got boring quick for me.

kingtiger

I have tried to play this fecking game, I haven't a clue whats going on

its truly the first game that has me completely stumped

Nody

kingtiger wrote: »

I have tried to play this fecking game, I haven't a clue whats going on

its truly the first game that has me completely stumped

It can easily be overwhelming at first; if you create a character on Miller VS (where my current main resides) I can take you through it in a squad

Dave_The_Sheep

Not a great start.

According to Kotaku (take that as you will)
Although the company was all smiles about the deal in public, staff were immediately told that the company would be laying people off in order to become "profitable," according to a person close to the studio.

Daybreak Studio statement wrote:

As part of a strategic decision to rationalize the business, Daybreak Game Company announced today that it will eliminate positions in both its San Diego and Austin studios. This alignment of resources better positions the newly independent studio for future growth opportunities and developments, including delivering on its legacy of making top online games and establishing a solid foundation for future multi-platform success. These reductions will not affect the operation of current games and the company will continue on its mission to partner with its player community to drive the future and push the boundaries of online gaming.

Varik

Nody wrote: »

It can easily be overwhelming at first; if you create a character on Miller VS (where my current main resides) I can take you through it in a squad

how are EU servers lately, has there been any improvements.

Get better performance off US PC/PS4 servers.