Planetside

Monty - the one and only · 08-05-2003 10:40pm

all I can say is...WOW...

fun fun fun

Moriarty · 09-05-2003 1:56am

Btw, for anyone thats looking to get their hands on a copy cheap and ASAP, play.com are taking pre-orders. Less than €35 inc VAT+Delivery, you cant really go wrong.. espically when the RRP is €43.50.

Dr_Teeth · 09-05-2003 5:31pm

I'm level 8 now. It's bloody class.

I've specced in medium weapons so I get a nice assault rifle, engineering so I can repair stuff, and a licence to drive the Sunderer a huge big APC so I can drive my clan mates around. But there's so many other things to spec in! argh..

I'm trying to level like mad but the servers are down atm.

I'm thinking of getting medium armour and advanced engineering, so I can carry more stuff and deploy turrets. Or maybe more licences.. I'd like to fly or drive a tank, or bigger weapons to take out MAXes? Or MAX armour itself.. choices choices!

Teeth.

Thorbar · 09-05-2003 6:19pm

is file planet the only spot you can download off? Having awful trouble getting on to it last night.

Venom · 09-05-2003 6:53pm

I tried downloading it today but it took so long for my turn to come up in line that by the time I started to download it, I hadnt enough time in work

Gonna try again on monday.

flav0rflav · 09-05-2003 8:22pm

christ, fileplanet looks like its under a bit of strain, 1981 people in the uk waiting, with a wait time of more than 2 hours!

hmm, how am i going to get a key, just by downloading? is it not a unique key? should i be searching a bit further?

Monty - the one and only · 09-05-2003 8:41pm

Im a lvl 8 now myself, gone for medium weapons aswell...and assult armour.
have certification for the TR AA max
I had certification for the maruder but have decided to unlearn it(but not after being responsible of turning so many VS and NC troops into pancakes)

I have the advaced targeting implant aswell, which is quite handy as you know when to chase a max or stay out of its way,

Im planning to get certifcation for a reaver tomorrow altho I may go for the AP max instead...

Ive been fighting with the same outfit allnight, and in that time we managed to take 2 continents from VS and NC( which locked down 2 of VS's warp gates, all we needed was one more to assult their sanctuary but 14hrs is a long time, and by that time most of us were quitting for some sleep...:(

Monty - the one and only · 09-05-2003 8:48pm

flav0rflav, it is a unique key, you have to be logged into fileplanet when your installing its then given to you based on your account... but any one can download it for some one else to install it.

flav0rflav · 09-05-2003 9:12pm

ah ok. so can someone point me to an alt download location? eh?

Venom · 09-05-2003 9:54pm

Originally posted by flav0rflav
christ, fileplanet looks like its under a bit of strain, 1981 people in the uk waiting, with a wait time of more than 2 hours!

hmm, how am i going to get a key, just by downloading? is it not a unique key? should i be searching a bit further?

Hell I was stick on 5 min for 4 hours waiting on my download turn to come up

As for your question about an alt download site, seeing as the exe file is 1.33GB I cant see to many people hosting it sadly.

Monty - the one and only · 12-05-2003 2:19am

teeth you may want to look up from time to time, I nearly squashed you, with a galaxy, tonight when I was landing to pick up my squad.

quozl · 12-05-2003 10:55am

which servers are you guys playing on? I joined NC on the johari server last night. Good fun, I felt like a chopper gunner from 'nam in the galaxy turret

Nemesis · 12-05-2003 11:55am

Are the beta servers only in the US at the moment Greg?
Or is there a Beta server in Amsterdam as well?.
I want to pre-order the game but want to make sure there is only one version ..and not a US version and a Euro version.
Was thinking about D/L'ing it with my ISDN but was thinking it would take about 2 days.:).
If there is a Euro beta server I might actually get the beta..would keep me away from PC fro a while anyway.
DemonBaby.

quozl · 12-05-2003 12:12pm

no idea where they are Brian, it didnt even display ping for me, just loads of N/A's. So i went for the top one by number of players. My connect seems fine, and Leap is a good bit higher ping than my isdn, but much higher bandwidth. I'd guess you'd be fine on your isdn, the netcode seems to have client side hit calculation (or a very good server equivalent).

Monty - the one and only · 12-05-2003 8:42pm

ahhh maybe NC will prove to be a challange now...Vanu have been and are causing alot more problems than NC, Im TR myself, and Ive only played on johari so far.

The largest battle Ive paticipated in started with 3/4s of the outfit(about 40 or 50 people) Im with being online and a couple of other squads...It consisted of 5 fully loaded galaxies(with harassers in each cargo bay) and an escort of 10 reavers...anyway we dropped our troops over the last vanu facility on searhus last night, there was nearly twice our number defending, it took us nearly an hour to cap the base and we only lost one galaxy after the drop, hell it was alot fun tho

Dr_Teeth · 12-05-2003 9:36pm

hmm, should have said hi Monty! Damn you Greg, you dirty stinky NC! I am TR on Johari. I haven't had a 'quozl' die screaming at my feet yet but who knows, I might get lucky soon.

I'm usually on Foresal or Amerish, fighting VS mostly as they're a lot easier hehe.

Teeth.

Monty - the one and only · 12-05-2003 11:59pm

heh I did, but I couldn't say too much at the time as I was trying to get the few squad members at the tower to move their asses so that they could reforce the rest of our outfit at another facility...

On another note I found an unconventional way of getting rid of reavers while in a galaxy...ram them, took 2 down by doing that tonight :cool:

Thorbar · 13-05-2003 4:13am

Originally posted by Monty - the one and only

On another note I found an unconventional way of getting rid of reavers while in a galaxy...ram them, took 2 down by doing that tonight :cool:

Monty applies his after hours touch to dog fighting :P

Downloading updates for planetside now can't wait to get into it.

flav0rflav · 13-05-2003 10:15am

Got into it _eventually_ last night. Pretty good. Servers are all in the US which is not so hot, is there due to be one in Europe?

Nemesis · 13-05-2003 10:59am

I've pre-ordered the game from England.
With the Euro getting stronger PS will probably work out cheaper even with the £4 postage.
Thought about downloading the beta..but it would take me 51 hours..and the beta would be over by the time i got it.:).
So I'm judging the game from the posts here...it seems like good fun.
DemonBaby.

Venom · 13-05-2003 11:49am

It seems to be getting to be getting a good responce from the majority of players but Iv a few questions for the beta testers here.

Is the game going to be good to go out of the box when released? As in how bug free is it?

Will you be happy to pay the subscription fee every month to play it online?

Lemming · 13-05-2003 12:03pm

On the note of monthly subscriptions, how much is it going to be does anyone know?

Hyzepher · 13-05-2003 12:38pm

As far as I can tell they are charging $40 for 3 months in the USA. Probably a bit more for us when available.

Hyzepher

quozl · 13-05-2003 2:07pm

Originally posted by Venom

Is the game going to be good to go out of the box when released? As in how bug free is it?

Will you be happy to pay the subscription fee every month to play it online?

I've had 2 crashes to desktop in 2 days play. Not too bad, it is still beta so hopefully those will be gone by the release day. The autopatcher is just like the eq one and painless/fast. Even if they haven't improved the stability by then, I think it's already acceptable.

If it maintains my interest I've no problem playing the money. Hopefully it won't pall as fast as many other games due to the sheer size of it.

I can't see it being anything like as addictive as EQ or UO, as it's not really a very deep game. It's just a big fps.

Greg

Monty - the one and only · 13-05-2003 3:04pm

with regards to bugs, theres a few but nothing too serious, have only had one crash in the few days that Ive been playing it.

I have no problem forking of x amount of cash a month for it, at this point its become more of an addiction than anything else...I will pay becuase theres nothing else similar of this scale...dont even mention battlefield like a lot of people are, compared to this battlefield is tiny, and up to now Its been one of my favorite games. I dont think I could go back to it and enjoy it in the same way as I used to...

Dr_Teeth · 13-05-2003 3:21pm

ah, there's nothing like thinking you're about to lose your base, and then seeing TR galaxies fill the sky and a squadron of tanks roll up to reinforce!

As for the state of the game, I think it's pretty ready, most of the bugs I've encountered have been minor glitches and interface problems. No real show stoppers so far. Stability is markedly improved even compared to last thursday.

The big worry I think is the performance of the game. I have 512MB of DDR and this game is making me seriously consider upgrading to 1GB, that's not right! It takes about 2 minutes of swapping to quit! I hope that is sorted out.

Teeth.

quozl · 13-05-2003 3:30pm

i bought a half gig more rdram last week for the beta

It works fine with 768MB, very little noticable swapping.

Dr_Teeth · 13-05-2003 3:48pm

Right that's it, I shall not have less RAM than you! To komplett!

*poof*

Teeth.

Moriarty · 13-05-2003 3:51pm

Originally posted by Lemming
On the note of monthly subscriptions, how much is it going to be does anyone know?

Its going to be somewhere between $10 and $15 per month. Taking the nice exchange rates into account, thats €8.67-€13.01 per month. All in all, not too bad

Play.com have the game available for pre-order at £25/~€35 inc delivery, which is the cheapest spot ive found for it.

flav0rflav · 13-05-2003 3:55pm

Saw a note from one of the devs saying that there was a bug in some version, where on 512 Meg systems it'd allocate a buffer much too big.

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