Planetside: It's wicked!

[Crendle]

PlanetSide 7 day Trial.

The 7 day free trial has been opened up again for anyone who wants to
sample the game, or if you're an ex player and want to see the changes that
have been made. You will need to make a new SOE station name - you cant
use this offer with old characters if you've played PlanetSide before.

Whats PlanetSide? Watch this video http://www.marcopolo.me.uk/PSMovies/PS_AD_LARGE.wmv
Get hold of a free 7 day trial CD key from http://cmt.ubisoft.fr/planetside_pcgamer/
And a complete download (1.6gb!!) using this installer http://www.greyfalcon.net/psinstall.exe

PlanetSide seems to have turned a corner over the past few months - it's
become a whole lot of fun again!

I'm sure some or maybe most of you already know of Planetside, the MMOFPS
from SOE. For those that don't, Planetside is currently a one of a kind game.

It offers a full range of combat, anything from regular grunt infantry combat
with or without vehicle support, airborne troop drops, dogfights, tank
columns and battles, assault buggies and support vehicles, covert infiltration,
seamless indoor and outdoor combat in and around bases and towers and
vast continents, artillery, combat engineering and medics and much more.

In my own humble opinion, there is no better gaming
experience than having 10 of my mates on a Galaxy drop ship (a planetside
equivalent of the present day C130 "Hercules" ) and dropping on a tower
clearing level after level. Heavy fire pouring both ways through the stairwells
and medics working frantically to keep your team going. Heavily armored
MAXes appear just to be cut down by "Decimator" anti-vehicle rockets.
It goes on and on, and it's wicked!

Then again, maybe massive tank battles and bomber airstrikes is more your
cup of tea? It's all in Planetside. Give it a go

[mank!]

Originally Posted by Crendle

Whats PlanetSide? Watch this video http://www.marcopolo.me.uk/PSMovies/PS_AD_LARGE.wmv
Get hold of a free 7 day trial CD key from http://cmt.ubisoft.fr/planetside_pcgamer/
And a complete download (1.6gb!!) using this installer http://www.greyfalcon.net/psinstall.exe

Just so the links should show up properly. Don't edit it or delete it please mods.

[Yoni]

why would I delete this post when I know this game is awesome and totally underated

Thank you Cren for posting

[mr.Blacky]

Who let him on this forum

Oh and true Freddyshouse/Barrysworld forum users should always go to BarrysSquad

[Turamber]

Not played for a few months, what changes have been made recently? Vanu any better?

[Nirawen]

I quit once they started using power rangers, fun for a few days when only a few of us got Adv BFR but when its basically Mech Warrior i dont see the point, bring back beta when it was full of n00by zergs and kill whores

[mank!]

Another reason to play:

[Crendle]

Turamber: Hard to say without knowing when you quit
Personally I think the empires are fairly balanced now. Not perfectly but will it ever be? Battle islands are in, BFRs (BattleFrameRobotics) as well.
PS was on a bit of a downhill, specially after the introduction of the ridiculously overpowered BFRs. Luckily the devs have listened pretty well to
the players on this one and the BFRs are now modified to alot more sensible
levels. A dedicated team of 2-3 grunts can take one out no problem.


Nirawen: I agree with you on that one, however the BFRs have gone through
alot of changes now. The 1 man variants are no longer standard for one. You now get the 2 man gunner variant as a starter. That along with major nerfs to all variants, increased cert costs (you now have to cert anti infantry and AA weapons seperately) means that a team of 2 grunts with jammers, gauss/minichaingun and Decimators can take down a BFR.
The process is still not completed either so don't let BFRs stop you from
enjoying PS again. They've been beaten down into shape now

Barrys Squad: Shame on you gits, having me come here and do your work for you
You ARE coming to Operation Awah on the 12th though aren't you?

[Yoni]

mank that looks very wude

[mank!]

yes, I thought so too :-)

[Turamber]

I took part in the "event" that launched battle islands, quit at the end of that month. What in god's name are these BFR thingies then? Tell all!! *fingers itch at the renew button*

[Cyfr]

I went to PS again, then found out you couldn't even try the BFR's unless you had corecombat so quickly uninstalled

[Crendle]

Doh, Cyfr =P
You could try em out in VR without having CC if you wanted! Anyway, Core
Combat is €10 now so it's not like it's a big deal if you really want it .

BFRs are essentially big mechs. The standard one is a 2-seater variant with one pilot seat and one gunner seat. Then there a single seater version and one flight variant that also only takes 1 pilot. Feelings are quite mixed about
the BFRs. Initially I wasn't much of a fan at all but the devs have listened
very well to the community and made numerous adjustments to every
aspect of the BFRs. I have to say even I, who was quite opposed to them to start off with, now feel that they've been quite well integrated.

As for what they actually ARE, well they're Mechs. You operate them mostly like any other vehicles. You can chose loadouts, varying between the standard Anti vehcile weaponry, Anti infantry and Anti Air.
On a standard gunner variant you have two guns fitted on the "arms" of the mech and one on top of it, operated by the gunner. Basically you could mount 1AA gun + 1Anti Infantry gun on the arms and then have the gunner use rocket pods or a Gauss Cannon (empire specific New Conglomerate weapons) to handle vehicles.
Good fun, though I prefer being on the Anti-BFR infantry teams. Alot of BFR drivers get overconfident with their new toys. 3-4 motivated soldiers with anti vehicle weapons and jammer grenades can take a BFR down if they get the jump on it by bailing from aircrafts or sneaking up on it >

Try it on! There's a 7 day trial if you don't want to pay to reactivate your sub just yet =D

[Turamber]

Well, I resubbed. Unfortunately to get access to these new fangled machines you have to complete ten missions in the craptacular expansion zones. I do have the expansion but hate the place.

Still I might get round to it this month, didn't see any of the robots in use this evening but then I only spent an hour on Extinction with a handful of other people.

[Cyfr]

Well I have an account with a br18 or so char on, with corecombat, but wanted to come back and try BFR's for a week and see if it was worth renewing, but they wont let me try BFR's without spending money so cba