Planetside 2 PRE-load?

[Mabs]

2 queries:
1 - where and what side are people playing ?
2- isnt there a "join your mates on another server" option ?

 

[Athan]

Apparently, unlike beta, once you select a faction on an account you now can't ever play another faction on that account. This is stupid as it's so easy to just make another account anyway, it's not like you're having to pony up another £44.95 or whatever. Note I'm going on what's been said in IRC, I've not yet checked this myself.

That aside it's pish to join friends. I'd start with knowing their in-game name so you can add them to friends list. Then arrange to play at the same time, invite to squad, and likely all meet up at a warpgate on chosen continent. In-game VOIP seems to work well enough then if you don't have external one.

 

[Scouse]

Apparently, unlike beta, once you select a faction on an account you now can't ever play another faction on that account.

That's rubbish. They've still got the create new character screen where you choose faction/server...

I'll have a look and check back tho.

Anyway - VANU | WOODMAN <<<<<

 

[Scouse]

Queue time - 2 minutes. So that's how they're going to annoy people into paying.

Can create new character no problems.

 

[Mabs]

Vanu smells of wee

New Conglomerate, Woodman \o/

 

[Poag]

NC, Miller...as...ofc..Poag

Playing with my GA outfit iCU. Shooting the CL in the back is so much fun!

 

[BloodOmen]

it just me or is it laggy as fuck on woodman vanu?

 

[BloodOmen]

Lol fuck this, aimbotters appearing already :l we were in spawn area/scu was still up so they cant get in and some fucker was just drilling everyone down through the walls

 

[opticle]

Lol fuck this, aimbotters appearing already :l we were in spawn area/scu was still up so they cant get in and some fucker was just drilling everyone down through the walls

That is impressively fast. I'm guessing they had the beta. Shame.. you'd think there'd be things they can do to stop this sort of thing relatively easily these days.

 

[Athan]

That is impressively fast. I'm guessing they had the beta. Shame.. you'd think there'd be things they can do to stop this sort of thing relatively easily these days.

Well there are... but then you end up with an entirely server-side game like World of Tanks where the tiniest bit of lag is horrendous. Heck, I even got lag spikes in WoT just due to 'too many packets' flying through the link (yes, torrents), not actually using even 50% of the bandwidth up or down with plenty spare for the game.

 

[Athan]

Apparently, unlike beta, once you select a faction on an account you now can't ever play another faction on that account. This is stupid as it's so easy to just make another account anyway, it's not like you're having to pony up another £44.95 or whatever. Note I'm going on what's been said in IRC, I've not yet checked this myself.

You're definitely locked to only one faction per server. I have an NC on Miller, tried to select that server for a Vanu and get told "You have a character of the opposing faction on this server.". I can create that Vanu on another server though, so it's not account-wide, just server-wide faction lock.

 

[BloodOmen]

just happened again, we were in the spawn area while SCU was still active and a single guy managed to headshot about 50 people....

 

[Dudley52]

Been playing for an hour or so. I played the original PS and loved it back in the day.

Seems/feels so different. Why don't you start in the sanctuary anymore? Just get thrown on a random planet without the choice of where to go. First impressions: No where near as good as the original.

Also, everyone can drive lightnings/prowlers/mossies/libs/gals etc and you don't need certs for these? Just to upgrade them? What have they done to the game ?!?!

 

[BloodOmen]

And again this time guy standing in the middle of an open area just raping everyone with an aimbot, fuck this cba.

 

[Scouse]

And again this time guy standing in the middle of an open area just raping everyone with an aimbot, fuck this cba.

Not seen that at all. But then I've not played the release version for more than a few minutes.

 

[Aada]

I feel sorry for some of you that paid for then premium service, i just ask why? surely try the game free first and then see if it's actually worth paying money.

I played the beta last about a month ago and the game was just bugged to hell, the beta forums were begging the devs not to release the game in the state it was but they did anyway.

Some of the bugs in the release version were in the game when it was a very very early beta stage.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I'll be going Vanu btw. Not sure what server but we should definitely try to get one for the easy-squad action


Edit: 4th time lucky. Woodman/Vanu/DirtyElGringo - COME JOIN ME

I thought F2P is total wank and paytowin ALWAYS with no exceptions and all that

 

[Scouse]

I thought F2P is total wank and paytowin ALWAYS with no exceptions and all that

I'm already hugely pissed off by people who've paid to get the better weapons. There's no early free-for-all scrum in this game.

In fact - I very much dislike weapons progression of any type in multiplayer games. I think CounterStrike is about as far as it can reasonably go without fucking things.

Also, there's some things that Planetside does that no other game does at the moment. However, I'm not sure I'm going to be sticking with it for a few reasons - including the above.

 

[Mabs]

get Sunderer, get the S-AMS Cert for it, deploy Sunderer with "b"

you get 2xp every time someone spawns out of it

 

[Mabs]

putting together an outfit on Woodman/New Conglom if anyone looking for a home

 

[WiZe^]

game play, grafic etc was kinda meh... okey for f2p

 

[BloodOmen]

putting together an outfit on Woodman/New Conglom if anyone looking for a home

might take you up on that offer, means I have to delete and reroll but thats never been a problem on planetside before, you can still twat higher BR people as a noob.

 

[BloodOmen]

oh I didnt have to delete after all I was already NC on woodman, names Malgalad on there Mabs

 

[BloodOmen]

Happened again so I stuck fraps on and hit record, enjoy seeing me get shot through a solid wall.

(twice by the same guy)

 

[Athan]

Any chance you were cuddled up close enough to the wall you were shot through that part of your player model, or maybe shadow, poked out? It's something that needs addressing either way, but one way is a full-on hack and the other is bad map design.

 

[BloodOmen]

Any chance you were cuddled up close enough to the wall you were shot through that part of your player model, or maybe shadow, poked out? It's something that needs addressing either way, but one way is a full-on hack and the other is bad map design.

Nah, if you look in the chat box you can see he killed me before that aswell and I was on the other stairs opposite so its a blatent hack.

 

[BloodOmen]

reported him anyway so we'll just see what happens, still enjoying the game tho just a shame cheaters are appearing so fucking early

 

[Aada]

reported him anyway so we'll just see what happens, still enjoying the game tho just a shame cheaters are appearing so fucking early

Just hope there aren't too many about, blatant hack.

 

[BloodOmen]

Just hope there aren't too many about, blatant hack.

Aye, as said its happened a few times now :/ in combat you prob wouldnt notice it, the only times i've ever noticed it is when i've been behind solid walls and been shot to fuck.

 

[Poag]

Still on Miller with my Outfit as NC

If you hate the idea of cash for guns or don't..whatever....theres a Station Cash sale on today £8 gives you 2000SC which is enough to buy the Infantry Starter Bundle.

Which includes a primary weapon for each class, a pistol and two skins.