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Planetside - Who's still playing ?
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06-09-2004 9:27am#1
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1st, desiding on your empire, need to know what your style of play is.
Terran Republic, We use bullets, main Heavy weapons is the mini chaingun, medium assualt weapon is basicaly an assualt rifle (think m4) our main battle tank is (i thnik) the most powerful in the game and has the advantave of having 2 gunners, one on the main gun, the other on the 15mil chain guns, this enables use to shoot at 2 targets at once, eg main gun shooting an enemy tank where as the chaingun is shooting enemy air
we have the coolest looking vehicles
Vanu, these use energy weapons, there main weapon is the lasher, it fires balls of energy to to damage on a direct hit and slitley less damage if you miss a direct hit (called a lash) there medium assualy weapon is the pulsar, fires energy round, looks ghey and sounds ghey, main battle tank is the magrider, this is a hover tank, driver is also a gunner, but the gun only goes up and down, driver has to stear to aim left and right, the main gunner has a 360o rotation though
NC, these use shotguns mainly, there main weapon is a 3 barel shotgun called the jackhammer, medium assualt for the NC tbh the dont use it much, main battle tank is the vanguard, its fast and powerful, but it only has one gunner who fires the main gun and the machine gun.
in short:
TR - Ranged weaponry
VS - Energy weapons that are REALY easy to get kills with
NC - Shotguns, run in, triple shot, run away.
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I've started playing again.. I was going to play VS on Werner but when I re-activated my account I found that they hadn't deleted my chars
So I'm NC and TR on Werner and VS on Emerald. It's good fun as long as you don't take it too seriously. I just hit "Instant Action" and join the foot zerg when I play!
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How do you reactivate your account?Dr_Teeth wrote:I've started playing again.. I was going to play VS on Werner but when I re-activated my account I found that they hadn't deleted my chars So I'm NC and TR on Werner and VS on Emerald. It's good fun as long as you don't take it too seriously. I just hit "Instant Action" and join the foot zerg when I play!
Teeth.
And can someone explain how you can buy a new CD online with a months free game time for $19.99 and you have to buy a game card for your existing account which costs $39.99
Help?!
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Oh wait, is the gamecard for 3 months?
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Still play my br20 cr4 werner character regularly.
Looking forward to the BFR's too. Should be interesting to see how they change gameplay.
As for which team to join, id say TR, mainly because I hate the VS (Barney's) and NC(Smurf's) 0 -
BFR's will be retarded, imho. To make such a huge change such as bigger, 2 man Max's and then say - Ok, these are just for those special people who forked out $30 extra is a bit naff, imho.lynchie wrote:Still play my br20 cr4 werner character regularly.
Looking forward to the BFR's too. Should be interesting to see how they change gameplay.
As for which team to join, id say TR, mainly because I hate the VS (Barney's) and NC(Smurf's)
I bought planetside expecting a cool game, not to be pummeled again and again by flails, spikers and maelstroms. Not to mention missing out on cavern combat. Now, ontop of all this you want to give a retarded advantage to people who pay more than me? Bleh, time I was leaving, me thinks...0 -
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Well it used to be $24.99 when I played soMoriarty wrote:cc is worth the $10 (€8, just over 2 pints fgs!) for the extra equipment and vehicles
I'm looking forward to the BFRs too. Apparently they'll be released monday :O
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Ivan wrote:Well it used to be $24.99 when I played so
Feh! Shows how much you know!
I paid 20 for it
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Sure, but usually with game expansions they wont let you play them across with each other.ExoduS 18.11 wrote:Of course you have to but core combat, i mean its like any other expansion for a game. When games bring out new stuff you usually need the expansion anyways? No-one "misses" out on cc [its naff anyways], its like any other game, you need to buy it to get the extra features
So take starcraft for example, you cant use the medic vs. someone who cant use the medic unit. Whereas in Planetside, thats exactly what they allow.
Its forcing people to buy the expansion and thats a bit unfair, imho
Sure, its good marketing but that isnt really the issue...0 -
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But with Core Combat, there wasn't really a big improvement with the game. You got about 4 new weapons and 3 new vehicles and a really quite bad fighting space. If anything SOE are trying to improve the experience for people who bothered to buy the expansion, even tho it didn't have much to offer. And its still only 9E anyways.
Go and check out the tr double miniguns. It a proper laugh so it is.0 -
ExoduS 18.11 wrote:But with Core Combat, there wasn't really a big improvement with the game. You got about 4 new weapons and 3 new vehicles and a really quite bad fighting space. If anything SOE are trying to improve the experience for people who bothered to buy the expansion, even tho it didn't have much to offer. And its still only 9E anyways.
Go and check out the tr double miniguns. It a proper laugh so it is.
bah TR are overpowered already, they have by far the best infantry in game, with their spam kill chain gain for anti infantry and the lock on infantry held missle launcher.
Not to mention their AA Max is scary, i mean u can't even see on your radar where it is shooting you from. Though I think over all the game is probably well balanced, and i'm sure i'd find that TR isn't as "easy mode" as I think it is, if I played it for a good amount of time.0 -
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Thats what grenade launchers with plasma grenades are for. You hide behind a tree and pop out every so often and lob a few at the guy. They think you just have grenades and try and get closer. Then you jump out and ambush them with the jackhammer.Moriarty wrote:If NC troops are caught in the open, they're usually nailed. The jackhammer is only of use when you're close enough to smell their breath, the lack of range on it is just incredible. The vanguard/thunderer aren't bad mind.
Lol.
RE:What we were talking about earlier, about marketing.
See what happens after you've updated. We get a nice splash screen with the option to buy Core Combat 0 -
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Ok, here it is, the first review of BFR's.
Let me just start by saying...
Retards, Retards, Retards.
What the hell were they thinking?!
As it stands (as of some extensive testing on 19-October-2004 circa 3am GMT) BFR's are the single most ridiculous idea for any sort of FPS hoping for even a small semblance of balance.
They are walking tanks, only with self recharging shields. With the equivalent weapon choices of a very powerful AA max, a very scary looking anti-infantry laser cannon, some burst lasers, the NTU siphon (which will be pretty horrible before long, trust me) the Armour Siphon a few others I didnt get to try.
Then the 2 seater has a gunner position which can mount a napalm type weapon with a 360 degree arc and a pretty decent rate of fire.
The driver can load what weapons into his BFR he wants, so he can have a dual anti-infantry laser, a dual AA weapon or one of either if he prefers.
It is these options, combined with the fact that they are hardy as hell and have shields that make these things some scary mother fookers.
That said, there are a few specifics worth noting.
A) There is a 1 hour recharge time
You must have Core Combat & Have logged 10 captures in the caverns
C) They are prone to malfunctions.
The malfunctions bit is a bit suspect to me, tbh. They basically have made these awesome, super-powerful unit, that you can only get when you buy CC. Now, the thing is it has a 1 hour recharge timer, so you basically want to do everything in your power to prevent losing your precious BFR. This means running away from battle with 3/4 of your health left (Trust me, I've seen it ) so you can get healed back up. Now, to counter-act the fact that you could just keep the same BFR for ages, your BFR seems to suffer from malfunctions the older it is. After about 7-8 minutes in VR I lost my radar on it. Which meant I couldnt see any air units on radar.
Also, damage seems to play a factor in malfunctions. Where damage is applied is also seemingly important.
This means that eventually your BFR will become a worthless piece of junk, thus forcing you to have to get a new one and succumbing to the 1 hour recharge time.
However that said, there are a number of reasons why the BFR is a ridiculous concept (while very cool in theory, in application they represent a fundamental shift in power).
A) They can climb hills no other vehicle can, even high enough that reavers cant fly above them or even equal in height to them. In fact they can climb so high, by comparison to the height tanks & co. can get to that the tanks cant even aim their turret high enough to be able to hit them. From what I can tell they seem to have no difficulty with water (Needs further testing)
C) The ability to carry anti-aircraft, anti-infantry and/or anti-vehicle payloads means you dont really know what you'll be facing until your likely to be half dead. You can carry an AA weapon, an AV weapon and use the secondary weapon, in the 2 seater variant, as the anti-infantry weapon. You can basically now take on all forms your foes may take. Thus making you the most powerful single unit in the game. Hence, unbalancing it.
D) Reavers/Mosquitos have literally, Zero chance against them. I've dumped 88 reaver rockets (basically my entire payload) at a Colossus (the NC variant) without even knocking his shields down. It took the combined firepower of myself (in a reaver), a lightning and a VS variant BFR to kill the blasted thing. Not to mention when 3-4 of these things group up together, squads of tanks can just throw themselves at them, to no avail.
There are a few other points I wanted to make, but I cant really think of anything else at this time.
In summary:
Get a BFR as soon as you can.
I dont think I'll be renewing my planetside subscription this month.
This leaves me with an awful taste in my mouth. BFR's=Core Combat=$$
Vaguely reminds me of SWG.
Down with SOE!
I'm open to input/criticism's.
All details are open to interpretation and are preliminary at best.
P.s. Yes that is a BFR climbing up a hill at an impossible angle. He then proceeds on a few feet where he butchers several infantry & 2 lightnings with me powerless to stop him.0 -
Ivan wrote:They are walking tanks, only with self recharging shields. With the equivalent weapon choices of a very powerful AA max, a very scary looking anti-infantry laser cannon, some burst lasers, the NTU siphon (which will be pretty horrible before long, trust me) the Armour Siphon a few others I didnt get to try.
They're vulnerable to combined arms assault. Most infantry weapons go straight through the sheilds. Shooting the shield gen on the arse of each BFR with a sniper rifle will immediatly drop their shields. EMPing their legs will slow them down significantly (they have location-specific damage).Ivan wrote:That said, there are a few specifics worth noting.
A) There is a 1 hour recharge time You must have Core Combat & Have logged 10 captures in the caverns
C) They are prone to malfunctions.
a) After the introduction event - ending next monday - the timer will drop to 45 minutes. If there is a vehicle mod on the lattice that timer drops to 22.5 minutes, like any other vehicle.
b) After the intro event is finished, yup.
c) This is part of the intro event. No one has had to spend any cert points to get the BFRs for this week, so they decided to cripple them slightly because of the obvious mass influx of BFRs. Once the intro week is over, the malfunctions disappear.Ivan wrote:Also, damage seems to play a factor in malfunctions. Where damage is applied is also seemingly important.
This is a design feature. There is locational damage on the BFRs, so there's a chance that various various parts of the BFR will be temporarily handicapped when it's hit by weapons fire (run slower if the legs are hit, radar temp out if you hit other parts, slower weapons fire if they hit those, etc etc)Ivan wrote:However that said, there are a number of reasons why the BFR is a ridiculous concept (while very cool in theory, in application they represent a fundamental shift in power).
A) They can climb hills no other vehicle can, even high enough that reavers cant fly above them or even equal in height to them. In fact they can climb so high, by comparison to the height tanks & co. can get to that the tanks cant even aim their turret high enough to be able to hit them.
Afaik this is a bug they've been looking at throughout the testing. It'll prolly be fixed shortly.Ivan wrote: From what I can tell they seem to have no difficulty with water (Needs further testing)
They can only walk in shallowish water. The exact depth varies from continent to continent. They can't shoot when they're in water either.Ivan wrote:C) The ability to carry anti-aircraft, anti-infantry and/or anti-vehicle payloads means you dont really know what you'll be facing until your likely to be half dead. You can carry an AA weapon, an AV weapon and use the secondary weapon, in the 2 seater variant, as the anti-infantry weapon. You can basically now take on all forms your foes may take. Thus making you the most powerful single unit in the game. Hence, unbalancing it.
Pfft. It's not unballanced, everyone has access to the BFRs if they want it. It's just changed the battle dynamic. That's a good thing.Ivan wrote:D) Reavers/Mosquitos have literally, Zero chance against them. I've dumped 88 reaver rockets (basically my entire payload) at a Colossus (the NC variant) without even knocking his shields down. It took the combined firepower of myself (in a reaver), a lightning and a VS variant BFR to kill the blasted thing. Not to mention when 3-4 of these things group up together, squads of tanks can just throw themselves at them, to no avail.
Horray! No more reaver spamwhores But seriously, once the shields are knocked out reavers would be effective against a BFR.Ivan wrote:Get a BFR as soon as you can.
I dont think I'll be renewing my planetside subscription this month.
Right, so instead of seeing how it actually works out you'll just throw your toys out of the pram. Great plan.Ivan wrote:This leaves me with an awful taste in my mouth. BFR's=Core Combat=$$
Has SOE suddenly become a Non-Profit Organisation? Seriously.. either buy core combat or don't. It's dead cheap. We don't live in a communist society where everyone gets everything the want for free.Ivan wrote:Vaguely reminds me of SWG.
Down with SOE!
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Moriarty wrote:They're vulnerable to combined arms assault. Most infantry weapons go straight through the sheilds. Shooting the shield gen on the arse of each BFR with a sniper rifle will immediatly drop their shields. EMPing their legs will slow them down significantly (they have location-specific damage).
a) After the introduction event - ending next monday - the timer will drop to 45 minutes. If there is a vehicle mod on the lattice that timer drops to 22.5 minutes, like any other vehicle.
b) After the intro event is finished, yup.
c) This is part of the intro event. No one has had to spend any cert points to get the BFRs for this week, so they decided to cripple them slightly because of the obvious mass influx of BFRs. Once the intro week is over, the malfunctions disappear.
This is a design feature. There is locational damage on the BFRs, so there's a chance that various various parts of the BFR will be temporarily handicapped when it's hit by weapons fire (run slower if the legs are hit, radar temp out if you hit other parts, slower weapons fire if they hit those, etc etc)
Afaik this is a bug they've been looking at throughout the testing. It'll prolly be fixed shortly.
They can only walk in shallowish water. The exact depth varies from continent to continent. They can't shoot when they're in water either.
Pfft. It's not unballanced, everyone has access to the BFRs if they want it. It's just changed the battle dynamic. That's a good thing.
Horray! No more reaver spamwhores But seriously, once the shields are knocked out reavers would be effective against a BFR.
Right, so instead of seeing how it actually works out you'll just throw your toys out of the pram. Great plan.
Has SOE suddenly become a Non-Profit Organisation? Seriously.. either buy core combat or don't. It's dead cheap. We don't live in a communist society where everyone gets everything the want for free.
</hysterical pram-ejecting fanboi temper>
Hardly a dig at Ivan is it? 0 -
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