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2012-09-30 10:21 15105746 PS2 Planetside 2 (general2.jpg 1456x1030 281kB)
Big Vanu Asses edition .
1 min later 15105830 Anonymous
first for vanu ass
2 min later 15105869 Anonymous
Second for Vanu tits.
2 min later 15105875 Anonymous (1.png 133x171 1kB)
>>15105830
second for planetman
2 min later 15105892 Anonymous (abstract art of pathfinder.png 800x600 16kB)
>>15105875
ur 2 slow, metroid
3 min later 15105904 Anonymous
>>15105875
Go away, planetman. Dark planetman is vastly superior to you.
3 min later 15105919 Anonymous
>>15105830
>>15105869
Off to a great start, as usual.
Thanks, SOE!
3 min later 15105932 Anonymous (2.png 138x187 2kB)
>>15105892
seventh for dark planetman
4 min later 15105965 Anonymous
>>15105919
are you gay
i mean literally are you gay
5 min later 15106003 Anonymous
When do the servers open up again?
6 min later 15106041 PS2
>>15106003
like 30 mins
6 min later 15106050 Anonymous
>>15106003
Half an hour.
Server goes down for 2 hours on weekends and 6 hours on weekdays.
7 min later 15106071 Anonymous (3.png 239x174 2kB)
>>15105932
twelfth for dingus
7 min later 15106105 Anonymous
>you will never read erotic fiction about a Vanu INF whose rack ends up larger every time she respawns
this is canon stuff people come on
10 min later 15106252 Anonymous
>>15106105
i am hard just by reading that.
so...talking about the game, any new game-breaking OP shit now that we have all the certs? or just Aircav being aircav?
11 min later 15106268 Anonymous
>>15106105
i hope they let female soldiers titfuck male soldiers
13 min later 15106365 Anonymous
>>15106268
i hope they can use deactivated grenades and rope as makeshift strapons, 'cause those rubber pieces of shit aren't good for much else
16 min later 15106510 Anonymous
OFFICIAL /VG/ INFORMATIONS
1. SERVER TIMES
> http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/beta-server-availability.24149/
2. BETA KEYS
While approximately 2 beta keys are given out in the /vg/ general a week, the official PS2 twitter gives out buckettons a day.
> https://twitter.com/planetside2
Or if you're a veritable whore, consider wasting $40 for alpha squad at the planetside2 website, which will grant you instant beta access and other 'neato' 'features'.
3. /vg/ official server
/vg/ has no official server, we are spread over all of them. Try and pick a server in your region.
4. What are factions?
Factions are based off both the popular trading simulator, Hat Fortress 2, and the multiplayer version of SkiFree, Tribes: Descent.
TR- Terran Republic- red
NC- New Conglomerate- blue
VS- Vanu Sovereignty- green and purple
5. Outfits
Outfits are groups of players who attempt to work together. Either this leads to
a) fun and glory
b) military roleplaying
c) faliure
Playing with an outfit is considered better than playing by ones self. Better still is the VS Overmind.
22 min later 15106739 Anonymous
When the servers come up, can I get about five of you to go VS female infiltrator on Metis and stand in a line while i masturbate to your asses?
23 min later 15106783 Anonymous
>>15106739
>Metis
why must us Easties suffer with dead servers 24/7
24 min later 15106802 Anonymous (laughingneckbeard5.jpg 154x153 17kB)
>>15106510
>Factions are based off both the popular trading simulator, Hat Fortress 2, and the multiplayer version of SkiFree, Tribes: Descent.
24 min later 15106814 Anonymous
>>15106783
You are better off on dead servers
Metis is a 2 faction server, TR only exists as target practice at this point.
24 min later 15106821 Anonymous
>>15106783
Any server will work, I just need everyone to be on the same one.
I am willing to stand in the line so that you can masturbate to me once I'm finished
25 min later 15106868 Anonymous
Are there any tweaks I could try to ge the game to have a playable framerate? I'm getting around 4 fps regardless of settings or activity on screen. My system has pretty good specs and I don't have an AMD processor so I have no idea what the problem could be.
26 min later 15106880 Anonymous
>>15106821
son, people can see you
are you aware of this thing called a "screenshot"
26 min later 15106924 Anonymous
>>15106880
I need it to be real people who are standing there while i'm fapping to their asses.
28 min later 15106984 Anonymous
>>15106924
what if they log off
35 min later 15107287 Anonymous
>>15106984
They cannot log off
We are all playing Sword art online
39 min later 15107419 Anonymous (1342315036214.png 300x300 72kB)
>>15107287
>mfw
40 min later 15107465 Anonymous (1344443581873.gif 236x224 1983kB)
I'm not gonna bother playing till pop caps are put in
40 min later 15107468 Anonymous
>Get basilisk on Flash
>Go to save a point being capped
>Pull up to see TR on a flash facing away from me , capping
>hit T
>right click for night vision
>Crosshair over his back
>open fire
>he drops off his flash.
>Driving around
>See on fire NC sunderer
>Fire
>It explodes
>night
>overmind raping Dahaka
>Drive circles around the central tower taking pot shots at the few TR trying to traverse the no mans land
>See a lightning pull out and try to break the blockade
>Follow him firing on his ass.
>Set him on fire but have to reload before he dies. Time for magazine capacity certs.
Flash basilisk is definitely the first thing I'm buying from now on. And the flash radar is the first cert I'm getting after basic infantry gun certs.
40 min later 15107472 Anonymous
>>15106739
servers are up, i'll wait for you guy to come
41 min later 15107516 Anonymous
>>15107465
can i have your account
42 min later 15107543 Anonymous (1340995066826.png 258x347 91kB)
>>15107516
how do you not already have a key
42 min later 15107546 Anonymous
I don't get how you can like the Venu weapons, as sound and looks go.
42 min later 15107565 Anonymous (1346181186269.png 3180x4720 502kB)
>>15107472
YOU CANCEROUS FGGOT, I HOPE YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY SUFFER FROM SUPERBACTERI-
>servers are actually up.
t-t-thanks bro! y-yeah!
47 min later 15107713 Anonymous
Elbert?
48 min later 15107759 Anonymous
Apex? athornz?
48 min later 15107762 Anonymous
how do you hover properly in an aircraft, that is, staying stationary in the air
49 min later 15107814 Anonymous
>>15107762
press spacebar.
51 min later 15107862 Anonymous
>Servers come up
>Immediately capture shit around the crown, start caping it
>a NC reaver and 2 libs show up above the crown
What the fuck NC
Can you faggots stop ONE PERSON without zerging?
53 min later 15107948 Anonymous
So I just got into this beta, what is all this talk of asses?
53 min later 15107974 Anonymous
Can you not resupply medkits?
55 min later 15108032 Anonymous
>>15107948
Alien girl has nice ass.
55 min later 15108035 Anonymous
>>15106739
Dajianz? is that you?
55 min later 15108045 Anonymous
PLANETMAN JOINING TR ON METIS
I HOPE I SEE YOU FUCKERS OUT THERE
55 min later 15108048 Anonymous
>>15107862
i'm on metis, just capturing a lone base with a few other people and out of the sky comes 6 mosquitos, 2 liberators and a galaxy to challenge us
what the fuck
56 min later 15108104 Anonymous
>>15108048
>Implying the TR ever even has 6 mossy pilots online at once on metis
Liar.
59 min later 15108224 Anonymous
Alright, starting out, and I'm at a... place...
How do I get to the fighting?
1 hours later 15108314 Anonymous
>>15108224
Following a guy with Xs in his name. He seems to know what he's doing.
1 hours later 15108414 Anonymous
>>15108314
That's fantastic, but I'm here with my thumb up my ass.
Guess I'll just wait for the war to come to me or something.
1 hours later 15108449 Anonymous
>>15108224
Hit m
it will bring up a map
scroll down to zoom out.
turn names of places on
zoom into the middle of the map, find a point called 'the crown'
right click 'the crown' and select set personal waypoint
then go up to a vehicle terminal with a flying machine on it and pay 200 green things for the cheap thing. fly that to the place
if you die in a place you can repawn at bases near it.
1 hours later 15108535 Anonymous
>>15107546
i dont get how you cant, NC weapons sound like they have a fucking low pass filter taking out everything above 1khz, and their just boring ass bullets once again
they did a fucking awesome job with the sound and the design of the bullets on the gun making it feel like the guns really have a huge kick
1 hours later 15108587 Anonymous
So, how do I select which device to make the game use as my mic? Does it use the one Windows has selected as my default?
1 hours later 15108627 Anonymous
>>15108535
on VS i mean, in that second part
1 hours later 15108656 Anonymous
>>15108587
yes
1 hours later 15108913 Anonymous
Wow, I like how just LOOKING at the base I'm supposed to be assaulting is cutting my framerate in half.
1 hours later 15109059 Anonymous
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD can a SINGLE fucking videogame give me more than ten fucking seconds to turn my fucking plane around before blowing it the fuck up
because that means i have 5 fucking seconds to make a full fucking uturn and head STRAIGHT back the fucking direction i came or im fucked
GOD DAMMIT WHY
1 hours later 15109128 Anonymous
>>15109059
What you should do is dive while turning
1 hours later 15109281 Anonymous
Just got into the Hawken alpha, SEE YA LATER FUCKERSSS
1 hours later 15109538 Anonymous
>spend 5 minutes hiking from where I spawn to the warzone
>die instantly
>>15108913
Yeah, what the fuck? I have a 560-Ti and anything even remotely high-poly slows my computer to a crawl. Maybe I need to lower some settings or something.
1 hours later 15109548 Anonymous
>>15109128
yeah but if i just happen to type something while im flying and accidentally go out of a zone, FUCK YOU WE DONT WANT YOU SEEING THE ENDLESS CLIFFS DROPPING INTO FOG
1 hours later 15109682 Anonymous
>>15107465
What this will accomplish is whining in the forums that people can't play their "main char".
No, bigger boosts on lower end pops, then people will knock their pussy habits.
1 hours later 15110015 Anonymous
I have successfully fapped to VS Infiltrators.
This game has promise, I tell you what.
1 hours later 15110181 Anonymous
>>15110015
are you
>>15106739
did you actually get people to do that
1 hours later 15110236 Anonymous (areyou.jpg 1920x1080 587kB)
Are you even trying NC?
1 hours later 15110240 Anonymous
>>15110181
no and I don't know if he did
1 hours later 15110421 Anonymous
>>15110236
>Take 1 extra raxium hotel
>Boast
I'm guessing that's a great accomplishment for you. Well done.
1 hours later 15110472 Anonymous
>>15110421
>35%
>doing the worst
1 hours later 15110541 Anonymous (typicalnightonmetis.jpg 1920x1080 621kB)
>>15110421
>Implying VS doesn't do this nightly.
Be mad nc fag.
2 hours later 15110703 Anonymous
>>15110541
Oh no, you're capping empty TR desert. That sure showed me.
2 hours later 15110804 Anonymous
>run out of spawnpoint
>die
>respawn
>repeat indefinitely
gee this game sure is good
2 hours later 15110861 Anonymous
>>15110703
>37% VS
>37% NC
>VS has the commanding lead.
>NC is struggling to even deal with the few TR we push at them.
Do you even planetside? Or are you that jelly?
2 hours later 15110870 Anonymous
>>15110804
>run out of spawnpoint into a battle
>die
What did you expect?
2 hours later 15110927 Anonymous (planetside2 2012-09-30 20-24-26.jpg 1920x1080 737kB)
Goddamn, vehicle nightvision is OP. Any enemy is highlighted like a motherfucker from miles away.
>fight some TR who is actually a literal bitch faggot and runs away
>rage bloodlust tunnel vision
>chase him back to his base
>get shot down by like 5 other mossies
Even with Turn Speed 5 this thing handles like a cow. I think I need a higher DPI mouse.
2 hours later 15110976 Anonymous
So, does anyone else get sub-10 FPS on machines that shouldn't rightly be dropping that low? Anyone know a fix?
2 hours later 15111005 Anonymous
>>15110976
it's a beta, the "fix" is wait for them to update
2 hours later 15111026 Anonymous
>>15110976
I get 20-25fps in fights, 50 at warpgate. Running a gtx470 and a q9400 which is outdated as fuck. Thinking of buying a mostly whole new computer soon to run this game better.
2 hours later 15111081 Anonymous
>>15111026
From what I'm reading on the forums, it just hates certain hardware.
2 hours later 15111152 Anonymous
>>15110927
go to settings
turn up vehicle mouse sensitivity
2 hours later 15111189 Anonymous
>>15110927
turn speed only affects using A and D, roll or top speed is better
2 hours later 15111252 Anonymous
>>15111152
It's already at 100. To make a quick u turn I have to pick up and move the mouse like 4 times. It's a microsoft intellimouse 3.0.
2 hours later 15111260 Anonymous
>>15110927
>He thinks a higher dpi will let him turn faster
>laughingwhores.jpg
Try joystick.
2 hours later 15111286 Anonymous
>>15111260
Do they even work yet? Last time I tried to set one up it was broken as fuck.
2 hours later 15111319 Anonymous
>>15111286
>>15111260
Pretty sure joystick support isn't in yet.
2 hours later 15111470 Anonymous
Why is my light infantry stuck with drifter jets, fuck these things.
2 hours later 15111550 Anonymous
Swagrider columns just stomping all over Metis at the moment.
2 hours later 15111671 Anonymous (PlanetSide2 2012-09-29 05-34-57-69.jpg 1920x1080 183kB)
>>15111470
>not using jump jets with the infiltrator
2 hours later 15111714 Anonymous
>>15111671
Yea, what the fuck is that all about. I got certs for drifter jets just to see them, now I can't switch to jump jets, which would be bitching since they're maxed out. I shame the TR
2 hours later 15111727 Anonymous
>>15111550
Stomping all over what?
The TR just spent the last hour defending a useless tower right outside the NC gate.
I logged off when I realized we are losing the entire west front because of it
2 hours later 15111979 Anonymous
>>15111714
Really? When I go into my LA loadout I can switch between "drifter jets" and "jump jets" no problem.
2 hours later 15112072 Anonymous
>>15111979
I see the same thing
>>15111671
does, the infiltrator has jump jets instead of my LA for some reason.
2 hours later 15112194 Anonymous
>>15112072
Then it's time for some flying turret hacking.
2 hours later 15112229 Anonymous
>tab out of game
>tab back in
>it's showing that ALPHA SQUAD ONLY 90 BUCKS screen
>can't make it go away
>can still shoot my tank
WHAT THE FUCK.
2 hours later 15112259 Anonymous
>>15112229
smedley shit eating grin.jpg
2 hours later 15112260 Anonymous
>>15112229
I NEED HELP GUYS.
2 hours later 15112297 Anonymous
>>15109281
It's ballin'
2 hours later 15112452 Anonymous
>>15112229
FUCKING NIGGERS I JUST LOST A MAGRIDER TO THIS SHIT FUCK.
2 hours later 15112519 Anonymous
>>15112452
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY HATE PEOPLE WHO ALT TAB OR SOMETHING JESUS CHRIST.
FUCK THIS GAME I'M PLAYING THE MW3 FREE WEEKEND AT LEAST THAT GAME WORKS.
as if, I'll probably just play the NS2 beta
2 hours later 15112567 Anonymous
>>15112452
>>15112519
Just play windowed borderless mode.
Its a built in option, works flawlessly for me.
2 hours later 15112630 Anonymous
Holyshit I'm playing with planetman!
2 hours later 15112710 Anonymous
>>15112630
Shit went downhill in the second series. No one cares anymore
3 hours later 15112809 Anonymous
>>15111470
You'll have to cert one level of regular jump jets after you cert drifters to get them back. At least that fixed mine.
3 hours later 15113091 Anonymous
>>15112229
>>15112260
>>15112452
Are you retarded or something? Posting on 4chan is not going to solve your problem, how about restarting the game? It takes like 15 seconds, jesus.
I never get that kind of people, the same kind who comes into a thread and asks what he should be expecting out of a game. A game that is in his hands that very fucking moment.
How about starting the game and not POST ON 4CHANS ABOOT EET.
3 hours later 15113154 Anonymous
Wishlist for upcoming patches
>Improved server/client latency
>Measures to reduce the effect of lag switching and intentionally boosting your ping.
>Vanu archives gets fixed
>Dat ass and dem tits is extended to all Vanu, not just infiltrators.
>NC whining about Vanu when we take their shit is reduced
I'm serious about that last one. The TR got their shit together and are actually competing now. But the NC are bellyaching and being whiny brats whenever something of their's gets capped.
These are all actual complaints NC have made in yell.
>WAAAA VANU WEAPONS ARE OP
>WAAAA TR HAS THE BEST GUNS
>WAAAA OUR TANKS ARE BAD
3 hours later 15113301 Anonymous
>>15113154
>Dat ass and dem tits is extended to all Vanu, not just infiltrators.
But it already was!
All female Vanu playermodels were changed, along with NC INF models.
TR get nothing.
3 hours later 15113385 Anonymous
>>15113301
Nah, there's still something ass enhancing about infiltrators that the others don't get yet.
3 hours later 15113435 Anonymous
>>15113385
Then leave it be, man.
Consider a VS INF a rare yet spectacular sight. Savor the moment. Maybe hit whatever key you have screenshot bound to.
3 hours later 15113539 Anonymous
>Riding along in a saron magrider
>female infiltrator runs by
>see dat ass
>accidentally fire the saron.
3 hours later 15113583 Anonymous
>>15113539
All that crazy alien tech and they still haven't overcome premature ejaculation?
Fuck.
3 hours later 15113664 Anonymous
>>15113091
>don't post about bugs regarding a game in the thread dedicated to the game lol
You're incredible.
3 hours later 15113795 Anonymous
>>15113664
>post bugs regarding a game in the thread dedicated to the game on a forum where no dev will ever take criticism from let alone see.
You're the incredible one here.
3 hours later 15113929 Anonymous
>>15113795
>post about bug specifically requesting help
Maybe it could have gone like "Oh hey I had that bug too you can fix it by doing <x>" and all would be well.
>some autist sees someone requesting help
>GUYS THIS IS MY THREAD AND I MAKE THE RULES HERE OK DON'T POST ABOUT THIS STUFF IT'S USELESS
You're incredible.
3 hours later 15114003 Anonymous
>>15108535
I'm actually glad they added drawbacks to the suppressors. I was missing the vanilla pew pew pew of the vanu guns.
3 hours later 15114253 Anonymous
>>15113929
Yes, alt-tab breaks the grafics. You're not alone. You two can move on now.
3 hours later 15114258 Anonymous
Once infiltrators get shotguns, carbines and assault rifles that's all anyone will ever play.
3 hours later 15114404 Anonymous (max hit by ps3 games.jpg 837x267 73kB)
>>15114258
>you will never get this cert
3 hours later 15114548 Anonymous (planetside2 2012-09-30 22-09-59.jpg 1920x1080 1274kB)
>>15113301
Anyone got pictures of the supposed sexy vanu girls? Character models refuse to load in creation for me, I left it for like 10 minutes.
3 hours later 15114657 Anonymous
>>15114404
It's useless anyway, inf cloak can be easily seen even during night at great distances
3 hours later 15114665 Anonymous
>>15114548
What if you just...
make a character, and then log out?
Or scroll up the thread?
Or look at the previous thread?
3 hours later 15114740 Anonymous (planetside2 2012-09-30 22-17-38.jpg 1920x1080 1400kB)
Sweet mother of god
4 hours later 15114827 Anonymous
>>15114740
>LEL XD
4 hours later 15114982 Anonymous
>>15114827
How else was I supposed to respond to some faggot referencing mee mees in a fucking video game?
Also, is the vanu sniper still a piece of shit that does like 1 damage at long range?
4 hours later 15115168 Anonymous
>>15114982
IRONIC SHITPOSTING IS STILL SHITPOSTING YOU FAGGOT
4 hours later 15115203 Anonymous
>>15114982
No response is necessary. You don't need to associate with such people. You certainly don't need to act in the same manner.
4 hours later 15115330 Anonymous
>>15115168
But ironic shitposting is hilarious.
4 hours later 15115348 Anonymous
So i just searched for rule 34 on planetside 2.
there was none 10/10 GOTY
4 hours later 15115386 Anonymous
>>15115348
have you been here for the past couple threads
we're keeping it safe and secret here
4 hours later 15115412 Anonymous
>>15115348
LOOK AT THE OP IMAGE
LOOK AT IT
4 hours later 15115438 Anonymous (laser inspection day.jpg 1440x900 393kB)
Vanu people doing Vanu things in Vanu places.
4 hours later 15115448 Anonymous
>>15115348
lame bait to make others post rule 34 in this thread
2/10 see me after class
4 hours later 15115575 Anonymous
>>15115438
My first day of beta I walked out of the warpgate room and found 2 guys briefly putting their characters into positions and ERPing. It ended with one of them saying "Why is everyone staring at us?"
vanu4lyf
4 hours later 15115625 Anonymous
>>15115575
Such is life in the zone.
4 hours later 15115816 Anonymous
>sick as shit, nose is running constantly, been coughing and crooping for hours
>tired, cold, achey
and yet
my ps2 launcher has been sitting open for hours
the overmind beckons
but responding may actually kill me
4 hours later 15115980 Anonymous
>>15115816
Are you me?
4 hours later 15116014 Anonymous
>>15115448
I wouldn't mind more rule34 in this thread
4 hours later 15116215 Anonymous (0_61_armadillo_baby.jpg 320x240 24kB)
Vanu Soundtrack masterrace reporting in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLrKD_sEqY
4 hours later 15116254 Anonymous
>>15115980
perhaps
5 hours later 15116972 Anonymous
If you deploy a Tsunderer for spawning, does it still despawn itself after five minutes of you not sitting in it?
5 hours later 15117008 Anonymous
>>15116972
you shit in it
for 15mins
5 hours later 15117035 Anonymous
>>15117008
i mean it despwan in 15 mins if you leave
5 hours later 15117065 Anonymous
>>15117008
>>15117035
Well thats not too bad.
I guess its a better idea to just sit in the fucker then.
5 hours later 15117280 Anonymous
So.... I just logged on and I have ten thousand certs. Is this normal?
5 hours later 15117558 Anonymous
>>15117280
Yeah, you get like 800 cert points every hour or something.
5 hours later 15117703 Anonymous
>>15117558
huh cool. Truthfully I never really looked at my certs since the first time I played, which was last week.
5 hours later 15117745 Anonymous
>>15117280
Its not 'normal' per se.
Since Friday, cert gain has been ridiculously increased.
Its lasting until the character wipe this coming friday, so we can test out the high cost certs and shit.
So enjoy it while you can, and test out everything so you know what you want to play with after the wipe.
5 hours later 15117772 Anonymous
>>15117745
Oh yeah, forgot to mention: cert rates will probably be back to the normal slow acquisition after the coming wipe.
5 hours later 15118134 Anonymous
>>15117772
>>15117745
Oh that explains it. Cheers. I'm currently testing out a bunch of funlocks.
Gonna make my scythe sanic fast.
5 hours later 15118217 Anonymous
>>15118134
Bad idea. Make it break fast instead of fly fast, win every dogfight.
5 hours later 15118218 Anonymous
>>15106510
>Either this leads to
>a) fun and glory
>b) military roleplaying
>c) faliure
a and c masterrace
5 hours later 15118236 Anonymous
>>15118134
Dont forget to add dat rader. Really handy when you're flying close support for bases.
5 hours later 15118590 Anonymous
>>15118217
Wouldn't turn rate be better for that? Most dogfights devolve into both people turning their vehicle vertically as fast as possible in a loop each trying to get on the other person's tail until one of them forgets to maintain altitude and crashes.
5 hours later 15118665 Anonymous
>>15118236
>Be an enlisted flier in the airforce
>Make attempts to pilot the light airframes
>See radar and put it on the mosq
>It's a mini version of the radar that my irl airframe has.
Now I just need to put it on a Galaxy, take off all the turrets and it'll be like I'm flying the real thing.
5 hours later 15118734 Anonymous
>>15118590
Breaking and hovering while your opponent goes out of his way to turn is to your advantage. Really only way to win is to shoot them while they are turning
5 hours later 15118810 Anonymous
>>15117772
after wipe they'll put in the usual certs over time too.
5 hours later 15118827 Anonymous
>>15118590
Most dogfights with bad pilots devolve into that, yes. If you know what you're doing you can trick him into turning endless loops while you outbreak him and get behind him.
5 hours later 15118952 Anonymous
>>15118827
>>15118590
You seem to know what you're doing, can I see your loadout please?
5 hours later 15118981 Anonymous
>>15118810
Yeah but at a vastly reduced rate to right now.
One per hour or somethign I think?
6 hours later 15119176 Anonymous (1324555356806.jpg 731x550 79kB)
>>15117772
They are going back to normal after the wipe I assume
I think they're still considering the passive cert growth but honestly I don't see why.
The latest update has lead to such a ridiculous amount of armor spam it's unbelievable, and it was pretty damn bad before the passive cert gain + 10k cert handout - it's even worse since everyone has certed their acquisition timers so reforming an armor column is as easy as spawning at a base with a vehicle pad.
I wish infantry combat was more prominent in PS2, i'm getting sick of running into armor column after armor column and not seeing a single infantrymen except when they're jumping out of their tanks to shoot someone ATing it, ffs even the enclave has their infantry squads setup now with 1 Medic, 1 Engineer, & 4 FUCKING heavy assaults because they know they're going to run into a shit ton of armor and the rockets do dick all unless you're behind their line to get shots off from behind - and flanking is usually pretty out of the question when you're going up against a line of 5+ tanks.
Also, tank + 2 engies is OP as fuck.
6 hours later 15119195 Anonymous (PlanetSide2 2012-09-30 16-18-10-95.png 1920x1080 1757kB)
>>15118952
Meh, I've been in the beta since monday and currently have 282 Scythe kills. I don't know if that's good or not.
But here it is. Though most of the stuff doesn't even have symbols.
I'm running 2x zoom and magazine size on the Saron and nightvision+ammo on the photon pods. Defense is Stealth and performance is air brake of course.
6 hours later 15119352 Anonymous
>>15119195
>photon pods
Is there any real reason to use other weapons than this? All the missile pods seem like direct trade ups from the default weapons.
6 hours later 15119460 Anonymous
>>15119176
>acquisition timers
Where are these.
I require them.
6 hours later 15119552 Anonymous
>>15119352
There really isn't. You can kill infantry pretty fast with the Saron IF you hit, but the photons are so good against groups or killing people in buildings, especially with night vision which, I found out lets you see people through walls if you're far enough away.
6 hours later 15119575 Anonymous
Why does everyone have such a hardon for bullet drop? There's hardly any skill involved in compensating for it and it makes every rifle feel like it's shooting nerf darts.
6 hours later 15119790 Anonymous (pic.jpg 959x538 165kB)
>>15119460
It's under passive systems for whatever vehicle cert menu you have up.
It's "cheap" to upgrade too.
6 hours later 15120005 Anonymous
>>15119176
This update shows us what the game will be like a year or so down the road, when everyone has filled everything out. It's gonna be a mess.
6 hours later 15120121 Anonymous
I love playing when the odds are stacked againts you (NC 50% population), but it's kinda sad to see that your the only person trying to stop the enemy taking over the smaller territories instead of just heading to the big shooty territories because you might actually see a other player
6 hours later 15120126 Anonymous
Hey guys, how hard is it to get a beta key?
6 hours later 15120167 Anonymous
>>15120126
I had to get to top of himalaya
it was very hard man
6 hours later 15120274 Anonymous
>>15120005
This
It happened in PlanetSide when they started merging certs to appeal to the casuals who wanted to One Man Army.
With the limited certs per level, you had to specialise (especially when vehicles were individual certs). As it stands, everyone can do a little of everything, and a short way down the road, everyone can do everything - except that vehicles (especially with all the objectives being pretty much open space) oushine infantry in almost all respects.
I waited all these years for this? Ugh...
6 hours later 15120345 Anonymous
>>15120126
>>15120167
orly? i beg twittor liek e whore
6 hours later 15120347 Anonymous
>>15120121
I don't blame them, it's actually less fun to play the game properly than it is to just hang out at Zurvan or Rashnu or some other big fight all day. Even in an outfit we typically spend 30 mins or so playing whack a mole with empty hexes before we decide to go have some actual fun instead.
6 hours later 15120392 Anonymous
>>15120121
I like the idea of it, but when you realize you're the only person spawning at a base while 4 or 5 guys sit around in vehicles until they're all camping the spawn doors it just get's frustrating, especially when even getting a rocket off in a tanks ass isn't going to do anything because by the time you respawn the guy will have already hopped out, repaired his tank, and got back in.
Have had some good battles with people while solo defending though.
6 hours later 15120456 Anonymous
>>15119790
Herp a goddamn derp, how have I never seen it?
6 hours later 15120558 Anonymous
>>15120392
>but vehicle enter/exit animations are too hard to program!
Part of being a tank driver in PS1 was knowing when you could afford to get out to repair your vehicle.
>>15120456
Probably because it's one of the most boring certs in the entire game.
6 hours later 15120583 Anonymous
>>15119195
>Loadout: The Paintrain
That it is indeed, at least when there's 10 other fuckers with the exact same stuff around.
Seriously why did all the VS suddenly decide they need photon pods and swarm everything with air. There are so many of you airmonkeys that even the AA doesn't help anymore.
6 hours later 15120624 Anonymous
>>15120583
Because no one's infantry anymore and the game is now about whoring kills rather than capturing territory.
6 hours later 15120641 Anonymous
>>15120583
It reminds me of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQE73RRtz8
6 hours later 15121021 Anonymous
>Get lightning from the crown
>Start going down the mountain towards Zuvran West camp
>Try to cut a corner over a cliff
>Gets stuck on its nose, treads not touching the ground
>Try to rev it and do something
>The engine goes from a low drone to a high pitched, insufferable and terrifying whine
>Hop out and try to dislodge it with a rocket
>It seems to work at first
>Once it touches the ground, it literally flies
>Shoots off of the cliff towards the Zuvran amp station
>Hits one of the cliffs far in the distance
>Turns around and starts gaining height as it freaks out in mid air
>Pitches up and flies almost straight up into the skybox and then disappears
AHAHAHAHAHAHA, ONLY THING THAT COULD HAVE MADE IT BETTER IS IF IT HIT AN NC AIRCRAFT DURING ITS FLIGHT.
I tried to replicate it, but no luck.
6 hours later 15121234 Anonymous
>>15120558
I hope they add a loading bar that shows up when you hold E for getting in/out at least.
I really hope they do.
6 hours later 15121480 Anonymous (1324627313447.jpg 351x339 25kB)
>>15120583
>mfw I go MAX with dual air bursters and rape the shit out of like 3-4 scythes
The ones that don't get blown up afterburn the fuck out of there pretty fast.
Only the stupid ones come back
Liberators always seem to be just far enough out of range that they can escape though (smoking mind you).
6 hours later 15121634 Anonymous
>>15121234
I do too.
Don't get me wrong. I love popping out from my tank to unload a missile during a tank battle and go back in without a scratch in under 3 seconds but it's really unbalanced.
When a player who is hardcore about using tanks has several thousand pounds of front/side plating and he's laughing at your pathetic attempts to kill him what then? He's going to jump behind the tank and repair and jump in and out every few seconds if he feels threatened.
A large enough tank column is hard to rebound unless you have pretty good team work / Zerg Overmind. A tank column hypercerted plus Lone Ranger Battalion 41 Ramirez shooting at tanks with a Pistol (knife not included) is going to be painful and tedious. Especially when certed the fuck out on requisition timers and at full resources.
Let the nanosystems or whatever do the repairing, let the player have to actually enter/exit the tank with a delay. If you want to jump out and repair all the damage and rejoin the fight your going to have to sacrifice time. Time that might allow someone to overwhelm your position and punish you for exiting that said tank during a god damn battle.
But I still hope that Galaxies can withstand 60 direct shots from the default lightning cannon with no apparent damage thanks to the Engineer corps.
6 hours later 15121680 Anonymous
>>15121480
Liberators start smoking if you gently caress it.
6 hours later 15121717 Anonymous
>>15121480
I know but people only change to AA MAX when they got killed by air too often, they never come prepared. The way it usually goes is I come in as one of the first Scythes take out a lot of HA, then people switch to MAX but out tanks have already arrived.
This exact same thing is just happening at TI Alloxy right now.
I'm only in the thread because I accidentally pressed E instead of R again.
6 hours later 15121768 Anonymous
>>15121717
*our tanks
7 hours later 15121951 Anonymous
So I still haven't recieved a key.
What are/is a good way to get a fucking key?
7 hours later 15122001 Anonymous
>>15121717
Usually if i'm defending bio labs i go dual air bursters when there's a lot of air traffic, then I switch out to dual cyclers via resupply once the infantry start coming up on the pads, then I just cycle between the two loadouts depending on the situation.
7 hours later 15122146 Anonymous
Does any kind of beginners guides or any other kinds of sources of information exist for this game.
I tried this few times and every time my process is same.
1. Go to a place where there is action.
2. Die repeatedly.
3. Rage quit.
7 hours later 15122164 Anonymous
>>15122001
Then you're more intelligent than 95% of the people I have killed already. Just yesterday I was at Allatum and I was hovering at the pad COVERING our infantry advance (along with a few other guys that all had the same idea), one burster MAX could have shut that down so hard.
7 hours later 15122335 Anonymous
>>15121717
Things to buy for real money day 1:
>MAX Bursters
>Liberator C150, L105, Walker
>Fighter rocket pods
>Best "sidegrade" weapons
7 hours later 15122392 Anonymous (1274736606905.png 3000x2285 386kB)
>playing on Herse
>VS have Dahaka
>All turrets are manned and TR are trying to get the station back
>Snipers abound - everyone is being retarded
>TR basically washing themselves onto the front door and getting slaughtered
>One TR takes the opportunity to actually drive a SAMS through the back personal door and deploy
>Take out their spawn gen
>take out their SAMS in the hanger
>Win
>This took more than 3+ hours to accomplish
What took us so fucking long to actually get our heads out our asses? Seriously.
7 hours later 15122409 Anonymous
>>15122146
Press F11 and go stalk your squadmates
7 hours later 15122510 Anonymous
>>15122146
Nope. Its like the first world war when it started.
Run in like a mindless sheep and at least try to kill SOMETHING.
If you are lucky you get co-ordinated by someone which actually knows what the fuck is going on.
If not, well, you're still stuck in the futuristic first world war.
7 hours later 15122669 Anonymous
>>15122392
Oh I was there, you turds kept flying into our AA like mosquitoes into a light bulb.
It was fun while it lasted. 28 kills, the guys in the other AAs had even more.
7 hours later 15122683 Anonymous (1346713735041.jpg 2288x4682 3098kB)
>>15122146
7 hours later 15122934 Anonymous
>>15122146
Don't fight solo.
Decent combat medic cycler attachments:
Reflex x2
Forward Grip
Hollowpoint ammo if you're doing base invasions/defense/CQB etc.
- Shoot in bursts for mid to long range.
- Move while you shoot in CQB, don't crouch unless you can tell you're taking a lot of damage.
- Get your mouse sensitivity in order too.
Don't expect to have a K:D ratio over 3:1 in infantry combat as it's spotchy as fuck right now (even that's VERY optimistic).
Keep moving as the health system makes direct 1 v 1 battles a crapshoot. Also, the whole screenshakeomgsoreal when you get hit is annoying as shit.
If you're like most people you'll be getting 15fps in big battles, which makes the infantry combat in PS2 infuriatingly bad at the moment, ESPECIALLY in major bases.
7 hours later 15122979 Anonymous
>>15122934
tl:dr
get a vehicle
7 hours later 15124358 Anonymous
FUCKING R1KK1, YOU TR SCUM WITH YOUR OVERPOWERED MISSLE PODS AND SHIT.
7 hours later 15124656 Anonymous
>>15122683
Wow. That's a great guide.
7 hours later 15124872 Anonymous
>>15124358
who?
are you trying to promote your in-game name? seriously now?
7 hours later 15124873 Anonymous
>>15124656
Also slightly out-of-date, but it works.
7 hours later 15125127 Anonymous (get a load of this guy.jpg 740x583 99kB)
>>15124872
>Doesn't know how R1KK1 is
8 hours later 15125758 Anonymous
>>15125127
does anyone? stop trying to promote yourself or your buttbuddy friend.
8 hours later 15126101 Anonymous
>>15125127
Put a trip on so I can filter you.
It's obvious you want to by the way you're attention whoring yourself.
8 hours later 15126320 Anonymous
>>15107468
I've tried the fury, has anyone gotten to use the kobalt?
8 hours later 15126869 Anonymous (youmudrink.jpg 166x146 6kB)
>>15106105
>rack ends up larger every time she respawns
Oh god. Just wobbling all over the battlefield, large as a Magrider with less than a quarter of its mobility.
8 hours later 15127098 Anonymous (Not a single fuck.png 500x406 413kB)
>See some smurf on a flash
>He sees me and starts gunning for me to try to run me over
>Shoot him, he dies, and the flash love taps me for like 3 shield damage
>MFW
8 hours later 15127490 Anonymous
http://www.twitch.tv.nvsammy/b/333952934
So glad I got to be part of this.
8 hours later 15127534 Anonymous
>>15126320
It's basically the engineer turret. Great against infantry, trash against vehicles. I wouldn't bother with it on a Flash, go for the Basilisk or the Fury instead.
8 hours later 15127798 Anonymous
I wish they'd release one continent with only 10 bases on it, like in Planetside. I bet you it ends up being more fun too. And if it doesn't, well they could always shit some more outposts all over it later.
8 hours later 15128226 Anonymous
>>15110927
>vehicle nightvision
>battlezone initiated
9 hours later 15128537 Anonymous (Atari_BattleZone_Screenshot.png 250x188 4kB)
>>15128226
9 hours later 15128970 Anonymous (rockits.png 434x290 71kB)
>>15128226
bleep bloop photon pods
9 hours later 15128973 Anonymous
Does draw distance/friendly ID work properly yet? I'm tired of ripping into a Galaxy on the horizon, only for me to get peppered with DO NOT FIRE ON FRIENDLIES
9 hours later 15129378 Anonymous
>>15128973
no it's still a bit buggy :P
9 hours later 15129747 Anonymous (1340400760383.jpg 353x340 35kB)
>Peris shields bugged
>Tanks can't get out of the base
>www.youtube.com/watch?v=31z4qStKmvg
These fucking guys
9 hours later 15130597 Anonymous
>>15122335
agreed. we need to assemble a list of things to get on day 1
9 hours later 15130773 Anonymous
>>15105746
How is the HA's anti-air rocket? Is it actually effective at all?
9 hours later 15130781 Anonymous
>>15126869
I dunno what got into SOE when they decided to give the Vanu T&A, but I hope they do it again
9 hours later 15131086 Anonymous
>>15125127
I just killed the guy. He's a mediocre mosquito pilot, nothing else.
Also he is easy to bait into AA.
9 hours later 15131293 Anonymous
has anyone used hover control for the fighters?
the fuck does it even do
9 hours later 15131460 Anonymous (wow its fucking nothing.gif 250x250 416kB)
>>15131086
And I killed him again.
Writing this as I'm standing on the landing pad in Dahaka.
9 hours later 15131930 Anonymous
>>15124358
>>15131086
So what are your names, so I can tell r1kk1 to look out for you.
9 hours later 15131981 Anonymous
>>15131930
what are you some sort of guardian angel?
9 hours later 15132030 Anonymous
>>15131930
No, stop promoting yourself.
9 hours later 15132121 Anonymous
>>15131981
I'm squaded with him.
9 hours later 15132214 Anonymous
>Don't play for 3 days
>have 10000 cert points
WAT
9 hours later 15132334 Anonymous
>>15132214
>not reading announcements forum
>2012
9 hours later 15132405 Anonymous
>>15130773
Yes, it's very good as long as they don't have flare certs. As soon as they do they nullify your AA rockets.
10 hours later 15132604 Anonymous
>>15131460
And he got me this time. 2-1, I can live with that.
But now I'm gonna get the hell out of there, looks like you guys are going to get Dahaka soon.
10 hours later 15133027 R1kk1
HAHAHAHA I'm R1kk1 on Herse, what is your names so I know who to kill lol
10 hours later 15133189 Anonymous (1277987981598.jpg 199x200 20kB)
>>15133027
>what is your names
>lol
10 hours later 15133220 Anonymous
>>15133027
>r1kk1
>lol
Who knew TR's ace was such a faggot.
10 hours later 15133228 Anonymous
>>15133027
>implying entire /vg/ plays on herse
who the fuck would play on herse? it's a low pop EU server. all EU play on Thyone
also from your grammar I can tell you're german. lel
10 hours later 15133326 Anonymous
>>15131086
>mediocre mosquito pilots
>now must mention names and trying to promote random people flying mosquitos/scythes/reavers
10 hours later 15133394 Anonymous
>>15133220
Most people, I expect.
10 hours later 15133550 Anonymous
>>15133326
r1kk1 sits as the highest TR (pos 3) on the leader board for EU herse.
10 hours later 15133678 Anonymous
>>15133550
so who gives a shit? a low pop server with one autistic nerd playing a game 24/7 is high on the scoreboard. do we give a shit about everyone in the top 10 now?
10 hours later 15133708 Anonymous
>>15133550
score =/= skill
I killed him twice and I play since monday.
10 hours later 15133792 Anonymous
>>15133678
Well it's not a random person is it, faggot.
10 hours later 15133814 Anonymous
>>15133792
uh... yeah it is
just as random as the guy next to him on the scoreboard
10 hours later 15134230 BobX420
HAHAHA im BobX420 on thyone what is your names so i know who to kill lol
10 hours later 15134420 Anonymous
>>15134230
im [MLG]poopfeast420 1v1 me fgt i poop on u
10 hours later 15134648 Anonymous
>one moron mentions some faggots name on some unknown shitty server
>the faggots retarded friend sees this single post
>"LEL THEYRE HATING ON U ON /vg/" the retarded friend says to his faggot friend
>the faggot also thinks that one post means this entire thread
>thinks he's good and posts this >>15133027
fucking reddit and germans
10 hours later 15134675 Anonymous
>Get into Planetside 2
>Friends all want to be on Terran Republic
>Get to a scene, capture points and shit
>Vanu roll up, 2 hit every single one of us without headshots.
Huh. Back to Bad Company 2 Hardcore for the same experience but without the "ITS A BETA" and the "LOTS OF GOOD THINGS YOU WANT TO UNLOCK LOCKED" thing.
I doubt I can improve since I'm up against those million strong that played the first PS religiously.
10 hours later 15134710 Anonymous
>>15133220
>>15131086
you're both fucking retarded. get the fuck back to reddit
10 hours later 15134791 Anonymous
>>15134675
I never played the original, and from what these threads are like, PS2 barely plays like PS1 anyway, so you're not at much of a disadvantage.
Sounds like you just got unlucky.
10 hours later 15134803 Anonymous
>>15134675
With what? Rocket launcher? Tanks?
Time to Kill is much higher in Planetside 2 than in Hardcore modes.
10 hours later 15134849 Anonymous
ARE THERE SHOTGUNS YET?
10 hours later 15134915 Anonymous
>>15134849
NO
FUCKING HIGBY
10 hours later 15134990 Anonymous
>>15134675
TR complaining about VS weaponry - now I've seen some shit
(Although for some reason since the last reset, VS softpoint rounds are doing silly damage)
10 hours later 15135005 Anonymous
>>15134849
Soon™
10 hours later 15135229 Anonymous
>>15134803
Some spammy assault rifle that I don't fucking know what it is because I'm not the beam-rifle race.
I just know it hit me twice and I was dead from full shields and health. And it kept happening. Shooting enemies doesn't seem to do damage even if I have more hit confirm X's on my screen than a fucking brazzers commercial.
I just don't know.
And the game's shit as long as I shoot a Scythe 3 times with a tank and it's not dead | I shoot someone 2 times with a tank and they're not dead.
>>15134791
Eh. Just have death magnetism. Spawncamped at some Mao tower, some SNIPER shooting at me despite 10 other dudes being higher priority including the 3 MAX-Repair dudes, etc.
Yes I'm a scrub. We're getting that out of the way here. I just..don't see how I can improve. Hell, even flying a Mosquito-
>GET THE FUCK BACK INTO THE BATTLEFIELD, SOLDIER
>"IT'S TOO FUCKING FAST AND TURNS LIKE SHIT"
>Dead.
Or
>50,000 Scythes the moment I leave base.
10 hours later 15135360 Anonymous (1348500034468.jpg 970x854 201kB)
>>15134915
>>15135005
FUCK
10 hours later 15135459 Anonymous
>>15135360
Yeah, Infiltrator is still dicks.
10 hours later 15135537 Anonymous
>>15135229
Either you lag or you are going up against infiltrators spamming their sniper rifle
10 hours later 15135561 Anonymous
>>15135229
Try playing a different server perhaps?
Maybe try one that's more balanced, or alternatively, one thats unbalanced in favour of whichever faction you want practice with.
This weeks a bit crazy anyway because of the crazy cert gain, so itll calm down after the character wipe this coming Friday (ish)
10 hours later 15135712 Anonymous
>>15135561
Better to tell him to find a balanced server, because pop caps are coming in soon.
10 hours later 15135984 Anonymous
>>15135712
"Soon™"
10 hours later 15136008 Anonymous (SO EXCITED.jpg 1066x1600 128kB)
God damn, is there any better feeling in this game then shooting down a fighter jet with a dumbfire rocket launcher?
So fucking satisfying.
10 hours later 15136140 Anonymous
>>15134849
Yes, there is an Infiltrator shotgun available in the game.
It's called the Spectre.
10 hours later 15136198 Anonymous
It's not going to happen in 99 years but it would be very cool if SOE had one experiment "hardcore" server with one simple change; a respawn timer of several hours for players as well as vehicles. The timer could be enabled when logging out too (unless safely in your warpgate), to prevent obvious exploit
The map is persistent and decent sized so you could have some pretty cool frontlines and stalemates forming. Zerg rushing would still work but if you lose 10 people to take one base it's hardly worth it. Sneaking up on and taking out a tank with two HA would actually make a difference on the battlefield.
If there's one thing I've noticed when playing games that try to encourage teamwork more or less successfully it is that how much the player values his in-game life (or inversely how large the penalty of death is) is proportional to how willing and to what extent he will "do teamwork". When players value their in game life they slow down and think, they plan assaults and they work together to reduce the risk of getting killed. If they don't, they won't be on the server for long anyways. Also, battles are THAT much more tense when dying actually means something.
Now most games don't follow this route because 90-99% of players in a game like PS2 don't want to have to think or plan ahead. Much less be punished for mistakes (that's why they keep making them btw). It is still a very appealing thought to me though because I believe it could be set up in PS2 in literally a day.
>nobody would play it because no certs/xp
Well, either you could boost the cert/xp gain on that individual server, or you could just stay with the fact that the people who would play on that server are those genuinely interested in strategy, teamwork and PLAYING THE ACTUAL GAME instead of having instant gratification and unlocks flash across their screens.
10 hours later 15136286 Anonymous
>>15136008
Seeing one flying over you at a cliff, looking up and shooting with your infantry weapon and having it blow up right there.
10 hours later 15136315 Anonymous
>>15136198
This is stupid because everybody would just get in fighters going around rocketspamming each other all day.
10 hours later 15136445 Anonymous
>>15136198
I'd rather they not create micro-environments within the game that each need their own balancing and tuning. If you want hardcore, go play another game.
10 hours later 15136546 Anonymous
>>15136008
>Actually getting kills with the Rocket Launcher
I envy you.
Anything I can hit with that piece of garbage doesn't die.
Including people!
11 hours later 15136589 Anonymous
>>15136315
Well if everybody did that there wouldn't bee any "all day" because everybody would die eventually and only the people who stayed on the ground would remain on the server.
Alternatively the team that places AA lightnings on strategic points can dominate the map.
11 hours later 15136752 Anonymous
>>15136008
Yes there is.
Shooting down any aircraft with a tank feels even better.
11 hours later 15136765 Anonymous
>>15136546
Most pilots are very bad, hence they will slow down and hover 20 meter from what they're trying to shoot. That's where you pop out with your RL and get a kill. Vanilla fighters die from one rocket, libs from 2 maybe 3.
11 hours later 15136816 Anonymous
>>15119195
>513 Certs
>513 Certs
>Cetrts
i just wow man you really had a good time with this game holy shit
Just clap Clan man
11 hours later 15136898 Anonymous
>>15136445
Just as an experiment. Not part of the "official game". I just think they can create something very cool, although unpolished, with very little effort. Doubt I'll ever see it from SOE though
11 hours later 15136916 Anonymous
Uninstalled.
11 hours later 15137345 Anonymous (PlanetSide2 2012-09-30 21-26-37-81.png 1920x1080 1701kB)
>>15136816
You know they upped the Cert gain to something ridiculous for testing purposes, right?
I don't even know what to do with all of them. All I do is fly and I have my Scythe fully pimped out, I don't really need anything else.
11 hours later 15137396 Anonymous
Well... got the heat for the lightning...12.5k auraxium.
I don´t regret it. First of all... the sound it makes its awesome. It kills infantry fairly well and good against vehicles.
Too bad i can´t outmaneuver a fucking magrider. They turn too easily and if i try to go away they just afterburn after my ass.
Vanguards are piece of cake though
11 hours later 15137735 Anonymous
>>15136916
I'll play the new map for a few hours when it comes out. Then i'll join you unless this >>15136198 or any indication of making the game not be a casual shooter. So yeah, then i'll join you
Also the game just seems to get progressively more spammy and retarded the more certs/upgrades people have.
11 hours later 15138348 Anonymous
>>15137735
Yeah, it does, I have no interest, I handed it off to a friend of mine and he can play it if he wants, I just had a battle where the enemy had only air power and we had a fuckton of turrets and we lost.
Hardly anyone used the turrets, everyone running around as heavies, I was the only one repairing the turrets after their scythes just sat in front of them blowing all their ammo into the turrets, and a few of their lights got into the base, deep in, and captured the point with no resistance.
That was my final straw out of many straws.
11 hours later 15138379 Anonymous
After an hour of twitter begging I now have a planetside 2 key.
Should I play PS2 or Borderlands 2 first?
will this kick my tribes sweet-tooth to the curb
11 hours later 15138523 Anonymous
>>15138348
Why do you play alone?
I guarantee you that this game is way more fun with a good platoon or some friends.
11 hours later 15138587 Anonymous
>>15138523
I could never find anyone to play with, no one advertises anything, there's no system I could find to help it happen, I couldn't even get makeshift groups together because no one ever pays attention to anything.
11 hours later 15138603 Anonymous
>>15138379
>should i play a buggy, unoptimized beta or a finished polished product
And T:A is very little like PS2, so I don't know why you even try to compare them.
11 hours later 15138782 Anonymous (1274736730366.jpg 400x300 30kB)
>>15138587
Press F11.
11 hours later 15138791 Anonymous (disappointing.jpg 314x295 25kB)
>>15138603
>Tribes: Ascend
>Finished and Polished
If only...
11 hours later 15138919 Anonymous
>>15138791
I was talking about Borderlands 2.
11 hours later 15138924 Anonymous
>>15138782
The game is uninstalled, when I asked this many times in the game I never got answers, much like I spent 15 minutes trying to find a well hidden base teleporter so I could go up to fix those turrets because no one wanted to tell me.
11 hours later 15139450 Anonymous
Ah, coolies. They fixed joypad support.
Mine works now anyway, still trying to find a good sensitivity setting though. Time to learn how to fly.
(First job : copy the Ace Combat mapping).
11 hours later 15139517 Anonymous
>>15138924
It literally says press F11 to autojoin squad at the bottom of your screen if you're not in a squad. Did you even try looking for yourself?
Do you have eyes? Seriously, that shit is right in your face.
11 hours later 15139606 Anonymous
>>15138523
From what i've seen people in squads or even outfits don't play with any more teamwork than random loners happening to be in the same place. Squads and outfits simply means you bring more people and have the odds on your side. But you're still just running around mindlessly into whatever hex or flag that has another colour than your armour.
Not that I can say I blame them. The game rewards that kind of play the most. Hell if you have enemy infantry in your tech lab you should NOT kill them, just go about "cleaning up" the flags they capture and you'll get 5 times the XP even if you lose the whole facility.
11 hours later 15139631 Anonymous
>>15139450
Why are people under the impression that this game requires anything but m+kb to fly?
The flight physics are so rudimentary they might as well not even be there.
11 hours later 15139717 Anonymous
>>15139517
I did, but it's a rather opaque game with a lot of shit going on and I've never played the original, and abuse me all you like, I'm done.
Back to DaS with me for the interim.
11 hours later 15139868 Anonymous
>>15139631
They are bad and need to blame something
11 hours later 15139873 Anonymous
>>15136198
>Spawn
>Get run over by dumbass team mate
>Oops sorry dude
>He then proceeds to get stuck in a ditch
>Can't take out a new vehicle for hours
>Can't respawn for hours
>Squad leader then proceeds to accidentally 'nade the entire squad due to wonky PS2 'nade physics
>No one can spawn for hours
>Enemy sits around aimlessly waiting for enemy to respawn
Wow how fun Anon, truly you are a genius game designer.
11 hours later 15139984 Anonymous
>>15139717
>I've never played the original
It's barely anything like PS1. There's no prerequisite knowledge or experience needed there.
11 hours later 15140104 Anonymous
>>15139984
Why do people even say that, as if playing PS1 gives you some sort of magical advantage.
It's a fucking FPS, just shoot things.
11 hours later 15140169 Anonymous
>>15139984
Then why are the PS1 vets hyperaggressive know-every-nuance nofunallowed types that obliterate everyone they come across?
11 hours later 15140282 Anonymous
>>15140169
>nofunallowed types
That's offensive go fuck yourself
11 hours later 15140310 Anonymous
Vani are just fucking overpowered, no recoil in a game based on long engage distances.
Are the devs retarded?
11 hours later 15140449 Anonymous
>>15140310
Pew pew pew
1 damage
1 damage
1 damage
11 hours later 15140613 Anonymous
>>15140310
VS are still the least effective at range, TR are the best.
11 hours later 15140639 Anonymous
How the fuck do you get back into the game if you died but the game won't recognize you as such. Can't even fucking respawn.
11 hours later 15140648 Anonymous
>>15140449
Except it's more like
>BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM
>Hit other guy with 2 shots, took him 30 shield
>PEW PEW PEW PEW
>Dead while watching my health draining away trying to run to cover
Hell, since I switched sides I've been doing so much better it isn't even funny.
Will switch again when they'll nerf them though.
11 hours later 15140707 Anonymous
>>15139631
>>15139868
The problem for me was the mappings; I had the basics down, but having to lift the mouse 3 or 4 times to complete a loop, for example, really limits what you can do. Yes, I use a shitty low dpi mouse (Logitech M130), this is the first time I've ever run into issues like this with it though,
Even if the mouse weren't an issue, dogfighting to me just makes more sense with a pad.
Oddly enough, the rudimentary physics is actually a drawback for me; even now I keep expecting the bird to start turning when I bank. too many hours playing old Microprose flight sims; ah, wasted youth.
11 hours later 15140709 Anonymous
>>15139868
Try saying that to anyone who says the only reason they haven't tried flying a plane is because of no joystick/yaw control.
Watch the butthurt fly, so fucking hilarious, keep making excuses scrubs, the planes in PS2 handle like something out of a fucking 00's game or some shit.
>Press space to go up
>Press ctrl to go down
>W to go forward
>S to stop
>Mouse to aim your nose
If you can't figure out how to put these controls all together to pull off crazy maneuvers you are too stupid to breathe.
Like when I see people crash into walls because they can't figure out how to back up.
>Point nose upward at an angle away from wall
>Press space
>BACK UP
Just imagine there's a giant fan underneath your plane, now just fucking point it where you want it to push you.
>>15140169
>hyperaggressive know-every-nuance nofunallowed types that obliterate everyone they come across
What the hell is that even supposed to mean? You're like every other player in this game blaming everything for your short comings.
>Well they killed me so they must be a vet/OP
PS1 is a completely DIFFERENT game than PS2, they are NOTHING alike, hell you're better off being a BATTLEFIELD veteran than a PS1 in this game, because everything in this game handles like it does in Battlefield currently. Half the shit isn't even in the game yet, right now it's just a glorified KoTH gametype, which means it's even less like PS1 than it was to begin with.
11 hours later 15140775 Anonymous
Hey VS if you want to stop all of that prowler and vanguard spam go back to playing engineer and MAX like you used to.
Tank mines are awesome and the Comet is still awesome, set up on the next choke point with tons of tank mines and then everything is dead.
11 hours later 15140809 Anonymous
>>15140639
hit enter
type /suicide into the chat box
report back with results.
11 hours later 15140858 Anonymous
>>15140809
Too late, already relogged.
11 hours later 15140889 Anonymous
I wonder how bad Azure Twilight are doing...
12 hours later 15140967 Anonymous
>>15140648
>Switch sides because you percieve their guns as being "OP"
>4th faction faggot
Big surprise, it's players like you that are the reason the game is so imbalanced at the moment, the moment Vanu get buffed to the point where they can 1v1 NC, all the NC babbies leave and go for VS because "Hey! They're actually killing me now! They must be OP!" and as a result VS is now 40% pop.
And I really don't get why everybody whines so much in these threads about TR guns being under-powered, I've been playing TR exclusively, as the engineer of all things (which everyone says has the worst rifle) and I have no trouble killing things at all, and this is against Vanu.
12 hours later 15141195 Anonymous
>>15140648
>Will switch again when they'll nerf them though.
>admitting you're Fourth Empire scum
Despicable.
12 hours later 15141330 Anonymous
We should get a list going of people who play and what servers/factions.
Playing Planetside 2 alone or with pubs just ain't right.
I'll start this off: http://piratepad.net/axFpX63wLf
12 hours later 15141371 Anonymous
So I just bought the Hailstorm Turbo Laser to complement my Photon Pods.
HOLY FUCK, aircraft just MELT away in front of me. That's a nice sidegrade they have there.
Guess I know what I'll be spending my smedleybucks on.
12 hours later 15141547 Anonymous
>>15140967
I was playing vs until the wipe, switched to TR and I have been doing so much better with their weaponry. I'd say VS weapons are just now up to TR standards.
But then again they seem to not know exactly what benefit VS should have.
12 hours later 15141585 Anonymous
>>15136198
>Implying that there won't be people at spawn just teamkilling everyone
12 hours later 15141725 Anonymous
>>15141547
They refuse to acknowledge that reduced bullet drop isn't nearly as useful nearly as often as the other weapons' traits.
12 hours later 15141836 Anonymous (implying.png 688x534 569kB)
>>15141371
>sidegrades
12 hours later 15141940 Anonymous
>>15141371
Have you tried it on ground targets yet? that'll be the litmus test that determines if it's a sidegrade or a straight upgrade.
12 hours later 15142054 Anonymous
>>15141940
I'll get on that right now, give me a few minutes.
12 hours later 15142093 Anonymous
I haven't played this in weeks. Did they ever add an option to change flight controls to roll on a/d? Also, is there a cost/cooldown on MAXes now?
12 hours later 15143005 Anonymous
>>15140775
>implying anyone would ever get a MAX
what possible reason would I have for MAXes when I can just get a tank?
Tanks can even go inside most bases, due to the open layout.
12 hours later 15143009 Anonymous
>>15142054
Infantry dies just as fast as with the standard cannon. It doesn't do shit to vehicles though.
But it's an alternate primary which means you can have photon pods+turbo laser at once and that is clearly an upgrade to only having the standard cannon.
12 hours later 15143074 Anonymous
>>15142093
changing keybinds has always been an option
12 hours later 15143130 Anonymous
>>15142093
>implying anyone plays ps2 anymore
12 hours later 15143285 Anonymous
>>15143074
the problem with that is that it messes up your keybinds for ground vehicles; you have to rebind every time you switch vehicle type.
12 hours later 15143513 Anonymous (16.jpg 1780x1072 402kB)
>Optimization
12 hours later 15143624 Anonymous
The cert system is fucked. There needs to be a max number of certs one can get, forcing players to specialzie. Else, everyone will eventually become PS1's supersoldiers. Vehicles apart from the Flash and Lightning need an initial cert investment in order to be spawned.
12 hours later 15143742 Anonymous
>Hold space and tilt slightly forward to go faster than max speed
I don't even fly, I just use it as disposable transport sometimes. Yet I see people with fully kitted, both cert- and aurax-wise, figthers who don't know this.
I've also several times been back capping an important base for influence and spawning only to have some pilot come around in his fighter and notice the bar half way full to an enemy faction. What does the average pilot do?
He flies around for 5 seconds in case I'm standing right in the open with a "hellfire plz" sign and then just leaves. Allowing me to keep capping the facility leading to his team getting assfucked. Sometimes I've even been capping a flag so he knows where I am because it's fucking flashing. What do? Hover outside the window and wait for me to stroll into his view because I like being killed instead of staying behind a wall, wait for cap to finish and take the other exit
They truly are the worst
12 hours later 15143747 Anonymous (TROL.png 402x80 37kB)
12 hours later 15143860 Anonymous
>>15143624
They can't remove passive cert gain because people will be rightfully pissed. And as such limiting the cert gain only means I would have to log out and log in on my other character to use different certs.
12 hours later 15144028 Anonymous
>>15143860
I didn't say anything about removing passive cert gain. Just that there needs to be a max cert point cap for every character. And, yes, you'd need multiple characters, because the player has to specialize, in order to avoid everyone eventually becoming PS1's supersoldiers.
12 hours later 15144384 Anonymous
>>15144028
what if you can return your certs, at say a 20% loss?
12 hours later 15144423 Anonymous
Metis NC confirmed for biggest faggots? Metis NC confirmed for biggest faggots.
12 hours later 15144458 Anonymous
>>15144028
Yeah, but it wouldn't matter. If all my points are on one character or just spread over 5. They will still be there.
12 hours later 15144662 Anonymous
>>15144423
>NC confirmed for biggest faggots? NC confirmed for biggest faggots.
Fixed that for you, m8.
12 hours later 15144708 Anonymous (here.jpg 800x439 40kB)
>>15143624
You mean kind of like... getting a set number of certs with each battlerank? Where have I seen this before... where have I... oh! I remember!
12 hours later 15145086 Anonymous
>>15143742
Similar to this.
>see enemy running who haven't noticed me
>get one or two shots on him that hit
>he stops and turns around to spot me meanwhile I land my 2/3'd shot on him. >His shields are now down or close to.
>Logical response: crouch and enter ironsights because "LOL ICUN TAEK HIM"
>I activate my HA shield and now have 3 times more HP than him, he knows this because I'm glowing fucking blue
>we trade shots equally, I hit him twice; he ded, he hits me twice; I'm not even hurt
Every middle range fight ever. Fuck you kids, this isn't CS 1.6 you cant "out skill" somebody here. If he's already crouched and firing at you you can't win by doing the same.
12 hours later 15145098 Anonymous
> Flash is the most used vehicle
> still don't fix the horrible handling
HIGGGGGGGGGGGGGBYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
12 hours later 15145257 Anonymous
>>15145098
Seriously. When I try to navigate off-road I just end up doing lots of spins and going nowhere fast.
12 hours later 15145338 Anonymous
>>15145086
>can't win by doing the same
my spectre rifle says otherwise, HA heathen. At least in the very specific ranges I use it in.
13 hours later 15145669 Anonymous
>>15145257
>release W for 1 second
>press it again and be on your way
Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you guys? the physics are already babby tier mario kart in terms of skill ceiling and learning curve. If they dumb them down any more it will be like a flash game on newgrounds from 98.
13 hours later 15145791 Anonymous
>>15145669
>>15145257
>not using your spinouts tactically to run over 2-4 infantrymen at a time
It is the best feeling
13 hours later 15145794 Anonymous
>>15145669
this.
However, I do await the torque or mountain climbing cert trees. The Sunderer and Lighting are way better at climbing right now.
13 hours later 15145873 Anonymous
Fury Flash > Kobalt Flash once you climb the learning curve
13 hours later 15145889 Anonymous
>>15145338
No you can't. If i see it's an infil I just step gently from side to side or crouch up and down forcing you to take bodyshots. It's worked every single time so far. Not to mention you die fucking fast
13 hours later 15146112 Anonymous
>>15145889
>take bodyshots
Yes, bodyshots. Of which you can deliver three almost instantaneously in certain ranges.
and infils don't die particularly faster than anyone else, even the HA's shield hardly gives them any durability.
13 hours later 15146141 Anonymous
>>15143009
>>15141371
So much for "sidegrades"
13 hours later 15146265 Anonymous
>>15143130
>implying i haven't been in servers with at least 1200 people playing at one time
>closed beta
13 hours later 15146751 Anonymous
>>15144384
>>15144028
Certification should be a "specialization" system. ie. You earn points for CLASS or VEHICLE specific certifications. The more you play a role, the more certifications you have for it, etc. Then, if you want to switch rolls, you slowly TRANSFER the point from one to the other.
Since you wouldn't need to worry about people eventually having certifications in everything complete, you could drastically increase the certification gain without harming the game. Increased certification gain would remove the motivation for passive certification gain- since it would feel less like a grind or a wait and more like a goal.
13 hours later 15146852 Anonymous
>>15146112
Well I've yet to be out gunned by an infil. Maybe I just haven't run into you specifically but I win pretty much every single fight where I fire the first shot. Yet if I go play 1.6 I'll get my ass kicked at any range and advantage if the player is better than me, which most are since I'm not that good at FPSes
13 hours later 15146872 Anonymous
>>15146141
That would make them good against infantry and other air, but very weak against vehicles. Rockets do less damage across time than the default laser does.
13 hours later 15146961 Anonymous
>>15146852
You most likely would gun me down as an infil, unless you happened to attack me at a range in which my weapon worked, at which case it's anyone's game.
13 hours later 15147146 Anonymous
Infiltrators are useless even when they're killing people. You can set up with a 12x scope as a VS infiltrator and get many kills if you're decent.
However since you'll always kill infantry and only infantry, and at a rate slower than the rate at which they respawn, you don't actually help your team.
To be effective in this game, you need to either
>Kill vehicles
>Eliminate spawn points, generators, and other objectives
>Kill the enemy infantry at a really high rate
This is why a LIberator with a 105 or 150 is still insanely effective despite being a giant paper bullseye for flak, and an Infiltrator is useless outside of turret and terminal hacking.
13 hours later 15147256 Anonymous
>>15144458
The point is to eliminate supersoldiers and to limit the number of cert points a character can have.
13 hours later 15147261 Anonymous
>>15147146
>12X scope
>as VS infiltrator
Completely pig disgusting. The way to use the vanu infiltrator is the -minimum- zoom scope, indoors. It's a combat shotgun man.
13 hours later 15147273 Anonymous
>>15147146
And that's why everyone wants a shotgun or an smg for the infiltrator, so you're not completely helpless when hacking anything and trying to help.
13 hours later 15147289 Anonymous
>NC has nearly double the pop of VS, VS being the least populated faction
>NC gets its shit pushed in by VS
How and why does this happen every night?
13 hours later 15147359 Anonymous
>>15147289
Outfits
13 hours later 15147389 Anonymous
is it just me or are fighters off the fucking wall overpowered right now? basically it comes down to who has the most fighters up in the air, even the AA doesn't do shit to em. reavers also engineer turret needs a buff
13 hours later 15147391 Anonymous
>>15147273
Just give me access to the melee certification
13 hours later 15147465 Anonymous
>>15147389
no not really, bursters, phalanx turrets and skyguards are so strong right now, also they have to fear HA AV and HA AA missiles, and the 12 or so basilisk turrets from all the tanks and sunderers
13 hours later 15147587 Anonymous
>>15147465
>AA overpowered
>universally takes multiple AA platforms to take out a single plane before they escape
air is still more overpowered
13 hours later 15147614 Anonymous
They need to implement a population cap or something for this game.
I logged in earlier, saw that NC had about 50% pop on every server I've got characters on, logged into one, saw I was pushed back to Warpgate, and promptly nope'd the fuck out.
This game's going to be a commercial failure, if only because its mechanics don't even functional well in relation to itself, let alone its predecessor.
I know PS1 didn't exactly have pop caps, but you were at least restricted to playing one faction per server. That's something that needs to make a return, at the very least.
13 hours later 15147697 Anonymous
>>15147289
the overmind.
>>15147359
I've not seen a single outfit in action yet.
13 hours later 15147708 Anonymous
>>15147614
They are going to have pop caps, yes. Read the patch notes.
13 hours later 15147730 Anonymous
>>15147587
Then you are doing something wrong. A single AA turret can shut down a serious amount of fighters.
13 hours later 15147748 Anonymous
>>15147587
not overpowered, pretty balanced now.
>see enemy Skyguard while in a plane
>run away
>see enemy Skyguard while on the ground
>destroy it
13 hours later 15147793 Anonymous
>>15147730
>shut down
>take out
not NEARLY the same thing. An intelligent pilot will -always- be able to escape a single burster. Only people you'll be killing with AA is folks you are A. ganging up on or B. who are hovering like idiots.
13 hours later 15147831 Anonymous
>>15147587
A skyguard, dual burster, and phalanx AA turret can kill a fighter that's any closer than 400m within one magazine virtually guaranteed. Flak outright creates no-fly zones. If they were any better instead of there just being mostly ground vehicles and a few air, there would simple by no air.
13 hours later 15147836 Anonymous
>>15147748
>plane runs away
>tank gets destroyed
>same resource cost
completely unbalanced.
13 hours later 15147863 Anonymous
>>15147708
I'm not certain I should drink Smedley's kool-aid or not. Is that coming in this week's patch?
Haven't been logging into PS2 forums. I've learned to stay away from any SOE-related forum by now.
13 hours later 15147865 Anonymous
how is everyone unlocking extra weapons for their vehicles and classes? I can cert my shit out but it takes like tons of auraxium to unlock anything through the store, which is wiped anyways when they patch the game up.....tell me your secrets!!!!
13 hours later 15147893 Anonymous
>>15147831
>mostly ground vehicles, a few air
Complete fabrication.
>no fly zone
Only when there are more people manning the AA than there are pilots. Pilots win on a 1/1 basis against AA.
13 hours later 15147910 Anonymous
>>15147865
Idling for hours on end.
13 hours later 15147935 Anonymous
>>15147865
No secret, most people don't have more than one big item unlocked right now. It helps to fight in auraxium bases while holding additional auraxium bases but on a balanced server with a realistic life you shouldn't have gotten more than one 12500 item.
13 hours later 15147942 Anonymous
Are you suppposed to have health regen as light assault?
13 hours later 15147968 Anonymous
>>15147893
It doesn't do anyone good when you just lie.
13 hours later 15147984 Anonymous
>>15147793
Both equal no fighters in the air which is good.
And a protip: If you want to go for kills don't shoot them when they're far away, wait for them to get close enough. The death zone is ~150m for the AA turret.
13 hours later 15148004 Anonymous
>>15147942
If you specialize as light assault then using restoration kits is almost mandatory.
13 hours later 15148073 Anonymous
>>15147968
A pilot can dodge any amount of individual burster fire, due to there being a lag time between shots. You know, as long as they do anything other than fly in a straight line.
Any deaths you are seeing happen to pilots is generally due to multiple AA platforms forming a crossfire, or hovering.
13 hours later 15148081 Anonymous
>>15148004
No I mean a passive health regen. Because I have one right now.
13 hours later 15148090 Anonymous
I was playing secondary gunner for a guy in my prowler and this airship completely destroyed us without me ever touching him by hovering at a 90 degree angle to our tank. the gun didn't tilt that high and the dude stayed with us the whole time. which was a load of shit.
13 hours later 15148195 Anonymous
>>15147984
>no fighters in the air
Yes there are, you JUST SAID they're still in the air, just "run away". they're off somewhere ELSE, killing more infantrytanks.
and they'll be back in about 30 seconds, since they don't get destroyed, only "deterred"
13 hours later 15148212 Anonymous
>>15147863
Yes I believe so.
I haven't seriously sat down and used a SOE forum in years. I only go there to read patch notes. Smedley has posted that the team is aware of the gameplay problems, that they are playing with us in beta sessions, and they share many of our gripes with the game play.
And then he went on and said "GUYS, ITS JUST A BEEEEEETAAAAAAA". But whatever. I'm skeptical yet optimistic at the same time.
13 hours later 15148218 Anonymous
>Been waiting to get into beta forever.
>No Email
Is it worth $40?
13 hours later 15148223 Anonymous
>>15148090
no that's not a load of shit. what's a load of shit is mass prowlers having no counter other than prowler driver stupidity and general attrition
13 hours later 15148286 Anonymous
>>15148223
>mass prowlers
>no counter
aircraft, massed vanguards, any equivalent force +1 repair/resupply sunderer...
13 hours later 15148324 Anonymous
>>15148073
I have a skyguard. All I have to do is wait, since they can't distinguish me to be any different from all the other tanks nearby. Then once they're moderately close, I open fire and they're dead, by my flak alone, before they can clear the distance.
13 hours later 15148347 Anonymous
>>15148223
>no counter to prowlers
air
13 hours later 15148368 Anonymous
>>15148218
Are you gonna play it on launch? Then thats 4000 smedley bucks you will use to unlock good shit anyway.
13 hours later 15148484 Anonymous
>>15148218
Not by any means, no.
It'd be better if more people were actually playing the game, I guess, but even then, I don't see how much fun could actually be had with the beta build as-is.
13 hours later 15148497 Anonymous
>>15148324
What this guy said.
You have to be terrible at this game if you're not able to effectively use the anti aircraft weapons that you are so graciously given at every opportunity.
13 hours later 15148645 Anonymous
>>15148368
I totally plan to spend mine on Saron HRB and dual photon pods at launch. That laser is so sick.
13 hours later 15148648 Anonymous
OPTIMIZATION PATCH WHEN?
13 hours later 15148658 Anonymous
>>15148497
>>15148324
Whatever you say bros, I'll continue my MASSIVE killstreaks in my jets, since I know flak can be entirely avoided by slight course alterations.
It's not even a big secret.
13 hours later 15148751 Anonymous
>>15148658
leading targets based on the angle of the aircraft is no secret. I'll shoot down aircraft while on the move in a skyguard. What gives? You suck, you have to be one of the only guys who thinks air is remotely dominant right now.
13 hours later 15148769 Anonymous (1345164493506.jpg 498x333 74kB)
>>15148645
>4000
>"and"
13 hours later 15148838 Anonymous
>>15148751
>angle on aircraft changes
>all led shots are now worthless
Not hard, and I'm enjoying the benefits of it.
13 hours later 15148851 Anonymous
>>15148769
then they get more money
13 hours later 15148878 Anonymous
Reposting this further down the thread:
We should get a list going of people who play and what servers/factions.
Playing Planetside 2 alone or with pubs just ain't right.
I'll start this off: http://piratepad.net/axFpX63wLf
13 hours later 15148937 Anonymous
>>15148838
post screenshot of # kills in one hour play with fighter only, otherwise stfu
13 hours later 15148957 Anonymous
>>15148838
>angle on aircraft changes
>adjust aim
>get kill
Either you have been up against retards or you're talking out of your ass.
13 hours later 15149013 Anonymous
>>15148937
>fighter only
After you post an hour of flak only kills.
13 hours later 15149053 Anonymous
>>15148957
>angle changes
>adjust aim
>angle changes again
>aircraft has killed its target and is now going to reload
Either you have been playing against retards, or you're talking out of your ass.
13 hours later 15149069 Anonymous
>>15147865
idling script + warpgate = loadsa auraxium
13 hours later 15149074 Anonymous
>>15149013
you already know the answer, and it won't look great for you- you consider most other pilots are retarded. So either you're doing something special or you're talking out of your ass. Either way, it's time to prove it.
13 hours later 15149098 Anonymous
>>15148751
The fuck are you smoking? Liberators got nerfed again in the last update because air IS dominant.
13 hours later 15149113 Anonymous
>>15148878
You would still be playing with pubs
13 hours later 15149117 Anonymous
>>15149074
>already know the answer
to what, how many kills you get with your flak? Answer is very few, obviously.
13 hours later 15149136 Anonymous
>>15149053
Before I'm going to bed I just wanted to say that you're fucking dumb as hell and should stop posting.
13 hours later 15149179 Anonymous
>>15149098
>liberators
>nerfed
no, they weren't.
13 hours later 15149195 Anonymous
>>15149074
>consider pilots retarded
No, many are able to avoid the flak entirely. which is sort of the balance problem I am pointing out.
13 hours later 15149210 Anonymous
>>15148223
Hey jackass, the Prowler is still the weakest tank in the game. A Magrider will always easily dominate it in a fight.
13 hours later 15149223 Anonymous
I've come to the conclusion that the high damage in this game is more detrimental than I ever imagined possible.
Why do we see no big air battles right now? No big infantry battles? Partly because people and aircraft get raped instantly. It prevents any build up of them happening. Any sort of critical mass of these units like we would so frequently see in PS1. Occasionally when large battles do happen they're incredibly short lived and very easily broken up since everything is so fragile.
The only thing that ever reaches any sort of planetside-tier large cluster is tanks, and even then only since they've been buffed.
At first I thought copying the damage model of games that get by on annualized rehashes was just a bad idea. Now I'm starting to feel like its completely game breaking.
13 hours later 15149249 Anonymous
This entire AA argument is silly. No remotely competent pilot will be shot down by a single AA.
Yes you can scare me away but using terrain and evasive maneuvers will almost guarantee that I survive.
But killing the pilot is not the point, scaring away any air threads makes it infinitely easier for your team to attack or defend.
Like I said, this entire argument is silly. The kills don't matter, what matters is air superiority and for that you don't need to kill. And a pilot that can't approach an enemy push/base has wasted his resources anyway.
13 hours later 15149259 Anonymous
>>15149195
no one fucking thinks this other than you
no one
other pilots
AA gunners
All save their afterburners just for that case where some AA turret blindsides them and they have to gtfo asap so they can survive in the red because flak drops them that fast that easily
13 hours later 15149315 Anonymous
>>15149179
The default liberator belly motar got replaced by the quad anti-vehicle cannons.
13 hours later 15149368 Anonymous
>>15149249
>air threads
hurr duur, meant air threats. Anyway you get the idea.
13 hours later 15149378 Anonymous
>>15149223
>implying it was ever not game breaking
This game was ruined the instant they claimed they "were trying to make their own game, not just an upgraded planetside".
Que being a terrible battlefield ripoff.
13 hours later 15149403 Anonymous
>>15149315
Not to mention the mass liberator spam after the last char wipe is the reason why they gave all MAXes one Burster for free.
13 hours later 15149409 Anonymous
>>15149315
and the 105zephyr is stronger than before, and a certed 150 is terrifying.
They were implementing additional liberator weapons, not nerfing the liberator.
13 hours later 15149475 Anonymous
>>15149259
>agree on pilots all surviving a close brush with their hard counter
Sounds like you -do- agree with me.
13 hours later 15149507 Anonymous
>>15149403
that was because there were ZERO default mobile AA options.
13 hours later 15149537 Anonymous
>Buy a tank from a Biolab that's currently uncontested
>Get shot in the back by heavy assault as I'm auto-driving out
>50% health
>Haul ass out of there to find a safe spot to repair
>Look around and check for enemies
>Open up map real quick
>No enemies spotted in the area
>Get out to repair
>Suddenly a mother fucking Vanguard from nowhere shoots my tank in the back
>It explodes
>30 minutes before I can spawn another tank because of shitty ass resource system
Man it sure is fun grinding catalysts for 30 minutes only to have your tank to get destroyed in 2 hits from random as fuck encounters.
13 hours later 15149571 Anonymous
>>15149378
Don't get me wrong. I've always been EXTREMELY hostile to the idea of a TTK this fast.
But I never thought it could effect the size of battles in this way. Now I feel like the TTK is one of the main contributing factors to not seeing fuckhuge planetside-tier battles.
Honestly even at the crown battles aren't that big. And whenever there is a reasonable sized cluster of infantry coming up the hill its only a matter of time before they all get instantly raped by something.
13 hours later 15149591 Anonymous
>>15149475
no, like >>15148324 said, aircraft usually don't survive
13 hours later 15149642 Anonymous
>>15149591
Okeydokey, monseur backpeddle.
14 hours later 15149805 Anonymous
>>15149642
you can continue imagining things and look like an idiot, it doesn't matter, AA is probably getting another rework due to easily air gets shut out right now
14 hours later 15149889 Anonymous
>>15149571
>>15149571
>>15149571
>>15149571
>>15149571
>>15149571
>Now I feel like the TTK is one of the main contributing factors to not seeing fuckhuge planetside-tier battles.
ALL OF THIS.
We need to start bitching and fucking complaining non stop because this is not fucking PlanetSide right now.
The gameplay itself is PlanetSide. It takes a while to do everything. The combat is Battlefield. You die in seconds - whether your infantry, vehicle, or aircarft, you die in seconds. These two just don't fucking work well together. Showing us with certs won't magically make the game feel less like Battlefield.
There needs to be damage types and mitigations
Infantry need to do less damage to each other
Tanks need more health
Combat Engineering needs to be a thing again
14 hours later 15149914 Anonymous
>>15149805
Actually, the only rework it's getting is fixing the MASSIVE BUGS in anti-air right now.
Did you know that, quite often, the shots explode before they are within damaging range of the planes?
14 hours later 15149995 Anonymous
>>15149571
I think it's just a vehicle/infantry disparity. Vehicles are ultimate importance, but a footzerg respawns for free and zergs you forever. It's already obnoxious to see HA with the durability to get shot from behind, turn around, and return fire before they die, and when that infantry group is with a couple medics it's literally impossible to beat them without creating a larger critical mass, removing all notion of skill and defaulting to a numbers game. That's not fun.
Meanwhile vehicles exist in the opposite kind of scenario.
14 hours later 15150083 Anonymous (Cohort base prep2.jpg 1024x768 154kB)
>>15149889
>CE needs to be a thing again
Yeah it really does. Image related. Also agree with the other stuff.
14 hours later 15150213 Anonymous
>>15149889
>There needs to be damage types and mitigations
>Infantry need to do less damage to each other
>Tanks need more health
>Combat Engineering needs to be a thing again
SO FUCKING MUCH THIS
14 hours later 15150240 Anonymous
>>15149914
I've never seen it first hand.
14 hours later 15150278 Anonymous
>>15149995
If you're letting someone survive that long you're missing a shitload. I've never had this problem. Anyone I ambush loses automatically. They have no opportunity to recover.
The idea that you should be able to ambush a small force and dispatch them alone before they have a chance to do anything is a bad one imo.
I'd honestly prefer damage so that an ambush is important, but it doesn't automatically seal the deal for your victory. The other guy should have a chance to out aim you.
14 hours later 15150315 Anonymous
>>15150240
oh, I've actually exploited it while flying.
It has to do with your hitbox in some fashion I've not yet determined, but at certain angles in relation to AA targets, you're straight up invincible.
Falls apart if multiple AA are shooting you though.
14 hours later 15150384 Anonymous
(( educate )) yourselfs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_0ski53cig
14 hours later 15150409 Anonymous
Bring back high TTK
Bring back inventory
Bring back 3rp person.
There. I said it.
14 hours later 15150513 Anonymous
>>15150409
>two good ideas
>one bad idea
WHY MUST YOU FUCKERS BRING A BAD NAME TO PLANETSIDE VETS LIKE THIS
14 hours later 15150581 Anonymous
>>15150278
No it doesn't happen when you're a medic or HA, due to their weapon and own livability, but its one of the many reasons why LA are so limited right now.
14 hours later 15150593 Anonymous
Is it wrong that I REALLY want to see someone get a hold of the PS1 server software and just set up a private server?
14 hours later 15150650 Anonymous
>>15150593
yes. a private PS2 server will have like 3 people, barring some auraxian miracle.
14 hours later 15150662 Anonymous
>>15150409
As much as I'd like to see inventory again, I just don't see it being possible with the current state of the game. The best thing they could do with what they got is modify the current slot system they have.
Basically, PlanetSide was MW3. PlanetSide 2 is currently MechAssault. PlanetSide 2 needs to be MW4, which it could easily be.
14 hours later 15150729 Anonymous
>48% NC on Metis
Good thing their weapons got buffed eh?
14 hours later 15150806 Anonymous
>>15150662
I thought you were talking about an entirely different game there. I was worried for a second.
14 hours later 15150885 Anonymous
all i want is artillery... cmon smedley, you can do it right this time.
14 hours later 15150893 Anonymous
>>15150513
You didn't like the inventory system?
Did you ever stop and consider the effect that no 3p would have on Boomers? It'd make the high TTK a moot point.
14 hours later 15152497 Anonymous
>nobody wanting to break the 444/44 thread status
SOMEBODY HAD TO DO IT
14 hours later 15152904 Anonymous
Its kinda dumb that aircraft and destroy a MBT in about 5s of holding down m1.
14 hours later 15153252 Anonymous
>>15150893
High TTK wouldn't work with the game as is. I don't see how it'd affect the game positively, unless I somehow believed that AD dancing should be more common in shooters.
SLIGHTLY higher TTK would be fine, however.
14 hours later 15153337 Anonymous (04QkM.png 920x666 536kB)
Did drawbro ever post this?
14 hours later 15153406 Anonymous
>>15153252
I'd say moderate. Enough so the three factions can actually have some uniqueness.
14 hours later 15153470 Anonymous
>>15152904
just like in reality, there you don't even need to hold a button but just press one for one second.
Anyway, its the only thing to stop this shit mass tank spams, I hate nothing more when the shity VS fuckers spam magrider everywhere.
14 hours later 15153548 Anonymous
>>15153470
>just like in reality
This is an MMO.
14 hours later 15153621 Anonymous
>>15153548
IF YOU DIE IN THE GAME YOU DIE FOR REAL
BUT RESPAWN IN THE GAME, AND THEN GET KICKED FOR IDLING
15 hours later 15153840 Anonymous
>>15149537
>30 minutes
Buy the vehicle timer implants. Cert the acquisition timer certs.
But yes, the resource system can be bullshit. It's prohibitive for people who specialize in vehicles and for people who don't. It shouldn't be prohibitive for people who specialize in a vehicle. It's even worse if you play on an empire that is constantly underpopulated.
15 hours later 15153914 Anonymous
I have yet to figure out how to kill a Magrider with a Lightning or Prowler.
Vanguard is easy because most of them are too stupid to turn around when you hit them in the back, but between the boost and the strafing I have no idea. I've even tried circling them to keep their turret off me, but they can spin faster than I can circle and usually just strafe into me, which stops me dead. Even when I sneak up behind them I lose the fight most of the time.
Any protips?
15 hours later 15154064 Anonymous
>>15153914
Prowler is crap and Lightning's strength is its mobility which the Magrider matches. No dice.
15 hours later 15154140 Anonymous
>>15153406
Moderate with the intention of adding to faction-related differences would be cool.
For example, it might allow the NC to focus on more instant gratification, instant damage,(For example, NC shotguns with tighter spread, at the cost of having to reload at a slower speed than commo shotguns) while having weaker DPS than the TR and VS.
15 hours later 15154329 Anonymous
>>15153914
the prowler is shit, especial with its dual barrel, you basically only deal half the damage each shot from all the other tanks, and thanks to the fact that the cross hair is not normalized to the left gun orientation you are guaranteed to miss at least half the time the second shot.
15 hours later 15154748 Anonymous
>>15154329
SOE should fix that by adding a second crosshair to help with adjusting aim, and slightly increase the damage so that two shots will deal slightly more damage than a Vanguard/Magrider shell.
15 hours later 15155409 Anonymous
>>15153470
Umm.. aircraft counter pretty much everything.
15 hours later 15155593 Anonymous
>>15155409
Just leave. You're fucking retarded and everyone in this thread hates you by now.
15 hours later 15155689 Anonymous
>>15155409
They've got counters as well, though.
But, you're simply not supposed to take down aircraft with flak from 500~1000m away. That's not how physics works.
Sure, it's technically doable, but your accuracy's fucked from that distance, and you're going to have a tough time leading. That's how things're supposed to be. If the aircraft gets close, it's thoroughly fucked. Hopefully they won't be that stupid. If they are, free kill.
15 hours later 15155780 Anonymous
>ATVing around
>Hit a small hill near a tree
>ATV goes underground
>Hits a root
>Explodes
>SUICIDE
15 hours later 15155834 Anonymous
>>15155780
Flash is a deathtrap. Its best purpose is giving it the radar attachment and parking it someplace near a fight.
15 hours later 15155863 Anonymous
>>15155780
>any vehicle flips upside down
>instant explosion
TRY NOT TO KILL YOURSELF
15 hours later 15155906 Anonymous
>>15155780
I hate the ATV physic... hit a tiny bump and you go out of control.
15 hours later 15156014 Anonymous (atv.gif 384x216 1179kB)
>>15155780
>>15155834
>>15155863
>>15155906
>mfw
15 hours later 15156103 Anonymous
>>15155863
>land scythe on a rooftop so I can get out and cap the point
>the instant I jetpack to the ground it immediately fucking explodes, despite there being NO ONE AROUND FOR MILES, it landing straight up, and no damage to the HUD icon appearing before the one-hit explosion
WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS
DID I NOT SERVE THE OVERMIND FAITHFULLY ENOUGH
15 hours later 15156432 Anonymous (1332898671463.jpg 389x324 11kB)
>>15156014
that fuckinh gif.. every time
15 hours later 15156558 Anonymous
>>15156432
>finally get your ass to stop spinning
>start driving again, try to turn slightly
>WHOOPS TIME FOR FUCKING FLASHDANCE 2: NANITE BOOGALOO
15 hours later 15156694 Anonymous
>>15156103
>>15156014
>>15155906
>>15155863
>be in magrider, spawned out of the crown
>zurvan A is populated by NC, ally forces attempting to push it
>drive along to cliff overlooking zurvan A
>back off
>MAXIMUM SPEED
>BOOST MODE
>fly right past enemy tanklines
>land on zurvan A spawn
>magmow infantry who come out, shoot tanks in the back, our zerg rushes in and we take zurvan A
I like to think the inspirational flying magrider caused the overmind to push, but I am unsure.
15 hours later 15156757 Anonymous
>>15109682
>waiting in queue for 2 minutes or none if you're a member
THE HORROR
15 hours later 15156820 Anonymous
>>15155593
Nah, aircraft are pretty powerful.
15 hours later 15157137 Anonymous
>>15156820
They're hard-countered by the terrain. Ever seen a Mosquito smash face-first into the hillside?
Nerf the dirt. Obviously, it's fucking overpowered.
You're complaining about things operating as they're supposed to. It's fucking stupid, and so are you.
15 hours later 15157259 Anonymous
>>15157137
>Nerf the dirt. Obviously, it's fucking overpowered.
>falling through ground on spawn.gif
15 hours later 15157308 Anonymous
>>15157137
>implying the ground isn't overpowered as fuck
do you even KNOW the k/d the ground is getting? I mean, from all those folk swallowed into the earth in spawnrooms alone...
16 hours later 15158142 Anonymous (1343064536528.gif 500x472 392kB)
>>15157308
i killed the ground once.
16 hours later 15158313 Anonymous
>>15158142
vanufighterpilots.gif
16 hours later 15158570 Anonymous (PlanetSide2 2012-10-01 02-26-12-16.png 1920x1080 2751kB)
>>15158313
Lo and behold ye holy trinity of the purple dildo.
From left to right: Photon pod, Hailstorm Turbo Laser , Photon pod
16 hours later 15158696 Anonymous
>>15158570
Hailstorm any good?
16 hours later 15158702 Anonymous (TRmakesittotheVSwarpgate.jpg 349x314 14kB)
>>15158570
16 hours later 15158723 Anonymous
>>15158570
Scythes look so silly from the front like that.
Like one of Dr. Wily's flying machines or something.
16 hours later 15158782 Anonymous
>>15158723
It's just the radar.
personally i think it should be bigger
16 hours later 15158785 Anonymous
>>15158723
>implying Dr. Wily is not one of the vanu's primary weapon designers
16 hours later 15158813 Anonymous
>>15157137
So air is suppose to counter everything and all non-pilots should just deal with it? Ok. Sure thing.
16 hours later 15158854 Anonymous
>>15158785
Obviously
Wily is VS, Light is NC and Cossack is TR
16 hours later 15158921 Anonymous (wkSbw.jpg 1000x893 274kB)
>>15158813
>he's never manned an AA gun!
16 hours later 15158924 Anonymous
>>15158696
It melts aircraft but is shit against anything else.
A lib goes down in about 2 1/2 magazines when you hit every shot. Considering you burn through a 30 shot magazine in about 4 seconds, yeah it's pretty good.
>>15158723
You talking shit bout my radar?
16 hours later 15159024 Anonymous
>>15158854
I dunno, MOST of the scientists went over to the vanu side.
this is like, a plot point.
16 hours later 15159039 Anonymous
>>15153914
hull down position, don't move, lots of distance between you and them, then just aim.
16 hours later 15159107 Anonymous
>>15158921
I like this. I like it a lot.
We should really start paying our drawfriends.
16 hours later 15159130 Anonymous
>>15159024
Light is too high to do anything but fuck about in the NC headquarters
"Hehehe, man. What if we like... took a tank, right? And then... we put another tank on top of it? And then another one on that? Fuck, Tom, you're a genius. Write this shit down for later."
16 hours later 15159197 Anonymous
>>15159107
They give us free porn. What the hell can we give them back?
Obviously we're a bunch of filthy jews or we wouldn't be playing a F2P game and refusing to pay for anything.
16 hours later 15159225 Anonymous
>>15159130
Why does this make so much sense?
16 hours later 15159332 Anonymous (vanu-scouts-the-crown.png 640x480 547kB)
>>15158702
16 hours later 15159343 Anonymous
>>15158570
please tell me that the scout radar is not going to stay like that. It looks so freaking ridiculous
16 hours later 15159371 Anonymous (top NC scientist attempts to decode VS dildo technology.jpg 600x450 196kB)
>>15159225
Because we've all been warped by the storytimes of the Ruby-Spears cartoon.
16 hours later 15159425 Anonymous (1348532269363.png 572x500 573kB)
>>15159107
I'm not saying it was the Vanu overmind
but it was the vanu overmind
16 hours later 15159492 Anonymous
>>15159425
>>15158921
Between these two amazing faction pictures, where's our TR one?
16 hours later 15159535 Anonymous (pL3R3.jpg 888x666 98kB)
>>15159492
16 hours later 15159598 Anonymous (2rwm9nt.png 888x860 809kB)
>>15159492
>>15159535
16 hours later 15159679 Anonymous (1346453360134.png 396x522 379kB)
16 hours later 15159692 Anonymous (top NC scientist attempts to decode VS dildo technology.jpg 600x450 227kB)
>>15159371
fixed
16 hours later 15159760 Anonymous (1346453217672.png 800x585 338kB)
16 hours later 15159939 Anonymous
>>15159535
>>15159598
>>15159679
>>15159760
Someone needs to draw a vanu magrider spam rolling over TR... cause thats what happens all the time
16 hours later 15159994 Anonymous
>>15159939
you know what they say
if you can't handle the crab, get out of the Crown
16 hours later 15160014 Anonymous
>>15159939
Direct that at https://twitter.com/razyda
16 hours later 15160101 Anonymous
>https://twitter.com/mhigby/status/251863607619502083
>galaxy spawning nerf
>for now we're upping the time to spawn on Gals
>Eventually we want Gals to be squad only and sundy to be the primary mobile spawn
FUCK YES PLANETSIDE 2 IS SAVED
16 hours later 15160195 Anonymous
>>15160101
>squad only
>get shot down and everyone is asspained
cant wait for the tears
16 hours later 15160254 Anonymous
>>15160101
IF U R IN SRS BSNS SQUAD U GET FREE WIN CAUSE BROKEN GALS ARE ONLY FER U HEheHEEEHEEEHEE
16 hours later 15160352 Anonymous
>>15160101
>squad only
>but let you spawn inside the gal while its in flight
>time for flying fortress
16 hours later 15160525 Anonymous (chuck.jpg 1920x1080 1110kB)
>NC infiltrator being useful
16 hours later 15160642 Anonymous
>>15160525
VS are the only talented infiltrators. It's ironic because VS infiltrators will forever be the most gimped.
16 hours later 15160737 Anonymous
>>15160642
They know their weapon is shit so they don't even try to snipe so they do things that are actually useful.
16 hours later 15160819 Anonymous
>>15160254
did you see not the spawning time is getting nerfed?
16 hours later 15160950 Anonymous
>Sundance is getting torn up by a lib
>can't aim directly up to shoot it
GOD DAMN IT
16 hours later 15161049 Anonymous
>>15160737
sniping is so pointless anyway, you can never snipe people fast enough to make a difference, there's either too few people and you won't have enough targets quickly enough, or too many people and they'll revive each other faster than you can kill them.
16 hours later 15161085 Anonymous
Flash: Kobalt or Basilisk?
16 hours later 15161129 Anonymous
>>15160950
oh no an aircraft is being useful you can't just drive your spawn vehicle around with impunity oh no call the developers
16 hours later 15161162 Anonymous
>>15161049
Which is why I'm always happy over every single TR or NC infiltrator I see because even if they manage to snipe me at least they're not in a tank.
16 hours later 15161208 Anonymous
>>15161085
It's basilisk or fury, I hear
16 hours later 15161245 Anonymous
>try to fly
>tap a tree
>die
wheeeeeee
200 greenies gone
16 hours later 15161609 Anonymous
>currently a max in a sunderer
>driver following tank column to Snake Ravine Lookout
>decides Ti Alloys is better spot to be
>no one there but NC
>die instantly
16 hours later 15161779 Anonymous
>>15161085
I've heard good things about the Basilisk.
I've yet to SEE anything good about the Flash at all (apart from getting from base to base). I think I'm just coming up against retards who park their flash still and let me turn my magrider/jump out of the way and blast them.
16 hours later 15161874 Anonymous
I'm surprised I haven't heard the NC scream for trees/cacti to be nerfed yet.
17 hours later 15162232 Anonymous
>>15161779
Basilisk is good for coming up behind stupid tanks. I somehow managed to get a group of 4 Basilisk ATVs to drive around. We'd scout around for tanks who were stupid enough to be alone and come up behind them and let loose. It tears them up pretty bad. I've managed to take out a Lightning by myself. The guy had no idea where the fuck I was shooting from. He kept looking up in the air thinking it was a fighter or something.
I personally haven't used the Fury, but I have seen it in action. It seems to work best if you can camp out on a hill and camp the spawn rooms.
17 hours later 15162403 Anonymous
>>15161779
A Flash with a scout radar is pretty useful for taking and defending smaller outposts. Less useful for large facilities since there are multiple levels and everything is just a mass of red dots.
Also renders non-sniping infiltrators completely useless. They'll either need to nerf it, or the perma-cloak suit will be mandatory for them.
17 hours later 15162559 Anonymous
>>15162403
Also forgot, since the flash is cheap and has a low timer, you can always have one up.
17 hours later 15162737 Anonymous
>>15162403
Ah yes, sorry. It's useful for getting to and from bases, and for scouting.
That radar has been so fucking useful.
17 hours later 15162739 Third Doctor (PlanetSide2 2012-09-30 21-29-19-54.jpg 1440x900 117kB)
What a lovely sight.
17 hours later 15162990 Anonymous
>>15162739
>Tank column
>All Prowlers
HAHAHA, have fun getting raped.
17 hours later 15163067 Anonymous
>>15162403
this
the flash and scout radar is awesome
>fucking filthy infiltrator trying to be sneaky on the outskirts of a base
>flash radar gives his exact location
>circle around and kill him from behind
>he never knew what hit him
17 hours later 15163216 Anonymous
I haven't played in 2 weeks, is the game still shit?
17 hours later 15163343 Anonymous
>>15163216
It's better since they made the tsunderer the main spawn vehicle. Had a great week with it, then they gave everyone 10k certs and people brought the Galaxy back. I hear they're nerfing (or have nerfed) it though. Put it this way, with the tsunderer people are ACTUALLY fighting in smaller bases. (not loads but more than the 1v1 or 2v1 you would have gotten before)
17 hours later 15163378 Anonymous
someone give me a stream of a good pilot
17 hours later 15163498 Third Doctor (PlanetSide2 2012-09-30 21-29-33-22.jpg 1440x900 83kB)
>>15162990
So far so good. 12 Mossies with A2G is keeping air and ground clear for the tank column.
17 hours later 15163565 Anonymous
>>15163498
>so far so good
>In Camp Connery
Seriously, I'd be more scared of a column of flashes or Lightenings.
17 hours later 15163590 Anonymous (1327399850059.jpg 500x380 52kB)
>>15162739
>not a vanu tank clusterfuck
17 hours later 15163684 Anonymous
>>15162739
As a Swagrider driver, prowlers really need a buff. I can't remember the last time one managed to kill me. I feel bad every time I run into one.
17 hours later 15163793 Anonymous
>>15163684
We had some NC complaining at us yesterday for supposedly magzerging crossroads with a WHOLE 10 MAGRIDERS.
They decided that because of this HUGE amount of magriders their tactic of camping the spawn room with 15 turrets was not a huge pussy manuever.
17 hours later 15163971 Anonymous
They're never going to permanently remove Galaxy spawning, are they?
17 hours later 15164115 Anonymous
>>15163971
I don't think they ever will sadly.
A few months down the road and all you'll see is 5+ Galaxy's raining down on somewhere, taking a base and moving on.
Instead of the epic battles of racing tsunderers through battles, requiring infantry and tanks to make the initial push before deploying and fighting your way into the base.
Tsunderers require fighting TO the base and then fighting to GET inside the base and then fighting inside it.
The Galaxy means that the first two (the better two in my opinion) or completely wiped and only the last phase of fighting happens.
17 hours later 15164194 Anonymous
>>15163971
Higsby has been saying that he wants to change it so that squad members can spawn inside a galaxy in the air for hot drops.
17 hours later 15164353 Anonymous
>>15164194
That is better. No deploying, just hot drops. I'm ok with hot drops.
That would mean the Gal would require to be flying constantly (they'd have to implement something to check whether it's landed or not) and so give time for people to man AA.
17 hours later 15164474 Anonymous (2012-09-30_00001.jpg 1920x1080 536kB)
Shit TR what are you doing?
17 hours later 15164552 Anonymous (Pinky-And-The-Brain-Wallpapers.jpg 1600x1200 112kB)
>>15164474
The same thing we do every night.
Get warped gated and hold onto The Crown.
17 hours later 15164568 Anonymous
>>15164474
they have the crown that all it matters.
17 hours later 15164712 Anonymous (Not Logical.jpg 688x547 81kB)
>>15164474
>Getting Gated and holding the crown
They never learn.
17 hours later 15164805 Anonymous
>>15164474
Some VS psyops told them they can get new hats if they hold the crown.
17 hours later 15164809 Anonymous (123862260278.jpg 460x315 16kB)
>>15164552
17 hours later 15164880 Anonymous (1346888909415.gif 300x168 637kB)
>>15164474
and not a single fuck was given
17 hours later 15165175 Anonymous
>>15164474
dude they got the crown, nothing else matters.
17 hours later 15165296 Anonymous
>>15165175
It's called The Crown for a reason, whichever faction holds it is King.
17 hours later 15165328 Anonymous
>>15165175
Why is my server the only server in which TR aren't chickenshit 12 year olds? I play with my friend on TR all the time on Himalia and the only time I can remember when we weren't dominating was this bullshit Vanu armored convoy.
17 hours later 15165552 Anonymous
>>15165328
Because Himalia has the best organization for all factions (due to there being a lot of non-shit tier outfits on it), but TR tends to have the best organization because the various outfits and platoons actually communicate with each other.
The other day, I know there were at least two outfits working together, with 3 squad platoons each, one working the VS front, the other working the NC front.
17 hours later 15165682 Anonymous
>>15165296
>Whoever holds The Crown is King
That's what we tell the TR anyway.
18 hours later 15165894 Anonymous
>>15158813
Or man up and get a skyguard.
Jets in real-life fuck shit up unless a SAM or something is present. Other jets fuck jets up. Otherwise, they're mostly impervious because of altitude and speed.
It's like you've never played a milsim or something in your fucking life.
You can kill fighters, pretty easily. An AA turret or Skyguard will make mincemeat of them if they haven't been smart enough to save up their afterburner. You're not ever going to be able to have a be-all end-all counter to them, though - that's simply not how combat works.
18 hours later 15165969 Anonymous
>>15105746
My main complaint is that all the fucking forms of AA are so insanely fucking expensive. To the best of my knowledge, the cheapest form of AA is the burster, which is 8000, and even then, it's kinda fucking useless unless you have two of them.
18 hours later 15166000 Anonymous
>>15165894
People are too used to playing games where infantry are the main thing and aircraft are stuck in a tiny map with them or playing an RTS where anything and everything (down to slingers) can shoot planes.
18 hours later 15166043 Third Doctor (PlanetSide2 2012-09-30 22-25-28-71.jpg 1440x900 210kB)
>>15163565
Still rolling strong, except faggot NC had to crash the party at Allutum with their armor column, we sent them running with their tails between their legs, back to the Crown.
18 hours later 15166134 Anonymous
>>15165969
This is a valid complaint, but it can be applied to most everything - to get any weapons, you've got to have a shit-ton of auraxium. You gain auraxium at a snail's pace. You might as well never be getting the object of your desire.
ALL I WANT IS A2A PODS. I BEG OF YOU, SMEDLEY
18 hours later 15166165 Anonymous
>>15165969
They made the burster default for one arm of the MAX. Even one is enough to discourage aircraft.
18 hours later 15166186 Anonymous
So how do I choose between different types of chatting? (Yell, Talk, Etc...)
Also, can I read things from other factions? Someone was telling all Vanu to go back to somewhere else and I'm not sure if he was serious or an enemy trying to get us to leave.
18 hours later 15166234 Anonymous
>>15166165
Really? Cause when I tried to spawn a MAX I didn't have one, and went I went to look in the MAX inventory to equip it, I didn't have it either.
I know they said they were going to do it, but I don't think they actually did.
18 hours later 15166267 Anonymous
>>15166186
/[channel] [message]
Yell can be read by all factions.
18 hours later 15166285 Anonymous
>>15166234
I've got a burster on my MAX unit.. and I've never had over 4k auraxium.
Something's up if it's not showing up for you.
18 hours later 15166328 Anonymous (1347462409514.png 214x275 102kB)
>>15166134
well you always can pay
18 hours later 15166425 Anonymous
>>15166234
You aren't looking hard enough.
Look again.
18 hours later 15166441 Anonymous
>>15166328
Waiting to see if the game stops sucking before I cough up any dosh. Been in the beta about a month (admittedly haven't been playing much because servers're normally ghost towns when I've got time), but it hasn't improved much during that time.
Maybe they'll pull something out of the hat during open beta.
18 hours later 15166446 Third Doctor (PlanetSide2 2012-09-30 22-32-26-78.jpg 1440x900 117kB)
We meet again VS warpgate
18 hours later 15166497 Anonymous
>>15166134
The problem is, as an infantry grunt, you can't even chase away planes, let alone shoot them down without some sort of unlock.
Maybe as a HA if they're really retarded and don't even hover right, but a pilot with half a brain can fucking hover and still dodge rockets while he shoves A2G missiles up your ass.
I'm not asking to be able to kill planes as an infantry grunt, but it'd be nice to be able to at least put up enough of a threat that they can't right 'em off entirely and have to keep moving while they fucking bomb us to hell.
18 hours later 15166527 Anonymous
>>15166446
>Ezio Auditore
Seen him before, good at rallying troops.
When he's gone we'll see you at the TR warpgate again.
18 hours later 15166594 Anonymous
>>15166497
MAX burster. Get it. Stop whining.
18 hours later 15166626 Anonymous
>>15165894
Let me just pull 10k out of my ass to buy that weapon.
18 hours later 15166658 Anonymous
>>15166497
>have composite armor
>giggle as 3 max units attacking me at the same time don't even do anything
18 hours later 15166726 Anonymous (DisNiggaRightHere.jpg 395x450 72kB)
> always one map hex group that's always disconnected
> every day, no matter what
> THE CROWN
devs should make that fucker give 1 auraxium considering how fucking often it's fought over and desperately held on to by FUCKING EVERYONE.
18 hours later 15166734 Anonymous
>>15166626
So, you're asking for instant gratification. Makes sense.
>>15166497
>>15166594
what he said.
18 hours later 15166801 Anonymous
>>15166594
Yeah, let me just give up the ability to cap, my mobility as infantry, and half my firepower so that I can tickle a plane enough that they actually have to strafe me rather than just sit in one place and laugh.
Like I said, I'm not even asking for the ability to kill them consistently, just the ability to force them to actually use some of those fancy flying skills.
18 hours later 15166817 Anonymous
>>15166446
> hey guys check out my zerg
> wowitsfuckingnothing.jpg
18 hours later 15166861 Anonymous
>>15166734
>instant gratification
Nigger what? What the fuck does being able to counter something that is powerful without having to grind away for a while month have to do with gratification?
18 hours later 15166878 Anonymous
>>15166734
Nah, just asking for reasonable balance.
18 hours later 15166934 Anonymous
>>15166801
I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING AT ONCE WAAAAAA SOE I CAN'T DO IT ALL AT ONCE. WAA WAAAAAAAA WAA
18 hours later 15166960 Anonymous
>>15166934
Then you should be a pilot.
18 hours later 15166965 Anonymous
>>15166801
>Pilots
>fancy flying skills.
They scream for nerfs before they even think of getting better.
18 hours later 15166997 Anonymous
>>15166726
No, it giving auraxium would mean it actually meant something.
Leave it being meaningless. So we can all laugh at those that fight over it.
18 hours later 15167009 Anonymous
>>15166801
ok, then go HA and use your machine gun. sure, they might have small arms armor but you'll piss them off enough to make them go away
18 hours later 15167067 Anonymous
>>15166861
That was a cheap shot, admittedly. The rate of auraxium acquisition could use some tweaking.
Even ranking up/getting certs in PS1 didn't take this fucking long.
>>15166801
>fancy flying skills
Trust me, most pilots have nothing of the sort. 75% of dogfights end with the loser hitting the ground.
And yeah, you should have to make a tradeoff if you want to counter aircraft effectively - it's called balance. Once the aircraft's down, you can always go resupply back into a proper footman.
18 hours later 15167087 Anonymous
>>15167009
Or they just kill you and go about their business.
18 hours later 15167123 Anonymous
>>15166934
>Be a pilot
>Do everything at once
This is fine and balanced.
>Want to counter air
>Don't want to be powerless to do anything else
NO
18 hours later 15167134 Anonymous
>>15166997
> leave it being meaningless
> crown gives 8 catalysts
> catalysts are used for main battle tanks
if the devs wanted THE CROWN to be meaningless, they'd make it give alloys.
18 hours later 15167141 Anonymous
>>15167009
If it did even small amounts of damage, sure, that'd be viable, that way a group of 20 infantry might be able to chase away a single A2G plane before he kills them all.
As is, a plane can just hover over that group, and unless they happen to have someone who gave up all ability to do anything but fight aircraft, all 20 people are fucked and the pilot is getting away scott free.
18 hours later 15167198 Anonymous
>>15167087
are you shooting these guys in an open field? use your shield and cover man. sure a2a rockets are hard to beat but that's why you go MAX with the 1 burster. it only costs 200 catalysts and honestly you won't even know you've lost the resources. unless you're a tank whore, in which case stop rolling around by yourself
18 hours later 15167202 Anonymous
>>15167141
Small arms fire damages fighters.
18 hours later 15167237 Anonymous
>>15167134
>gives 8 catalysts
>is never connected to warpgate of empire controlling it
Remind me how holding it is useful.
18 hours later 15167247 Anonymous
>>15167134
no one cares about the resources at that point. people go there for planetfield 3 battles
18 hours later 15167278 Anonymous
>>15167067
It's not about countering them, it's about stopping a planes ability to do the shitty hover spam.
A plane SHOULD be able to do a bit of damage and get away scott free.
A plane should NOT be able to quite literally sit in one place and take out an entire platoon because none of them happened to have saved up the ridiculous amount of auraxium needed for any form of AA.
18 hours later 15167297 Anonymous
>>15167237
i forgot about that.
18 hours later 15167301 Anonymous
>>15167141
I've managed to destroy/fight off enemy fighters with the HA gun.
Admittedly mostly TR in mossies.
TR pilots suck on average.
18 hours later 15167309 Anonymous
>>15167198
I'd like to see some sort of resource recycling, where if you can bring your vehicle/MAX back to a depot you get refunded a portion of the initial cost.
18 hours later 15167332 Anonymous
>>15167198
> it only cost 200 catalysts
18 hours later 15167449 Anonymous
>>15167332
>implying you can't get that easily
18 hours later 15167590 Anonymous
>>15166446
>TR hoo-rahing on their victory against 17% VS population
you're an idiot
18 hours later 15167671 Anonymous
>>15167278
>>15167278
This is where something called teamwork (see: the point of the game) comes into play.
Know what makes short work of a hovering aircraft? A fighter zooming toward it with guns blazing. Seriously, any time you're attacking something, it's a good idea to have air support. The game's mechanics seem to be working alright, it appears as if operator error's coming into play.
How often do you actually try piloting? I can assure you that once you're hovering, you're basically a sitting duck to any air counters.
If your platoon is composed of nothing but infantry, you're definitely doing something wrong. That you get assblasted by a hovering aircraft is your own fault for not anticipating the threat and bringing a flyboy or two of your own.
18 hours later 15167676 Anonymous
>>15167449
Its clear you're a pilot and only know about polymers.
18 hours later 15167745 Anonymous
>>15167671
> can airwhore and kill everything without using teamwork
> "GUYS U JUST HAV 2 USE TEEMWURK 2 COUNTURRRRRRRRRRR"
18 hours later 15167816 Anonymous
>>15167676
I'm actually a tanker.
18 hours later 15167831 Anonymous
>>15167309
want i want to see is resources being used for more things like weapon attachments and non-standard weapons, AND MULTIPLE RESOURCES BEING NEEDED TO BUY SHIT.
so you have a scope, rail, barrel, and ammo mod on your gun. run out of resources, and you can't use them until you get more resources. most importantly, these costs could also be applied to non-standard auraxium weapons, so 200 catalysts doesn't just let you roll out a free skyguard turret every time, it might also cost you alloy and catalyst.
maybe also a weapon rental implant where you spend all of the normal resources instead of auraxium to test out a turret or weapon for X hours, to know if you're going to waste it on a shitty useless gun.
18 hours later 15167867 Anonymous
>>15167745
The whole point of the game is team-based FPS. How would you expect to take out an armored aircraft like that WITHOUT AA or air support?
Why would you even push on a target WITHOUT air support?
18 hours later 15167876 Crix
>>15167449
sure, if you never use anything else that uses catalysts
18 hours later 15167880 Anonymous
>>15167671
> 'you should only be able to counter air with other air'
wat.
18 hours later 15167894 Anonymous
>>15167671
>Hey guys, I know, let's have a facet of gameplay that's only countered by itself and counters everything else, that seems balanced.
>No, no, that'll never do. We should let it be countered by other things to.
>Well, ok, but only if the gimp their ability to damage anything BUT air.
>Sounds fine to me, air will counter everything, and nothing else will counter air unless they want to be fucking useless.
18 hours later 15167982 Anonymous
>>15167894
So what, you think it's totally reasonable to plink an airplane with your peashooter instead of having to use AA or air cover?
LOL
18 hours later 15168003 Anonymous
>>15167831
Smedley has said that there will be plenty of things added in through the course of the games life. I've heard interesting things about resources.
18 hours later 15168057 Anonymous
>>15167982
Small arms fire should be able to damage aircraft.
I say that and I'm arguing against there points.
18 hours later 15168068 Anonymous
>>15167894
> "also, make all its counters expensive as fuck so that players will throw $$ at us"
18 hours later 15168070 Anonymous
>>15167982
No, I think it's totally reasonable for 25 guys hitting a plane with their peashooters to be able to do enough damage to make it run off.
Notice how I'm not even saying that they should be able to kill it. Just present enough threat that the air boys need some support if they want to do anything more than a strafing run.
18 hours later 15168162 Anonymous
>>15167982
So what, you think its totally reasonable to kill absolutely everything with no counter? LOL
I can do this too.
18 hours later 15168168 Anonymous
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18 hours later 15168213 Anonymous
>>15168070
How is that reasonable?
Armored vehicles are generally armored against small-arms fire.
You need very large-caliber guns with armor piercing rounds to do any damage to shit like that.
You know, like AA guns.
>>15168162
>no counter
>what are AA guns and air support?
It's not unreasonable to lose a battle in which your opponent has air support and you don't.
18 hours later 15168236 Anonymous
>>15167880
>>15167894
If you stupid motherfuckers would've read the reply chain, it was necessitated that I leave out anti-air weapons (as the babbies claim they're impossible to acquire).
Basically, what you guys want is for infantry to be able to down an aerial target (which they can, with unlocks).
Personally, I'm not a fan of hoverspamming myself, but I recognize that it can be countered.
What do you dense fucks think happens when a Apache spots a group of enemy infantry? Bloody fucking carnage unless one of them's been bright enough to bring a rocket launcher, as it should be.
Welcome to warfare, you casual fucks.
18 hours later 15168268 Anonymous
>>15167867
>Air is fine, you just need to counter with more air
So why can enemy air cause so much trouble without ground support?
18 hours later 15168331 Anonymous
>>15168213
So you admit air should counter everything and win the battle. Glad you at least admit it.
18 hours later 15168339 Anonymous
>>15168268
Because it's motherfucking AIR.
What do you think happens when you have a group of infantry with nothing but small arms and no air support and put them against freaking airplanes and gunships?
Hint: they get wrecked.
Bring AA or air support. That's how it fucking works.
18 hours later 15168409 Anonymous
>>15168236
> using real life when talking about video games
How about we get rid of respawning?
18 hours later 15168459 Anonymous
>>15168331
You are one dense motherfucker.
18 hours later 15168461 Anonymous
>>15168409
Let's, so you can complain about that as well.
18 hours later 15168487 Anonymous
>>15168339
Do you think real aircraft hover 10 meters away and spam rockets in real life? Are you really this stupid?
18 hours later 15168614 Anonymous
>>15168339
So ground forces just need to step up their game? Is that what you're saying?
Then why does AA always get nerfed instead of pilots improving their tactics?
18 hours later 15168629 Anonymous
>>15168487
>Enemy Mosquito hovering 30feet above my head
>Run behind it
>impervious to all damage
Gee, that was fucking hard. Seriously, any pilot that's down that low is really opening himself up to attack.
18 hours later 15168663 Anonymous
>>15168236
>>15168236
Guess what, this is a game, not actual combat. The purpose of it is to be fun.
And once again, you stupid fuck not, I'm not arguing that infantry should be able to easily take down planes. I'm arguing that infantry should be able to take down planes with sustained fire, forcing the planes to actually USE ITS FUCKING MOVEMENT.
A plane should be able to bomb a group of infantry and get away due to it's superior movement skills. It should not be able to sit in one place indefinitely.
Additionally, if a fucking plane sat 10 meters above the people they're fucking bombing and didn't move, even WITH armor, they'd be fucked, because the infantry could fuck up their propulsion systems something fierce.
So hey, I have an idea, how about we implement a system so planes randomly pull a bullet into their turbo jets, fucking the whole thing up and you go from full to dead with a single shot. That's realistic.
18 hours later 15168681 Anonymous
>>15168614
Most pilots are bad. That's why they're trying to rack up kills on INFANTRY in the first place.
18 hours later 15168768 Anonymous
>>15168681
So there should be no hazing process? No difficulty curve? Nothing at all to encourage them to get better?
18 hours later 15168770 Anonymous
>>15168663
Give infantry armor-piercing rounds as a certed unlock?
Is that something we can all get behind?
18 hours later 15168805 Anonymous
>>15168768
Hey, I never defended the AA nerfs.
18 hours later 15168814 Anonymous
>>15168770
NO
TOO HARD TO GET
MAKE AIR ARMOR AS THIN AS PAPER SO YOU CAN JUST THROW STICKS AT IT
18 hours later 15168821 Anonymous (ffhead.png 231x319 105kB)
HOW HAS NO ONE EVER THOUGHT OF MAX PAYNE draw it now. It must be done.
18 hours later 15168854 Anonymous
>>15168814
Now you're onto something.
18 hours later 15168972 Anonymous
>>15168770
That would be fine! As an infantry grunt, I'd love that. Just so that we can force planes to make actually bombing runs against us rather than sustained bombing fire. That should be the libs role, not a fighting light fighters.
18 hours later 15168994 Anonymous (Touching Myself Inappropiately.jpg 376x355 36kB)
My only complaints so far is that I've never been able to kill an enemy vehicle once unless it was a flash. I don't know what's wrong with me but besides Heavy Assault being a useless class I can't even break an APC open with the Lightning. It's fucking frustrating.
Also, do I get rockets for the Mosquito at any point? I see a bunch of weapons that I thought I spent unlock points on when I go to my Mosquito certs but I when I go to my loadout screen my only secondary weapon is more afterburner and I can only modify my shitty "does fucking nothing" default gattling gun.
Also, when will joystick support be added with default configurations?
18 hours later 15169065 Anonymous
>>15168994
Go to the shop in the escape menu.
Observe ridiculous Auraxium costs.
Slit your wrists like everyone else does when confronted with the same sight.
18 hours later 15169105 Anonymous
>>15168994
You buy weapons with auraxium, not certs.
The default Lightning weapon sucks.
19 hours later 15169380 Anonymous (how to get planetside 2 beta.jpg 2376x3664 1622kB)
I had a lot of fun doing this.
19 hours later 15169523 Anonymous
>>15169065
Fuck. They better make it reasonable to buy it with real money. I'm real scared that this game will go the way of MWO and force you to pratically subscribe to the game, but since its Pay2Win BRs and children will still play. I just want to buy weapons without having to spend my college savings or play for more than 12 hours a day.
19 hours later 15169556 Anonymous
>>15169523
Also, the patch notes are the best things ever:
http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/game-update-notes-09-28-2012.25112/
Thank you, based SOE.
19 hours later 15169823 Anonymous
>>15169380
Creating that must have physically hurt you.
19 hours later 15169975 Powell
>>15169823
Not really, he's very dumb and has no dignity.
19 hours later 15169976 Anonymous
>>15169380
that was physically painful to read.
11/10.
19 hours later 15170354 Anonymous
>>15169976
>>15169975
>>15169823
I think they're really good haha mayaka is so cool! Mayakaside 2!
19 hours later 15170503 Anonymous
>>15169975
mayaka is incredible rule the world some day then what u do no where 2 run nowhere 2 hide
19 hours later 15171102 Anonymous
>>15170503
Vomit directly into his asshole, allowing my bile and vitriol to dissolve his organs, and then I will suck the entire form of that person back into myself, through their asshole.
19 hours later 15171109 Anonymous (1348867264912.png 500x642 341kB)
Whats the fastest way to get a key?
19 hours later 15171146 Anonymous
>>15171109
see >>15169380
19 hours later 15171184 Anonymous
>>15171109
suck dick on twitter
19 hours later 15171323 Anonymous
>>15171109
The fastest way? Alpha Squad.
The best way, make something amusing or cool and show it off on twitter to one of the devs. They'll hook you up.
19 hours later 15172168 Anonymous
>>15168814
> buttmad pilot detected
20 hours later 15172494 Anonymous
anyone know what the medals do? i just got a bronze sundy spawn medal and a gold bolt driver medal.
20 hours later 15172650 Anonymous
>>15172494
> bolt driver medal
Kill yourself.
20 hours later 15172698 Anonymous (swag.png 596x293 25kB)
>>15171109
I'm back after 15 minutes of whoring.
20 hours later 15172817 Anonymous
>>15172650
>hating on the only sniper that people actually use as a sniper
shotgun more with a precision instrument, scrub.
20 hours later 15172946 Anonymous
>>15172817
What the fuck game have you been playing? I NEVER see the VS use it as an actual sniper rifle except when fighting over West Highland Checkpoint
20 hours later 15172959 Anonymous
>>15172817
Sniping is 100% useless in this game and therefore you are useless.
20 hours later 15173161 Anonymous
>>15172946
that's what i was saying, you're agreeing with me.
>>15172959
are you one of the heavy assaults trying to rocketwhore vehicles? did you switch to countersniper or come looking for me after being shot in the face too much? did i kill you even then?
otherwise i don't understand your hate
20 hours later 15173332 Anonymous
>>15173161
Yeah, had a brain fart, realized Bolt Driver was NC not VS about 3 seconds after I posted.
20 hours later 15173439 Anonymous
>>15173161
I can count the number if times I've been killed by the bolt driver on one hand. There's always a shit ton of you firing but you can't hit anything unless its standing still. You're basically the reason NC manages to lose battles while having a huge population advantage.
20 hours later 15173542 Anonymous
ok so, every team gets 1 kill headshots with snipers except VS? thats fucking shitty as hell, no, dont do that
also, tanks shouldnt be able to be fucking repaired fast enough so that someone just launching missles over and over cant kill it
this is simple shit SoE
20 hours later 15173584 Anonymous
>>15173439
>what is true about a handful on a certain server is true about a faction in total
ok mate, whatever you say
>>15173542
agreed on both counts.
20 hours later 15173654 Anonymous
Play infantry, get headshotted with a 1 second survival time
Play in a vehicle, run into 3 heavy assaults who rocket rape you
Play in a aircraft, run into a single Burster MAX any place any time
Everything is made out of paper, and everything shoots scissors. The only rocks are the terrain.
The only winning move is to not play
20 hours later 15173673 Anonymous
>>15173542
>ok so, every team gets 1 kill headshots with snipers except VS? thats fucking shitty as hell
And yet the VS have the only sniper rifle worth using because it can actually kill people due to the fact that it's basically a shotgun.
Funny how that works.
20 hours later 15173726 Anonymous
>>15173584
I highly doubt you're the exception to the rule. Feel free to post screenshots of some stats and prove otherwise.
20 hours later 15173728 Anonymous
>>15173673
So I'm not the only one stealthing in and bursting people with the sniper?
20 hours later 15173731 Anonymous
>>15173654
TTK is a little too low imo.
global damage nerf or hp buff pls
20 hours later 15173789 Anonymous
>>15173726
ok, ill take some after tonights session. know where the headshot stats are?
20 hours later 15173816 Anonymous
>>15173654
If you play carefully as a MBT, HA should never kill you.
20 hours later 15173851 Anonymous
>>15173789
You're would seriously try to prove your point by posting 'headshot' stats? Oh god, its like you really don't get it.
20 hours later 15173857 Anonymous
>>15173542
What? VS sniper one shot kills on medium to close range headshots. TR sniper doesn't one-shot-kill headshot no matter what the range.
In fact, I just switched from TR to Vanu for a few hours and doubled my K/D ration from 1.5 to 3.
>implying Vanu isn't easy mode
20 hours later 15173875 Anonymous
>>15173728
you and every vanu sniper i've met. can't outsnipe someone? cloak, approach, shotgun
20 hours later 15173929 tiki (driving a flash in tr territory.jpg 1021x1027 131kB)
>mfw that big fucking gulley in tr territory that cuts across the map, dividing the path between two towers
god it's hard to ride flashes in tr territory.
20 hours later 15173931 Anonymous
>>15173851
it means i'm accurate, which was your point
>There's always a shit ton of you firing but you can't hit anything unless its standing still.
you would rather see a k/d?
20 hours later 15173973 Anonymous
So I got into the beta and played it a little bit. Thus far it's not too appealing.
>See an airplane hovering above ground, only a gunner in it
>Shoot 5-6 rockets at it, it doesn't blow up
>Shoot entire magazines of a heavy machine gun at it
>Still nothing happens
20 hours later 15173980 Anonymous
>>15173929
Try a lightning, see if you can get it out of the seabed without getting stuck at least once.
20 hours later 15174080 Anonymous
>>15173929
i found out flashes bounce today. i drove one off a sheer cliff, and bounced back up to the same height. the second time i touched the ground i hit a rock and went catapulting into the horizon
20 hours later 15174131 Anonymous (1340338470064.png 800x585 341kB)
>>15160737
>hacking a turret behind the enemy tank lines
Feels so damn good
20 hours later 15174135 Anonymous
>>15173929
> flashes
literally the shittiest fucking vehicle for this map.
hills everywhere, valleys everywhere, FUCKING ROCKS EVERYWHERE.
god help you if you somehow manage to tip on your side for more than 3 seconds, because the game will think you've fipped over and BOOM SUICIDE
... and there is no god to help you. but there is the devil smedly
20 hours later 15174218 tiki (a.jpg 437x181 38kB)
>>15174131
>scythe badly damaged, coming in to a tower to rearm and repair
>hack the anti air turret
>poor little scythe guy
20 hours later 15174230 Anonymous
>>15173931
The original point is sniping is useless. You infiltrators just sit on a ridge taking potshots as the enemy caps the base and rolls on. You have no impact on the battle. Whether or not you're accurate at being useless doesn't matter.
20 hours later 15174238 Anonymous
>kill 2 female Vanu infiltrators huddled together for some reason
>realize one was facing the other's ass
>mfw tits n ass was a design choice to distract Vanu enough to keep them balanced
20 hours later 15174304 Anonymous
>>15173931
Sniping was at least midly useful in PS1, because of the long spawn and run times combined with the increased use of infantry AA. In PS2 it's useless. As soon as you shoot him he'll be right back to where he was and you won't be able to push him back.
20 hours later 15174336 Anonymous
>>15174230
then what do you want to see?
20 hours later 15174354 Anonymous
>>15173973
>hovering
>only a gunner is in it
lol
20 hours later 15174431 Anonymous
>>15174354
Yeah or there might have been a pilot in it. It wasn't moving but there was someone shooting at me from the side of it
20 hours later 15174434 Anonymous
>>15174336
So you can't think of anything to show me that would prove your'e useful in battle? I think that proves my point well enough.
20 hours later 15174443 Anonymous
>>15174230
meh i just saw our entire zerg get destroyed by snipers and end up giving up on that base
20 hours later 15174484 Anonymous
>>15174443
That has never happened.
20 hours later 15174505 Anonymous
>>15174484
Maybe they were TR.
20 hours later 15174604 Anonymous
>>15174505
Ok, that might be true. I could actually see prowlers getting taken out by a bolt driver.
20 hours later 15174606 Anonymous
>>15174505
That REALLY never happened. TR have the worst sniper rifle.
20 hours later 15174698 Anonymous
>>15174606
well yeah, we didnt have many tanks left, we were just spawning infantry on a sunderer and they got an asston of headshots
20 hours later 15174713 Anonymous (1130.png 107x126 27kB)
>>15174606
No, imagine the zerg were TR. Imagine dawn of the dead where they're taking potshots at the zombies trying in a futile attempt to get into the building.
20 hours later 15174751 Anonymous
>>15174434
or you don't know yourself and are trying to claim you've won the debate
i don't really care anyway, keep thinking what you want to
>>15174604
tanks take very minimal damage from snipers (until AP rounds are unlocked).
20 hours later 15174765 Anonymous
Vanguard are easier to destroy than prowlers.
20 hours later 15174789 Anonymous
>>15174713
Oh, yeah, that I could see.
20 hours later 15174954 Anonymous
>>15174765
Explain.
20 hours later 15175104 Anonymous
i sort of want vanu porn now
20 hours later 15175149 Anonymous
>>15175104
who doesn't?
20 hours later 15175280 Anonymous
>>15174954
prowlers move faster, turn faster, fire faster and since they need only 9 shots to kill another tank than the vanguard 5 they kill faster. A prowler who is hidden except for the gun and deployed is hell, a vanguard will just miss everything around it, slowly.
20 hours later 15175328 Anonymous
>>15174751
I don't really care either. I actually benefit from NC having a good portion of their population be useless because it makes taking their bases so much easier.
The second part was a joke about how weak prowlers are.
21 hours later 15175372 Anonymous
>>15174765
Bullshit.
21 hours later 15175438 Anonymous
>>15175280
What actually happens is
> Vanguard pops his shield and laughs at everyone
> a strong wind blows up the prowler
21 hours later 15175578 Anonymous
>>15175372
its 5 shots for -any- MBT to take out another MBT
except for prowler, since it has two shots to one, it gets 9 shots, so like 4.5 shots
vanguard is slow, its easy to range your shots on them and then track them until they die. shield just buys them a little bit of extra time before they die.
prowler is fast, and with fast shots its easy to range your shots against targets
this is all from a magrider you see.
21 hours later 15175890 Anonymous
>>15175578
I also spend alot of time in a Mag. I've even got the Sarondoomcannon. My experience is completely different from yours. Prowlers never give me trouble. I've even won a couple 1v2~3. When I come up against a Vanguard I actually have to pay attention and try some tricky shit to kill them.
The prowler really needs some buffs in my opinion.
21 hours later 15175996 Anonymous
is C4 possible to get for Infiltrator or am i just blind? seems like something they would definitely have
21 hours later 15176039 Anonymous
>>15175996
Clearly Higby was too butthurt at the amount of times I stealth dropped his gens in PS1.
21 hours later 15176165 Anonymous (datvanuass.png 309x736 336kB)
the vanu ass pictures. i didn't believe.
my body was not ready
21 hours later 15176647 Anonymous
>>15176165
All part of the transhuman evolution
21 hours later 15176718 Anonymous (1ajeN.jpg 1509x816 479kB)
And now for something completely different.
21 hours later 15176779 Anonymous (ps2kd.jpg 1921x1080 543kB)
>>15173931
learn to snipe with the #SWAGRIDER
21 hours later 15176812 Anonymous
>>15176165
>>15176647
what the hell are they transforming into
what kind of sex goddesses were the vanu race
21 hours later 15176879 Anonymous
>>15176779
>meanwhile you're getting warpgated
21 hours later 15176908 Anonymous
i have 15k auraxium. what do i buy
21 hours later 15176913 Anonymous
>>15175890
it only takes 2 hits from the default cannon on the magrider in the prowlers fat ass to kill it. It takes 3-4 to kill a vanguard
21 hours later 15176967 Anonymous
>>15176879
1 man isn't an army, although I do my part and more to combat the NC menace.
21 hours later 15176989 Anonymous
>>15176165
Shit son, why are your grafics so much better than mine?
>captcha: undeniD jelly
21 hours later 15177041 Anonymous
>>15176989
and i'm running a 460 GTX, too.
21 hours later 15177117 Anonymous (D.png 583x720 400kB)
I put the anus in Decanus.
21 hours later 15177164 Anonymous (PlanetSide2 2012-09-29 21-53-09-20.png 1440x900 1563kB)
>>15176165
>VS INFs actually have bigger asses than the other VS females
21 hours later 15177209 Anonymous
>>15177041
I figured it out- your screenshot is from the in-game inventory menu, while I originally thought it was from the login/character select screen- AKA the one with the low resolution models scaled up to the proper size.
21 hours later 15177314 Anonymous (ballin.jpg 328x479 27kB)
>>15177164
>oppan vanu style
21 hours later 15177602 Anonymous
>>15177209
seems like low-res models on login screen are only there for a second, then they go hi-res. for me at least (460 user; i would've used the character screen to get the picture but they weren't loading in there)
21 hours later 15177660 Anonymous
>>15177602
No, not the texture turning from shit to normal. I'm used to that from games these days, it seems.
I mean how the login screen models are apparently rendered at a lower resolution than normal, and then that image is stretched until it fills the screen. I can't be the only one who notices this.
21 hours later 15177752 Anonymous
>>15177164
>>15176165
This game is killing my masturbation habits.
22 hours later 15178325 Anonymous (1324459448285.png 200x300 16kB)
Anyone else feel like the actual FPS elements in Planetside 2 are absolutely piss poor?
>Screen wiggle when taking fire
>Projectile based fire (Projectile firing for infantry weapons is cool, but seriously there's a reason competive FPS games use hitscan over projectiles, even in this day and age)
>1 v 1 battles usually turn into complete crapshoots that are based more on attachments and faults in network code than actual aiming skill
>Bullet drop that is horrendously worse than even current day rifles
>Not a single person on the top scoreboard of any server with a legitimate 2:1+ KD
It just feels like they decided to make the entire game feel like a numbers game, i'm not fighting solo but there's very little variation from encounter to encounter.
In b4 gb2 call of duty or whatever, It's just disappointing to know that even the most rudimentary level of team coordination is guaranteed to trump good shots, and combined with all the armor spam I just don't feel like playing PS2 in it's current state. I hope it gets better after the stats wipe.
I'm still going to begrudgingly play the shit out of it irregardless.
22 hours later 15178432 Anonymous
>>15178325
>there's a reason competive FPS games use hitscan over projectiles, even in this day and age
I hope you're not considering xX_MLG_nosc0pe+COWWADOOD13_Xx "competive [sic] FPS games."
22 hours later 15178502 Justme (Assology Expert) (1288642719699.png 679x427 12kB)
man what's going on with this game now? I stopped paying attention cause they still haven't sent me a invite. I thought old players got a invite? ah well. my datass sense tingled so i decided to check the thread...holy shit son dem vanu.
did everyone say fuck tr cause of that or something?
also post more vanu...i uh...i'm at a critical juncture in my um...research, yeah...my research.
22 hours later 15178510 Anonymous
>>15178325
>>15178432
what's hitscan mean?
22 hours later 15178696 Anonymous (profilepic.gif 930x268 35kB)
>>15178432
No, pic related.
CoD still has better FPS elements than PS2 though
22 hours later 15178747 Anonymous
>>15178510
Hitscan means that when you fire your weapon, it hits where you're aiming (or under/around it) immediately. The player sends out an invisible "cone" or ray, and if it hits an entity (player, etc) it's a hit, else it hits a wall or whatever and leaves a scorch mark/bullet hole sprite. Any tracers are simple sprite effects that don't match up at all, as the bullet travels instantaneously.
In PS2, the tracers you see are the actual bullets, meaning you have to account for travel time, drop, and leading your target.
Not sure what >>15178325 is talking about with "even in this day and age"- almost all competitive (and I use that term loosely) modern FPSs that you can think of (Cowwa Duty, Counter-Strike, whatever) are hitscan based. Older competitive games (Quake, Unreal, Tribes, what have you) often relied on slow but heavily damaging projectile weapons for the most part, meaning players had to have much more skill than "aim and click."
22 hours later 15178884 Anonymous
NEW THREAD
>>15178858
>>15178858
>>15178858
>>15178858
>>15178858
>>15178858
22 hours later 15178940 Anonymous
>>15178325
>wanting hitscan
>in anything ever
>for any reason
What the fuck is wrong with you?
22 hours later 15178950 Anonymous
>>15178325
>but seriously there's a reason competive FPS games use hitscan over projectiles, even in this day and age
Haha, what?
Counterstrike is literally the ONLY competitive FPS to revolve around hitscan shit.
UT and Quake make heavy use of projectile weapons.
22 hours later 15179003 Anonymous
>>15178510
It basically means the projectile's point of impact is calculated the moment the player fires.
It has the benefit of making lag compensation much simpler, and has much more reliable hit detection than projectile based weapons which have travel time.
Having a travel time for bullets is inherently imperfect in terms of hit detection, ping and lag compensation being the main factors. It does have the benefit of being more "realistic" in a sense, but given the imperfect nature of networking it's never been pulled off perfectly.
Games like TF2 are able to do it well because the projectiles aren't moving incredibly fast and they use hit scan detection for most of the "bullet" based weapons.
22 hours later 15179148 Anonymous
>>15178950
Yeah, but the projectile weapons aren't a single pixel line travelling ridiculously fast. The projectile based weapons in Quake & UT aren't travelling the speed of a bullet.
I have well over 1000 hours in UT.
22 hours later 15179243 Anonymous
>>15179148
Plus you don't have 50 players in a constricted area all shooting eachother at one.
22 hours later 15179404 Anonymous
>>15178747
wait, you dont like that the bullets arent instant and have laws of physics applied to them?
22 hours later 15179460 Anonymous
>>15179404
No, I absolutely love the idea of it.
It's just not that functional in a game of this scale.
22 hours later 15179468 Anonymous (donny_1.jpg 300x325 16kB)
So, how long do we have to wait until this shit comes back up?
8am PST?
That's like 6 hours of Moonbase Alpha.
22 hours later 15179547 Anonymous
>>15179404
I do like it. It works in smaller games, but in PS2, hitscan just wouldn't work.
You know all those times you get one-shotted by a fucking Bolt Driver bastard on a ridge ten miles away? Imagine how much more often that would happen if he didn't have to account for travel time.
It would also fuck with air combat a hell of a lot.
22 hours later 15179692 Anonymous
>>15179460
>Free to play
>hitscan
>Sniper rifles
Rev up those aimbots.
22 hours later 15179768 Anonymous
>>15179547
Personally I think they should do a hybrid, make weapons like the sniper rifle & vehicle weapons projectile based. Then make most of the infantry weapons hitscan (obviously not rockets etc) with a scaling damage drop off.
22 hours later 15179884 Anonymous
>people wanting hitscan weapons in PS2
Just stop. Now. The game has enough fucked up, horribly executed, and broken mechanics as it is.
22 hours later 15179903 Anonymous
>>15179768
That's fucking terrible. Stop thinking.
22 hours later 15179998 Anonymous
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnddddd this thread has officially hit its bump limit.
Here's the new one
>>15178858
>>15178858
>>15178858
>>15178858
>>15178858
>>15178858
22 hours later 15180028 Anonymous
>>15179903
Give me a reason why having hitscan infantry weapons is terrible.
And don't give me the whole "Projectile weapons take more skill because they're not point and click" argument because you clearly don't know anything about networking in game engines. It's not like there wouldn't be spread patterns.
22 hours later 15180086 Anonymous
>>15180028
Because it casualizes the game. Go back to cowadooty.
22 hours later 15180146 Anonymous
>>15180086
Still waiting on that argument broham.
Stay mad.
22 hours later 15180263 Anonymous
>>15180146
Is sniping too hard for you? I'm sorry.
22 hours later 15180325 Anonymous
>>15179547
this
my sniper would demolish everything if it hit exactly where it shot
and it already takes 5 fucking hits to kill someone
22 hours later 15180332 Anonymous
>>15180263
>make weapons like the sniper rifle & vehicle weapons projectile based
Is reading comprehension too hard for you?
23 hours later 15180926 Anonymous
>>15180028
What does arguing for hitscan vs projectile have to do with networking? And there can be spread patterns while still having projectiles so how does that factor in to it either?
23 hours later 15181136 Anonymous
>>15180926
Because instead of having to lag compensate for the moment the player pulls the trigger it's compensating for each millisecond of travel time the bullet has.
That's a pretty ridiculously large networking overhead to have on a game that expects to have over 32 players involved in larger base battles.
23 hours later 15181287 Anonymous
>>15181136
And yet they've done it. So argue why for gameplay reasons they shouldn't
23 hours later 15181369 Anonymous
>>15181287
They haven't "Done it". Have you not noticed how bad the lag is during larger fights? And i'm not talking about FPS lag, I mean genuine small arms projectiles clearly going through people and not even giving off a hitmarker.
My only argument for this is networking reasons, I have no inherent issue with projectile combat other than it simply won't work on this scale, unless we all suddenly get instant access to fiber optic or something.
23 hours later 15181549 Anonymous
>>15181369
no, I haven't noticed this in larger fights and I am involved in them quite a lot. I've had some instances that are few and far between where my bullets stop registering but I chock those up to some bug or intermittent problem because it isn't something that happens with any kind of consistency regardless of the fight I'm in.
23 hours later 15181827 Anonymous
>>15181369
no.. but people seem to jump around a bit more.. maybbe
23 hours later 15181868 Anonymous
>>15181549
While shooting at someone moving?
Are you sure you're simply not noticing it because of the low FPS that a lot of people get in larger fights?
I'm running dual 690's in SLI with an i7 3770k @ 4.1Ghz and I get over 60FPS constantly and it's incredibly noticeable in larger battles.
23 hours later 15182143 Anonymous
>>15181868
no, if it was something noticeable then I'd have a harder time killing people at a distance you need to lead targets for and I have not run into that.
23 hours later 15182194 Anonymous
Why am I dying so fast with NC HA Nanoweave V/ max NMG upgrade?
Is the advanced shield upgrade better than Nanoweave?
Even with forward grip the weapon sprays all over the place, even in short bursts.
23 hours later 15182262 Anonymous
>>15166726
Nah, it should have its own useless resource.
That does nothing.
And you only earn it if your faction controls the Crown and it's unlinked.
TR would be in the thousands by the end of one week.
29 hours later 15193810 Anonymous
>>15176913
>it only takes 2 hits from the default cannon on the magr
there's no difference, actually. If it takes you more shots to kill a vanguard when hitting the rear, it may be due to things such as not all shots landing on the rear.
Also striking either tank in the rear requires stupid tanks, so I don't think it's the best way to assess tank strength
Also saron HRB is best ever. It also takes 5 shots to kill with, but has complete independent swivel that the magrider main cannon lacks, with near perfect accuracy. So awesome.
I don't even know what the NC and VS equivalent is supposed to be.
29 hours later 15193976 Anonymous
>>15182194
I honestly think the nanoweave is bugged and either doesn't work at all, or actually lowers your health. None of the NMG certifications right now increase how much damage they absorb- it only increases it's regeneration in some way. If the nanoweave was working correctly, iirc it's supposed to be no more than a 12.5% health increase, which is a fraction of most bullet damage.
In practice, Flak Armor is far more useful.
The full activated NMG shield ticks down over time, and absorbs about as much as your shield value. Your shield value absorbs at least 1.5x the amount that your health absorbs.
34 hours later 15207482 Anonymous
>Decide to try out Matis server as VS since I wasn't having much luck on Thermisto
>Someone is playing Green & Purple over the mic
>I help cap a base and dozens of men and vehicles show up
>I decide to join them and we start taking more TR territory, me in my Max suit, riding a Sunderer
>We're tearing shit up
>Implying you will ever be able to best the Overmind
>A little while later we come across a canyon and a few people dare the driver to jump and drive down the side; "Alright, you asked for it :P"
>I don't think they'll be able to make it so I hop out and wait; they make it
>I try to run down and meet back up with them
>End up sliding down the side a little too fast and dying
That was a fun night.
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