Planetside 2 is currently at a player peak it hasn't seen since launch, so I tried it again...

Also, currently at Esamir warpgate, TR Connery. I'll be the one blasting Vietnam Music.

Yeah, heard the base-building bit is great for some people, just need to know if getting a new account and starting fresh means I'll have to start playing as an expendable grunt before the base-building part.

Better start downloading and hopefully none of faggot commanders notice me doing horribly.

Nah, the only base-part that's level-restricted is the thingy that generates Victory Points over time.

I got really into the game back when it started, back when it was still buggy and you randomly got your screen turned 30 degrees if you got shot/had a cannon blast close to you, and put in like 90+ hours but gradually stopped playing. Is the soldier gameplay still corridor/trench squatting and spamming grenades/revives, the vehicle combat essentially close combat, or occasional long-rage awesome tank fights, and the flying/dogfighting the most fun part of the game besides the wait time if you get shot down?

Well, if you like dogfighting, good news, they removed vehicle/MAX cooldowns, now they're limited by resources/nanites only.

you can't make this shit up, i mean i know they make shit games on purpose but this just shows SOE's employees didn't actually do anything other than pretend they're working

Is the game still a pile of trash that crashes every 10 minutes and fails to reach playable frame rates on top end hardware though?

Nope, that was actually one of the first things they worked on once it released.

construction saved the game from dying

it's still push to spawn and spam C4 to win in most cases, though

also I think it's too easy to take out a base. The core needs like 2-3 times more health.

Did they add giant robots at all?

Intriguing but it's a game that relies on swarm intelligence and thus still sucks.

I also distinctly remember that it was P2W in a lot of instances.

Fun game

TR a best

Yes please TR outfit. Sign me the fuck up.

It's like you faggots don't want freedom.

though, I guess thats why you can have multiple characters on all the factions. TR is so over fucking populated anyway, only reason I wouldn't want to play them

Are NC even relevant nowadays? I remember them being sorta shit since forever.

Have they made the NC unique stuff not shit? I like the NC but man we were getting fucked by the other factions mechs and tanks

That's a realistic, real-world strategy faggot.
Quantity is a quality of it's own.

The point of the game is to have fun, so maybe apply another real-life strategy, and hit the enemy where it is weak. Or have a surplus of quality.

During their peak hours, they can take and dish out damage when they can, the problem is that apparently TR has some OP shit on their side at the moment and they kind of faceroll.

I do know that NC max's kinda suck dick compared to the other 2 just because their main mode of anti-infantry is close range, while Vanu/TR have short/medium range weapons. That alone makes them more dangerous than NC MAX's.

I played like a month or so ago, but the general jist of it was that TR had moderate damaging, high fire rate, low recoil weapons, and a few specific ones with high damage and the same recoil/fire rate, so everyone plays them now for the more OP guns. Once another faction gets something similiar, there's usually a small exodus for flavor of the month.

I pick NC just because I like hitting things hard, even if it gets me killed most of the time.

I can't hear you over the Sieg Heils.
1 Furher 1 TR!

nigger its like you don't even play against vanu

fighting vanu is the most awful fucking thing because its always just a massive brickwall of dedicated plebbitors that never ends
not to mention the scythe spam, the across the map PDW murder and also:

I will always fight NC over VS

On emerald, Vanu's peak times are a few short hours a day, and usually weekends. They were a nuisance at best.

fighting connery Vanu is an abstract sort of suffering

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VS Infils were always the bane of my existence. The Scythe spam honestly was Free XP, I always jumped in AA and fucked their shit up. Too many faggots not AAing so it was a free lunch basically.

Honestly though I really miss the TR Tank Column, those were some of the best moments for me, TR Tank Collumn with Sundees chained to them to provide heals and cloak. Totally wrecks anything. Sadly yeah Zerging in this game is how you win but its fun as shit when two major zerg forces hit each other. Clusterfuck is one word I'd use to describe it. But if everyones doing their job and healing you can hold out for hours. So much fun.

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dont care about that

having all your information collected is unfortunately unavoidable today unless you take extreme measures that 99% of people including you i'm sure, do not take

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will this game run on a toaster?

I completely understand and agree with everything said in this thread.

Remove Vanu.

Anybody on Miller here that wants to play some?

It actually does. Expect long load times and poor performance though.

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Even on lowest setting?

I'm the type of nigger to set everything on lowest to get max fps

Depends on your machine obviously.

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takes some giant balls

Is the game still pay to win as fuck with virtually all unlockable vehicle weapons being better than the default set?

its less P2W than what it was at launch though, at least now the first few levels give 100 certs a go. At launch you got jackshit.

Brother
I'd say we could start a full Holla Forums outfit but I'm out of town away from my PC until Saturday.

game runs like complete shit for me after the update

it has always ran like shit though

It was playable for me before, I didn't mind below 60 fps that I was getting before but now I have massive stutters making it utterly unplayable

Listen to this go-guy he knows what's up.

There's always been too many guns that aren't immediately recognizable for me to tell how game balance is. That said I've always had the gut feeling that if I had to choose between fighting TR, Vanu, or NC, I'd settle for fighting both the TR and the NC at the same time(As a non-Vanu). It doesn't help that they're the degenerate Redditor Elf faction.

That said, anyone playing TR on Emerald?

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This game has some of the most intense and satisfying large scale battles I've ever experienced. They can be hard to come by though. Maybe I'll give it another go with this base building stuff, there's probably massive battles centering around them.

My PC couldn't run it too well, averaged 25-40 during small skirmishes, 60 during small skirmishes when I was playing during cool nights and barely 15 at large battles, last I played was like two or three years ago. Has performance been improved or am I shit out of luck

I always found myself getting bored after playing this game for a while, I loved it while I was enjoying it but it just got kinda samey and boring eventually since I usually don't join guilds or clans in games.

Maybe i'll try it out again when im in the mood for multiplayer, the base building sounds like it might add some more variety to it and i've heard it's been getting better after it was bought by a new company.

learn how to play (stalker)infiltrator well

even just solo you can cause a lot of shit and shift entire battles in your favor on a more frequent basis than you'd think

Did they ever fix it to the point it was at least as good as PlanetSide 1?

no.

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i would play ps2 if the gameplay, movement, gunplay and levels werent so shitty

It's gonna take awhile for it to better itself that one can say it surpasses the first game.

At least in PS1 ANTs were part of logistics and kept bases powered so players could keep fighting other players. The construction system is the most poorly-thought-out game mechanic I've seen in a long, long time. It's just a gimmick, and you can really tell they cannibalized all the tech right from Everquest Landmark which was canceled a while back.

Found the shill. Nobody who's played the game would say such nonsense.

It won't even run on a quad titan X setup.

Things that didn't happen.

PS2 was released on life support. It's never going to be anywhere near as good as the first game.

Take a break from your outfit circlejerk and go watch these idiots drive around in their little ANT convoys. They hop out and try to gun down tanks with their firearms if anything attacks them.

I remember the starting TR carbine being pretty good, but that was before they added a lot of stuff. The game is a shitty p2w fuckfest though so fuck it.

fucking god dammit.

welcome to the mmo conundrum. nobody plays it so i won't play it regardless of how good it would be with lots of people, it sucks alone and im not that kind of dedicated autist

Well at least I get to see this all the time

Meant to say got to see this

I-I don't play anymore

Miller here I think, Ragarnoy on Steam

Also

I don't get why this game doesn't have any players.

Are you sure this isnt because of that ross game dungeon guy getting his fans in to play?

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Thank you for reminding me of this

I've not touched the game since beta. Is there a guide on how to play/what to do? Is solo an option or do you need an outfit for maximum fun?

Sent.

It's Early Access, but the game features are pretty much there. The only thing it's lacking is players, there are no bugs.

it also costs money along with being early access. PS2 is free

sounds good, is the actual game any good?

How's this game on PS4?

Shit like every other PS4 game.
I actually dont know, might get my brother to try on his.

>tfw someone uses my OC

Has the performance improved over the past few years?

If yes, do we have a clan?

Oh not this shit again, fuck SOE, fuck Daybreak, fuck this launcher. Ain't troubleshooting this shit again.

I'd play with you if mumble didn't make me wanna kill myself.

Literally a cuck.

Wait so Vanu are Reddit? We haven't banded together and declared a Great Crusade to REMOVE VANU?

So. We have alot of Euro's here as well as americucks.

Do we want to pick a server where all of us could play? or do the Euro's wanna play on their own special servers? If they do, go figure it out, but i'm thinking we can do a combined effort and start on Emerald (because its US East, so it's right in the middle) so we can all start an outfit somewhere.

Question is: what faction?

TR

No need to ask

Vanu is for the ebin redditors to be retarded

NC is shit beyond repair

TR is perfect

My personal preference is NC, but I really don't care, I have no 'loyalty' as it were.

Mostly, how many people would actually be interested in getting an outfit going, or would just having a a platoon/squad every once in awhile suffice?

I'm away from home so I can't try it out. I only have my No gaems 4 with me and it runs at 30fps.

How well will this run on a laptop?

Vanu is for the ass.

You can fap to their dead

It's not rape because a corpse can't say no.

It won't.

It runs pretty shittily on my 2014 PC.

That's naughty though

Ok I feel like playing
which server are we doing this?

Yes. I max out at 40fps, usually running in the 10-20 range near anyone else. Completely unplayable.

Autismo pls

*BFRs

Carv is all right, T1 Cycler is great, trac-5 is underwhelming but it's not the worst thing ever.

Really the main thing TR defaults lack in is a sniper that's not godawful garbage, and VS suffers in that department too.

OP here, looks like the thread took off while I was sleeping!
I'd be up for a TR outfit on Emerald. Seems like a good halfway point between US and EU.
Want me to go ahead and get it set up?

I created a character named "Independentblackwoman"-who don't need a man, before all this sjw madness. Now the joke is lost.

So what server most people playing at then?

Well, I already have a group of 8channers who play Connery NC, but it seems the thread-goers want Emerald TR. So it'll probably be one of those two.

Go for it.

Have to download the client and see if I can get a decent connection to one of those.

Just don't do the default bullshit.

Do something like ToastyTires Cuck Circus or something.

or infinity if it makes it simple, just avoid calling us out as Holla Forums

So, TR, Emerald server.

I guess it's time to play from the beginning with 25 FPS and 120 ping.

Nothing unusual for PS2.

Spicy Spokes' Serf Slayers

Or just call it "2x4=8" or something like that.

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I like it

I played a little a couple years ago, and went Vanu because I have a thing for directed energy weapons. What's actually wrong with them? Or is this a Blood Eagle vs Diamond Sword thing?

Faction made, set to instant-join. Good luck.

Don't let it die like we let the Warframe clan.

I may join in a week or so. Waiting on another paycheck before I can rebuild my dead desktop.

They're spandex wearing gay niggers from space.

And they're arguably the babby's first ezmode faction.
And they don't have some kind of hillbilly rock as their selection theme.

I just like lasers. ;-;

alright, I'm in. I've slammed my dick in this door for many of years, what could be worse.

Vanu is easy mode, has been for years. they dump the most money, they get the best toys.

.50 Rams a best tho

WELL, NOW YOU'LL LIKE BULLETS

FAST FIRING LOADS OF BULLETS

NONE OF THAT LOW RECOIL PROJECTED ENUHGEE BULLSHIT

NONE OF THAT SPINNY HOVERTANK SHIT

WE USE TREADS

YOUR GUNS WILL FUCKING BACKFLIP IN YOUR HANDS AFTER TWO BULLETS AND YOU'LL FUCKING LIKE IT

There is nothing I hate more than reddit on earth.

I always played a lone wolf faggot derping around in a lightning with the basic HEAT cannon upgrade and the speed boost. I loved that thing, even if it didn't have a role to fill other than ghetto MBT because of the way tanks control in the game.
Do the player fortifications replace static ones? Is there actually something for me to shoot at now that isn't an infantry target 700m away?

Are there at least interestingly-behaving bullets? Near-scanhit railguns? Cluster munitions? That sort of thing? I only ever played Vanu, and that was some 3 or 4 years ago now. I really liked the hovertank's laser cannon variant weapon that you could snipe aircraft from a mile away with.

My other favorite thing to do was act as primary gunner on the fuckhuge cannon on the back of transports, but that's faction agnostic, so at least I'll still have that.

You might see someone pop a bunker on the side of the road
and promptly watch the bunker and its occupants get roasted by a few shots each from a tank brigade

REMOVE VANU!

I played it to test the waters for Ross Scott's planned get-together.
It sucks, I don't like it, but it's not so bad that i wouldn't play it for a friend.
I'm gonna keep it and pop i. Every now and then, hopefully I won't miss Ross's party.

Got to say though, the hardest part to swallow is the character designs.
This shit is so fucking ugly.

You get to go very very fast, and you have a bunch of stupidly high ROF weapons. That's about it.

SHILLING TIME MOTHERFUCKERS

S'a good video m8 give it a looky loo

Hey, SSSS, we need chat perms, I keep trying to chat but nothings coming up

You have them.
Numpad 9

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Text perms, not voice. Though good to know the keybind for that.

Probably just need to use the outfit tab in textchat

>have actually spent a good deal of money on NC stuff

The Vanu actually inspire real hatred in my heart, like the kind of stuff that makes you want to hit your wife or start a war

Should create a new character and just join us, keep your NC guys, and just fuck around when we're giving Vanu hell

Why not unite both NC and TR against the Vanu? :^)

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I remember the ping for the US servers being shit from the Euro side.

If you're playing TR you have the highest DPS of like 4/7 weapon types And their Assault Rifle is the best weapon in the game by alot

Is it still unoptimized garbage?

Fuck it, i'm making a TR trooper on Connery now. I can't be fucked to deal with a Mumble though. Is that going to be a problem? And who should I get ahold of?

We decided to go with Emerald, not Connery.
But lack of mumble isn't a problem.

The base building must have made that kind of shit insane.

i hate being stuck with the NC trash equipment but ive unlocked so much shit you need to do anything so i cant move. fighting vanu is the fucking worst, with their hyperspeed hover jets, FLYING TANK and windup up boggly doo no recoil high firerate guns (aka hold mouse over enemy head, 4 easy headshots in 0.4secs easy win)

Based on what I've read, it seems the main gimmick of this new construction shit is "find Cortium spawn points, start minean with A.N.T.s, and go max autism to build bases both for defensive/protective useage and also for easy points gaining". Or at least, that's the assumption.

If that is the case and the turrets and other defensive parts of your base don't murder fellow players of the same group/faction you're in, couldn't a skilled group of autists work together to build a mega base that spills out xbox hueg in size that is kept fueled up and also murders literally everyone near it that isn't that faction who made it?

Do you think that perhaps Holla Forums has enough autism to Dorf Fort it up enough to build a mythical base that is unstoppable and the very shit that gives fagets like the Vanu night terrors whenever they go to sleep?

Welp, that was a lot of fun.

Not something I thought I'd ever say about Planetisde 2.

I do hope we get a few more people though.

The fun never stops.

Kek. I actually started playing a few days ago for the same reason. And yeah, after the first fun night I'm getting tired of it really quickly.

I'm generally ok at shooter games but I'm getting my balls rocked as NC. I feel like even when I get the drop on people I miss them with half my shots and then they turn around and take me down in 2-3 shots. Do I just suck? Or because I have shitty starter weapons trying to fight pay-to-win guys?

Here's my question regarding PS2; are the battle rifles or closest battle rifle equivalents any good? Can I plink at moderate ranges and compete in close with spammier weapons by hitting more consistently with larger bullets? I've got a thing for full-length-round automatics.

in all honesty, and this isn't sour grapes or bitching, but going up against Vanu is basically 70/10 in their favour at almost all times. their long-range weapons can one-shot you, and have less recoil; their short-range weapons have almost no recoil to speak of and an insane rate of fire, their tanks can fucking circle-strafe, etc. no matter whether you're NC or TR, if you aren't VS you're going to get rocked, it's kinda just how it is

70/30. i have brain damage

PS2 bender recently, before base building, played for like 5 days straight, only breaks to eat shit sleep and shower, maybe twice

so long story short find a group i guess, it was fun for the time but im pretty sure playing 14 hours of peniside every day is bad for your health

so you got hammered and signed up with the Chechens, basically?

also they are a bunch of hippy dippy purple faggots, so it hurts twice as much when you get zapped at some ungodly range

I believe the consensus amongst said group about chechens would have probably been something akin to

but…yeah pretty much:/

If we make a group to all play Planetside at the same time I would reinstall in a heartbeat

I had a blast tonight on Emerald TR. We defended a bunch of bases from the vanu and even pushed them back to an amp station, but that's where it stalled (For good reason)

Then we found out we had a contruction base on the north end.

Well, yeah. Lets just say it was fucking hilarious how much fun it was.

Build those walls, TR. Let those ayy lovers know they're not welcome

what fun

So, for the autistic/retarded anons who are new to the obvious, when and where can an user get an A.N.T. to begin unleashing their autism soon with it?

at the nearest vehicle terminal
look for the black crystal formations with the orange cracks once you get rolling

it's not as bad as NC, but NC shoots alot slower and each hit deals a fuck ton more damage, but it's not fucking low recoil compared to Vanus fucking no recoil weapons
and you apparently haven't dealt with NC MAX chrashes on indoor Capture Points
can't stop that shit without C4 and anti tank mines, lots and lots of C4 and anti tank mines

it's almost as if you don't want to remove Vanu filth

sounds like you have shitty sound drivers

pls Holla Forums

TR Emerald
Spicy Spokes Serf Slayers
Free to join at any time.

so recap for tonight

God damnit I hate planetside 2. Alright

Not seeing it at all on this thing. Either something's fishy, or do to >PS4 version, it isn't happening on that version period. In which case, I am platinum mad now.

Still, if Construction/autism can't happen on PS4, hope the PC version doesn't nuke potato laptops, so I can then try that instead.

How's the ping from Emerald to aussieland? Either way I'll still probably fly us around in a galaxy all day.

Holla Forums pls, give me the lowdown on TR space FALs or the lackthereof

PS4 doesn't get the buildan shit, at least not yet
potato laptop will probably melt, wouldn't recomend

Beautiful

Really hate how Vanu comes and nigs everything up when we're fighting with the Terran Republic. And fuck goon squad, pack of faggots

is everyone still here? I wanna play too

Downloading it back, should be done in an hour, any tips on a guy whose been out of action for 3 years on the game?

Fellow battle raifu lover here. It's definitely a midrange gun, although it's saved my ass a few times in close combat against niggaz with low health and good closerange weapons. A surprising amount of fun can be had in midrange because nobody ever engages in earnest at those ranges, so you can hang back from a closer firefight and pop people, counter snipers that haven't seen you yet, etc. Damage was underwhelming if you're not going for headshots though, and for some reason, I had a hellish time leading targets.

Why is Vanu hated?
I really like them, but mostly because i have a hard on for "futuristic" weaponry.

they're overpowered, and somethingawful/reddit exclusively play as them. they also look gay as fuck compared to space nazis or space murrkans, but that's personal preference

Playing as Vanu is ezmode. Their vehicles are the most maneuverable, their guns have no bullet drop and low recoil, accuracy is king and they're the most accurate, their high tech look doesn't fit with the grittier themes of the other two factions, they're THE reddit faction.

It's kinda like how in 40K, nobody actually likes Eldar.

Their weapons have no recoil and their tanks can strafe.

ItAintMe here, I'm hopping back on now.

We should really get a PS2 steam group, also been checking those base-building vids, they're pretty comfy and the zerg rush to blow them to hell in matches.

How would one make a faction that retains these strong points but is balanced? Just make them really fragile?

that's just me though

I'm flying around trying to get the controls down
would it be worth rebinding shit?

Does anyone remember or still have thoses videos of GINYU corps vs whoever was the biggest corp on TR? I remember Ginyu being looked down as huge faggots and the TR corp being mad in general.

I'm gonna make a TR soldier and have fun with you guys

their tanks need to be like half as survivable as they are, yeah. i also feel that their weapons need to either kick like mules or deal much, much less damage, because as it is they've got rate of fire and accuracy

You in that Mossie in Esamir? I think I see you constantly flipping at the warpgate…

I'm in indar
someone nigged my ride while I was making that post
fucking niggers

Fug. Indar's full for me and I'm too impatient to wait.

Soo floaty tanks and guns that have a better overall use, but not great in any aspect.
I'm always seeing Vanu get destroyed by the TR spam or NC one hit power weapons.
Doesn't the NC tank have a lot more armor than anything else?

Accuracy. The thing that is arguably the most important thing for a gun to have in Planetside 2.

You've got a point there with the overall accuracy, i won't agree that it makes them broken enough to be hated though.

Accuracy was moot to me when I played Vanu anyways; I was playing at 20 fps and with significant lag. I'd have been better off with spray and pray weapons. So maybe I undervalue it.

rebind "throttle (analog)" to something like X, it's the full stop / hover key so you don't have to hold down S
although I can't remember if that gets disabled when you press spacebar for vertical thrust or if it only resets if you press either W or S
either way it's usefull for flying backwards and shooting at ground targets and shit

trust me, when someone drills you in the head three times from a mile away with their laser-accuracy no-recoil sniper rifle, you'll know what we mean. or when you get into one of those close-up "oh shit" moments - you will lose, 100% of the time, because the enemy can put more rounds on you due to the insane rate of fire and lack of recoil on his weapon. this means really you need to either smash the vanu with shotguns, catch them by surprise, or gang up on them. they don't have this weakness

Good to know, that's what I'd gathered from the little information on the wiki. I may go for the TRAC-5 S instead for obnoxious mechanized infantry grenade spam as an engineer, but it's good to know that the battle rifle is a competent midrange option.

The Eldar are a bunch of rail thin, inhumanly graceful whirly butchers clad in dead psychic energy willed into existence wielding BRRRT guns that fire nanoshurikens/filament wires exquisitely designed to dice up your shit in the most Cube fashion possible. They're also suffering from the usual Tolkien withdrawing elves syndrome, but not because of their fleeing a bedeviled world for the physical equivalent of Heaven, and instead because they accidentally fucked an apocalypse into existence and got a huge stick up their ass about it and are genuinely in severe shit, with only slight remissions at the expense of the Imperium which they're rather dependent on to do the heavy lifting in fighting Chaos, because they are fickle dicks with a Mon'Keigh tsundere complex.

I don't have any great affection for them, but they aren't without interesting technical design virtues or thematics. Except in the case of Dawn of War, in which case they actually WERE Vanu equivalents because of Fire Prism spam.

Make them fragile. Make the weapons somewhat weak (either from reduced ROF or reduced damage per shot, either works, but the former would make them further from infringing on TR and give them an interesting put-put raygun aesthetic) in exchange for the hitscan & controllability. It's been a long time since I played PS2 and I think it was before the Goon/Reddit swarming started, so I have no idea how bullshit they currently are by experience, but that's my idiotproof solution.

E N C L A V E

I play as vanu, i know exactly what you mean.
A lot of the time you see NC winning all the time up close. Those power weapons just rip through everything.
About the sniper rifles, NC can 1 hit pretty easily so i'm not sure what is your problem.
3 shots for a kill and everyone knows where you are or
1 shot kill run and cloak.

Every faction has their grievances

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thanks man

This week has been complete fucking shit.

that's from the standard gun, where your head is blocked by the glowing orb of the sights and you and your friend is dead before you have a clue as to what happened
yes, NC has powerful guns but they have increadible spread and low rate of fire and high recoil
TR has moderate RoF and moderate spread moderate to high recoil (due to the fire rate)
VS has low spread high RoF lov recoil

I may mix up the RoF of TR and VS since they are pretty similiar and I haven't played TR in years
just seems like vanu wins both outdoors and indoors, NC indoors and TR through tactics and teamwork

gonna join in tomorrow probably, looking forward to operating with you niggers

So what server are you faggots on? I'm reinstalling now, I'll be able to play tomorrow evening.

Fug, playing on a toaster, and forgot to check if the updates increased the hardware requirements for the game.

Trial by fire, hope it doesn't fuck me up.

Emerald TR. Buildin' dat wall, makin' dem pay for it.

Was flying overhead for a bit watching that chaos and taking advantage of some free certs with bombing runs on those armor lines.

That really was an impressive wall.

Holy shit that comment butthurt. What's the story behind this? The shitters are deriding them as MUH NAZIS everywhere I look, while the moderately self-fellating PS wiki article depicts them as a competent pack of relative elitists.

Fucking no, on launch they had like 49 servers and they were all maxed.

I've heard of this game on Holla Forums but I've never played or looked into it.

Is it fun?

It's fun if you're either there to fuck around or have people to play with. If you're going to solo and play semi seriously it's good to go medic. Being a heal slut in CQB situation is pretty effective.

Oh shit nigga wanna oil up and watch blue gender together?
I was about to get back in and play vanu. I think I'll play NC instead.

Recently played a good bit in the PS4 edition of this gaem, and have a small story of my experience there:

And thus was how an autistic medicfag managed to help ensure TR's victory over at least 1 base of note.

I actually had a pretty decent killrate tonight with a slug-shotgun. Anyone else rockin' those slugs?

Just…beware of the outfits.

I got removed from one by calling someone a mook, was removed because of "Racism".

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Is TR air still really bad? I've always wanted to be air support but I always get wrecked by other air.

It's not so much that the TR air is bad, it's more that you have to know a lot of meta air maneuvers to not die a lot in air battles.

Now that's a show I haven't heard in a loooong time.

youtube.com/watch?v=j1vEAOqCNFw

Good times.

Just rewatched the whole thing about two months back
breddy gud

I still don't know why everyone suddenly goes batshit in the last three seconds

Holy hell, I've not seen such cuckoldry.

Just played for a bit, gotta fix my connection, played NC because America why not, still not surprising that huge gunfights for control always end up with spamming troops and getting the medics to revive the downed soldiers.

And can anyone point me to the base building bit?

It requires you pulling an ANT from the vehicle terminals. You mine cortium with the ANT and deploy the ANT to build base components.

Has performance improved over the past couple of years? I've got shit internet and I'm not sitting through two days of 24/7 downloading to see for myself.

Gonna have to get back on that later on, still trying to avoid those fucking microtransaction spams every time I deploy.

What planet are you from, son?

Rooms defended by NC maxes are deathtraps. the DPS of the shotguns is insane.

An TR Fractures have been shit for a long time. Unless they improved them with a patch?

the guns feel so fucking bad though. it literally keeps me from enjoying the game.

space combat is clunky and awkward too, so there's no escaping that shit.

good work dipshit

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the wrench icon on the loader will open the folder, paste that into useroptions.ini

if the in-game fps counter says [GPU], turn down render quality until it says CPU. if it says CPU there's nothing more that can be done.

also bind your mouse wheel to minimap zoom

Jesus.
No pain no gain, right? You faggots better have gotten me in something good here.

Is it matter steam or dedicated lawnchair?

Steam will download a recent version of the game and then the launcher will update to the latest patch.

Miyagi wanted to keep everyone cooped up in the station and they decided to kill him and leave to get back to earth. But the last shuttle was near full so people were fighting to get in. you know, humans gonna human.

Yeah, but it's not the default. TR get the fucking .99 SV as a default, of all things.

never heard more than PS2's name mentioned before today, now downloading

what's the group up to?

I'd be willing to give the game a shot. Tell me, can I be a dude that only transports loads of people to the battle and never really fight?

Definately can do that. Galaxies are aerial dropships that can spawn people in the air, or you can drive Sunderers which are ground based spawnpoints. You get xp for placing/flying these vehicles and someone spawns off of them.

They also have a very high carrying capacity.

spend all your certs getting a stealth sunderer
become an invisible mobile spawn
find all the best nooks to hide in etc

itd be like euro truck sim meets battlefield
sounds fuckin comfy user

Sure, but you'll still get bombed a lot because obviously getting people into battle quickly will make you a key target

How does one get into this, since it's a..persisting battlefield? I mean I know that's the point, but…what the hell can a newbie do that isn't die or suck the cocks of better players in hopes of leeching credits or whatever funbux there are?

I considering this, how is it for Cert generation though?

Also do we have an outfit in game yet? I'd be totally up for playing.

Which is more comf, stealth sunderer or galaxy

It depends on what you prefer being fired upon by.

AA turrets and vehicles/MAXes? Or perhaps Heavies, MAXes, and Tanks if your stealth sunderer is discovered.

I'm taking my comf to the skies. I think I'll blare anime music.

It could have been so, so good.

Galaxy is probably comfier; just lazing around constantly dropping your squadmates onto the point (it acts a spawn for anyone in your squad, and then they can just constantly drop down).

Sunderer is more reliable for cert generation, but if you can keep a galaxy going over a good fight and you're playing with a squad that can actually reliably kill people the transport assists will flow in and you'll be rolling in it.

good god

I just started shooting the purples and I couldn't stop.

read the thread goddamnit

TR Emerald 8/v/?
That's all I got and its vague as shit.

I'm not sure I'd recommend Connery as a server. Ever since the asian servers shut down, all the chinks and gooks flooded into Connery, and they're super laggy. From what I remember, TR have some really bad overpop there, too.

It's a bit concerning when one of the best outfits on that server was dying, and then came back in full force once that outfit made a switch over to emerald.

but it's not called Cripple Brigade, is it now?

get used to the idea that there's a billion invisible snipers stroking their invisible little dicks on every roof and mountain in render range and all that they want you to do is stop strafing for half a second

if you have the cash money sunderer at a big fight it's like 300 certs an hour for doing nothing, otherwise not much. you really can't do full time galaxying or sundering in this game and it's a shame, if you don't want to shoot people you can full time medic though

On that note, I will happily pass. This doesn't seem like fun.

It really is a case of "gitgud". If you can position yourself well, you won't have to worry about snipers as much. Just don't sit out in the open. The cert thing tends to even itself out relatively quickly unless you're getting into vehicles, just don't buy new guns straight off the bat and focus on upgrading stuff like your medgun for medic, jumpjets for LA, medkits for all classes, etc. In the majority of cases, the default weapons are perfectly fine (unless you're TR or VS and planning on sniping. the default sniper is garbage).

The Planetside 2 infiltrator isn't a sniper, it's a ninja, yes, it can be a sniper, but it's much more fun if you play the ninja.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

This game has changed shitloads in a short amount of time.

Giving it a download.

Surely he's exaggerating, last time I played snipers weren't such a problem like that. There's always a risk but it wasn't overwhelming.

It is an exaggeration.

Sure if you stand still in the open waving your dick around or looking at the map or something you're gonna fucking die, but that's something that you should be killed for anyway.

I remember back in beta when they had everything unlocked so I decided to give an upgraded infiltrator up with an SMG, I went in, hacked a vehicle terminal and then spawned that van that can act as a mobile spawn point inside the base we were infiltrating and hid it somewhere, then I managed to team up with a team after them being impressed with that stunt and we ended up taking 30% of the map, all 15 of us in about an hour or two. It was goood.

I hope it's worth it

I loved Vaanu in the Beta.

Fucking laser snipers with no bullet drop, so fucking OP.

I mean they're still OP as fuck

so

TR
emerald
Spicy Spokes Serf Slayers?

downloading now

I've always been a fan of traditional dakka of TR and the guass weaponry of NC myself. I can play either one, I just want a good team to play around with

Well, I guess it's a good time to finish watching Fate/Stay Night.

At any rate what are we playing?
Spandex Iluminati
'Murica
The Brotherhood of Nod

Yeah, TR mosquitos are beasts.

NC however, it always seemed like they never got enough love from the developers.

hahahahaha

Well they still have that god awful rifle that doesn't hit anything you're pointing at because the ironsights are fucked.

All ironsights are misaligned by two pixels, down and to the right. It's not an NC inherent flaw.

So can someone give me a quick rundown on what this game is like for someone who's only ever heard of the name? Skimming this thread has interested me.

Basicly you have three factions:

You have to go around killing each other in a semi open world fps, kind of like Battlefield in space.

ftfy

The lores actually pretty neat.

Alright, I'm following so far. How's the gameplay?

Also, big, BIG, ==BIG== battles.

Hunders of players with combined arms mayhem. Tanks, APCs, light vehicles supported by infantry and fighters and gunships.
Explosions everywhere.
Glorious chaos of war.

It's all one big map, you can walk/fly from one end of the continet to the other, and there can be…what 3000 players on the server? Or was it more?

No other game has this massive a MP scale

Not him but I got a lot of input here.

Tons of things to do and so many ways to do it, but it's hampered by the fact that the devs have allowed ways for solo retards to do incredible amounts of damage to a lot of things. From aircraft, snipers, MAX suits (basically mini mechs), and anti-infantry vehicles, one person with one of these things becomes extremely annoying in a very short amount of time.

So as long as you have buddies to run around with, it's sort of like BF:BC2 but open world and MMO with awesome future stuff, but if you're solo you're basically stuck as infantry meat for bigger things, one-man vehicles that float around allies in case you get jumped, or you have to play support bitch in zergs.

I've been playing TR since beta.

Any time me and my group has had a jerk around night and tried playing another faction, we've always felt that we had a much easier time with the faction's weapons and vehicles. We've always said that TR stuff is just slightly inferior.

Personally, I always rekt shit all the time on my NC alts, while I felt that the TTK was noticeably higher on my TR weapons. Maybe it's because I have good aim and I don't need the accuracy bonuses.

Just like any of the more open "mmos" or games that feature larger player interaction, the game is mostly what you make of it. I played with a highly militarized group ("outfit" in game terms) that was founded on highly coordinated military-style discipline and tactics. But it pacing of battles mostly boils down to this:

I had quite a jolly time with the game. I recommend not joining one of those big, disorganized groups, but getting with a more tight-knit group.

This was my experience with the game. That's its just a meat grinder.

Was that just a bad experience or is being a foot soldier just throwing yourself into the slaughter over and over?

Bingo. Unless you got some buddies to watch your back and rez you, it's suicide unless you're really experienced.

basically three faction battlefield with a really high player count and a large map.

I'm not going to lie to you though, it's got plenty of wrong going for it, most notably some balance issues with the purple faggot faction, some bad optimization(at least it was badly optimized last I played it) and if you're not Vanu you can probably find yourself outnumbered. But I remember it being really fun regardless

It's pretty much battlefield with large battles. You got six(?) classes, Light assault(jetpack, as in actual jetpack and not jumpjet(I think it can be repurposed as a glider too with an updgrade), heavy assault(LMGs), infiltrator(stealth/sniper/smg), medics, engineers, and MAXes(large exo suits you enter that have a lot of health and damage behind them, but they cost resources). You got faction specific dogfighters and tanks and weapons, and faction neutral weapons and tanks(and a mobile spawn point van, a buggy and a three/four man buggy) and a three man gunship and a 10(?) man aerial dropship.

Although I have to warn you, last I played I heard that they decided to bring all three resources which were used for different types of vehicles into one, and then making that one resource buyable with cash so you could spam vehicles and maxes and whatnot. I don't know how bad it is.

Are you me?
All I do is be comfy in my galataxi

Okay, I'm definitely interested now. From what I gather, this game is probably loads more fun with friends, but none of the faggots I associate with would be interested. Where can I find some niggers to play with that wouldn't mind helping the new guy get into things?

AIR FORCES:
- faction specific fighter
- 12 man dropship (4 turrets),
- smaller 6 man flier
- the standard gunship

GROUND VEHICLES
- light tank (can be configured for AA)
- quad (2 ppl max)
- buggy (fukken deadly in numbers, 3 ppl max)
- faction specific MTB
- mobile spawn/ammo/repair/APC

Heavy assault also has rocket launchers.

I don't understand the whole 'muh spying' craze. Windows is a piece of shit operating system. But invasive data collection is the least of its isues.

it's fun without friends, just join a platoon with an active platoon leader that actually gives orders
and talk to you platoon
from the little I played today there seems to be a whole lot more of squads talking and feeding information to each other on the US side than there is on the EU side, at least from open platoons of randoms
and try to stick close to your squad, you can do some serious wetwork if you all work together
like holding off 48-96 guys from taking over an outpost with a squad of 12 and some randoms for an hour

Join an outfit.
If you're planing on playing TR, there's a few good ones.

Come to think of it, I have to check if my old outfit (AJA) is running again.

Welp, this is gonna take a while. What do while I wait?

I'm not sure about other servers, but for emerald at least, VS hasn't had the overpop for a while now. TR are the terminally overpopped faction, and VS weapons aren't that amazing nowadays (but the fucking Scythe PPA is still aids)

Whoops, forgot to reply here: Tell me what server you're on and I can recommend outfits.

I'm on the east coast, so Emerald looks to be what I'll be on.

They're weak at anything longer than short range. Playing as one in close quarters was a fucking blast because people walked into literal meat grinders.

In open fields, you're best bet is AA/AT because you aint killing shit unless you're a god with the AT.

Also, if you're new and comingi into the game, you get ALOT of certs the first few ranks. If you ACTUALLY enjoy the first gun of any kind, try getting something different than ironsights, because it'll help out ALOT.

Why the fuck did it repost that image? I didn't even have anything loaded.

To continue with user
NC: Reaver
Think of like an F-15 but with a tank armour
TR: Mosquito
This is the aircraft you use when you need to BRRRRT your opponents to death while throwing missiles at them at the same time.
VS: Scythe
The most agile aircraft in the game, it's literally a spaceship

NC: Vanguard
It's a really slow really powerful really well armored tank
A two seat tank, extremely fast and with the highest fire rate of the game. It can be deployed to further increase fire rate and reload speed.
The stuff of nightmares, a tank that can jump and strafe sideways to avoid enemy fire. The downsight is that it has a small arcing laser cannon that requires the entire vehicle to spin in order to propperly aim it.

That prowler's sounding pretty sexy.

Well that's enough Planetside for today, devs still haven't fixed the macro/micro management of players and moving the war effort.

Base building was fun though.

it's a mammoth tank that you can lock down in place to get the increase to fire rate and reload speed
you can do the same with TRs MAX units
TRs heavy assault can also buy a litteral BRRRT LMG, which I myself haven't tried but that shit sounds scary as fuck to face

Ross' newbie horde thingy got my attention, reading through the thread the solution to BR bases seems to be artillery.

Why doesn't the game have any artillery vehicles?

That's fucking stupid. Might as well rename the game to "Patton Vs. Rommel 2: Space boogaloo"

Don't you dare, Himmler

man i farmed the shit out of you guys

they put artillery into planetside 1

it killed the game

Well, for people JUST starting out on emerald TR, your two options for starting out would either be 1TR or AODR.

AODR is your typical "zergfit"; they field LARGE numbers of players who may or may not be any good at the game. Their platoons are open, so anyone can join, but if they need to make space for an AODR member, then they'll boot someone without the tag. The platoons are really hit or miss. Sometimes you'll get an effective zergherder who'll take you to the fights you want to see and show you a good time, other times you'll get some boring person who'll send you to massively overpop and ghostcap some base while you just sit there waiting for the base to cap and hoping some schmuck leaves the enemy spawn room so you can kill them. It really depends on what you're looking into. If you gitgud in AODR, there's a small squad of skilled players in the outfit called the "reapers", and they're fairly capable. You could, in theory, just spend your time in AOD, moving up from a typical grunt to a squad lead and then a platoon lead, go into reapers, etc.

1TR is a midfit; they usually field 3 squads to a platoon of people, and they're standard midfit fare. They're more coordinated with each other than an AODR zerg, and a bit more capable on an individual skill level (on average) than typical AODR members. Their requirements are mainly that you have teamspeak and be not-braindead, so you could join pretty easily, and they generally have more experienced players on average, so they'd probably teach you the basics better than AODR. That, and when they run ops, they're usually more reliable (in terms of not-ghostcapping empty bases) than AODR. The main issue is that they seem really… reddit-y? You might not necessarily like them as much, and it's not like AODR where's there's just tons of people; there's an outfit culture that I'm sure some anons here just wouldn't get along with.

From there, for more experienced players, you have specialized vehicle or infantry outfits. There are tons of infantry outfits around on TR; I know J0KE's pretty good from having ran with them a couple of times, but their stat requirements can be a little uptight, and they expect a lot from each individual member. They've also been playing more NC and VS lately since TR are overpopped, though. I haven't really ran with much other infantry outfits, but I assure there's plenty of them.

The big vehicle outfits on TR, if you're into that, are ECUS, HONK, and FedX. FedX runs more with battle sunderers (the big buses that you can deploy for a spawn point), although they do all kinds of vehicles. ECUS is a harasser-focused outfit and almost only drives the harasser (the 2-3 man buggy; it goes fucking fast, is fucking fun, and is fucking deadly with people who know how to use it). HONK does lots of different armor, and I know they also dabble in air, as well.

There are probably plenty of other outfits to join, but those are the ones that come to mind first.

The TR's prowler ends up playing a lot like artillery.

Damn, that's some good info. AODR's sounding a little more my speed, if only because I feel like I know what you mean by reddit-y, and if I'm right, I'm not gonna enjoy my time there So I'll give them a shot and see how things go. ECUS sounds like fun too, I've always been a big fan of those kinds of vehicles. I was always the kind of guy who'd be driving the warthog when playing CTF back in halo 1.

Just remember that in a platoon, it's REALLY dependent on having a good platoon lead, and AODR platoons can be really, really hit or miss.

So any good NC oriented outfits for EU servers? I've realized I've given NC the least amount of game time.

Don't expect BRRRTS to be anything NEAR real brrrrts'

Every single gattling gun in this game has a shit ROF and damage.
The minigun TR heavies gets isn't that great either. Takes a while to get spinning and is inaccurate as shit. You do have a attachment that speeds the reving-up.

That's how real battles are.
If you wanna be the great hero that carries the entire side, PS isn't for you. You're a cog in a big machine. Teamwork is more important that individuals and their egos.

TR harraser with the gattling gun and pure murder(fun) in packs.
You just drive around the enemy, and they can't face all sides at once. So most of you will have a clean shot at the tanks backside, and at close range the gatt chews trough vehicles..

playing with randoms in this game is so shit.

What the fuck this game is ass.

Good in paper, shit in execution like what SOE/Daybreak has been doing for the last few years with their games.

I get into the game to see what the new mining mechanics are. Basically its only used for construction… What a stupid fucking idea. They should've allowed you to mine without the need of owning a base.

On top of that they really need to encourage base building away from the front as most of the bases I've seen are located within the front lines and always get destroyed as soon as they're built.

Never mind that you can't build anything without paying real world dollars for it either. Massive scam. People in the squad chat were bitching about that.

I can't believe they wasted a year on these features. They add barely anything to the game at all since no one can actually use them.

all it takes is like three pubbies with the TR building pack to get the real good shit and then a massive zerg of people to BUILD A GREAT WALL and also start spamming the anti infantry turrets under the safety of the bombardment shields

anti infantry turrets that can harass even MBTs+auto turret upgrades+self repair+a bunch of pubbies hyped up in local chat about defending the great wall of TRump = a good time

Wait, why are people talking about joining AODR?
I thought we had Spicy Spokes Serf Slayers…

is Holla Forums teaming up for fun?

how join?

TR faction
Emerald server
Spicy Spokes Serf Slayers outfit

4.3 gigs/10, might be playing tommorow night.

What's the story behind the name?

Someone didn't want a generic name like "infinity" and we didn't really want to link back to 8ch, so I randomly suggested that, and I guess people liked it.

For the people who can't run PS2 on their PCs/Laptops because the gaem melts that shit down hard or so forth, I could make a PS4 PS2 outfit for you m8s if need-be.

Any suggestions for names to go with for an outfit name if/when I did so, m8s?

"No Games And A Cripple"

If it can fit.

It actually fit. Just need a 4 letter Tag to work with, and then all set m8s.

Either way, the Outfit is now up. Look for it on seemingly the only PS4 server for this game if you want to join in for some bantz and also try to drive back the Vanu menace as TR.

PS3-O

And done. For the PS4 players here who want in, then hop on in and look for "No Games And a Cripple" in the outfits list. Also have it set to auto-recruit, so come on in m8s.

are you actually retarded

it has its flaws, yeah, but I was just saying that it is a BRRRT
I haven't used it myself and I haven't been stuck like a leech to a heavy that uses one, I'm only going by what it was like when a bunch of people in my old outfit bought one and used it as a group to BRRRT people
was funny seeing them run up to where we were, hear the sound and turn around, and soon after stop coming all together

Can someone invite Hawkyns?

lottsaspiders on miller hit me up niggas