PlanetSide 2 Splits PS4 and PC Players

[Cognimancer]

PlanetSide 2 Splits PS4 and PC Players


PlanetSide 2 will cater to soldiers both on console on PC, but they'll be on different battlefields.

The PlayStation 4 already has multiple free-to-play MMOs in its line-up, including a port of the formerly PC-exclusive PlanetSide 2. Even though players on both the PS4 and the PC will be able to participate in the war for Auraxis, it looks like they won't be sharing the same frontlines. PlanetSide 2 creative director Matt Higby recently explained that cross-platform play isn't possible due to the technical challenges of parallel development.

"Because of the update cadence," Higby says, "and the additional steps you have to go through to be able to release an update on the PlayStation network, we're not going to be able to keep our servers in sync, so you won't be able to just play with the same people. They might be a week behind in terms of patching, or a day behind or whatever it ends up being, and we can't really have that."

Fear not, brave soldiers of the New Conglomerate and those other two factions - the PlanetSide 2 console experience won't be completely divorced from its PC origins. Even with differing patch schedules, Higby noted that the character format is identical on both systems, so it should be possible to port a character between platforms with ease. While that doesn't necessarily confirm that character transfers will be implemented, it's certainly a meaningful wink and a nudge in that direction.

Source: Eurogamer [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-08-05-sony-explains-lack-of-planetside-2-pc-and-ps4-cross-platform-play-teases-character-transfers]

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[synobal]

The peasants are not worthy to spill blood along side my Terran brothers. For the Republic, for the Master Race!

 

[faefrost]

I assume this is simply the eternal issue that PC controls are so superior to game controllers for fps play that it rapidly becomes a grossly unfair playing field if you mix the two. Didn't MS try intermingling the un interminglable with one early fps on the XBox to disastrous results? And since then pretty much everyone has agreed to just keep them separated?

 

[Abomination]

Ok he is flat out lieing now...

Ok so it takes extra steps to release an update on play station.

A child that is particularly dim CHILD could tell you just to push the PC updates back to match up with when the Playstation updates are pushed through. Its ok, you can say what everyone knows, you are keeping them separate because console players would get destroyed by PC players in an all things being fair contest simply due to the way the controls work.

And seriously? SONY online entertainment is going to have trouble keeping things synced on a SONY console? What the fuck does that say about Sony?

It's one of those scenarios that just becomes more absurd the more you think about it.

It's also highlighting another reason why PC gamers are indeed the master race - we can update our stuff without needing to appease the gods of the other platforms.

No gods, no masters... only Gabe.

 

[octafish]

The peasants are not worthy to spill blood along side my Terran brothers. For the Republic, for the Master Race!

Will I be hated because I only played TR because it was the MOAR DAKKA faction?

.... you know, setting up in the Infantry MAX and spraying down entire courtyards, killing everything that wasn't in an armored vehicle.....


well, better than the VS'es, LOL, HOVERCRAFT WITH LASERS AND LAG INDUCING KILL EVERYTHING WITH ENERGY BALLS RIFLES!



Also, any news if Planetside 2 is going to be on the Ps4 also? Because next generation I am getting one, but I'm going to feel stupid if the games I want to play [namely being Dust-541 and Planetside 2] are only for the Ps3.

Possibly enough that I will sell my 360 and collection of games so that I can get a Ps3 along side the Ps4

Yes you will be hated. TR is only for hardline fascists, you are playing for the wrong team. NC will bring you freedom.

Article says nothing about the 3, Planetside is for Next Gen only. No way in hell could a PS3 run PS2 the game is a resource monster.

 

[Sprinal]

Well I'm glad it's going to the PS4 only

Don't like Microsoft (with the exception of their Operating systems {well the good ones anyway}) or maybe it's just their audience that I don't like.

Regardless it will be interesting to see whether it takes off on consoles. If it does we might see more MMOFPS games. Which will be much better than more COD Clones

 

[Daemascus]

Probably for the best. Between two people of equal skill the mouse and keyboard user will usually prevail on the battlefield. Still that doesn't mean zero interaction, there could be a meta game aspect that takes from both versions.

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

This is the only possible option. You cannot mix controllers and M&K FPS controls without console players dying like animals.

Though, as a side point to that, I'd love to see K&M be a supported control format on console FPS games.

 

[Roxor]

Call me Captain Obvious for saying this, but why not just delay the PC patch a week, if that's how long the console one takes to distribute?

 

[SSJBlastoise]

Call me Captain Obvious for saying this, but why not just delay the PC patch a week, if that's how long the console one takes to distribute?

Oh lord I would love to see that! Not because it would mean cross platform play but because of the amount of people that would end up bitching about it. PC users have gotten used to having patches released as soon as possible and knowing that they have to wait because of consoles would most likely create a shit storm.

 

[Grabehn]

And seriously? SONY online entertainment is going to have trouble keeping things synced on a SONY console? What the fuck does that say about Sony?

It lets us know that their PR department is as lousy as most others.

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Technology incompatibilities? This kind of thing wouldn't be happening if you philistines just embraced the superior technology of Vanu already. Getting real tired of having to penetrate barbarian skulls with glorious Vanu lasers knowledge.

Knock, knock, enlightenment is here bitches.​

OT: I thought this might happen, a closed system where a patch has to go through quality checks by a third party was never going to keep up with a system where the devs can offload the patch straight to the end user. The alternative, delaying the pc patch, annoys their main clientèle which is nearly always a bad business move.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

I kind of took this as red. Did they promise cross-platform play for PC/consoles at some point?

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well this makes it easier on both players and devs alike so that is why, yes console players would get shafted and then PC players would complain they haveto carry them as well, meanwhile Sony would need to mitigate these disputes while also doing synchronized development and servers... extra work to have people even more pissy just doesn't make sense on any level.