Planetside WAR! Call to Arms!

[Ringwraith]

Maybe, strength in numbers after all (human wave, Russians did it in WWII, though I doubt we'd get shot by own side if we retreated by an inch).
What I forgot to add was that if I find PS good I may be tempted to actually SUBSCRIBE(this a completely foreign concept to me, I hate having to pay for something constantly), though we'll see I suppose. Of course it would have run on this computer first... (it should do, runs UT04 at full).

 

[MalthusX]

Maybe, strength in numbers after all (human wave, Russians did it in WWII, though I doubt we'd get shot by own side if we retreated by an inch).
What I forgot to add was that if I find PS good I may be tempted to actually SUBSCRIBE(this a completely foreign concept to me, I hate having to pay for something constantly), though we'll see I suppose. Of course it would have run on this computer first... (it should do, runs UT04 at full).

Nonono, I'm sure the Escapist has thought of everything. We try to retreat, our PC explodes

 

[Ringwraith]

Well, it you retreat from 5 hours a week you are permanently EXILED from the Escapist (though if you had a legitimate reason I'm sure they would understand and pardon your desertion).
Also, I can't command people, I lose track track of stuff myself anyway.

 

[Spinwhiz]

For all of you that may be using VISTA http://forums.station.sony.com/ps/posts/list.m?topic_id=88000012599

Thank you very much [user]jleech[/user]!

I would not recommend using Vista at all for this game, even if Sony says it will work. This is a DX8 game and Vista does not support DX8. An Example is, I can get upwards of 500-1000 fps in sanctuary with XP and get a max of 30-40 with Vista. Once you go into a large scale battle, Vista will struggle so much that your high end computer will be giving you 10-15 fps at most. I would HIGHLY recommend installing XP on a partition or however you choose to do it, if you want to play Planetside.[

I tend to agree with you. I'm going to test it on my comp this weekend and report but from what I've been told, Planetside doesn't run to well on Vista.

 

[Blind0bserver]

Have we heard anything from SOE regarding the server arrangements yet? I figure at this point the best move is to turf all of us off into their test server to we can run amok while being separate from their subscribers.

At this point it's the only solution that makes sense because anything else is going to screw somebody over. We can't expect SOE to close off Gemini just for us and we sure as hell can't expect them to dump 225 level one players into Gemini amidst all of the high level veterans and still expect us to have our contest without any problems.

 

[Ringwraith]

For all of you that may be using VISTA http://forums.station.sony.com/ps/posts/list.m?topic_id=88000012599

Thank you very much [user]jleech[/user]!

I would not recommend using Vista at all for this game, even if Sony says it will work. This is a DX8 game and Vista does not support DX8. An Example is, I can get upwards of 500-1000 fps in sanctuary with XP and get a max of 30-40 with Vista. Once you go into a large scale battle, Vista will struggle so much that your high end computer will be giving you 10-15 fps at most. I would HIGHLY recommend installing XP on a partition or however you choose to do it, if you want to play Planetside.[

I tend to agree with you. I'm going to test it on my comp this weekend and report but from what I've been told, Planetside doesn't run to well on Vista.

Vista's evilness is further proved.
Good thing I'm still running XP and will be for probably quite a few years to come.
Vista also eats your RAM for breakfast.

 

[BigDrockPS]

I have been giving you guys a hard time, but it is all in good fun. I have been part of this game since the beginning and have watched its fall from greatness. A new injection of 200+ players will be good for the game and bring back some diversity of fights to choose from for the people that are used to the game having a larger population.

The game is a MMO, so it does have a larger learning curve then the average FPS. Don't get discouraged if you die a lot at first or feel clumsy with the controls, it will come with time. There are tools to repair your armor, medicate your health, hack things, build engineering items, list goes on, so it is not just a carbon copy FPS where you grab a gun and go shoot stuff up. The nice thing about this MMO is a level 1 character can beat a level 25 character in a fight, if they are the better player.

 

[Ringwraith]

Yeah I suppose that is nice, nothing sucks more than getting stomped on by high-levels repeatedly, it mostly comes down to skill and tactics after all, so anyone can beat anyone else. Now if I manage to play it and enjoy it (though I'm probably quite likely to, enjoy it that is) I may be tempted into a subscription... or wait until they start the Reserves thing up again and join for a more lengthy period of time, so I can give it a fairer trial.
It also sounds a little little like BF1942 (haven't played any of the others except Vietnam) with soldiers, medics and engineers running around, though you're are given quite a lot of flexibility in what direction you want to go. Medics and engineers were always my favourite in BF, (medics so I solo creep into a base crawling with AI bots and heal up indefinitely, and engineers so I could go out on extended vehicle trips, particularly with my 'jeep of death' driving).

 

[MalthusX]

I'm sure it will be fun no matter what happens. I tend to have fun in games regardless of whether I am winning or loosing.

 

[Ringwraith]

It's not about the winning or losing, it's about how you got there. Simple.
Gameplay > Anything Else
Though admittedly a total whitewash can be annoying when it's so obviously unfair, though it's always great fun to try and hold out as long as possible against overwhelming odds, especially when you do much better than you should of statically done.

 

[BigDrockPS]

Yeah I suppose that is nice, nothing sucks more than getting stomped on by high-levels repeatedly, it mostly comes down to skill and tactics after all, so anyone can beat anyone else. Now if I manage to play it and enjoy it (though I'm probably quite likely to, enjoy it that is) I may be tempted into a subscription... or wait until they start the Reserves thing up again and join for a more lengthy period of time, so I can give it a fairer trial.
It also sounds a little little like BF1942 (haven't played any of the others except Vietnam) with soldiers, medics and engineers running around, though you're are given quite a lot of flexibility in what direction you want to go. Medics and engineers were always my favourite in BF, (medics so I solo creep into a base crawling with AI bots and heal up indefinitely, and engineers so I could go out on extended vehicle trips, particularly with my 'jeep of death' driving).

Not at all similar. There are certification points that you recieve to start and then get when you achieve new levels. These points can be put into any cert you choose, therefore making you more then just a medic or just an engy. You can cert both medical and engy and anything else you choose similtaniously, inturn making you more versitle then having to be just theteams medic. If you want to play a support character, then you are able to have things like advanced medic(rez), engy (several types of engy are avaliable), vehicles (AMS aka mobile spawn point), etc. If you want to be a grunt then you get heavy assault, anti vehicular weapons, special assault, and vehicles to compliment that style like several air vehicles or tanks, reinforced armor, and then also can carry basic or advanced adv engy or med to heal and repair yourself or others. Then of course there is a combination of all these, plus more things, to hybrid your style however you may choose.

 

[Espion41]

If you have any questions just send a /tell ingame, I'll probably be fighting you most of the time but i'll still answer. PS is a hard game to get into if you don't have anyone to show you around

Espion(TR), Espion41(VS), xCanucck(VS)

 

[Ringwraith]

Yeah I suppose that is nice, nothing sucks more than getting stomped on by high-levels repeatedly, it mostly comes down to skill and tactics after all, so anyone can beat anyone else. Now if I manage to play it and enjoy it (though I'm probably quite likely to, enjoy it that is) I may be tempted into a subscription... or wait until they start the Reserves thing up again and join for a more lengthy period of time, so I can give it a fairer trial.
It also sounds a little little like BF1942 (haven't played any of the others except Vietnam) with soldiers, medics and engineers running around, though you're are given quite a lot of flexibility in what direction you want to go. Medics and engineers were always my favourite in BF, (medics so I solo creep into a base crawling with AI bots and heal up indefinitely, and engineers so I could go out on extended vehicle trips, particularly with my 'jeep of death' driving).

Not at all similar. There are certification points that you recieve to start and then get when you achieve new levels. These points can be put into any cert you choose, therefore making you more then just a medic or just an engy. You can cert both medical and engy and anything else you choose similtaniously, inturn making you more versitle then having to be just theteams medic. If you want to play a support character, then you are able to have things like advanced medic(rez), engy (several types of engy are avaliable), vehicles (AMS aka mobile spawn point), etc. If you want to be a grunt then you get heavy assault, anti vehicular weapons, special assault, and vehicles to compliment that style like several air vehicles or tanks, reinforced armor, and then also can carry basic or advanced adv engy or med to heal and repair yourself or others. Then of course there is a combination of all these, plus more things, to hybrid your style however you may choose.

I know it wasn't a great comparison, but that's probably the closest game I've played to it, I knew what I meant when I typed it (my inherent problem, I knew what I meant, no-one else would), but I know about the cert system (ish, all wiki-based here), and how flexible it is to suit pretty much any playstyle, and BF also has capture points (though PS ones require hacking and have other features).
Anyway, I was meaning I'm quite likely to go the medic/assault route, as there are already quite a lot of engineers about (from what I've read) and engineers are better with vehicle certs as repairing your own vehicle is a huge plus. Anyway, most of this will probably be blown out of the water when you finally start toying with all the options available (and the 6 hour refund is a such a good idea, as you can try everything out without fear of being locked into something, you can even completely rebuild your entire character with it). So forward planning is fairly pointless, I'll just go with what I think works/like/am best at and most importantly: have the most fun with.

 

[WolfLordAndy]

Heres something that might help some fo you guys deside what you want to do, in a planned sence anyway! It's an out of date one, missing the second advancing of the support skills, but will give you a rough idea of what you can do at any one point.

clicky [http://www.xennon.co.uk/pscertcalc/pscertcalcblack.html]

They use to have free refunds until a certain level, or certain play time I think, not sure if they've still got that in though.

 

[Espion41]

That calculator is wrong, you have 7 cert points at BR1. It's from before they upped the max rank from 20 to 25

 

[WolfLordAndy]

That calculator is wrong, you have 7 cert points at BR1

Like I said, its an old calculator, they changed it at one point so you don't get certs at br6, 12, 18 and get those 3 at the start now, as you get implant slots at those stages.

Just stick it on BR23 and pick things to see how they are

 

[BigDrockPS]

Yeah I suppose that is nice, nothing sucks more than getting stomped on by high-levels repeatedly, it mostly comes down to skill and tactics after all, so anyone can beat anyone else. Now if I manage to play it and enjoy it (though I'm probably quite likely to, enjoy it that is) I may be tempted into a subscription... or wait until they start the Reserves thing up again and join for a more lengthy period of time, so I can give it a fairer trial.
It also sounds a little little like BF1942 (haven't played any of the others except Vietnam) with soldiers, medics and engineers running around, though you're are given quite a lot of flexibility in what direction you want to go. Medics and engineers were always my favourite in BF, (medics so I solo creep into a base crawling with AI bots and heal up indefinitely, and engineers so I could go out on extended vehicle trips, particularly with my 'jeep of death' driving).

Not at all similar. There are certification points that you recieve to start and then get when you achieve new levels. These points can be put into any cert you choose, therefore making you more then just a medic or just an engy. You can cert both medical and engy and anything else you choose similtaniously, inturn making you more versitle then having to be just theteams medic. If you want to play a support character, then you are able to have things like advanced medic(rez), engy (several types of engy are avaliable), vehicles (AMS aka mobile spawn point), etc. If you want to be a grunt then you get heavy assault, anti vehicular weapons, special assault, and vehicles to compliment that style like several air vehicles or tanks, reinforced armor, and then also can carry basic or advanced adv engy or med to heal and repair yourself or others. Then of course there is a combination of all these, plus more things, to hybrid your style however you may choose.

I know it wasn't a great comparison, but that's probably the closest game I've played to it, I knew what I meant when I typed it (my inherent problem, I knew what I meant, no-one else would), but I know about the cert system (ish, all wiki-based here), and how flexible it is to suit pretty much any playstyle, and BF also has capture points (though PS ones require hacking and have other features).
Anyway, I was meaning I'm quite likely to go the medic/assault route, as there are already quite a lot of engineers about (from what I've read) and engineers are better with vehicle certs as repairing your own vehicle is a huge plus. Anyway, most of this will probably be blown out of the water when you finally start toying with all the options available (and the 6 hour refund is a such a good idea, as you can try everything out without fear of being locked into something, you can even completely rebuild your entire character with it). So forward planning is fairly pointless, I'll just go with what I think works/like/am best at and most importantly: have the most fun with.

Your first 7 days after making any new character gives you a grace period where there is no timer, you can change them at will to get a feeling of what you want from that toon.

You can also make multiple characters on the same empire, meaning you can have a grunt and a support character if you wish and there is no penalty to switch back and forth. You can also have characters on the other two empires but recieve a 12 hour lockout timer if you switch from one empire to another. This is good since it stops empire hoppers from bouncing around to which ever side is doing better at the time and throwing off the populations.

 

[Ringwraith]

The 7 day thing is even better, though you could use the 6-hour refund to rebuild your character if you wanted a change and you weren't going to be playing for a while (just log in, dump the cert, log out again, repeat as often as possible).
Still, I'd have to actually play the game before I started any planning... and I run of a sort of almost haphazard development with most things anyway (just check stuff as you go along, some of the best combos can turn out that way, mostly by chance), it's also good with PS as you can simply refund your certs if you don't like it.

 

[BigDrockPS]

The 7 day thing is even better, though you could use the 6-hour refund to rebuild your character if you wanted a change and you weren't going to be playing for a while (just log in, dump the cert, log out again, repeat as often as possible).
Still, I'd have to actually play the game before I started any planning... and I run of a sort of almost haphazard development with most things anyway (just check stuff as you go along, some of the best combos can turn out that way, mostly by chance), it's also good with PS as you can simply refund your certs if you don't like it.

I agree. They do it because it is an Outfit (Clan/Guild) based game, for the most part, and you sometimes need people to fill certian roles on short notice. It is also a MMO and most MMO's are too elaberate to lock someone into certain choices.

You guys will like the game, there is nothing else like it. The game is only a shimmer of its former glory, shit was epic 3+ years ago, but still can be fun for people that have not been kicked in the snatch by SOE for the last 6 years.

 

[Singing Gremlin]

I've been playing it on Vista. It's not exactly great performance wise but I haven't taken a major FPS hit running it on max settings thus far. It IS pretty damn unstable though. Client crashing when you've finally got a full galaxy gunship=fail.