Planetside WAR! Call to Arms!

[Zubren]

Hey guys, if you want to get the 14 day free trial of Planetside, there's still a way to do so. I had to do a bit of searching to find this out, it's too bad SOE doesn't advertise this as it could have gotten a bunch of people hooked.

Got to http://launcher.station.sony.com/ and download the Station Beta. Make a new account and log in, you'll have the choice to pick a bunch of SOE's games to try, just click on planetside and select the trial option.

Now get out there and start practicing as TR! RED OR DEAD!

 

[Canyew]

Terran Republic now and forever my brothers. I hopeI get picked I have a lot of experance as a pilot and a hacker. Slipping into open zones at 3am when no one is on and hacking enemy bases as a lone wolf was kinda fun. I miss the old days and want to relive the exprance by making some VS And NC Tread pancakes.

Also on another note if I don't get picked, and they do give you guys a public server to make some red people fodder I would love the info on it. I was thinknig about reactivating my old account just to join in the hell that is to come.

 

[EvilDaed]

Planetside contest? I'm there.

I used to play this game on and off a few years ago. Dropping gens inside heavily contested bases as a cloaker was fun as hell. Sadly the last time I tried playing I discovered there were only about eight people total on werner.

 

[Checowsky]

Well this is annoying, been coming here and reading the articles for some time then Yahtzee popped up and I've been enjoying that and then suddenly Planetside advertising. I nearly died from shock, SOE putting in effort to promote Planetside is shock.

I'm a 4 year Vet of PS, 80'000 kills or so many top level chars and in the Outfit which won the Outfit wars. I'm guessing this will be like the Outfit Wars, you will be dumped on Old Oshur. That was a cont which was taken off the game but is still on the servers so devs can pull you one by one over to it like they did for the outfit wars. Shame I'm at Uni now else I'd have signed up but PS is blocked at Uni so I'm shtuck, pain really miss that game.

XDT? I recognise your name, were you a Werner player?

I dont think they'll be like outfit wars, I'm hoping for full on ingame play, being that 75 people from all time zones (quite likely half from america, half from australia, and a sprinkling of europeans) means planning a set event at a time would be difficult.

Thats !!X][D][T!! =P Alrite Andy yeah Checowskys BR25 CR5 on Werner. Was in XDT then MERCENARYS and then hopped around a bit and moved to Delta Triad on Emmy, now Gemini.

I remember you, sure I have your e-mail somewhere.

 

[Abedeus]

Okay I was checking out Boing Boing to see what they were saying about us and I accidently hit the link that got me the "I'm in the Planetside WAR for Boing Boing" badge. Can this badge be removed? I'm completely in this for the Escapist and I'm really looking forward to this if I get in.

Get 3 more badges and you can remove it ;p

 

[Checowsky]

Just to put this out there for the people planning to play the Certs that most of the top players use are generally the same, although they are based around solo play or small team co-operation rather than large scale fights...

Same certs I had that a lot of quick responce kill whoring players use:

Med
Engie
RExo
Medium Assault
Heavy Assault
Anti Vehicular [or Special Assault depending both have good MAX counter measures]
Mossie [Air Calvery: Scout - useful for quick responce and fast drop attacks]
Adv Hacking

I would reccomend that set-up to those who are infantry based, the main point would be to switch around Adv Hacking which costs 5 cert points in total for whatever you want. I used to add in Sniping and Combat Engineering or Adv Medical. Of course this set-up is only good for infantry based peeps rather and kinda concentrates on being a kill frenzy nutter but it works well in teamwork if you have people with similar set-ups [namely Mossie and HA or a MAX] and then you can support each other. Say you have the Adv Hacker, a Adv Med or two, a MAX unit and some other peeps with SA and HA load outs all with Mossies. You can drop on a bases back door, get to the spawns, hack everyones gear from the terminals and kill the spawns and all the while you have Adv Meds and when you get to the spawns and the Adv Hack hacks out gear you'll have MAX support and then you push to the Control Console [CC].

Its a quick responce tactic that works well.

 

[BigDrockPS]

Just to put this out there for the people planning to play the Certs that most of the top players use are generally the same, although they are based around solo play or small team co-operation rather than large scale fights...

Same certs I had that a lot of quick responce kill whoring players use:

Med
Engie
RExo
Medium Assault
Heavy Assault
Anti Vehicular [or Special Assault depending both have good MAX counter measures]
Mossie [Air Calvery: Scout - useful for quick responce and fast drop attacks]
Adv Hacking

I would reccomend that set-up to those who are infantry based, the main point would be to switch around Adv Hacking which costs 5 cert points in total for whatever you want. I used to add in Sniping and Combat Engineering or Adv Medical. Of course this set-up is only good for infantry based peeps rather and kinda concentrates on being a kill frenzy nutter but it works well in teamwork if you have people with similar set-ups [namely Mossie and HA or a MAX] and then you can support each other. Say you have the Adv Hacker, a Adv Med or two, a MAX unit and some other peeps with SA and HA load outs all with Mossies. You can drop on a bases back door, get to the spawns, hack everyones gear from the terminals and kill the spawns and all the while you have Adv Meds and when you get to the spawns and the Adv Hack hacks out gear you'll have MAX support and then you push to the Control Console [CC].

Its a quick responce tactic that works well.

These guys are going to be BR1, they cant even cert half of that stuff. Get a brain.

 

[Esgar]

For those of us with vista, this is quoted from over on the SOE Planetside forums on how to get Vista and PS to play nice with each other.

In order to get planetside to work in Vista you need to do the following: (Info provided by ThePodster)

* Install it
* Run the program compatability wizard and select "Planetside" to run with the following settings:
* Use Windows 95 Settings and Disable the last three visual components
* Turn off the Side Bar

This will get it running (you may get a file error, but click ok and it's fine), but it will be a LOT slower than you're used to. In order to get it back up to speed I recommend stopping several non-essential services (for the duration of your play).

These can be achieved using a script (see below) in a .bat file. Just remember to start them again or reboot after play.

@echo off
Echo Stopping services ready for planetside... Press any key...
pause
Net Stop "Function Discovery Resource Publication"
Net Stop "IP Helper"
Net Stop "Offline Files"
Net Stop "Portable Device Enumerator Service"
Net Stop "Print Spooler"
Net Stop "ReadyBoost"
Net Stop "Secondary Logon"
Net Stop "Security Center"
Net Stop "Superfetch"
Net Stop "Tablet PC Input Service"
Net Stop "Terminal Services"
Net Stop "Windows Defender"
Net Stop "Windows Search"
Net Stop "Windows Update"
echo Completed... Press any key to go back to windows
pause

Hope this helps,

Podster.


Alternate Compatibility settings (From iONLYkillVS)


iONLYkillVS was telling me this combo might work better.

Launchpad:
Mode: 95
Admin Rights

Planetside:
Mode: NT 4.0 SP5
(And check the bottom 3 boxes)*
*Gathering details

 

[Checowsky]

Just to put this out there for the people planning to play the Certs that most of the top players use.....

ya da ya da ya da

.....Its a quick responce tactic that works well.

These guys are going to be BR1, they cant even cert half of that stuff. Get a brain.

Or they will come in with full certs seen as it would be a boring fight otherwise and SOE have that power at hand. But hey if they're having to level its something to aim for, ta for the insta-abuse though just trying to help.

 

[Shawndb]

cooooool. I miss playing planetside. I am so signing up. I should get some practive in just in case.

 

[Singing Gremlin]

These guys are going to be BR1, they cant even cert half of that stuff. Get a brain.

Well, you can get up to BR 4 just using the training areas, if you have patience. It's a basic structure to aim for, I suppose.

 

[WastedHero]

Okay, if I do get to be apart of the Escapist army *bats eyelashes*, I would like to form a ninja squad made of infiltrators. We will call ourselves "The Invisible Hand of Yahtzee".

 

[Checowsky]

Okay, if I do get to be apart of the Escapist army *bats eyelashes*, I would like to form a ninja squad made of infiltrators. We will call ourselves "The Invisible Hand of Yahtzee".

...Really? People liking Yahtzee is all well and good but I've never gotten the following stuff gathers on the internet. Come on, think of something more entertaining. =)


Oh and the best way to gether Exp is to get HA and find a medium sized fight, or heck a large one, and farm the nearest tower. Of course you need the skill first but you'll pick it up. That and join a big squad and zerg around.

 

[WastedHero]

Okay, if I do get to be apart of the Escapist army *bats eyelashes*, I would like to form a ninja squad made of infiltrators. We will call ourselves "The Invisible Hand of Yahtzee".

...Really? People liking Yahtzee is all well and good but I've never gotten the following stuff gathers on the internet. Come on, think of something more entertaining. =)

Okay, how about "The Invisible Hand of I-Will-Do-And-Say-Anything-To-Get-Into-This-Contest"?

 

[EvilDaed]

Okay, how about "The Invisible Hand of I-Will-Do-And-Say-Anything-To-Get-Into-This-Contest"?

You could just...y'know, subscribe for a month if you don't get picked.

 

[Bing]

have the winners been drawn yet?

 

[Esgar]

Okay, how about "The Invisible Hand of I-Will-Do-And-Say-Anything-To-Get-Into-This-Contest"?

You could just...y'know, subscribe for a month if you don't get picked.

Hah, don't even have to do that. 30 days free with purchase.

 

[wedrinkritalin]

I used to love this game, the wait is not fair

 

[Spinwhiz]

Okay Peeps,

I will be drawing winners throughout the day. Once you have been chosen, please display your badge. After all 70 are selected at random (I have to give out keys separately so it takes a while) I will create a new thread for downloadable instructions and place for us to "meet".

If you are NOT chosen, please stay tuned. There is always a chance I will banhammer someone and an account will open up for me to give away.

I will try to start handing these out asap.

Best,
Spinwhiz