Yeah the sound tech is fantastic. Wish there was a bit more variation in weapon sounds though, most of the guns sound exactly the same per faction so it's hard to tell weapon types apart. Doesn't help that most of the guns are visually similar as well.
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Yeah the sound tech is fantastic. Wish there was a bit more variation in weapon sounds though, most of the guns sound exactly the same per faction so it's hard to tell weapon types apart. Doesn't help that most of the guns are visually similar as well.
They need to do something about this. I'm getting better about dodging idiots who don't realize they are being repaired, but it's the fucking worst when it happens. Maybe make the repair distance greater so I don't need to hug the tank to repair, or make it extremely clear to the driver when they are being repaired so they know to stop moving.
I've been getting hard locks with the game very 3 or so hours.. Anyone else get this?
Few Screenies from today.
Huge night assault on Peris.
Love the feeling that this game gives you being a part of a huge convoy. Of course, with a huge convoy, people tend to run people over as in the case on the top right shows.
Few Screenies from today.
Huge night assault on Peris.
Love the feeling that this game gives you being a part of a huge convoy. Of course, with a huge convoy, people tend to run people over as in the case on the top right shows.
It's pretty weak, I think, because after a someone's shield is ripped off they tend to die pretty fast, healers or no healers, and this is not taking into account the amount of damage flying around in large encounters. So, really, PS2's medic's effective healing is significantly lower than its TF2 counterpart.
Some things that might help are:
1) Increased range (standing behind a HA is a nono)
2) Drastically higher hp regen
3) Bonus health buffer at max health
I feel like the primary purpose of a medic is to keep a push moving by reviving people who died and then getting them up to serviceable health levels, and not as an proactive healer. Perhaps that's the intention.
Shai-Tan
Banned
yes, this. they could also improve this by adding more hints for things like repair when you press q button. right now when you press q on an ally in a vehicle it will ask them to stop to let you catch a ride but there isn't anything similar for repair like in battlefield
Shai-Tan
Banned
It's definitely cool but also little weird when you get a big infantry zerg all running across the countryside together. It's a sign that I should be going elsewhere to take territory.
Garrus Vakarian
Member
I have noticed this on a lot of vehicles but oddly enough it sometimes gives me the option, on both ground and air vehicles, yet other times like you said I would just end up yelling for a pickup.
So there is definitely an option in the game, and there is voice recorded for when you do it "I'll get that fixed right up" etc. I'm pretty sure the times that it lets me use it is when the vehicle is below half health.
I've been getting hard locks with the game very 3 or so hours.. Anyone else get this?
Few Screenies from today.
Huge night assault on Peris.
Love the feeling that this game gives you being a part of a huge convoy. Of course, with a huge convoy, people tend to run people over as in the case on the top right shows.
I only had hard locks when trying to use cross fire.
Shai-Tan
Banned
hmm, guess I just haven't repaired enough. I suppose if they do actually have the option that it should pioritize that if the repair tool is out.
there are some other improvements they could make to the contextual q like not asking for ammo over and over when I'm just trying to spot enemies
especially on vanu where it's asking for "batteries". if i woudln't lose my progress I would quit faction just to not listen to "need more batteries" and "do you have any batteries?" over and over It doesn't help that the graphic representation of the heal or repair beam is hilariously shitty. It looks like a placeholder. The lack of a 'lock-on healing' type thing is sorely missing too. Being able to heal someone while facing the opposite direction in TF2 was great.
That's fucking awesome. Some people were wondering Amerish in one of the bio labs how a Sythe got in. Lol
Are trials extremely buggy or something? I haven't had a trial in a few days but nothing happens when I click "Try now" still. I really want to test a Medic gun and some carbines so I can decide what to buy. If anyone has experience with some of the TR unlocks, please let me know if it's worth it or not. I got a bolt action sniper and that's worth it when I don't even play that class often, lol.
Once that double station cash sale comes around again, everything will be mine. I decided not to get one of the games on my Christmas buy list (a thing a poor sick person with medical bills has to do so don't think I'm a little kid...lol) just so I can spend more on this game since I enjoy it so much. I think I'll be smart and save some SC though for the next content update since I remember Tribes basically milking people by making them spend it all one day on new stuff, and then come back the next month with even more stuff to buy but they already spent it all on the last update making them spend more than they wanted to and effectively making them stop using the weapon they bought previously...
Once that double station cash sale comes around again, everything will be mine. I decided not to get one of the games on my Christmas buy list (a thing a poor sick person with medical bills has to do so don't think I'm a little kid...lol) just so I can spend more on this game since I enjoy it so much. I think I'll be smart and save some SC though for the next content update since I remember Tribes basically milking people by making them spend it all one day on new stuff, and then come back the next month with even more stuff to buy but they already spent it all on the last update making them spend more than they wanted to and effectively making them stop using the weapon they bought previously...
Did you go to menu gun pane and equip it for a loadout?
Yes, it's just that the try now button isn't working at all and nothing actually unlocks in the loadout menu.
So it seems they're content with stability and we're now entering back into new content/fps improvement patch phase
They're almost done with a big fps boost optmization but it'll require a new download of the game. Fair trade if it really boosts fps.
Also, new weapons tomorrow!! New carbines & sniper rifles. New Anti Vehicle stuff next week including better AA.
They're almost done with a big fps boost optmization but it'll require a new download of the game. Fair trade if it really boosts fps.
Also, new weapons tomorrow!! New carbines & sniper rifles. New Anti Vehicle stuff next week including better AA.
So it seems they're content with stability and we're now entering back into new content/fps improvement patch phase
They're almost done with a big fps boost optmization but it'll require a new download of the game. Fair trade if it really boosts fps.
Wait..as in uninstall and reinstall?
So it seems they're content with stability and we're now entering back into new content/fps improvement patch phase
They're almost done with a big fps boost optmization but it'll require a new download of the game. Fair trade if it really boosts fps.
Also, new weapons tomorrow!! New carbines & sniper rifles. New Anti Vehicle stuff next week including better AA.
Where did you see this? Very exciting!!!
Smedley's (SOE President) twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/j_smedley
There's an update tomorrow and then next week's update is Tuesday. Smedley sounds like he wants to make patch-days on Tuesday going forward.
I reinstalled my gpu drivers and that fixed it for me
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Is that a glitch or by design?
It's not a glitch or by design, it's just cool and unexpected.
razgriz417
Member
Depends where you get hit maybe? I've taken down HAs using my medic with the health regen on active and their nanomesh up. That and the HP (Nanoweave) cert is worthless over the first point. It gives you a % of health but health pools are so low that (according to math from the beta) while the first cert into it will let you survive an extra bullet, the rest doesn't increase your HP enough to survive another
Love that we're getting new content already, really hope a new SC sale happens soon...
Confused101
Member
So I tried this game and I'm actually having a lot of fun with it now that I now what I'm doing. I managed to get to battle rank 10 and have a few hundred certs under my belt. I started with an infiltrator then found I had much more fun as a HA. I chose the purple people eater faction.
So here's my question. What's the best suit upgrade? The faster shield regen or the boosted health? I know the weapons are different for the factions but I'm guessing the things you can cert into for the classes themselves are the same or similar. I'm pretty set on what I'm going to do for guns and attachments anyway. That gun trial system is actually pretty cool.
Edit: That post above me pretty much answers my question. It felt like health wasn't much at all and the percentage increase wasn't going to do much.
So here's my question. What's the best suit upgrade? The faster shield regen or the boosted health? I know the weapons are different for the factions but I'm guessing the things you can cert into for the classes themselves are the same or similar. I'm pretty set on what I'm going to do for guns and attachments anyway. That gun trial system is actually pretty cool.
Edit: That post above me pretty much answers my question. It felt like health wasn't much at all and the percentage increase wasn't going to do much.
Doppelganger
Neo Member
HS/NV is your friend.
Anton668
Member
if I already missed the talk please move on....
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Larger health, anything that keeps you alive longer will be the best investment.
Lol, this is hilarious.
God I love the Flare (Vanu LMG). Already halfway to the...whatever is better than Gold medal.
But yeah I tried out resist shield + nanoweave armor and it's much, much more effective than the default HA ability. At least the way I use it. I'm more vulnerable to surprise attacks I guess, but with those you're usually dead even with the default shield. Resist shield at rank 4 regenerates so fast I can have it up almost every time I need it, which means I can shoot people with my Flare more often which means I'm happy.
But yeah I tried out resist shield + nanoweave armor and it's much, much more effective than the default HA ability. At least the way I use it. I'm more vulnerable to surprise attacks I guess, but with those you're usually dead even with the default shield. Resist shield at rank 4 regenerates so fast I can have it up almost every time I need it, which means I can shoot people with my Flare more often which means I'm happy.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
I have a mid 2010 i3 iMac.
I don't even have recommended specs.
Can I just die?
I don't even have recommended specs.
Can I just die?
He's also inside the warpgate so he isn't taking damage. I have my doubts as to how well this works out most of the time outside the warpgate.
There's a glitch I've used a few times in which you quick knife at the same time as you enter a vehicle and it'll make your hands/gun disappear. May take a few tries
Confused101
Member
I trialed the Flare and another gun and I'm going to be getting the Flare tonight. I think I only need about 30 certs and that should be easy pickings. Yeah it fires a tad slower (hence lower overall DPS), but I was wrecking fools with it. I had a very clear sense that my bullets were doing more damage than the Orion and I loved it. Can't wait to get some attachments and the soft point ammo. Mm yeah.
Starting to get frustrated with this game. Last night I spent a good hour just fiddling with settings trying to get something above ~25-30 in moderate action. The best I could get was render quality to 85 (lower didn't change fps), most settings on Low with a few on Medium. Shadows etc.. were on Low. At the warpgate I got about 40-50 FPS, in any action it drops in half to 20-30 sometimes dopping into the teens.
Oddly the other night I had everything on high with a few medium settings and was getting better performance. But last night when I tried doing that, clearly much worse.. much worse. I know my machine isn't cutting edge but for its age, and overclocks I can play every other game out there currently.. many on high. Only games like BF3 do I need to turn down a few settings.
Specs
Q6600 Core2Quad 2.4Ghz @ 3.0Ghz
5850 @ 850/1200 (12.11 beta drivers)
4GB DDR2
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD
I know I need an upgrade but this is the only game that literally runs like shit on my machine. Anyone have any advice short of spending money right now? lol
Oddly the other night I had everything on high with a few medium settings and was getting better performance. But last night when I tried doing that, clearly much worse.. much worse. I know my machine isn't cutting edge but for its age, and overclocks I can play every other game out there currently.. many on high. Only games like BF3 do I need to turn down a few settings.
Specs
Q6600 Core2Quad 2.4Ghz @ 3.0Ghz
5850 @ 850/1200 (12.11 beta drivers)
4GB DDR2
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD
I know I need an upgrade but this is the only game that literally runs like shit on my machine. Anyone have any advice short of spending money right now? lol
You are definitely CPU-limited with that setup. Turning down effects, particles, and flora to low should help the most, and every other setting else you can fiddle around with until you're happy with performance. Smedley also alluded to a large patch in the future that would supposedly help with performance.
Hold out until this new build is out in the wild. Hopefully you'll see some FPS gains.
Good to know, I'll keep an eye out and in the meantime just deal with what I got.
Turn shadows and flora OFF in useroptions.ini . Also reduce the render distance to something like 1000.
Check this out: http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/13pzb1/fps_settings_which_helped_me_improve_kd_to_30/