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Planetside 2 |OT| 12 Man Squads, 2000 Players, So Free You'll Want to Pay!
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ThreePiMatt
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I wonder if they'll refresh that for people that overwrote the boost. A lot of people activated it then dumped it in favor of larger boosts.
ThreePiMatt
Member
Woot! I already burned through my SC from the latest 3x day. I'll probably deposit a bit more to pick up the SMG but at least I can save some money on the boost.
Gen.Grievous
Member
Performance in empty areas is much better. Performance in contested areas is much worse. Rendering issues are as bad as I've ever seen them. Clearly something is wrong and they are aware of it because almost everyone has these issues.
Gen.Grievous
Member
New hotfix was released just now that fixed all of the issues I had before. Tank and turret guns are working again as well.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
FPS is still shit when looking in certain directions
Hey, thought I saw you log on to PS2
Yeah, I've been playing it a lot lately.
Melhisedek
Member
Guys I was thinking on checking this one out. What faction would you recommend for a newb? Or general tips/hints would be welcome 
Thank you for your time!
Thank you for your time!
Guys I was thinking on checking this one out. What faction would you recommend for a newb? Or general tips/hints would be welcome
Thank you for your time!
You may create characters for all factions, but I'm sure the Vanu will win your heart
HarryDemeanor
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Create a character for each faction and see which one tickles your fancy. I know for certain that once you try them all you'll stick with the Terran Republic. We're just too awesome.Guys I was thinking on checking this one out. What faction would you recommend for a newb? Or general tips/hints would be welcome
Thank you for your time!
command center ep 9 was uploaded to youtube for anyone that missed it when it was showed live before the UES
RadioactiveLobster
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Well, it's "New" if you didn't watch it live when it was broadcast during the UES Event
If you have a spandex fetish or enjoy authoritarian governments, go right ahead.
Or you know, just go NC. We have FREEDUM and shotguns with planes attached to them.
But seriously, try them all out.
Also, I got the M40 for the Flash on sale the other day. Suddenly the Flash became my favorite ground vehicle.
Squads are small tactical units of up to 12 people, platoons are a larger strategical grouping of up to 4 squads, and Outfits are the game's overarching clans of an unlimited amount of players. PS2 revolves around outfit teamplay, so if you're in it for the long haul you'll want to join up with one and make some friends, because you haven't really played Planetside until you've experience what it's like participating in strategic battles along with 50+ other people that actually know and care about what they're doing.
I think squad is a group of 12 guys with a squad leader, a platoon is more than one squad grouped together with a platoon leader and an outfit is like a large clan that exists outside of the game,
You can be in a squad and have orders from your squad leader (usually with a marker on where to go next) at the same time if your squad is part of a platoon you can have platoon orders (also with markers) that the platoon leader gives out, or he might just give general directions to the squad leaders and not micromanage.
Ok thanks for the detailed answer!
Sneak peak at VS-specific run animations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2NUbh_iqxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2NUbh_iqxg
Thug Waffle
Member
I'd be okay with that because we'd still roll all over everyone.
It'll be funny, once they balance it out,
the NC will dominate as they have learned to kill with inferior weaponry.
MrCompletely
Member
Im new to this game spent a few hours playing today and I'm really digging it. I'll have to read the OP to figure out how to find people here since I'M Rolling Solo Right now. If anyone is On tonight hit me up with a PM here on how to find you
The problem is the flinch mechanic. When you're NC and you need every bullet to hit to get proper DPS output and you're getting splashed with bullet hoses you're going to miss way more easily. In this game, RoF > DMG. This is from someone who has mained NC, and has two alts in the other factions which I played relatively at the same time at launch and my TR and especially VS character had much better stats all around. Our weapons are good at mid-long range sure, but when you're being faced with player rendering issues and you can't see those people that far off your advantage is nullified.
BattleMonkey
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Except for the guns cancelling out a person being "accurate". The damage boost is very minor which often just counter acts any potential bonus.
Right. They should either tone down the flinch and recoil a bit, or, buff the dmg of everything NC as RoF > Control > DMG in this game actually. They won't though because even Higby admitted they don't have any NC on the weapon development and balance teams.
It is silly how they handle the weapon balancing. Look at all other shooters these days and you will see the top players going for the weapons with the highest ROF. Time to kill is the most important thing. Slower firing weapons are for lower skill players that have trouble controlling recoil.
The interesting part is NC weapons typically are slower firing and have the hardest to manage recoil, lol.
Especially in this game with it's detection/latency issues along with the notorious flinch mechanic, it's completely against the grain and basically gimps one faction.
Regardless, I still have fun with the game. It's my go to shooter for now, and the foreseeable future. Until maybe BF4 I guess.
That's because higher RoF weapons are extremely easy to use, not because they are inherently better, barring other factors such as the terrible flinch mechanic. Personally I go for low RoF LMGs or single shot weapons in most games as they are the most rewarding once you become skillful with them. I haven't played NC since early in the beta, but they seem to do well enough right now; I am more concerned with running into a force of NC than TR most of the time because the people who are good with NC weaponry seem to do exceptionally well.
BattleMonkey
Member
Even if your good with NC weapons, you essentially would be even better using other faction weapons, and that is where the problem lies.
ThreePiMatt
Member
The weapons are largely balanced around Rof x Damage per shot. So for the most part, the guns across all factions have very similar DPS numbers. The balance problem comes from accuracy and projectile speed. NC have, in most cases, the highest recoil and the slowest projectiles making their weapons generally the hardest to use. Then you have to throw in the flinch mechanic which also helps out the faster firing TR and VS weapons even more. Though, they did say they may look into making it so the flinch effect will vary based on shot damage, so the faster firing, lower damage weapons cause less flinch.
Unhandled Exception
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Got sick of the VS being severely underpopulated on Connery as fucking always so I decided to play my NC for awhile. Had a dude intentionally team kill me as I was destroying generators in a tech base because he wanted the experience. I spent 10 minutes following him around and killing him every time he was about to get any experience. Felt good.
RadioactiveLobster
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If you are Connery, playing on Indar they are apparently testing some new infantry render settings
I got my drivers license revoked...
I got my drivers license revoked...
Is the new infantry rendering settings thing true?
What's different about it?
I want to chk it out
EDIT:
Nvm, just read Higby's twitter