Were giving away beta codes over at our facebook if anyone is interested: http://www.facebook.com/DualPixels or http://dualpixels.com/2012/10/06/planetside-2-beta-giveaway/
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Planetside 2 |OT| Closed Beta
- Thread starter MrBig
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Damn only just started the download, gonna take ages with my net issues
Ive played the last few days but I'm yet to play in any impressive enormobattles. I understand populations have been down waiting on the patch so hopefully I'll get a chance to experience the game proper.
How many continents are going to be in the game at launch. Four?
I think 3, but I also want to say they aren't sure they'll get the 3rd done before "launch" so it might be an early add on.
Yeah, pop seems down, I assume most are like me. Played it alot, didn't want to get burned out, and wanted to wait on new weapons and map.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
How much SOE Bux will the weapons cost?
Me and a group flew about 20 galaxies into the VS base earlier, the sky was alive with explosions and debris. Seems their screenshot key bind is busted though
Me and a group flew about 20 galaxies into the VS base earlier, the sky was alive with explosions and debris. Seems their screenshot key bind is busted though
Only two servers right now and they are both full.
yeah so lame, I was pumped to check out the new zone
Capt.Haddock
Member
*gone*,still 3 Gb remains for new patch.
Damn only just started the download, gonna take ages with my net issues
Ive played the last few days but I'm yet to play in any impressive enormobattles. I understand populations have been down waiting on the patch so hopefully I'll get a chance to experience the game proper.
How many continents are going to be in the game at launch. Four?
Play with public platoons and outfits to find the big battles. Don't even have to join one, just find a stream and follow them around with some friends or something. The systems for finding where the frontlines are have not been put in to place. 3 continents should be available by the end of this year.
Only two servers right now and they are both full.
They hugely increased the server pop limits and are doing a stress test on the one US/one EU server. If they pushed it to the limit there could be at least 4000 people per server. There is a problem that is displaying them as full when they are not, the servers were just pulled down for a patch.
Unkown. I sure do hope that weapons purchased with real money are account wide though, and not char specific.
Looks like they took the servers down due to population balance issues, on the EU server the NC had VS (my faction) and TR gate-locked on Esamir and on Indar, VS had gate-locked NC and was well on the way to gate-locking TR.
Yeah... the Population balance caps didn't seem to work, if anything it got a lot worse
Yeah... the Population balance caps didn't seem to work, if anything it got a lot worse
Looks like they took the servers down, on the EU server the NC had VS (my faction) and TR gate-locked on Esamir and on Indar, VS had gate-locked NC and was well on the way to gate-locking TR.
Yeah... the Population balance caps didn't seem to work, if anything it got a lot worse
It was exactly the same on the US server. Looks like there was definitely something wrong with the Population balance.
Really needs to be capped at a max of 40% for a single faction. NC ruined the US server this morning.
Yeah I've been joining the public plats but still not seen anything to the scale of some of the shit I've seen on streams or that youtube vid someone put up a few pages back. When the servers go back up and everyone is crammed onto two servers I hope we get some crazy stuff going down.
Seems as though I wasnt the only one experiencing severe lag. There's a fuckton of lag going on right now. Players loading 15ft in front of me, spotting is delayed, hit indicators are delayed, shots not registering, players warping around everywhere.
Game is unplayable right now for me.
Game is unplayable right now for me.
Gen.Grievous
Member
Had no problems on the EU server. Only issue is the NC stackers. Freaking 80% pop, no longer any fun.
Seems as though I wasnt the only one experiencing severe lag. There's a fuckton of lag going on right now. Players loading 15ft in front of me, spotting is delayed, hit indicators are delayed, shots not registering, players warping around everywhere.
Yea, I started getting that later on as well. Despite that, I still had a blast. Biggest battles so far on Esamir.
Seems as though I wasnt the only one experiencing severe lag. There's a fuckton of lag going on right now. Players loading 15ft in front of me, spotting is delayed, hit indicators are delayed, shots not registering, players warping around everywhere.
Starting to see it myself. Pretty bad.
Probably because it's prime time now and everyone's stuffed on one server
Holy fuck, got in a good squad on the EU server Vanu side. These battles a nuts
Yep. Coordinated play is essential to fun in this game
It was worse than just primetime. Almost everyone on my screen was teleporting, shots wouldn't report hits for several seconds, 5 second delay on chat, etc. Even had a flying vanguard that was doing flips for a bit. It's weird because I can look over at FiestaWagon's screen and he wasn't having any of those issues.
Eaten By A Grue
Member
I randomly got ejected from a full galaxy and we all fell to our deaths.Seems as though I wasnt the only one experiencing severe lag. There's a fuckton of lag going on right now. Players loading 15ft in front of me, spotting is delayed, hit indicators are delayed, shots not registering, players warping around everywhere.
Liberty4all
Banned
I live for the squad in squad combat that initially results. Especially when it escalates into a full blown battle with reinforcements air and armour starting to roll in from both sides. An epic battle YOU and your buddies started.
I didn't know it at the start of the night but I've been involved in an Outfit's open squad night. We started off with two bases and pushed out against an even pop TR and ended up with six.
This engine is some kind of miracle. Amazing looking battles, hundreds of players and not a hint of lag. Very impressed.
EDIT: Got a spare beta key by email. Check your email folks
This engine is some kind of miracle. Amazing looking battles, hundreds of players and not a hint of lag. Very impressed.
EDIT: Got a spare beta key by email. Check your email folks
EDIT: Got a spare beta key by email. Check your email folks
How about spreading the love?
Just got a beta key from a friend, though the performance is ridiculously bad on my PC. My gtx 660 TI has around 20-40% usage resulting in about 10fps.
Also running the newest drivers, any known tips or tweaks?
GPU usage will be limited if the CPU is doing too much to send it all the frame data it needs. What is your CPU?
It's a Phenom II x4 965 BE @ 3.9 Ghz so shouldn't be too bottlenecked by it
You shouldn't be ~10fps, but that CPU is what is limiting you. Try deleting useroptions.ini in the install folder. There were a bunch of people that had some issue with something limiting them to 8-12 fps on different systems. Otherwise go to the forum and ask there
Shai-Tan
Banned
That CPU is perfectly fine. I play on a Phenom II 945 x4 that is only 3ghz w/6950. It's most likely a GPU driver problem that could be solved by trying a different driver (sounds like bad power management) . I made sure to have Nvidia and AMD between my two systems. If one doesn't work the other usually does
Also you would think newer drivers would work better but they often introduce bugs trying to do shady things to make performance betterAre there any performance tips floating around? I tried messing with the render quality but I'd rather not play the game at all than play at 60%, not that it brought much of a performance boost anyway. I'm playing on an i5 750 with a 570gtx, ssd and 8gb ram. I guess that i5 is a bottleneck?
tamaster92
Member
Hey fellow gaffers finally got in and jumped on for a little tonight - loving it so far. It looks great plays smooth and is massive. I didn't ever play ps1 but I am very excited to play more of ps2
I'd take a beta key, will also send you the PM as requested.
Ohhhhhh, cheers!
EDIT: Holy shit you weren't kidding about the fog. And the EU server is just being dominated by NC.
Sent!
Yeah its not been much fun on there. Just stick to Indar tbh until they sort it out.
PedroLumpy
Member
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I just got in to this recently.
It seems pretty much every time I go on, the servers are full. Is there some sort of expectation that I should only be looking to play at certain times or something? Not that it's a huge deal or anything, but I'd rather not have to login at multiple random times each night to see if I can sneak in. Is there some system to it?
It seems pretty much every time I go on, the servers are full. Is there some sort of expectation that I should only be looking to play at certain times or something? Not that it's a huge deal or anything, but I'd rather not have to login at multiple random times each night to see if I can sneak in. Is there some system to it?
Why do they shroud all of this in incredibly thick fog at all times?
Because we want weather effects and weather effects are supposed to get in the way!
I actually like it
Maybe they can tone it down a bit sometimes during the day.
Because we want weather effects and weather effects are supposed to get in the way!
I actually like it
Maybe they can tone it down a bit sometimes during the day.
I agree that it does look good but right now it's constantly super thick. There needs to be times when it's almost completely clear, but not as much as that shot, in which I just completely disabled fog. It fell like I was in the battle at Hoth while I was attacking the tech plant with it off
SOE is doing a load test right now, so there are only 2 servers so that they can easily max them out. It'll be like this for a few more days. Server queues are coming soon, right now you just have to mash play if it's full
So my character got deleted and Im guessing due to the new map/changes or its typical for this beta.
So i updated this afternoon and my character slot is gone. And I try to make a new character with my old name but now I cant use my username that I had like 1-2 days ago since its states "name already taken"! So is my old character still in the server data base? I dont want to make a new one with a new name as I liked my old user name. Am i screwed and just have to use a new name?
So i updated this afternoon and my character slot is gone. And I try to make a new character with my old name but now I cant use my username that I had like 1-2 days ago since its states "name already taken"! So is my old character still in the server data base? I dont want to make a new one with a new name as I liked my old user name. Am i screwed and just have to use a new name?
There was a wipe but I didn't have any problems getting the name I had =/
I rolled TR but the servers always full