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Huxley compared to Planetside?
Did anyone out there play Planetside?
I did not. I've been reading about it, and it looks like it was pretty cool. I wish I got in on it while it was hot.
That being said, do you think it's fair to compare Huxley to Planetside (although Huxley appears to be much better graphics, persistent world, etc)? It so, I guess I'll stop hoping for a Planetside 2, and just play Huxley instead!!!
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given teh strong FPS base of both games and the large battlefields being promised i think it is perfectly fair to compare the two. Planetside was straight up jsut like any other FPS except for the alrge enviroments. The game had alrge bases which acted as capture points that they "attempted" to make each one useful although only a few meant anything and even then it wasn't anything worth noting. Also leveling in that game was more about being around during a base capture then kills. Kill exp was worth practically nothing if you could even get a kill, it always went to someone else it seemed. The game was also veyr laggy in its early days, however they kind of helped that. The battlefields themselves were really bad but theyw ere all the same. EAch one was simply the same as the last with a new coat of paint and the occasional different floorplan (there were like 4). Levels also counted for certification points and nothing else, there was no loot or monetary system. An finally ther was nothing other then PVP.
Huxley promises differing enviroments (or at the very least they seem much more interesting). Also cap points are supposed to mean something as well as being more then just "heres another large base to siege for a grueling 30 minutes only to wait for a 10 min cap to get your exp), it will all move much faster. How easy it will be to make sure you consistently nail the killing blow is questionable and im not sure if it will differe much but oh well. People sound liek they will also be more specialized in their jobs. Also Huxley has quests, thats a big deal to alot of people.
Huxley jsut seems to be offering a more fulfilling experience with much much mroe content.
Planetside was a good experiment and a sequel would be cool but untill then im definently looking forward to huxley
What's all this rubbish about "Planetside WAS this..." and "Planetside WAS that.."?
Planetside IS alive and kicking with 133 vs 133 vs 133 persistent battles every night. It's just celebrating it's 4th anniversary with 5 new weapons including a fragmentation grendate launcher and a flamethrower.
Huxley, on the other hand IS NOT. It will be sometime, possibly 4 months from now, possibly later.
If you're into self-denial, do without and wait at least 4 months for Huxley. If you want a lot of fun NOW, play Planetside.
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Been waiting on Huxley, don't think it'll be as open as Planetside, more like a collective of battlegrounds with different goals, but hopefully they will have some huge epic fights to offer.
P.S I was really hoping the next Starcraft would have been a mmofps, much like Planetside with the blizzard touch /drool oh well.
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I wonder if it will CTD every ten minutes like Planetside use to? I liked Planetside but I could never fix the CTD issue so I had to just walk away.
planetside changed since it release. When it first came out, i sub for 3 months. Took a month to reach rank 20 (max at that time) and 2 month of leading looong battles to get CR4.
Within those 3 months they made alot of changes. the 2nd month of updates they added the lattice system, to create front lines and to prevent back hacking. It was looking great. Then by the 3rd month, the number of players wasnt enough for SoE to keep all their servers, so they drop half their servers and merge them. It created more lag for me. So i just stop playing.
Huxley i believe will have some PvE instead of just PvP. but i guess we will all have to wait for beta or release before we can really compare the 2 games.
I'm not saying it's bad by any means. In fact I do resubscribe every so often when I have the time and do quite enjoy playing it
While Huxley does have combat, from what I've read and gathered. It focuses more on establishing a world of sorts. While combat is a big part of it, you also have cities (or so I think this was indicated), quests, and an economy to play around with. Not to mention, as stated in the post above. There will most likely be quite a bit of PvE combat as opposed to only PvP, as experienced in Planet Side.
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It sort of looks like a team match FPS shrouded in a MMO veneer, ala Shadowrun. Since Hux is going to be crossplatform PC/XBOX on Live this would make sense. Microsoft is maneuvering to make consumers accept that we must pay for traditionally free types of gameplay - developers who want to release titles for free are being made to charge on Live. Shadowrun and Huxley certainly fit the mold of what was once free - team FPS gameplay - turning into something that we will have to pay for.
So if that is the case, Planetside and Huxley are far different creatures. Planetside, for it's shortcomings and aging code, is a real MMO with a persistent world and open form of strategic/tactical PvP. I'm not sure what Huxley is or will be once it is entrenched on Live.
The Team XBOX review stated this: "But, whether PlanetSide is a strategy-focused first-person shooter, Huxley offers a completely different shooting experience; playing very similar to Unreal Tournament games." http://previews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1349/Huxley/p1/
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That being said, I played planetside for about a year or so and it was non-stop fun (when you play at the right hours of the day). The server population is not huge by any means and the large scales battles are limited because continents get population locked and you can't enter the battles. The cap per continent is very low as well where I heard huxley will have 5000 man servers and large population caps (probably outdated information). so if your locked out of the big battle, your stuck playing little small man skirmishes or backdoor hacking planets to try and draw some of the people off the pop locked continent and hopefully sneak in on the big battle when they come to reclaim the bases you've hacked.
A lot of the times I'd slap on my stealth suit and just hit base after base on a continent having the enemy trying to figure out which base i was gonna hit next. Pure cat and mouse games I played when there wasn't a non-pop locked fight to join. Being on a free account in the beggining though made things tougher because paid players got first dibs on pop locked planets and reserves (what they call free accounts) had to wait in long 20+ man waiting lines to get into battles. Sometimes I'd be waiting for an hour just to get in on a real good battle....that's went ahead and got a station pass account to play since I was already playing SWG. However, when I said goodbye to SWG, planetside wasn't good enough to keep paying for only that game. The game was real fun at the right times but too often I found myself not able to get into the big fights.
Anyway, if you love FPS's then planetside is a awesome game and I imagine huxley will be even better when it finally comes out. Just the technology available today will make huxley better than planetside. You'll have options in huxley that planetside just won't have since I doubt SOE will ever give it a major upgrade seeing as how low the accounts are for it. Anyone who says that the servers are packed are fooling themselves. The reason SOE started the reserves is to populate the servers because the game was dying. So no it's not dead yet, but it is on it last breathe and could get the flatline any day now. The day a good FPS comes out will probably be the day planetside will die. it's only lasted this long because it doesn't have much competition in the MMOFPS market. If Huxley will be that competition? who knows! I'll try it out and see myself though. right now, I'm not interested in paying to play planetside though, I'd much rather play america's army (a truely awesome FPS/tactical game by the way) which has the same goals as planetside but many many better designs and ways of doing things....besides what's not to like about a military style game (army calls it a simulation). I was in the military and I have to say, AA is everything like I remembered it when I served, much more fun in a game though, lol
Allow me to explain that sentence then: Planetside = strategy; Huxley = typical FPS objectives.
Doesn't sound like an MMO to me, more like glorified match FPS that up to now has been free to play online.
So far the real information is that it handles 16 v 16 matches like any other FPS - everything else seems to be conjecture and wishful thinking.