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Has the world gone mad?
Nymandus
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I played PS from about last yearish to june of this year...and left after getting layed off...go economy!
Anyway...so after a 4 month hiatus from PS, I came back last night to a very different game. All of the new stuff they added...the map and bfrs seem alright...but what really got me is the zerg is king now...
I am NC on emerald, and I went to a poplocked cont, and tried some smaller skirmishes just to get a feel for what was going on...everywhere I saw foot zerg and Lightning's! I saw one TR galaxy...that was being used as a gunship!!! It was just hovering within rocket rifle range, all guns blazing down on the base I was at Dagur...wtf!!!
Armor columns...coming at us in neat lines (not lines abreast...but straight at us) each tank driving around the blown up one in front...lightnings everywhere...we were poplocked and only had one AMS up at a time...at our primary base...
Was this a fluke or have tactics been thrown out the window? Have all the CR5's left? I saw a couple of posts on the PS forums (can't post as im using my buddy pass) that said they are taking time off from game during the freebie bfr week...but this is ridiculous.
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Yes, its chaos with the BFRs now. U see lightnings cuase they are cheap and stand best chance of killing BFRs, they've been buffed as well (Armor was increased). Heavy tanks dont seem to be much use vs BFRs.
Also, the population of PS has been declining over the last months - I dont know exactly why, i can only guess - new expansions (battle islands, BFRs) arent very popular, and without any "cool" content people are starting to consider PS as another CS-clone.
Personally, I am gonna wait over this BFR madness and see how it is after things settled down.
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PS has been going down hill for a while now, It began to start last holiday season when they began there dreaded Animation culling escapade and it just has gone down hill from there..
When I first played PS way back, when they used to have 6 servers it was all about skill.. Usually the Person/Team/Empire with the most skill and tatics won..Now the game has turned into like you said a zerg fest. Gone are the small time battles which made the game so much fun (do to Broadcast warpgates) and other aspects that have been implemeted. Hell 3 of the most popular conts (Solsar, Forseral, Amerish)are pretty much no play fields due to each of them being turned into Empires home conts.. A home cont in which most cases a Empire will defends almost immedietely with a zerg which makes fighting on them or even taking them near impossible.
And now we have BFR's.... While I hated them at first there actually not that bad... I mean unless your caught ofguard or out in the open there not really going to kill you if your a grunt unless you plain suck or they get lucky...One good thing that BFR's brought was a end to the constant stream of Reaverside that was making the game horrible and for that I'm happy.. But one bad thing is that Reaverside has been replaced by Lightningside.(lessor Evil?)
Anyways what people are left with today is a shell of what Planetside used to be. Tons of vets and vet outifts are leaving the game. Hell the PS devs dont even have it together, recently Planetsides lead designer/Dev and SOE parted ways and was replaced by SamhaynePS.. And just a few days after BFR's came out and all the complaints and sub cancellations began to hit the forums this came out http://psforums.station.sony.com/ps/board/message?board.id=psnews&message.id=2731..
PS had the oppurtunity to be a great FPS but somewhere along the lines the devs decided to make the game easier for the lessor skilled peeps and took the skill out of this first PERSON shooter. But recently a article was posted about how PS was orginally a remake of a Tank game concept.. Perhaps thats where the devs intended to go with this game all along?
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Thanks for the replies
Looks like things have changed lol...gotta recert for a lightning now lol...
Oh and another question...what does
mean? Seen it alot on PS but have no idea what it means...
and if ur thinking of coming back...WoW and EQ2 are otw....dont play PS unless ur rdy for a huge shock with zerg-o-mania. one of the reasons why i dont wanna play it unless SoE starts fixing what they have and stops adding stupid crap like retarded looking mechs....the BFR's r not mechs...
NOW THATS A MECH....n00bs
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lol... damn right
Those mechs can blow up a ship in a couple of seconds
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Hell yeah...the only mech that doesn't totally look like ass is the TR's mech.
I'm waiting for EQ2 to come out...the new stuff they just added... http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=general&message.id=222408&no_redir=true
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You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
This game was great! it was one of the better online games out there, untill....... somtime during the night, for some reason that nobody knows.. They combined all the servers together into 3!!!
Yeah, this game was awsome untill the put everyone on three servers, now whenever you get into a fight you start to lag. and somtimes even if you are not in a fight. Anyway, enough gripe.
This game is good, if for some reason you have no lag, it is a must. otherwise.
yay flame wars
I came back to check out PS after the bfr's came in. Now I'm wishing I didn't. Its BFR wars now. Although 2 bfr's could shoot each other all day and it wouldn't make a difference with the shields. Its kinda lame now.
Does the game still play like a slug stuck in mud, or have they tweaked the graphics engine a bit now? Last time I played, my hard-drive had a heart attack - it churned and churned and whined and churned some more, as I sat and stared at the guy I was shooting at, frozen solid as he was for 5 seconds, before things finally returned and I got to see a 'respawn' option. Mmm. Lovely.
2Ghz, 512Mb, Geforce 4.. I can play Doom 3 fine. Planetside kills my machine.
I think they fixed it.
My machine has 2.4 gHz 512 ram and ..... here comes the deal breaker, a geforce 3 and it runs fine.
Well I cancled my account within the month, are the BFR's fun?
so how many still play PS? I keep hearing "dead game, dead game".
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I used to play PS, When i was playing it, it was about jan 2004 or something.
The lightning car/vehicle thing was a small problem then, there were massive battles, i still have screens of like 400 people all fighting each other for a base ontop of a volcano! lol!
The galaxies were great fun, you would have like 10 or more people inside it at the one time, and if you had a fighter plane following you, you would be able to drop off all your guys in a base and capture it easily.
Yes, one grunt can kill one bfr, but not easly. First he has to have the right equipment. Secund he has to fine a bfr that is all alone. Third you have to manage to sneek close to it. 4th it has to be one of the few btfrs that cant fly(wich is 1/3 of the bfrs.....) It is not easy to kill a bfr as a grunt!
BFRs are the solo reason you see all the zerging. Mass BFRS and the oponesnts have to hide inside base/tower. Bring an AMS and LET THE ZERG BEGIN!
And the AA weapons on a BFR is just silly... Takes like 1,5 sec to shoot down a reaver.
And seeing a 3 man Prowler getting owned by a one man BFR is retarded....
SoE allways ruin their good games.... Just give them some time!
<- Closed my account 3 days ago...
I still play and so do my friends. Some of my outfit mates took a break to play Halo, Halflife, and WoW, but they're all coming back.
If anyone wants to look me up for questions or just for learning the game, you can find me on Emerald Server in the New Conglomerate. Name's Hayoo.
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Last played PS around may or so, but all this new stuff has me intrsted in coming back, I was a beta tester and played it off and on since release.
I do not have hte expansion, so no BFR for me I guess heh, from reading all the patch notes, makes me wonder though, how does a well played MAX suit (if I can get back into the groove of the game hehe) stand against a BFR?
You can still try out the BFR in VR Training.
and Max vs BFR? lets make it short: BFR > MAX
the game is getting worse with BFR's imo
Banzai!
PS isn't worse that any onther mmog, everywhere you go you see whine about the game people play. I just started playing PS and I find it very entertaining.
I'v played DAoC for 3 years and it's the same whinefeast over on our forums.....