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How's PS doing these days?
fizzle32
Member Posts: 171
in Planetside
I stopped playing months ago when the populations were dying off, didn't like BFR's.
What's the state of the game now? Pop still dying? Did they kill off Werner yet?
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Im wondering the same thing. If they would have the weapons act like FPS weapons should instead of weak spitballs it would be a great game. I got sick of these huge maps made for great long range battles not eve used because the weapons were so weak everyone would run to a small area and run in front of one another trying to get closest to shoot enemy while there team mates get penalized for hitting them while they run in front of them. Look at Novalogic Joint ops putting out the Multiplayer game with 150 players at a time with weapons that work the way they should. They dont charge a montyly either. I would gladley pay monthley if it was worth it. SOE is stuck with an EQ mentality. Too bad. UT needs to put out a game like Planetside.
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Yeah, I'm in agreement.
Try an BFR, it's no weak weapon
imho FPS games sucks, I like PS and the way it is now.
I'v been playing mmog since -97 and I have no problem at all with monthly fees, if you want a game that are in constant development It will cost...
Thats cool, Ive been playin for a long time too. 1981, when mmorpg were text based like zork and stuff. it sucked. I watched Planetside develope from what was going to be a really cool urban FPS setting to a large planet playing field which is cool too. Thing is, "imho" why waste the map space? when a battle starts to take place everyone runs in front of each other causing friendly fire penalties because they have to literally stick the barrel of their gun on top of their target to get some damage done. "IMHO" I would like to use that massive map space to take a more realistic approach. Like use some accurate weapons and work your way in from a distance. Possibly use some strategy and team effort, surrounding enemy sneaking up on them, sniping with a scope. when possible and when rushing in firing having a gun that doesnt vear off the crosshairs causing a fire and hope situation. PlanetSide turned out to be a FPS Future EQ. Ya know how EQ and mmorpg games combat works on a percentage damage done according to your level? It seems like Planetside kinda has that fire and hope deal goin on, Where Real FPS rely on a "real" talent, experience and practice aiming the mouse, Kinda like practicing and aiming a real gun
. Then there is the mmorpg which, if you stay up leveling hour after hour you just click and watch your character do all the work. I dont mean to put that down at all. Im signing onto my WOW account in a minute. Oh yea and checkin out Matrix online beta agin which is kinda cool. I love mmorpg's so please dont get me wrong. I also Love FPS too. I just wish there was a perfect mix of the two. Like Planetside and UT 2004 with some real team objectives 
. Im playin the beta to Face of Mankind and that seems interesting. Who knows, Not me thats for sure. I wouldnt be askin everyone where to find da game. Novalogic has Joint ops with 150 playin online at a time allowing for some cool big map action. Anyone know of a good mmorpg with FPS reaslism??? thanks much.
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Planetside is one of the games that from the start was one hit game, but has ressently been dying. the players lost their intresst in the game and blah blah blah.
so i think in a few years that PS will be forgotten and all the Ps server will be shut down
//high_tower
Leave no doubts in your minds, this game is dying has been for a while now and will continue to wittle down to nothing or untill SOE pulls the plug...Here is a quote from someone on the official site that sums it up pretty nicely.
Smokejumper was the Mastermind behind PS, it was his baby... He left his baby months ago
T-Ray was the man that brought it to life, he is now gone as well..
Spork... Well Spork was the heart behind PS.. He listened to our whines from day one, and tried to deal with us.. Without a doubt the absolute best Community relations guy I have seen on any board in any game.. He will truely be missed...
Its sad this game had so much potential and was loads of fun way back when... But some fool(s) over there at SOE decided for us that we wanted to play VehicleSide or EasySide and took teh skill from the game.. Then that same fool (s) thought it would be a great idea to turn this into Mech Warrior 2k... The result of this foolish blunder is what you see today of PS.. A game that has barely any people playing it compared to what it used to be.... Good job who ever is over there at SOE making these GREAT decisions....
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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
Thats you, tons of us vets have left this game way way behind.. And saying your outfit has 160 members.. bwhahahah whoop tee doo.....It pales in comparision to some of the old guilds way back in 03 when the game actually required SKILL...
Like I said tons of vets have left the game.. But so have the originators of this game Smokejumper, T-Ray, and Spork......There is a reason for this you know.....
Bottom line is PS is not even a shell of what it was back in 03
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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
Biggest problem with PS that I see is that it is another game run into the ground by SOE. I swear, every change that came out of PS was designed to piss off the people who were trying to get away from the Quake/CS crowd. Every change made the game faster paced, more exiciting, blah, blah, blah... IE, pandered more to the Quake/CS crowd. And ever since CC flopped each major update and play change has been a thinly veiled attempt to push people into the core.
Planetside, as a concept, is awesome. Planetside, as it was executed, was a study in how to kill an awesome concept.
Not just another pretty color.
Even with all the crappy new stuff (battleislands were the worst IMO, BFR were bad too) I still love PS, simply becuse there is no real alternative to it as far as I know. What I would realy like to see is PS type of game with CS playability. I like how in CS u can win win ANY gun if you got the skills. PS is very limited to the gun choices, if u choose Lasher/Deci, u suck at range, if u choose sniper/lancer, u suck at close combat. Thats why i have 3 VS chars, the only problem is, whenever i get into combat, the situation demands weapons/vehicles that my other characters have.
I dont have any better idea then to enable all weapons for one toon, just like CS. Its would probably be a good idea to put small timers on them so that u cant "spam" best weapons, or like in CS, have some sort of currency, so if u die a lot you cant buy best weapons.
Latest patch that raiss level to 23 is good but not enough IMO.
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.