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PlanetSide: Smedley on Release
SBFord
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Sony Online Entertainment's John Smedley has given a general release date for PlanetSide Next, the sequel to PlanetSide. According to an interview at Eurogamer, Smedley is figuring on a late Q1 - early Q2 release for PlanetSide Next, the working title for the sequel.
The latter we know least about. "We've announced publicly that the game is in development," SOE president John Smeldey tells Eurogamer, "it's a game that's codenamed PlanetSide Next.
"And we haven't announced a release date for it but you can expect it... We're looking at late first-quarter, early second-quarter [2011]."
Source: Eurogamer.
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So no screenshots? Is it going to be using the original engine? whole new game? or and expansion thats touted as a sequal? (Neocron 2 anyone?)
I loved planetside when it 1st came out but im not so sure about this one.
will this be on the ps3?
Yes!!!!! Loved planetside, sadly it died a while ago i'm really thrilled to hear it's coming back as a new and improved version even!
The battles there were hugeeeeeeee and flying a bomber was just ownage while hacking other ppl's bases!
Can't wait! (This deserves frontpage news tbh)
I have serious doubts for many reasons...
Even loving the first Planetside to death, I'm very Very unsure about this so called sequel... After all we know absolutely nothing of it... Or it's development progress... And to be honest, with Smedley at the wheel I'm not sure I want to.
Smedley told The Escapist, "We have a very big launch coming in the month of March. It's a big first person shooter franchise that we're really happy with."
Agree @Shadin ... but i wait for PS:next so much ....
OMG, Smedley and SOE, what a deadly combo. No way I am getting anywhere near this game. I don't need to know anything else.
I just want to know if BFR's are in the game or not? If they are, im not.
Smed will be smart and have a 2 week open beta the same weeks as Rifts free 30 days run out.
Depends on how balanced the vehicles would be.. the BFR equivelant in BF2142 for instance was fun to play, but wasn't overpowered and could be taken out by foot soldiers or other vehicles fairly easily..
The more vehicles and thus variety there is, the better, I think.. bring on the robots, the drop ships, the hover-tanks and choppers and bikes and the mobile spawn units and.. oh...
Im not sure why its being called a "sequal" on this site. From what I've read about this, it isnt a sequal but an overhaul of the existing game.
This isn't news, they've been saying that date for months now.
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It will die a similar fate PlanetSide did.
PlanetSide & SWG. My first two loves in life and SOE came between us. Never again.
SW:TOR FTW
"He's no good to me dead."
If it is this close to release, all they have done is spiff up the old game so don't look for a new graphics engine. Considing Smedley is touting it, I would not expect much.
No idea what to expect. I'm hoping its good but the release date is awful close.
-The game gods have taken my soul, and I cant get it back.
I don't care what the new game is, as long as it isnt too far from PS1 I know I will love it. If they just increased the draw distance in PS1, got rid of the hackers, and somehow got more people to play it I would be in heaven again. I still think its graphics are pretty awesome despite its age, in fact. Its the low pop, low draw distance, and hackers that bother me.
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Woops meant to type but misclicked ahaha. Smedly already said NO BFRS!
-The game gods have taken my soul, and I cant get it back.
Isn't the original planetside filled with hackers now? What are they doing to prevent the same thing from happening to this one?
not letting smed's kids play. :P
Hopfuly having more than 1 part time GM. and an appeal system ingame along with (random) sanity checks....since sanity checking each packet would be an impossible task.
SKYeXile
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Future Crew - High Council. Planetside 1 & 2.
Apparently all the hacker's have 'stopped' since they cancelled the free trial, according to the official forum banter.
Im surprised by this..
I assumed the game was in early developement with a release in a year or two.
I guess they kept it under wraps for much longer than I realized.
saw no hackers yesterday.
also I expect planetside 2 to have no pve content, this would mean developing the game in 2 years is highly possible..really they dont have to do much...hopfuly afew code changes...some animations, map design...BAM! Planetside 2.
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TRF - GM - GW2, PS2, WAR, AION, Rift, WoW, WOT....etc...
Future Crew - High Council. Planetside 1 & 2.
Never saw the big deal with BFR's..
I enjoyed blowing em up with my phoenix rocket launcher and getting huge xp for it.