So PS is two years old Recon. EQ, UO, AC are all much older games and people still play them. Many games start with more servers then is actually needed - again nothing new you are saying. Planetside had one major (Caves) and one minor (BFRs) in two years. Otherwise the only thing added to the game were a few under used vehicles and a couple useless weapons. The caves expansion was deemed useless by the gaming community and rated as one of the worst expansions in the history of MMOs. BFRs were introduced extremely overpowered and have since been nerfed into near uselessness. To the extent a 50 foot robot can rather easily be destroyed by a single infantry. The servers are lacking players hence the feable attempts to draw in more players with lies. SOE has not stopped development of the game. In fact patch 3.7 is on the way. In it we have new exp capabilites for support players and a new aircraft, the Vulture, is being added. This is just a drop in the bucket of what is coming. The lead developer has changed once. PS teams has over 15 people. Of course they are going to charge money. If they didn't all support for the game would cease. Great, over two years into a game featuring support classes and they just now receive XP for their duties. Based upon previous patches expect numerous bugs and flaws if the change is even initiated. Vulture, funny they just take the exact same vehicle model of another bomber, change the stats slightly, require people to gain extensive kills to even cert the new bomber and call it an addition. What ever happened to the other promised vehicle? Remember the Phantasm? What about base redesigns? Additional command abilities? Abilities for outfit points? Empire specific sniper rifles? Should I continue on with the broken promises SOE made regarding PS?
Senseless nerfs. DEVS would literally buff something in game and a week later take it away. This isn't suppose to be a BETA product. Look at the current fiasco regarding Reavers and other aircraft. Look at the idiotic balancing methods of the BFRs. How about the ignorance of AA. For the past few months the DEV stated AA was balanced. Yet its now receiving a buff? Just last month a patch hindered AA. I believe the DEV (SamHayne) has multiple personality disorder. Which SamHayne is balancing today?
Name one. As for bugs, name me one game on the internet that isn't buggy - just one. How about the zero damage weapons bug? The inside a base screen goes totally black bug? The jammer bug regarding flight BFRs. Random disconnects in large battles? The exploits suchs as 3rd person view. Exploits involving jumping on a staircase to cause warping. What about the DL exploits? How about the bug where a vehicle takes no damage and becomes invulnerable? None of these have been fixed and occur quite frequently. Buffs, yea...and that is a bad thing? What broken promises? Please enlighten Need a fairly decent gaming rig to run it - with optimizations you can run it fairly well on a 1.5ghz, 1gig ram, with a 128meg video card. Anything less than this and you'll see some performance issues in some of the more massive battles - we're talking 200+ people taking part in it. Otherwise you should see good fps even in 390+ battles. Pros No grinding of exp to get to the good part of the game.
WRONG, endless grinding to obtain merits in order to finally use a few pieces of new, mostly useless equipment. In addition you have to still do a grind to level up in order to obtain implants and levels. Casual gamer friendly - you don't have to give up real life in order to play this game. Because you will explore the entire world in a week, this is a good thing. Every single base follows the exact same design. You fight the exact same battles over and over and over and over. Caves are empty since they are lacking were development talent.
No need for special equipment or gear on your avatar to be effective. Wrong, this is being added with merits and annual awards. Stop the lies. Game is a cross between an MMORPG, FPS, and RTS.It is all out PvP all the time. Its a cross between an MMO RPG and an MMO FPS and it does a poor job with each. If you consider PS an RTS I suppose you consider Tic Tac Toe a game of strategy as well. There is no real strategy in PS. Just follow the zerg. Even as a commander the strategy consists of taking a vote on which target to next zerg. Then hoping the zerg actually does what you tell them. Hoping you don't get renegade commanders countering orders spliting your zerg and causing defeat.
Outstanding team and solo play. There is no real solo play in PS. You either fight in the zerg or die fast. The only real solo play is back hacking where you go to a deserted base and sit around 15 minutes to hack. If a force shows up you die. If not you take a base, but gain nothing.
Game has great graphics if your gaming rig is powerful enough.Game has incredible sound. Great graphics and sound if it were 2003. Graphics are on par with the original Half Life if you're running a high end system. Sound is subpar.
Game is replayable - lots of different roles for players to partake of and you can multi-class in a sense(like bea sniper/combat engineeer/ medic. Three empires to choose from all with distinct advantages and disadvantages - one of the most balanced online shooter games you'll ever play.
There is very little variation. No rewards for playing a support character. Assault characters almost always have the EXACT same certs and carry the EXACT same weapons. Fighting over the exact same bases endlessly.
WW2 online is a vastly superior game. The few fanatics still playing Planetside know their game is almost dead so they resort to lying to others on the Internet in order to attract some fresh meat. Since you have only PVP, when there are no players you can do NOTHING in Planetside except chat. This means unless you're playing during prime-time in your time zone you have NOTHING to do in Planetside.
Excuse me Recon, did I say PS is bug free? Of course the game has bugs, just like any other MMO on the market today - all of them are buggy. I asked you to name me one that isn't full of bugs. Planetside has its share of bugs, and some that you mentiond are rare and do not occur all the time as you would have people believe.
The balance issues you speak of in the game of Planetside are minor compared to most other games. I stand by what I said and will continue to say that PS is the most balanced online game. At the same time, you are acting like someone totally new to this genre with your statements. Balancing in MMO's is an ongoing thing. It never ever stops - ever. Anyone that plays these games knows that.
As for all the other stuff you went back and commented on, you are just out right lying now.
I'll say it again.
To anyone that is interested in Planetside. Do not take mine or Recons words on how the game is. There is a free trial available. Give the game a go. Make up your own mind.
Originally posted by Teala I don't think I have been to nasty toward Recon, in fact I'm staying quite civil. Well ok then, let's see. From what I could breeze through so far you managed to call Recon a Jerk 6 times, Accused him of not refuting your points 2 times, Told him to very maturly STFU 1 time, Called him immature 3 times (once even in response to my innitial post which did not even mention your or recon), laid a personal attack on his computer knowledge once, called him a whiner 5 times. I debate him openly with things about the game and counter his points with what is known and he doesn't refute them. He just keeps saying that Planetside is a bad MMO, the developers are bad, the game community is bad...and that is just not true. I'm sorry but your not debating him, as you can see he has no intention to actually make any sense, no one that is interested in learning about this game is going to take him seriously, so why depreciate your own worth by sinking to this level. And honestly, your not exactly showing yourself as a pillar of the community your supporting by conducting yourself this way. If he or anyone else is going to go around and do nothing but slam a game that he had a bad experience with - constantly for the soul purpose of hurting the game - then I as a fan of the game will do my best to balance it. As long as Recon is going to keep slamming the game of Planetside I'll keep on refuting him with what I know about the game. Do you realy feel that the state of PlanetSide is in such a dire state that one single person who is unahppy with the game and voices as much can and will "hurt" the game. I hate to tell you but if it's that bad, the last thing you need to worry about is Recon. Oh and he is being a jerk. There is no better way to say it, because only a jerk would do what he is doing. Kinda reminds me of the boy that sat behind me in class in 3 grade and kept pulling my ponytail. He was being a jerk - just as Recon is being one now. He is entitled to be a jerk all he wants. I am also entitled to voice my opinions to refute his statements. Of course your entitled to your oppinion, as is everyone else. What gets me though as you continue to attack others regarding maturity and defend the PS community against those that say that it lacks maturity only to proceed with comments such as above.
Again, none of this is meant as an attack, I'm just reading what you've put out there, none of which contradicts my initial thoughts on the PS community. Of course I don't think "everyone" is PS is bad, every community has it's good and the ugly, just some more then others. I will always try to surround myself with people of similar conduct, including in games and as such was the meaning to my initial post.
Shae, if you are following this demented thread that closely to have counted how many times I called the jerk a jerk, then I think you have some issues to deal with. Thanks for keeping this thread bumped!
Viva Planetside! LMAO!
Edit: Oh I don't have any problem calling him a jerk, immature and computer illiterate, because it is true. But I never told him to STFU. I said that is probably what he would tell me to do since it was something he is very keen of doing. Please get your facts straight before posting them.
Shae first, who are you to comment on anyone else? If you don't like my review post your own.
Teala, my IQ drops a point every time I read one of your responses. Fortunately I could read another fifty of your senseless posts and my IQ would continue to exceed yours. You are a typical Planetside moron. Move along and go play your deserted game.
I've spoken nothing but the truth based upon my two years of Planetside experience. If I stop one person from wasting their time and money on Planetside; I've done the Internet gaming community a service.
Originally posted by Teala Shae, if you are following this demented thread that closely to have counted how many times I called the jerk a jerk, then I think you have some issues to deal with. Thanks for keeping this thread bumped! Viva Planetside! LMAO! Edit: Oh I don't have any problem calling him a jerk, immature and computer illiterate, because it is true. But I never told him to STFU. I said that is probably what he would tell me to do since it was something he is very keen of doing. Please get your facts straight before posting them.
Oh goodie, what a surprise, a personal attack ! Good for you for proving yourself to be exactly what I have been saying from the very begining.
I will however appologize for missinterperting one of your comments, I re-read it and I did indeed missread the comment, but considering the amount of immature taunts you throw around, it's quite easy to mistake bold face insults to sparingly childish comments.
Again, this was mostly the attitude I found pronounced within the game, which is exactly why I never stayed and why I know many have not and will most likely also be the cause of the game, not really growing. Anyways... thanks for the laughs.
Recon. you need to stop with all the false statements. I'm not real concerned about you and Tealas little fight. But unless you are going to start relaying true information, just stop.
the servers are far from deserted and you can always find a fight and never just have to sit around chatting with nothing else to do, and the bugs you mentioned show themselves very rarely.
there may be a "grind" of sorts in the games, but as it is constantly PvP and hardly noticable unless you are trying to gain CR5 which can be quite a grind.
I respect your opinions and know many others that are dissappointed with a few of the changes that have been done to Planetside. But please atleast keep your opinions, opinions and do not relay false "facts" within your opinions.
Ok, I wanted to stay out of this, but Recon is doing a good job of messing things up.
First, I would like to say that generally the PS community is very friendly and cordial. I will not say there are not people who will pick fights, because we have people like Recon. However, things are not as bad as Recon would have you believe, I believe the reason Recon feels he was attacked is because he would make stupid and/or offensive statements to people and on top of that, all he EVER did was complain about a game that was so bad he played it for 2 years...
I'm not sure about everyone else, but do you play a game you absolutely despise for 2 years on a regular/constant basis? Hmm...
On top of this, Recon admitted that he is still reading the forums and that's how he found this thread. Makes sense, the game is so bad that even after you stop your subscription you still read the forums for the updates?
I believe Recon for some reason has taken PS personally to the point that he wants the game to fade out of existence by bad mouthing and starting arguments whenever/whereever possible.
The moderators on the PS forums do no censor anything unless it is a lie, offensive, or just plain off topic. The players in general, except for about 5%, will have debates with you unless you throw hissy fits.
Recon is still upset that they balanced the BFR. News for you Recon, in case you didn't already know, they are currently balancing AirCav. If something is out of line, the DEV team attempts to make gradual changes to fix the imbalance. Sometimes you like the balance changes. However, if you use an overpowered vehicle/item and it is balanced, you sometimes get upset - Such as Recon has.
I will not say the game is perfect, but it is a lot of fun. The graphics still look great (on high settings) and the DEV team is in the process of converting the game to DX9 (unlike when Recon stated the DEV team makes no changes). Additionally, a new vehicle is being added at this time and a variation to a weapon is being added. Furthermore, there have been considerable gameplay changes in the last couple months and many more changes such as new in game events which should prove to be quite entertaining.
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WW2 online is a vastly superior game. The few fanatics still playing Planetside know their game is almost dead so they resort to lying to others on the Internet in order to attract some fresh meat. Since you have only PVP, when there are no players you can do NOTHING in Planetside except chat. This means unless you're playing during prime-time in your time zone you have NOTHING to do in Planetside.
Excuse me Recon, did I say PS is bug free? Of course the game has bugs, just like any other MMO on the market today - all of them are buggy. I asked you to name me one that isn't full of bugs. Planetside has its share of bugs, and some that you mentiond are rare and do not occur all the time as you would have people believe.
The balance issues you speak of in the game of Planetside are minor compared to most other games. I stand by what I said and will continue to say that PS is the most balanced online game. At the same time, you are acting like someone totally new to this genre with your statements. Balancing in MMO's is an ongoing thing. It never ever stops - ever. Anyone that plays these games knows that.
As for all the other stuff you went back and commented on, you are just out right lying now.
I'll say it again.
To anyone that is interested in Planetside. Do not take mine or Recons words on how the game is. There is a free trial available. Give the game a go. Make up your own mind.
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Shae, if you are following this demented thread that closely to have counted how many times I called the jerk a jerk, then I think you have some issues to deal with. Thanks for keeping this thread bumped!
Viva Planetside! LMAO!
Edit: Oh I don't have any problem calling him a jerk, immature and computer illiterate, because it is true. But I never told him to STFU. I said that is probably what he would tell me to do since it was something he is very keen of doing. Please get your facts straight before posting them.
Shae first, who are you to comment on anyone else? If you don't like my review post your own.
Teala, my IQ drops a point every time I read one of your responses. Fortunately I could read another fifty of your senseless posts and my IQ would continue to exceed yours. You are a typical Planetside moron. Move along and go play your deserted game.
I've spoken nothing but the truth based upon my two years of Planetside experience. If I stop one person from wasting their time and money on Planetside; I've done the Internet gaming community a service.
Oh goodie, what a surprise, a personal attack ! Good for you for proving yourself to be exactly what I have been saying from the very begining.
I will however appologize for missinterperting one of your comments, I re-read it and I did indeed missread the comment, but considering the amount of immature taunts you throw around, it's quite easy to mistake bold face insults to sparingly childish comments.
Again, this was mostly the attitude I found pronounced within the game, which is exactly why I never stayed and why I know many have not and will most likely also be the cause of the game, not really growing. Anyways... thanks for the laughs.
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Recon. you need to stop with all the false statements. I'm not real concerned about you and Tealas little fight. But unless you are going to start relaying true information, just stop.
the servers are far from deserted and you can always find a fight and never just have to sit around chatting with nothing else to do, and the bugs you mentioned show themselves very rarely.
there may be a "grind" of sorts in the games, but as it is constantly PvP and hardly noticable unless you are trying to gain CR5 which can be quite a grind.
I respect your opinions and know many others that are dissappointed with a few of the changes that have been done to Planetside. But please atleast keep your opinions, opinions and do not relay false "facts" within your opinions.
Planetside is not perfect, no game is.
演劇Planetside!
Ok, I wanted to stay out of this, but Recon is doing a good job of messing things up.
First, I would like to say that generally the PS community is very friendly and cordial. I will not say there are not people who will pick fights, because we have people like Recon. However, things are not as bad as Recon would have you believe, I believe the reason Recon feels he was attacked is because he would make stupid and/or offensive statements to people and on top of that, all he EVER did was complain about a game that was so bad he played it for 2 years...
I'm not sure about everyone else, but do you play a game you absolutely despise for 2 years on a regular/constant basis? Hmm...
On top of this, Recon admitted that he is still reading the forums and that's how he found this thread. Makes sense, the game is so bad that even after you stop your subscription you still read the forums for the updates?
I believe Recon for some reason has taken PS personally to the point that he wants the game to fade out of existence by bad mouthing and starting arguments whenever/whereever possible.
The moderators on the PS forums do no censor anything unless it is a lie, offensive, or just plain off topic. The players in general, except for about 5%, will have debates with you unless you throw hissy fits.
Recon is still upset that they balanced the BFR. News for you Recon, in case you didn't already know, they are currently balancing AirCav. If something is out of line, the DEV team attempts to make gradual changes to fix the imbalance. Sometimes you like the balance changes. However, if you use an overpowered vehicle/item and it is balanced, you sometimes get upset - Such as Recon has.
I will not say the game is perfect, but it is a lot of fun. The graphics still look great (on high settings) and the DEV team is in the process of converting the game to DX9 (unlike when Recon stated the DEV team makes no changes). Additionally, a new vehicle is being added at this time and a variation to a weapon is being added. Furthermore, there have been considerable gameplay changes in the last couple months and many more changes such as new in game events which should prove to be quite entertaining.
Have fun.