Planetside 2

[Taskmage]

PlanetSide 2 PC Game - Massive Combat on an Epic Scale

Apparently this was announced nearly a year ago, but I didn't hear about it until I saw a magazine ad for it today. If you hadn't heard of Planetside, it was an MMOFPS. Imagine Battlefield hooked into FFXI's conquest system with a Tribes-like vibe. The first one suffered from a lack of variety in gameplay and weak content updates, but I had a heck of a lot of fun with it while it lasted. It was pretty cool waking up the the morning and checking the territory map to see if your faction was able to hold the base you helped capture through the night. Beta signups are open on the site and I'm really looking forward to participating.

The alpha footage is a little underwhelming so far, but then capturing the feeling of being one of literally a hundred people laying suppressive fire down from the hills so your vanguards don't get sniped crossing the field to breach the fortress is kindof hard without said hundreds of players. Here it is anyway.

[Raydeus]

Re: Planetside 2

That looks pretty good. o_O



Personally I'm still keeping track on this MMOFPS Dak found some time ago.

But I seriously need more time to play stuff. My backlog is huge and since I like to take my time with games it can get pretty overwhelming (which is why I usually end up sleeping 4 hours a day.) <_<;

[Taskmage]

Re: Planetside 2

I found the footage of their GDC presentation. It does a much better job of showing off their features and giving you an idea of the actual gameplay. 45 minutes.

[Raydeus]

Re: Planetside 2

I'll have to watch it tomorrow. But the first few minutes looked pretty nice until they mentioned Physx. orz






PS > Another contender is Dust 514.

Now, if CCP was the company it used to be back in 2009 when they released Apocrypha I'd definitely say Dust would be the most appealing game to me. Conceptually it has a lot of good things with it's links to EVE and it's universe plus the persistence and consequence that entails. And back then EVE was pretty awesome because even if most promises CCP made never happened they still delivered some pretty nice content. But nowadays I seriously doubt CCP will live up to even the most basic expectations, so there's a good chance Dust will suck.

[Malacite]

Re: Planetside 2

I wanna try this, but idk what faction to join.

I like the Vanu for the alien tech & their aesthetic (though not so much the purple, just the general patterns of their armor) and that they use energy weapons, but the NC have the most damage/accuracy per-shot I believe, based on what I've read (it's all Rail guns O . O)