GDC interview for people who are too busy  to look at all 4 videos - current overview of game and direction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yf27Xn0t-SM

Curse Interview with T-Ray -  Free to Play (no buy to play unless changed in later future)  digital download

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pDLKtLyYjYU

ill say this to get it out of the way i still dont believe them when they start throwing numbers out about people that can play ( 500 players, 1000 players, 2000 players etc etc.)

First planetside in total did indeed have 450+ players on a continent/planet, but it was divided into 3, having 100 and some change being allies while the rest were enemies.

when beta rolls around we'll definitely see how strong forgelight can be, and how much people may have to spend to upgrade their computers.

Originally posted by richstall

Planetside  was an andvanced shooter. It was greatly involved. You spawned with basic, almost useless gear. You had to select your gear and manually fix it. When working with others you would pack your gear to work best with others.

^ This along with the tactics make it a MMORPG imo.

 

Planetside 2 as dumped all this out the window infavor of the more common scheme there is now adays. Spawn, die fast, spawn again.

 

This is shit. This is cod online not planetside.

Oh well.. At least mechwarrior online still gives me hope

i dont recall COD having player driven vehicles in multiplayer. 

as for the game itself many people are not going to like it because of the game dubbing down inventory selection 

(no more 1 man army ultility BR 40 soldiers), additionally while this is still in alpha stage according to them, i expect more people will be butt hurt when more changes start rolling in, and when beta arrives, taken out, tweaked and further added.

biggest lamentation so far believe it or not is the finite number of gernades one can get a hold of,  with a number of weapons tied into resource collected, much like a RTS, soldiers and outfits will have to do abit of logistics and management on when you distribute said number of gernade,weapons and when to hold on to them.

edit:

the term "wow killer" should be grounds of execution via firing squad. this is apples and oranges beyond reasoning.

Originally posted by Zylaxx

Originally posted by richstall

Call of duty spawning / item system.. Game is doomed

Looks good if your into FPS but I thought this was a MMO site?  I might try it still since it might be a persistent world environment but I still much prefer mideval style MMO sword and sorcery and 3rd person more.  Who knows maybe this might be ok so time will tell, still I dont trust SOE.

Again,     MMO  is not exclusive to  games that have mandatory skill bars, instances ,flying pink mounts and epic purples.

MMO is of massive multi  online,   large number of people in a giant world.

what planetside2 is not is a MMORPG,   but a MMOFPS.

there is no written rule that all MMO's must have elves, orcs and fireballs. 

these days anyway, companies have been getting away with all sorts of murder tacking on MMO, specifically MMOFPSes on their title, only to deliver some lobby system in a 12 v 12 arena.  so Planetside 2, much like the first PS game, isnt going anywhere on this site. 

Planetside2's response to LOD:  http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/343224/GDC-Planetside-2-Gameplay-footage-.html

um ya....

PART1: Introduction (reaver flying, day night cycle battles)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KSXXEOJUcG0

PART2: Ingame game play closed alpha of 45 players (reaver day night battle, infantry night time fighting)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrA3LAAIOc4&feature=player_embedded

PART3: Tank Convoy Day time skirmish followed by on foot base invasion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rmWyIMXJEiI

PART4: Infantry Base invasion cont. , game system explaination , personal stats, resource shop, cash shop explaination etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ikSRA46-Ug8

Key things to mention:

CASH SHOP: there will be a cash shop, first and foremost they have said, perhaps their seventh time now, that they will not have cash shop to be pay to win in any form or manner,  Cash shops will fill the roll of cosmetics design and other features that DO NOT involve any element of pay to win (i.e. stronger bullets, roffle tank, extra speed, more health etc.)  So if anyone places concern that PS2 will be pay to win,  show them PART 4 video. and from their to release will see if SOE and the PS2 team stands by what they say

PHYSICS: vets who have played PS1, esspecially pilots, be prepared to learn how to do barrel rolls and somasaults.

ANIMATIONS: its mentioned that its in alpha, and will continue to be worked out through out beta and so on. many other features will be worked on in and out side of animations

QuickKnife: Yet to be seen, was not shown in any of the videos. will find out when beta arrives

TTK's and Kills:   Head shots are in,  TTK's are much faster now,  MagMower is in (sorry TR, NC)

Enjoy!

Edit:   

Bonus footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHbQDFsdXyk

GDC Interview - current game overview (for those who dont have time to watch all 4 game footage videos)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yf27Xn0t-SM

Curse Interview with T-Ray -  Free to Play (no buy to play unless changed in later future)  digital download

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pDLKtLyYjYU

 Gamespot interview with Higby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t3c-XQgc1QE

Some random guy -   Planetside2 is gonna be lvl 60 players curb stomping lvl 1 player

Higby -   Planetside2  will have 5 year players who are still suspect of being beaten by a 5 minute player if the 5 minute player gets the jump on the 5 year player.   must like planetside 1

okay....  question

Prison gangs, who's gonna do it?

I still got mass effect and NWN CEP... so im cool with them.

FOR NOW..........

Originally posted by RefMinor
Lol, I read the title as religion locked

Cloaked Pope Detected!!!

despite it being EQ, this effects the Ps2 community as well

http://eq2wire.com/2012/02/27/john-smedley-all-players-on-all-servers/

UPDATE from Zatozia:

Hey there! We have a status update on this topic for you. A solution to keep the communities together is now in the works! We’ll be providing more details about the solution with an official announcement a bit later but we wanted to let everyone know that it was coming as soon as we could. Thank you all for your great feedback on this topic.

UPDATE from Piestro:

Just to elaborate a bit on what Zat said above, last week we let you know that we were working on finding a solution to the EU/US community split. This morning Smed has confirmed we have found a solution to avoid needing the split and are working to make this a full reality.

Smed wanted to let you know as speedily as possible, and tweets are an easy way to do so. It wasn’t a stretch to guess that it would quickly be reposted to the relevant communities. We’ll have more details later as we get them. I’ll clarify a bit right now and say that “All players” in Smed’s tweet specifically referred to all players potentially impacted by the ProSieben deal.

As for further concerns, yes we continue to listen to what you all have to say and are in communication about many of them. Clarification and further communication on many of these concerns is also in the works, but those are seperate issues from the EU server issue and we wanted to get communication about that as quickly as we could.

Update at 2:30pm PST from Brasse:

SOE and ProSieben worked throughout the weekend to develop a plan that will allow our players to access and play on any server regardless of where they are in the world. Our community is our top priority and rest assured, all of your concerns have been heard. We continue to work together with ProSieben and appreciate your patience as we work around the clock to work out critical technical details. We will share more information as soon as possible.

-closing thread-

compared to 2 years ago and now? Not so much, if not No.

any visible RP that was there in AOC is either gone and moved on to other games or so tightly shut off from the rest of the server that it would be considered non-existant except for a handful of guilds that just mainly hang around khemi.

Empire of Stygia

Invicta

Sahada Berjara.

those are the only ones i can only remember, if they are still around that is. good luck.

ON certain servers (back in the day)   the persistant battles, playstyles, philosophies all meshed together that brought out some interesting historical lore about all 3 empires, both good and bad.

during my time,  i too participated in Cyssorside, down south the vicious bridge battles that stretched from one side to the next, the longest 1 minute in your life to try to get past the all the firing, bombings, missle attacks, obital strikes,snipers, suicide sundy buses, tank groups you name it. and when you finally get past the bridge to the other side. YOU FIGHT TO GET OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE.

NC for a time had certain outfits that dedicated themselves to have large air bomber groups. at times you could have all the AA you want and the bombs still kept on dropping

TR, it varried, early in the years KAAOS lead one of the most massive air raids constantly on emerald server. when people took to the skies and chat was screaming (30+ TR aircraft coming east past the mountains!!) you knew it was KAAOS.

the VS, we had dadga, dadga being a interlink base. for the longest time when the links were different,  Dadga ended lives, marriages, peoples jobs, their 401k plan, had foreclosed on some houses too. I do not exaggerate that Dadga for  while was a true bane towards any empire that was responsible in defending said base. When VS nearly down and out, they drop everything and say screw this, lets take dadga. and at any time if the enemy was too lazy to stop the base hack from flipping. Then will they better get ready to pack a couple of sandwiches because they were going to be their for a long while.

thing is there are many more historical moments in planetside from other servers, it was some of the things that brought life int othe game and it wasnt dictated by some golden exclaimation point dude sitting next to some rainbow colored hamster.

Dino Riders!?

I can die a free man now

Carlos Mencia made this didnt he?...

Originally posted by Enosh

well then go and support a sandbox mmo so they will have the money to make an aaa game instead of just being a forum version of this:

the hot dog guy is never going to succed if people don't buy his hot dogs

vote with your wallet and keep walkin.  7  Mcdonalds will sprout up only to have a FIVE Guys to shake things up.

for those opposing both game and companies,  all it means is that its just going to take a couple more extra months until they can justify themselves to say I told you so.

see you in a couple of months.

StarQuest Online

and

swtor atm and having fun at the expense of other peoples misery,

waiting for Planetside 2 to drop.

Is this the first mass exodus thread, the third? or the fifth?

Giving SWTOR 7,    will be raised a 8 once features are added in, and the usual mmo reviewers roll around with a re-review of the game.

Originally posted by Teala

I have a question:  How did this get past beta?

*slowly raises hand far back in the crowd*

.......... my bad.