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Didn't some company make a new Planetside? I think it was called a different name, but people referred to it as Planetside 2.

No, there isn't anything out there that is a true MMOFPS yet to rivial PS.

Playing Call of Duty: World of War at the moment, 24v24 fights on tiny maps soon gets boring.

Few wannabes coming out but nothing to match, we need Planetside 2, and not restricted to console, FPS on consoles suck.

 Yes, you are referring to Huxley. Huxley is PlanetSide 2. I can't believe there are still so many people that don't know about Huxley or the fact that Huxley is PlanetSide2 isnt socially accepted. Seriously pay attention. I just played the Closed beta for Huxley recently. Yes, it is very win. It uses the Unreal 3 engine and it's not a shitty console gamer's FPS.

Originally posted by Nullsoldier

 Yes, you are referring to Huxley. Huxley is PlanetSide 2. I can't believe there are still so many people that don't know about Huxley or the fact that Huxley is PlanetSide2 isnt socially accepted. Seriously pay attention. I just played the Closed beta for Huxley recently. Yes, it is very win. It uses the Unreal 3 engine and it's not a shitty console gamer's FPS.

Huxley doesn't have hundreds versus hundreds, it has arena's where players have UT or Quake Arena  style battles.

Originally posted by mcharj11

Originally posted by Nullsoldier

 Yes, you are referring to Huxley. Huxley is PlanetSide 2. I can't believe there are still so many people that don't know about Huxley or the fact that Huxley is PlanetSide2 isnt socially accepted. Seriously pay attention. I just played the Closed beta for Huxley recently. Yes, it is very win. It uses the Unreal 3 engine and it's not a shitty console gamer's FPS.

 

Huxley doesn't have hundreds versus hundreds, it has arena's where players have UT or Quake Arena  style battles

Hate to break your bubble, but large scale warfare has been promised, and implemented. Starting at 64 players it is said to be expanded to 250 players. This is the main faction vs. faction server based persistant warfare, like PlanetSide. While there are small battles at 16 players called "Virtual Battles" these are not the main draw.

Originally posted by nickelpat

Originally posted by mcharj11

Originally posted by Nullsoldier

 Yes, you are referring to Huxley. Huxley is PlanetSide 2. I can't believe there are still so many people that don't know about Huxley or the fact that Huxley is PlanetSide2 isnt socially accepted. Seriously pay attention. I just played the Closed beta for Huxley recently. Yes, it is very win. It uses the Unreal 3 engine and it's not a shitty console gamer's FPS.

 

Huxley doesn't have hundreds versus hundreds, it has arena's where players have UT or Quake Arena  style battles

Hate to break your bubble, but large scale warfare has been promised, and implemented. Starting at 64 players it is said to be expanded to 250 players. This is the main faction vs. faction server based persistant warfare, like PlanetSide. While there are small battles at 16 players called "Virtual Battles" these are not the main draw.

Break my bubble? Mate you just made me very excited, i always though this would be Quake with a Hub for people to chat but if it supports the large battles you say it does, well it could be very good indeed.

Problem with Huxley is are we ever gonna see it.

Apparently you can pay to beta it through Fileplanet.

Originally posted by Nullsoldier

 Yes, you are referring to Huxley. Huxley is PlanetSide 2. I can't believe there are still so many people that don't know about Huxley or the fact that Huxley is PlanetSide2 isnt socially accepted. Seriously pay attention. I just played the Closed beta for Huxley recently. Yes, it is very win. It uses the Unreal 3 engine and it's not a shitty console gamer's FPS.

Huxley, right now, is just guild wars with guns and really boring UT style combat. I think the devs said that they're even only going to launch with 64 players maximum. You can't even compare it to Planetside right now.

The fact that the game is also being developed for the 360 kind of ensures that it will never be truly "massive".

Originally posted by Zzulu

Originally posted by Nullsoldier

 Yes, you are referring to Huxley. Huxley is PlanetSide 2. I can't believe there are still so many people that don't know about Huxley or the fact that Huxley is PlanetSide2 isnt socially accepted. Seriously pay attention. I just played the Closed beta for Huxley recently. Yes, it is very win. It uses the Unreal 3 engine and it's not a shitty console gamer's FPS.

 

Huxley, right now, is just guild wars with guns and really boring UT style combat. I think the devs said that they're even only going to launch with 64 players maximum. You can't even compare it to Planetside right now

Gah, looks like i was right then, how disappointing.

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Originally posted by nickelpat

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Originally posted by mcharj11

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Originally posted by Nullsoldier

 Yes, you are referring to Huxley. Huxley is PlanetSide 2. I can't believe there are still so many people that don't know about Huxley or the fact that Huxley is PlanetSide2 isnt socially accepted. Seriously pay attention. I just played the Closed beta for Huxley recently. Yes, it is very win. It uses the Unreal 3 engine and it's not a shitty console gamer's FPS.

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Huxley doesn't have hundreds versus hundreds, it has arena's where players have UT or Quake Arena  style battles

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Hate to break your bubble, but large scale warfare has been promised, and implemented. Starting at 64 players it is said to be expanded to 250 players. This is the main faction vs. faction server based persistant warfare, like PlanetSide. While there are small battles at 16 players called "Virtual Battles" these are not the main draw.

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Originally from the huxley FAQ
Will battlefields have "120 men" being 60 vs 60, or 120 vs 120 meaning 120 of your own men (and women!)?
Instances that are "capped" at 120 players will be 120 people total. We're not aware of how limiting players will work at this time. Whether or not you'll be able to pull of a 119 vs 1 player scenario is yet to be seen. In reality there may be a system of limiting battles to 60 per side.

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Just watched some videos and it is indeed Quake 3/UT gameplay, in my opinion that will just feel shit in large scale fights, that sort of gunplay is for deathmatch.

Welkin4591 is the real successor to Planetside. It's known among the PS community as Planetside 2 (and if I'm being honest it looks close to exactly like planetside in every way possible).

welkin4591.com/

This upcoming PS3 game MAG is an online FPS that features 256 player battles, here's a link to the gamespot E3 stage demo.

e3.gamespot.com/video/6211067/

Originally posted by mcharj11

Originally posted by Zzulu

Originally posted by Nullsoldier

 Yes, you are referring to Huxley. Huxley is PlanetSide 2. I can't believe there are still so many people that don't know about Huxley or the fact that Huxley is PlanetSide2 isnt socially accepted. Seriously pay attention. I just played the Closed beta for Huxley recently. Yes, it is very win. It uses the Unreal 3 engine and it's not a shitty console gamer's FPS.

 

Huxley, right now, is just guild wars with guns and really boring UT style combat. I think the devs said that they're even only going to launch with 64 players maximum. You can't even compare it to Planetside right now

 

Gah, looks like i was right then, how disappointing.

Those videos are misleading. They are from the beta where only small scale PVP is enabled and used. How planetside works is that most of the game will take place in Large scale PVP zones where it will be 60vs60, but as someone else said they will increase it to 200 players later making it 100vs100. Howver, if you so choose you can create a "Server" and participate in arena matches where the gameplay mirrors UT exactly. They even included the double damage as well. So, don't hold back just yet. I have a "Friend" in the closed beta and so far the game is better than "He" expected.

Originally posted by Nullsoldier

Originally posted by mcharj11

Originally posted by Zzulu

Originally posted by Nullsoldier

 Yes, you are referring to Huxley. Huxley is PlanetSide 2. I can't believe there are still so many people that don't know about Huxley or the fact that Huxley is PlanetSide2 isnt socially accepted. Seriously pay attention. I just played the Closed beta for Huxley recently. Yes, it is very win. It uses the Unreal 3 engine and it's not a shitty console gamer's FPS.

 

Huxley, right now, is just guild wars with guns and really boring UT style combat. I think the devs said that they're even only going to launch with 64 players maximum. You can't even compare it to Planetside right now

 

Gah, looks like i was right then, how disappointing.

 

Those videos are misleading. They are from the beta where only small scale PVP is enabled and used. How planetside works is that most of the game will take place in Large scale PVP zones where it will be 60vs60, but as someone else said they will increase it to 200 players later making it 100vs100. Howver, if you so choose you can create a "Server" and participate in arena matches where the gameplay mirrors UT exactly. They even included the double damage as well. So, don't hold back just yet. I have a "Friend" in the closed beta and so far the game is better than "He" expected.

Did you have a look at the E3 demo of MAG i linked, what do you think of it?

 Sorry it took me so long to respond. Yes, I did look at it and yes it looks really cool, buuuuut it's on the PS3 and the MMO and MMOFPS demographic seems to be mainly on the PC.

I personally don't own any consoles and I probably never will so I'll probably never get to play it. =\

Yeah, the fact that it's a PS3 exclusive is a bit of  barrier for me too, however it does have similarities to PS like the multiple factions that you can join ect. Plus 256 player battles would be close to what PS had, i didn't see any indication of vehicles or aircraft so that was quite disappointing.

So I jumped in after 5 years of absense to see where PlanetSide has gone.    New players are serriously pushed to the side, I played for over 2 hours and maybe got 3 kills (Im always in the top 3 in current  fps games) .  Its over run by Vehicles now and new subs dont get the good ones to take em out.   It really appears that they are catering to the regular subscribers and saying FU to the newbs.  Really a bad idea SOE to offer the free month play to let new potential subs know the're not welcom on your LEET servers.

1.  Its not clear where new users can fight with others of there skill level.  It should warn you some how.

(Instant Action should be labled Instant death to new players)

2.  Stutter's:  The game has some network / audio stutters.

(I 'member this when I 1st played in Beta.  I would have thought 5 years should have been enough time to fix this)

The Question isn't:

"Will we ever see a Planet Side "

The Question is:

"Should SOE be allowed to make Planet Side 2, or sell the rights to another company"

 I do give my props to SOE for holding it together this long.

Well first of all, people suggesting MAG and Huxley? Planetside was not either of these games. Nobody who played and enjoyed Planetside did it JUST because it was 'a lot of players', or because it was just another Unreal game. Huxley if anything is the worst example there, because that's all it is - a basic boring deathmatcher. It has about as much in common with Planetside as Warhammer Online does. (Also, MAG is a PS3 exclusive, and history has proven how 'awesome' FPS games + Consoles become).

The simple fact is, there is no game similar to Planetside coming out in the foreseeable future. Planetside was a brilliant game that was years ahead of its time, and it along with Tribes 2 (made by the same guy, go figure) , featured depth of gameplay I've yet to see in another game. FPS games these days are about stats, achievements, unlocks, and 'skillz'. Planetside and Tribes 2 both featured intellectual depth - supply lines, strategy, and levels of teamwork that haven't been seen since. How many games these days feature tanks, where the driver has zero control whatsoever on the main gun, and need a dedicated driver? How many games these days have as many non-combat utilities and gadgets as weapons?

Incidentally, last year I tracked down Dave Georgeson, the producer of both Planetside and Tribes 2, and wrote him a letter: 

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Tribes 2 - The most phenomenal MPFPS game, utterly quashed by Sierra in an attempt to make money by eliminating all the overhead. And yet, myself and thousands others who were lucky enough to play it still see it as the single best multiplayer shooter made to date.

Planetside - An ambitious and extremely successful endeavor using concepts that were entirely foreign, yet built upon the ideals of depth, intelligence and teamwork established in Tribes 2. A game that left sublime memories of days of past.

Surely after these two games, the 'golden age' of FPS, gaming could only get better! But wait!
What do we have now? Call of Duty 4? GRAW 2? Rainbow Six Vegas 2? How have we fallen so far?! Why are what were once considered the pinnacle of FPS nothing more than a distant memory in aging gamers, who are rapidly become buried in 'mainstream' console gamers who have no appreciation for the past?

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I'll admit it...I've stopped playing most FPSs because, simply, they refuse to innovate. It's always the same damned game every time. Drives me insane.

I hope I get to make another FPS someday. In fact, I'd love to get a crack at doing another MMOFPS. I learned a LOT from doing "PlanetSide".

But for now, I'm pretty hooked in with "zOMG!". If I'm lucky, I'll be here for years. So, I'll just have to agitate with my peers to get better games made. And if everything goes to hell here at Gaia (hope not!), then I'll start looking for another FPS gig and do something cool. (I definitely have ideas...)

Thanks for the good words. It's nice to know that someone else is frustrated by the "same old, same old" games that are coming out all the time.
-- Q. (Dave.)

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 The closest game I see coming out in the future to planetside or tribes is Global agenda. It may not have 50 on 50 battles but 60 people work in conjunction to take down lands that contain resorces.

http://www.globalagendagame.com/Media_Videos.html

Originally posted by Miotoss03

 The closest game I see coming out in the future to planetside or tribes is Global agenda. It may not have 50 on 50 battles but 60 people work in conjunction to take down lands that contain resorces.

http://www.globalagendagame.com/Media_Videos.html

While I admit I know next to nothing about it, my first impressions are that it's going to be a VERY arcadey shooter. Over-the-shoulder third person? Are you serious?

http://twitter.com/j_smedley

Planetside next........

You will like......

Speculation roams but I think SOE have seen the saturation of the MMORPG market, realised that WoW has had its day and that there isnt a MMOFPS out there still apart from PS, will there be a 2 ?

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Originally posted by borguk1of9

http://twitter.com/j_smedley

Planetside next........

You will like......

Speculation roams but I think SOE have seen the saturation of the MMORPG market, realised that WoW has had its day and that there isnt a MMOFPS out there still apart from PS, will there be a 2 ?

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SOE makes good games, but they have horrible patching.  They just want games with more mass appeal, so they make these intricate games but need to dumb them down.

For some reason, MMO devs don't change the MMO template too often.  I don't know why.  I am content for now, but in say, five years down the road, we better have some innovation.

Sorry to digress.  To answer the question, it will never happen.