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.

Looking back at all my memories of Planetside, very few of them involved bases. The best fights were always OUTSIDE the base walls... the best gameplay was when everyone was BR10 and CR2 or even lower. Getting your team to put pressure on the Barneys in a pitched bridge battle on Ceryshen while your armor column moves up the mountain trails to get behind them...

The base battles were repetitive and boring. Once you got inside it was just 15 or 20 minutes (or however long it was) of banging a stick around to scare them out or spawn camping the tower. Granted it was a nice breather, but I think most people just wanted the hack to finish so we could go on to fight FOR the next base.

Frankly if I were a developer I'd have removed Heavy Assault or at least changed how it worked... made the game way too Quake-y. And don't get me started on the cavern weapons.

I disagree, respectfully, and think that some of my best memories include bases.  Defense of bases.  

I would love farming a crew of zergers in my mossy.  Or owning em while gunning a vanny.   But I really believe the most fun I had was as invis, perched on walls or in trees with a spiker.

Originally posted by SepticX

I disagree, respectfully, and think that some of my best memories include bases.  Defense of bases.  

I would love farming a crew of zergers in my mossy.  Or owning em while gunning a vanny.   But I really believe the most fun I had was as invis, perched on walls or in trees with a spiker.

I remember a few base defense efforts but I think the base design itself was too moronically vulnerable for my tastes :) I think they were tech plants, where the generator was inside its OWN BUILDING on the roof, making it almost completely impossible to hold the base.

And that stupid back door with the key hidden under the mat? Come ON.

The biggest problem I had with base defense was that it was almost impossible to win. Defending a base was about lasting for as long as possible, not pushing the enemy back. Either they'd hack the base, or you'd flip to Neutral eventually. A good example of how 'flawed' Planetside itself was.

http://www.thesavepoints.com/2009/09/planetside-2-survey/#more-2406

Planetside 2 news.
 

It is true, Planetside 2 is coming!  I eat my words.

I  heard about a new MMOFPS game named Mars War is coming soon. I just view the game homepage,and it is really similar to the planetside.

Here is the link:  http://www.mmolover.com/mars/   You can take a look!

Is planetside 2 coming? Short answer, Yes!

Long answer?

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