SOE has announced details on the actual events that will occur on Friday during the Ultimate Empire Showdown. Several events will take place across all servers with specific objectives.
Log in and show your might through these three challenging scenarios, and show your enemies who they are contending with. Help your empire dominate to claim total victory!We'll show you what the soldiers at ground zero are doing; YOU show your support in the most creative ways you can imagine and help earn the Player's Choice award for your Empire. Check Checkers Specials and Dischem Specials. Share your Empire pride via Facebook, Twitter and Google+ before and during the event.
- Flight of the Galaxies – The Empire that holds The Ascent on the most servers at the end of this 30-minute challenge will secure the victory.
- None Shall Pass –If The Bastion is in your Empire's hands on the most servers at the end of this 30-minute challenge, triumph will be yours.
- Territory Tyrant – Control the most territory on Amerish on the most servers at the end of this 30-minute challenge to win this battle for your Empire.
- Everyone can be involved in this battle between Empires and servers. Join us on Connery to play alongside LevelCap, SeaNanners and Total Biscuit, or play on other servers to show your Empire's complete superiority. All three challenges take place on Amerish.
For more info head on over to the official news post here and as always hit up the comments to discuss. Also you can check out the rosters for the teams that will be playing live in LA here.
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2013-01-23 09:59 PM
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| 2013-01-23 09:59 PM | ||
| Hamma |
HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown http://www.planetside-universe.com/n...wdown-2937.htm |
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| 2013-01-23 09:59 PM | ||
| Hamma |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown Finally some real details on how people can participate - and it's not just Connery. |
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| 2013-01-24 01:36 AM | ||
| Rolfski |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown Still no explanation what the rewards for the winning conditions are. And no victory conditions that involves specific servers, outfits or players. Announcing this limited "participation" 1 day before the event is certainly no reason to close down the "Why didn't they put an event in place on ALL servers?" -thread imo. You just can't deny the feeling of a last-minute, quick thrown together afterthought bone to keep everybody happy. |
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| 2013-01-24 01:41 AM | ||
| p0intman |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown Yawn zzzzzzz |
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| 2013-01-24 02:21 AM | ||
| Chewy |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown 30 minute challenges to get a hold of a certain outpost? That's the best SOE can think of? Why not make it 3 hour deals that last as long as the main event and have them be owning the 3 conts. That sounds like a much better event instead of just going for a single base that holds little value. VERY weak of a side event. Also, half an hour is nothing for a good battle and is by far to little of a window for anything to be done with. It can take that long just to get to a base if resistance is high or if a connection needs to be made. The only challenge that looks worth a damn is the take Amerish one. But yet again, 30 minutes is NOTHING when taking a map. A single tower can take that long to cap alone if defended. If this is what SOE wants PS2 to be in the long run. A run from one base to the next, avoiding fights to cap what ever you can ASAP super MMS (modern military shooter). Then Im not seeing why it's called PlanetSide 2 and not some other name. It shares so little with PS that it wonders me. Reboot or not, it's named PS2. That 2 means it should be a bigger, badder, and better version of the original game. Not a complete remake that almost ignores the first. DmC 2 is a great example of a game not bothering to remember its origin. Turns it to shit. |
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| 2013-01-24 07:32 AM | ||
| ChipMHazard |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown A wee bit late to inform everyone else that they too can participate in this event. I do wonder how exactly are the server side events supposed to happen? 30 minutes to take and hold a territory, ok. But are the territories neutral at the start of the challenge or can they be taken beforehand and just held? Are all players sent back to their WGs, if so then each territory gives an inherrent advantage to the closest faction. Do players instead start outside said territory? What about capping the most territories, are the servers reset before this? I would presume that they are. And won't outfits simply create alts on all of the low pop servers to easily secure the challenges on as many servers as possible, instead of fighting on, say... Miller? What's the incentive to actually participate in this, just faction pride? I would most certainly have wished for a more detailed discription of the rules and conditions and as such I am inclined to agree with Rolfski about this feeling like a hastily throw together event for all of us who aren't on Connery. Then again the whole thing is still just for PR so my stance on it hasn't really changed, would have been nice to have had some special event to restoke one's fire, but... Meh. |
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| 2013-01-24 07:57 AM | ||
| PredatorFour |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown Typically uninspiring event from soe.. Well at least something from planetside made it into ps 2! 
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| 2013-01-24 10:46 AM | ||
| Sir B Smythe |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown
LOL That made me chuckle and yes your totally right 
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| 2013-01-24 01:29 PM | ||
| HiroshiChugi |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown this is a complete and total waste of time for anyone who is both on and not on connery. i havent seen any sign of rewards for the completion of these tasks,just that you can participate in them. at the least,they should give out 2,000 certs to each player of the winnig faction.that wouold make sense, even if just a little,to myself and others. |
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| 2013-01-24 01:37 PM | ||
| ShadetheDruid |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown Half a dozen posts on this event later and people still don't get the concept behind it.. and it's been explained multiple times too. 
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| 2013-01-24 01:59 PM | ||
| coconut |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown I think that these challenges are a great idea. People have been complaining that the game lacks a winning condition, that there is little motivation to keep playing, why keep fighting, conquering and losing territories over and over again... Couldn't this challenge system be maintained permanently under a suitable form? Concretely:
I think this could be very well be a good fix for the metagame, and one that does not involve making the game any more confusing to newcomers than it already is, unlike other suggestions based on resources and lattices. |
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| 2013-01-24 02:44 PM | ||
| ChipMHazard |
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| 2013-01-24 03:07 PM | ||
| Illtempered |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown This is a perfect example of how the community makes this game, not the "devs". They provide us the sandbox, and we, the kids, play in it. SOE is like some lame parent that comes over to the sandbox and starts suggesting games for the kids to play in the sandbox, when we clearly got this shit. I can almost guarantee that our Amerish Event on Waterson was far better than this will be. TB and his hord...DVS and their 40+ Libs...epic memories... Edit to say: Oh, and to those that keep reminding us it's an event to attract new players: What better way to attract new players than to show them how much fun the existing players(people actually playing) are having? They should have just recorded our Waterson event and showed it to new players. As it stands, with the short notice, lack of details, and perceived lameness of the event by the community, they won't be doing a good job attracting new players, in my most humble opinion. |
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| 2013-01-24 03:18 PM | ||
| Chewy |
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| 2013-01-24 08:27 PM | ||
| Itsatrap |
Re: HOW to Join the Ultimate Empire Showdown In theory the challenges are a good idea, because the idea is to show new players what they could experience during a 30-minute play session by highlighting a couple of highly-contested areas. The challenges also artificially add strategic goals to the game, if only for 30 minutes at a time. However, if those territories are not on the front lines when the challenges start, then they're pretty much automatic locks for whomever happens to currently own them. |
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