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Doobz
2003-08-06, 11:47 PM
hey all, i'm back after a long, long leave. moved to santa rosa, CA, lots of downtime with comp, etc, etc.

well, i was in beta, and haven't had the chance to keep up with the game since then, so, my question, what's changed? i remember how fun beta was playing with my friend and my outfit (for sure they've booted me thinking i died or something :) )

so, can anybody give me the major changes tha have happened since beta?

00AgentDuck
2003-08-07, 12:05 AM
Well the new additions to PS have been the liberator bomber which can bomb either a carpet style bomb for infuntry or armor pieceing for vehciles. It's a three manned vechicle, the driver guns a very strong cannon in the front that chewed me up once when I had full health (only took a few shots and it killed me), the back guning spot seems the worst and not as strong, and of course there is a spot for the bomber. They've also added in the skyguard which has a driver and gunner, the gunner shoots out this flak cannon similar to the tr anti air max against air, and a gun against infuntry as well. Well those are the new vechils.

They've done alot of nerfs and upgrades during this time, a few things they have done this on are, the tr maxs and the lasher. They've also fixed numerous bugs and problems. They upgraded to a new physics engine which wasn't really needed and it hosted many more bugs, espeicaly with the maurader handleing (it handled worse then an ams) and other vechicl's gunning spots. They have fixed these I think for the most part. Put in a vechilce quering system, helped to stop lattice hack leap frogging. I had something else in my mind but I forgot what it was, if I forgot anything which I probably have (need sleep) feel free to add it in. They also have many other future plans, visit they're website or read some of the forums here at PSU to see what has been happening latly, although it would probably take more then 3 days none stop to read all the forums word for word. Oh yeah and one thing I just remembered, they gave the maurader and thresher some more armor, great news for me since I drive them both:D . Well I think I'll stop typing now and get some sleep....

Edit: Oh and btw any one know how to see how many times you've posted? Or how many posts it takes to get to the next rank after soldier? Kind of off topic but oh well.

Doobz
2003-08-07, 12:08 AM
new physics engine, huh?

well, does it feel any better and does it perform better than what they had before? and what is it?

Spider
2003-08-07, 12:08 AM
I think he summed it up pretty well...

Doobz
2003-08-07, 12:11 AM
so, overall, do you guys feel it has made a great improvement since beta?

Everay
2003-08-07, 12:14 AM
well, at times, the new patch screwed the game up, and then they fixed it and added a bug or two, overall, its still fun IMO

Spider
2003-08-07, 12:16 AM
It's fun alright... but :ugh: I'm kind of getting bored of the game :(

Cauldron Borne
2003-08-07, 01:06 AM
Me likey. What server did you play on? Thy are also supposed to a a 'capture the flag' element to game capture too. You hack a base, then grab the base's information capsule and bring it to a base connecte to it via lattice system. I don't know if its been implemented yet, didn't seem like it this morning though.

Doobz
2003-08-07, 02:01 AM
yeah, used to play on emerald

Doobz
2003-08-07, 03:23 AM
hey, lol, i remember the Galaxy, man she was a bitch

if you didn't have her just right, should blow up if you tried to unload anything, it was hilarious

have they fixed it?

Fire_Monkey
2003-08-07, 10:34 AM
Yeah they did that right before release I think. Mostly people have just been complaining about the power of other empire's AV weapons and Heavy Assault and they've been spending many a patch trying to balance it. The only thing really annoying right now is the lasher. They're thinking about throwing in new skills for medics like stimpacks etc.. And thinking about throwing in NTUs for towers. But overall the game really hasn't changed that much.

and welcome back doobz :love:

Smaug
2003-08-07, 11:50 AM
The most annoying thing is the crashes to desktop when you hart or recall, or just change continents sometimes.

00AgentDuck
2003-08-07, 12:04 PM
Yeah I hate the crashes when you hart, I get them all the time. But I can normally get back in before I respawn at sanctuary and when I get back in my screen is always purple for some reason and it says I'm dead. Lol once my friend has this one glitch when he got back in. THe drop pod was still there when he got back in, and he got an option saying, push G to mount drop pod. So he did that and he got inside and all of a sudden the drop pod de materialised into the ground with him inside. He could see the ground where he had been but he was completly gone and same with his inventory and guns. That's some advice I give, never mount a drop pod.:D

gonnagetyou
2003-08-07, 03:46 PM
The Lightning now has a 360 degree turret which is great. You see a lot more Lightnings running around now. Most everything else has been mentioned already. Welcome back.

Lonehunter
2003-08-07, 03:56 PM
Originally posted by Doobz
hey, lol, i remember the Galaxy, man she was a bitch

if you didn't have her just right, should blow up if you tried to unload anything, it was hilarious

have they fixed it?
Originally posted by Fire_Monkey
Yeah they did that right before release I think.

No, they didn't :(

Edit: Well ,you can unload stuff easily but trying to find a place to land without blowing up is the hard part. They're also gonna add the Lodesatr sometime soon. It will cary medium tank, AMS, the vehicles the Gal can't carry basically.

Lonehunter
2003-08-07, 04:02 PM
Agent Duck go here

Linkage (http://www.planetside-universe.com/content.php?mod_id=16)

Doobz
2003-08-07, 04:36 PM
well, as soon as my 9800 Pro comes back from newegg tomorrow (defective fan) i fully intend to give that 7 day trial a go and see how everything is :)

Revolver
2003-08-08, 12:07 AM
Originally posted by Spider
It's fun alright... but :ugh: I'm kind of getting bored of the game :( Take a break. you're burning yourself out. don't play it for about a week and it will be exciting again.

Unknown
2003-08-08, 02:32 AM
/me waves.

I'm sorta in the same boat as you Doobz, been around since before the beta, played the beta (I remember, I won the first beta contest they had :D) had a blast, but never got the retail.

For me, money was too tight and PS was too expensive, but now I've got some money to burn and can pick up PS online for $40 with free shipping so I've decided to go ahead and grab it. I just hope they haven't ruined the great game I remember playing in beta...