New Expansion...

[domdre]

thought i should post this considering it hasnt been posted yet even though i dont pay for the game..

http://planetside.station.sony.com/corecombat/





most of this is what we asked for in beta... isnt 4 months a wee bit to soon for an expansion

[Spider]

:jawdrop:








Dear lord! /joygasm!

[Hamma]

:eek:

[Madcow]

Can somebody please tell me when the expansion pack is coming out as I can't access the official site from work (actually cutting and pasting the whole thing would be very appreciated right now).

[Sputty]

Originally posted by Spider
:jawdrop:








Dear lord! /joygasm!
I concur

[Hamma]

It doesent say :(

[Khronos]

simply put, sounds l33t.

might make me resubscribe :lol:

[Sputty]

Below the continents of Auraxis� lie the secrets to an ancient alien technology. Join your fellow comrades in uncovering these vast caverns and the technology that will give your empire the edge on the battlefields above.

If you and your teammates have the skill and perseverance to emerge victoriously, you will unlock the technology and tools to gain powerful new weapons, vehicles, underground transports and enhanced empire bonuses. PlanetSide: Core Combat also features:

Six new massive underground war zones
New Ancient-technology vehicles and weapons which can be used by all Empires
Head-to-Head Urban style combat in subterranean cities
Unique alien complexes to explore and conquer
New underground environments from volcanic lava flows to ice caverns
Ancient technology can be used by all Empires to upgrade existing surface level facilities


The new weapons:
MAELSTROM
Source: Ancient-tech
Handling: Rifle
Damage: Heavy
Maximum Range: Medium
Refire Rate: Standard
Certifications Needed: Heavy Assault

The MAELSTROM has two firing modes. The primary mode creates an energy "stream" that does damage to the intended target for each moment that it stays in contact. The secondary mode allows indirect "chain-energy" grenades to be fired. These grenades will "lash" targets in the area when they explode, and then "chain-lash" other nearby targets thereafter.
RADIATOR
Source: Ancient-tech
Handling: Rifle
Damage: Medium
Maximum Range: Medium
Refire Rate: Medium
Certifications Needed: Special Assault

The RADIATOR lobs indirect projectiles that irradiate the impact zone briefly after impact. Thus, when soldiers enter an irradiated area, they begin to take damage immediately, only ceasing to be damaged once they leave the impact zone.
SPIKER
Source: Ancient-tech
Handling: Rifle
Damage: Medium
Maximum Range: Long
Refire Rate: Medium
Certifications Needed: Medium Assault

The SPIKER fires small orbs that can be detonated, by the firer, at any time after they leave the muzzle of the weapon. The power within the shot builds over time after being launched, so the longer you wait until the orb is detonated, the more damage the Spiker shot will cause.

[ghost018]

Head-to-Head Urban style combat in subterranean cities.

Yay. W00T. Cool.

ghost

PS: Now all they need to do after this is plan an Aquatic & Lunar expansion after this is released. That would be 1337.

[Madcow]

Much appreciated, Sputty.

[Bismarck]

Whoa, that looks damn cool. Now we know what the devs have been doing all this time :p

[Spider]

Should be by next year... they gave a release date for info. And novemenber is the date for the urban combat info (wich looks to be the last info) So it's safe to say its gonna be done by december or early next year.

[Phaden]

Well hopefully this will fill the planet back up again as it has been disapointing trying to find a battle. Plus it just sounds cool to fight underground. Maybe we will be able to move troops underground and come up in the middle of facilities owned by other empire, Gutter runner style if you will. Thatd be sweetness.

[ghost018]

I bet they're pushing before Christmas so they can make some extra profit this holiday season. No complaints from me.

ghost

[Madcow]

Originally posted by BMagex
Well hopefully this will fill the planet back up again as it has been disapointing trying to find a battle. Plus it just sounds cool to fight underground. Maybe we will be able to move troops underground and come up in the middle of facilities owned by other empire, Gutter runner style if you will. Thatd be sweetness.

My main concern now is that opening new battle zones with the deflated population will thin us out even more. The only people above ground will be the people without the expansion for at least the first month after release.

[Hamma]

I will see if i can find out an approx release date, and start a page here in the next few days to show all known info ;)

[Lonehunter]

OMG!!
I'm sorry I'm just a LITTLE excited. By the way, look at the link in my sig called "My Promise" It's not gruesome, bloody or whatever, it's a link to PSU, please read it.

Edit: All the new weapons look like common pool Vanu weapons

Edit2: I can't wait to hear, "Nerf the MAELSTROM!" domdr, I don't know who the hell you are but you just made my day, my week, my month! Thank you!

[Frozen-Monkey]

*sigh*......................................do they have to come out with an expansion this early!!!:mad:

if i do buy it, do you think ill heave to subscribe again?

[Shin1gami]

I wish they would devote all those resources going into the expansion to actually finishing the main game first. Things like platoons and facility benefits that have been promised since beta are not even close yet, and they start working on this. They really must need an incentive for people to keep subscribing... I'm just afraid that it will backfire... and I'm still not convinced that the LLU is a good idea.

Sorry about the whining, but isolated that expansion does look damn cool :)

[Lonehunter]

yeah, it's kinda stupid that Platoons were promised to be out by retail and we all reaedy have an expansion but STILL NO PLATOONS!

[321]

Sounds really cool I can't wait for it to come out.

[Everay]

well, it might mean theyre closer with platoons than you think. but thats a wild guess, anyways, looks bad ass, cant wait, and all those weapons are common pool so, i dont think anyone will be saying nerf it

[Kaltagesta]

well, there was all them things ni that questionnaire which we know have to come out, which we presume will come out before the expansion pack, ya?

Head-to-Head Urban style combat in subterranean cities

THAT explains where everyone lives/lived on auraxis!

and check out the NC's visor = some terrans and a marauder

[Ghost06]

/orgasm

[Lise]

It does seem very early for an expansion pack, but still. What they're adding sound ace.

[ViperGTS]

:D :D :D AWSOME:D :D :D

they should make a sticky topic for core combat

[WCruler]

Originally posted by Call-The-Gestap
and check out the NC's visor = some terrans and a marauder [/B]

think its an enforecer

and i dont wana pay for this expantion

[domdre]

Lonehunter187

if i made your day your week and your month


mind buying me ps:D

im just one of the few the proud the poor onlookers..:'(

[Javenn]

This Expansion sounds so cool i wonder if you can come up from the undergound into bases mabe they'll put in that you could attack the santuarys from underground

[Kaltagesta]

well thats how they will integrate it, isnt it? people with the expansion pack can play in both, where as people without can only play above ground. but i guess u can only get the new weapons/vehicles underground,. but you can bring them up [it said somethnig about capturing bases below to aid your war above]

[Vick]

New continents will make it harder to find a fight, and the new weapons look dumb.

Ill still buy it.

[starrider]

finnally teh devs decide to deliver.

[X-113]

I'm just concerned that nobody will bother fighting above ground anymore. Unless they implement facility benefits REALLY well that is. Perhaps a system where it's hard to cap underground bases if the equivalent above ground ones are enemy owned?

And what of these new weapons and vehicles? Will we lose them when we die? Hopefully they will have somthing in place that limits them to bases where they've been delivered and "analyzed"

Other then that, it sounds like a nice idea to inflate the PS playerbase. Hopefully by then the whole LLU crap will be sorted out and I can resubscribe. :)

[diluted]

this is bullshit.

they fucking dont do shit to retail except add a few half-assed changes/additoins and come out with an expansion less than 6 months after the game comes out?

all this new crap no one even wanted comes out and the existing problems will persist. it looks good on paper but this stuff will totally suck like the game does already. i stopped playing but come back now and then to see if anything has been really done to the game. but nope just some llu bullcrap and wow they pull an expansion out of their ass. what a load of crap.

[X-113]

Damn dude, chill.

[diluted]

yeah well reading about this crap pisses me off.

why are they doing this? because ps lost an anus load of people and i suppose they just want more money. who the hell knows?

zero point. i just don't get why they dont listen to the customers. people want platoons but nope theyre not coming out for 7 years. if they actually listened and sat down for 15 minutes they could get the coding down.

they pull tons of ideas out of their ass that no one wants and everyone has to accept. the customers are the ones supporting the dev team and they simply don't get it.

[X-113]

You're right, they're not listening. After all, as long as they continue to make a profit, Planetside can be considered a total success. Since their goal is to keep the project afloat as long as possible, of course they're going to do everything in their power to increase the playerbase.

More players=more profits
More profits= success

[NoSurrender]

Well back on topic YAY URBAN COMBAT!!!!! THATS GONNA 0wn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[diluted]

whats the big deal about urban combat?

uhh.. yaaay doors.. and ..windows.. ...and... ..roads maybe?


btw this is on topic. everyone is creaming themselves over false promises and i disagree.

[Navaron]

Originally posted by Pyro_Man
Well back on topic YAY URBAN COMBAT!!!!! THATS GONNA 0wn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I doubt it. SOE is king of spin. They're throwing out key words and phrases people have been asking for, just to get people to buy the expansion. They've said before the engine can't handle true urban combat, so I'd bet a night with your mother it's nothing more than caves leading up to new styled bases. Just look at all the things that they name, alien artifacts, technology, and urban combat. I'm calling BS on this one.

It'll be a lot of fun to find fights when half of the thousand players on the server are spread across 10 continents and the other half are underground on however many "continents" there are.

Plus, get ready to ducks the nerf rockets.

[Stocked]

going to have to agree with diluted, SOE is going to have to fix the problems we have now before this expansion pack comes out and we have another load of problems. i also wonder if the don't fix some of the problems such as falling through the sanc floor, will they be landing in a battle field, just a question?:eek:

[domdre]

Lonehunter187

if i made your day your week and your month


mind buying me ps

im just one of the few the proud the poor onlookers..:'(

[Robot]

there should be a dig dug minigame ^________^

[starrider]

I doubt it. SOE is king of spin. They're throwing out key words and phrases people have been asking for, just to get people to buy the expansion. They've said before the engine can't handle true urban combat, so I'd bet a night with your mother it's nothing more than caves leading up to new styled bases. Just look at all the things that they name, alien artifacts, technology, and urban combat. I'm calling BS on this one.



faith padre, faith

[ViperGTS]

lol

[AcidCat]

Sounds interesting ... I was thinking about cancelling but this definitely makes me reconsider.

[Ghost06]

I demand that they nerf struedel immediatly. It really makes pie look bad.

[BigTexas]

Great, six new zones, now the server population will be spread so thin that its going to be hell finding a battle. Just what we need SOE, nice work.

Maybe they could find some way to combine all the server populations onto one large server, then they could pawn the old servers for some scratch.

SOE Representative: "8 gigabytes of Sun Certified memory on Black"
Oil Tycoon: "Boy howdy feller"
*Roulette wheel spins*
Guy running Roulette Table: "17 Red"
SOE Representative: *Exclamation in classic Jerry Lewis style*

Ahh, that would be sweet

[X-113]

I wonder if they could use the whole "server cluster" concept Eve Online has done so well with. Maybe merge everything into 3 bigass servers? 1 huge server would suck for the people who play more than one empire. :(

Hopefully this thing will be pulled off well and most of PSes origional problems fixed by then.

[Navaron]

I remember talking with someone, and he specifically said they didn't have the technology to move peoples characters to other servers, if they did, don't you think they would have done it by now?

What's most disconcerting, is 90% of the people who are glad about this, are using blind faith, and hoping that *this* is the cure for PS.

[Spider]

Originally posted by Ghost06
I demand that they nerf struedel immediatly. It really makes pie look bad.

You need help Ghost. Stop posting your mindless dribble.

[Sputty]

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
I remember talking with someone, and he specifically said they didn't have the technology to move peoples characters to other servers, if they did, don't you think they would have done it by now?

What's most disconcerting, is 90% of the people who are glad about this, are using blind faith, and hoping that *this* is the cure for PS.
Youre being mean. If I'm not in that 10% I'm not going to say your penis is big any more

[EarlyDawn]

:rofl:

[BlakkyZ8]

5. Urban Style Combat - more info 10.9

Urban style combat. Not gonna be a city.

[EarlyDawn]

Head-to-Head Urban style combat in subterranean cities
May wanna read the whole page.

[SandTrout]

I'm not renewing my account it looks like. This is becomeing too much like what I've seen of evercrack. So many expansions, you're lucky to find another person. And whatever happened to tryingto avoid spamfests? Between the liberator, malestrom and radiator, this is gonna be nothing but spam by Christmas(we'll be lucky if medium assault is anything other than a prerequisite that noone uses by Thanksgiveing).

And why did SOE have to impliment the LLU is such a 1/4 assed way as they did? The least they could do is put in in all the bases so we can get the real feal of it.

If SOE keeps this up, I'm gonna have to get myself a real life!

[Caspertoo]

Eh it sounds interesting, I still enjoy the game for what it is. My question would be, are these underground battle areas going to be big enough for reevers, liberators, skeetz and galaxies (maybe lodestar too?) to fly in? Or are they going to be like tunnels and crap?

Another question I'd have is did diluted not get loved enough as a child or what, that is one angry guy.

[Hamma]

Urban style combat sounds very interesting

[Winged_Nazgul]

Here's a link to some more info:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/planetsidecorecombat/news_6073522.html

According to this, it seems to be slated for an October release.

Originally posted by Lonehunter187
This fall? Umm no. Anybody who believes this is VERY gaulable. If there is an expantion before 2004 you guys can flame me for ever. I give you my word. MARK MY WORDS!

Somebody make this their sig or something so we'll all remember.

Can we start flaming you forever now? :D

[teratravp]

mostly the people who actually still like the game will be around PSU so you'll disagree, but when I saw this news I had to comment:

ROFL.

Earliest announced expansion ever. Totally obscene. For god's sake people, surely you have more in your life, and if you don't get a life, that you can be baited by carrots by this bunch of losers like this. PS sucked rocks at launch, and at that point it was far beyond too late. They set the precedent right there for a core game that was seriously lacking in mature objectives, pretty ironic that their expansion uses the title "core". But the expansion won't be better, get a clue, it's just some tunnels and a few weapons, vehicles. It will still be a one month play and then totally and utterly pointless because the PS designers suck so infernally they don't know what goals are and have no idea what the word persistance means. If they invented a game in the real world it would involve bouncing a ball off a wall forever with no way to win, no way to gain, and not alot of variety.

Sure they pull ideas from the community and seem vaguely responsive to the ten billion threats a day, but let's face it, they suck at designing and any idea they do put it is done terribly and all sapped of anything that would have made it fun. I've given these guys the benefit of the doubt many times, and every time they've showed that they just don't have the stuff.

(And PS -- for the record I'll say I do think that the artists and programmers did very high class work on this project (although bugs are a problem still, the game does impress me on a technical level) but the game designers, producers, and management are in my opinion, terrible and made a stale grey cookie out of what could have been the sort of online treat legends are made of, oh and not to mention Sony customer service is a joke and often downright abusive, but to the artists and programmers if you happen to read this I do admire what you did with Planetside and hope you have a bright future in the industry.)

[Lonehunter]

Originally posted by domdre
Lonehunter187

if i made your day your week and your month


mind buying me ps:D

im just one of the few the proud the poor onlookers..:'(
:lol: You posted it twice. I used to be just like you. When PS came out I didn't have any on-line connection for about a week or two. I can't imagine your pain. :( PM me your address (I won't stalk you I'm too lazy) and I'll send you around $20 towards Planetside :)

Edit: Maybe, on second thought, I'd better think about this.

[Sputty]

Originally posted by teratravp
Earliest announced expansion ever. Totally obscene.
Not really. SOE announced an Xpack for SWG over a year ago, more like 2 years ago. I think SWG wins

[Happy lil Elf]

....

Rainbows.

[diluted]

yeah but is there any official news on a swg expansion? i don't play it and don't keep up with it but i doubt there is a detailed planned expansion like planetside's doing.

[Sputty]

Originally posted by diluted
yeah but is there any official news on a swg expansion? i don't play it and don't keep up with it but i doubt there is a detailed planned expansion like planetside's doing.
There is, but since you doubt what I said no matter what:
http://bohica.planetside-universe.com/images/forumImages/google_pulpfiction.jpg

[diluted]

eh.

oh well swg isnt my business.

[Happy lil Elf]

oh well swg isnt my business.

Nope, it would take away too much time from you bitching about Planetside...