Beta Manual

[Jaged]

I was looking threw my web server when I came across this copy of the beta manual that I uploaded. Thought someone might find it interisting.

http://www.speakeasy.org/~pj99/PlanetSide%20Beta%20Manual.html

[Biohazzard56]

Good old days

[Peacemaker]

Beta launch menu skin = ownage.

[Krinsath]

I was just thinking about how I missed the old blue one. :( Wish they'd make that like a toggle where you could go back and forth...not like it'd be especially hard to switch graphics files...

[Jaged]

Yeah, the new startup screens for CC are teh ghey.

[Seer]

Core Combat: Even the skin sucks.

[Krinsath]

Core Combat: Even the skin sucks.

:rofl:

Nice quip, but CC is great when you get people in the caverns...problem is getting them down there... :rolleyes:

[321]

Looks like not a lot of stuff in PS has changed since beta.

[Seer]

I had a variety of snarky things lined up to say about cc, but I'll refrain.

I'll echo 321 here. Everything in this beta manual is still pretty much true.

[Krinsath]

Core gameplay being the same is a good thing, means the game was based on a decent idea. :)

Core Combat is a very fun expansion...it is NOT however, "Urban Combat." The insanely buggy release didn't help matters any. It definately suffered from being mismarketed as players expected one thing and got something else. Is it worth $30? Not so much currently, but once Cavern Lock kicks in it may become so.

If they'd take my idea sheet for Space Combat...we might see a decent space expansion. :D Once I do a bit more refining of that document, I'll post it here-ish (rough draft viewable in the "How about space combat" thread...just sift through the WH40K discussions... ;))

[321]

Core gameplay being the same is a good thing, means the game was based on a decent idea. :)

I was talking about thee graphics and look of things more than the actual gameplay.

[shaizan]

Hey, folks that were in beta, what was the timer on the NTU silo for? Is it a hack timer (would be an odd spot for one) or a "estimated time to NTU depletion" timer or something similar?

[Diddy Mao]

Beta's been on my mind lately (being that it's almost been a year if not more) and the upcoming changest. I just wanna keep look'n back @ all the fun I had back then, I diddn't know a damn thing diddn't worry about home conts. no backpack no LLU no Lattice for that matter. I just ran around naked with a supressor all day on cyssor and it was so much fun. Nothing beats the meeting cetner's either :groovy:

[scarpas]

i still wish we had the almost useless central planning building....

[Doop]

Heheh. Nice find.

Wish I was in beta, heard a lot of cool things about it. =[

[Lartnev]

Hey, folks that were in beta, what was the timer on the NTU silo for? Is it a hack timer (would be an odd spot for one) or a "estimated time to NTU depletion" timer or something similar?

Possibly a placeholder for it, but it's 10:37 in both screenshots, and the NTU level is different.

[dscytherulez]

I want the old voice macros. They are better then the new ones. They eliminated the important ones, like "We need transportation!". I think Sony should add some more. I'd like some more specific ones. More squad based would be good too.

[Flashingfish]

I still have my oringinal planetside beta files on 3 CDs. Willing to sell ^_^

[Dharkbayne]

Haha, I still have the version I downloaded for Exclusive Beta. But I can'tr sell that, so... :p

[Lartnev]

Yeah I still have my beta planetside files backed up on my backup partition, took me 14 hours to download that son of a bitch, wasn't going to go through that again :D

[Jaged]

I have the orignal CD's in packaging :p Willing to sell

[Fragmatic]

Beta launch menu skin = ownage.

It was still there in release, then when they got the core combat beta, it changed to that :(

I <3'd that skin :(