Special Edition Public Test Update

[Lartnev]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/index.php?newsid=997

[Cauldron Borne]

Ah Hahahahahahahahaha! Hahaha! Hee Hee! Yeehaw! Kick Asssssssss! Woop!

[Yerster]

... I missed them :( that was realy short notice but o well

[mechaman]

well atleast I got to see some of them on the AGN broadcast...

[Warborn]

Disconcerting how silent BFRs are. Was a nice show, though. However, the gunner spot weapons are kind of ridiculous, especially the big double barrel cannon for the colossus. That thing is way, way too big.

[EarlyDawn]

Cool looking. Got to sit in the gunner seat of the Colossus. The HUD is totally different inside. I think that the locational damage thing is going to be complex / intricate.

[Warborn]

Cool looking. Got to sit in the gunner seat of the Colossus. The HUD is totally different inside. I think that the locational damage thing is going to be complex / intricate.

That's a good detail. Was wondering what they'd do to display locational damage.

Also, the screen shake being added before the BFRs is good. They make your screen shudder when they walk near you. Just wish they had slightly more thunderous footsteps.

[Wolf Blitzer]

The sounds are something that can probably be changed easily before going Live, so be sure to give that feedback to the Devs.

[Piuslxix]

Hey earlydawn, did you get any screenies?

[Indecisive]

<3 criticalmass i talked to him for a few minutes about psuma related things, and he warped me to an nc version of all the bfrs (i was nc at the time)

i got to gun the nc and vs one. Colossus was occupid. They own.

[EarlyDawn]

No, I didn't. Never occured to me to grab any. Sorry =/

The only information I have to add is that the BFR terminal is divided into Vehicle, Pilot, Gunner, and Favorites... for what it's worth. The building is triangular and fits nicely against the core building.

[Indecisive]

it seems kinda outta place to me in the regular base Courtyards.

The building is triangular and fits nicely against the core building

[Warborn]

it seems kinda outta place to me in the Courtyards.

Might be because you've never seen it before.

[Indecisive]

What do you mean ive never seen the shed buildings before? I saw them not more then 15 minutes ago, and gunned the bfrs a few minutes later before some asshole orbital striked them all.

[EarlyDawn]

What? I havent seen what before? The BFR sheds in the base courtyards? You best well believe that I have.

Gunned dem bitches too.What the hell are you talking about? You claim to have seen the Sheds before today? :confused:

[Indecisive]

Everyone is confusing the hell out of me.


The sheds. In the courtyards. Look. Out. Of place. To me. Thats it and thats all.

Let me edit some things to clarify.

[Warborn]

Everyone is confusing the hell out of me.


The sheds. In the courtyards. Look. Out. Of place. To me. Thats it and thats all.

Let me edit some things to clarify.

Maybe it's because you've never seen them BEFORE TODAY, which is why they look out of place to you.

[EarlyDawn]

:lol: :lol:

[Phaden]

So i take it they are all done and closed?? :-( That sucks.

But that is really awesome you got to play Gohan, VERY JEALOUS.

[Hamma]

THey were pretty cool.

[martyr]

pics:

[Thunder_Hawk]

pics:

Ditto

[Pneumas]

Sup PSU. Long time lurker, first time poster..er. Here is a low quality vid for those of you who could not see the action today. Not much but you can atleast check em out....

http://home.wideopenwest.com/~yekrats/bfrdebut_sm.wmv

[Phaden]

OMG Woot

Cookies for that man right there!!! awesome capture!!!!!

[Warborn]

For anyone wondering, the peregrine showed up very briefly. The majority of the action was between the colossus and aphelion. This makes sense though considering how bad the peregrine looks compared to the other two.

[Piuslxix]

That clip's awsome! The best part's when the TR goes into convulsions...

[F!LTER]

them BFRs arent as big as i thought they'd be, so no hiding in the forest for me :(. they look really cool though

[Indecisive]

Maybe it's because you've never seen them BEFORE TODAY, which is why they look out of place to you.


It blocks the courtyard, you can barely squeeze anything through there now :/

[Warborn]

It blocks the courtyard, you can barely squeeze anything through there now :/

It takes up about 1/3rd of the width of the courtyard. You could easily fit three or so tanks side-by-side in the space between the shed and the inner structure. You're overreacting.

[Indecisive]

I think your overeacting, all I did was say it was wierd :/

Its kinda....just in the middle of no where, not like in a corner or anything. I say they should fit it in the cornor with the ntu silo, and maybe build the silo into the side of the shack.

[Warborn]

Different bases have different layouts. The way it was positioned at Cetan was good. Lot's of room and so forth. I didn't check any other bases but I imagine they'll put it wherever there is room for it.

And I'm not overreacting. I'm just telling you that you're complaining about nothing. You saw it for a very brief period of time and already it "looks weird" and there's "no room" with it in there. Just give it a chance before you start listing off ways that it sucks.

[ChemicalHex]

Errr, is there any way somebody can post that movie on planetsidemovies.com? I, ah, can't see it at work... ;)

EDIT: Gah, nevermind, by the time it appears on planetsidemovies I'll have watched it at home.

[hazzer2007]

Looks great, but too me, it looked as if alot of people were attacking that TR BFR, but it kept going longer than i throught, must have alot of armour

Any pics of the event?

[Warborn]

Looks great, but too me, it looked as if alot of people were attacking that TR BFR, but it kept going longer than i throught, must have alot of armour

The SOE guys were recharging the armor on the BFRs quite a bit. I'd always see the health bar on the colossus go down, then lower, almost dead, then poof, back to full. They can normally take a fair bit of punishment anyway though.

[Cauldron Borne]

One of the devs let us just sit there and pound away on a VS BFR.. it took us about two minutes of non stop pounding from 40+ people to kill it. If that ain't tuough, i don't know what is.

[Hoza]

Wasn't the change to allow them to make bases easier to redesign due around the end of September? Maybe that's been rolled in with the BFR's so we get a slightly different base layout and the Shed's won't be in the way quite so much?

[Lartnev]

Nah, it's after BFRs afaik.

[Warborn]

Wasn't the change to allow them to make bases easier to redesign due around the end of September? Maybe that's been rolled in with the BFR's so we get a slightly different base layout and the Shed's won't be in the way quite so much?

We'd have heard about it by now if a redesign were planned in the short term. We know they want to do it, of course, but it's not an imminent change.

[Hoza]

Sorry I meant the coding change that allows them to make the changes easily, not the whole base redesign. I was just thinking that perhaps they would be keeping the physical base lay out internally, while they work on new designs, but might be able to extend the CY wall 10 or 20 metres so the Sheds could fit properly.

But thinking about it and as you say this would probably have been mentioned in a Dev letter / work in progress.

[Warborn]

The sheds aren't actually that big. The BFRs themselves aren't huge to begin with. I remember reading somewhere that the BFRs were 10 or 20 meters. Well, they're not. They're more like 20 feet tall. The aphelion is probably the tallest, and it can fit under the existing gates, though just barely.

[Lartnev]

They are 20 feet tall and were always announced as being so. Some idiot probably thought feet = metres or something :rolleyes:

[Piuslxix]

Just like the mars probe...

[Warborn]

They are 20 feet tall and were always announced as being so. Some idiot probably thought feet = metres or something :rolleyes:

I think it was the magazine that ran the preview which said that they were 20 meters tall.

YEAH THAT'S RIGHT STOP GIVING ME THAT LOOK JERK

[Lartnev]

PC Zone had 20 feet, so it musta been CGW :)

[TotalFusionOne]

Awesome video.. Too bad I have to watch it with the sound off 'cause of that damn song.

[Phaden]

Yeh it was the one CGW article we saw posted on PSU frontpage. still good scoop to get, even if it was somewhat wrong, maybe they scaled them down from original specs. I dont think it would be that hard to shrink the thing proportionally to its self by like 30% or whatever it works out to be. Originally it read that they stood about as tall as towers, or something liek that.

[Fragmatic]

Just like the mars probe...

:rofl:

[Cauldron Borne]

hey, the Mars probe OWNZ YER ASS, Bitch! :p