Twitter Image Roundup

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-twitter-image-roundup-2758.htm

[SniperSteve]

Un-Official theme of the week: PS_TRay Tweets. ^_^

[Hamma]

Indeed :lol:

[MercDT]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/album/mp52rz6sp6/20120409_4f83072b82973.jpg

Does anyone know what vehicle is this? Role?

It reminds me somewhat of the Lightning tank...

[Hamma]

No idea - there is another thread on it we aren't sure what it is sadly.

[Merrakul]

Looks like a Deliverer variant maybe with no side grades maybe???

[Legion]

I think that vehicle is the coolest thing I've seen yet.

[Knocky]

No idea - there is another thread on it we aren't sure what it is sadly.

At least we know it is NOT the Lightning.

[bullet]

VS always get shafted. We didn't see the scythe's cockpit this past week. :confused:

[headcrab13]

Thanks for condensing all the tweeted pics, Hamma. These past few weeks has been completely awesome. Can't wait to see some MAX and Scythe action soon!

[RoninAfro]

VS always get shafted. We didn't see the scythe's cockpit this past week. :confused:

It's probably not finished yet. I doubt they're intentionally trying to shaft one faction. Give it a week or three, they've been doing an awesome job so far, you can't just wave a magic wand and have all the artwork/functionality be complete. No need to rush something out that doesn't look as nice as they'd like it to be. The game is still in alpha, after all.

[RNFB]

VS always get shafted. We didn't see the scythe's cockpit this past week. :confused:

They're holding off on showing VS stuff because they don't want it to steal the attention from the NC and TR stuff.

Wouldn't be very fun if everybody and their grandmas joined VS because of all the hype around it and they all forgot the TR and NC even existed

[bullet]

It's probably not finished yet. I doubt they're intentionally trying to shaft one faction. Give it a week or three, they've been doing an awesome job so far, you can't just wave a magic wand and have all the artwork/functionality be complete. No need to rush something out that doesn't look as nice as they'd like it to be. The game is still in alpha, after all.

I know they don't have magic wands but they should invest in some.

It just seems they have a design plan as getting NC done first, then TR and finally VS. I guess because of the level of detail on the VS? I would think T-Ray would love to work on VS first...it must be Higby forcing him to work on the NC! STAND UP T-RAY! LASHER HIS BEARD OFF! :groovy:

[Lokster]

Certainly some awesome TRay tweets this week.... Might have been more interesting to me than a "themed" week.

[Canaris]

VS always get shafted. We didn't see the scythe's cockpit this past week. :confused:

Scythes don't have cockpits, it's more of a pod filled with teal goo

[Levente]

Trays twitter pic of that Tech center is the best screenshot so far. really shows the massive scale, and how the lights reflects on the metal and shit, its awesome

[stordito]

The warpgate is inactive right? was the no-fire-zone confirmed within the active warpgates?

btw...the scale is immense!

[Canaris]

The warpgate is inactive right? was the no-fire-zone confirmed within the active warpgates?

btw...the scale is immense!

from what we've heard the warp gates will be the invasion points of continents, there will most likey be Empire Specific Warp Gates which are no fire zones while inside the "bubble" or effect of the gate.

Think of them as the new continental sanctuaries.

It might just look inactive for the pictures sake or the graphic effect isn't finalised.

[Kran De Loy]

Really I'm hopeing it more about them being ready for when they introduce new continents and those new conts do not have sanctuaries.

:drools:

[Ceska]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/album/mp52rz6sp6/20120409_4f83072b82973.jpg

Does anyone know what vehicle is this? Role?

It reminds me somewhat of the Lightning tank...

According to the comment with the screenshot, it's a Nanite System APC. I guess they will give more info on it and on the differences with Deliverer. Maybe smaller, faster and with less armor.

[Aaron]

Really liking that warpgate pic.

[Levente]

im still a bit lost . So an empire cannot take over a continent? :huh:

[Canaris]

im still a bit lost . So an empire cannot take over a continent? :huh:

not the first three continents slated for release, they all will have a unconquerable warp gates for each of the Empires, you can certainly take all the territory hexes on a continent and force your rival back into his Warp Gate, there's no lattice system however.

this is SOE trying to speed up combat involvement by getting you to action as quickly as possibly.

[Levente]

hmm not good, so eventually in the end there will be a massive baserape. How the hell will you get out from that baserape if 500 attacking ur warp gate?

[EVILoHOMER]

Not liking the blue monitors in the aircraft, just looks bad.

[The Janitor]

Yeah but... a massive siege on a warp gate will look really cool! It'll be something to go for while the devs get together some other conts. with bigger, better objectives to fight over.

[xXGumpXX]

I have noticed that things have slowed down on this website and it has all of a sudden gone quiet , we going to get a beta date at E3 or sometime afterwards , I'm getting tired of waiting now and following this game is becoming depressing because of all the talk and the pictures etc , but there is no talk of beta or when higby or another dev gets asked about beta i noticed they try to avoid the question or change the subject , stop toying with us all and just giv us a beta date , oh and i was wondering if planetside 2 is successfull and a server can only support 5 k players , whats the back up plan if ps2 has 50k or 500k players on a server , because some of these mmo games have well over a couple of million players playing them , i mean look at Rift , that must have at least 3 mil players playing

[Inverness]

So are warpgates now a type of base?

[Hamma]

Each empires foothold on the continents are within the warp gates.

[Inverness]

Each empires foothold on the continents are within the warp gates.
I'm still not liking the idea of being unable to completely capture a continent. In my opinion that will take away a lot of the feeling of victory since even if you capture everything else the enemy will still be there in their foothold and able to take pot shots at you or vice versa.

[Canaris]

I'm still not liking the idea of being unable to completely capture a continent. In my opinion that will take away a lot of the feeling of victory since even if you capture everything else the enemy will still be there in their foothold and able to take pot shots at you or vice versa.

there is work arounds for that, no shooting in or out of the warp gates bubble like original PS.
Just need a few other to keep it from becoming and mess.

Automated Warp Gate defenses like the ones they showed us in the time laps video, the sky lance, get to close to the gate and you get fried, also make sure you have a reverse that you can't just simple move back and forth across the bubbles threshold to use it as a shield.
That one kind of really annoys me from PS even if I have utilized it. ;)

Plenty of other options we can put into play.

[Levente]

I'm still not liking the idea of being unable to completely capture a continent. In my opinion that will take away a lot of the feeling of victory since even if you capture everything else the enemy will still be there in their foothold and able to take pot shots at you or vice versa.

its called baserape. but ps2 will it take it on a new level of baseraping. Not capture a continent is indeed shit, whats the purpose then? Never ending fight , all right i have no problem with that but purpose? even one round in bf3 have a purpose, is to win that round. but in ps2 it will be a never ending zerg fight and at the end baserape the enemy empire warpgate. not good

[dotcom]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/album/mp52rz6sp6/20120409_4f83072b82973.jpg

Does anyone know what vehicle is this? Role?

It reminds me somewhat of the Lightning tank...

Looks more like a ANT to me....dunno how you would get a lighting out of that picture when there is no canon or rail gun. But I guess you could say a rough sketch leading toward that way.

[headcrab13]

I'm still not liking the idea of being unable to completely capture a continent. In my opinion that will take away a lot of the feeling of victory since even if you capture everything else the enemy will still be there in their foothold and able to take pot shots at you or vice versa.

At first I would have agreed with you, but consider the most likely scenario:

You push the enemy all the way back to their foothold, and your forces start to mass around it. Snipers are watching all angles, grunts are patrolling back and forth with darklight to make sure infiltrators don't get by, tanks are shelling the foothold shield as a deterrent, and air vehicles are providing overwatch.

Sure there may be a few lucky enemies that sneak past the zerg and attempt to take back a capture point or two, but they'll be quickly wiped out. As fewer and fewer enemies are able to resist in any significant way, the entire enemy faction will warpgate out and essentially the continent will be yours.

It's not a true "win" condition in that you get points or an achievement or something, but Planetside didn't have that either and it was the ultimate rush to finally wipe an enemy faction right off the map.

[Levente]

At first I would have agreed with you, but consider the most likely scenario:

You push the enemy all the way back to their foothold, and your forces start to mass around it. Snipers are watching all angles, grunts are patrolling back and forth with darklight to make sure infiltrators don't get by, tanks are shelling the foothold shield as a deterrent, and air vehicles are providing overwatch.

Sure there may be a few lucky enemies that sneak past the zerg and attempt to take back a capture point or two, but they'll be quickly wiped out. As fewer and fewer enemies are able to resist in any significant way, the entire enemy faction will warpgate out and essentially the continent will be yours.

It's not a true "win" condition in that you get points or an achievement or something, but Planetside didn't have that either and it was the ultimate rush to finally wipe an enemy faction right off the map.

you could capture continents in PS1 , that was the achivement. it had a purpose to fight for.

[headcrab13]

you could capture continents in PS1 , that was the achivement. it had a purpose to fight for.

Exactly. There was no official "achievement unlocked!" banner or anything, it was purely the satisfaction of fighting for hours, days, or even weeks and finally capping the entire continent.

I largely think PS2 should be the same way -- a kind of sandbox in which to pursue your own favorite goals and achievements.