Full PlanetSide 2 E3 Presentation contains New Information

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-full-planetside-2-e3-presentation-2811.htm

PlanetSide 2 -- E3 Theater Presentation - YouTube

In the video they mention that the engineer can drop ammo but do not mention light assault dropping ammo. This appears to be a change from what we originally learned about the Light Assault class.

[duomaxwl]

Engineer's do ammo drops now instead of Light Assault. I really didn't care either way, but I guess it'll cut back on the flying around Rambo style fighting.

[SavageB]

Cool beans, thanks Hamma!

[Sirisian]

Sweet. That's a rather nice introduction for people to the factions.

[Hatchak]

they also talk about platoons already, probably we can have those in beta as well !

[Littleman]

"Elite Zebra Squad." I think that's a cool feature for uniformity.

Also... did I see a minigun poking out for just under the canopy lip on that reaver when they were showing us all three ES aircraft?

EDIT: Also, I think when they started working on this project, they must have decided money was no object. They're going all out here. Everquest Next would have to be mind blowing to take the spotlight from Planetside 2 as SOE's big MMO, even 5 years from now.

Must... play...

Oh and beware... I don't think this was the announcement but... Don't panic yet.

[bigcracker]

Will AOE heals stack with each other?

[JesNC]

I remember this from the E3 press conference stream. Very informative.

Have you guys seen the rear spoiler on the vanny at 4:11 into the vid? Me want :D


edit: while watching it again I noticed that several guns appear at least namewise. I think I saw 3 carbines per empire and at least the TR and VS AV launchers' names.

[ComerEste]

Sorry if it has been said elsewhere, but that was the first time I've heard platoons confirmed.:cool:

Also, the whole video is :groovy:

[lMABl]

Cool, would be a good introductory vid to show friends.

[Jennyboo]

Will AOE heals stack with each other?

They didn't say I'm sure that will be confirmed during Beta :)

[Bags]

Another example of listening to the community!

[DirtyBird]

lol @ the spoiler on the vanguard....fully sick bro!!! :rofl:

[rhilir]

that does look sweet. But i can say the nc zebra squad just looks wrong.

[FireStormNova]

Awsome! :D I was looking at youtube video's and happen to look at the PS2 section.

[Hatchak]

Sorry if it has been said elsewhere, but that was the first time I've heard platoons confirmed.

They didn't have them implemented, but all the comunity started sugesting it is a must since the coordination required for organization and bigger outfits makes it easier to track. They said "Ok well, we'll see on beta and we will add them if its necesary" but now i think they realized we kinda need them :D

[Accuser]

"Medics have a powerful single-target heal, or weaker pulse AoE heal"

Please... PLEASE tell me the single-target heal has some range and is not point-blank... please! I'll start buying freemium accounts for random people on the street if that's how it is!

[ComerEste]

They didn't have them implemented, but all the comunity started sugesting it is a must since the coordination required for organization and bigger outfits makes it easier to track. They said "Ok well, we'll see on beta and we will add them if its necesary" but now i think they realized we kinda need them :D

Now I'm wondering if they will have a Squad/Platoon leader chat kind of like the CR5 command chat, or maybe let us make our own channels like "Everyone who is attacking Hvar type /cjoin Hvar". Would need to make it to where you could /ignore people though in case of idiots/spammers.

[Bags]

Galaxies hold two squads now?

[Turdicus]

Galaxies hold two squads now?

It was mentioned and demonstrated in screenshot form that the transport vehicles (sundy and gal) can upgrade their seating capacity to hold more. How many I dunno. Probably has a trade off too, like less armor or less weapons.

Also I feel like sundy and gal sounds like a bad sitcom

edit: here is the link to the additional seats cert http://www.hamma.ws/ntemp/Vehicles/Galaxy.jpg

[Bags]

He said two squads.

[Oryon22]

The amount of win contained in this game is unprecedented.

[LokimDark]

That vid just makes me undecided about what class to jam with more as they all look awesome :)

[Ruwyn]

mobile phone apps + voip = field commanding from anywhere! lol

[OutlawDr]

In the video they mention that the engineer can drop ammo but do not mention light assault dropping ammo. This appears to be a change from what we originally learned about the Light Assault class.

It could be a reference to the MAST deployable, which Im sure will allow players to resupply ammo. http://www.hamma.ws/ntemp/Infantry/Engineer/EnginACE.jpg

Its not 100% clear that he meant the LA's ammo box was moved to the engineer.
Some clarification is in order!

[BillyBob]

Sweet. Thanks for posting! :)

/BB

[DarkChiron]

He said two squads.

Yeah the E3 footage showed 12 slots, so I don't know.

[Figment]

Bah was looking for that footage for a promo vid plan, couldn't find it released, made one without and a few hours later they release it!

Conspiracy! Thwarted again! Oh well, guess this will have to do for now...

PS2 Promo - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4FY7VK4o_Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

[Revamp]

Did anyone notice that he said the MAX can't use aircraft?

This puzzles me for two reasons:

#1: Can they no longer use the galaxy?
#2: Can they use vehicles now?

[DarkChiron]

Did anyone notice that he said the MAX can't use aircraft?

This puzzles me for two reasons:

#1: Can they no longer use the galaxy?
#2: Can they use vehicles now?

They said at E3 EVERY DAY on the stream at least 10 times that MAXs can't really be in vehicles. The only caveat seems to be specially certed Galaxy/Sunderer that sacrifice troop slots for some MAX slots. Regardless, no matter what the MAXs can apparently never even attempt to pilot anything (which is what the video actually said, there's a difference between piloting and riding).

[NewSith]

Did anyone notice that he said the MAX can't use aircraft?

This puzzles me for two reasons:

#1: Can they no longer use the galaxy?
#2: Can they use vehicles now?

What he meant was that unlike it was in the e3 demo MAXes are not able to DRIVE vehicles.

[Bags]

If maxes can use tanks that's just dumb.

[Kashis]

Did anyone notice that he said the MAX can't use aircraft?

This puzzles me for two reasons:

#1: Can they no longer use the galaxy?
#2: Can they use vehicles now?

You're reading into things too much bro.... Let it go.

#1: Max can be passengers in a galaxy/Sunderer.
#2: NO

[NewSith]

Also, one question (actually it's to RadarX mostly), is that the announcement Smed promised?

[DerFurst]

This really doesn't seem like an announcement as much as it is a game
exposition. Plus, Radar said that he'd keep that comment about disappointment tucked away to reply to later. Unless his response is going to be "HELL YES YOU WERE DISAPPOINTED. HAHAHAHAH", I don't think this is the announcement.

[LegioX]

Wish they had a pilot class.

[Sporkar]

Also, one question (actually it's to RadarX mostly), is that the announcement Smed promised?

I think I've seen a video like this before, so I'd guess no.

[Brusi]

He said two squads.

2 Squads was mentioned during E3 as well...

I wasn't sure if they just ment more than 1 squad at the time, but if you can upgrade the carrying capacity i suppose that makes sense.

[Turdicus]

Bah was looking for that footage for a promo vid plan, couldn't find it released, made one without and a few hours later they release it!

Conspiracy! Thwarted again! Oh well, guess this will have to do for now...

PS2 Promo - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4FY7VK4o_Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

Love the video though, Figment. Advertise that shiot =)

[i see you naked]

i dont want news

i want to play the fucking BETA RIGHT NOW :D

[DarkChiron]

Wish they had a pilot class.

People keep saying this. I don't understand it. If you want to be the best pilot ever, just cert into the flying vehicles and spend all your effort maxing out those. Those certs seem class independent, so play whatever you want as your class and never leave your vehicle. What good would a specific pilot class be?

[kaffis]

He said two squads.
Yeah, when he said that, I thought to myself, "Does that mean the squads are smaller? Come to think of it, I don't think I ever saw more than 4 or so names on the UI in the E3 stream..."

But then, later, they show the squad leader's squad view interface or whatever that was, and it was 10 names.

So I have no clue. The cert for extra seats looks like it only had two tiers... could it be that Galaxy is 12 default -> 14 certed? Or 10 default -> 12 certed? Either way, it makes sense to give you room for a couple dedicated gunners even after a full squad drops. No sense forcing the Galaxy to make its return trip defenseless. Why it's not 15 certed, then, I don't know (4 gunner spots from the E3 footage, plus a pilot... that way you'd have two Galaxy crews in a full squad of their own, too...), but hey.

In any event, my guess is that he misspoke.


They said at E3 EVERY DAY on the stream at least 10 times that MAXs can't really be in vehicles. The only caveat seems to be specially certed Galaxy/Sunderer that sacrifice troop slots for some MAX slots. Regardless, no matter what the MAXs can apparently never even attempt to pilot anything (which is what the video actually said, there's a difference between piloting and riding).
Actually, in one of the Q&A's right before E3, it was mentioned that Sunderers, at the very least, make no differentiation between MAX and normal infantry passenger slots. Unknown whether Galaxies will mirror that, or whether that counts for gunner positions, too, but there's no "sacrificing troop slots" to get a MAX in.

[Pyreal]

Engineer's do ammo drops now instead of Light Assault. I really didn't care either way, but I guess it'll cut back on the flying around Rambo style fighting.

So is that the announcement, Engies drop ammo now?

:wantbeta:

[cluubias]

People keep saying this. I don't understand it. If you want to be the best pilot ever, just cert into the flying vehicles and spend all your effort maxing out those. Those certs seem class independent, so play whatever you want as your class and never leave your vehicle. What good would a specific pilot class be?

This!

my plan is to pilot around with an engineer in case i get damaged and have a chance to land to repair, kinda like i do in bf3 with the chopper.

[GreatMazinkaise]

People keep saying this. I don't understand it. If you want to be the best pilot ever, just cert into the flying vehicles and spend all your effort maxing out those. Those certs seem class independent, so play whatever you want as your class and never leave your vehicle. What good would a specific pilot class be?

It's because they want pilots to be utterly ineffective ground pounders. Too many folk are mad because they've had people bail and destroy them or deny them a kill while they go off and do the other thing they're good at. It's a wrong view, but one that's had by a vocal minority on these forums.

[DarkChiron]

Actually, in one of the Q&A's right before E3, it was mentioned that Sunderers, at the very least, make no differentiation between MAX and normal infantry passenger slots. Unknown whether Galaxies will mirror that, or whether that counts for gunner positions, too, but there's no "sacrificing troop slots" to get a MAX in.

I remember when they were talking about Galaxy certs, they mentioned side-grades that swapped infantry slots out for MAX/vehicle slots. I imagined a Sunderer would be not terribly different (outside not holding vehicles most likely). Of course, they're still working all this stuff over anyway so talking about any of it like it's terribly concrete is probably foolish on our part anyway.

[OutlawDr]

I think I've seen a video like this before, so I'd guess no.

Yeah, this isn't really a "new" video. This is basically the closed booth presentation they were doing every 15min or so at e3 (like the title says). There were videos on youtube and various gaming sites of this exact presentation weeks ago by people who brought in cameras into the booth. If this is "the announcement", then its the lamest announcement EVER.

[Crator]

Hey, guess what guys, this is a video, not an announcement. Two diff. things! ;)

[nathanebht]

It could be a reference to the MAST deployable, which Im sure will allow players to resupply ammo. http://www.hamma.ws/ntemp/Infantry/Engineer/EnginACE.jpg

Its not 100% clear that he meant the LA's ammo box was moved to the engineer.
Some clarification is in order!

Thanks for this picture. Wasn't aware that Engineers would have the Spitfire again. Was always hilarious when I figured out a good place for one and it got a kill.

Guess I wasn't paying attention but kinda surprised by some of the certs. Certs for optics (scope zoom?), range, stability, accuracy and damage on the pistols and rifles? Certed up players will dominate newbs?

[Greeniegriz]

Good stuff.

Cheers,

GG

[IceyCold]

Thanks for this picture. Wasn't aware that Engineers would have the Spitfire again. Was always hilarious when I figured out a good place for one and it got a kill.

Guess I wasn't paying attention but kinda surprised by some of the certs. Certs for optics (scope zoom?), range, stability, accuracy and damage on the pistols and rifles? Certed up players will dominate newbs?

Nah, because you can only "slot" one cert per item.

So if you have a Cert that makes your Gauss shoot faster, then once you slot it into the Cert "slot" on the gun, you can not have any other certs running for the rifle.

Basically, you have to choose.

[Kitsune]

Kinda wish they gave us a video giving us the full lore about each faction :) ie: explain the TR's good and dark side, are they just short of slavers with their oppression and policed state? Or are they much more lenient and public friendly? Are the NC inspiring men and women who fight for personal liberties and freedom from tyrany, or do they mostly just wanna shoot the law-dogs? Are the Vanu radicals? Men and women hell bent on the idea that alien tech is the answer to becoming something, more? Or are they simply pioneers, looking to advance humanity but are put to extremes to reach that ideal vision of a better future? Heck, maybe the factions are all of these things, either way, I'd like to know a bit more about their history and what they are really after.

Still glad to see a video though, cool to see side by side comparisons of the outfits for classes though, and a bit more incite on leveling for the new players, like me.

[Bags]

I'd much rather know about gameplay than lolore.

[IHateMMOs]

So they gave Engineer the ammo? That means the LA is less of a team player now. How can the Galaxy carry 20 people when we saw a maximum of 10 people flying inside of one in the E3 coverage, and what does he mean by the Squad leaders can coordinate camo? Wont that really just make people join squads in order to get a camo rather then buying one?

[Arcticus]

With the videos and screenshots that have come out lately, I can't imagine why anyone who plays PC FPSes would not want to play this game....just out of raw curiosity.

After watching this video, I'm real glad I'll get to be in beta if only to know which classes I want to concentrate on at release. First time players will have a lot of choices.

btw, 1 zebra = silly. Being killed by a zebra herd is downright intimidating.

[RandomNPC]

Wish they had a pilot class.

You're an immortal soldier, there is no need for such specialization - you have lived long enough to proficiently be able to do anything, the only limitations come with your load out. "Class" is a bad term.

Also, Engineer is going to be the go to pilot class, just cert up the aerial vehicle of your choice and have at it.

[Toppopia]

You're an immortal soldier, there is no need for such specialization - you have lived long enough to proficiently be able to do anything, the only limitations come with your load out. "Class" is a bad term.

Also, Engineer is going to be the go to pilot class, just cert up the aerial vehicle of your choice and have at it.

People will argue that Light Assault it best pilot class as they can bail out without killing themselves, but i think engineer if you can get to the ground or evade enemies long enough to land and repair, else Light Assault is good if you are there to do a hit and run and get shot down. But engineer will be number 1 option for driving, or have someone in your tank who is an engineer, or else you will be doomed if anything hit you.

[Ductape]

Anyone notice how reminiscent of BF2 that music was?

[Vreki]

Wont all that customization make it pretty hard to distinguish friend from foe?
There might be nametags floating around, but that rarely works well

[i see you naked]

Wont all that customization make it pretty hard to distinguish friend from foe?
Their might be nametags floating around, but that rarely works well


im already pissed seeing 5959859832 zebras running around and u cant tell if its foe or friend

[GreatMazinkaise]

im already pissed seeing 5959859832 zebras running around and u cant tell if its foe or friend

It's sounding like those zebras will be yellow/blue, red/black, and purple/cyan zebras in the end product. Won't be hard to tell those apart.

[ComerEste]

So they gave Engineer the ammo? That means the LA is less of a team player now.

:rolleyes:
See it's the opposite thinking for me. Engineers is almost every other FPS are the ones that drop ammo, so it makes sense to me. Also, they could have given LA's something else to compensate. Until we get in beta, we won't know how the change will effect battles.

[RodenyC]

They actually kept the ammo boxes. *sigh*

[ComerEste]

They actually kept the ammo boxes. *sigh*

Sort of lol. If you look at the earlier screen shot of the Engineer certs, you can see its actually like a deployable station, that could get destroyed maybe? Ammo packs probably couldn't be destroyed.

[Canaris]

totally awesome!

[lordofthenothin]

Nice to see some more information.

[Joe]

good video i can't wait to play!!! :D

[Jonny]

Hahaha tanks with spoilers on them....what next?

[ChipMHazard]

Will AOE heals stack with each other?

Hopefully not. I could certainly picture a squad of medics abusing this, but we'll see come beta.
Personally I am not overly worried about the medic's healing rate since I'm certain that any weapon will be able to outdamage it, it's certainly one more thing that needs to be tested en masse.

So they gave Engineer the ammo? That means the LA is less of a team player now. How can the Galaxy carry 20 people when we saw a maximum of 10 people flying inside of one in the E3 coverage...

I like that they gave the engineer ammo "boxes", suits the role better than a shock/harassment class, also you don't want someone to can jump up to hard to reach places to basicly stay there indefinitely.
Either they increased the gal's size or they lowered a squad's size. Might be a cert, as other's mentioned, but that would be a wee bit misleading to actually talk about as if it's a permanent feature and not an option, if it's actually just a cert option. We'll see.

[mbarrett]

I would like to know regardless of what class you are playing except playing as a Max will you be able to self heal yourself with ("Medical Applicator") and will you also be able to repair yourself with the ("Infantry Repair tool") or will there be an option to allow players to do this , because i think if players are not able to self heal and self repair themselfs i think this will suck big time , I don't wan't to rely on others to fix me up if I'm hurt , I like to have some self independence

[ChipMHazard]

I would like to know regardless of what class you are playing except playing as a Max will you be able to self heal yourself with ("Medical Applicator") and will you also be able to repair yourself with the ("Infantry Repair tool") or will there be an option to allow players to do this , because i think if players are not able to self heal and self repair themselfs i think this will suck big time , I don't wan't to rely on others to fix me up if I'm hurt , I like to have some self independence

You will heal over time.
I don't particularly like the idea of all classes being able to heal themselves, not counting the heal over time mechanic, except through a cert option which would be a trade-off.

[Vancha]

"Flat-out silly" *sigh*

I love our devs, but they truly give zero fucks about immersion, don't they?

At least with all dignity thrown out the window, there's no reason for us to be unable to roll hello-kitty style. I'll be disappointed if we can't.

[Marsgrim]

Might have been posted already, but he said the Gal held 2 full squads - good development!

Edit: It has been.

[Maniox]

Stop TORTURING MEEE

[IHateMMOs]

But that makes the LA less of a team player. He should have some kind of an ability that will make him a more useful part of the team. As for the gal, he should just say the quantity of players rather than the quantity of squads that can fit in one. Its very misleading. All that aside, I still want to know how squad camo works.

[waldizzo]

I would like to know regardless of what class you are playing except playing as a Max will you be able to self heal yourself with ("Medical Applicator") and will you also be able to repair yourself with the ("Infantry Repair tool") or will there be an option to allow players to do this , because i think if players are not able to self heal and self repair themselfs i think this will suck big time , I don't wan't to rely on others to fix me up if I'm hurt , I like to have some self independence

From my understanding, players are no longer able to do everything themselves. The rexo-HA-AV-Engi-Medic is dead. Good riddance. Players will be able to have medical packs for quick healing, but those cost resources.


Nice video!

[lordofthenothin]

http://i48.tinypic.com/1jb2pk.jpg


I like these developers.

[kaffis]

Hahaha tanks with spoilers on them....what next?
Aftermarket exhaust tips.

Chrome tread drive wheel caps.

Racing stripes.

I could do this all day. Ricer tanks!


That said, I do find it amusing that the spoiler is on the slowest tank.

[ThermalReaper]

No mention of the mobile app drone. Nooo!!

[Jikkan]

Well put together presentation. A bit more details on the teamplay aspect would have been nice though.

[IHateMMOs]

:rolleyes:
See it's the opposite thinking for me. Engineers is almost every other FPS are the ones that drop ammo, so it makes sense to me. Also, they could have given LA's something else to compensate. Until we get in beta, we won't know how the change will effect battles.

Maybe some kind of tracking ability.

[FireStormNova]

It was mentioned and demonstrated in screenshot form that the transport vehicles (sundy and gal) can upgrade their seating capacity to hold more. How many I dunno. Probably has a trade off too, like less armor or less weapons.

Also I feel like sundy and gal sounds like a bad sitcom

edit: here is the link to the additional seats cert http://www.hamma.ws/ntemp/Vehicles/Galaxy.jpg

Well that rocks! I could see upgrading/side grade to more seats = dropping more troops on target!
;)

[Rivenshield]

http://www.hamma.ws/ntemp/Infantry/E...r/EnginACE.jpg

Wonder of wonder, I see my beloved Spitfire turret has returned... but no land mines. If we lose the land mine, my Republic loses a valuable part of its corporate culture.

Is that screen cap of the entire screen...? It looks like you can scroll down a bit further....

[Voltar]

Will AOE heals stack with each other?

i just got this image of 10 medics using 'W' and 'L-Mouse Button'.

[Hyncharas]

I hope the customisations aren't quite as varied as they were in that demo; one of those soldiers looked like a cross between a shogun and a snickers bar

[DarkChiron]

i just got this image of 10 medics using 'W' and 'L-Mouse Button'.

All of my time playing a Pyro in TF2 is about to pay off!

[Karrade]

LA's could maybe have enhanced radar or visual range? That would fit their role. Maybe some kind of smoke grenade, something to mix up the battlefield or cloud advances?

Some of that could already be in of course :D

[Reefpirate]

LA's could maybe have enhanced radar or visual range? That would fit their role. Maybe some kind of smoke grenade, something to mix up the battlefield or cloud advances?

Some of that could already be in of course :D

Maybe we should just give them a jetpack.

[Hyncharas]

LA's could maybe have enhanced radar or visual range? That would fit their role. Maybe some kind of smoke grenade, something to mix up the battlefield or cloud advances?

Some of that could already be in of course :D

Smoke Grenades and Flares are probably in; on the other hand, it would be nice to have something akin to Flashbangs to counter certain vision systems and temporarily blind players.

[goneglockin]

What I dont understand is how are they going to make money by selling goofy shit no one cares about? Zebra stripes? Spoilers on tanks?

They're hiding an awful lot about what the metaphorical crack cocaine will be that is intended to make them barrels of money.

My prediction: you all wont like it.

P.S.

I suppose they could run their business selling things like that... if they cost about 80 grande a piece, sure.

[Sephirex]

They're hiding an awful lot about what the metaphorical crack cocaine will be that is intended to make them barrels of money.


Boosters, and a constant stream of new skills that every one wants cert points for, on top of the original ones that will take 2 years total to unlock. Also weapon variations, skins and models.

Don't doubt people's vanity in a community either.

[Flaropri]

Aftermarket exhaust tips.

Chrome tread drive wheel caps.

Racing stripes.

I could do this all day. Ricer tanks!


That said, I do find it amusing that the spoiler is on the slowest tank.

If there isn't the option to get a Hula-Girl for my Sunderer's dash eventually I'm going to be very disappointed.