Beta Gameplay with Higby [Archive]

Solidblock

2012-07-17, 03:02 PM

Planetside 2 Beta Gameplay with Matt Higby - at Sony Headquarters - YouTube

Edit: Arcleggers Twitter Status, not breaking the NDA if that were the case.

ThGlump

2012-07-17, 03:06 PM

24:45 Reason for no seat switching

Trip

2012-07-17, 03:19 PM

24:45 Reason for no seat switching

how should seat selection work in your opinion?

Flaropri

2012-07-17, 03:21 PM

24:45 Reason for no seat switching

Because that worked out so well for the pilot. :lol:

Sabrak

2012-07-17, 03:22 PM

how should seat selection work in your opinion?

It shouldn't work at all.

:)

ThGlump

2012-07-17, 03:22 PM

Best select when you entering. Like PS1. But that probably late to go back.
How it should work? No switching from driver position when vehicle is moving. Passengers could be able to switch positions with small delay.

Coreldan

2012-07-17, 03:22 PM

how should seat selection work in your opinion?

Optionally like PS1 where entering a seat required you to be in a certain spot. Entering pilot seat would happen near the cockpit end of the aircraft for example, main gunner would enter from middle, tailgunner from back. For tanks driver could enter from the front end while the gunner from the middle.

Optionally allow hot swapping, but make it take 5-10 seconds before you get into the new seat.

ThGlump

2012-07-17, 03:24 PM

Because that worked out so well for the pilot. :lol:

It was Arclegger! It was miracle he flew for so long. but better pilot with higher altitude could do it easily.

Solidblock

2012-07-17, 03:27 PM

I really don't want this to be a 'swap seats' topic, It's the first time I've had a look at the store! Surely that's more significant

ThGlump

2012-07-17, 03:31 PM

Trip

2012-07-17, 03:32 PM

I really don't want this to be a 'swap seats' topic, It's the first time I've had a look at the store! Surely that's more significant

fair enough. so what do you think?

75 weapons per faction at launch. 30-40 vehicle weapons at launch. implants, sheilds, explosives, camo, horns everywhere, im pretty impressed with the scope of the store overall. even if it is just beta placeholders right now.

Solidblock

2012-07-17, 03:33 PM

Yeah, it's amazing right. I know it's on placeholders, but IMO it's the best look at it we've had so far, am I right?

The choice is bewildering, which I really like. I hope the grind for the in-game resources isn't massively long, although I don't mind too much as I'll be playing this so much.

MrBloodworth

2012-07-17, 03:35 PM

Really enjoyed the commentary over the top. Game looks great and there is some good info in there.

Solidblock

2012-07-17, 03:36 PM

I know right, relatively poor quality at first, but generally informative and a good picture to what tech tests will look like right now

MrBloodworth

2012-07-17, 03:36 PM

how should seat selection work in your opinion?

Like the original.

If you do not have a full crew, you do not have full firepower. /end

snaffe

2012-07-17, 03:40 PM

Just looks...amazing. Coolest game, like...i've ever seen.

Trip

2012-07-17, 03:41 PM

Well store is one huge placeholder now. Things you will see there arent final. And without that we saw it many times.
Only interesting point of store is buying resources. I hope its only for auraxium and not for Station Cash

18:47 is resource ahop. I dont see any station cash icons. Im pretty sure it will stay that way.

TR Oakley

2012-07-17, 03:47 PM

Why would anyone spend station cash in the beta anyway? All cosmetics are unlocked for everyone for testing purposes. Probably why they have disabled it.
Also, the cash shop isn't complete.

twistnlick

2012-07-17, 03:48 PM

Like the original.

If you do not have a full crew, you do not have full firepower. /end

THIS.

For some reason this idea seems to fly right over the heads of a lot of people around here.

CuddlyChud

2012-07-17, 04:07 PM

Anyone else notice at 10:30 he stuck himself with some sort of healing syringe?

SonicBoom

2012-07-17, 04:13 PM

Anyone else notice at 10:30 he stuck himself with some sort of healing syringe?

PS2's version of the medpack ?

MacXXcaM

2012-07-17, 04:49 PM

THIS.

For some reason this idea seems to fly right over the heads of a lot of people around here.

Yes!

Change it, damnit!

Ruwyn

2012-07-17, 05:07 PM

easiest to see is at the end.....no hotdropping?? That's gonna take a whole bunch of gameplay out if that's true.

Flaropri

2012-07-17, 05:22 PM

~2:10 "Flamethrower for your tank."

Hell yeah!

It was Arclegger! It was miracle he flew for so long. but better pilot with higher altitude could do it easily.

At the cost of the nose cannon and flight control, maybe (also, with pretty crap accuracy at higher altitudes especially since you can't easily check when you're over the targets and the disorientation effect from the new perspective). In any event, there is a huge trade-off to do it, and it could very easily be not worth it. Read the other threads for my thoughts on that.

DirtyBird

2012-07-17, 05:41 PM

Is there a link to better footage than this shaky cam?

Ruffdog

2012-07-17, 05:48 PM

This is great footage. I had to turn the volume right up at the start and for a few seconds I was like "ugh what the hell" ... but Matt Higby; he's a gem. His passion for this game is only increasing if that's possible. There's no waffle, he chooses all his words. When he goes off on tangents, he comes back. He adapts to everything he's watching, in fact the chaos makes him more excited!

I defy anyone, vet or otherwise, who thinks they are burning out from hype, to watch this and not be amped again.

The war is coming!

DirtyBird

2012-07-17, 05:53 PM

If there was an embargo on footage then the least they could have done is given the press some decent quality video to upload.
Great content agreed, delivery could have been better imo.

Solidblock

2012-07-17, 05:57 PM

Glad everyone likes it, yeah the quality could be better. It's not an official source however.

Gonefshn

2012-07-17, 06:13 PM

Every new video that comes out the TTK looks longer than before. This is an AWESOME sign!

In some of the first videos I was concerned it was straying too far from Planetside 1 but now I think it looks like a really solid compromise between newer FPS games and PS1.

Steambot

2012-07-17, 06:17 PM

Awesome video. This game is going to be amazing.

sylphaen

2012-07-17, 06:32 PM

So it's apparently easier to revive someone than spend the time to heal ?

Full shields/health/armor on revives ? :huh:

sameer

2012-07-17, 06:33 PM

When is totalbiscuits comin out? I heard he was there too.

Sephirex

2012-07-17, 06:34 PM

When is totalbiscuits comin out? I heard he was there too.

Planetside 2 - Raw & Uncut - YouTube

Littleman

2012-07-17, 08:30 PM

This game sounds prettier than it looks!

As an aside, I'm getting really tired of asking "WTF ARE YOU DOING!?!?!?" mores times in a 15 minute span than I do in an entire season of football. Press videos are frustrating to watch, but it's all we got.

Would really like to be playing...

Hamma

2012-07-17, 08:47 PM

This was taken during the event I was at btw. I recorded it also but didn't post it figured others would ;) I just made notes of things we hadn't heard yet.

Yutty

2012-07-17, 08:54 PM

So it's apparently easier to revive someone than spend the time to heal ?

Full shields/health/armor on revives ? :huh:

ya i found it strange that a medic can revive a max unit back to full armor & health. common sense tells me that shouldn't be

TheApoc

2012-07-17, 09:15 PM

I always liked the way Americas Army 3 did revives.. As far as the Max I'm not sure how practical it would be but it would be neat if it took a medic and a engi to revive a max

Example if the medic revives Max unit with no engi, then the player must bail on his Max or wait for an engi to come repair Max.. just a silly idea

Drakkonan

2012-07-17, 10:24 PM

See that guy healing him at 20:00? He's getting 1/5th the amount of points that Adam's getting. How is that right?

Malorn

2012-07-17, 10:26 PM

Clegg was owning with that cycler carbine. Loved the train of engineers he had healbotting him as a MAX too. Engies rep up a MAX very quickly.

And I noticed the option to trade Auraxium for other Resources, interesting.

Galzus

2012-07-17, 10:32 PM

"fast, modern ttks"

ugh. Hopefully beta changes this attitude. I don't want to get killed the second I pop my head out of cover

Dagron

2012-07-17, 10:38 PM

Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere, but i just noticed something that bothered be.

At ~22:10 when Clegg aims down to shoot at an enemy poking his head between two crates, the guy's name pops up over his head (so far nothing new to me). The problem i saw there was that when the guy takes cover and runs to the other side of one of the crates, his name still shows up at Clegg's screen for a while even though he doesn't have LOS to the guy, and seeing that he could antecipate where the guy would come out at and killed him.

Is anyone else a little worried about that? Effectively "seeing" enemies through walls isn't something i like to see in FPS games.

Turdicus

2012-07-17, 10:47 PM

Is anyone else a little worried about that? Effectively "seeing" enemies through walls isn't something i like to see in FPS games.

Well most games keep the icon there for a second or two beyond the LOS. Not sure why they do that though, guess its just something everyone has been doing so its become common now. Some games have also allowed upgrades that allow that time to increase, therefore increasing the advantage. Battlefield 2142 and WoT are two games that come to mind immediately.

I don't think I have a problem with it, and the ability to increase the amount of time it lasts might be a spotting cert. We will see if people complain about it or not.

QuantumMechanic

2012-07-17, 10:51 PM

Flame throwers on tanks, MAXes and I even saw a flame thrower in the infantry weapon section. Hells yeah~!

Winfernal

2012-07-18, 02:53 AM

"fast, modern ttks"

ugh. Hopefully beta changes this attitude. I don't want to get killed the second I pop my head out of cover

By looking at the video... the TTK is pretty high.

Roidster

2012-07-18, 02:59 AM

so did someone take the original video,and then record it on their iphone,and say "hey look its a new vid from SOE"

Klockan

2012-07-18, 04:29 AM

By looking at the video... the TTK is pretty high.
No, the people playing just sucks at aiming, he walks around a bunch of enemies for a couple of seconds taking 0 hits several times. Often happens with internal testers and press events, if you count the total hits to kill it is around five which is like the BF games.