Can you still do it?

[Figment]

Returning players:

Was it like riding a bicycle? :) Driving a Thunderer again sure was to me!





Aside from some WoT (r-r-r, oh yeah, Q) moments and awkward "Ehr... I didn't want to pull my EMP grenade on you! D: " moments (:doh:), how have you faired?



For me, infiltration went well as always, just without the Routerpad the options are a bit more limited to pure sabotage and resec steals. And jacking Prowlers as they drive by, of course.

My squad of 3-5 picked up where we left off: mainly holding and resecuring bases against overwhelming odds, especially the PS2 players with us were amazed at how suited the bases were for defense. When we ran a training squad for newbees with a few CR5s, a lot of ooohs and aaahs regarding base design were heard.

Our drop on Pamba (after holding off a squad or so of VS for half an hour) to resecure against a platoon of VS in the CC went well: they left the CC unguarded by all piling on the door my squadies were coming through. Of course... there's more than one way into a AMP CC. ;) TR will remember our attempt at Bomazi (Bullseye hacking their ant), some VS might remember us being just a bit too late to take over a drained Gunuku.

Particularly when we were playing with PS2 newbees against TRx, we naturally experienced a lot of problems, most couldn't even kill one of them or keep them down (most of them were Agile Gausses and Pwnishers vs rexo-medkit MCGs/advanced medics - really need to explain good load outs to my buddies and newbees!).

TRx even survived when I started to lob plasma nades to weaken them significantly. Their teameffort and crossfires were very effective, to great frustration of some on NC side. ;p Only 1 vs 1 with Sweeper I got to kill a couple (or at least get them down to 30 health) So it seems TRx still has what it takes. :)

Saw HippoDT and Hunter26 among others were doing quite decently at holding their own as well.


So, how did you fair on your first days back?

[Effective]

My aim is significantly worse then it use to be, everything else is roughly the same.

[Crator]

Doing fairly well. I had to remap some key bindings for my new mouse which helped a lot. Really love the large outdoor areas, bridges, the AMS, mines/spitfires, and inventory/load-out system! Oh and base layouts/hacking mechanics! I will for surely keep playing PS1 as long as there continues to be players.

EDIT: Oh, and EMP nades are the awesome! ;)

[Shogun]

i had some problems with the zoom and secondary firemodes being so different in ps2 ;-)

and by now i am almost used to sonstantly spam the q key, which is a little stupid when going for airplanes with a sparrow max, but i had fun from the very first moment.

there was low pop when i tried the game because it was totally not primetime, but i had some nice one on ones where i totally hammered the unsuspecting opponent.

was fun to see someone land his reaver to go for my AA max on foot, and still smashing him with my sparrows.
or the guy who landed his galaxy to repair. i was cloaked and had a load of grenades. i didn´t use plasma but normal nades. he didn´t know what hit him and entered the gal to escape. i just waited until he thought it was safe again and came out to repair the gal again. another nade, another kill. then i hacked the gal and deconstructed it.

so yes, the basics are still there. like riding a bike. only some keybindings have to be relearned because planetside has so many different keys in use.
i´m staying with planetside 1 for the next 6 months. playing ps2 is nothing but frustrating right now. i will try again after gu9 is on, but i don´t see ps2 keeping up with ps1 anytime soon.

[PredatorFour]

I havnt lost my cloak sneakiness, however i struggle to fly a mossie well (hot dropping aint an issue lol)

[ringring]

Could I still do it. Erm no is the answer.

I'd forgotten so much.

I struggled to invite someone to the outfit and eventually realised that I was logged in on the wrong char and didn't have permissions.

Next I could not work out how to set a waypoint and had to be reminded.

I fired of an OS at one time and that felt better than I expected and when I got a couple of kills it felt great.

I agree with what some others have said. Although there are periods of downtime the action when it does occur can be more intense and makes the heart beat faster than it does in ps2 and there is certainly tension there when you're trying to hold a point. I'm not sure what the reason is, perhaps the slower ttk.

[Crator]

Although there are periods of downtime the action when it does occur can be more intense and makes the heart beat faster than it does in ps2 and there is certainly tension there when you're trying to hold a point. I'm not sure what the reason is, perhaps the slower ttk.

Effort needed to get to a CC. Distance from a spawn point to the CC at a base you are hacking. Time it takes to capture a base. Close proximity to base spawns to CC. Also, infiltrators can cloak indefinitely! ;)

[Death2All]

I was still subbed to the game despite there being no pop. I'd occasionally log on just to mess around so it wasn't too difficult to get used to the controls again. I did have to get past the initial shock of seeing people in the game again though :lol:.

[Logit]

I felt like such a noob the first 10 minutes.

Twas fun, looking forward to more tonight!

[Fara]

Enjoyed a lovely LLU fight at Honsi Cyssor. Played with a MAX along other setups, greatly enjoyed using PROPER voice macros again tyvm. V-W-C!

[bullet]

It was fun and I stayed on way too long lol. It drained my entire night.

I kept fumbling with medkits, weapon holstering and my implants which got me killed a few times. If I screwed up I just gave up and stood there and laughed my ass off.

Other than that, aiming is aiming. I felt like I was sniping like a beast last night though. There were a few second shot kills where they were running away that made me smile, so satisfying.

I really hope the game picks up again.

[Hmr85]

I could still do it somewhat. I had to re-learn all my key binds and such. All in all my accuracy was a tad off but after about a hour I got it all back.

[Shogun]

i had lots of problems today, trying to go back to my old support position.

but the problem was not on my side. the others didn´t understand that they have to stop wobbling around if they want to get repaired or healed. most of the time they didn´t stop to do the ADAD. that sucked a bit and this aspect could use a fix. this is one of the very few things ps2 is doing a little better.

[Wahooo]

My keybinds were so different and odd than the default. It took me so long to figure out again. I still can't recall what I was using for a bail key and a couple times I got shot down since I re-bound it... then bound that key to something else... flew over a tower or base to drop on it and couldn't bail.

The riding a bike part, I'm relearning my keybinds as I'm in the middle of a fight and start instinctively mashing a button that isn't doing what I thought it should... *spark* oh yeah that was my medkit key...

[p0intman]

Apart from the controls, its like riding a bike. A little bit of rust to brush off with the controls and some other stuff (plasma grenades in my thumper, for example) but otherwise, I've been doing alright.

[Logit]

I really wish they would bring back the back packs. The pastries are confusing if you ask me.

I kill this guy..annnnnndddd...donuts.

[Shogun]

I really wish they would bring back the back packs. The pastries are confusing if you ask me.

I kill this guy..annnnnndddd...donuts.

yeah, the donuts may be irritating to new players ;-)

but it is an old planetside tradition that backpacks are changed to something funny on holidays, and after all it´s planetsides 10th birthday.
but i would have prefered giftboxes. they are a little more plausible than donuts.

[MasterChief096]

I was still subbed to the game despite there being no pop. I'd occasionally log on just to mess around so it wasn't too difficult to get used to the controls again. I did have to get past the initial shock of seeing people in the game again though :lol:.

I'm in the same boat. Keybinds haven't changed in five years or so.

[PredatorFour]

I really wish they would bring back the back packs. The pastries are confusing if you ask me.

I kill this guy..annnnnndddd...donuts.

I wondered what they were earlier lol confused me big time. Thought a hacker had put them there or something.

[Shogun]

I wondered what they were earlier lol confused me big time. Thought a hacker had put them there or something.

normally those are backpacks. when a player respawns, his corpse would be exchanged for a backpack. this was done to help medics distinguish if they can revive or not. if it´s a corpse it can be revived, if it´s just a backpack, it´s too late.

and on spedial holidays, soe changed the backpacks to funny stuff. pumpkins on halloween, giftboxes on christmas, donuts sometimes and maybe other things i can´t remember.

some christmas they even put santa hats on every soldier for a short time.

i always thought it was a funny little thing and it never lasted very long. they would just use one of the next sheduled servermaintenances to revert back to normal.

[Babyfark McGeez]

I forgot my bail key and burned to death in a gal wreck during a drop. :[

Also i never realized there were training missions lol. I guess combined with the "use everything in the vr" they give new players a neat boost.

[Zulthus]

For the most part. I'm still in the process of getting used to the Lasher again. :lol:

[PredatorFour]

normally those are backpacks. when a player respawns, his corpse would be exchanged for a backpack. this was done to help medics distinguish if they can revive or not. if it´s a corpse it can be revived, if it´s just a backpack, it´s too late.

and on spedial holidays, soe changed the backpacks to funny stuff. pumpkins on halloween, giftboxes on christmas, donuts sometimes and maybe other things i can´t remember.

some christmas they even put santa hats on every soldier for a short time.

i always thought it was a funny little thing and it never lasted very long. they would just use one of the next sheduled servermaintenances to revert back to normal.

Your preaching to the converted matey;) Was just bizarre that they've changed the backpack to cake lol.