It's Official! PlanetSide Next Named PlanetSide 2!

MMOSite has up some interesting news, and a rather interesting peek at a map.

SOE's open world MMOFPS PlanetSide Next will be officially called PlanetSide 2, according to the game's Chinese publisher The9. Tony Park, Vice President of The9, said on his Micro-blog(Chinese twitter) that SOE's developer team had decided to title the game PlanetSide 2 as the working title PlanetSide Next was not a suitable name any longer. Besides, he revealed a picture of the map and some information about the gameplay.

PlanetSide Next is going to be called PlanetSide 2! Also, a revealing tidbit in a glimpse at a PlanetSide 2 map.

We have seen some less than accurate news out of The9 in the past lets hope this time it's for real. Join the discussion in the forums here.

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2011-05-23 08:58 AM

Source: MMO News

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2011-05-29 01:29 AM

Noyjitatps

Re: just found these two pics on Tony Park`s blog

I really hope the game world isn't going to be smaller. They really just need to reuse all the current zones but make some improvements to them. Perhaps make one big world but you can use the same warpgates to get around quicker.

2011-05-29 02:20 AM

Traak

Re: just found these two pics on Tony Park`s blog

Originally Posted by Noyjitatps

They really just need to reuse all the current zones

No. I want all-new zones that are less boredom-maximizing. More that are above plane maximum altitude. Trees that are so dense you can barely fit between them. Terrain that actually offers the soldier some advantages.

Eliminate maximum-uberstupidness Desolation, specifically designed for tank battles, but no tanks are allowed.

2011-05-29 03:18 AM

LordReaver

Re: just found these two pics on Tony Park`s blog

I don't know if someone did this already, but this is approximately 4km

2011-05-29 04:37 AM

Grimster

Re: just found these two pics on Tony Park`s blog

So what smaller maps but more players to make it more massive?

If thats the case I don't really like it.

I always loved the immensely large maps in Planetside. I hope we still see them in Planetside 2.

2011-05-29 07:57 AM

LordReaver

Re: just found these two pics on Tony Park`s blog

Here is 4km on Oshur

The distance from one turret to another on an AMP station length wise, is about 200 meters. So 4km is like having 20 AMP stations lined up length wise.

My rough estimations for current cont sizes in km are (I'm not including minor islands.).

Amerish = 5.8x6.5
Ceryshen = 6.1x5.9
Cyssor = 7.6x7.3
Esamir = 6.8x7.4
Forseral = 6.8x6.2
Hossin = 6.8x6.2
Ishundar = 7.5x7.0
Oshur = 5.6x5.5
Searhus = 6.7x6.9
Solsar = 4.7x7.2

2011-05-29 11:39 AM

Shogun

Re: just found these two pics on Tony Park`s blog

they cannot call it planetside next any more, because sony is awaiting "PSN DOWN!" headlines every week from now on, and reusing such shitty initials for a new game could have negative impact on the game.

and the map the chinese showed off looks like a joke. its just a sketch and therefore it says nothing about the game. if this particular map would already be in developement, they would show a screenshot of some type and not such a shitty sketch. so its a raw concept at the best. nothing i would expect to see ingame.

the sad thing about this is, that this shows how far the developement really is. its safe to say that soe has nothing to show except the rendered fake-screenshots of some units. for if they had something real to show the chinese would not have shown this scribbleshit

2011-05-29 12:41 PM

Baneblade

Re: just found these two pics on Tony Park`s blog

I would hope that PS2 would have bigger maps, not smaller.

2011-05-29 01:44 PM

BorisBlade

Re: just found these two pics on Tony Park`s blog

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

I would hope that PS2 would have bigger maps, not smaller.

Actually they were big enough. You make em any bigger and you just end up with people spread out too much and alot of wasted space. You want plenty of room but i think any bigger and its too much unless you are upping the cont population caps alot and giving more reason for multiple fronts. Honestly i think the maps should vary between some of the fun smaller battle islands up to some searhus sized stuff. (searhus is my fave map, love the variety of terrain.)

You could go one step down from searhus and it could work, 6x6 for the biggest maps is about as small as i would want tho. (searhus is about 8x8) The conts should again vary in terrain types to allow for varying gameplay. Some work better for troops some better for ground vehicles and some are great while some not so great for air, and all in between. The size variations are just another tool to mix up gameplay. The longer distances and harder land navigation on ish is totally different from playing somethin on Hossin or forseral. And cery and its nasty cliffs and high elevation is much different than its snow partner of esamir. And searhus has all kinds of various gameplay all on one map.

2011-05-31 10:59 PM

Firefly

Re: just found these two pics on Tony Park`s blog

Originally Posted by otomotopia

This map was also shown to the Chinese publisher. Therefore, the 'official name change' may purely be localization to appeal to that audience (Planetside: Next may have a weird cultural mistranslation, or Planetside:2 may have a better marketing effect), along with the map size and design. I know that I'd be severely disappointed if that was all that any map was.

No.

http://t.qq.com/tonypark

Meeting all day with SOE partners and the United States, I am very excited because they told me Planetside Next new developments: the content of the game is good, they feel the original name is no longer suitable, so they officially changed its name to Planetside2. Bring you news later.

At 08:34 on May 19 from the iPhone

2011-06-01 09:18 AM

BlazingSun

Re: Just found these two pics on Tony Park's blog

They must have locked up several marketing guys and creative directors in a conclave for several weeks, to come up with that name. 'Planetside 2' .. that is genius!

2011-06-01 11:16 AM

duomaxwl

Re: Just found these two pics on Tony Park's blog

From Park's blog.

2011-06-01 04:52 PM

MrGreenJeans

Re: Just found these two pics on Tony Park's blog

A "DUCK"

2011-06-01 05:36 PM

PsychoXR-20

Re: Just found these two pics on Tony Park's blog

I wouldn't take to much stock in the "4km by 4km" continents. That's the exact same sizes PlanetSide said before it was released and look what we have now, Cyssor is nearly 8km wide. Some will be larger, some will be smaller.

2011-06-06 11:27 AM

Hamma

Re: Just found these two pics on Tony Park's blog

I don't understand this guy at all - they tell him stuff and he just spouts off. What gives with this dude?

2011-06-06 12:17 PM

Firefly

Re: Just found these two pics on Tony Park's blog

Originally Posted by Hamma

I don't understand this guy at all - they tell him stuff and he just spouts off. What gives with this dude?

Plausible Deniability.

Smedley made some grandiose claims which, thus far, haven't really taken shape at all. I'm wondering if Corp. Legal said "hey, you better cut that shit out" or if something seriously delayed the game.

But this way, they have a dude who can "leak" stuff and then, when it turns out that it was more smokescreen, SOE can say "Oh, that? Yeah, that's um... localization... yeah... that's the ticket!"