News: PlanetSide2.com Live with Trailer

[Devinator]

edit: whoops.

[opticalshadow]

after reading that rock paper siscors article im worried that they are trying to combine battlefield and call of duty, rather then make a sequal of planetside. ill have to see vbut it seems like their giving us alot more options then ps1, but less choices, if that makes any sense.

[Senyu]

This feeling...........I haven't felt it before.......its like my balls.......didn't get shut by a drawer......

[duck]

Smedley killed the game
No sanctuary, offline leveling, microtransaction, WTH

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by duck

Smedley killed the game
No sanctuary, offline leveling, microtransaction, WTH

What's up hyperbole? Smed killed the game that is still pre-beta? Really?

From what we've seen so far, I'm thinking the pros are way out-weighing the cons at this point. No Sanctuary? It's called "Footholds" now. Offline leveling? As somebody who works for a living and can't play 5 hours a day, I like something that helps level the playing field a bit. Microtransactions? It's a proven successful business model, just as long as you can't "buy power" which from the tone I've heard from the devs, they'll avoid that.

[Shogun]

finally some real info! and even video footage! so i guess my hope is back ;-)

at least they try to recreate the feel of the original. i just hope they succeed!

[Tikuto]

Hmmmmmm....

I wonder what Pyjama TR is doing with his arm at 0:30?

[Straws]

Originally Posted by Devinator

Not a very epic battle in the trailer, and it looks like you only have a small area to fight in with most of the terrain being inaccessible to infantry or possibly clipped.

No, but this is alpha footage and that is to be expected. I have never seen a good trailer for an MMO that is in the alpha stages. (by alpha, I mean small in-house only testing. There isn't 100s of players in any of this footage because the dev team doesn't consist of 100s of people)

In the video someone posted they make it sound like planetside will not be as egalitarian as before, and that you will have to grind for resources?

I sure as hell hope that a BR5 will still be able to kill a BR25(or whatever the equivalents will be) if they are better. And I don't want to have to be mining the f'ing planetside equivalent of veldspar to build armor, guns, planes etc lol!

Think more like an RTS, but even more low maintenance. You capture an area and you automatically gain resources whilst you hold the territory. I understand that people may not like this, but since I've always seen Planetside as a FPS version of Earth 2150, it's an approach I've always felt as missing.

[basti]

Im with straws there, but for other reasons. The entire ressources stuff adds alot of depth into the game, something that Planetside really lacked. After about a month of playing planetside, you realized that there wasnt a long term goal anymore. Global Domination was almost impossible and required alot of people working together, and besides that you just had the ability to take continents.
The ressources stuff adds a bigger goal, something you, your outfit and your empire can work torwards.
And thats important to keep players. Just killing stuff is awesome for us Planetside players, but most people want more than just that.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by basti

Im with straws there, but for other reasons. The entire ressources stuff adds alot of depth into the game, something that Planetside really lacked. After about a month of playing planetside, you realized that there wasnt a long term goal anymore. Global Domination was almost impossible and required alot of people working together, and besides that you just had the ability to take continents.
The ressources stuff adds a bigger goal, something you, your outfit and your empire can work torwards.
And thats important to keep players. Just killing stuff is awesome for us Planetside players, but most people want more than just that.

yea this is what i always felt, and a hell of alot of other players felt when it came to planetside, it needs something to draw players in give them a self goal, for me i was happy just with my kill numbers ticking up, other players were just happy playing or taking bases, others with the merit system liked going for them.

after you're BR20/CR5 there needs to be a goal to progress your character still, it looks like with skills and resources that is going to be planetsides 2s way of keep people playing and hooked and with a constant goal in their sights.

[Bruttal]

Originally Posted by Tikuto

Hmmmmmm....

I wonder what Pyjama TR is doing with his arm at 0:30?

to me it looks like hes talking on a com