News: PC Gamer Article The anatomy of a Battle

DayOne · 2012-02-23, 01:20 PM

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/02/23/pl...e-2-war-story/

yaaay! informations!

DviddLeff · 2012-02-23, 01:24 PM

Beat me to it!

Got to read the thing now, may take some time; its huge!

Boogster · 2012-02-23, 01:34 PM

It all sounds ace.

I just wish I didn't feel a bit screwed over as a European. I still don't think we'll actually get access to beta. :/

dpranker · 2012-02-23, 01:32 PM

Awesome article! Not really any new information that I noticed, but these previews are really getting me pumped to play this thing

DayOne · 2012-02-23, 01:38 PM

Not really any information on things but a bit of a reveal on the mechanics of capturing and defending bases.

The whole Pro7 thing has really soured the game but I want it to succeed soooo much. If they do it well, and I'm pretty sure they are, then I will be playing this game for years to come!

EZShot · 2012-02-23, 01:43 PM

Good read. I really like the development teams ethics.

"Less is more", "Let's innovate".

General M · 2012-02-23, 01:43 PM

If only I could play it this year.....

Oryon22 · 2012-02-23, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by Boogster

It all sounds ace.

I just wish I didn't feel a bit screwed over as a European. I still don't think we'll actually get access to beta. :/

It's still way too early to tell if this is even going to be a problem

Hmr85 · 2012-02-23, 01:52 PM

Really good read, I really enjoyed. I can't wait to get in the beta and give it a go.

Tigersmith · 2012-02-23, 01:57 PM

This is a great read everyone. Game is really sounding solid. woo hoo

DayOne · 2012-02-23, 02:03 PM

Yay, news page

Glad admins can rename topics, I kinda screwed up the copy paste in my excitement!

Also, I HIGHLY doubt Europeans will be left out of beta. Perhaps not really early beta but they will have to test the servers.

MgFalcon · 2012-02-23, 02:16 PM

Wait did I read that correctly? 50 person MAX crash, 5 Galaxies... Ohhhhhh I'm so happy to know my baby can carry 10 MAX'es now!

Sifer2 · 2012-02-23, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by MgFalcon

Wait did I read that correctly? 50 person MAX crash, 5 Galaxies... Ohhhhhh I'm so happy to know my baby can carry 10 MAX'es now!

Yeah I read that part and raised an eyebrow. Either MAX's are WAY weaker in PS2 compared to 1 or this is going to be pretty broken. Since from what I have ready currently MAX needs no resources like Vehicles. And now it doesn't need its own slots in transports either. So what is going to keep MAX spam from just dominating? Unless they really took all the power out of them. Which would suck since I want to see strong MAX's again just with proper limitations like last time.

Also I found Matt's revelation with removing artificial barriers so players could have fun to be kind of ironic. Considering it sort of spits in the face of their continental footholds concept.

NewSith · 2012-02-23, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Sifer2

Yeah I read that part and raised an eyebrow. Either MAX's are WAY weaker in PS2 compared to 1 or this is going to be pretty broken. Since from what I have ready currently MAX needs no resources like Vehicles. And now it doesn't need its own slots in transports either. So what is going to keep MAX spam from just dominating? Unless they really took all the power out of them. Which would suck since I want to see strong MAX's again just with proper limitations like last time.

As long as MAX turning speed is bound by physics and not mouse sensivity - it's fine. Besides I'm getting a feeling that MAXes will also be vulnerable to headshots.

Sidenote: The way I see it, maxes are going to have engineer-repaired armor on contra to shields. So to be effficient they'll need 2 guys supporting them instead of 1. Plus no more REK, juice & medkits carried in max's inventory.

Sifer2 · 2012-02-23, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by NewSith

As long as MAX turning speed is bound by physics and not mouse sensivity - it's fine. Besides I'm getting a feeling that MAXes will also be vulnerable to headshots.

Sidenote: The way I see it, maxes are going to have engineer-repaired armor on contra to shields. So to be effficient they'll need 2 guys supporting them instead of 1. Plus no more REK, juice & medkits carried in max's inventory.

Slow turning speed isn't going to help you in the kind of situation they mentioned. Which is dropping 50 MAX's on top of a base to just bum rush it and clean out all the defenders. Then again if MAX's are so easy to pull all the defenders will probably be MAX's too lol.