News: World Domination Preseason 2

Hamma · 2014-02-07, 05:43 PM

http://www.planetside-universe.com/n...son-2-3094.htm

bpostal · 2014-02-07, 06:55 PM

hooray

JohnnyRicardo · 2014-02-07, 07:30 PM

Three factions avoiding every single form of confrontation to score easy points. If it continues like this it might become the great depression of Planetside 2.

HereticusXZ · 2014-02-07, 08:38 PM

So we had a Pre-Season for a Pre-Season? Who the frak comes up with this BS?! This is just dumb now, I don't want it, take it back! Waiter, There's a fly in my soup!

This isn't some fun competition between the 3 factions anymore. All the WDS is now is a publicity stunt for attention and a way to force players into X situation so they can get some testing done because the PTS isn't yielding sufficient data for whatever it is there trying to do!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!

typhaon · 2014-02-07, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by JohnnyRicardo

Three factions avoiding every single form of confrontation to score easy points. If it continues like this it might become the great depression of Planetside 2.

WDS is terrible.

Everyone likes free loot - just give us the stuff and save us the pain of this nonsense.

Crator · 2014-02-08, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by JohnnyRicardo

Three factions avoiding every single form of confrontation to score easy points. If it continues like this it might become the great depression of Planetside 2.

The incentive to defend isn't great enough. Why defend a location that gives less points then attacking another?

Emperor Newt · 2014-02-08, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by Crator

The incentive to defend isn't great enough. Why defend a location that gives less points then attacking another?

Which is PS2 in a nutshell.

Chewy · 2014-02-08, 12:09 AM

This is what the WDS does to players.

capiqu · 2014-02-08, 01:58 AM

I started playing late tonight around 10:00pm but it didn't take long for me to see that pattern. The Tr had all of north Indar and were pushing in deep into NC and VS territory. But I quickly noticed that the VS were not defending their territory but pushing against the NC and TR.
The Tr were practically at the VS warpgate but the VS ignored them going around just to captured weakly defended NC bases.
Afterwards the NC pop rose at Indar and the TR were just worried about taking VS bases. So the NC took all light defended Tr bases.
In short, absolutely none of the empires were worried about defending. It was all about taking as many bases as possible as easy as possible. Bases where turning over at about 50 per hour. GAMEPLAY REALLY SUCKED!!!!!

bpostal · 2014-02-08, 02:00 AM

Originally Posted by Chewy

This is what the WDS does to players.

That's what the map looks like during half the alerts anyway. I'm not the biggest fan of WDS but I'm sure there's at least SOME people out there who get a kick outta it. Think of it as a new kind of Rabbit event. Sure you probably didn't like them but some people did. I say let them have their fun.

There's still plenty of fighting to go around, and you already know where the enemy is at because they glow like crazy in the hex pop. The enemy zerg is great for target practice; like ducks in a carnival shooting gallery.

Bobby Shaftoe · 2014-02-09, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by bpostal

Think of it as a new kind of Rabbit event.

Except everyone has their own rabbit and there is no incentive to contest the enemy's rabbit.

Mastachief · 2014-02-09, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Bobby Shaftoe

Except everyone has their own rabbit and there is no incentive to contest the enemy's rabbit.

~Ding

SOE providing achievements/goodies for no actual contribution...

Ugh

bpostal · 2014-02-09, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by Bobby Shaftoe

Except everyone has their own rabbit and there is no incentive to contest the enemy's rabbit.

Oh IDK, if I focus only on trying to take the VS and NCs away then it can be a pretty fun time. I don't think I've gotten a single WDS care package or what the hell ever but I've had some god damn brutal fights.
It's been fun so far.

Emperor Newt · 2014-02-08, 07:14 AM

It's even worse for people like me with shitty PCs. Usually I can find some decent mid to larger size fights where my FPS don't take a major dump. But now with all the zerging going on pretty all I can do is either sit in a tank and hope to get some kills from far away or just sit there in a suni/gal during attack or as defender with a deployed ammo kit. Actually participating in those huge zergs is a no-go due to performance. It's not like this would change anything anyway. Or I could just participate in the ghostcapping of Amerish or Esamir. But that's not fun either.

And yes, I know that this is "my problem" but usually it's possible to find some decent fights where I can actually do something. Now the zerging seems to be on a whole new level. It's either zerg or ghostcap. There doesn't seem to be much middle-ground left all out of the sudden.

Crator · 2014-02-08, 10:47 AM

Perhaps I didn't fully understand the points system when I made my previous comment. I studied it a bit more and it does make sense. Defending does give WDS personal points too.

It seems most are chasing the carrot for the large capture points and ignoring the points they could get for defense. Easy, and faster, pickings because ghost captures are allowed to get the points. The other empire could get to the region to defend but why if there's another region they can attack that isn't being defended?