News: Planetside2 being shown on Gamespot today

[TerminatorUK]

Originally Posted by NCLynx

I saw all of those too. Ahh the uninformed.

They are silly comments but you're never going to please everyone.

They'll be CS / COD kiddies that cling to small-scale, arena/round based games as they can't take change just like the knuckle-dragging death-matchers.

Their loss if they are too ignorant to play a quality F2P game, however, I firmly believe PS2 will have a much wider appeal and much larger playerbase.

I'll eat my own hat if it isn't mega-popular; the advertising, media coverage and community interaction has been nothing short of perfect this time around - a complete mirror image to the first game.

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by TerminatorUK

"Vanu weapons will have heat mechanics"

Hmm interesting...

Heat mechanics? As an alternative to reloading? That might be interesting.

[Carnage]

Originally Posted by TerminatorUK

Damn those Iron Sky babes right after the end of the PS2 interview :O

the movie is a bit average TBH, it has some funny points, like that Sarah Palin is the President of the USA and she got there by promoting a moon mission called "black to the moon"...

[Greenthy]

Originally Posted by Inverness

Heat mechanics? As an alternative to reloading? That might be interesting.

Don't know, it's something that can potentially draw alot of 'balance' issues:

For example good ol' Mech Warrior 4
You'd take a madcat mark 2 with 7 lasers, to almost instakill other mechs,
then you'd blow your coolant and take it easier.

Or more recent SWTOR and high burst vs sustainable dmg


It could be just a plain old reload mechanic, but then that'd just be silly to waste (developing) time on tbh.

[IgloGlass]

Originally Posted by Greenthy

Don't know, it's something that can potentially draw alot of 'balance' issues:

For example good ol' Mech Warrior 4
You'd take a madcat mark 2 with 7 lasers, to almost instakill other mechs,
then you'd blow your coolant and take it easier.

Or more recent SWTOR and high burst vs sustainable dmg


It could be just a plain old reload mechanic, but then that'd just be silly to waste (developing) time on tbh.

Maybe he was talking about their "clips" being "heat sinks" like in Mass Effect?

[TerminatorUK]

Originally Posted by Inverness

Heat mechanics? As an alternative to reloading? That might be interesting.

Well I was thinking maybe more to balance lack of bullet drop but could be.

Might be a balance feature with the Lasher to prevent spamming?

[Crazyduckling]

ALIENS!

[Carnage]

I have a Vanu Logo, Mat is refusing to answer my question 10:33 lol... still got an answer!

[JimmyOmaha]

Exciting times. Not much new info here, mush for the uninformed. Tough, I'll watch anything with Higby/T-Ray in it.

Beta train did make me giggle. :]

[Arovien]

Thanks for posting the video. Nothing new but still awesome to watch Higby being a boss.

[Rat]

Mr. Higby mentioned leadership types being able to set up spawn points, hopefully he was just talking about the squad leader spawn mechanic and not some device that can be tossed in a closet.