Holy Shizznit, I Am Baaaaack!

Doobz · 2003-08-06, 11:47 PM

hey all, i'm back after a long, long leave. moved to santa rosa, CA, lots of downtime with comp, etc, etc.

well, i was in beta, and haven't had the chance to keep up with the game since then, so, my question, what's changed? i remember how fun beta was playing with my friend and my outfit (for sure they've booted me thinking i died or something

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so, can anybody give me the major changes tha have happened since beta?

00AgentDuck · 2003-08-07, 12:05 AM

Well the new additions to PS have been the liberator bomber which can bomb either a carpet style bomb for infuntry or armor pieceing for vehciles. It's a three manned vechicle, the driver guns a very strong cannon in the front that chewed me up once when I had full health (only took a few shots and it killed me), the back guning spot seems the worst and not as strong, and of course there is a spot for the bomber. They've also added in the skyguard which has a driver and gunner, the gunner shoots out this flak cannon similar to the tr anti air max against air, and a gun against infuntry as well. Well those are the new vechils.

They've done alot of nerfs and upgrades during this time, a few things they have done this on are, the tr maxs and the lasher. They've also fixed numerous bugs and problems. They upgraded to a new physics engine which wasn't really needed and it hosted many more bugs, espeicaly with the maurader handleing (it handled worse then an ams) and other vechicl's gunning spots. They have fixed these I think for the most part. Put in a vechilce quering system, helped to stop lattice hack leap frogging. I had something else in my mind but I forgot what it was, if I forgot anything which I probably have (need sleep) feel free to add it in. They also have many other future plans, visit they're website or read some of the forums here at PSU to see what has been happening latly, although it would probably take more then 3 days none stop to read all the forums word for word. Oh yeah and one thing I just remembered, they gave the maurader and thresher some more armor, great news for me since I drive them both

. Well I think I'll stop typing now and get some sleep....

Edit: Oh and btw any one know how to see how many times you've posted? Or how many posts it takes to get to the next rank after soldier? Kind of off topic but oh well.

Doobz · 2003-08-07, 12:08 AM

new physics engine, huh?

well, does it feel any better and does it perform better than what they had before? and what is it?

Spider · 2003-08-07, 12:08 AM

I think he summed it up pretty well...

Doobz · 2003-08-07, 12:11 AM

so, overall, do you guys feel it has made a great improvement since beta?

Everay · 2003-08-07, 12:14 AM

well, at times, the new patch screwed the game up, and then they fixed it and added a bug or two, overall, its still fun IMO

Spider · 2003-08-07, 12:16 AM

It's fun alright... but

I'm kind of getting bored of the game

Cauldron Borne · 2003-08-07, 01:06 AM

Me likey. What server did you play on? Thy are also supposed to a a 'capture the flag' element to game capture too. You hack a base, then grab the base's information capsule and bring it to a base connecte to it via lattice system. I don't know if its been implemented yet, didn't seem like it this morning though.

Doobz · 2003-08-07, 02:01 AM

yeah, used to play on emerald

Doobz · 2003-08-07, 03:23 AM

hey, lol, i remember the Galaxy, man she was a bitch

if you didn't have her just right, should blow up if you tried to unload anything, it was hilarious

have they fixed it?

Fire_Monkey · 2003-08-07, 10:34 AM

Yeah they did that right before release I think. Mostly people have just been complaining about the power of other empire's AV weapons and Heavy Assault and they've been spending many a patch trying to balance it. The only thing really annoying right now is the lasher. They're thinking about throwing in new skills for medics like stimpacks etc.. And thinking about throwing in NTUs for towers. But overall the game really hasn't changed that much.

and welcome back doobz

Smaug · 2003-08-07, 11:50 AM

The most annoying thing is the crashes to desktop when you hart or recall, or just change continents sometimes.

00AgentDuck · 2003-08-07, 12:04 PM

Yeah I hate the crashes when you hart, I get them all the time. But I can normally get back in before I respawn at sanctuary and when I get back in my screen is always purple for some reason and it says I'm dead. Lol once my friend has this one glitch when he got back in. THe drop pod was still there when he got back in, and he got an option saying, push G to mount drop pod. So he did that and he got inside and all of a sudden the drop pod de materialised into the ground with him inside. He could see the ground where he had been but he was completly gone and same with his inventory and guns. That's some advice I give, never mount a drop pod.

gonnagetyou · 2003-08-07, 03:46 PM

The Lightning now has a 360 degree turret which is great. You see a lot more Lightnings running around now. Most everything else has been mentioned already. Welcome back.

Lonehunter · 2003-08-07, 03:56 PM

Originally posted by Doobz
hey, lol, i remember the Galaxy, man she was a bitch

if you didn't have her just right, should blow up if you tried to unload anything, it was hilarious

have they fixed it?

Originally posted by Fire_Monkey
Yeah they did that right before release I think.

No, they didn't

Edit: Well ,you can unload stuff easily but trying to find a place to land without blowing up is the hard part. They're also gonna add the Lodesatr sometime soon. It will cary medium tank, AMS, the vehicles the Gal can't carry basically.