News: Community Night November 2011 Recording!

[Higby]

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

Did he do free realms?

If so, Best and cleanest UI ..EVA! and the man is a hero...if it was not him...GET THE FREE REALMS GUY.

Actually yes, he did. That was the first project we worked on together, he was the UI artist and I was the UI/UX lead.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Higby

Actually yes, he did. That was the first project we worked on together, he was the UI artist and I was the UI/UX lead.

Sounds good.

[SurgeonX]

Originally Posted by Higby

I was the UI/UX lead.

Interesting that you've come from a UX background Higby.
Do you use any form of user centred design activities or processes for PS2 then?

[Sardwyn]

Cheers PSU for bringing us this close to the dev team and cheers Higby and all for taking the time to reach out to the community. I have never seen a launch quite like it, you guys are doing an ace job

[basti]

On a more important note: Matt, how did marketing react? Shall Hamma remove the BLue name and stuff, as you are now looking for a new job? Or did everything went fine?

Also, be on AGN like every time. Heck if i come along every single time, you shall to! And bring T-Ray with ya. IN fact, get the entire damn team in your office!

[Canaris]

just got done watching the video, lmao I loved it

Some great and juicy info in there, loved T-Ray party crashing segment had me in stitch's

Thanks to all the PS-U crew for setting that up and to Higby and the SOE for showing us the "magical" SOE offices and taking part,the whirlwind tour was great

just wanted to add I was a little worried with the new concept of the planes, glad to see how the VTOL works and how well you you did even while holding an I-pad and trying to pilot hehe

[basti]

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11...ang/#continued


Now that this is on massively, it wont take long to spread out even more.

Hamma, prepare the webserver!

[Higby]

Originally Posted by SurgeonX

Interesting that you've come from a UX background Higby.
Do you use any form of user centred design activities or processes for PS2 then?

Of course, especially for the UI.

[Bags]

Oh my, massive only awarded you guys 1000 pts!!!

[Hamma]

They are driving the majority of the traffic to their own screenshot section (Re-Hosted our exclusive shots) and YouTube directly with that link. Not much in the way of a traffic pickup

[likwidneo]

so I skimmed through the AGN recording, and if I gathered this right Higby pretty much said that each Warpgate is now more or less a base in and of itself and that these were the incontestable launch areas on each continent that each empire get's one per continent of that has been mentioned before. Something about this bugs me though. One of the things that made the battles in PS1 highly dynamic was the fact that warpgates were either open to all sides or at least they were contestable and could be locked in by one side or another.

This makes for very dynamic battle flow as you usually have more than one way to get into a continent from elsewhere, or at the very least you're not always commencing the attack from the same area. Won't this reduce the versatility of the battle flow for PS2, if each empire always has to try and commence an offensive for control of a continent from the exact same side every time?

I understand the need for a no-fire zone for each empire on each cont, but if these area's are not contestable, at the very least there should be some mechanic for them being interchangeable. Like let's say the VS move in and get a cont lock on it, or say they capture the capitol base, they should get dibs on their choice of one of the warpgates. Then the warpgates could be interchanged, and say anyone who's still in them after like a 5 minute timer or something get's auto-killed to make room for the new empires.

I mean I know there's a ton more objectives to capture now on a continent which will add to the battle flow dynamic above and beyond PS1, but it could still get a little stale if you're more or less moving out from the same direction every single time? Anyone's thoughts on this?

[Khottabych]

Originally Posted by Coreldan

If you would point out the parts you would like to have written down, I could do it.

Would rather not do the entire 1h 45 mins as there are parts that arn't really worth writing down

Perfect. Think that's more interesting will be
Venicle Customizations
in Game preview 1
in Game preview 2
Map screenshot discussion

And if it don't really bore you it will be great to write down few words about PSU staff who have manage and participate this show.
Think it should be in our news line.

Thank a lot in advance.

[Shogun]

just viewed the recording ... my first agn show ... and it is EPIC!

thanks to all involved! especially to matt for giving us these excellent exclusive views of the most beautiful game enviroment currently in existence! and of course for the tour!

i could not believe that you guys are sitting at comnputers like ordinary humans ;-) was expecting some godlike creatures floating in bacta tanks, connected to braininterfaces, coding in big holodecks or whatever ;-)

it´s really great to actually see the progress and to get more and more info about the game!
but my personal favorite about the show (besides the gameplay part) was to hear that the whole dev team follows the discussions and speculations of the community! this rocks! the interactivity level of you guys with the community is unique and will ensure that this game will kick ass in every way!

great work guys! keep it up!
can´t wait for the beta! please bring the beta to europe as well!

[Raymac]

I gotta say, I'm fairly concerned about it only being at 40 fps standing by yourself in a base. Obviously, way too early too panic, but this points to my only concern about the game at this point.

It's been well established that this game will look amazing. Everytime we see something new it looks even prettier than before. So since we know the game looks great, the only lingering question is "how will it run?".

For years, I dropped the graphics level of the original Planetside to the bare minimum just to squeeze ever single frame per second I could out of the game. Sky dome - off, Music - off, Shadows - off. Everything - off. I did this because the way the game looked was not as important as running it with as little lag as possible.

So, we've seen a bunch of art work, and it looks glorious, and I have a feeling the VS stuff we are about to see will be some of the best yet. But the rule I had for Planetside 1 was the better it looked, the worse it ran, which is why I'm now very concerned that BECAUSE the game looks so amazing, it's going to lag something fierce.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Raymac

I gotta say, I'm fairly concerned about it only being at 40 fps standing by yourself in a base. Obviously, way too early too panic, but this points to my only concern about the game at this point.

It's been well established that this game will look amazing. Everytime we see something new it looks even prettier than before. So since we know the game looks great, the only lingering question is "how will it run?".

For years, I dropped the graphics level of the original Planetside to the bare minimum just to squeeze ever single frame per second I could out of the game. Sky dome - off, Music - off, Shadows - off. Everything - off. I did this because the way the game looked was not as important as running it with as little lag as possible.

So, we've seen a bunch of art work, and it looks glorious, and I have a feeling the VS stuff we are about to see will be some of the best yet. But the rule I had for Planetside 1 was the better it looked, the worse it ran, which is why I'm now very concerned that BECAUSE the game looks so amazing, it's going to lag something fierce.

Well, it's unoptimized alpha build and I'm sure he has the game maxed, while in windowed mode with a ton of stuff running in the background.