News: TotalBiscuit PlanetSide 2 Primer Footage - Page 6

The Janitor · 2012-05-24, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by 2coolforu

IS IT BETA

TELL US

TELL US!

That's more like it! You had me worried there for a sec...

captainkapautz · 2012-05-24, 06:17 PM

TB is talking about the people wanting to try PS1, and he probably wants to join 'em.

Edit: LOL Neocron, damn those were the days.

KTNApollo · 2012-05-24, 06:21 PM

TB said (somewhere, I don't remember) that he was thinking about re-subscribing to PS1 when he gets back...don't get too excited, it's not beta.

The Janitor · 2012-05-24, 06:24 PM

Oh, I was just commenting on how people weren't freaking out over it, as usually happens over comments like that. I enjoy it, makes for a good laugh.

SgtMAD · 2012-05-24, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by Stardouser

At some point after 11:00 minutes he says:

"The main problem with the lattice system is that there wasn't really any fighting between bases unless vehicles kind of clashed, which was kinda rare, open field warfare didn't happen that much because there was no reason for it to happen. You would drive from one base to the other maybe there would be a little skirmish but most of the fighting would end up around bases which is not necessarily that interesting. Putting more facilities out in the open, towers and capture points that are not part of the main base structure is hopefully designed to remedy that as well as having this hex based front line whereby you capture territory as opposed to merely facilities."

There's also a lot more copying from BF3 than total biscuit admits. Scale and persistence BF3 does not have but a lot of the customizations are taken from BF3, the UI, the sprinting, etc. Right here I'm simply stating facts, not saying it's good or bad.

Possible error? At 13:58 he mouses over "TR-ASF-WM AIR TO AIR MISSLES" but the description says they lock onto ground vehicles?

yea I heard TB say that crap and its not true,I have seen huge openfield armor/air/infantry fights between bases,these went on all the time.

there are quite a few things that he had wrong,Command rank 5 took three weeks to get if you played a couple hours a day,hell it was so easy that I have 4 cr5s myself.

Vehs used to drain NTU's out of the bases when spawned,in fact ppl spawning inside bases used to drain NTU's also,all that got nerfed almost right away because all you had to do was trap the enemies inside and rush in, kill a few and make them spawn and the base would drain after approx. 15 minutes,

anyone remember ant bombs ?LOL good fun,you could also refill the NTU silo from outside the wall,it was a nice bug

PS2 has resources,PS had NTU's,they just removed the "cost" of spawning vehs/chars,when ppl start bitching about not being able to pull whatever veh in the PS2 forums after release,that resource system might not survive.

2coolforu · 2012-05-24, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml

Get ready for an increase in planetside 1 populations

Papagiorgio · 2012-05-24, 07:02 PM

Not sure what's up with the "Out of Bounds, return to battle" message. Any place on the continent should be explorable.

Toppopia · 2012-05-24, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Papagiorgio

Not sure what's up with the "Out of Bounds, return to battle" message. Any place on the continent should be explorable.

But what should happen once you reach the each of the continent? Should be allowed to keep going? No. That is a waste of game resources to load whole new terrain just for 1 person who felt like flying 50 miles away from the actual playing area. I only want 'return to battlefield' messages if it is at the each of the continent, but change the message to 'your power reserves don't allow travel this far out' or something along those lines.

Zulthus · 2012-05-24, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by Toppopia

but change the message to 'your power reserves don't allow travel this far out' or something along those lines.

That's basically how it was in PS1, and you just dropped into the ocean and died after you flew out too far. That's how it should be in PS2... you can actually give a reason for why you can't go out there. "RETURN TO COMBAT IN 10 SECONDS" is stupid, IMHO. Most likely it's just a placeholder though.

Toppopia · 2012-05-24, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by Zulthus

That's basically how it was in PS1, and you just dropped into the ocean and died after you flew out too far. That's how it should be in PS2... you can actually give a reason for why you can't go out there. "RETURN TO COMBAT IN 10 SECONDS" is stupid, IMHO. Most likely it's just a placeholder though.

I would assume its a placeholder, or else when we get to beta and see it still says something bad, we can remind them to change, shouldn't be too hard to change 1 sentence in that code, which is the message that the code displays. So should only be 5 minutes work, the hard part will be finding the location of the code in the millions of code in the system.