PS2.Pickup - Community Public Scrims and Events! Now Released to the World!

Dotzor · 2013-12-22, 07:38 AM

Website : http://ps2-pickup.enjin.com.

Note : Sorry if i posted this in the wrong / inappropriate place!

- Planetside 2 Competitive Public Matches & Events. -

Most, if not some of the many various outfits among the many servers and which encompass Planetside 2 have probably witnessed or seen several types of "matches", whether that be from Community Clash or home-grown matches made between rival outfits. There are many games, new and old - which have a competitive side to life. Planetside 2 - in this regard, is quite "new" to it. Some of these other games use a format called "pickup". This is evident in other FPS' such as CoD or Counterstrike.

For those unaware of what a "pick up" is - then its generally a platform for the public to get together, normally using external and neutral VOIP and playing in mix Hybrid teams in a competitive atmosphere / style where a win or loss can not be attributed to one single person or outfit. The whole purpose of a pickup, is to have the competitive play - but without the outfit/clan in a situation where it could loose credible reputation. It bolsters the public response to competitive play and is generally an open door into that arena. It allows players of all level of skill to play and actively seek new teams.

PS2.Pickup has been going from strength to strength, we started this as a pilot just over a month ago and have only really been seen on reddit. We are a complete and utter public community affair. Powered by the community in organisation and events. We started off from humble PSU TS invasions and now we have a website and our very own teamspeak!

Over the last 4 weekends we have been playing at : 22:00 GMT / 17:00 EST / 14:00 PST Friday / Saturday / Sunday. However, we hope to do more. We have had people from many different outfits, from many different servers play pickups together in a fun and casual competitive atmosphere. We have a lot of work still to do, but it requires YOU the community, to help us achieve our aims. Fed up of not being able to get a match? Come along to our outfit nights and play other like-minded outfits. Alone? Then pop over on our public nights!.

No matter if your NC,VS,TR - With us, you can play anything without the live-server loyalty. Try out other factions weapons in an organized fashion, want to try-out the potential future of PS2 competitive? Hop in and play!.

Join our growing community today, join the forums, join us during our events and pickups and come and long as see if pickup is for you!

FAQ

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Q: What is PS2.pickup?

A: PS2.Pickup is similar to pickups in other games, such as Call Of Duty and Counterstrike. Members of the community would meet on a neutral Teamspeak or other VOIP. Teams are randomly picked, each player will be assigned a number and that number determines what faction he/she will be playing for
depending on if you've gotten an odd or an even number.

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Q: Why do people do Pickups? What do the players get out of it?

A: Pickups are normally used in other games by competitive individuals or teams. It is normally done in a similar concept / atmosphere as a regularly run competition. However, a win or loss cannot be attributed to any single person and/or team/clan/outfit. Most people use pickup to either practice, or try to simulate what a scrim / match / tournament would be like, without the stress of course. The average user would experience a different level of play compared to Live - as every other player would play to practice and play compared to Live - as every other player would play to practice and somewhat show skill. Even though games are full of randomly selected players, everyone involved is there for the same reason.

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Q: What do i need in order to partake in public scrims?

A: Well firstly, we use the current Planetside Test server client.

SOE: http://launch.soe.com/installer/PS2_Test_setup.exe
PRO7: http://launch.soe.com/installer/PS2_...test_setup.exe

You will also require VOIP, Ps2.Pickup uses Teamspeak.

(TS3) http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads

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Q: How do I join?

A: Load up teamspeak, join our Voip , the TS3 server address is: 85.236.100.188:12667.
There you will be assigned a team via a shuffler. You will recieve an odd or even number that represents a faction. You will then move down into that faction channel on our teamspeak. Load up the PTS and make that faction character, join the faction - specific squad.

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Q: When do matches play?

A: At the current stage of our project, we are only doing weekend public games. The games generally start around 22:00 GMT / 17:00 EST / 14:00 PST.
We are, however, aiming to do matches during the week and at different region-friendly timezones.

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Q: I want to get involved, and / or help out - who, what, where, and how?

A: If you would like to join our community and partake in our future community events such as public nexus, then join our website at http://ps2-pickup.enjin.com.
If you would like to record or advertise your team - whether that be Twich or YT - feel free to message Dotz0r or Furiosus. Same applies if you would like to shout cast or stream an event!

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Q: Why this? Why everything? What do you hope to achieve in the long run?

A: As a new initiative for PlanetSide 2 and its general community at large, we are still growing. For what we hope to achieve, which is a "place to go" for community events and scrims in general, we still have a long way to go.

In the future we hope to be self sufficient, with regular matches going and generally being the go-to place for outfit scrims and/or matches. As players who wants more than what PS2 currently offers, going to rival outfits websites and asking for a game, to finally play them 3 weeks later wasn't convenient. One of our many goals of Pickup is to be a convenient place to arrange matches and seek-out like minded individuals or teams.

As ps2.pickup sees it, there was / is no "gap" or "bridge" between Live and the competitive scene. As a site, we hope to help mold the future of PlanetSide 2 in that arena. With Tournaments such as the PAL (Pro Arena League) and who knows what else is around the corner, we hope to be there now and after these tournaments as a place to train and help develop the atmosphere and scene.

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Here are two examples of previous pickups, many thanks to [NUC] Serho for recording these!