News: G4TV PlanetSide 2 Panel

[Bags]

Smed: As we expand the galaxy, the tech fully supports everything being on one server.
Smed: We are really focused on exposing nearly EVERY SINGLE PIECE of gameplay data in external API, in real time.

[Hamma]

Originally Posted by Gandhi

They all got free shirts

We will have some to give away soon

[MgFalcon]

Originally Posted by Hamma

We will have some to give away soon

Dibs on the first one!!

#Seriously

[Bags]

Smed: We will be pouring a lot of money into getting lots of players into it. Expect a lot of action.

T-Ray: At the end of the day, if it doesn’t work in beta and frustrates people, we’ll remove it and find a way to fix it. So if you are hearin’ something that you’re not too sure about, all bets off when it gets to beta. That’s when the rubber hits the road. We’ll find out what works and what doesn’t and make changes based off player feedback.

Hold them to this

T-Ray: A lot. There you go, bam. Done. We’ve got weapon customization, vehicle customization, you’ll be pleased. Instead of looking at your beamer all day… Vanu players in the house?... aww, c’mon! Come on, Vanu! Anybody? Can we get some more vanu? Thank you.

Josh: Well they suck the most…

T-Ray: I don’t think so. I’m a Vanu player and that’s the way it’s gonna be. Um, so yeah. We’re gonna allow people to customize a lot of things. We’ll see what we can fit in.

Smed: We are going to be doing things, imagine different factions of the US navy with slightly different uniforms. The goal here is to get outfits so they look distinct, they’re still NC, and I say NC because they’re the best, but they’re still NC but they’re the “Black Warthogs”

T-Ray: Smurfs.

Smed: Or you’ve got the amazing… pick any outfit and we want that outfit to look different, but still look NC, or if you’re the VS purple ponies or whatever.

T-Ray: I watch a lot of Swedish hockey; I was going for the Swedish hockey look for the NC. All the NC chicks will have burlap sacks over their faces.

Matt: Now we have vehicle and flight mechanics that feel real due to Physx. The vehicle gameplay is what you would expect from a modern triple A fps.

T-Ray: Think Planetside plus Motorstorm.



Lol, I love T-ray.

[basti]

Just finished watching, good stuff.

T-Ray is one crazy mofo, it will be an honor to kill those smurfs and rednecks besides you during beta, mate. GO VANU!

[Bags]

TR needs a dev

Soo... purple ponies confirmed by smed for VS

[EVILPIG]

The T-Shirts the panel are wearing are the shirts we received.

[NivexQ]

I hope to god this unnamed third party anticheat company isn't Evenbalance (PunkBuster)

[Bags]

Finished a rough transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1.../edit?hl=en_US

You really should watch it but I typed up everything that they said that was important.

[Straws]

I'm very happy with that panel. Moments of humility and honest appreciation for the works of other developers as their inspiration. Nice work. It's refreshing from a company the size of SOE doing this.

[Tool]

Thanks for linking this, answered a few questions I had myself.

[basti]

Originally Posted by Hamma

We will have some to give away soon

May i request that Bags just randomly gets one dropped from the next squrrel he kicks into the face? Hes putting quite some time into doing all those info collecting and transcripts and whatnot, and guys like him make a good community great. No one else deserves it more. :>

ps: Bags, make sure you kick enough squirrels. Use heavy boots, they fly further that way.

[Death2All]

Yuck! Smedly hinted at possible PvE content in the future (Around the 18:00 mark).

Can't say I'm over enthused about the idea of PvE in a game like PS. They only said they were considering it, but it worries me that they'd even go that far.

Revised Grief System sounds nice. The original served its purpose but it was somewhat flawed in the sense that if you get hit by a careless vehicle driver then you are given a ton of grief for it.

And for Exile (around the 43ish mark) they talk about how lag is much more tolerant in PS2 this time around.

Overall, I'm confident in the team. They seem like they really care about this game and they're open to the community. Higby's apparent lurking on this site also makes me feel very warm and safe. But I think overall T-Rays deep voice reassuring me that everything will be alright and that if something doesn't work in the beta they will fix it.

Of course, things don't always go according to plan but I'm not quite as worried about the game as I was a few days ago.




Also, it really sucks not being able to hear what people were asking. Usually you can tell what they asked in the context of the answer they give, but sometimes I really had no clue.

[MgFalcon]

Originally Posted by basti

May i request that Bags just randomly gets one dropped from the next squrrel he kicks into the face? Hes putting quite some time into doing all those info collecting and transcripts and whatnot, and guys like him make a good community great. No one else deserves it more. :>

ps: Bags, make sure you kick enough squirrels. Use heavy boots, they fly further that way.

WHOW! Hold on there for a sec... I believe I officially called "Dibs" first. And clearly stated by The Book of Unwritten Rules "Nothing can supersede the calling of 'Dibs'... EVER" Not saying that Bags doesn't deserve one as well.... but DIBS had been called

[IceyCold]

Originally Posted by DeeTwoEh

Yuck! Smedly hinted at possible PvE content in the future (Around the 18:00 mark).

Can't say I'm over enthused about the idea of PvE in a game like PS. They only said they were considering it, but it worries me that they'd even go that far.

<snip>

Also, it really sucks not being able to hear what people were asking. Usually you can tell what they asked in the context of the answer they give, but sometimes I really had no clue.

I don't know how they intend to do a PvE system, but I for one don't want it in Planetside. No so much that it might make Planetside better or worse, but just that I don't think it really has a place in Planetside.

Hopefully they decide against this idea.