It's been a week. What do you fear?

[Carver]

I fear TTK won't be low enough.

I fear that there still won't be any point to stepping foot outside unless it's to get into a tank or an aircraft.

[SKYeXile]

Greatest fear would be that the netcode wont support high ping players like PS1 did. To me everything else is rather insignificant if i cant play the game.

[Drentz]

My biggest fear is that the idea of "resources" and "every inch of the map being valuable" won't translate into gameplay even though the idea sounds great.

I fear that hot drops from Galaxies as a major method of attack (which are awesome) will be neglected.

[Coyote]

I fear Teamplay will be dropped for OSOK. Aka snipers everywhere. Ridge after ridge of non-moving, non-pushing snipers who will refuse to attack as they are enjoying just getting kills.

I fear a change of mentality, from Objective to Team Death Match. K:D Is relevant? Not in Planetside.

I fear quick TTK, and worse, quick spawning. So there will be constant meatgrinders (Spawnkilling will be prevalent. I know it's in PS1, but I'm talking spending 3-4 minutes trying to spawn)

I fear a lack of Sanctuaries will divide the empires and reduce a "greater good" mentality.

I fear no-continent locks. This will go against achievement, and burn players out. Without reward, why play? What is the greater goal in this perpetual war? Are we to just accept we will never win?

I fear there will be numerous game-breaking imbalances come launch, and slow, hesitant patching will kill most of the "unknown" playerbase, who never played PS1 away before it can be fixed and turned into a properly good game

I fear a lack of advertising. (did you know that Infantry Online is free-to-play? it went F2P a year or two back, good job on the announcing SOE)

[p0intman]

im personally apprehensive about the command structure and the inventory system. i like the open ended approach planetside currently has to its inventory. i dont want to have to die/respawn in order to switch gear for a new situation.

[CutterJohn]

I fear there will be no thresher, and that tanks will reign supreme as ground combat vehicles again, with little room for anything else.

[Malorn]

Oh, I'm also still terrified of hackers destroying the game.

[Sirisian]

Originally Posted by Headrattle

I also fear some of the direction that they are going. "More sandbox gameplay" and especially "possible PVE." I actually yelled "NO!" when they said that in the interview.

I fear they'll listen to the vocal minority and leave out interesting ideas just because they're not in Planetside 1.

[WarChimp130]

I fear No Sanc will mean No Home. No place to organize, or just jerk around for a little while with friends. No place to just collect your thoughts before the next fight.

I fear that the wrong players will take command ranks and be dicks.

I fear that hackers/exploiters will find something annoying and drive people away from the game in the first few weeks before it has a chance to solidify it's fan base.

I fear that the game will focus too much on the individual and not on the empire, and that the game will not be massive and people will just be doing Towers of Power and Interfarming or whatever their new equivalents will be.

I fear that outdoors combat will not translate well and that it will be more frustrating than fun trying to fight in type specific area's.

But generally speaking I'm pretty stoked and hope the dev's have a fully thought out plan.

[Headrattle]

Originally Posted by Sirisian

I fear they'll listen to the vocal minority and leave out interesting ideas just because they're not in Planetside 1.

Well, the reason I don't like PVE isn't because it isn't in Planetside 1. It is because it is a bad idea and will require lots of programming resources to do well, but add very little to the game if done well.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Headrattle

Well, the reason I don't like PVE isn't because it isn't in Planetside 1. It is because it is a bad idea and will require lots of programming resources to do well, but add very little to the game if done well.

And then there's the fact that Smedley said "Planetside 2 is 100% PVP".

[Azren]

Originally Posted by Bags

And then there's the fact that Smedley said "Planetside 2 is 100% PVP".

For now it is anyways.

I fear not being able to repair my tank in the field since only engineers will have glue gun.

I fear having to change classes every time I want to repair my vehicle.

I fear not being able to put up aegis shields to repair my tank under.

I fear not being able to set up mine fields from my vehicle's trunk, since only engies can do that, not me as driver (who in turn can't drive...).

In short: I fear the class system.

[Azren]

Originally Posted by Coyote

I fear no-continent locks. This will go against achievement, and burn players out. Without reward, why play? What is the greater goal in this perpetual war? Are we to just accept we will never win?

I do not think this is the case. Think of it this way: every territory will be captureable, so not only dots on the map will show up in your colors, but the whole area that your empire captured. Basically your empire will have a border as any country in history did, and your achievement will be to expand that border to a new type of resource field for example, or maybe the capture of a mountain fortress.

[Heaven]

I fear my health and getting fat eating cheesy puffs while playing PS2.

[Canaris]

So far my fears are -

Skill up Points That they will effect the game to much like upgrades, damage increase or rof increase (APB style old and current) giving veterans to much of an advantage over new players resulting in new players leaving after a short while because they can't play. (Word to the wise, upgrades are bad m'kay! It's been proven not to work.)
You have now been warned and I've feel I have done my duty.

Headshots Already been discussed in depth in other threads, headshots in PS2 is a bad idea from where I'm sitting

Spider Women Hopefully they'll never exist, scare the shizzle out of me

Apart from those three I'll have to wait and see for other things that would make me Fear for Planetside 2.