Man the forts! Aka, we're besieged.

[Symmenix]

Hello all. This thread is basically introducing sieging and holding to people in PS2. The idea pretty much is simply about holding a fort for as long as possible, and having such a pure lookout/ defense that the enemy cannot advance.

Or it could go the other way. If your attacking these well held forts, it'd obviously take a while.

Pretty much I want to see epic large fights that last for hours, not some guy going Rambo CoD on us.

This happened in PS1, but in a different format.

So here's the question: How many of you would be willing to siege/hold?

[Rivenshield]

/raises hand

The TR is famous for its five-hour red alerts. I want to see this proud tradition continue.

[willaguy]

This type of thing should happen automatically.

[p0intman]

Bring a red alert at me or go home. Base defenses are some of my favorite stuff, as are last minute resecures.

[Duckforceone]

I'm a support player at heart, so i'm used to waiting around awhile...

i love defending for a long while, or laying siege for a long while...

[Symmenix]

Originally Posted by willaguy

This type of thing should happen automatically.

Indeed.

[ringring]

Of course

[Daemonn]

If PS2 doesn't have base/tower sieges it wouldn't be right to call it Planetside...

[Pyreal]

Base design will have a large impact whether or not defense is possible.

[Littleman]

Originally Posted by Daemonn

If PS2 doesn't have base/tower sieges it wouldn't be right to call it Planetside...

Indeed, it'd be called Planetside 2.

Base layouts might turn the siege meta-game into more of a game of trading hack points constantly, but we'll see when we get the chance.

[PrivateBadass]

I would love to be a part of guard duty on a specific base, even before an full on assault, and report back if there is a large force headed our way.

[GreatMazinkaise]

I would hope it's still in... base sieges were some of the best content in the game.

[Tehroth]

Currently from what we have been told Bases are more of a arena type of thing, sure it has cannons and stuff, but its not really a heavily defensible position. Hopefully engineers can spruce that up a bit putting shield walls and turrents down.

[Kitsune]

I'm no Ps1 player but I'd be willing to stand around for hours as long as there's someone to talk to. Course we would be like those comedy relief henchmen, just chatting about silly random stuff just to get killed a second later.

"So did you see that new recruit that just joined? Totally a babe."
"Why do you instantly think every person who plays a girl is one in real life?"
"Dude, we are stuck in first person, there's no butt to look at, so hence, it must be a babe. And anyway, if they were guys, then every other guy would be looking at their avatar's assets, and that would just be uncomfortable."
"You mean as uncomfortable as a real woman being gawked at?"
"No man, this is totally different..."

Feels like a mini series of Red Vs Blue.

[SixShooter]

This will definitly happen. It will be a bit more interesting with the facilities that use the ticket system since once you successsfully defend a base the attacking force has to start all over again. It will be cool to see how many "facilty defended" messages you can pull off in single massive battle.