News: Air Combat Video Internal Beta SERVER!

[Hamma]

[bigcracker]

[CyclesMcHurtz]

Originally Posted by Lunarchild

You forgot add that the video is way too awesome, and that awesome isn't really an awesome enough word to properly describe how awesome this video really is

Are you saying ... it needs more ... cowbell?

[Corax]

McHurt... I do have a fever...

[atone]

Oh my god...

i immediately started to pass the word of this vid! ALL SHALL SEE THIS GLORY!

[Corax]

In some of my downtime inbetween teaching my classes here in china, I show some of the students the videos that have been put out so far. It has basically caught on like wildfire on our campus.

[SniperSteve]

OH MY.. Higby said "BETA SERVER". BETA IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

[Toppopia]

Originally Posted by SniperSteve

OH MY.. Higby said "BETA SERVER". BETA IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry, but it means that the server is created, but no one has been invited. (That we know of.) But i'm thinking that is them creating a server for beta because right now they will have been on a testing server. So i could be wrong, but i am most likely right. Which is a bad thing in this case.

[RedKnights]

Originally Posted by Murph

Threw this together in a couple min.

Did someone say WUB?

http://youtu.be/2VlxF2Ghg08

I accept this humble offering of wub wub on behalf of the almighty vanu, and demand further tribute

[ZeeGermans]

Outstanding!

[Felborne]

What can I say but.... THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU DEVS this is awesome.

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Corax

And for those wondering about the numbers.

NC = 16 Aircraft
15 Reavers
1 Liberator

TR = 20
19 Mossies
1 Liberator

This was ~36 People (Maybe more)

This little show case was basically a 20 v 20 match.

Use your imaginations on what is really possible =)

My favorite part is, this wasn't at all an uncommon air battle size in Planetside. The devs may have had to make a special effort to create this with their current numbers, but this shit will happen all of the time in PS2.

More often than even in the first game, because the first game had 500 total players per continent, where as PS2 is shooting for 2000.

We could very easily see air battles 4 times as large as the one in this battle, on a regular basis.

Imagine the largest air battle you ever saw in Planetside, and then multiply it by 4 and add in some amazing flight physics and empire specific fighters and weaponry.

This is going to redefine the word 'epic'.

[Captain1nsaneo]

spent a bit of time slowly going over the video in HD. That shot with the cannon I don't think is actually our 'bombardier' but is the tail gun on the Lib. Reason for that thought is that in the next view we see the lib from the backside and it's the ball turret turned around firing at the ground. There's no light scatter from the turret on the tail at all. As for the direction the turret is moving while shooting, remember this is alpha and I wouldn't be surprised if the ball turret's movement limits have been added yet.

Another thing I noticed was as green sheen on the tanks that just entered the screen when the video was in the turret's view point. Seems like it was the same sheen that freshly spawned vehicles have.

[Sabrak]

I love it when awesome developpers make me giggle like a little girl with their videos.

(Nuff said?)

[Tachyr]

That was just pure awesomesauce