The Planetside Stories Book Project

[CidHighwind]

Originally Posted by Bags

Why not make a blog or tumblr or something and just have people email in their stories and stick em up there? seems easier than making some weird pdf available for DL.

Doing it this way makes them mildly editable so it can look a little more professional (i.e. fix grammar where necessary for understanding). I will likely do just as you suggest once more stories are submitted and the book itself is essentially done.

I'm also not very versed in how to do those bloggy type things - would you be willing to help Bags?

[Atuday]

Trapped behind enemy lines. Cut off from all form of support. All we have is a trunk full of sniper ammo and 2 hostile empires who have no clue what is about to happen. It went kinda like this:

Shimanauca:"Hey wounds see the guy limping his way behind the tree just past the road?"
MyWoundsWillHeal:"Yep I see him, firing."

The bolt driver hit home and the terran was dead. He never even know what hit him. This kind of sniper spotter went on for what seemed like days. I would call out a target and we would fire. Armor could take 2 shots before you got a kill and with these 1 shot antique rifles we had to work as a team. I would fire then he would fire. We stood on the ridge line on cyssor just east of the field where Terrans and Conglomerates battled it out. Our goal was simple. Kill as many as possible, and so we did.

After about 45 minutes of this however something strange happened. Terran air-cav and NC air-cav stopped shooting at each other. Instead they started flying low over the mountain ridge. After a few seconds of fly overs we realised what was happening. It seemed that they hated Vanu snipers more than they hated each other. When the reavers and mossies came in we had very little chance. We both had a lancer just in case but had little skill in using it. Still with such a target rich environment how could we possibly miss.

casualty report: Shimanauca, status: DEAD
MyWoundsWillHeal, status: DEAD
TR Deaths due to sniper fire: 67
NC Deaths due to sniper fire: 79
Total ammo used just over 300 rounds.
Time to re-spawn and do it again: 30 seconds

[CidHighwind]

Efforts on this project will be shifted towards

www.Planetsidestories.me

New blog. Please send all war-stories to the E-mail on the original blog post!

[WildGunsTomcat]

I'm in. I have PLENTY of war stories.

[Uberculosis]

Originally Posted by Uberculosis

Assaulting a VS base as NC, don't remember which base but I think it was on Ishundar. Spawn from the tower and move on-foot to the base. I'm loaded out in reinforced exosuit, medium assault gauss rifle, decimator rocket launcher, a remote hacking kit, a couple of medkits, and a handheld repair device for armor. Roll into the courtyard of the base. Three VS walking towards the vehicle spawn pad, weapons undrawn. I take a spot of cover behind a steel wall, and open up with my assault rifle. One of the three is dead before the other two react.

A brief firefight ensues in which I'm the only survivor. There's a staircase up to the battlements of the exterior wall, and I run up, popping medkit 1 of 3 on the way up.

As I emerge, there's another 2 VS shooting down at my fellow NC. I dispose of them fairly quickly, with a non-negligible amount of damage sustained myself. I pop medkit 2, as I see a VS antipersonnel Mechanized Exosuit jumpjet onto the battlements.

As I see him while he's still moving and not aiming at me yet, I have enough time to draw my decimator, and land 1 decimator rocket onto the VS MAX before I start taking very significant damage. Knowing discretion is the better part of valor, I jump the wall 10 feet down onto the ground. I am at about 30% health, and 0% armor at this point.

As I land, I hear a wooshing behind me. I turn to find a magrider levitating battle tank driving full bore at me. Still with my rocket launcher drawn, I fire and hit the tank, and only by extremely fortunate chance dodging into an alcove that had an escape route; into the base itself. I pop my last medkit. 50% health.

Knowing I have absolutely no chance to fight off a tank on foot while I'm cornered in a 6'x6' box, as soon as I duck in I equip my hacking kit, and go to town on the door's IFF system. Before the tank can stop, turn, and move into position, I've bolted into the door, the particles of energy exploding behind me. Too close behind me. Down to 10% health.

For the most part, the situation seems hopeless. However, I still have an ace to use: My repair gun. I stitch up my nearly non-existent armor, giving me 100% armor and 10% health. I wouldn't survive a sustained gunfight, but thats better than being killed by the next bullet. I switch with to my gauss rifle.

I stealth my way into the basement of the VS territory. There's no pattern to spawn - people spawn when their individual timer is up, not in waves. So I had to pick a random straggler when I thought I had an advantage. An uncloaked VS stealth suit user walked past. I open up on him when he gets to an area where I wouldnt immediately be spotted in.

I run over quickly, go through his equipment: nothing useful to me outside a few ACE kits. Thankfully, I'm on a high level character who happens to have training in the use of advanced combat engineering equipment. I deploy an anti-tank explosive right outside of a door. Two VS with rexo suits on run through the door and are instantly vaporized. I rifle through their gear: Lashers(a VS energy weapon) and medkits. It's like christmas.

I swap out my medium assault gauss rifle with the lasher, and use all the medkits, putting me back at 100% armor and health. As I finish my preparations, new foes appear in the hall; the perfect environment for the lasher. The firefight leaves me wounded, but victorious. I find another decimator among the corpses.

I fight and loot my way out through the backdoor again, taking any pause in the action to reload or acquire any unused inventory from my fallen foes. I actually do this carefully enough to make it back out of the base! This is going great!

As I leave the backdoor, I hear a woosh.

It's that magrider again. Probably not the same magrider. But it's a floating tank that has seen me.

Stuck in-between a rock and a hard place I pull out my decimator and attempt to fight the tank. I score 2 hits with a decimator, missing my third before I take a tank energy pulse to my chest and am vaporized. But it was a good run.

It was a good time.

[dsi]

I think this belongs here.

(I'll come back with a story of my own later)

[stordito]

Originally Posted by dsi

I think this belongs here.

(I'll come back with a story of my own later)

i was going to post it.. the RPS 1% story is epic.

There was a bug in the respawn.everybody was locked in the tubes..i remember we were so pissed...30 -40 mins locked in the spawn with 5-10 ppl..

another time we and the VS joined forces for a bug on a NC weapon or something,i really don't remember..but we had order from Global to "do not engage VS infantry",so we actually fight side by side for an ohour or two,until the NC got pwned and lost the facilities they got meanwhile...that was epic...not just because they got kicked in the arse but just for the mental picture of them seeing a Red and purple army...

true sometimes you can have a multiple siege of a facility, but that time we actually spared the territory without fighting over,we had an agree or something like we got esamir and they got ishundar...
NC got free lead and plasma.

I have more stories i could remember but i'm relaly tired and loggin off, i will come back tomorrow posting more.
I would really like to read the other's stories.
maybe we can categorize them in separated empires,too.

[CidHighwind]

Originally Posted by stordito

I have more stories i could remember but i'm relaly tired and loggin off, i will come back tomorrow posting more.
I would really like to read the other's stories.
maybe we can categorize them in separated empires,too.

Would love to have the stories, the more the better! Be sure to e-mail them to the address in the first blog post!

I would need permission to quote the RPS article, so if someone would like to spearhead that initiative, I would LOVE to put it in the book.

[WaryWizard]

I like the idea behind this. Never played the first one myself. These stories just add on to my guilt of not playing the first, and my anticipation for the second.

[Lord Cosine]

This guy wrote up a great planetside war story.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011...tside-the-1-2/

[Vanu Vox Populi]

Not so much a war story but... One of my best memories in early PS1 was in my trusty ol' mag mower. Came out of a base and saw about 20-30 NC running from a tower towards me. Oh how i miss my pre-nerf Magrider.