Originally Posted by Spark
The main appeal of PS for me was that I was fighting other human beings in a massive battlefield. AI creatures will just seem like a step backward, instead of adding new ways for humans to clash on the battlefield they just add EQ style mobs that eat FPS.
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Nah not EQ style mobs. hmm. Not sure if you've ever played the game Savage. There was AI units randomly placed around the world. Most of the time they'd stay out of your way unless you wandered around a back way in which case you'd come in contact with them. They were there usually to dissuade people from taking that path.
The idea isn't to changed the game to a PvE centric game. I was actually saying to keep the PvP the way it's going to be, but then also put in an element of surprise into the world outside of the normal combat. I'm imagining these territories to be rather large I guess.
Originally Posted by Spark
For people who want AI enemies in a persistent MMOFPS then play Firefall when that comes out, PS2 should be strictly PvP.
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Firefall doesn't label itself as an mmofps. It's actually just a simple co-op multiplayer game with instanced PvP. This is a common misconception the developers cleared up during PAX East.
To be fair there is no MMOFPS game like Planetside that seamlessly blends a living environment into the battle. When people try to use that argument of "go play BF3 then" it doesn't always work.
You end up describing a game so radically different that you miss the point of the presented idea. Or you try to associate it with something that's already been done like saying "oh you want to make this into WoW?" when that's not the idea at all. Though I imagine when making an argument it's much easier to fight that idea than what I presented.
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