New Here and wondering about Clans/teams

[basti]

Originally Posted by Oncognito

Hi, I'm new to Ps. After seeing online and magazine previews of Ps2 I decided it looked good enough to get involved. As I haven't tried Ps1 yet, and don't know an awful lot about weapons/guns/teams/systems e.t.c. Are there Teams/clans within factions? Can you even have seperate teams within those?

Given that you never played planetside, but seem to have a MMO and a FPS background (yea, i can figure that from the little text you wrote, i am THAT good ), lets give you a quick rundown:



The only real "teams" are the 3 factions. When you create a character, you choose your faction (Terran Republic, New Conglomerate, Vanu Sovereignty), and then you are part of that faction, forever.

Within each faction are player created outfits (Clans/guilds pretty much, we call them Outfits). While not a whole lot of information has been given about the abilitys of Outfits, its save to say that they for once are like any other Guild in other games, means you get all the nifty managment tools for large player groups. What we know so far for Planetside 2 about them is that Outfits can customize themself, means a Outfit using mostly Tanks can spec into those tanks, and that would give them outfit wide customization abilitys (different painting on the tanks, propably some special sidegrades, etc)

Now, Squads and Platoons are a whole different story.
Those are pretty much your groups (squad, up to 10 people), and Raids (Several squads, up to 3 in Planetside, apperently up to 4 in Planetside 2).

You can get anyone you want from your faction into a squad or platoon, there are no limits. Yet, if you want, you can obivously only fill your squads and platoon with Outfit members.

Shooting members of your faction is obviously Friendly Fire. No word yet on a e-sport aspect within the game (small scale Platoon vs Platoon battles for example), may get something like this at some point after release.

Now, onto Weapons: There are two kind of weapons: Common pool (nanite systems) and Empire Specific. Common pool is the weapon and vehicle pool all factions have access to, empire specific is stuff that only one empire has access to. For more details, check this forum, top thread (planetside 2 information thread something from bags), theres a SHITLOAD of info there.


As for the systems: Well, i could write a little book about that stuff just from Planetside 1. We lack full information yet about this stuff for planetside 2 tho, but lets make this crystal clear, so we are indeed on the same page:
There are no NPCs. Every Friendly thing you see, and every enemy thing you see, is a Player (Infantary), controlled by a player (vehicles, turrets) or placed by a player (Combat depoyables like mines). No bots, no crap, just 100% pure PVP.