"Outpost duty" Higby pic tweet

[Shogun]

oooooh almighty higgles please please please if esamir is already far enough in developement to enter it with a soldier, look for a nice spot and give us at least a blurry shot! just to give us a general idea how it will look!

[WellWisherELF]

That ramp looks awfully small considering a massive battle for that building might break out at any time.

[MonsterBone]

Take my damn money NOW!!!!!!!!!!

[Dreamcast]

Originally Posted by Evil Redrum

Love the way things are looking. I looked at this last night with PS_Tray's tweet on the reflex site if you look at that image ( http://yfrog.com/odcvbrtj ) and then pull up the original teaser trailer ( PlanetSide2_h264.mov - YouTube ) and pause that at 0:22 you can compare how much further we have come along with the weapons alone.

Damn it looks way better.

[Lonehunter]

Originally Posted by MonsterBone

Take my damn money NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Dito

Edit: Once we start talking more about "Urban Combat" SOE could pull an April fool's joke, make a promotional vid for "Urban Combat". It could be this sweet cave where you can't see anything around you, except these random lazers that bounce around everywhere. No night vision either, and everyone's clip size is doubled!

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Shogun

in the pc gamer article a "city continent" is mentioned... a destroyed one, littered with ruins and broken highways and stuff.

if this is true, we will all totally freak out when we get to see it ;-)

>we will all

I have no interest in said continent.

[Tasorin]

Originally Posted by Higby

This PC is rocking SLI GTX 580s which is serious overkill for PS2, but I run at 2560x1600 most of the time... And I have to be able to play the game when there is no optimization done.

Thanks for the benchmark Higgles. Many of our clan and the community are considering a tech refresh for those that didn't do one for the Skyrim/BF3 cycle of releases. The expectation in our Clan is that the BF3/Skyrim benchmark for playing on High settings and pulling at least 50fps would be sufficient to handle PS2 graphically speaking and leave the question marks with client stability and latency. We are planning on a comparable system to a SSD OS/PS2 - i5-2500k - 8Gb Ram - 560GTX-ti - @ >/= 1920x1080 - Ping < 105 - 6mb/s ISP as an acceptable baseline for enjoying what you are creating and still min/max'ing in order to Crush! If Bulldozer and Ivy Bridge teams can get their act together and release before GW2 and PS2 go live we could even get a discount before the last stages do a tech refresh.

In addition, way to rep the NC. Someone has to balance out T-Rays Vanu love. I like the wash out by atmosphere effect at distance in order to force the fight in the box of LoS and make range matter.

Tactics +1

[Jamini]

It's... it's so beautiful.

Seriously though, I really can't wait for PS2 to go into beta. I can't wait to get my hands on an assault buggy or two (you still have them... right? Right!?) and go careening over those hills with my outfit mates.

[Traak]

Originally Posted by Saintlycow

Laser pointer on the side of the gun

Or gun cam?

[Ragotag]

Originally Posted by Bags

I doubt anything he can tell us at this point will matter, since it hasn't been optimized. Though he told someone a 560 TI would be "bitching", and a 460 is only like 10% slower.

I just built a new PC a little over a month ago and put a single 560 ti in it (can always add a second down the road for SLI if needed). So far, every game I've thrown at it runs max resolution on ultra-high settings. When combined with SOE's claims that the ForgeLight engine is designed to autoscale down to roughly 5 year-old GPU hardware, then Higby's comments don't surprise me at all.

[SuperMorto]

Looks like Halo?

[Knocky]

Originally Posted by Bags

>we will all

I have no interest in said continent.

That's ok, there aren't many people interested in Esamir as it is now.

Then again, if there is winter camo then Esa might be fun indeed with snow, ice and city ruins everywhere.