So, I was losing hope in PS2 until...

[Sieldan]

Had one last night as a matter of fact. Massive battle for NS Archives I think. Good 45min-1hour worth of heavy fighting. The sky was darkened by the contrails of TR and VS fighters snarled in air combat and Liberators making bombing runs. Down below, a massive armor fight ensued. Infantry interspersed throughout. The sounds were deafening.

And then, all of a sudden it seemed like...Silence. Nothing but the wind blowing. As I panned the empty sky in my Burster Max, I couldn't help but get goose bumps and that feeling that "Its Quiet, Too Quiet".

And then my net crashed! lol

But: Immersion - PS2 has it!

[Stormhall]

Early February 2011
After coming home from school (16:00)
Playing a game called Mars War (PS1 Clone. Server shutdown in late March 2011)

The whole server of 1000 players was battling it out for this one facility.

The Great Battle of Western Main Facility

I was just a lowly sergeant given the permission from a high rank lieutenant who was near Northwestern Main Facility to command more or less the whole faction to capture Western Main Facility. I was on the comms shouting like crazy to my comrades to take that facility. We had done it so organised we had the spawn truck right next to the main entrance we had tanks all around and then we had the infantry including me right there covering behind barriers right underneath heavy enemy fire. Our air support was flying over doing bombing runs preventing the enemy from spawning any vehicles. We pushed up very very very slowly (so emotional) I could see my men dying left and right but I could see the enemy dying instantly. We got into the facility quickly pushing our way through, hacking doors and then got into the main hack terminal and took over the facility and that battle lasted for about 4 or 5 hours it was so emotional, so epic it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!

Then the lieutenant asked me to order everyone to go to Northwestern Main Facility and that's what I did I went there I did battle at Northwestern for about 30 minutes but then had to go sleep and if I didn't go sleep I would have also participated in...

The Great Battle For Northwestern Main Facility

If your copying a game copy a good one and that's what the Mars War devs did.

Every time I think about that day I just weep at the EPICNESS and Planetside 2 is just what I need to relive those moments.

[texico]

You guys are feeling the magic of PlanetSide!


God, I remember being on Ceryshen with the NC in one of my first PS1 battles, in a forest of dead trees slowly pushing back the VS to their facility... bullet fire, AV, lib bombs, tank shells, flying all over the place, fighting for hours and hours and slowly advancing the front line tree by tree.

[OnexBigxHebrew]

Hate to be a debbie downer (not being sarcastic) in a rare and uplifting thread - kudos for that - but I feel like the game is still very hollow. Just not enough persistence in the persistent world for me - kind of feels like when the battle moves, the map changes, and all the unplayed areas are gone, not just empty. Maybe this game can pave the way for a real persistent mmo world, and I think its definately groundbreaking already, but unfortunately, groundbreaking =/= fun.

Maybe this'll change with more polish, but as for right now, I'm not feeling the actual persistence. I guess what i'm getting at is that with the still very fast shift of ownership, combined with the lack of anything besides a small resource counter (towns, NPCs, anything to make it feel real), I just can't find a sense of purpose that would be required in order for me to make the shift from shooters with much more polish and superior gameplay. :/

[Salad Snake]

I was with a squad of TR trying to take some small VS base down in a cannon. 9 people went to go cap while we set our Sniper on a hill, I stayed behind to repair the Gal and gun if it came to it, and the pilot stayed inside in case we needed to dust off. Well, as soon as we capped that point, 3 Magriders and a ton of Comet MAXes start speeding up the canyon at us. Our pilot yells "We got go NOW! I'm taking off in 15!", as the rest of the squad races back to the Gal and I try to repair whatever damage is being done to the ship.

We're down to T-5 seconds when our pilot says "Mathews, we're leaving! Come on!". Our Sniper, who had been picking off targets the entire time, coolly replies "Don't worry, I've got your exit." Our pilot pauses, a moment later she says "Alright, I'm lifting off. Mathews, meet us there.". "Sure thing" he replies. We lift off with the Mags almost to us as I get in the tail gun whipping it from one target to another. As we fly away I hear Mathews saying things like "I love when they line up to shoot at you guys..." "Stay still just a moment..." and such. My last look down into the canyon before hitting draw distance was Mathew's green name surrounded by what seemed like 20 enemy-doritos converging on him....


I know it was just one spawn, but damn, that felt straight out of a war movie.