News: Totalbiscuit Night Ops Footage! - Page 13

2coolforu · 2012-05-18, 12:04 AM

The Lightning did way too much damage to that mag, considering they were front-to-front the Lightning was definitely on top before it missed a shot and decided to charge the mag rider.

Tanks are gonna need to be able to soak the damage of a big portion of a 200+ pop defense force engaging them. In Planetside the tanks were strong as hell, you beat them by either massing infantry or keeping them at a distance with jammers and mines.

The damage/style of the tanks is Battlefield 3 level, which I don't think suits the combined arms/MMO style of Planetside. In BF3 tanks are just like powerups in quake, they don't really fill a role too well, they die pretty quickly and they have a lot of damage potential but that's not really what a tank is for. I'd say the survivability is more a role of a tank, the Mag in TB's vid died in 2 shots from a vanguards main gun, that is a rear armor, then front armor shot. It also seemed as if TB severely damaged the vangaurd (Flames) in about 8 seconds of fire.

Atheosim · 2012-05-18, 12:12 AM

I thought it was so hilarious when clegg would just get demolished. Especially considering his galaxy piloting skillz0rz. Ahh, poor clegg. I deeply hope that we'll have a chance to play together. I'll keep you rezzed, healed, and repaired for eternity. Same goes for higgles if he ever decides to defect to the truest faction, TR. Offer is extended to lunchTray too.

As a note to all PS developers: You guys are the elite. Don't ever believe anything different. Much, much love to every one of you. You too cycles. Maybe. Okay yeah you too. <3 <3 <3

TotalBiscuit · 2012-05-18, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by Vanir

Didn't he record over 90 mins worth of footage? Where's the rest?

You expected a 90 minute video? It has to be organised, edited, commentated and encoded. It's going to take time

IceyCold · 2012-05-18, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by TotalBiscuit

You expected a 90 minute video? It has to be organised, edited, commentated and encoded. It's going to take time

I believe in you TB. I am certain I can expect it within the hour.

none · 2012-05-18, 01:01 AM

OMG WHERE'S THE BETA!!!!!!

captainkapautz · 2012-05-18, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by TotalBiscuit

You expected a 90 minute video? It has to be organised, edited, commentated and encoded. It's going to take time

Meh, you know damn well that you could upload the raw footage and we'd still fap all over it.

Edit:

Originally Posted by atone

possibly, still i prefer medics on the field be a necessity rather than a time saver. beta will sort it out i guess.

Well they ARE a necessity. It's not a simple matter of "Oh I don't feel like getting a medic just cause I got my face shot of, so I'll just wait here in the corner.", simply because 25 seconds are like years in a fight.

Not to mention that it isn't even a fast regeneration, it still took ~4 seconds to regen his health in the video which looked about 30-40% down, couple that with damage pretty much guaranteed to interupt the regen and the problem is non-existant.

Only thing it really does change compared to PS1 is that now you wouldn't have to waste a medkit after a fight if you are alone, aren't a medic and do not have a medic present.

noxious · 2012-05-18, 01:42 AM

The footage looked fantastic, but that continent is really small. He flew from being close to one of the warp gates to being close to another one of the wrap gates in less than a minute. You might need to add 15 seconds or so for an actual gate to gate flight, but that still seems like a tiny continent.

PeteHMB · 2012-05-18, 01:47 AM

14 pages, with several people bitching about "waaaaah they didn't give us 3rd person for tank drivers", and nobody apparently noticed @ 17:40 in the video HE SWITCHES TO 3RD PERSON WHILE BACKING UP THE MAG. Go watch it again...

Other than that, looks AWESOME! Higgs, Cycles, Tray...I'm buying you all a round when I come through in a couple months. And lunchTray, I'm bringing my GSXR750...

Atheosim · 2012-05-18, 01:57 AM

This, but cum,.

Mechzz · 2012-05-18, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by PeteHMB

14 pages, with several people bitching about "waaaaah they didn't give us 3rd person for tank drivers", and nobody apparently noticed @ 17:40 in the video HE SWITCHES TO 3RD PERSON WHILE BACKING UP THE MAG. Go watch it again...

Again? But I already broke the internetz watching it.
But LOL at observation, good spot!

Edit: Yup. Took a look and it flips briefly to 3rd person. And gave him an overpowering advantage 'cos he saw the lightning round the corner.

blackfang · 2012-05-18, 02:55 AM

Flak + jump pads = super win, now all that we need is a dusin flak units and those jump pads are useless. Think about the strategic importance of anti air against flying softies!

bigcracker · 2012-05-18, 02:58 AM

Looks amazing I am ready to play it

That one noob · 2012-05-18, 03:13 AM

Good God, the factions were heavily unbalanced pop wise. I mean I knew there were hardly any Elmos in the dev team, but 6%? Good thing this is just an internal testing, because I kinda felt bad for the TR.

Shogun · 2012-05-18, 04:30 AM

TB did a great job, and i can´t wait to see more of his footage!
this was only a first taste because as i understood it, he is under some kind of NDA and is not allowed to show off everything until next week.

and hamma will have the same problem.

so we will see a lot more next week from TB while we have to wait for hammas videos.

too bad we couldn´t see the whole TB footage in advance! this way hamma would know which aspects of the game are checked out already and what things are yet uncovered.
really hope we will see some serious engineer action in the next two weeks. either from TB or from hamma.

oh and i am looking forward to all the "let´s break it" fun during beta!
i am sure we will do a lot of cease fires to stresstest things like the jump-pads

want to know what it looks like when a crowd of 300 soldiers charges for one jump pad. popcorn anyone?

DEVS please make the jumpjets hackable by cloakers! would be fun to turn them around, causing the unsuspecting defenders to launch themselfes into the wrong direction, right into a minefield or the enemy.

Shogun · 2012-05-18, 04:33 AM

Originally Posted by That one noob

Good God, the factions were heavily unbalanced pop wise. I mean I knew there were hardly any Elmos in the dev team, but 6%? Good thing this is just an internal testing, because I kinda felt bad for the TR.

yea, but right now everybody seems to use admin controls to switch between factions, classes and vehicles all the time. and TB said, he missed the "real" playtest. having 200 players is easy to balance factionwise. with only 5 to 10 players unbalanced moments do happen (with admin magic powers enabled)