News: Gametrailers Planetside 2 Alpha Video

[acosmo]

Originally Posted by Malorn

Oooh I hear Don Ferrone's intro music in the video

sadly it isn't.

[Levente]

loving the scale and massive huge buildings, now thats what i call grand sense of scale. but that lag, for a game to support 1000 of players it wasnt really a good idea to showcase ps2 in a laggy state, i know its alpha but still.

[Atheosim]

Originally Posted by Levente

loving the scale and massive huge buildings, now thats what i call grand sense of scale. but that lag, for a game to support 1000 of players it wasnt really a good idea to showcase ps2 in a laggy state, i know its alpha but still.

That's what is so courageous in showing gameplay footage in an alpha stage. It's far from complete and subject to many, many changes. I think their move paid off, though.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by acosmo

sadly it isn't.

Sounds like it. And he's in for PS2 soooo.

[FINALCUT]

Originally Posted by acosmo

sadly it isn't.

Proof ?

[Hamma]

It's music from the original game is it not?

Also, they added it on YouTube:

[ItsTheSheppy]

I really hope that when the game launches, the avatars sell the 'I just got shot by a tank' a bit more. The guy gets shot point blank by a shell half as big as he is, and he falls over like he just got stabbed in a Shakespearean stage play.

[ThGlump]

Hvar and Zurvan hmm. Zurvan could be on Indar as its new cont, but Hvar doesnt belong to the three announced continents. I hope they dont break themed bases from continents.

[NCLynx]

This is probably the first thing since their initial trailer almost a year ago that actually had me speechless.

The scale on what I believe was the biolab was...wow...betaplz

[Hamma]

This video was awesome. It's great to see some in engine recordings of the game that aren't done with a video camera. The game really is beautiful I can't wait to run around and kill people in it.

[Shogun]

remember that we don´t know a thing about the server they used for this alpha gdc thing! i don´t think they already used the full capacity final server, but an intern substitute. so the lag jumping vehicles don´t say anything about what we will see in the beta.
also they told us, that the game is far from optimized.
so i don´t worry about lag.

want beta!

[Cosmical]

Excellent work Higby. I love these walk throughs, i am a frequenter (not a word) of Gametrailers, so its nice to see a high class video of a game i care about being put up there.

But seriously, show us how many things we will see on screen at once (screen shot). I need specifics, i will even take a rough figure before optimisation.

[Vanir]

Still need to change the tank driver from controlling the main gun to just driving. Other than that, the game looks awesome!

[DManTech]

Originally Posted by Vanir

Still need to change the tank driver from controlling the main gun to just driving. Other than that, the game looks awesome!

I'm with you, but in the recent reddit AMA, Higby seemed pretty solid on drivers gunning their own tanks as a feature. It would significantly hurt teamwork if tanks could be fully effective with only a driver, so hopefully they'll solve this by either making tanks very expensive in resources (to encourage people to work together to buy a tank) and/or making the gunner seat useful enough to make it worthwhile to pick up a gunner.

I could easily imagine a situation where a single player could pull a tank and be combat-effective against other ground vehicles and somewhat against infantry, but needing a gunner for AA abilities or increased anti-infantry effectiveness. A tank is a pretty high-value target for aircav, so having AA capability on a tank might be a de-facto requirement.

[KALU]

Wow wow wow I agree with Hamma the In game footage without a handy cam is gorgeous!

Forge light is looking amazing, can't wait for battles at sun set!