Planetside 2 Information Thread

[megamold]

holy cow

a years worth of certs for a tank alone ?
and even more for leadership certs?

i think i just pee'd a little

[Goku]

Thank you for this thread, Bags. I have directed quite a few of my outfit members to this for them to get updated on the news.

[Bags]

Updated QnA with Higby with another answer.

[Lunarchild]

Ok, it's not much but:

http://kithicor.org/show/smed/

(Jethal) Andriella of Antonia Bayle (EQ2) asks.. When will Planetside2 Beta open? Also comments that she is very appreciative of the interaction we players get with the SOE Team
(Smed) First off, thank you so much for being appreciative and we certainly do our best, I dont think the players realise that this is not just a part of our job, this isnt just our job, this is what we like about the jobs we have.. I thoroughy enjoy interacting with our players. I personally answer almost ever email that I get.. and.. I know the dev team feels the same way. We dont always get nice emails and more often than not, if a person can write a relatively decently worded explaination of something, even if it’s a problem, we will both answer it and do our best to fix it. Some times we get Flame Mails, I dont mind that as long as there’s not a lot of cuss words.. and that part can be tough some times. On Planetside Beta.. it’ll be up sooner than people think, but I cant give a date yet.. we’re hard at work on it right now
(Jethal) speaking toward the flames and stuff.. just so people know, I did recieve quite a few more questions that than we’re gonna cover, but some of them where damned right rude, and I’m not going there.. more than once, and I told you this offline.. I got “EverQuest2 sucks, and what are you gonna do about it?”
(Smed) I dont care, if someone thinks EQ2 sucks.. i’ll say “Great.. rather than asking what I’m gonna do to fix it.. tell me what you think we should do to fix it”. People out there who just wanna be negative and say “this game sucks, that thing sucks”.. tell us what you would do to fix it, tell me what you want, we’re giving you the game we think is great, and if players need more or need differnt things, we need to hear about it
(Jethal) and that’s one of the great things I love about your team, and that’s not me kissing your ass.. I dont kiss ass.. but, we bring up things on this show, cause we know your team listens on a regular basis.. and I dont go “Oh this is wrong, that’s wrong! what’s you gonna do about it” I always try to give constructive critisism, like “Ya know.. this isnt working out how I think it should.. this is how you can make it better..”
(Smed) people would be surprised to know that most of the team actually plays the game, and there’s a list a mile long of things we’re working on and we got X number of people and X amount of time to get things done in, while we there are all these things wrong.. we also have to put in new content.. or one of the these things that is “wrong” is we’re not putting out content fast enough. So, it’s a very interesting thing that we have to manage, the player expectation vs what we know what gotta get done, and there’s always 10 million thing to get done.

He also confirms once again why Planetside is his favourite SOE game ^_^

[DreaM]

Originally Posted by Lunarchild

Ok, it's not much but:

http://kithicor.org/show/smed/



He also confirms once again why Planetside is his favourite SOE game ^_^

It's interesting that he says "sooner than you think". He's obviously assuming people are going to guess sometime Q2-Q3 next year although I and I imagine most other people are going with late this year for active planetside 1 subscribers that is.

[Hamma]

Cool I'll get this posted up.

[Bags]

Yeah, I won't be updating the OP with that since it doesn't tell us anything new.

[SurgeonX]

Not new news, as yet, but I've just spotted this in the 'Next Issue' section at the back this months PC Gamer:

"Behind the scenes on PlanetSide 2"
It's out on the 31st of August.

Also, in the Monitor section at the front, Rich McCormick sums up PS2 as:
"This is currently the most exciting game on the horizon. It's stupidly ambitious."

PC Gamer have always had a fondness for PS, so it's good to see they are super excited about PS2.

[Hamma]

Aye they were there at Fan Faire also

[megamold]

so who's going to scan pcgamer's next issue

[basti]

This is completly random, but i think bags will like it.
Take it as a little present as thanks for keeping this thread up to date.

http://z0r.de/3024

[FastAndFree]

Originally Posted by basti

This is completly random, but i think bags will like it.
Take it as a little present as thanks for keeping this thread up to date.

http://z0r.de/3024

I can't hear the sound on my office PC, but still wholeheartedly approve!

[Willylou]

• What features have been removed? Inventories(at least as free-form as it is now), sanctuaries, and vehicle entering animations.

Inventory system being removed!!!!!!!??????????????

Please do not do that to planetside 2.
It will remove what is great about Planetside the customizations of your character to whet you Like to use in the game. Not to mention picking up an enemy gun or picking up ammo from an enemy bag to get more ammo that is all most out. The surprise of finding a set up that works or reworking a set up let the gamer be creative.
It is the main reason Planetside has been up for 8 years it does not get boring.
Please try to work the inventory system into planetside 2 it’s not brain surgery.
If you don’t put an inventory system in planetside 2 it will be a lame copy of
Battlefeild bad company 2 or Halo this is not any those other game
This IS Fu@^ing PLANETSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post on this for your support for customizable inventory packs!!

[Vancha]

Originally Posted by Willylou

Inventory system being removed!!!!!!!??????????????

Please do not do that to planetside 2.
It will remove what is great about Planetside the customizations of your character to whet you Like to use in the game. Not to mention picking up an enemy gun or picking up ammo from an enemy bag to get more ammo that is all most out. The surprise of finding a set up that works or reworking a set up let the gamer be creative.
It is the main reason Planetside has been up for 8 years it does not get boring.
Please try to work the inventory system into planetside 2 it’s not brain surgery.
If you don’t put an inventory system in planetside 2 it will be a lame copy of
Battlefeild bad company 2 or Halo this is not any those other game
This IS Fu@^ing PLANETSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post on this for your support for customizable inventory packs!!

I'm going to go ahead and assume you were being satirical.

[Ibuprofen]

While I feel that getting rid of the inventory and just having primary/sidearm/utility type slots that you load out can be done to streamline the game and without losing any of the flexibility/customization that we loved about Planetside, I do feel that looting the weapons of fallen enemies (especially in cases like: your friends all play TR but you like dicking around with the Jackhammer) with a weapon hotswap type mechanic ought to be in the game, and hope that no inventory does not mean no looting other faction's weapons.

In the same thread of taking things from enemy factions, I'm not sure why vehicle hacking is not in. Based on the following:
• All land has value to be captured
• Resources needed from this land to pull advanced vehicles
The lack of vehicle hacking seems not only to not really serve a purpose with regards to streamlining the game, but also seems to remove something that would have a significant tactical element, either in the sense of getting a hold of an enemy vehicle of a class that your faction can't currently produce or, if you don't have the proper certs, costing the enemy time and resources by hacking and deconstructing a parked vehicle(s) which has high resource value/cost.
Admittedly, I may have a bit of personal bias here since I played TR and, as much as I love the faction, I absolutely adored piloting stolen Magriders.