Does anyone remember their first hour?

[MasterMind]

Like the thread says, does anyone remember their first hour of Planetside?

I bought the game after reading about it. I knew nobody who played the game so I had no expectations whatsoever. I chose Vanu for the sole reason that they were the low population on the server and logged in.

I spawned in the Sanc with no idea what to do, and I saw in chat "outfit recruiting blah blah blah". I thought to myself "okay, this might help me get a feel of what I am supposed to do", so I asked if I can join. It was a small group of about 10 people. Me and two other members hopped in a Lib and ran off to join a fight. It turned out that those two members were a boyfriend/girlfriend couple and we ended up going through countless games together (EQ, WOW, SWG, etc).

I am still friends good with them today, and our first action in PS2 will be to jump in a lib and go find trouble!

[Karma]

Like you I remember reading the chat seeing outfits recruiting, people requesting to squad etc. I remember doing some of the virtual training & then squading up with some other people and just queuing outside the elevator which led to the HART shuttle. There must have been around 30 people just waiting for it to come. Then the action started & I was hooked from there.

[Meatball Mobeus]

Played TR on Markov with a buddy of mine. First kill? 3 TKs while gunning for a Prowler.

[Radaeron]

I recall my first few minutes. Not much of the first significant amount of time.

Stepped out of the spawn tube. Heard the TR sanc music. Stepped outside. Saw the HART coming in. Thought "Wow."

Like Mastermind I had zero expectations - picked up the game on a whim!

[Coreldan]

I do, but it's not more than 2 years ago for me.

I had no clue what to do or where to go, but I noticed that hey, there's an instant action button! Great! I press that and there was like.. 1 guy backhacking in Exctinction with some other fellas, enough to great a hot spot anyways. So, I was thrown there to the nearest tower. I ran around, all alone no clue where to go, I couldn't see anyone. For the first hour I did not even find anyone there. It was sort of a miracle I kept on playing the game I was on a trial too I think so I hadnt even paid for the game, so just dropping it there would've been possible..

Later that day though I got into a really amazing fight on Forseral that really blew my mind. I was busy studying into university entry exams, and I couldnt focus at all cos I was thinking like "damn.. i wanna go check out the fight again". I had a whole month off before the exam so I was just home and studied.. it was really cool to see the same fight evolve base by base over the course of like.. 10 hours or so that day.

[Bocheezu]

I heard about it on a small website for old, salty MMO diehards (of which I am not) and I tried a free trial back in December '03. I had a lot of trouble getting it to work because my mobo's sound drivers conflicted and caused the game to crash. I had to disable sound entirely in order to play, which in a game like this is pretty detrimental to the play experience. Still had a blast, though, and when I first looked at the clock it was 5 am and I'd been playing 10 hours.

I eventually bought a seperate sound card just so I could play the game.

[Goku]

My first hour consisted of going into sanc getting agile+surpressor gold ammo. I instant actioned to Cyssor and I ran around for a long time before finding a random enemy. I got killed, but dear god my heart was pounding.

[Kalbuth]

Totally remember.
Got it because someone told me before it was out, in Feb '03, that it could be great, soon after launch, I bought it, installed/blabla, spawned, get in sanc watching chat reminding me of EQ MMO with tons of people running around me, not understanding fuck all, I receive a random invite to a squad, accept, it appears to be from the SL in the galaxy just in front of me, I get in, I am told we are going to be "hotdropped on a tower" (wtf is that? oO).

We fly over a snow continent (since then, I know it was Esamir), I've no clue how we got there, pilot keeps giving ETAs, at some point the SL writes "GOGOGO", I get pushed out of the plane (wtf wtf!!), I land just in front of a door doing a strange "tiindiin" noise, a guy next to me wips out a strange pistol and shoots a laser at the door, which opens after a while, SL shout again "GOGOGO" (too much CS, maybe), I get out my almighty suppressor, hectic fight, I die in seconds, get revived while trying to type something in chat, fight again, die again....

We finally get the tower. I respawn there, get out... giant snowy plain, covered with soldiers and robots, missiles and bullets going all over me, planes, tanks. Far away, the walls of the target base visible from behind a ridge. I think it's at this point I relaxed, realized how tense I had been since getting in this galaxy, and smiled while rushing toward the base.

[Gimpylung]

I do. Instant action spawned me near Ghannon on Hossin. First encounter with the NC, I recall thinking as I got raped that I was glad I didn't pick that ugly looking yellow and blue armour. In your face NC.

I waited for Broadband b4 I got PS, day after I got broadband PS was installed.

Anyone remember that tutorial combat training thing...

[robocpf1]

Listened to NC sanc music for the first ten minutes as I ran around in sanc, checked out the VR (then said "screw you training missions, I know how to play video games").

Instant actioned to I believe the Rehua tower on Searhus - it was some tower on Searhus, can't remember which. Around the edge though, not in the crater. Pulled out one of the preset favorites that had a Gauss rifle in it and proceeded to die loads of times. Went back to sanctuary, tried to get the Gauss loadout again but misclicked and stayed in Standard with a Suppressor and MagScatter.

Proceeded to play around with favorites and the equipment terminals.

Then I saw "Armor Piercing" ammo. OH MAN I'M GOING TO KICK SO MUCH FACE.

[Eyeklops]

Some good memories posted here.

My first 2 hours were spent running around trying to figure out where the hell everybody was. I remember telling me wife "This game is AWESOME, but I can't seem to find anybody." There were 2 pop-locks at the time, I just didn't know how to get to them.

[Hmr85]

I still remember my first hour. It was back in 2003 when I first logged into the game and choose the NC. I picked them at the time because they where my high school colors. Anyways, I proceeded to log into the game only to find myself standing in the spawn tubes. I spent about the first 10 minutes listening to the sanc music while running around looking at everybody's gear. After some time of mindlessly roaming I eventually made my way into the Hart building while looking at another players gear who was out in front of me. He had Rexo on at the time and I was thinking to myself "Dam that looks awesome, where can I get me some like that."

I eventually followed the guy onto to the hart and podded into a huge battle going on at the time on Cyssor. As I was coming down I could see the fight raging below me and I was in utter awe at its beauty. Just as my pod landed on top of the spot where it looked like all the fighting was happening I hopped out pulled out my Gauss Rifle and was like " Fuck yeah, lets get some". No more than half a second later I took a shell from a TR prowler to the face. What a way to receive a welcome to Planetside noob. After that I spent the next few hours fighting in between Faro and Gunuku and well the rest is history.

[SztEltviz]

Friend said i have to check it out. He guided me around so i got into hart then dropped. Whoooo. OMG that's awesome. Droppod landed and opened. Vanguard ran over me

PC had 256 MB ram. It was a slideshow, not an FPS. So i looted the nearest PCs memory to play.

[DviddLeff]

My first hour of beta consisted of me trying to run across the entire of Esamir north to south to get to the continent the fight was on (no broadcast warp gates in those days, and no bundled vehicle certs).

Before I even got to Jarl I heard the whine of engines - the outfit I had spent the past 6 months putting together on the forums had arrived to pick me up in a Gal complete with fighter escort.

Nine years on my Vindicators are still going strong.

[Cuross]

Loaded up, created my character, jumped out of spawn tube, loaded up with a rifle and instant actioned to Hossin. Got lost in the tower for a moment and started running towards the base the VS was taking and I get sneak attacked by a Prowler.

Respawn at Sanc, try again, this time running outside and witness the HART, take the HART back to Hossin and get sniped by two snipers working together.

Respawn at the tower again, run up to the top getting my first kill against a cloaker, and jump into a turret and realize I love turrets. Especially flak turrets. Two galaxies kind of love flak turrets