PS Concerns?

[Hamma]

What is the aspect you are most worried could plague PlanetSide. Lag? One empire dominating?

I hate to create a negative thread, but its interesting to see whats on folks are concerned about after reading about PlanetSide. Perhaps we can even clear up some confusions..

[Airlift]

Lag and packet loss for me. Also I'm concerned that all message boards even remotely about PS will become flaming whinefests after release.

[Camping Carl]

Snipers, balance issues.

[Styr]

lag.

if u cant shoot/etc with a good ping; snipers, etc arent really an issue

[Navaron]

Uber Smack tards - not just our incompetant ones (hee hee ), laggyness, 56kers, and people bitching about what the game isn't instead of what it is. I also am a little worried about it becoming a frag fest with no team work at all (I know it won't but thats what I'm worried about). I'm also worried about kill pilfering, when people hang back and let you fight until you've almost got that max down, then jumping in and finishing him off and gettin the beps. I guess thats it....and those Vanu pride marches getting in the way of tank columns.

NAV

[Incompetent]

Balance issues and how lag is handled, some games handled it horribly (bf1942 comes to mind) and i couldn barely get a single kill when i had a ping over 100, and some games (iron storm) handled lag extremly well and i was able to pwn someone with 10-20 ping when i had 600.

edit: Is my name that hard to spell?

[afex]

being on the same server as hamma

[Navaron]

"You're so vain, you probably think this post is about you, you're so vaaaaiiiiin you probably think this post is about you doo da doo da da da..."

Apparently it is.

[Dragoon412]

What worries me most? That the same illiterate assclowns on the official forum are actually going to be in the game.

Yeah, I have ping worries and the like, but honestly, my biggest worry is that the game's going to be run like EQ, where GM events are extremely rare, and usually poorly-planned, uberguilds are allowed to bully smaller guilds and independants, and customer service is essentially non-existant. Granted, I think PlanetSide's design will contribute to lessening the need for SOE's laughable customer service... if you can even call it that. In my experience, it just consisted of sitting and waiting 4 hours for some surly GM to show up and tell you he can't help you.

I also worry about balance issues... as many of them went completely unresolved in EQ, although, thankfully, the former Verant is off destroying SWG, and not PS, so hopefully this dev team, which seems much cooler, actually will be. But I still can't help buy have this horrible feelings that it's going to be EQ: In Space... MAXes will end up like warriors - necessary for squads, but complete gimps on their own. Dropship pilots will be like healing classes -- necessitated by tedium, but otherwise largely undesirable. Infantry will be like bards -- very flexible, but the only thing they're really good at is dying.

...hopefully it's just apprehension and there's no truth to it.

[�io]

Snipers being over or underpowered.
Boring hacking cert.
Uneven empires.
and of course the usual... bugs.

[�io]

Originally posted by Dragoon412
What worries me most? That the same illiterate assclowns on the official forum are actually going to be in the game.

Yeah that too.

[Warborn]

Lag, for sure. That would kill the game for me.

[Cuthbert]

Being shot in the head :\


Actually, one empire dominating worries me the most, or one empire getting a reputation for being full of twats and everyone ignoring it.

[�io]

one empire getting a reputation for being full of twats and everyone ignoring it.

Yeah i fear that might happen to the VS.

[Cuthbert]

me too....let's hope the morons and normal people are split evenly.