Unabashed return thread.

[MrVicchio]

Anyone that hits www.planetside-universe.com knows why I was gone, and why ultimatly I am back. Let me say this so far. I have the CC mod in due to the free time, but so far... I don't see the point in buying it. I am a flyer, and currently snipe... why should I spend money on something I never will play, and from the sound of it, no one uses either....

Anyhoots, had 1 severe game lock up, some lag issues, namely entering a battlezone, even with skydome off, warp gates off, everything at 16 bit and medium and foilage at minimum. I am so far not impressed by the progress of the lag fixes. I have a 1.8ghz p4 Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600, WinXp, SB Audigy II, 512megs DDR ram. I should be able to run the game higher. Oh yeah Cable line thats solid, play on Emerald with a 46 ping according to teh load screen and run the game in 1024X768 resolution.


On to the gameplay... where the @#$@# is everybody??? I have been in one half decent battle where there was more then one wave of enemies. Other then that... not much. Flying my reaver is still fun, but WHERE THE @#$@#$ Are the air-to-air missiles??? There are SAM's, that chase you across half the map, but for air-to-air combat, I still have to close and use only guns... That is DUMB DUMB DUMB.

Also, the on the ground fighting isn't bad, but its obvious that the server population issue is hurting the gameplay, cause when I can run across a battlefield and get behind the enemy, there aren't enough people playing. Period.

I will post again in two weeks see if maybe my first impressions are wrong. But it seems that while on some levels, the game is MUCH MUCH better, there are some areas that leave much to be desired.

http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/p...ML/026663.html

[Rayder]

Um... who are you?

[Hamma]

I don't see any population issues and I play on the same server you do.. what times do you play? Also this little known option exists that lets you ajust your bandwidth settings. Go into escape / game options / bandwidth and screw with different settings until you get it to work ok.

There will always be lag when entering into a large battle, its figuring out where everyone is and your downloading an assload of information.

[MrVicchio]

Off and on right now, been doing other things about the house, ya know, trying on all the clothes the wife left, cleaning and the wht not. Whats a good time to find people??????

[Rayder]

On Emerald? 12pm to 4am

[Aen]

^^ Funny, but true. ^^ Were all insomniacs.

[Kikinchikin]

Depends what you're looking for V.

Emerald has some great zergs and zerg like battles from about 7 to 11 PM every night at least. Many occur the whole day.

If you want more tactical fights of less than 20 people or so, then you can look on emerald around 12 AM to 3 AM and from about 7 AM to 2 PM or so. These are just times selected as basepoints from what I have experienced while i was sick and able to play a lot.

[Happy lil Elf]

Originally Posted by Rayder

Um... who are you?

Well,

Rayder
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Joined 11-02-2003

MrVicchio
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Joined 11-02-2002

judging by that I'd say he's someone who has been here a year longer than you (to the day oddly enough) and just over a year total and thus chances are rather well known. He's also a staunch republican and one of the Mods of the Political Debate Forums. Hope that helps .

[Rayder]

If by help you mean informing me of information that I could have picked up but didn't due to my condition Geschichtlich Faulheit, then yes, it did.