Im missing the good old Planetside

[Morax]

Guess this belong in this forum.

Today I decided to pay for a months gameplay and finaly try and get CR5 with my character (I was CR4.9 when I left).

When I logged in I got two rewards, 1year and 2year veteran or something like that, and after that I just got depresed.

All I saw was small battles on 3-4 locations and I cant even comepare it to the "old" small battles.

I left the game awhile after the expensionpack came out and by then it had already started to slow down but it was still a great game.

My setup, thumper with plasma granades, sniper and mines was basicly useless.

During the battles I cant find anyone to stalk with my sniper due to that everyone is running around doing their own thing, my thumper still worked good but due to the lack of targets it was more or less usless, and the mines dident have the same effect anymore as now maybe two people tryed to get into a base, instead of the massive hordes that tryed before.

Makes me really sad that the game that I spend almost all my time in around 1 and a half year ago has gone this bad.

Now when I think about it I just get sad because I loved to fight the battles where it was like every army had a thousend troops, eather you attacked or you defended your base in massive numbers, and you really needed to have tactics.

Now its all gray and dead, 20 people max in a large battle compared to the huge numbers it was before.

I fought with the Vanu Corporation (or something along those lines) and it was my best gaming experiense ever, after UO that is.

Nothing was so fun as mining a bridge and see the kills rolling in, or sniping away at an army that seemed to have an endless amout of troops, or lobbing plasma granades from your thumper seeing people flee in terror as their flesh slowly burned away.

Well I guess thats about it, wish I could travel back in time and have the same amount of fun one more time.

[TheRegurgitator]

That makes me sad, I was thinking about getting back into the game... but now...

[Hamma]

So you logged in for one day and decided all of that?

[Mag-Mower]

I got bored of PS, and cancelled, now im in EQ2. And yes, I do know that in a few months time, I will be back playing planetside, I know that for a fact...

[Hamma]

[LesserShade]

Originally Posted by Morax

Now its all gray and dead, 20 people max in a large battle compared to the huge numbers it was before.

Come on now, that's not true. I quit and came back too and the big battles are still ass battles.

What I miss is the pre lattice beta stuff when it was basically squad on squad stuff going on all over a continent.

[Ivan]

Originally Posted by LesserShade

Come on now, that's not true. I quit and came back too and the big battles are still ass battles.

What I miss is the pre lattice beta stuff when it was basically squad on squad stuff going on all over a continent.

And the ninja hacks!

[LesserShade]

hell yeah the ninja hacks. it was like playing glorified whack a mole when you were trying to defend a continent.

[BUGGER]

ninja hacks rocked.....ofcourse when they happen against you.

One thing i miss is everyone is basically in an outfit. There is no more really just coming into the sanc and watching the broadcasts fill with messanges asking for gal pilots or other people. Nowadays its just "hey outfit, where are we tonight" "Cyssor" "oh ok i feel like going to the caverns i'll see you in alittle while..."

Otherwise, everyone is isolated to just their outfits. Basically rank up in outfitpoints, get all pimp in your outfit and start giving commands which usually leads to disobeying the current 'continent CR5 leader' if you mind me calling it that.


Just ho hum.


I still play PS, its a chill game. But my 360 and soon xbl will soon grasp me away....very soon.

[Geist]

I feel so sad.I thought the reserves program would work.

[LesserShade]

The cool part about the ninja hacks was the small fights. The lattice just encourages zerging which is why I was against it from the beginning and ultimately why I quit the game so soon after launch. Who was that guy that came up with the lattice idea on the PS boards? He had a lot of great ideas for the game which ended up being implemented, but the lattice thing I just was not down with.

Either way, the game is still pretty damned fun.

[Entra]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye37

I feel so sad.I thought the reserves program would work.

I'm actually seeing a good number of new/reserves players, and I was playing late late night.

[Ghoest9]

Playing at night and on weekends I have seen some good battles this last week.

Im thinking reserves has fairly succeeded.

[Mr.Canada]

its been prolly a couple years since ive played planetside and i have a question, is it just everyone in tanks and crap or can u acually do something on foot without getting mauled

[Hamma]

Can still do stuff