45 free days is finished

Redshift · 2011-06-30, 01:01 PM

Booooooo, back to minecraft until some other game comes out i guess

Logit · 2011-06-30, 03:42 PM

Honestly with 45 days of free play time I think I might have logged in a total of 10 times..it's just not the same anymore.

Sirisian · 2011-06-30, 04:04 PM

yeah mine ended. I logged in like 5 times to play with a friend.

Redshift · 2011-06-30, 08:20 PM

heh i must have logged in every other night, it's been quite good fun with lots of people back, i doubt populations could remain fun without the 45 free days though

BorisBlade · 2011-06-30, 08:44 PM

I'm havin tons of fun. I played wow a long time, but past the first year or two, and the time we spent as a 39 pvp twink guild. I couldnt ever say "man i had fun tonight", it just was more like a job or a grind, just logged in outta habit or for the social aspect. When i log into ps, i can most always log out thinking "man i had a ton of fun tonight!". No way in heck im stoppin, ill be here til they shut it down when we can play PS2.

Had several friends come back for the 45 too. Most all of them are here til the end as well!

Raymac · 2011-07-01, 03:20 PM

Planetside ride til I die!

It's been great with the 45 free days, so I'm curious to see what this weekend's pops will be like. Hopefully enough people will stick around.

razor851 · 2011-07-03, 03:45 PM

I'm bored.

Dorest0rm · 2011-07-04, 04:50 PM

Sunday pops were gone.
Also, official forums are dead because noone can post.

basti · 2011-07-04, 06:30 PM

Ah well, logged in like 4 times during the 45 days, didnt even play for an hour total.

Its just, well, boring these days. Without the Outfits, its just zerging, and i did that plenty of times.

Effective · 2011-07-05, 02:13 AM

4 more days and my sub is done, not planning on resubbing. Between the cheaters and poorly balanced game play mechanics (max units, sa, and more). It's just a snore to play PS. No one wants to fight, they just want to camp spawn rooms and blow gens.

Goku · 2011-07-06, 05:45 PM

What the are pops looking like now? Curious to see if the pops hop back up if the upcoming news is juicy enough.

Raymac · 2011-07-06, 06:28 PM

I only played for a few hours this weekend, but the pops were noticably down. However, the fights still seemed pretty good. Basically, on NC, we had 65-80 spots open when we were focused on 1 continent. Far from the pop-locks we were seeing before, but still alot of fun.

I'm curious to see what it will be like after tomorrow too. If there is a beta announcement, I'd almost guarantee you will see pops jump up again.

BorisBlade · 2011-07-06, 09:21 PM

Originally Posted by Effective

4 more days and my sub is done, not planning on resubbing. Between the cheaters and poorly balanced game play mechanics (max units, sa, and more). It's just a snore to play PS. No one wants to fight, they just want to camp spawn rooms and blow gens.

Cheaters are rare now that the free accts are gone, i see way too many people calling out cheating when thats not the case. Maxes and SA are not imbalanced at all, esp not SA. MAXes might need a change to make timers start on death not aquisition but thats it, they die easily to anyone who has AV which nowadays is everyone. Which is the real issue, too many talent points. If they had to give up things to get their maxes or whatever then its not so bad, but when its just another of your million certs it gets a bit dumb.

There's no snore playin ps. You just need to get with some friends or join a good outfit. Runnin around solo may work in zergy braindead CoD style games but it wont do to much in PS other than for cloakers or maybe snipers. Join groups, run with organized squads, get on teamspeak or vent. It all adds up to make one hell of a fun game. PS shines when you make the most of the teamwork aspects of the game.

Baneblade · 2011-07-06, 11:14 PM

I like how you are telling Effective how to do what he mastered before you ever heard of PS.

I didn't even start my free 45 days... :o

Effective · 2011-07-07, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by BorisBlade

Cheaters are rare now that the free accts are gone, i see way too many people calling out cheating when thats not the case. Maxes and SA are not imbalanced at all, esp not SA. MAXes might need a change to make timers start on death not aquisition but thats it, they die easily to anyone who has AV which nowadays is everyone. Which is the real issue, too many talent points. If they had to give up things to get their maxes or whatever then its not so bad, but when its just another of your million certs it gets a bit dumb.

There's no snore playin ps. You just need to get with some friends or join a good outfit. Runnin around solo may work in zergy braindead CoD style games but it wont do to much in PS other than for cloakers or maybe snipers. Join groups, run with organized squads, get on teamspeak or vent. It all adds up to make one hell of a fun game. PS shines when you make the most of the teamwork aspects of the game.

Cheaters are there if you know what to look for things other then "Oh he killed me he must be cheating".

I look for obvious things, no reload, radar, etc. In the past 4 days I've seen 2 cheaters, 1 of which I managed to get a recording of. 1 Radar hacker, and another using a no reload. If I spent my game time doing NOTHING but looking for people cheating, I could probably find a lot more,

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhee, these are all PAYING subscribers who I've recorded cheating, and I'm not talking about the usual subtle ROF/COF stuff.

And maxs and SA are HORRIBLY imbalanced and always have been. SOE's just catered to the RPG/RTS players all these years giving them overpowered tools to defeat players who are several times better.

Maxs need 1 suit with interchangeable weapons (think a BFR), reduce the TTK vs. infantry of AV/AA weaponry. Max abilities not active while auto-running (and maybe even implants, darklight auto-running maxs are horribly annoying). Removal of pshield from max units. Medical terminals that only repair health and not armor. Give auto-run either a charge bar or make it use stamina. I could go on, but the point is maxs do nothing but make infantry combat horribly boring indoors and always have done that, the introduction of BR40 only made it worse. Maxs units who manage to die to a AV user (including decimators) did something wrong. Every max in the game has a faster TTK then a decimator user, fact.

My only issue with SA is the thumper/hand held grenades (excluding jammers). Simple fix, remove explode on impact. Bam, they can still perform the role of flushing out corner campers without being stupid (like cloakers on top of walls plasmaing infantry to death).

And those aren't the only things that are horribly implemented into this game. Aircraft are way to easy to use (lol doorcamping with mossies/reavers). The GG is a mobile super door camping turret, that will only die if the pilot is sleeping and they get os'd. Spitfire turrets in the SOI and upgraded spitfire turrets/wall turrets should have never been added to the game, because they just make the game more tedious and slow then it already is.

And yes, there is plenty of snore playing in PS. When I play, I play with the PCP/TRx/Overlords/Metal Militia/ETC conglomerate on TR, that's pretty much as good as it's going to get, and you know what? the game is still boring half the time. Outdoor fights are plagued with mountains of CE, reavers, and the billion kinds of AA. Indoor fights consist of who can pull the most max units and special assault (I can't even remember the last time I actually had stamina, since I always am getting hit by 2-3 thumpers all the time). I don't know, but I find those kinds of fights, horribly boring.