It's been a week. What can't you wait for?

[tjmonk15]

Saw Hamma's thread here: It's been a week. What do you fear?

And thought we should have a positive thread along the same lines, so...

{Edited quote from Hamma...}

So it's been over a week now and we have TONS of information to absorb.

Of what we have heard so far what do you think you will enjoy the most of the features we have heard about? Let's try and not make this a debate about specific features, just thoughts and opinions on why you think it's a good/great idea. There are other threads for more in depth debate!

So fire away!

{/quote}

[tjmonk15]

And I will get this thread started.

I can't wait for the new flight physics! Actually being able to "fly" will be a lot on fun I think.

I can't wait for the lower TTK. Being an FPS player that played CS, COD, BF, BFBC, and many more, PlanetSide' TTK was incredibly long. Now, I don't think it should be as quick as those games, but PS1 had it way too long.

[Bags]

• Weather system (So psyched to hear you can hide a plane in the clouds. Looking forward to fighting in a snow storm)
• Must give up certs to be a commander (goodbye dime a dozen CR5s (like myself), global spam and OS spam)
• More empire diversity
• Sandbox features for outfit and the empire
• Visually customizable outfit vehicles
• No BFRs (they listened to us)
• Game designed with a 4 - 5 year old computer in mind (performance is important!)
• Outfit and empire missions (incentives to capture everything)
• More outfit leadership tools and benefits
• Assist or damage based experience system
• Unique outfit bonuses (IE an armor outfit could do something like tank lock down ala SCII (just an example, will not be in game))
• Priority based killspam, ala TF2 (your kills, squad kills and deaths hang around in kill spam longer)
• Almost all data will be available to the players for stat tracking, signatures, etc
• When you login you will get a brief view of what land has changed hands since you last logged in
• More voice macroes than PS1
  

PS1's TTK only felt "too long" because half your shots don't register if anyone involved is lagging.

[Vancha]

You know when you hear of someone playing a great game or watching a great movie that you've already played or seen, and you envy them for getting to experience it for the first time?

Well now we get to play Planetside for the first time, again. We get to start from scratch again, we get to learn again and we get to discover the game again...because it's Planetside, but it's not the Planetside we know.

That's probably the most exciting thing for me.

[Rbstr]

Ironsights and the lower TTK. The feel of the guns is just so terrible now and MA takes an eon to kill someone.

Volumetric clouds are sweet too.

[Bags]

MA doesn't take an eon to kill someone. It's long yes, but Gauss takes ten shots.

Just pointing that out.

[CrystalViolet]

Can't wait to join an elite VS air wing and rape the skies in a Reaver.

[CutterJohn]

Originally Posted by Bags

MA doesn't take an eon to kill someone. It's long yes, but Gauss takes ten shots.

Just pointing that out.

PS weapons have a much bigger difference between weapons than most other FPSs do. A heavy machine gun in BC2 is ~0.5s ttk. A pistol is also ~0.5s. Their difference lies in accuracy, recoil, clip size, etc. Not so much the damage.

MA takes twice as long to kill as HA, and we won't even speak of how useless pistols are.

[Rbstr]

Originally Posted by Bags

MA doesn't take an eon to kill someone. It's long yes, but Gauss takes ten shots.

Just pointing that out.

Yup, ten bullets. With the rifle that does the most damage.

It just feels silly.
Like I'm poking them and saying "You can't make me stop" until they just give up and commit suicide.

[WarChimp130]

I can't wait to see what style I am going to specialize in. I know a lot of people are going to be generalists, but I'm looking to really focus into one area. I've been saying armor, but I can't make up my mind. I'm just dying for as much info as possible so I can figure out what path I'm gonna take.

[NCLynx]

If every shot registered I wouldn't have a need to cert HA, love the gauss and the sweeper.

[BorisBlade]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

Yup, ten bullets. With the rifle that does the most damage.

It just feels silly.
Like I'm poking them and saying "You can't make me stop" until they just give up and commit suicide.

Actually is more of a problem of detection and weapon accuracy which will be better esp with iron sights and better hit detection. Go to VR, shoot someone with the gauss. They die plenty fast.

TTK will hopefully be around Agile level for the "rexo equivalent" in ps2 rexo had too high of a TTK but Agile was fine, esp when alot more shots start landing and we have 3x the players around shootin at ya.

And back on topic, im lookin forward to just gettin back into the hardcore groove of PS again. I like some of the advancement ideas, that is if we actually get specialization. Although last i heard you could eventually train everything meaning the br 40 prob all over again and no specialization. But the leadership bonuses could be very cool. Givin a buff to your squad sounds right up my alley.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

Yup, ten bullets. With the rifle that does the most damage.

It just feels silly.
Like I'm poking them and saying "You can't make me stop" until they just give up and commit suicide.

It's not like you can kill people with the Gauss rifle before they even have a chance to react at < 50m. Oh wait, that's exactly what it does. If they fix their registration with PS2 I think the Planetside TTKs would be fine.

I'm not completely against slightly faster ones though, I just think people forget how bad the registration is in Planetside and how it affects TTK.

[Tool]

Originally Posted by Bags

It's not like you can kill people with the Gauss rifle before they even have a chance to react at < 50m. Oh wait, that's exactly what it does. If they fix their registration with PS2 I think the Planetside TTKs would be fine.

I'm not completely against slightly faster ones though, I just think people forget how bad the registration is in Planetside and how it affects TTK.

You could but at ranges longer than that MA didn't feel as effective as it should be, especially the Cycler. I could get kills fine but it took just bit too long, not much, but it didn't feel right. 2-3 shots less would've made the difference.

As for the topic, pretty much everything on Bags list as well as the dev teams enthusiasm going foward.

[Bags]

Yeah, damage degradation needed to be toned down and removed. I personally wouldn't mind TTK's turned down to about 2/3rd what they are now, but it does annoy me when people seem to forget that the only reason it's so god awful now is that half your shots don't register.