Opinions on PS2

[Droddd]

What are your opinions on it? By this I mean, does it feel like the gun-play is taken away by all the vehicles, is there a nice mix between gun-play and vehicle fighting, does fighting in vehicles work well? and so on. Also, what about the optimization in this game, especially since there are like 50+ people playing in 1 game at the same time. I expect this to be especially laggy for many people.

[Rat]

I think its heading in the right direction, even in its current state it is a lot of fun, both infintry and vehicle combat is a blast (pun intended). 50 people is considered a fairly small battle, as far as the lag. that really isnt that bad. it pretty much depends on your system and they are making improvements all the time.

[Wormzz]

People need to give it more time still in my opinion. They seem to drift here and there but thankfully they listen to the community and get back on track.

[Azeo]

I like the game a lot so far. My only issue with it has been network lag. Sometimes the characters and vehicles kind of stutter around. There are also some faction balance issues. Other than that it is good fun

[UzumakiW]

I think there's a really good mix of infantry and vehicle gameplay. Many objectives to be taken require being done on foot, so there is a lot of potential for infantry fighting. And a lot of the time, there are some really good vehicle battles to get to the objective base between the defenders and the attackers. And I personally haven't lagged much. Every once in a while, it gets a bit choppy at times, but that's a rarity.

[Zulthus]

I think I'll check back in a few weeks. I'd help test the game but everything is locked and everyone but the NC is sitting in their warpgates.

I'm not going to sugar coat it. I hate the direction this game is going. Can't even call it Planetside, really. Sure, it shares names and colors from Planetside. But, that's pretty much where the line is. I'm like a broken record now, but this is BF3 on steroids. Base designs are unimaginative and wide open, TTK is way too fast, you have to waste cert points unlocking attachments... I can go on, and on, and on... but, I've written this same thing 100 times over.


I hope they fix this game. There's way too many generic FPS on the market. The only cool things it has going for it at the moment is large continents with more people.

I might as well tack on my copy/paste list of suggested improvements, if they even read these threads/forums anymore;

-PS1 Bases (EXPONENTIALLY better)
-Slow down TTK
-Tracers and better hipfire by default
-Vehicle E/E animations
-Holstering weapons (don't care if you can see it on your back or not)
-Nerf rocket explosive to infantry, it's like damn 64 man Metro again. But with 2000 people.
-SAAAANNCTUARIIIIEEES
-Lattice system

Yeah, I know. It sounds like I want that HD remake of PS1. I pretty much do. :/

[Tatwi]

It runs like absolute shit (5 - 15 fps) in battles, the character advancement needs work, but I keep playing it anyway... I don't want to be person who gives up. I like a lot of things about it.

[Carver]

Well it's obviously not finished but I like it a lot so far.

I have a new but mid-range PC and I have never had any framerate issues, even in huge battles. Occasionally someone is lagging and warping around like crazy but it's pretty rare.

[Gatekeeper]

I loved Planetside. Probably my favourite game of all time. But I have to agree with Zulthus: PS2 doesn't really feel like Planetside at all right now.

So far, I just don't enjoy it - but I'm having a hard time pinning down exactly why. For some reason it just doesn't grab me at all, and so I don't end up playing it.

My main criticisms are that the TTK is far too fast for a game where you spend so much time getting into position, and that tank drivers having the main gun removes one of my favourite features of PS1. Also the game really needs to make it easier to tell friend from foe, as currently it can be very hard.

[Mox]

Originally Posted by Zulthus

I think I'll check back in a few weeks. I'd help test the game but everything is locked and everyone but the NC is sitting in their warpgates.

I'm not going to sugar coat it. I hate the direction this game is going. Can't even call it Planetside, really. Sure, it shares names and colors from Planetside. But, that's pretty much where the line is. I'm like a broken record now, but this is BF3 on steroids. Base designs are unimaginative and wide open, TTK is way too fast, you have to waste cert points unlocking attachments... I can go on, and on, and on... but, I've written this same thing 100 times over.


I hope they fix this game. There's way too many generic FPS on the market. The only cool things it has going for it at the moment is large continents with more people.

I might as well tack on my copy/paste list of suggested improvements, if they even read these threads/forums anymore;

-PS1 Bases (EXPONENTIALLY better)
-Slow down TTK
-Tracers and better hipfire by default
-Vehicle E/E animations
-Holstering weapons (don't care if you can see it on your back or not)
-Nerf rocket explosive to infantry, it's like damn 64 man Metro again. But with 2000 people.
-SAAAANNCTUARIIIIEEES
-Lattice system

Yeah, I know. It sounds like I want that HD remake of PS1. I pretty much do. :/

THIS!

[EVILoHOMER]

It was horrible in alpha to the point I wondered why people liked it at E3. However the game has come a long way since and a lot of things I complained about have now been sorted which is nice. It's going the right direction and SOE have proved with this long beta that they are listening and they might have finally learnt from all their other MMOs they've ruined.


The game is almost ready to be released from what I've played. Most the things I have a problem with can be fixed within a day...

- UI needs cleaning up, I'd love to see text under the main icons when you hit esc.
- Need more graphical options like to remove fog, AA, turn off bloom and blur.
- Aircrafts need keyboard only flight like BF3.
- Camera needs to follow the aircraft in third person mode instead of staying stuck.
- Friendlys need to take less damage from vehicles as it puts engs off from repairing.
- Need to sort out who you capture bases, it seems rather messy atm where people just run in and camp the spawn tubes. I still don't understand why the enemy can keep spawning there when the base changed to your colour.
- Want to be able to equip a knife
- You should have to use the warp gate rather than the terminal.
- Ground vehicles need handbrakes
- enclose the bases more so they're easier to defend (will take a bit longer to do)
- Hardcore servers without the triangles on enemies because I find them cheap.
- Having ammo and healing pads in bases instead of running to the terminals all the time and hitting resupply. This could be in the game, I dunno but I haven't found one.


I just have little niggles really but the game is really fun to play.

[EVILoHOMER]

Originally Posted by Gatekeeper

Also the game really needs to make it easier to tell friend from foe, as currently it can be very hard.

I agree and it doesn't help that the flags change colour when you get close to them, you're thinking you're flying to an enemy base and suddenly oh look they changed to your colour.

I don't like how the points are green even when you own them, Green should be neutral and if you own the point it should be your teams colour.

[bodypopper]

totally agree with zulthus's post,especially the bases/lattice system and of course TTK on everything.. 3 shotting a tank in less than 20 seconds is a bit daft.

[Ghost Runner]

I like it; hope they get the resource game sorted out

[ringring]

There's things I like and things I don't ....
I agree with much of Zulthus' post, but I'm not going to ask for class system to be removed - I don't think they'll consider it.

But ... PS1 was a better game overall, even though this one is improving week by week with the help of the players input especially.