New player? Share your experience.

[Zulthus]

If you've already had your account activated and got to play, what do you think so far?

[zeropositivo]

See my ANT post. Having a blast. The Empire timer is really unfortunate tho, and it's definitively preventing me and many more I know from playing alongside each other

[vieric]

First time playing, played a couple hours now, I suppose I'll state my first impressions. After getting over the shock that I actually get to finally play, I entered the game and adjusted my settings a bit, then I entered the game again and actually made a character. I rolled an NC character to start with, and after the rather basic tutorial, I hopped on a shuttle and dropped into my first fight.

Upon hitting the ground, I was immediately fired upon by a passing TR soldier, cue me ending up in the bases spawn room...I started to rush off before noticing I didn't have proper equipment, thankfully I didn't get too far and was able to head back and arm myself properly.

After wandering around the base for a few minutes looking for an exit and trying to learn how to read my map properly, I emerged outside on the bases roof, most of the opposition was on a rocky outcrop a considerable distance from the base, It was definitely a job for a sniper rifle, but alas I did not have one, I sat there for a moment taking potshots at them before deciding I would be of more use elsewhere.

I was right, the base was starting to get overrun by VS, I feel that for a newbie, I managed to hold my own pretty well, I didn't do particularly outstanding, but I feel I was competent at least. That is, of course until I decided it would be a good time to throw a grenade, I pulled it out, tapped the mouse button and...dropped it directly at my feet, death ensued.

Sadly, in the end we lost the base, but on the bright side It gave me a taste of what PS1 is about, thus far I am extremely pleased with the game, and will certainly be playing it often in these next 6 months.

In summary, I can say that I found the game as good as I had hoped it would be. The gunplay, while not perfect, isn't nearly as bad as some people made it out to be, it could use improvements, yes, but it certainly isn't just horrible button mashing as I've been told. As for the large number of hallways, I can't make a verdict on that yet, while the battle I was in did not seem so bad, I could see it being an issue if more people were involved, though at the same time, the bases actually felt defensible. I absolutely adore the inventory/loadout system, and cannot understand for the life of me why such a great thing would be removed from PS2. All in all, I find PS1 a highly enjoyable game and great fun.

P.S: if you sent me a tell at one point and I didn't reply back, I apologize, I'm still learning the chat commands

[Crator]

Originally Posted by vieric

P.S: if you sent me a tell at one point and I didn't reply back, I apologize, I'm still learning the chat commands

Backspace key is reply to last sender.

• Tell: /t <Name> ~Example: /t Crator Hello
• Outfit: /o
• Squad: /s
• Platoon: /p
• Broadcast: /b

*Broadcast only works in friendly Sphere of Influence (SOI). If your empire owns entire continent then it will work as well.

[Zulthus]

Yeah, I never understood the people that hate 'inventetris'. It's so simple, but they think people are too dumb and lazy to learn it. It's so much better than the simple loadouts of BF3/PS2.

I'd imagine the fights will only get bigger as more people get their sub enabled.

[vieric]

thanks crator, I actually found a pretty decent source of info after posting, I'm not sure how out of date it is, but it should be sufficient for the basics, at least.

http://planetside.station.sony.com/players/

[CrazEpharmacist]

Originally Posted by zeropositivo

See my ANT post. Having a blast. The Empire timer is really unfortunate tho, and it's definitively preventing me and many more I know from playing alongside each other

what's the empire timer?

[Ghodere]

Game is dated in many ways, but the core concepts remain solid. MBTs have a very short pull timer, oddly. Making a functional support and combat loadout is challenging with the limited certs you start out with (made more fun by the unlimited switching in the first week) but allows so much flexibility and customization it's not even funny. Would write more but I'd like to get back to playing now.

[Figment]

Originally Posted by CrazEpharmacist

what's the empire timer?

Anti-Fourth Empire switching timers.

They used to be 24 hours once upon a time. Before that, no switching allowed, at all.

"One Server, One Empire" was our motto then and still is for me.

[Figment]

Originally Posted by Ghodere

MBTs have a very short pull timer, oddly.

Consider the pull timer is just a few minutes because there are other blockades:

Scarcity of certification points to spend (unlike in PS2, you won't pull vehicle after vehicle unless you have less points spend on infantry weapons or support tools. Then of course there is the Tech Plant and because driver =/= gunner, it's a team vehicle and not a personal vehicle.


A good team can keep a tank alive for a really long time though. What do you think of driving the 60 kph tank as an enforced team effort with the Lightning as the solo option? Has any of you tried or seen amphibious warfare yet with the Magrider / Tresher vs Deliverer/Raider/Thunderer?



Some other things I'd like to hear the new player opinions on:

- Emersiveness (menu's as pop ups rather than taking you out of the game and things like certification point spending being tied directly to consoles in the game)
- Consistently present chatwindow / killspam combi
- Having to repair and heal one another instead of automatic regeneration
- TTK comparison
- Tension and adrenaline rushes experienced
- How downtime feels
- Travel time and preparation time
- Combat Engineering (minefields, turrets, etc)
- Tutorials (have you managed to find them in game? -> character pop up: training missions)
- SOI restricting drop pods (HART building in Sanc) vs Spawn Beacons in PS2

[CrazEpharmacist]

Originally Posted by Figment

Anti-Fourth Empire switching timers.

They used to be 24 hours once upon a time. Before that, no switching allowed, at all.

"One Server, One Empire" was our motto then and still is for me.

Ohhhh I love this feature! I believe it's 12 or so hours now. Seems like a great balance.

[Koadster]

I enjoyed being able to equip my chainblade and turning it on. If inter-empire Proxy worked Id go running around screaming "im going to carve you a new asshole" hahahahaha. Immature? Properly, funny as fuck? Yep!

- Gunplay.. SO BAD, even compared to BF1942 or Global operations.

- I liked the lockers, I like micromanagement so this hit a good nerve with me. But having a 'standard' inventory with the class system in PS2 is certainly streamlined and reduces downtime.

- The base design seemed good. I like the multi-storied bases with corridors, how they play out is a different matter but from a design perspective I liked them.

- Having a mess room/lounge room/sleeping room in the bases was a nice touch, made them feel more like bases that were used then just generic structures, Also the increased amount of propaganda was cool.

- Doors, I didnt think I would care. I do like having them ingame.

- I LOVE the Marauder model, I hope TR get that model reused in PS2.

- Enter/Exit animations were cool, but with PS2's TTK I think you could be killed pretty easy while still trying to get out.

- Underslung MCG... Need I say more?

Even just looking out at the landscape and game size, even by todays standards you could tell in 2003 this game was well ahead of time technologically. Biggest gripe, they used Global Operations music; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHbrFCOUsU

That is the most underated FPS of the 20th century. It had class system before BF1942, it had reviving before BF2 made it cool.

Originally Posted by Figment

- Having to repair and heal one another instead of automatic regeneration

Doing healing in PS1, buggy as shit. Give me PS2 healing anyday. Plus I manaully heal people because it gives more points

[Hmr85]

Responses from a few members in my outfit that are new to the game.

• "I really love the inventory setup. I feel as if I have tons of options in how I setup my loadout before I go into combat."
  
  
• "The bases actually feel like real bases, there are doors and mess rooms. I spent the first 30 minutes just running around the interlink looking at everything."
  
  
• " I love that I can drop more than 3 mines. The ability to actually setup entire minefields is awesome. I feel like a real Engineer. There is just so many options compared to PS2."

I'll add more as I get more feedback.

[Emperor Newt]

- Inventory setup which brings way more versatility. The class system is fine too, but often I feel it's too restricted with some classes while others are way better suited to be jack of all trades.

- Bases are great. Vehicles stay outside, infantry fights inside undisturbed.

- Base/outpost/tower design. They actually look like bases and feel like bases, not something somebody put into the scenery just to look pretty

- Some bases seem a bit too big. But that might be due to few people playing when I jumped in

- Third person infantry camera is a bad idea.

- Gunplay is abysmal. Hit indication, cone of fire hud elements etc. Just plain bad weapon feedback overall.

- Don't know what people talk(ed) about incredibly high ttk in PS1 but for me it seems okay. A bit high maybe, but overall better then what we currently have in PS2. But maybe that's just because there seem to be few weapons which kill with one shot. Where in PS2 this seems to be a deliberate design decision to have those.

- Doors. Way better then having shields or nothing at all

- Love HART already

[ringring]

A re-impression.

I'd forgotten how to kill people. I kept on right-clicking to zoom in.

However, it started to come back but killing is harder. If you want to kill you have to commit in comparision to PS2.

Gunplay feels odd, whereas it didn't previously. I suppose that's getting used to PS2 gunplay and then returning.

I did see real infantry battles that extended over time though and that's a nice change.