some thoughts i have from playing a couple days

[jeb]

i have only played TR and have played that since last friday.

lag / framerate / etc - i am very suprised at how well the game runs on my computer. i rarely experience lag and my computer is average. so if you have an average computer do not worry about running the game. crashs happen sometimes but only once every couple hours or every hour or so. they do not bother me since gameplay runs fine between those crashes. i have been very suprised at how well the game has run so far.

playing style - very opposite of quake / unreal types of games. alot of croching and firing bursts of bullets at the enemy. i like the change, makes for a much more realistic style of game play.

maxs zerlings whatever - yes they are formidable but no they are not the end all. i believe they will be quite a dominate force early on in the game until people get their av weapons. at that point they lose some of their luster but will always play a role. if your on TR and want to kill these dudes go with your striker.

vehicles - its just so cool seeing aircraft and tanks and such. infantry are getting more adept at taking both these and maxs down as almost everyone has the av cert. av cert will be a must in the game to compete.

bases and such - bases are pretty big, big enough to be an annouyance to run down and stop a hack. theyre also a pain to run out of when you respawn. i like towers personally since it gets you outside alot more quickly.

capture of bases - well this is the biggest problem i think everyone in beta sees right now and a popular idea being pushed hard is that of a matrix (summation, from base A you must take either base B or C to take base D). the problem is you just have ppl riding around on 4 wheelers taking back bases. the matrix ideas goal is to give more of a front line to the fighting. right now the game play is like jumbalaya and i think a good casserol would play better. btw, this is the biggest issue facing planetside longevity.

population now - its been around 1700 - 2000 peeps last few days. the world does seem sparse if your not in a combat area. it is honestly a ghost town. i am hoping when the open beta peeps get in that helps. hard to say until then. the world is big though.

learning curve - you will definently feel this when you start. if your like me and just like to jump into games you may land on your head for the first day or so.

cyssor is the main world where the most fighting seems to be taking place for tr around a town of gunuk.

its easy to hop into squads. but its not imperative to group to have fun. just follow other people and shoot the bad guys.

tactics are getting better, and i see a big difference in player competency since just this past friday.

[simba]

good post, thankyou 4 posting this.
U dont have 2 have AV weapon cert 2 compete, just some of ur outfit members, Medium weapon cert is enough since u get the punisher with rocklets as AV ammo there, and u have an AV weapon.

Also 1 question, wot computer/connection/ram do u have?

[colinisinhere]

wow... sounds good... thanks for posting

[Shoddy]

The thing I'd worry about with matrixing is when you have 5000 people on a server and only 6 fronts, the fights are gonna be crazy laggy. 10 v 10 fighting over a tower or something is hella fun. 50 v 50 fighting over the same tower would just be frustrating I think.

[FraBaktos]

I think the phantom hackers issue and people recapping bases with wraiths will be fixed when the 25000 people are added to the beta. Same will there not being enough people around all the time. If people were just to defend some of the bases they capture tho... how could one infiltrator hack it?

[jeb]

my comp specs are:

64 meg gforce4mx
640 so megs of ram
1 gig processor
dsl connection

the game runs fine up to about 60-70 ppl fighting in one spot. i have not been in any fights larger than that (i do not want to sound like the fisherman that caught a small finish and by the end of the day it became a whale). as i said before i crash to desktop once every hour or two but it is not annoying.

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about the amount of people fighting over specific spot.

First you have everyone going to the same spot anyways. So that will not change whether matrixing happens or not.

Also, there will be more than 6 fronts. there may only be 6 fronts on one continent as far as bases go but there are still towers, ams deployed. That gives plenty of room just around the base. Also there there are what 10 continents? 10 x 6 = 60 fronts? 5000 / 60 = 83 people. You can see why it seems so spread out now, even with fronts limited you have only 83 people dispered per front. That means about 30 per nation. Of course some areas will be more popular than others but that is how it is now anyways.

[SuicideSnowman]

Good to hear that it runs decent on your comp. I was worried about that myself, since mine is getting a little outdated.

[balab]

any idea how close you are to the server? your avg and lowest ping?

good post btw!

[Subliminal]

There is still alot of false knowledge of certs floating around.
Rocklet=Special assualt not medium assault.

For medium assault you get:
Your empires medium (Gauss and cycler and the VS one)
Punisher
Sweeper shotgun (they changed the name back)

Special assault (all common pool):
Rocklet
Thumper
Decimator

Anti Vehicle (all empire specific)
Phoenix (TEH OWNAGE)
TR specific(forget name)
Lancer(I think)

hope that helps a bit.
(P.s. I have the rocklet cert, its good for infantry but NOT against a max.)

[MilitantB0B]

Originally posted by Subliminal
Special assault (all common pool):
Rocklet
Thumper
Decimator

Are you sure? I thought the decimator came with the AV cert. /shrug. Oh well. I might be wrong

[Pilgrim]

Nope the AV cert only gives you the empire AV weapon... though, I'd like to see the decimator added, would give a little more variety.

As to 50 on 50 fighting for a tower... don't knock it till you've tried it!

Nothing more fun then sitting in a base wall turret throwing thousands and thousands or rounds down range... ahhhh.

PAX

[jeb]

I agree Hunter. A big tower fight was one of my favorite so far. About 40 of my terrians hudled at the bottom of the base and the stairs to the first turn. Tons of enemy just pouring down the stairs, they had a ams set up near by. A tank outside one door and aircraft hovering around also. That was such an intense fight. Unfortanately we lost but for 25 minutes it was the most fun ive had in a long time.

[Dharkbayne]

Yes, I concur, it is not good to eat babies.