Planetside 2

So we want to get all the S.A.'s together to make one UBER CLAN. What empire will you

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b1nd3r said:
Is there an actual difference in the 3 sides? i just picked the one that looked the most tech savy :P
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apparently, Diabolus described it as such:

diabolus said:
Oh and i think i will stick with Terran Rep. I prefer their vehicles, Vanu have this energy weapon stuff going in all their guns (rifles too) which wasnt that cool for me. I guess if you want a Halo feeling to your guns, go Vanu, if you want Battlefield/CoD feeling go the other 2.

Their main tank is also a type of hover craft that does not manoeuvre like a tank. If you want traditional tank with the guns and body turning seperately then you most likely need to be NC or TR.

But i guess it is a matter of taste. There is definitely balance concerns, but that can change.
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Leyzer said:
How do you see what frame rate you have?
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Built in functionality that lets you see your FPS and which part of your system is holding you back("[GPU] or "[CPU]").
Simply press "Alt-F" and it appears in the bottom left corner of your screen. Then press "Alt" again to get rid of the mouse cursor :)
 
b1nd3r said:
Is there an actual difference in the 3 sides? i just picked the one that looked the most tech savy :P
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Other than cosmetics, yes, they have different weapons and different vehicles. The vehicles also are not merely "skins" , they are in fact different in terms of firepower, hitpoints , speed and such. So it will be a case of a faction having superior air vehicles and another faction having better ground vehicles. All 3 factions gets certain baseline vehicles which are identical, i.e. Sunderers and Galaxies , but so far i think each have a unique tank and unique plane . I do remember seeing alot of threads in beta where people complained about a specific faction's vehicles , but i could never tell if it's just because said people ran into players who upgraded their vehicles and got owned or whether those vehicles are indeed superior.

I definitely know the Vanu tank handles very differently than the TR tank.

There's a huge upgrade tree for every vehicle (nevermind upgrades for your class) , which implies coming up against someone who specialised in upgrading a specific tank while you just focused on class upgrades and are riding in a vanilla vehicle will result in an ass kicking.
 
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Miller is apparently kakking off at the moment. Very laggy gameplay. Going to check now and might start another character.

Pro-tip. Play a bit on each server / faction if you can to check which you like most before you spend money on SC.
 
Played it all day and removed it from my PC. Sorry to say but the lag is not great and the game feels like Tribes 1. Will check on its progress later on.
 
DCWarhound said:
Well i started playing an hour or so ago.

First thing i did was wonder where i am supposed to go which the map helped with and secondly i had a tough time distinguishing enemies from allies.

Now i am wondering how the heck to taker over a facility/base and how some guys take a rocket launcher in the face and a few bullets and then end up killing me with no health and no shields.

Where is everyone,we should join up.
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I suggest you deploy to the warpgate asap . Open map and check on the list of deployable places for one with the "warpgate" word in it. This is the main base. I have no idea why SOE didn't let everyone start there, because it's rather dumb to throw newbies right into the middle of a warzone. At the warpgate you can check out all the vehicles and classes and change continents (there are 3). So if you don't like the desert scenery, there's a more forest continent.

As for taking shots, there's a TON of upgrading to be done in terms of health, shields and defense against various type of damage. Heavy Assault gets by default a special ability shield to protect against a few more hits, where the default class "Light Assault" gets a jetpack instead . The 5th "class" which is more like a vehicle is a MAX , that is kinda like those Starcraft Terran dudes who climbs into a suit, anyway a MAX is very scary , you will not take one down very easily . Catch with a MAX is, it costs resources to be one, so just like vehicles you can't just respawn in a MAX everytime, there will be a cooldown etc. MAXes also need engineers to repair them, not medics.

Also the figuring out who to shoot thing? From beta, rule of thumb, if the enemy does NOT have anything above their heads, SHOOT. By pressing "Q" you can spot an enemy (same as Battlefield), if you spot an enemy it will put a red tag above their heads and show them on the map. If other people spot them for you, you will also see the red tag. So if i'm scanning the horizon for enemies i tend to sweep by pressing "q" to highlight enemies. Either way, if you haven't spotted them, they will have no markings above their heads and you can assume they are enemies.

All allies will always have a blue (same faction) or green (same squad) marking above their heads. Anything that is not blue or green you shoot.
 
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Phatso said:
Miller is apparently kakking off at the moment. Very laggy gameplay. Going to check now and might start another character.

Pro-tip. Play a bit on each server / faction if you can to check which you like most before you spend money on SC.
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Yea, Miller has huge threads about lag on the forum. I don't think it's worth bothering with it. I'm going to play some on the USA East servers, apparently a few is checking out server Mattheson.
 
diabolus said:
I suggest you deploy to the warpgate asap . Open map and check on the list of deployable places for one with the "warpgate" word in it. This is the main base. I have no idea why SOE didn't let everyone start there, because it's rather dumb to throw newbies right into the middle of a warzone. At the warpgate you can check out all the vehicles and classes and change continents (there are 3). So if you don't like the desert scenery, there's a more forest continent.

As for taking shots, there's a TON of upgrading to be done in terms of health, shields and defense against various type of damage. Heavy Assault gets by default a special ability shield to protect against a few more hits, where the default class "Light Assault" gets a jetpack instead . The 5th "class" which is more like a vehicle is a MAX , that is kinda like those Starcraft Terran dudes who climbs into a suit, anyway a MAX is very scary , you will not take one down very easily . Catch with a MAX is, it costs resources to be one, so just like vehicles you can't just respawn in a MAX everytime, there will be a cooldown etc. MAXes also need engineers to repair them, not medics.

Also the figuring out who to shoot thing? From beta, rule of thumb, if the enemy does NOT have anything above their heads, SHOOT. By pressing "Q" you can spot an enemy (same as Battlefield), if you spot an enemy it will put a red tag above their heads and show them on the map. If other people spot them for you, you will also see the red tag. So if i'm scanning the horizon for enemies i tend to sweep by pressing "q" to highlight enemies. Either way, if you haven't spotted them, they will have no markings above their heads and you can assume they are enemies.

All allies will always have a blue (same faction) or green (same squad) marking above their heads. Anything that is not blue or green you shoot.
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Thanks for the tips,my fav class so far is the light assault.

Jumpjet into buildings and flank the enemy.

I'm getting these horrible memory leaks from time to time where the fps drops to 2-4fps
 
Hi Guys

Bit late, but i also recently downloaded the game and joined the Lithcorp [EU] server and my gosh... the lag is so bad. It was a server that was on medium population. Assumed it should run better than the heavily populated ones, but people literally just teleported around for me. Teamies were smooth, but enemies looked like they were just blinking around. This is with a 8mb line and only me on the line.

Think i will give this game another week and then revisit.
 
Played awhile on Mattherson (US East), much better in terms of lag. Although i wasn't in any extreme battles, well relatively. The population on the server, despite it being a US server was High , so it's quite busy this time too.

I am starting to believe the EU servers are not up to shape, there are 6 of them now.
 
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I've tried to play this a couple of times now, but every time I get to the launchpad and it just says "... unable to connect. Please check network connection or try again later..."

:confused:

I don't get it, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with my connection, I can play any other game online no problem.
 
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