{"id":71729,"date":"2015-01-28T14:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71729"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:41:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:41:38","slug":"the-worlds-biggest-online-fps-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/71729-the-worlds-biggest-online-fps-battle","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s biggest online FPS battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You think 64 players on a map is hardcore? Forget about it &#8211; if you want to play in a proper online FPS battle you have to have at least 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>PlanetSide 2 set a new Guinness World Record this past weekend for the most\u00a0simultaneous online players in a single FPS battle when it clocked up\u00a01,158 players.<\/p>\n<p>The game, which took place on 24 January, saw players from all three of the game&#8217;s factions take part in the battle on\u00a0the Jaeger competitive server.<\/p>\n<p>The event was organised by\u00a0fan community PlanetSide Battles in partnership with Sony Online Entertainment, and beat the previous online FPS record of 999 players in\u00a0Man vs. Machine.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a053,729 kills, 3,822 team kills, 31 bases captured, and 5,089 vehicles destroyed, it sounds like only the most skilled survived.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/41QFL4QB3NE?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/71553-windows-10-free-upgrades-vr-and-a-new-web-browser.html\">Windows 10 \u2013 free upgrades, AR, and a new web browser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/71581-playstation-4-for-r5199-get-it-here.html\">PlayStation 4 for R5,199 \u2013 get it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/71535-why-dsl-upload-speeds-are-so-slow.html\">Why DSL upload speeds are so slow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This battle is next level, son<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":71731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10726,21,13223,4694],"class_list":["post-71729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-guiness-world-records","tag-headline","tag-online-fps","tag-planetside-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71733,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71729\/revisions\/71733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}