Fighting for the "Planetside"

Sykin

I have seriously wondered how Planetside is doing these days. I
remember the design and concept of the game to be extremely cool and
fun, but when I played it first hand, while being impressed, there was
lag like I could not believe. Does the same problems persist or has the
"Planetside" become something worth fighting (paying) for?

Virtuality

First impressions right now is that there is precious little in the way of lag on my system, that said I live really near my local telephone exchange and my 2MB broadband connection regularily gets confused with a T3 connection by most software. Plus right now there is a 10 day trial on offer on the main Planetside website.

Sykin

Oh, whoa, thanks for the info on that free trial! 2MB connection... Jesus.

higashikai

PlanetSide is definately worth a go, at the end of the day there is NO
other game available with as many players working together.

hartigan

What about Counter-strike, thats a hard game

Jiinx

hartigan wrote:
What about Counter-strike, thats a hard game

CS is more twitch based IMHO, PlanetSide is more a king of the hill tactical type game.

Besides you can't fly stuff, drive tanks, and run round looking like mech warrior in CS.

Regards

Droopy0

Dont forget CS is not a mmo.

In CS you cant have 100's of people and each side kill each other.

**Raijinn**

Sykin,

Interestingly enough I work mainly on PlanetSide and MxO so I'd have to say that I like it (I'm biased too though). But if you look at the fact that PlanetSide can deliver you something that no other game can (MMO FPS) then it's a super game. In terms of lag that has been something that development has pressed to improve the who lifespan of the game and it has improved (they even improved and shrank the memory footprint of the game).

If you run into trouble in terms of performance I have set up a sticky thread in the Tech Forums for PlanetSide which is the "End all Be all" thread for performance tips for PlanetSide. I think you'll enjoy it but that's just my 2 cents. :smileywink:

ryanmcclareyMXO

i get more lag on this than planetside so i wouldnt worry lol TSR any chance of talking to the devs and telling them we need the lag fixed?

Sucra

Planetside rocks man, it seems to be doing fine still. They've got achievement badges and BFRs and Battle rank is up to like 25 now. Not too bad. Don't know if there will be any other expansions released for it ever again, though.

**KiCkJr**

Yea planetside is worth it, its unique. Im currently a BR 23 CR 3 NC named KiCKJr running with D2A im a major sergeant hoping to get lieutenant which i badly want.

ArdenStarmariner

I'm a tank driver, BFR'er (GV and FV variants), and Uni-MAX'er on
Planetside. Had alot of fun playing it. No complaints about
lag even during massive vehicle battles on large battlefields like
Cyssor, Ishundar, and Searhus.

Any game that complains they can't implement something cause it will
cause too much lag needs to be show some of these battles in PS.
Their problem isn't technical limitation but design flaw.

Droopy0

I have a Planetside account that is close at the momnet because I can only pay for one game at a time.

I am going to update to the Station pass So i can start playing it again ( also I wanna Try SWG)

But when I did play planetside I didnt have much lag and the games is still fun to me, can't wait to start playing it again.

Pauleh

Planetside was a great game, to bad they dont sell it anymore in local shops in the UK, and SOE wont let you download it from their website.

Sykin

Thank you for replying, Mr. TSR-Joel. Sorry for getting this thanks so
late... I'll definitely look into getting PS when I have the time. It's
convinent to have this nifty Station Pass as well.

Seems like SWG has taken notes from PS. Heard it's likely to be a FPS now? Interesting.

Any chance we may see some CTF style of play for PvP in MxO? That would
be pretty awesome. As far as I'm concerned, Organizations will function
like the NC, the VS, and the TR for the chance to stand around Mara C
unoppressed. Why not make it a challenge for different areas of the
Matrix daily? Or at least weekly.

/imaginefightingforcontrolofdatanodeinsaikung

Heh, but that's the Matrix. Hope to see some of you in PS. What servers are you all on?