Author Topic: Planetside 2 - Free2Play - Ultimate Empire Showdown was terrible!! NC buffs soon (Read 41468 times)

DaSord213 · June 12, 2012, 01:53:13 PM

Player info in next post

SHOULD YOU DOWNLOAD THIS GAME?
WELL, HERE'S HOW YOU'LL KNOW

SIX CLASSES
GUNS
FANCY EXPLOSIONS
PRETTY GRAPHICS
WOMEN (YES THERE ARE ACTUAL WOMEN CHARACTERS OMG)
MORE EXPLOSIONS
GIANT MEAT GRINDERS OF FIGHTS (see: any attack on the crown)
HACKERS
PURPLE SPANDEX
2000 PLAYERS PER CONTINENT,
6000 PLAYER SERVERS
ABILITY TO SUMMON AWESOME VEHICLES AT WILL FROM TERMINALS(if you have the resources)
THREE FACTIONS WITH DISTINCT WEAPONS/VEHICLES
EEEXXXPPLOOOOSSIIOONNNNNSSSS
ABILITY TO HACK ENEMY TURRETS/TERMINALS TO USE THEM AS YOUR OWN
HUUUUUUUUGGEEEE BATTLES THAT CAN LAST FOR HOURS
BASES THE SIZE OF MOST MULTIPLAYER GAME'S LARGEST MAPS
AND MORE PURPLE SPANDEX

FREE 170 STATION CASH

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Hello there reddits!
Click these two links and log in using your station account (you do NOT have to download and install the games - these are both SoE games and SoE urls) and you will be credited with 170 free station cash.

No gimmick, no hitch, no anything. Enjoy.

Sign in on both using your station account

[1] https://www.clonewarsadventures.com/
[2] http://www.freerealms.com/

If you've already seen this information elsewhere, then just carry on with your day. Maybe some others haven't seen this.

Sincerely,

EgoStomper
Enclave member for over a decade

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NEWS
It was confirmed by the devs after the UES that there will be some major buffs coming for NC.

Videos
The Road to Auraxis Pt 1
The Road to Auraxis Pt 2
The Road to Auraxis Pt3
Some gameplay or something
Total Biscuit's Coverage (Mostly E3 footage) This links you to the playlist for ALL of his PS2 stuff.

Features

PlanetSide 2 is a re-imagining of PlanetSide, featuring the same world, factions and taking place at roughly the same time period. As in the previous game, it features territory control in an open-world, large battles featuring up to 2000 players per continent on foot or in land/air vehicles. The territory system differs greatly from that of the original, being more free-form and based on a hexagonal territory control system. SOE has been taking into account balance issues from the first game. As stated by Matthew Higby, the creative director they be reward combatants on lower population empires through mechanics such as proportionally increased advancement rates and resources to aid the balance of overall empire saturation on each server as much as possible without force-restricting players from being able to play with their friends.

It is a faster paced game than the original PlanetSide and hold the ability to feature potentially thousands of players. It also features familiar first person shooter elements such as sprinting, iron sights, and regenerating shields. An important aspect is that player skill and teamwork are major determiners when it comes to being able to kill other players and overcome opposing teams. Unlockable Skills are available and are stated to only make between a 15-20% difference between any player. The game also features a unique Day/Night cycle, meaning that battles happen in different times of day, affecting the general methods for warfare.

Classes and Weapons
Another thing the game is taking from the genre is the pre-set classes, with multiple progression trees. The versatility of the original inventory system was replaced with the new class system to provide more team play experience and give players the ability of visual distinction. The game presents 6 classes, each of them possess 2 specializations, and all except MAX have handguns and combat knives:

Light Assault - a jetpack trooper, can employ a variety of grenades and explosives and is armed with a carbine by default
Heavy Assault - heavy anti-infantry unit and anti-vehicle unit, can equip their faction's heavy assault weapon or machine gun and anti vehicle weapon
Medic - a class responsible for replenishing players' health and reviving them on the field, armed with an assault rifle and pistol.
Engineer - a class responsible for vehicle repairs as well as fortification, can deploy ammo and a gun turret and is armed with a carbine by default
Infiltrator - a saboteur or a sniper, capable of cloaking, hacking enemy consoles, spotting enemies, and armed with a high powered rifle
Mechanized Assault Exo-Suit (MAX) - a powerful armored robotic suit, capable of sustaining and dealing heavy damage, they can only be healed by an Engineer, when incapacitated a MAX can be revived as any other class but once up will need to be repaired by an engineer in order to return to full combat effectiveness, can be armed with a variety of weapon arms including anti-infantry, anti-armor, anti-air and flamethrower arms (As of the patch issued on 13 September 2012 the MAX will be treated as a vehicle not a distinct class due to 'MAX zergs' which threatened balance and play-ability. Flame thrower arms, while available in beta, are no longer available in the release version)

The classes are not tied to a character, one can switch a class at any given time, by using an equipment terminal on a base or at a mobile spawn point. Skill progression isn't tied to the active class either.

The two assault classes, the medic, and the engineer have access to Assault Rifles and Carbines as standard (presumably SMGs as well, with Shotguns already released), but some weapons are specific to a class, such as the MAX suit weapons, and machine gun and the sniper rifle. All weapons can be outfitted with alternate skins, sights, and functional attachments, as well as themselves be modified to have different traits. These new traits aren't an upgrade, but rather a "sidegrade", where in a straight fight both weapons come out equal. For example, a carbine with high damage and low rate of fire will have the same time-to-kill as a high rate of fire, low damage version of the original.

Vehicles
There are eleven vehicles in the game. The NS (Nanite Systems) vehicles can be used by any faction. The NS vehicles consist of the Flash ATV, Galaxy Air Transport, Liberator Bomber, Sunderer APC and the Lightning Light tank/IFV. The remaining vehicles are ES (Empire Specific) airborne or armored vehicles. The Scythe (Vanu Sovereignty), the Reaver (New Conglomerate) and the Mosquito (Terran Republic) are the three Empire Specific VTOL aircraft. The three Empire Specific Armored tanks are the Magrider (Vanu Sovereignty), the Vanguard (New Conglomerate) and the Prowler (Terran Republic).

New Conglomerate (Smurfs)
A separatist faction determined to remain free of the controlling and domineering Republic, as well as to liberate the rest of humanity from the Republic, whether or not they share the Conglomerate's theories. Unlike the authoritarian and technocratic TR and VS governments, the NC are fighting for democracy, freedom, and human rights. As a rebel group, their leadership lies with the Revolutionary Command, a visible co-operative of military experts and leaders who direct the liberation efforts as a whole. They feel that any form of control is oppression and that a miserable free man is better off than a contented slave. Consequently, they view the Vanu technology as a potential tool of control, and the Vanu Sovereignty as technocratic tyrants, would-be dictators like the Republic, only under the banner of science and probably much worse. Their view of the future is one of freedom and self-government, where every man elects his own path and flourishes in what ways he sees fit. They rely on ponderous vehicles and slow-firing heavy weaponry, foregoing mobility and tactical flexibility for heavy armour and superior firepower. As their name suggests, the New Conglomerate is a diverse collection of forces that have banded-together (but have little trust of one another): ordinary citizens drawn into the conflict, various rebel groups that were previously autonomous, expatriate Terran and Vanu soldiers, and the Expeditionary Force (�XForce�) of the Royal House of Auraxis (the rightful heirs to the Vanu throne, forced into exile, the sole possessors of a working wormhole). The NC's democratic philosophy is often their achilles heel militarily, as they lack the iron-fisted leadership structure of the TR and VS. From the New Conglomerate's point of view, however, theirs is the only moral and just cause.

Vanu Sovreignty (Barneys)
A loose transhumanist cult of academics, intellectuals, and technology worshippers who believe that human destiny lies in the further development and exploitation of the alien technology. Their leadership is the clandestine Sovereignty Council, the composition of which is unknown without itself and the existence of which is obscured to those outside the Sovereignty. They see the Republic as pedantic and outmoded, a used-up idea and restriction on the continuing ascendancy of the species through the synthesis of man and machine. They also see the New Conglomerate as a savage, ochlocratic band of thugs who have repackaged old mistakes in new dressings and are desperately afraid of new concepts which they cannot grasp, and the future these promise to the far-sighted. Their view of the future is one of scientific perfection and purity: they believe that the Vanu used the power of their advanced technologies to transcend their physical limitations and the mundane world, ascending to a superior state of being, and ultimately, a higher plane of existence. Scientists and intellectuals through-and-through, they see this path as an enlightened ascension and hold the Ancients up as a shining example for mankind to follow. Hopefully and eagerly they envision humanity imitating this metamorphosis, firstly through the enhancement of the human condition via "hypertech" (foreseeable technological breakthroughs which have not yet quite arrived), and eventually, by the replacement of human beings altogether; from there, not even they can imagine yet. They are most reliant on alien science and technology, and often more than compensate for their shortcomings through the superiority of their engineering, utilising mind-bending physics, high-energy arrays, and other exotic weaponry to defend themselves.

Terran Republic (Elmos)
A conservative, authoritarian, collectivist nation who strive to regain contact with the homeworld and reunite the warring factions. Their leadership is a public oligarchy known as the Overwatch, composed of various representative officials and their associated Ministries, who regulate allotted portions of society in accordance with their own expertise and the collective will towards favourable outcomes. They believe that authority is the bastion that protects humanity and that in a truly free society, with no Big Brother to guide and watch over citizens, misery and suffering would quickly be visited to all. Furthermore, they regard the Vanu technology as dangerous and disruptive, a chaotic force threatening the stability of their righteous order, and only begrudgingly do they utilise it in warfare. Their vision of the future is one of peace restored through their benevolent rule, and humanity reunited by the reopening of the wormhole. They stand by the view that the Vanu went extinct by meddling with power on the orders of magnitude which was to be found in their artifacts and technologies, and they fear groups such as the Sovereignty will drive humanity to a similar fate, causing as much damage to reality as possible along the way. Their ordinance is characterised by its high rate of fire and correspondingly great ammunition consumption.

Links
Facebook Lots of updates and such here
Twitter
Website

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DaSord213 · June 12, 2012, 01:53:52 PM

Players
I'll try to keep this updated

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Steam Name:
In Game Name/Faction/Server:
When do you play most often?:
Timezone?:

Steam Name: Sord213
In Game Name/Faction/Server: Sord213/NC/Connery - Sord/NC/SolTech
When do you play most often?: Anywhere from 10AM-9PM
Timezone?: CST -6

Benofdoom
Benofdoom/Vanu/Helios
Anytime after 4 pm
Central

Steam Name: bengrapevine
In Game Name/Faction/Server: GrandpaBen/NC/Mattherson
When do you play most often?: Whenever
Timezone?: CST

Demian
Steam Name: Datbrown townle
In Game Name/Faction/Server: Pehmolelu VS Miller & DemianWright TR Briggs
When do you play most often?: Randomly
Timezone?: GMT/UTC +2

Hiiro326
Steam Name: Hiiro

Mith
Character Name: LogicBlast
Server: SolTech
Faction: Vanu

Raeyok
Steam Name: Railyx
In Game Name/Faction/Server: Railyx/VS/Miller
When do you play most often?: well since I just started playing I don't really have a "most often" but whenever I'm bored pretty much lol
Timezone?: GMT -7 (MST)

Steam Name: Feepster
In Game Name/Faction/Server: Feep/NC/Briggs
When do you play most often?: whenever I have friends to play with and decent internet.
Timezone?: GMT +10 (australia no daylight savings)

naturemon · June 12, 2012, 04:38:44 PM

Nice, wish I could have gotten a beta key for this, been waiting since it was announced.

lordician · June 12, 2012, 04:42:00 PM

I am still trying to get my key! >:C
Also, TR WILL WIPE YOU OUT!

DaSord213 · June 12, 2012, 04:48:30 PM

Quote from: naturemon on June 12, 2012, 04:38:44 PM

Nice, wish I could have gotten a beta key for this, been waiting since it was announced.

Go on the twitter and tweet every now and then to try to get them to DM you a key.

Quote from: lordician on June 12, 2012, 04:42:00 PM

Also, TR WILL WIPE YOU OUT!

Tyrannical scum

naturemon · June 12, 2012, 04:54:48 PM

Quote from: DaSord213 on June 12, 2012, 04:48:30 PM

Go on the twitter and tweet every now and then to try to get them to DM you a key.

I don't use Twitter nor do I even have an account on it.

The Corporation · June 12, 2012, 05:00:51 PM

Huh.
deciding between vanu and NC.

Other than that, I'm gonna go steal cash and get my GPU fixed.

The True Zephyr · June 12, 2012, 05:03:34 PM

2000 players?
2000 loving PLAYERS.

Comatose · June 12, 2012, 05:22:31 PM

To be a smurf or not to be a smurf, that is the question.

EDIT: God damn, you need to tweet them for a key? That's pretty stupid.

DaSord213 · June 12, 2012, 05:34:44 PM

Quote from: Comatose on June 12, 2012, 05:22:31 PM

To be a smurf or not to be a smurf, that is the question.

EDIT: God damn, you need to tweet them for a key? That's pretty stupid.

Or you can try waiting for a mass email/whatever else they do

Comatose · June 12, 2012, 05:35:22 PM

Quote from: DaSord213 on June 12, 2012, 05:34:44 PM

Or you can try waiting for a mass email/whatever else they do

Good point.

viper30000 · June 12, 2012, 07:57:50 PM

I am so loving looking forward to this i can't wait omg aaaaaah

Also:I plan on being Vanu but if it ends up being the minority then Terran; I played as them in the first planet side

Feep · June 12, 2012, 09:41:30 PM

feep requires a beta key pls help gotta be New Conglomerate

F-22 Raptor · June 12, 2012, 10:51:50 PM

Quote from: Feep on June 12, 2012, 09:41:30 PM

feep requires a beta key pls help gotta be New Conglomerate

I'll play NC with you if I get a key.

DaSord213 · June 12, 2012, 11:59:26 PM

Quote from: Feep on June 12, 2012, 09:41:30 PM

feep requires a beta key pls help gotta be New Conglomerate

go on the twitter and tweet a lot/watch it for a code and hope to get it within 10 seconds
I had to tweet almost 40 something times just to get noticed, they have a lot of tweets to sift through.

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Author Topic: Planetside 2 - Free2Play - Ultimate Empire Showdown was terrible!! NC buffs soon (Read 41468 times)

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naturemon

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The Corporation

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Comatose

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Comatose

viper30000

Feep

F-22 Raptor

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