Planetside 2

Regime_sl said:

Tutorial is forced on you at the beginning.

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Hmmmm wondered why I already had an account. Must have done it months ago and forgot.

Jais_sl said:

Expanding on my previous, anyone on Waterson TR side who can give any recommendations as to which Outfits are pretty solid and or which to avoid as I start shopping around?

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I don't have too much experience with Waterson TR as I tend to just play with NUC in ops and fly outside of ops with friends.

ODAM - Stay away. This is the large zerg outfit on TR and they consist mainly of bad new players. Most ofmy deaths from teamtates outside of battles comes from ODAM.

I'd say check out Quiet Professionals (QPRO) or Imperial Reach (IR). I know we have some members who use to be from IR and I have never heard anybody say anything negative about them. Happy Penguin (LIBZ) is the casual outfit community we are starting for NUC. HP is where all the Liberator players on Waterson are from and lots of ESF pilots too. Being in HP has the benefit of palying with NUC on off nights during OPS. (TRAF) is a zerg guild that is 100x better than ODAM so that might be your best bet if you aren't a great FPS player.

The biggest benefit playing with the "HAVES" in PS2 is people can pull you fully loaded vehicles at whim. This way you can see the difference a fully loaded vehicle is like. This hooks people. It doubles up as an easier way to generate certs, which again lets you play with more toys in PS2.

Protip: First vehicle should be the Harasser. The thing is a beast and IMHO its the only viable competitive ground vehicle currently in the game. It can kill infantry and tanks equally, and its just down right FUN. The Harasser is what I was dreaming about when BUNGIE released the very first HALO trailer back in 1998 or 1999. If you pickup the harasser, use the Marauder or Vulcan. Ideally you want compostive armor MAXED, Surger frame (it really helps with sneaking/crawling into normally inaccessible areas), and afterburner (because its so fun).

If I'm in game, feel free to ask for a fully loaded harasser. Names Exc1d1umTR. Can also pull fully loaded ESFs (both scythes and mossies). I also pull Fully loaded Liberators for people, but since thats my primary gameplay style, I must make sure I have mine off cooldown when I'm in farm mode.

Thanks for the feedback on Outfits guys, and I'll start droppoing points into the harasser.

I must say I haven't realized how many certs a max can get in an infantry battle. It's kinda ridiculous. Considering leveling up my anti infantry max, but I currently have the default machine gun for it (VS) and a burster so idunno. That's a lot of certs to dump.

Bought the marauder weap for harasser but only see 10 ammo instead of 15? did i buy the wrong weapon? XD

Likely has an ammo upgrade.

Delicateflower_sl said:

Bought the marauder weap for harasser but only see 10 ammo instead of 15? did i buy the wrong weapon? XD

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There is a Weapon cert line that adds ammo to the magazine. Increase it to 13 I think is the best bang for the buck. Also pickup thermal vision and get your ammo up. Nothing sucks more than finally getting into that techplant scoring 40 kills in 15mins only to be bone dry on ammo.

What is the best mid-range VS Medic weapon? I've been using the NS-11 and doing pretty good but the recoil can be hell.

I like the H-V45. The CME ass rifle is on sale today. Wish they would do a SMG sale. I'd kind of like to have one.

I hate the laggy bullshit in the game. SO fucking tired of getting "desynched" or whatever the fuck is going on when all my hits simply stop registering from that point forward. And the thing is, I actually LIKE the game if not for this bullshit. I was even going to spend some cash on it since I play it enough to justify, but fuck that. Ain't getting a shiny nickle outta me till this bullshit is over with.

/rant off

It gets really strange sometimes yea. Last night I was supergirl, got like 6 knife kills, blew up a couple max's with c4 and some great launched grenade kills in the first few minutes. Was like 18 and 2.

But usually it's the empty two full clips in someones back and they turn around and shoot me twice and I die. Or launch grenades into big piles of people and do no damage whatsoever. No idea what causes it.

It isn't really a lag thing. Like if you put a big usenet or torrent download on to induce lag and go into VR training you can see how it affects things. Out in the world vs real people the problems are different. It is like a batching / packet ordering problem.

I've had zero lag issues in this game since launch, maybe I'm lucky.

I get occasional lag but the shooting people a million times and they won't die thing is different. When things lag out it gets strange, people warp around or run in place and you fully expect to end up dead. Same with any game really.

But sometimes everyone is moving normally and reacting normally and everything looks fine, but you just shoot people over and over and over and they just don't take any damage. It isn't really better or worse in big crowds, just seems kind of random.

Also sometimes it seems to actually favor you. Where you wade in to like 5 or 6 people and just mow them all down and it's like all their shots miss you. Like the server processes a big chunk of your packets first.

Game is officially dead in the water.

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I doubt they cut much planetside people. Game is quite profitable for them or so I hear?

I started playing this recently and its pretty fun. The huge outdoor land battles with tanks and planes and people all running around getting shot are probably the best I've ever encountered in a game. However, when all those people get in one bio lab and run around the rendering is pretty ridiculous. Although I do enjoy throwing a rez grenade in a room that looks to have like 4 dead people when it actually has about 20. Cert city.