Planetside 2

Opimo_sl

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This game does wonders for performance by using all low-poly vehicle and base geometry. But they should release higher quality textures. On video cards with 4gb of memory, high quality textures have almost 0 impact on rendering performance.
Textures used to be higher resolution. They did a performance pass and lowered the resolution on all of them. It also has to do with how the textures are applied to vehicles.
 

RobXIII

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Hadn't played this in about a year and I stumbled back upon it when I was cleaning off my hard drive. After a few hours of patching, I jumped back into this with both feet. Rolled around last night with 2 other guys in a battle bus, fighting for 'merica and killing Vanu swine. Game is still pretty horrible solo, but get a few like minded people working together and it still a hell of a good night.
I logged on today, and there were 0 decent platoons on NC. If that happens, normally running solo is boring, but spawning an Air to Ground ESF and finding small fights to farm is quite fun.
 

Mist

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This game is even more awesome once you start getting good at it. I had a 1.7 K/D ratio over a 3 hour span.

I still need to figure out what VS weapons are good. What LMG should I be using on my heavy? Or should I not use an LMG and stick to a carbine?
 

Hekotat

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What server you on Mist?

Go to the VR training area and try all the weapons out.


Carbine
Serpent CQC
Pulsar C Medium range

Assault Rifle
HV45 CQC
Pulsar VS1 or Terminus Medium range

LMG
Orion
Orion
Orion
If not Orion then SVA-88
If you use the Orion first it's going to ruin all the other LMG's for you, I aurauxiumed it last, and it was glorious.

SMG
NS-7 PDW


Your personal preferences may vary.
 

RobXIII

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I downloaded the PS4 version. I just couldn't play it though, ugh controllers. Granted everyone ELSE will be on controllers too but just felt so clunky
 

Mist

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What server you on Mist?

Go to the VR training area and try all the weapons out.


Carbine
Serpent CQC
Pulsar C Medium range

Assault Rifle
HV45 CQC
Pulsar VS1 or Terminus Medium range

LMG
Orion
Orion
Orion
If not Orion then SVA-88
If you use the Orion first it's going to ruin all the other LMG's for you, I aurauxiumed it last, and it was glorious.

SMG
NS-7 PDW


Your personal preferences may vary.
I'm on Emerald.
 

Mist

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My character's name is Iji. I made it the first day but stopped playing after BR20 because of early performance issues. Having a name that tiny was a huge advantage in APB so I stuck with it for shooters, but it's not that big of a benefit in this game.
 

kaxfenix

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Play TR on Emerald. Name is Cowtown running a combat medic..... I really suck at this game but I have a lot of fun playing..
 

Lohk_sl

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I played back when it released for about 6 months and left because of performance issues and battle flow seemed to suck.

What are some of the big changes they've made? is it worth coming back to?

edit: Played TR mostly
 

Mist

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I would say most of the gameflow problems were fixed, and all of the performance problems as long as you have a GTX 760 or better and a decent CPU.
 

Hatorade

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Not digging TR on emerald, it has rarely been a winning battle, we just get out populated within minutes of capping or trying to capture something. Only upside is if I hang back I get a ton of XP just reviving but that is boring.
 

Hekotat

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Yea, it's a good idea to swap aorund factions if one is not doing too well. But from what I can tell the fights are much less zergy on Emerald.

I look forward to playing with ya'll, or farming you this weekend.

As for the person asking about what changed since launch, so many things including many weapons, I would recommend hoping on now and checking it out because the game is in a really good place right now.