I really wanted to go VS as I was straight VS for my many years in PS1 but a friend of mine joined up with BWC on TR so I was like faaawwwwkkkk! And joined them.
[PC Game] Planetside 2
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Necronic
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VS are likely up for some nerfing in the near future. The main issue is the lack of bullet drops on tanks and their ability to strafe. With these two issues alone I have beef with VS, but now they are talking about giving the tanks JJ. On top of that the Schthe is bar none the best ESF due to its absurd manieverability.
GasBandit
Staff member
I like most of it. Some of it not so much. Guns take too long to earn with certs. It's pretty buggy. Last night proximity voice chat didn't work (thank goodness squad chat still did). It takes forever to boot up... the loading bar goes from 0-98 in a half second and then it sits there for 5 minutes. Last night I couldn't get my sunderer to deploy for love or money. Other similar annoyances.
So, last night I also found out I still run the game smooth on high settings, and it doesn't affect my crashes. I had turned all the graphics down to low to try to maximize play time between crashes, but last night I said "screw it let's try this" and turned most things up to high (still left shadows on low, etc). Got probably my longest play session yet. I notice that when it crashes, it's almost always immediately after a death. I don't crash every time I die.. but every time I crash, it seems to be as the camera changes postmortem.
I'm wondering if it's really a memory limitation issue.
I've had no technical problems whatsoever. Well, I did have a clipping issue once where I fell through the ground and kept falling (managed to redeploy before hitting the "ground").
The game has behaved extremely well for me.
The game has behaved extremely well for me.
It's all right. Mostly I go on with my outfite, shoot the shit, shoot shit, and on a whole, don't contribute much. How well we do depends on how organized the other side of the conflict is.
Necronic
Staff member
I read a post somewhere where they described increasing their graphics settings and it actually increasing their FPS.
Also I really doubt your memory is the problem. I think it's much more likely that your having problems because you are runnin XP32x
GasBandit
Staff member
No, that's what I meant. I don't think it's because XP32's memory limit is too low, it's something else, because it always happens immediately on character death. You can't tell me that the act of dying suddenly causes a great demand for memory.
GasBandit
Staff member
Well, what I mean is, I don't experience any performance issues. It works beautifully right up until all of a sudden it crashes.
Some classmates pressed me to try this out, it usually isn't my kind of game, but I was having a blast with it. If anyone wants to friend me, I'm a Venu on the Helios server named Zonu.
I will say the currency system is annoying. With how slow I seem to be gaining points, it seems the game is designed to annoy you into buying game cash to get what you want just for convenience.
I will say the currency system is annoying. With how slow I seem to be gaining points, it seems the game is designed to annoy you into buying game cash to get what you want just for convenience.
Necronic
Staff member
Station Cash is pretty helpful for a handful of items, but imho you really don't need more than 2-3 guns. One carbine, one heavy weapon, maybe a battle rifle. Depends on what classes you like. If you like flying or using tanks it gets more expensive. On the 21st they will be doing a 3x sale though, so you could spend like 10$ and get 50$ worth of station cash.
Also, Station Cash will ONLY buy the base gun. To flesh out the gun/tank/etc with all the other good stuff requires you to spend certs, and boy howdy is some of that stuff crazy expensive.
Also, Station Cash will ONLY buy the base gun. To flesh out the gun/tank/etc with all the other good stuff requires you to spend certs, and boy howdy is some of that stuff crazy expensive.
Although I can't recall if it has been mentioned, and even if it has I will mention it again. You can trial weapons you do not have for 30 minutes. I forget where the option is at the moment but I trialed a shotgun to see how I liked it though I did so at a poor time as there werent any major skirmish engagments happening when I tried the feature hehe.
I didn't even know you could get different guns and upgrades... guess I have some points built up by now lol.
Just curious who's still active with this and what servers and factions you're playing as. I know there were a bunch of server merges and shuffling and I figured some of us might be on the same ones now.
I'm playing as Terran Republic on the Connery West server now.
I'm playing as Terran Republic on the Connery West server now.
I just started playing again with Voodoo company on Matterson NC