If battlefield can succeed, why not planetside?
The game was only good during beta
>>737645669thisThe peak of such games is the release, after which everything slowly but surely turns into a circus.
>>737642854Man I'm feeling old now, here's a screenshot from the beta back in 2012.Anyway, it could, if it wasn't in the hands of retards. I remember around 2012-2014 we had War Thunder, Blacklight Retribution and PlanetSide 2 and all of them were pretty great at first. Only War Thunder is still alive and well, PlanetSide 2 is on life support and Blacklight Retribution was killed off. >>737645669Pretty much.
I have such fond memories of playing TR and defending with only like 6 other dudes on those outdoor platforms you had to jump up to to enter the biolabs as endless waves of Vanu MAXs landed while we took cover behind some boxes and just sprayed them down. Think it was on the Amerish? The jungle-like one. For some reason that stood out to me above all others. Those first two months were truly magical.
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>>737642854Planetside did succeed, it's just ancient at this point and requires large playerbase to be fun (which it does not have anymore and is not going to again unless they make a new one).
>>737642854they couldn't even figure what to do with Vanu. The heavy assaults default LMG had higher fire rate than the TR one despite fire rate being their gimmick. Shit was broken. Then you had garbage like render distance where you walked around the corner and had suddenly 50 people in front of you.
>>737646262>Only War Thunder is .... welllolI mean, I guess if by 'well' you mean milking hundreds of thousands of dollars from inbred whales and not the absolute state of the game itself.
>>737645669Been ages since I last played but pink camo that made it hard to immediately tell what faction a player belonged to was all the rage back then. Used to just blast them without a second thought and laugh if it ended up being a teammate because they knew damn well what they signed up for by using that shit.
>>737642854>vanu faggots bitch and moan and the megafaggot devs listen to them so all vanu shit changes from purple and teal to grey and black
>>737642854Server lag always gets too bad in the big fights.
>>737646963Vanu had one special camo that came from some external event code that was black/blue making it impossible to see them at night or you could confuse them with NC. I remember Vanu camo was in general unpopular at night as it was usually darker. Good thing some idiots but every single possible lighting on their sunderer to make sure you can see their disco van at any distance.
>>737642854Monetization and retarded devs
>>737646930I haven't played it in years by "doing well" I only mean it has an active player base, I don't know if it's actually fun to play still.
>>737642854I remember when this game came out and I wanted to play it so bad but I was a little zoom zoom with shitty internet and a terrible pc.
>all factions play the samethis is the most boring shit imaginable, other than the idea of "big ass map in which you can spawn and capture it little by little as an fps game", everything else about the game has always been as unappealing to me as possible, the game is just trashit's badly designed, both in terms of game design and in terms of artistic design, it just feels like a low budget game and always felt that way, except it isn't, it's fucking sony funding that shit, yet someway somehow it turned into thisI wish someone would actually try to make a real game, I never got to try that c&c renegade mod/game tho, so maybe that would've been it, but I'd pay very good money to play a game such as this with actual asymmetric gameplay, think full on natural selection type game, with aliens focused on melee, humans being the basic bitch soldier with all the toys, and then idk, robots or another type of alien or something, idk idc, just anything but 'yeah so your gun is blue but it hits slower but deals more damage!! yeah, that's what the faction does XD'wasted potential
>>737648337>I wish someone would actually try to make a real game, I never got to try that c&c renegade mod/game tho, so maybe that would've been it, but I'd pay very good money to play a game such as this with actual asymmetric gameplay, think full on natural selection type game, with aliens focused on melee, humans being the basic bitch soldier with all the toysThere was Savage the battle for newerth but it was aeons ago.The state of the gaming industry is sad. It has never been bigger but ambitious games like those aren't being done. It is truly nothing but slop.
I miss the original
>>737642854they got super greedy with their cosmetics. Should have adopted a system where you could gradually earn cash shop currencyIt probably shouldn't have had I think 3 active continents at once. That's a huge playerbase to split, and requires at least 1000 factioned players to enjoySpeaking of, they should have allowed people to switch factions. Yes It kind of goes against game logic, but if one faction is outclassed it doesn't really matter how many buffs they get it just won't feel fun for the losing side. Every ability, item, weapon should have a cross referenced option on the other factions to make the switch easyOh and proximity chat would be hilarious with 100 people yelling at each other
