North American servers are going to be merged soon, EU servers already have been. I would hope this would bring life back to the game, as many people on the NA west server have simply quit due to low population numbers
>>1531189Can you play this game against bots? Or is it pure pvp?
>>1531200Its a PVP mmo exclusively, unless you count aimbots and other such scripts on the asian server, or blowing up unguarded construction bases>>1531189Pretty sure there was an active conspiracy to deliberately depopulate the server to force a merge, so hopefully the discord faggots stop ruining fights and the game is more playableFor the record when i say "pretty sure" its not that there might not be a conspiracy, just that im not sure which server they're on
>>1531189Just go play EvE instead
>>1531189ur chink
Was decent many years ago when they let you jump around and capture things. Enjoyed it when new. Had strategy and let small groups accomplish things. Also made the 3 competing faction mechanic fun.After that was ended it seemed to just become one sided steamrolls and much simpler. There is always a giant frontline, and being anywhere else is pointless. That removed the whole cool factor of a giant pvp planet since at any given time most of the map is unused meaning in reality it is like playing the much smaller maps of typical shooters, just with more players.Granted once that change and the results were apparent I never got on again.
shame this shit is dead, had some good times on it
>>1531200It's 100% pvp but most people are dumb as a fucking rock so it's a mixed bag between fighting people that have adderall for blood and total retards
>>1534883You are referring to the old hex system? It was replaced with the current lattice system for good reason.https://spawntube.blogspot.com/2016/10/ps2-origins-hex-system.htmlhttps://spawntube.blogspot.com/2017/02/ps2-origins-lattice-system.html
Enjoyed fragging the entire two room spawn point with c4 during 64vs64 fights, until I got banned, no fun allowed.
On the topic of Planetside, anyone who plays TR interested in joining an outfit? A few friends and I are trying to get coordinated squads on Emerald since the TR faction seems to lack a major platoon like other facs have.https://discord.gg/gJp2AuF8ZH
>>1545096>for good reason.To kill the game? Cuz that's what it did
>>1531189Merges aren't gonna do shit. Above all else, the game is dying because 95% of fights are one-sided slogs where you stare at a (spawn) door for 15 minutes, and until that's fixed there is absolutely zero reason to bother with this game.
>>1547378mergers will be a stop gap at leastMiller now has almost twice the population, 1200 24 hour peak, that means on weekends it might push pas 1500. that will at least bring back the massive battles of old, for a time
>>1531189if only PS2 had good gunplay, it's just bland and boring
>3080>17500k>get 40 fps on ultrawhat the fuck? and why is GPU utilization at 10%?
infiltratorside
>>1531189Where's planetside general?>EU servers merged>kept miller instead of cobalt namegay as fuck, should have given it a new name
>>1531189i didn't play again because my account that i made many years ago has a stupid name and i refuse to pay 50€ or whatever just to change it
>>1546219Hex encouraged ghostcapping which is far worse than zergs, and the latter was an issue predating lattice. Player freedom should not come at the expense of gameplay, and while the current system isn't perfect by any means it saved Planetside; we're still here shooting 'mans 12 years on are we not?>>1547378This is the main issue with the game, or rather continent/base design. The former dev's blog posts >>1545096 shed much light on the how's and why's, and the only solution is labor-intensive: continent overhauls. Following Hossin's design philosophy, which took lessons learned from the first 3 continents and was made with lattice in mind, every base must be capable of supporting massive fights. Attacker/defender spawns should be equidistant from capture points, and the paths connecting them littered with cover to break sight lines. No idea about vehicles and I won't say anything until the nanite economy is fixed. Shielded sunderer garages are a bandaid solution but these should be generously sprinkled throughout the game world as a stopgap measure, though perhaps the devs should make the generators destructible like the ones at containment facilities.>>1549288You could just make a new char? I started my Emerald alt 6 months ago and am already past BR 60 with 8 days of total playtime.
Give it to me straight bros, how likely is it die out completely next year?
planetside really deserved a sequel at this point with the exact same gameplay in mind, probably done in unreal engine 4, it would be a success because battlefield has been shit for the last 6 years, but they'll never get the funding to do it
>>1531189did they fix the grind?
>>1549689>>1545096>>1534883>oh no an elite group is play chess in the game while most of our faction is just a fucking giant zerg and we refuse to run outfit ops! REEE
>>1531189this game was kino when it first came out; the battles were epic and it was great to follow a platoon during an alert.I don't know why the game died. I guess it just got old.
>>1558521prior to Helldivers 2, this was the Starship Trooper simulator
>>1551589The guys who just bought the franchise recently have been putting in more effort to fix up and add new shit than the people who ran it the last 5 years. I think we'll do just fine but the question is how do they plan on bringing in new blood when they don't advertise
>>1549689The hex system was cool. Lattice was gay and boring, for gay and boring people.There was a lot that was gay and boring about the game.
>>1558521Maybe it is was stupid spawn room slogs against too large to defeat zerg rushes and people being too hardcore and tryhard. I think this game would be fucking cool if you had as many players as it has even now but also some roleplay aspect to it, but I guess these things are too hard to balance out with how many players there can be and how there can be a disbalance between faction numbers.It's frankly the only mp fps game that I liked tho, because at time when you can have big even fights and tug of war going it's amazing.
>>1560988when you joined a platoon for an alert, you get that kinda roleplay if you obey orders. And it usually came down to that: which side followed orders the best. That was the meta-skill for winning: Organization and getting players to roleplay along instead of lone wolfing it.
>>1549689I miss zergs (back when the server pops had enough people to zerg).
I haven't played in ages, but I kind of miss Hives making player bases "relevant", mostly out of having fun with a shitfit building them out in the middle of nowhere and getting a huge swarm fly in from the other side of the map to kill it
>>1531189I used to play this on my piss4 when I was a teenager, good times. Ruined shooters for me.
>>1565438Player bases are still relevant because people can spawn cheap vehicles and put up routers from it plus its always fun to kick people's sandcastles down
>>1566376There's a difference between "throw up something barely functional buried somewhere so you can spawn vehicles that only the person who built it gives a shit about" and "gaggle of retards threw together some bullshit in the desert near Mao Tech and a VS outfit flew literally from the Southwestern Warpgate to attack it because it has a hive that's adding to the VP"
>>1567631Yeah no I get ya, it was always an interesting struggle seeing some of the sprawling fucking bases in weird locations people made for hives.
>>1560722>the question is how do they plan on bringing in new bloodI swear you guys are more delusional than fucking redditorsTHERE WILL BE NO NEW BLOODZOOMERS DONT PLAY PC GAMESEVERYBODY STILL HERE IS EITHER AN ANCIENT 35+YO SCHIZOPHRENIC EASTERN YUROPEON, AN AMERICAN MILLENIAL LOST IN TRANSLATION, OR A BOTTING CHEATING CHINKNO ONE AT MANAGEMENT IS COUNTING ON NEW BLOODTHIS GAME IS MORE THAN A DECADE OLDTHEY JUST WANT TO KEEP WHICHEVER AUTISTS ARE STILL PLAYING AND PAYING FOR MEMBERSHIPWAKE THE FUCK UP RETARDS
>>1568253I'm 24 and I'm >>1565467
>>1568349congrats you idiot, you're one of the few zoomies who managed to fall between the cracks of modernity and join the schizollenials glued to their gayman PCs in an everlasting hell of unlived life wasted behind a screen playing perpetually rotting undying games with other schizollenials
>>1568395
>>1531863>active conspiracy to deliberately depopulate the server to force a mergeconneryredditors defend this type of behavior btw
can someone post that spurdo image with the caption "nothing personnell.. just getting a bonus check"?
>>1572211
>>1572315thank you so much
>>1572211I like this one
I miss when spurdo was more popular than wojack shit
>>1558521>this game was kino when it first came outI have some nostalgia for it, but the game was a broken unfinished mess when it came out and they didn't take anyones suggestions of making it supply runs part of PS2 like it was with PS1. Buzzcutpsycho said it best back in 2013. Shame his video is no longer around.
https://www.enadglobal7.com/press-releases/enad-global-7-initiates-a-wind-down-of-the-operations-in-toadman/Yet another dev team down
>>1574168Is this officially the end times?
>>1576212The planetside 2 team was spared, but that's basically only until that contract runs out.Basically they have a couple years to turn the game profitable or probably get axed too, we're on a time limit.
there is no way to save the game guys, stop trying, the need to make planetside 3the game is too fucking old at this point and the cow tits are drythe dream would be a competent studio buying the IP and making the sequel, like valve
>>1576268>planetside 3Like that's ever going to happen lmao
>>1573918I'd rather Spurdo stay out of the hands of mainstream audiences
I have 3500+ hours in this shit and it's fucking kino however I haven't played in years and I have no time for it nowadays cause addicted to other gamesIf you're wondering whether to try it, fuck yeah go for it, there's no other fps like it
4k-hour vet here. If they nerfed inf a long time ago I would have stuck with it but I got too fed up with that bullshit.
>>1585418Funny you bring that up.
>>1587995>they will still have cloaksIn the trash it stays
