[OFFICIAL] Planetside 2 Thread - Page 3

I gotta say if you are playing the beta at prime time (6est through 12am EST) there is some serious fun action going on every single night!

I am a personal HUGE battlefield 2/3 and 2142 fan but those games simply have no teamwork compared to planetside 2.

In BF3 a good player can easily get a few kills and possibly plant a MCOM/take/defend a flag. In planetside 2 there is no way you are taking a defended base alone ever. You could possibly take a control point or two, but some of the main battle basses require you to take 3-4 control points and then hold them all while you gain influence for 1-3 minutes before its capped.


The voice communication is garbage in BF3, I believe if you want to use VC then you must set it up in battlelog.

In Planetside 2 you log in and if you have a mic plugged in and its detected in windows audio it will auto detect the mic and allow you to speak. There are separate voice channels for everything going on. Voice chat for squad, platoon (multiple squads fighting as one), outfit (what most mmo's call a guild or clan), and then proximity chat. Every single time I am in a somewhat full platoon there is a great sense of teamwork, usually 2-3 people calling out objectives and the rest of the people follow, I've had a few good times on some galaxies which are huge air ships mainly used for transport. A good squad can take a few bases in 20 minutes by using these air ships effectively.

I also enjoy how sometimes defending a point is really hard, for instance there is a base in the middle of the map called "The Crown". I'm not sure of its strategic importance really, but its in the middle of all 3 factions and typically has major action. Whoever holds it can be attacked from either faction quite easily typically. Last night I think we defended it from a constant onslaught for about 2 hours. This requires constant repairs of the numerous turrents, repairing max (kinda like mech suits) suits with anti air going and having lots of medics holding on the bases.

I am hopefully going to upload videos to youtube periodically starting next week once my second video card gets back from RMA. I think my preferred faction is the NC right now but may try Vanu with the incoming character wipe.
Edited by JAM3S121 - 10/3/12 at 10:54pm

BF3 does look pretty damn good, but the draw distance and some of the terrain looks simply amazing in planetside 2 as well man.

In all seriousness, if you just took a look at how well the voice chat was implemented into Planetside 2 you would feel really cheated on BF3. I mean its $60 bucks, I bought one DLC and its been milked with another DLC. Great game don't get me wrong but.. BC2 had squad chat, bf2 had squad chat, bf2142 had squad chat. No squad chat in BF3 unless you set it up with you're "party" members in battlelog.

What happens if you squad up with someone after you joined the game? Tab out to join a "party"???!!? In Planetside 2 you go to the squad menu, find a squad thats relativity full and you say "hey guys whats the objective currently?" You'll quickly see almost everyone has a mic and that 90% of the 12 person squad is at the objective. Not like BF3 where the squad leader says attack point F and 2 out of 5 people are there.

It took me about 4-5months to get a invite, you're better off buying alpha squad or watching twitter/gaming sites for freebies. Alpha squad will be worth it if you typically spend $60 on new releases anyway its only $40 bucks and the station cash will allow you to instantly upgrade vehicle weapons which is a big deal. If theirs a fighter aircraft in the air with missiles it pretty much means they win the dogfights and they can typically kill a enemy transport like a liberator or galaxy much easier.


Anyone else love the jumping pads at some of the amp stations?

I love going from turret to turret when they are being attacked repairing them with those little rocket jump pads.

like i said hoping to get my second video card so i can record more gameplay
Edited by JAM3S121 - 10/3/12 at 11:11pm

Hey, I might try disabling HT thanks for the idea.

Right now my cpu is at 4.1ghz and my ram is at 1600mhz, it never really seems that my gpu/cpu is even stressed. I leave my two h100 fans at 50% on my fan controller and it doesn't heat up past 60ish C ever. (this is with 1.34vcore). GPU temps never exceed 60c with a overclock of 940Mhz from 880mhz.. I can only play with one GTX 560 Ti so I can't record gameplay like I really enjoy doing at high settings but hopefully when the second one gets back from RMA next week it'll change and I will try disabling HT tomorrow. I get 40-60 FPS pretty constant with a 90% render quality and a mix of high and medium settings right now. The only difference in graphics I really notice is once you push the render quality down past 75% it looks a lot worse IMO. Anything above 80% looks great still.


Yes, sadly I feel like I won't ever see BF2142 sequel which to this date is my favorite BF series game. I think EA/Dice pretty much already said BF4 would continue the modern war era type game. Titan game mode was so epic back in the day if you're rig didn't lag the hell out.

Is Esmir the second map? I am excited for that.. desert got pretty stale after. What server do you plan to play on we should try to get a OCN thing going on one of the servers, you can have characters on multiple servers so if we all made one and tried to organize one night to play it could be fun.
Edited by JAM3S121 - 10/3/12 at 11:20pm