[SOE] Planetside 2 Goes Live - Page 64  

Originally Posted by -SE7EN- 

this. i grabbed the 20x for mine as soon as I could and constantly pick people off that never even knew NC was in town. I enjoy the Infiltrator more than other classes, but the cert gain is pretty low compared to others, so I am leveling in a max suit to buy Infiltrator items saving up 1000 for a new sniper rifle (had to spend some for better max items first thought ugh) not sure to go with the LA80 or the new one they added though.
ugh air. I do agree that it should dominate infantry, but IMO it should be good vs groups of people. I shouldn't be a lone person off somewhere and get 1 shot by an air unit. Just thinking that rockets should be too expensive to 'waste' against a solo guy in the middle of nowhere or something. Also, air should dominate infantry that isn't ready for air. and every time from what I have seen it does. a couple of rocket pods send everyone running (that are still alive) unless we are all prepared for air and in burster maxes, and more than about 5 still send us running. and if their just happens to be a few tanks and a few air vs a small squad, we usually end up having to redeploy to somewhere else if we don't have air support ready to help. also, us ground units sure do enjoy being killed on the inside in the middle of buildings. sometimes there is literally nowhere to not be hit at by air, especially the smaller bases. I really don't see how air doesn't dominate infantry, unless you're flying solo into a group of burster maxes?

Originally Posted by Kaldari 

That's the thing.. I have most of what I want unlocked, and the game is still plenty fun. Of course I will be upgrading those Cert perks, but I have at least the base level of any I want. The unlock incentive is just small part of the experience.
Of course there will always be a vocal minority who disagrees with and dislikes just about everything. It's unavoidable.

Originally Posted by Wonky Sausage 

Well, it has potential but the horrible vehicle system, extremely poor optimization leading to low fps during fights, and server lag during big fights makes it hard to enjoy the game for me.

Originally Posted by jtom320 

Your 7950 should not be any slower then a 670. If I were you I would not spend the money. Complete sidegrade.

Originally Posted by Wonky Sausage 

You're telling me you get 99% GPU usage on both cards when taking over a city with a couple dozen people shooting at you on the ground? I don't think so.

Originally Posted by jtom320 

I'm willing to see what Sony does. I don't mind them buffing AA a bit, and I don't mind them toning down the splash damage on the rockets. I think people need to keep in mind though that AA is only meant to be pesky (Or area denial or whatever the term is). Swaths of infantry are supposed to die to aircraft and the counter to aircraft should be aircraft. Otherwise you risk ruining flight in planetside 2.

Originally Posted by KyadCK 

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Keep thinking whatever you want to believe bud, it's just you and a few others. That is what I get with my settings, and if your specs can match mine or top them, I will gladly share my ini file with you.
That's sure as hell not how it works in real life. Flak is very deadly to planes, and rockets even more so if they hit. That is why they were made. It's more of a preventive thing, yes, and the fact that all the sudden everyone can switch off to AA means it has to be toned down a bit from reality, but that doesn't stop the fact that ground-based AA is extremely good against aircraft.
Being caught off guard by flak should make the pilot snap to attention, get out of range, find where it's from, and deal with it best they can, or caall in something to deal with it. They should not be able to just tank on through it. Granted, Aircraft would need the same render distance for infantry and infantry has for air to make it fair at all, but that's how it should happen. Flak should force aircraft to stay back until ground forces can deal with it.

Originally Posted by jtom320 


That was poorly worded as I agree with everything you said. Area denial I think is the term we are looking for. I think the idea however that ESF pilots can tank flak even as the game is right now is off base. One burster max or even skyguard can take you down pretty quickly with sustained fire at close range. And considering the rendering distance you spend a lot of time in close range.

I'm not against buffs. I just think people need to realize that a jet/attack helicopter is supposed to do work on ground targets.

Originally Posted by Wonky Sausage 

You're telling me you get 99% GPU usage on both cards when taking over a city with a couple dozen people shooting at you on the ground? I don't think so. i even turned everything to LOW and it didn't help. I'm not talking about flying around by yourself or when removed from the action...


Look at that poorly coded game's main-thread bottlenecking which causes low GPU usage because the thread is starved. If it can't handle data streams then i.e. GPU wont get guidance about what to draw and how. That single thread most likely gives input (shaders, positional updates etc) to the GPU and controls its workflow.
It most definitely does not scale to 4 cores properly.
Getting stuck on the terrain is incredibly easy and no you can't just backup... It's just really bad terrain collision. I used to think BC2 was bad where every map had a couple locations that your character would get stuck in 1 foot drops in the terrain. Do I really need to make a video of how bad PS2 vehicles are?
See, this game was made for people like you who think that unlocking is a goal to strive for. The game should be interesting on its own, rather than trying to make you waste time grinding for unlocks. If the game is boring without unlocks, it's a boring game to begin with...

Originally Posted by KyadCK 

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Keep thinking whatever you want to believe bud, it's just you and a few others. That is what I get with my settings, and if your specs can match mine or top them, I will gladly share my ini file with you.

Originally Posted by Kaldari 

Most of your problems are hardware-related, poor optimization or otherwise, and many (I think most) would disagree that the vehicles are in some sort of unplayable or unenjoyable state.
Welcome to the vocal minority.