[youtube]XBCp_rgAkfc#![/youtube]Hnnng! You may or may not have seen me rabbiting on about this game in various topics surrounding E3 and so on, but for all of the ponies who aren't aware, welcome to the planetside 2 thread. Planetside 2 is being developed by Sony game Studios as a massive real-time strategy FPS. You play as one of three factions, The Terran Republic : A unified force dedicated to bringing humanity in space to heel. The New Conglomerate : The insurgent faction who long for all humans in space to live free. The Vanu Sovereignty : Humanity can only survive by adapting and using the lost technology of the alien race, the Vanu. Spoiler: The Factions PlanetSide 2 Empire Brief – The Terran Republic PlanetSide 2 Empire Brief – New Conglomerate PlanetSide 2 Empire Brief – Vanu Sovereignty So, why am I excited? As if having three different factions, all going head to head all at once didn't entice me enough, the game takes place on the planet of Auraxis, where all three factions have a "Sanctuary" main base to start from, and spread out from there conquering various structures and control points across the MASSIVE OPEN MAP, I kid you not... Lets just contemplate this, this map is actually enormous, has all three factions at once, uses DAY/NIGHT CYCLE, with working lights, and remains up to date at all times. Suppose you played planetside 2 one night with a huge firefight over a refinery, that firefight could still be going on the following evening afterwards! Of course with some changes to the battlefield, the battlefield is dynamic even when you aren't in it! Think... could you command an entire fleet of soldiers to carry out an attack? What about two at once? As always you will need to weigh up your strengths and tactical options to keep yourself in the fight, and vehicles are a plenty, but I will let you read that at your own leisure. Spoiler: Vehicles Nanite Systems Common Pool Vehicles - Quad Nanite Systems Common Pool Vehicles - Liberator Nanite Systems Common Pool Vehicles - Sunderer Nanite Systems Common Pool Vehicles - Galaxy This isn't it I assure you, you will come across more such as the "Scythe", an air to air superiority vehicle for the Vanu. Did I mention the largeness of the map? I'm sure I did, but just let me re-assure you, how many players do you usually get in team games now..? 16? 32? Maybe on a rare occasion 64? I know of one game that managed to get 128 In all at once for 64 vs 64, but Planetside 2 promises to be even bigger, three teams of hundreds all duking it out all at once on the same battlefield. Weapons to entertain you : Spoiler: Weapons Terran Republic Weapons - The Repeater Pistol Terran Republic Weapons - The Mini Chaingun Terran Republic Weapons - The Cycler ARV Terran Republic Weapons - The Cycler New Conglomerate Weapons - The MagShot New Conglomerate Weapons - The Sweeper Shotgun New Conglomerate Weapons - The Bolt Driver New Conglomerate Weapons - The Tempest Vanu Sovereignty Weapons Week - The Force Blade Vanu Sovereignty Weapons Week - The Beamer You might feel a bit lost in all of this, the amount of customisation is large and it may be hard to find your place in planetside 2, fortunately there is a class selection option available, I do find this helps me to assign roles to myself in large team games, but for Planetside it will be essential to your team to be a strong player in your chosen field. Spoiler: Classes PlanetSide 2 Light Assault PlanetSide 2 Medic New Conglomerate Medics Terran Republic Medics Vanu Sovereignty Medics PlanetSide 2 Infiltrator Terran Republic Infiltrators Vanu Sovereignty Infiltrators New Conglomerate Infiltrators PlanetSide 2 Engineer Comm Link Terran Republic Engineers New Conglomerate Engineers Vanu Sovereignty Engineers PlanetSide 2 Heavy Assault Comm Link New Conglomerate Heavy Assault Vanu Sovereignty Heavy Assault Terran Republic Heavy Assault Some are aware of the rammifications of having a cash shop within a game, fortunately I bring good tidings, the shop will only sell customisation options, stuff to make people stronger is not available for cash! ^.^ Hopefully you guys are at least a little bit interested by now, if not...let me tell you, the game is FREE! You that not read wrong! Free!, so you have nothing to lose in at least trying it out! And lastly if you didn't check it out at E3, here's all you need. Spoiler: E3 PlanetSide 2 Teams Up with TotalBiscuit for E3 PlanetSide 2 E3 Day 1 Recap PlanetSide 2 E3 Day 2 Recap I was going to go ahead and join the Terran Republic, but I think you can have different soldiers per each side. Here's some graphics to close with.
I do enjoy totalbiscuit commentaries, he keep it amusing whilst still addressing the core questions, such as "Customisation" ... Zebra Liberator!
Lol, it was kind of because of him and because I had played another one in the past that I got into the new Tribes.
so theirs a thing going on between total biscuit, seananners and Tobuscus called the planetside 2 ultimate showdown who are people with. im with tobuscus also here are who they represent and the factions they run. tobuscus- Vanu sovereignty seananners- New conglomerate total biscuit-Terran Republic
This game interested me greatly, I tried downloading but I can't play it, because my graphics card is incapable of running even Minecraft smoothly. DX
This game rules! I'm not really into shooters normally, but the huge openmappedy everythingiscaptureabliness of Planetside 2 makes it my favorite game at the moment.
*bam revive* So i was actually playing in the beta an am playing now with a squad of nearly 10 people with Teamspeak. Man... i love this game! Have you all heared the news what they plan for the next 3 Years and what the patch on 1.30.2013 will bring? Guys... i may be addicted...
I love this game and play regularly, the combats are intense, the graphics are excelent, and the community is very decent; Im in the Terran Republic and I play in the Helios server, and ofcourse my character's name is Jannator.
