Big Changes to PlanetSide Coming?
Posted by Dice on 15 August 2004 - 03:07 · 5 comments & 439 views
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#1 Posted by Double Agent 678 on 15 Aug 2004 - 05:00
- 0 comments must give us some idea of how many people still play this game.
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#2 Posted by nookadum on 15 Aug 2004 - 07:19
- PlanetSide sucks anyway. UT2004 eats it, and it's not even an MMOFPS!
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#3 Posted by GSDragoon on 16 Aug 2004 - 02:44
- I remember randomly trying out for the BETA waaay back when. It was tons of fun. I played untill FFXI came out. PS had potental to be a great game. It had a few, but MAJOR, problems. The bugs where completely out of control and were being ignored. The framerate sucked horribly, even on top end machines. It wasn't that well ballanced, but that's not too easy to do.
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#3.1 Posted by shao on 16 Aug 2004 - 12:19
- i can agree with some of those points.. i trialed it shortly after it went live, and i kinda liked it, but wasn't convinced it was worth the money. I trialed it again around november / december 2003, after the server consolidation and it was pretty bad for framerate in big battles, however those battles were large, comprising of hundreds if not 1000's of players in and around any one base... let alone the other bases and continents. large battles were also frequent - however i didn't like playing at 12fps, so didn't sign up.
i did sign up last month tho, after no hardware upgrade, and all the speed issues had been resolved, and it ran great, pretty much all the time, even in large battles.
as for the comment about ut2k4, the onslaught mode is just a watered-down copy of the stuff that's in tribes / planetside, so if you like a watered down generic gaming experience the stick with that, if you like a more indepth, massively multiplayer, and persistent gaming universe then you should stick with planetside. Saying it eats it is kinda stupid really, it's like comparing mario to counterstrike... uhm.. maybe.
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#4 Posted by Longhorn_2004 on 16 Aug 2004 - 07:26
- Its a great game, but it gets boring after a while and its not worth the money.
But he's right
it's raining astroids, sandstorms are wielding, earthquakes every 10 minutes. And on August 16, at night, something will occur that will destroy an entire continent. Its hell out there.
With the frequency and velocity of the objects increasing, scientists are now predicting a level 4 impact over the next several hours, with possible greater impacts over the next three days. One theory suggests that if enough of the objects make impact with the planet, the magnetic fields of the core could reverse causing drastic changes to Auraxis as we know it. Empire Representatives will maintain a stream of communication over the course of these phenomena through the PlanetSide Empire Forums.
Planetside is a PC-based massively multiplayer title from Sony Online Entertainment. More news can be found at http://planetside.station.sony.com/
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