Author Topic: Planetside - anyone playing? (Read 2335 times)

Dnil · « **Reply #30 on:** April 29, 2003, 08:03:39 PM »

been playing the beta awhile now, br14 on citrine, TR all the way baby. Name is Bumlooka. Game has some issues but its fun as hell, some of the bridge battles on cyss, man o man thats just fun. Problem is now EVERYONE is getting the boltdriver cert, massive counterstrike flashbacks here.

No way i could play barney or the smurfs.

Dowding · « **Reply #31 on:** April 30, 2003, 12:58:06 AM »

I like the gauss gun thing, but that assault rifle grenade launcher is a lot of fun. On base defense, the MAX with the shotgun thing rocks. Single-handedly defended a base for 20 mins the other day - until 3 MAXs turned up!

Joined a small outfit last night. I'm a galaxy transport pilot, so we loaded one of those buggy-car things into the back and with 6 grunts in the back did some squad operations around the periphery.

This is one fun game.

Octavius, what system you running? I have a lowly 1.2 GHz Athlon with 512 MB RAM and a Geforce 2 Pro (64 MB). I have the game running at 1024x768 at 32 bit colour. I get slowdown in the the really huge battles - and I'm talking 60 people on screen. Otherwise, 90% of the time it's smooth. Frankly, I'm amazed it can be so good.

The graphics are pretty, it runs smoothly - why couldn't WW2OL have been like this, it would have rocked.

akak · « **Reply #32 on:** April 30, 2003, 07:33:14 AM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
I like the gauss gun thing...

So do I. I like how as a Terran Republic scout/sniper, I can use the gauss rifle as my secondary weapon. While the rate of fire isn't as fast as the cycler is, the damage the gauss rifle rounds do more than make up for the slower firing rate. I think all my weapons, other than the common pool bolt-driver, are either NC or Vanu and I've accumulated quite a large collection of rebel weapons.

Death to the rebel scum! Long live the glorious Terran Republic!

Ack-Ack

Dowding · « **Reply #33 on:** April 30, 2003, 07:49:15 AM »

Tyrannical b'stard!

I want to get my hands on one of those Vanu lasers I've been sliced and diced with so often. I still haven't learnt all the weapons available on all sides.

I'm not sure what to get next with my certs. I have 3 points to spend - might invest in stealth suit. Or save up for a reaper certification.

How do you get implants out of interest? Some of them sound funky.

Octavius · « **Reply #34 on:** April 30, 2003, 09:30:35 AM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
Octavius, what system you running? I have a lowly 1.2 GHz Athlon with 512 MB RAM and a Geforce 2 Pro (64 MB). I have the game running at 1024x768 at 32 bit colour. I get slowdown in the the really huge battles - and I'm talking 60 people on screen. Otherwise, 90% of the time it's smooth. Frankly, I'm amazed it can be so good.

1.2gHz AMD, 384 ddram, Radeon 9500 pro. Running at 1280x1024. The FPS are great when the stuttering ceases. Maybe its the ram?

I need an excuse to buy more.

Makarov9 · « **Reply #35 on:** April 30, 2003, 09:55:21 AM »

Octavius, it's definetly the RAM. 512MB is the minimum you want for this game. For totally smooth play 1Gig is recomended. As you go from continent to continent it loads all the textures into RAM. The more you have the smoother the play.

Dowding, you grab implants in the same room you get the cert selections. Bio Lab and Sanc. Most people take Darklight to see the cloakers. I like the health one, that drains your stamina but props up your health when injured.

Yep Gauss is a good all-around weapon to use. Has good range and hits pretty hard.

TPIguy · « **Reply #36 on:** April 30, 2003, 10:19:58 AM »

Downloading now, I wonder how well it'll run though. I've got the same specs as oct except w/ a geforce2mx 32m card.

Octavius · « **Reply #37 on:** April 30, 2003, 10:49:29 AM »

Just ordered 512mb PC2700 from Crucial.

It better be here by Friday

Dowding · « **Reply #38 on:** April 30, 2003, 11:36:55 AM »

lol!

"More RAM, more RAM! You must buy more RAM!"

Kind of reminds me of another game, which shall remain nameless.

But in this case it is definitely warranted - the developers state it as a minimum I believe.

Dnil · « **Reply #39 on:** April 30, 2003, 02:50:27 PM »

you get implants every 6 br. I use darklight and health regen. Also notice your uniforms change with increase in br rank.

I played a buttload lastnight, was up waaaay too late. Almost made br15 last night, weeeeee.

Octavius · « **Reply #40 on:** April 30, 2003, 03:00:26 PM »

How do you gain BR so fast?

I know points are awarded for blowing away enemies and other things. But what are the biggies? Hacking? Capturing facilities with a squad? Transporting others?

Chaos68 · « **Reply #41 on:** April 30, 2003, 03:21:28 PM »

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How do you gain BR so fast?

I know points are awarded for blowing away enemies and other things. But what are the biggies? Hacking? Capturing facilities with a squad? Transporting others?

if you go to the VR trainning you will get exp for test driving the Veh's and weapons.

akak · « **Reply #42 on:** April 30, 2003, 03:23:09 PM »

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The FPS are great when the stuttering ceases. Maybe its the ram?

There's supposed to be a major memory leak in the game that causes it to use up mass amounts of RAM. Someone on the beta boards did a test and I think found out that at times the game wants to use 800+megs of RAM.

ack-ack

akak · « **Reply #43 on:** April 30, 2003, 03:29:52 PM »

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How do you gain BR so fast?

Hook up with a squad. When you are part of a squad, no matter if you're the one that killed an enemy you will still get BEP from it. The same thing with hacking, if you're in a squad and your squad succesfully hacks a base, everyone in the squad gets the BEPs and the squad leader also gets CEP (Command Experience Points). You don't have to be in the base with the squad either, you just have to be in the same continent as the squad you're with. In just a few hours time you can go from BR1 to BR6.

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akak · « **Reply #44 on:** April 30, 2003, 03:35:22 PM »

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How do you get implants out of interest? Some of them sound funky.

I've got the Target implant where I can see everyone's health level and it also lets me see deployables from farther out. As a sniper I think that's an important implant to have since you can see your enemy's health level, you can pick out the ones to kill with one shot.

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