Aw man. The concept of this game is so cool. I'm like a decade too late for it though.

>>715128589 (OP)
more than a decade.
It was fun like 13 years ago but that was about it.

>>715128589 (OP)
It was fun in its prime. Having a huge battle over a territory that lasted a couple of hours with neither side being able to gain control was great. There's nothing like it now. Retards ruined it by stacking a single faction on servers. What's the point of just steamrolling empty territories and never getting into any good fights?

>>715128589 (OP)
It's a shame games didn't go more in this direction. The trend of small team hero battle games does nothing for me. When I played stuff like Planetside and MAG, even if they had their flaws, I was excited for what might come next.

>>715129401
I thought it would make a comeback as the next thing after battleroyales.
Looks like I was wrong.

>>715128589 (OP)
My favorite part of this game was flying the small ships and harassing people. The VTOL movement felt good and there was a lot of tech with it.

Holding the crown during beta felt pretty good. I think the map could have been way more focused on this asymmetrical 300 vs 600 at the center.

Stealth was a mistake

>>715129194
It's easy to say "retards ruined it" but it's the game being badly designed and not sustainable.

Crowds aren't "retarded", they behave a certain way, they are predictable. A game community is the same, it's a large group of people and thus is predictable and if it behaves in a dumb way it's because the game funnels them that way with its design. See it as a river of water, it doesn't flow randomly, it takes the easiest path.
People try to win, they get obliterated by 13+ years veterans and fps pros, so they join zergs because that's their only way to stay alive for more than a minute. That's the fundamental problem: the skill ceiling and the difference in performance between good players and bad players are too big so bad players don't have fun and leave and the game dies.

It reminds me of a study, on dogs or primates I don't remember, that observed that during playtime, the slightly older and stronger subject would lose on purpose so the younger would continue playing with him. Even animals understand this naturally.

>>715129194
You would think there would be forced balance servers where you were locked into only making a character on the faction with the least amount of players.

>>715128589 (OP)
First one was better.

>>715128589 (OP)
You really had to be there but ya, it was peak fucking gaming.

Do you need a subscription to.play the 4th faction? Last timplayed you did but the wiki says anyone can.

>>715128589 (OP)
brilliant foundation of a game that the devs could never figure out how to truly capitalize on. I don't know why their ambition was to create this huge game world but then every objective was just arena capture points
there's a different timeline where ps2 had genius game director and became the WoW of online shooters

>>715128589 (OP)
rip

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>>715128589 (OP)
Yeah, I don't even normally like online fps games, but this one feels unique, nothing else like it with those big battles.
Recently played it again, still was fun.

Also, visit thread on /vm/

>>715128589 (OP)
many people just aren't built for games like this. i tried to show my brother this game one time. i was using a fighter plane to give him a birds eye view of the battlefield to see how immense the battle was. he didn't get it though, he just said i was being cheap and walked away. no, dip shit, i'm trying to show you what's going on from an observer's perspective. i don't even fly unless i'm ordered to by the outfit. he just went back to his world of warcraft like the max faggot he is.

same thing with dark souls and elden ring. "why would i want to play a game where I die all the time." may god help him.

same thing with half-life. "that game is old." it took a girlfriend of his to get him to actually play a game such as portal. he is eternally pussy whipped, just like his shit fucked ape brain father.

>>715142161
To be fair rollslop are just brainless, shallow and uninteresting.

>>715142161
>just said i was being cheap
I don't get it..

>>715133972
I gotta agree with this anon. It was a combo of the original devs leaving (all of which their original ideas had flaws), new teams picking up where they left off and trying to run with it (and each of theirs having their own brand of flaws which conflicted with the nature of the game), and the core of the gameplay being such a mess as it is now that it's been shackled to a shadow of its former self on top of a grindy MMOFPS that's been taken over by cults-of-personality inside each faction. And that's all on top of vets just styling on newer players.

There is too much going on under the hood from a gameplay perspective as much as there is from the players point of view. Suffice it to say that PS2 has had its days, and they are long and well past them now.

(But the study you're speaking of isn't a study, anon. It's a biological imperative among parents and their offspring. The parent's/older dogs/cats/primates/othersocialanimalhere will actively play-fight with their children to try and "teach" their younger comrades how to effectively defend themselves and attack others effectively, and will play the role of "victim" to enhance their play-fights so the youngster gets positive reinforcement.)

beta of planetside 1 was the most fun I ever had in an online fps

>you will never again roll the ATV upside down on the warpgate ceiling supports and stick the wheels in the air to achieve infinite RPM and make the physics engine freak the fuck out

>>715128589 (OP)
the main actual combat aspect of this game was meatgrindering yourself into chokepoints over and over battlefield style. just wasn't for me

>>715142517
i don't give a single fuck to deal with you right now
>>715142819
it's an older term that meant using exploits or meta fagging and making the game worse for others. he was implying that i was being a pussy for flying around, it didn't even dawn on his insect brain that i was simply showing him a birds eye view of the action. he thought this was just how i played the game

I remember this game made my GPU catch on fire and burn my PC.

>>715143808
That was only after Wrel the retard's base redesigns. This fucking idiot actually thought walling them off from vehicles and adding tons of bottlenecks based on feedback from cheating streamers who only play as heavy assault with edited hitboxes would make infantry play more enjoyable when we already had biolabs for that stupid shit and as an example for why it was a bad idea. Planetside 2 was actually still a good servicable game until they hired that reddit dumpsterbaby.

>>715145395
he added a base so contrived and labyrinthic they had to add fucking arrows on the floor to tell players where to go.

>>715129401
Afaik SoE/daybreak are the only one that somehow managed to make those massive battles with (at their peak) 1k+ people per map, and the technology is patented, this is the main reason why other MMOs like Foxhole or recently Dune Awakening do split servers with limited population, hell, Star Citizen still haven't figured out how to do it despite being the entire foundation of their game. We'll naver have another MMOFPS with truly massive battles like Planetside 2.

I stopped playing when they added shotguns. The freemium monetization scheme was steadily getting worse and worse around then, and having every spawn door camped by a TR with a shotty cert farming was the final straw for me. I had fun over the years, though.

>>715128589 (OP)
The game is unironically dogshit now, they absolutely killed it
Not enough players for any fight to feel like a proper battle anymore
It's dead, drop it.

>>715147845
I played it on weekends and Fridays and it was fine.

>>715134439
Nso faction is free. Good thing about it is, that you don't need to wait in queue, but robot guns and vehicles are shit. Oh and nso infils are way more visible when cloacked, but only gays and retards play infil so i dont count this as negative

>>715128589 (OP)
I played this game last year for a bit, It's mostly just veterans playing now since it only averages like 500 people. When the game advertises 2000 player servers and you can only get max like 1000 on a good day its kinda ruins the game.

>>715128589 (OP)
It was pretty fun despite the guns feeling like shit

>>715128589 (OP)
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>>715146852
The main devs behind Planetside 2 are currently making another MMO FPS game called "Reaper Actual". The name fucking sucks and it doesn't look that cool so far, but it might still end up being interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO1QnyoA3uQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC_Jb0jjlS4

>>715153123
>extraction shooter gatcha game with NFTs set in near modern days with small fights between small groups of players using "collectable" characters.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Planetside

>>715153123
jesus christ what a fall from grace, poor Higby, this almost gave me aids

>>715153123
Looks like a generic military shooter

>>715153123
I'm so tired of oper8or military slop with plastic guns and 58 different attachments tango mike zeke, it's either this or clown fair rejects from tumblr

Infantry Online CA was the best version of these giant fight forever over territory games

>>715149049
Nah I was playing it until last week and it's definitely dead outside of evenings and even on evenings the battles are incredibly disappointing compared to what it was
the game lost all of its magic and sense of scale
it's done

>>715154538
>NFTs
What year is it again?

>>715155851
Tango mike zeke, bravo gringo reaper out. Go go go OOHRAH

>>715156443
Not for me.

>>715156643
well you can enjoy slurping shit
game is barely alive

>>715156368
Based taste. Infantry Online CA was absolutely peak in terms of scale-to-controls ratio. No flashy engine tricks, no overdesigned ability vomit, just tight gameplay and a never-ending tug of war with actual map flow. People forget how crucial that simplicity was-none of this cobbled together, spawn-on-death, lattice-chokepoint crap. It felt organic. God I miss that era.

>>715156597
We need to RETVRN

>>715146567
Truly despise playing on Esamir now because of how often the frontlines end up on containment labs.
What were they thinking with that shit, underground biolab on Amaresh was already ass but they double downed on it because???

>>715129401
It was made by dudes from SoE who made the best game of all time called Infantry Online. It was a top down shooter and had crazy shit like lethal zap gloves and particle rail guns and jet packs and shit, and this was in the late 90s. There won’t ever be good games again.