Thread 2042382

Planetside 2 is having its 13 year anniversary, and dropping a long awaited Infiltrator rework that people have been begging for since launch.

https://www.planetside2.com/patch-notes/nov-4-anniv-update-2025

You like to shoot men in space, anon?

>>2042382 (OP)
>You like to shoot men in space, anon?
I used to....

>>2042382 (OP)
Sometimes.

>>2042382 (OP)
It does continue to shock me that this game keeps crawling onwards at an ever slower pace but never quite stopping even with barely a couple of hundred people playing. I assume that some insane mismanagement happened years ago when PS2 was actually popular that caused it to be slowly throttled instead of getting an actual sequel

>>2043252
>barely a couple of hundred people playing
Off hour sure, but peak still hits around 600-800 on most days. BF6 ate a chunk of the playerbase lately but they always come back because theres nothing else like it.

>>2043252
i am happy that PlanetSide 2 still runs on Windows 7, just with the recent added workaround with the sharing "major" steam-only updates from a windows 10 PC on the same LAN, because ALL the slop updates to windows number go up spyware recall copilot etcetera are not inspiring of joy to anyone but the bribery-and-threats class of "people".

unconscionable business practices by Actually Indians Microsoft... oh no its "AIM" all over again.

and it is not just broken toilet H1B telugu indians either, sadly.
that would be too easy.

>>2043278
You shouldn't even need the steam launcher for it, the game works standalone.

>>2043281
i got the game via steam originally, thats the only reason.
f2p for life too.
updates for the sake of privacy nightmares do not inspire joy, i could go on and on about that.

defensivecomputingchecklist.com is an ok page to read, to get started on the topic of life outside the ""social"" silos and slop algorithms.

>>2043302
No I mean you don't even need steam to run Planetside 2 even if you installed it through steam, theres no checks for the launcher you can just run the launcher from the steam folder and it'll update by itself. The accounts are also not tied to steam so you can still download the standalone and use the same account.

>>2043365
>No I mean you don't even need steam to run Planetside 2 even if you installed it through steam,
I suspected that all along.

In other news for the "Still Plays Great on Windows7 in 2025" list of games:
"World of Tanks" and "War Thunder" and "Crossout" and "Discovery Freelancer" and "Soapbox Race World" and "Mechwarrior Living Legends" to name a few.
Also "After Protocol" https://www.afterprotocol.com/ if you want hyper-esoteric RTS Space Sim circa 2008ish, but now open source.

>>2043252
>some insane mismanagement happened years ago that caused it to be throttled instead of getting an actual sequel
Correct.

>>2042382 (OP)
So the Infiltration nerfs are good overall, but these new implants, particularly Sharing is Caring, are extremely busted. You can have a guy AFK across the continent and still get boosted shield from them, and they have the option of using Carapace to negate the penalty too. At least they didn't add that dumbass Martyrdom perk from PTR.

>>2042382 (OP)
So why should I ever play stalker or long-range sniper again? This update is forcing me to go SMG cloaker if I play infil at all.

Does this game even have large scale fights anymore?

>>2046413
Yeah? Or is 96v96v96 not large scale enough for you? That's where the population counter stops going up at least.

>>2046426
so the game isnt dead yet?

>>2046493
Its been on this consistent off-hour on-hour struggle for years, its not going anywhere any time soon barring some extremely retarded decisions by the new devs. More players would be nice so I can play big fights at 3 am.

>>2046506
Idk seems like a disaster. Heavy downward spiral in the past 3 yrs.

>>2046506
>barring some extremely retarded decisions by the new devs.
Like completely dismantling one of the most popular classes in the game?

>>2047073
Their only mistake was not doing it 10 years ago.

>Bring back MAX revives.
>Bring back jumpseat repair for Harasser and Valkyrie
>Bring back better roadkills
>Bring back sensitivity to friendly fire
>New alert type that removes the lattice
>Rework lattice system overall
>Fix sound bug
>Fix collision bugs

>>2047127
And my only mistake was getting addicted to this game more than 10 years ago. But thankfully this new update solves this problem. All good things must come to an end after all.

>>2047401
it will take them 2 years to accomplish this when they have 1 programmer/dev currently working on the game. given the way the population is declining, it wont be around in 2 yrs.

the alpha build of this game was a masterpiece and every change since then has been a total disaster. I was there at sony HQ playing it on site. MAX units used to be able to charge forward and crush enemies like a vehicle could. Anyone could stand on any vehicle.
there were so many changes made that this game shouldnt even be called planetside 2

>>2047401
>Bring back MAX revives.
>Bring back jumpseat repair for Harasser and Valkyrie
These are fucking cancer, no thanks

>>2047633
did the alpha version have more permanent build-up features? biggest problem with PS2 is that nothing lasts for more than a few hours. you flip a zone and then it resets 4 hours later. everything you did earlier in the day is erased besides kill/deaths. it's just a glorified deathmatch game except more drawn out and more players (not anymore since population is dead)

if you unironically still play this game and arent abusing the suicide drones to make people mad why even bother logging in?

>>2047591
smedley is coming back, planetside 3 2027

>>2048518
No chance in hell they're already working on some dogshit modernslop extraction shooter. It's truly over.

>>2048533
not even. they're going to make it happen. it will be a while longer, but it will happen. the new game "reaper actual" or something is likely just a practice run to get a team together at the new studio. planetside 3 or another game in the franchise will be in the works eventually.

>>2046509
>we used to have over 6,000 players every day a mere three years ago
>now we're below 2,000
>July 2025: -25% of the entire pop in one month
Damn... it really is over, isn't it. The mergers were supposed to bring us back, yet here we are and now it's worse than ever before.

It's sad, because I genuinely love this genre (a persistent massive FPS with territory control over several continents) but unless you like Foxhole, there's fuck all for you to choose from.

>>2046195
>why should I play a long-range sniper ever again?
The guns still kill in one shot to the head. You're just not constantly invisible anymore.

SMG Infils and Stalker Infils died for the sins of CQC and mountain-perched one-shot kill sniperfags. Now if you want to run SMGs, you play Medic or Heavy, which defeats the whole fucking point of being a fast dick-ass thief type.

The current company in charge can't code for shit either, they gutted Infil sure but it was so hamfisted that way too much got destroyed in the process. Adding a gimmick drone ain't gonna hide how poorly the decloak nerf was.

>>2048594
>Stalker Infils died
Good. They should've never existed in the first place.

>>2042382 (OP)
All I wanted is for infils to be able to hack vehicles like they could in PS1. That would've been a fair trade for the nerf.

>>2048590
It really isn't persistent. The map resets every 5 or 6 hours. It's a glorified deathmatch. The only nice thing was the massive battles, but the game's too dead to field those much anymore.

>>2049348
>cloak over to sundy
>jump on top/crouch under middle
>instantly cuck their spawn faster, easier, and cheaper than a C4 fairy or allahu ackbar engineer could

lmao

>>2049392
yet more proof that every base should have had at least one indestructible tower spawn point
you know, LIKE THE ORIGINAL HAD
THE FORMULA WAS RIGHT THERE, SMEDLEY.