Planetside 2 is SOE's upcoming MMOFPS. Large-scale combat between three factions - the Terran Republic, who are Imperialist scum with a focus on high fire rate weaponry and spamming as many bullets as possible, the New Conglomerate, who have a focus on hitting hard and taking hits and are clearly the best faction, and the Vanu Sovereignty, xenos scum that employ hovertanks and laser garbage. The game will have a population limit per continent - 64km^2 of land on a continent, by the way - of several thousand players. It's also free-to-play - there will be no up-front box cost, but the game will use the typical monetization model of "convenience and cosmetics, but no power available" for real money.
It's the game I'm most excited about in the near future, and every new piece of information I see about the game (the developers are incredibly forthcoming with information, screenshots, etc on twitter and interact with the community on a daily basis, which is pretty awesome) just makes me even more excited for it. That said, I'm playing NC, and so should you because it'll be $#@!in awesome
It spawned an enormous amount of media at E3 - here are a few pieces.
GameSpot interview with Matt Higby, Creative Director of Planetside 2, covering most of what the game is about!
PCGamer's Planetside 2 E3 preview, talking about some moment-to-moment gameplay
Planetside 2, E3 Day three stream - this is two hours of gameplay from E3, and pretty awesome to watch!
And for those who really want to learn all they can, this is the full roundup of the E3 coverage for Planetside 2, courtesy of Planetside Universe. PSU and its forums are also an amazing resource for everything about the game, as it's largely populated by Planetside veterans, and frequented by many of PS2's developers (seriously they read those forums and post there pretty often - there's even a thread by SOE's audio director about the game's music and sound which is all really $#@!ing awesome)
And as a bonus, this is why the original Planetside was so amazing, and why Planetside 2 will be, too
Planetside 2
About $#@!ing time.
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Beschenkt die Starken!
Schröpft die Schwachen,
und die Armen schlagt ans Kreuz!
Wir hängen nicht am Leben,
doch an einem Traum!
Schröpft die Schwachen,
und die Armen schlagt ans Kreuz!
Wir hängen nicht am Leben,
doch an einem Traum!
Looks interesting. Loved the story about the bug that enabled losing. I signed up for the beta.
Any job worth doing with a laser is worth doing with many, many lasers. -Khrima
Beyond a shadow of a doubt if you don't watch them like a hawk they will stack their collective balls off - MrChaos on Alleg players
Beyond a shadow of a doubt if you don't watch them like a hawk they will stack their collective balls off - MrChaos on Alleg players
Anyone else playing the beta for this? I'm having a lot of fun sneaking around stabbing people who think infiltrator is a sniper class.
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Any job worth doing with a laser is worth doing with many, many lasers. -Khrima
Beyond a shadow of a doubt if you don't watch them like a hawk they will stack their collective balls off - MrChaos on Alleg players
Beyond a shadow of a doubt if you don't watch them like a hawk they will stack their collective balls off - MrChaos on Alleg players