PlanetSide 2 Reveal Trailer

i am with vhold ,it was awsome in the beta but once thay got to release and added the lattece system it sucked ,used to be ace to go and capture an outpost and have the enemy try and hunt you down used to always lead to a big battle.i hope thay dont keep the lattece system.

I remember playing the original planetside for awhile, I use to play as New Conglomerate, they had such awesome firepower, awesome to see all 3 factions return.

kinda excited

@Beomoose said:

Just a teaser trailer, but I'm a tad disappointed that it looks less like Planetside "2" and more like Planetside "HD"

My thoughts exactly.

The first game was great until they added a bunch of silliness. That is the way of the MMO though. UO, WOW, etc etc all did the same. Start strong then get less and less fun as the years roll on.  
 
I am just wondering if it is gonna hit ps3 this time, or if it will just be PC like the first game. Probably won't hear about that for a while.

@gunstarherosaid:

i am with vhold ,it was awsome in the beta but once thay got to release and added the lattece system it sucked ,used to be ace to go and capture an outpost and have the enemy try and hunt you down used to always lead to a big battle.i hope thay dont keep the lattece system.

Planetside had plenty of problems after release, but the lattice system made sense and prevented huge land grabs by people going solo. Your ninja ace playstyle was fun for you, but made territory in the game impossible to hold and pointless. Pre-lattice it was like all I ever did was go around and repair bases and unhack them. Usually with a partner.

It was unbalanced. The BFRs were the same problem. Someone having fun at the expense of everyone else. The design decisions that were happening before I left planetside were truly bafflling. Hopefully they learned their lesson...

Planets is what online fps needed.

i remember playing PlanetSide for all of 15 mins. Then again i felt like the game (at the time) did a piss poor job at explaining what to do.

Yawn.

And people still think than an MMOFPS is something that should be attempted? Wonders never cease.

Cool. If it's solidly-constructed and all that, I might give it a shot.

Vanu 4 Lyfe!

In all seriousness, I am glad to see that this is still happening. But one thing bothers me... Since the original Planetside launched, people have become very used to having multiplayer games with persistence like CoD and BF:BC, and I wonder if people would be willing to pay a subscription in this day and age.

I know that there is a lot more to the persistence in Planetside than in something like CoD, but I just feel that it's going to be a much harder sell.

@Stahlbrand said:

And people still think than an MMOFPS is something that should be attempted? Wonders never cease.

Out of interest, what other MMOFPS's have there been apart from Planetside? I can only think of Huxley, and that never saw the light of day.

EDIT: Oh and I guess Global Agenda, but that game seemed to fail due to more than just a bad concept.

MAGMOWER 4 LIFE!

That may be the most generic trailer ever made.

I just hope they got rid of the random-cone-of-fire crap that was in the first game, since with that crap, it was impossible to play a sniper or hit anything beyond the 1m range, except of course you were in a vehicle.

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! Another reason (among many) PC gaming is not even near to being dead.(If not superior to consoles)

I fucking loved planetside. I hope this turns out good.

Take my money now SOE, NOW!

Nobody got hit in this trailer. Love the aim!

@Zithe: Terran Republic = Space hicks (a la StarCraft Terrans), with tons of bullets and squeezing as many gunners as possible into vehicles.

New Conglomerate (represent!) = Freedom fighters, focusing on upfront power with lots of shotguns and heavy rounds that do a lot of damage per shot, but fire slower and do less DoT than TR.

Vanu Sovereignty = Tech-Hippies, using Vanu technology to make lasers, hovercraft and other fun spacey things. They kind of take a mid-road - medium-powered weapons, but they usually get a twist like built-in armor-piercing or splash damage.

Also, FUCK YEAH. I'm already getting ready to drive a Deliverer like a lunatic through the front lines and take down tanks with a light APC. Bring on the beta.

Yes! So long as there are no big dumb stompy robots this could be awesome.

@FMinus said:

I just hope they got rid of the random-cone-of-fire crap that was in the first game, since with that crap, it was impossible to play a sniper or hit anything beyond the 1m range, except of course you were in a vehicle.

I'm sure you're exaggerating, it's just not the unrealistic 'fire from a mile away with a flick shot'. For me it makes sense that you have to crouch and settle for a second with your sights leading the target.

@aceofspudz: The lattice system was fine, what they did was massively restructure the way XP was given out. You used to be able to level up with just kill XP, or base captures, and you shared kill XP with your squad. So fighting just about anywhere was good enough to level up. They changed it so only captures would work, so people would swarm around everywhere in one giant mass and then sit in a base for 15 or whatever minutes, doing nothing.

It not only made the game boring, it overloaded the servers to the point of crashing since now everybody was massed into a small number of compacted areas, which meant it had to cross talk communicate with everybody around. The game that had run fine in beta with more people was now basically broken. They never ever acknowledged or addressed this and lost a huge percentage of their players in the first month. It was a catastrophe.

Ya know i'v waited so long for another planetside. However know that it's "around the corner" so to speak. I'm not sure if I'm willing to fork over a monthly fee when I can just play any other shooter like BF3 etc.

Looks great. For those who want more info Rock, Papper, Shotgun has a good write-up.

Dudes standing in a line, shooting each other.
 
Riveting!

Halo influenced much?

The "trailer" was done for SOE Fan Faire, don't think it's meant to win that many people over. They promised EVE like leveling, more sandbox features like Darkfall/AoC has, wouldn't have hurt to put two sentences of text in it for all non-insiders to get that across.

@CosmicQueso said:

Halo influenced much?

2003 for the original PS, 2001 for Halo, it's a stretch considering development cycles but Halo influences the entire industry so... sure

Planetside had achievements before any other game or XBOX Live though... so it goes both ways

If there is a monthly subscription fee I want nothing to do with it.

@Meatsim said:

If there is a monthly subscription fee I want nothing to do with it.

According to an interview with Smedly at PC-GAMER “there will be some free element to it.”

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/08/planetside-2-what-we-know-so-far/

man i loved planetside, I'd really dig a chance to go back hack the damn republic again sometime in the future

baby vanu jesus for life!

Started playing PS again with my 45 free days. Even with all the ruinous expansions and the horrible CoD style player base now playing it, there's still a shimmer of genius there. Says a lot that I can even enjoy an 8 year old game that's barely had any decent work done on it. It's just so damn unique in size, scope and all that stuff.

They really need to market the balls out of PS2. A lot of people passed up on PS thinking it was just some Battlefield 42 style game with subs.