Planetside 2 - MMOFPS

[Christo]

Have to agree with Vibe, Crown fights, especially defending it against insane odds feels awesome, you feel kinda heroic doing that.

But people, Platoon leaders too, tend to avoid confrontation. Why? They clearly see an enemy platoon detected in a base, why not face them, let the "zerg" capture the undefended territory, while you break their advance. Everyone does this as a Platoon Leader from what I've seen.

All of them lack balls to confront the enemy I suppose?

I think the game in its current state is only a small part of what the Developers had in mind.. but sure, let's release it.

[Vibe]

Have to agree with Vibe, Crown fights, especially defending it against insane odds feels awesome, you feel kinda heroic doing that.

I think the game in its current state is only a small part of what the Developers had in mind.. but sure, let's release it.

It's just that it makes me extremely sad hearing how awesome PS1 was compared to this shallowage

They had this lattice system that actually made defense a viable option and it made zergs clash, resulting in HUGE fights. Just looking at the base layouts of PS1 makes me cry for them, underground tunnels, actual indoors, not the PS2 "indoors" that gets you owned by vehicles spamming HE shells. Much more infantry friendly, vehicle zerg was only good until you got to the base... ;_;

I did hear they will listen to community and do some shit about metagame and stuff in January though.

EDIT: Honestly, I don't know why PS2 Platoon leaders keep focusing on capping bases rather than confronting enemy zerg. They probably think they're PTFOing. Sad story, capping and losing bases means shit, as it can be easily recapped, not to mention you don't lose anything that cruical.

[Christo]

Yeah, I'm just facepalming so hard, when we take.. let's stay an Amp station on Indar, then the leader sends out all squadrons to start capping territory that we cannot hold at all, and in the meantime the other factions start a counterattack into our empire, so our whole territory gets screwed, amp station gets cut off, enemy platoons detected. Your territory in ruins.

Platoon lead still sends you around capping undefended bases, even if you warn them 2324234324 times.
How dare I question their leadership skills? I got this once.

Facepalm.

[Logen]

Vibes words made me sad

[Vibe]

Vibes words made me sad

cry evrytime ;_;

[Kafein]

defense a viable option

This, 10000 times.


I will be honest, I like the infantry/land/air balance at the moment although I know that's mostly me. But I don't see any point defending, when everybody in your team just deserts any station you capped, and the whole enemy team just comes zerging you. That does not happen all the time though, and the best moments I had definetly were those I was defending a large base with sizeable forces on both sides.

[Casimir]

If you wanna get more involved with the meta game i suggest organizing OP nights, or coordinating with other outfits.  Also empire showdown soon should lead to some good organised gameplay.

[Vibe]

If you wanna get more involved with the meta game i suggest organizing OP nights, or coordinating with other outfits.  Also empire showdown soon should lead to some good organised gameplay.

That's part of the problem. I've been rolling with several outfits using voice and waypoints and they mostly just zerg undefended bases. I can understand, since it's bloody hard to find a base that's actually getting defended, since defending bases lacks some serious incentive.

[Knute]

It'd be nice if there was a way that all the different random squads and outfits had something to help them coordinate and share their positions and enemy positions on the map.  Something better than in-game chat like a faction specific message board you access in the map screen that would also allow you to mark things on the map, so commanders could coordinate.

Or if they had some type of unit above an outfit, so outfits could attach themselves to battalions which would have message boards/maps that only their members could see in game.  So if you're the only person in your outfit playing at the moment you could use it to link up with another group that's in the same battalion, all in-game.

[Gristle]

My character is on Total Biscuit's server and it's starting to get very imbalanced. Character transfers need to be a thing.

[Panos]

We should make a steam group and arrange when we can play all together as a squad

[Casimir]

Post january i will have some free time and will look at organising some ps2 stuff along with other things.

[Panos]

Post january i will have some free time and will look at organising some ps2 stuff along with other things.

Bitch no one wants you as our leader!!

GO TO HELL!!


 

[Casimir]

Ha its like you think you have a choice. This is the republic son, and you know only loyalty and subservience.

[Kafein]

Ha its like you think you have a choice. This is the republic son, and you know only loyalty and subservience.

Afaik TR are democratic in the lore.