Planetside 2 - MMOFPS

[Gristle]

I feel like the effective radius for a lot of the HE vehicle weapons is some weak bullshit. Not just the rocket pods in the video above, but the HE cannon that the light tanks have can take upwards of 6 rounds to kill a single infantry from what I've seen/experienced. Not that I'm really complaining, I mainly play inf, but it must really make some people mad.

You mean the Lightning's cannon that can fire 6 times before having to reload? That thing is trash. The HE and HEAT cannons will kill in 1 (if direct) or 2 (if splash) hits. They also have much better range. They're good.

[Tibe]

Great gaming today, as a Mercenary/Deserter cell joined the outfit!

Assault space marines lead the charge!

Indeed, I acctually had fun in this game for the first time. And the jetpack was hellafun, glad I now know how to use it.

[Vibe]

Great gaming today, as a Mercenary/Deserter cell joined the outfit!

Assault space marines lead the charge!

Awesome squad work indeed.

To elaborate further, we were at the Tech Plant. Now everyone who's been at the Tech Plant attacker side knows it's a fucking hassle to take and can sometimes take hours to get inside and cap it. So our squad wanted to pull some tricks and actually make an impact on the whole fight.

First we spawned a Sunderer with shield buster, all took MAXes and Engies, and just drove inside through the shield to make a surprise attack from behind Sadly didn't have much of an impact on the whole fight, since there were so many of them inside and only 6 or 7 of us.

Next we all took Light Assaults and gathered outside the 2 doors chokepoint. Then we all ran inside at the same time, used jetpacks to quickly get on that balcony where the defenders camp and just threw our grenades and shot down as many terrorists as we could before dying. We did this 2 more times. The amount of kills we got by doing this was great
But what was really amazing was that our zerg could now push all the way up to that balcony and get to the cap point, just because we killed so many with our squad stunt.

It was incredible seeing a 7 man squad making such a huge impact on a zerg fight.

Indeed, I acctually had fun in this game for the first time. And the jetpack was hellafun, glad I now know how to use it.

Well that's just it, Planetside 2 is not 1/10th as fun without a proper squad. Infact it's pretty damn boring if you're solo or in an unorganized squad. You seriously need a good outfit/squad to fully enjoy this game. Can't stress this enough.


In other PS2 news: DOUBLE XP WEEKEND

https://twitter.com/planetside2/status/276455692058120193

[Idzo]

Double xp?

Epic teamwork. we did great in choppers, we did great with MAX, we did great with sunderrer.

I have to ask one question, when do we start today?? 

[Araxiel]

Cool.

[Kafein]

Double xp?

Epic teamwork. we did great in choppers, we did great with MAX, we did great with sunderrer.

I have to ask one question, when do we start today?? 

When I'm there to play with you guys. Also, when my boiler is fixed because playing in the attic at 2am in winter without heating is BS.

[[ptx]]

We did great with Galaxy? Also, looks like i'm staying at my flat this weekend, damn you planetside >_>

[Fips]

Damn it, can't play on the weekends, y u no make 2xp-week ._.

[Vibe]

Also, when you're online and playing, please keep an eye out on the Outfit chat. We'll be calling people in for squad action via that chat as well and telling you which TS to use, because yesterday we used Merc TS instead of Fallen/HRE one.

[Artyem]

This game is great when it works properly, and unfortunately it's very poorly optimized.  I have a pretty decent setup (I can run ARMA 2 on high settings with good framerate) but this game completely crippled my PC.  I had to tweak a bunch of settings in the game config to make it run properly.  I was getting 10 - 15 FPS everywhere and every five seconds or so it'd drop down to 0 - 2 fps, so it was stuttering worse than a Brookland crack house.  I discovered that the game has an uncapped FPS rate, so i set it to 45 for good measure.  I also tweaked a few normal settings below what you can set them in the normal game options.

A few other things you can do if you have FPS problems:

1. Disable Hyperthreading.  I didn't do this myself, but most people say this solves their issues for the most part.
2. Change render quality, I had to set it to about 70%.
3. Change view distance in the UserOptions (found in the game directory).
4. Set your max FPS, it's basically uncapped at first and I found that giving this a limit probably fixed 50% of the problem.
5. Make sure you're not using anymore than 75% of your total disk space, this can and will fuck your computer.
6. Use compressed air to clean out your computer, generally helps to do this frequently regardless of how often you play any game.

I don't know if these have already been suggested, I just figured I'd share my documentation of how I fixed Planetside 2 with the hopes that someone else with framerate issues would find a solution with the above knowledge.

Anyway, who here plays on Waterson?  Dracul and friends play there as TR for the most part, I didn't want to leave NC but I'd rather join them then play by myself.

P.S fuck you VS

[Kafein]

Technically, cleaning the dust of your computer will only help solving autostarting, random stops and reluctant booting.

Gonna play this evening, on which TS are you guys on ?

For framerate issues, I highly recommend the useroptions.ini settings that were previously mentioned, except I upped the view distance to 2000 (its better when using aircraft).

[Artyem]

Technically, cleaning the dust of your computer will only help solving autostarting, random stops and reluctant booting.

Gonna play this evening, on which TS are you guys on ?

For framerate issues, I highly recommend the useroptions.ini settings that were previously mentioned, except I upped the view distance to 2000 (its better when using aircraft).

We're on Nditions TS if you want to come join us later today, just message one of us and we'll let you in.


And yeah, I set my view distance to 2000 and I'm still trying to get my joystick configured properly.

[Kafein]

We're on Nditions TS if you want to come join us later today, just message one of us and we'll let you in.


And yeah, I set my view distance to 2000 and I'm still trying to get my joystick configured properly.

Ho I'm sorry, I was referring to the people playing on Woodman.

[Tanken]

We're on Nditions TS if you want to come join us later today, just message one of us and we'll let you in.


And yeah, I set my view distance to 2000 and I'm still trying to get my joystick configured properly.

Are you guys still Waterson TR?

[TheAppleSauceMan]

Are you guys still Waterson TR?

Yes we are!