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Planetside 2 - The Thread - Ding Dong Vanu Edition
Lambda217
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Planetside 2 is set in the space future, where everyone decided to go to a different planet, found out it was terrible, and got into a big fight. It's an MMOFPS, so unlike conventional shooters where you shoot all the dudes in the room and the announcer voice comes on and says "Well done" and the American voice calls you a "Teamkilling faggot", all the shit's going down at once. There's three whole unique and massive continents, and it's up to you and your faction to sweep across them, capturing every base in your path.
There's a fuckton of different ways to wage war in Planetside. You can roll your tank across the plains of Amerish, demolishing all in your path, take to the skies above Esamir in a fighter VTOL, or have a tense close-quarter FPS shootout in a Bio Lab somewhere. And, since this is all happening at once, the battles can intersect in any manner of ways. Like the time I rolled over a tense close-quarter FPS shootout with my tank, and then a fighter VTOL crashed into me.
As you support your faction by killing dudes, you'll gain cert points you can use to upgrade your equipment. Each infantry class, from the stealthy spooky sniping Infiltrator to the badass powered armor MAX suit has a variety of different upgrades, weapons, and weapon upgrades to ensure maximum carnage on the battlefield.
The Factions
There's three factions vying for control of the planet, each with their own fighting style and doctrine, and you can choose your side.
The Terran Republic are a bunch of Hitlers who use rapidly-firing but weak guns to ineffectively suppress any free thought or rebellion under their terrible rule.
Also known as: "Elmos","Fascists","Zergs"
The New Conglomerate are a plucky band of heroes who valiantly battle against the Terrans with railguns and other magnetic weaponry to ensure freedom and democracy for all citizens.
Also known as: "Warriors","Badasses","Bomb-Ass Space Fighters"
The Vanu Sovereignty are a bunch of bellends who cram technology into their heads and use ugly purple-colored space lasers to murder innocent people.
Also known as: "Barnies","Toasters","Fashion Disasters"
Also, it's free, so why are you not getting it?
(yeah, there was a thread with Planetside 2 in the title, but it was for key giveaways so whatevs)
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
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Also, our guns are ridiculously accurate and have zero bullet-drop. NC weapons are kind of terrible and ineffective unless you're just spamming as many bullets as possible. No thought, only zerg.
GET WITH THE FUCKING VANU SON. THERE'S A REASON WHY WE PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS CONQUER INDAR AND ESAMIR.
Fell out of the sky with half a frame per second, stood still enough to get to the point where my FPS came out of decimals, got shot and died.
I haven't played it since. I think I may need to give the OS more than a gigabyte of ram.
EDIT: I'm trying it again now, giving it exactly half of my computers processing power/ram
I still feel like the player model shouldn't look like this:
(Click for full)
Turn the graphics settings as low as you can, Planetside 2 doesn't properly utilise GPU or multicore processors.
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
But they're so boring. Also, they have inferior weapons and only tend to succeed when they can zerg hard enough to fill the air with bullets.
like that one time I wiped out a squad of 8 barnies cause they tried to jam my scattergun with their corpses
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
and 2....Terrans are the spray and prayers, NC guns tend to OP to other faction weapons, and Vanu...dont get me started with how many times i tried to sneak around and had plasma shot up ass
Cause that would be a sensible idea
vanu still suck
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
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I play TR if I want MMS, NC if I want bulletspam, and VS when I want to go quake on somebody's arse.
cause you gotta have loyalty and comradeship with your space brothers
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
How can you be spacebros when you're shooting your friends in the dick a third of the time?
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
On the topic of groups fuhrball, one of fuhrball's friends, and I have an outfit on the SolTech server on the VS faction called "The Seal Cub Clubbin' Club" or SCCC. If anyone on other factions in SolTech wants to make an outfit for diaspora let me know cause I prefer the NC infiltrator over the VS or TR
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The Terran Republic's theme is the best.
we're the most tactical special-ops heavy assault team ever
we drive around all day erryday in a sunderer ruining shit and not giving a fuck
our only disadvantage is that we're vanu
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
Do I take it you've never had the joy of playing Quake, Lambda? :P
space future lasers < space future guns
case in point, the lasher
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."
that wasent really the Epic part, we only took 1 place and then...everybody including myself decided to drive all of the tanks down a hill which lead to the ocean, sooo we all got clusterfucked XD
and i have got to get involved in a Flash Platoon
(and also i need someone from the SCCC to invite me to the outfit so that i can take part in these "Spec ops" raids)
mine is the Heavy Assault. they are heavy enough to step on the enemies and squish them flat, and they also have giant space guns
i also like the Combat Medic for they can reanimate the dead
"I want you to show this world what it means to fear the sky."