I never see many talk about planetside 2, so i thought i’d make an account and ask if there are any planetside 2 players out there on lemmy. What faction do you play? whats your favorite class? Vehicle? What do you enjoy most about the game?
I’m also looking for people to play with possibly. But im mostly curious what other linux users play in planetside 2.
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Haven’t played PS2 in years. I really enjoyed it until they introduced the lattice system, forcing players into big battles. Me and the people I played with were mostly into guerilla warfare, capping behind enemy lines and generally being a nuisance. And for that, my favorite vehicle was always the skywhale.
I liked playing engi as it worked well alongside the skywhale. And if I was bored an alone I’d crash it into an unsuspecting enemy underground without shields and spam landmines all over before blowing up myself and anyone else around it.
I’m not sure, but I think I played Terran. They’re the ones who have the mossie aircraft, right?
Edit: Oh, and I really liked infil with stalker cloak + crossbow. It allowed me to be a real asshole, hanging out around enemy terminals. Someone not paying attention to their surroundings would suddenly get headshotted and stabbed almost at the same time, only for me to run off and hide somewhere nearby ready to do the same thing again once they’d given up the search.
Note: I think it’s been 10 years since I last played. The mechanics may have been reworked, so I don’t know if my old tactics are still viable.
mechanics have changed quite a lot over the years, i played around 10 years ago as well. I came back because the game is dying and i want to enjoy it before it’s gone, it’s been quite good surprisingly, im enjoying my time. It’s weird that my experience is soo much more positive than most planetside 2 players, but i guess im also a more casual player of not just planetside 2, but all games, i dont put all of my brain or emotions into games really unless its narrative focused. im there to have a good time, not argue with people. Hell, it’s the only game i don’t usually get that annoyed at being killed repeatedly because i understand the nature of the game is going to end up with me dying a LOT. I got killed by a TR mosquito the other day, and i was very impressed with their kill, i was just sniping as i have been doing lately, and out of NOWHERE, because im not looking at my map at that moment, a mosquito just unleashes thousaands of bullets on me from behind and SCARES THE ABSOLUTE CRAP OUT OF ME
but i imagine irl i wouldn’t even have that much time to feel fear, more like a split second of fear before im dead.
This is the only game where i will literally /tell enemy players to complement their kills if they’re interesting, funny, or really clever or cool.
Yeah, I was playing PS2 pretty casually myself. I started playing around the time I became a parent, so I didn’t really have time for more than a quick session now and then, except feom in the evening when I could focus on more squad level efforts.
One thing I enjoyed about the game was the random encounters with other players, such as getting a tell out of the blue from someone I had just killed saying something along the lines of “Nice kill. Kudos on your cheats or skills, whichever applies”
After learning that it’s very linux compatible these days (it wasn’t always like this), I might check it out again - I’ve found that BattleBit and Foxhole fills the same role for me, but not completely.
In which way has the game changed the most for the past 10 years?
i wish battlebit had better linux support, but non eac servers i guess is something. Foxhole i would love to play but you can’t solo in it or just keep to yourself while playing from what i know.
Also yes, i love the weird kills this game can allow for that i can often be impressed by, sometimes im impressed by my kills or an enemies. i think my favorite kill i did recently was when i was going after a camping medic as an infiltrator, i killed them previously, but they returned to the location they were shooting from, so i went back and i put down a mine where they might run over to get back if they decided to camp again, i uncloaked nearby but slightly out of range so they might not hear me, they ended up going to where i was for cover and saw me, i cloaked up and sprinted around the corner to my mine and past it to some slightly better cover, i got hit a few times, but they ended up running into my mine.
Completely accidental kill, i literally did not plan it that way before i went to engage, my plan changed like right in the middle of it lol. i think that’s a prime example of what i enjoy about this game.
im pretty sure orbital strikes didn’t exist 10 years ago. Also there are a number of weapons that didn’t exist, and vehicles. Also all faction vehicles not only have the basic m20 basilisk gun that all vehicles have but every faction has their own faction specific basic gun, i think TR has some kind of chain gun for vehicles, and VS has a plasma gun thing of course and NC has this slower firing canon. I actually prefer these faction specific guns for vehicles over the m20 basilisk, they just feel better.
also a number of graphical changes, reflections, actual anti aliasing, DLSS/FSR 1. better explosions.
OH, also we have a 4th faction now, the NSO operatives, in the lore Nanite systems is the company that invented nanites, which is what is used to both repair things as an engineer and heal/revive players as a medic. Essentially nanite systems just is a company that enables the war as a whole. All 3 factions technically buy from nanite systems. Also this means that in planetside 2, death isn’t exactly a thing. But it does have a monetary cost. Anyway, NSO operatives are basically a mercenary faction, they are placed onto the faction that has the least population on a map. Also all of their weapons are terrible but their tank and fighter are quite interesting, terrible, but interesting. it seems to be a faction for the more hardcore players or people that want to keep the population count healthy per faction.
im sure theres a lot of other stuff. OH we are also getting an entire new weapon type that also adds more to the lore. A new type of alien weapon, because it turns out the Vanu were not the only alien species on auraxis or at least not the only one fighting on auraxis, there was another species that the vanu was fighting against, and that species are/were the creators of these new alien weapons, they look very inspired by lovecraftian/cthulhu-esque themes. Not sure we’ll actually get them but they sound neato. and the art looked neato.
also fishing is a thing now. worst april fools ever.
Terran Republic has the mosquito fighter, correct.
I FUCKING LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE PLANETSIDE 2. SHOUT OUT TO MY HOMIES VKATZ. I’LL SEE ALL YOU FELLOW PLANETSIDE 2 LEMMINGS ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF EMERALD. I WILL KILL YOU.
FUCK TR, FUCK NC
CAN’T BELIEVE TR INTENTIONALLY THREW TO DENY US THE SERVER MERGE TITLE. I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE
I’m considering starting PS2 again because of this thread. But I have so much to re-learn ad I haven’t played in a decade, so I might as well start (almost feom scratch). I have a lvl2 toon named VanuStinks, I think I’ll use that for now.
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I used to play a lot. Game could but never did catch up with modern tools. It had great depth and a for-its-time revolutionary netcode. But it was never revisioned, the graphics never got modernized and the generally the technical side made chooses that confused and annoyed me. The cosmetics and purchusables always got content but actual content was trickled. I thought it has immense potential (like counter strike) but developer resources was misused.
they did have a very minor graphics update like a few years ago, it’s actually maybe a bit more major than im saying depending on your eye for graphical enhancements, one is that we have real anti aliasing now, instead of edge AA. We now have FXAA, and TAA and a combo of FXAA and TAA. We also got FSR 1 and DLSS (which i can confirm works with optiscaler so you can convert DLSS to whatever you want) we also got some texture improvements i think at some point but those are even more minor, i think the biggest graphical change is screenspace object and water reflections. and i can’t really recall but i think they also made new explosions that are less intensive on one’s system and also somewhat more realistic (actually kicks up dirt and stuff from the ground).
It’s not much but i do appreciate it if the game is possibly gonna die and i dont have much time left to play.
I come back to it sometimes. I play a red sniper, and I usually sit on a really distant hill picking off people. Trying to beat my max distance kill
why TR? do you like their fast fire rates? i prefer NC and VS because of the higher damage per shot for nc and zero projectile drop on vsweapons.
Also I play NC and VS because i like roleplaying and the lore, i’m here to kill fascist authoritarians and not much more i guess.
i feel dirty playing TR when i do.
Donno think it has the craziest sniper rifle
Me, Vanu medic. I loved the massive battles man.
Unfortunately I don’t play anymore because I barely have time to game and the latest news from the game unfortunately show me it is a dying game, sonI’d rather keep the good memories and play something else when I have time sadly.
it is dying yes, but the population is recovering if you do have any interest in trying the game again before it does die, a lot of players seem to agree that now is kind of the right time to enjoy it before it does die, if it dies.
i’ve been enjoying myself, heck even a bit more than i did back in 2012. i never played this much back then.
I played the first PS. Loved it. If memory serves, I usually cloaked up, used a knife, and tried to capture stuff.
PS2, well… I played the beta, I didn’t care for the stealth changes. Then, it released and I played a little… just couldn’t maintain my interest, plus the unlock system was kinda punishing and made it seem too P2W for me.
Used to be a regular player. Not anymore for multiple reasons. Between a very toxic playerbase and various compounding design issues with the game itself, it sorta just stopped being fun.
Also didn’t help that most of my friends only wanted to hop into the game if they could win.
in my opinion, every pvp game has a toxic playerbase. it comes with the territory of pvp games, planetside 2 is just about the only pvp game i don’t absolutely despise and want to kill myself while playing. it will probably be the last pvp game i ever play in my lifespan. Hackers will make pvp an irrelevant concept over time as devs don’t know how to deaal with the problem, pve and single player games are the only future where things are fair until the hacking problem in all pvp games is gone or reduced significantly. until that time, people will continue to self harm with pvp games i think. which yes, i do consider most pvp games self harm, league of legends is the worst of it. It’s a prime example of exactly what pvp creates, i dont think competition makes people better, i think it just turns them into the worst possible assholes. Once planetside 2 is gone, pvp will be dead for me for the remainder of my lifespan i imagine until something in the gaming noosphere changes.
