Rougey
Most Honoured Aussie
Anyone else getting on the Bangbus?
Planetside 2 is the sequel to Planetside, a Tribes inspired MMOFPS (yeah thats right) which works. At any one time you can have upwards of 2000 people fighting on a single continent, Planetside huge and sprawling maps - at the moment each server has three continents with more to come. It's a hugely team based game, playing alone will leave you dead a lot of the time, it's extremely difficult to lone wolf and you are rewarded for playing with people on your side. But of course teamwork doesn't matter when a Zerg forms, basically a mass of hundreds and hundreds of players who swarm over the map in an unorganized fashion - joining a friendly Zerg can be a rewarding or frustrating experience, but fighting off an enemy Zerg is like nothing you've ever played before - if you've ever liked the idea of an epic last stand to the bitter end, this game is for you.
It's free to play, and I have to say that it is extremely well balenced in terms of the base weapons agains the purchasable unlocks, with the exception of vehicle weapon upgrades - those are pay to win, at least until you run into a group of six guys with the vanilla rocket launcher then you are pretty much *danced*.
I'm rolling with the Barney Battery Cult, aka the Vanu Sovereignty (VS) on Briggs, the Aussie sever. The Vanu are a bunch of Scientists and Free thinkers who have found enlightenment though alien technology and see to bring light and prosperity to the rest of mankind... at the point of a laser rifle - Basically they are a bunch of crazy technology worshiping cultists. Your other options are the Smurfs AKA New Conglomerate (NC), you're all american, freedom loving mercenaries who are really fighting for the megacorporations who fund them and fight for the bottom line more often than liberty, while the third faction is the Elmos AKA Terran Republic (TR) - The TR are a free and open democracy, or at least where - they resemble little more than a well armed authoritarian dictatorship.
Each faction has it's advantages and disadvantages, NC weapons might fire slow but they hit like motherfuckers, while TR weapons don't do as much damage they have so many goddamn bullets it won't matter, while the VS weapons fire slower and don't do as much damage they are very accurate. And we get hover tanks.
Which is what I've been doing; spend most of my time rolling around in Magriders, basically a hover tank with a nitrous injector commonly known as the "Magmower" because of it's tendency to run down enemy and friendly alike with it's swift maneuverability. I got mine decked out with an anti-infantry BFG cannon, anti-tank sniper rifle, green neon undercariege, zebra paint job and a similey face hood ornament.
If your machine can run it, I'll get on it.
Planetside 2 is the sequel to Planetside, a Tribes inspired MMOFPS (yeah thats right) which works. At any one time you can have upwards of 2000 people fighting on a single continent, Planetside huge and sprawling maps - at the moment each server has three continents with more to come. It's a hugely team based game, playing alone will leave you dead a lot of the time, it's extremely difficult to lone wolf and you are rewarded for playing with people on your side. But of course teamwork doesn't matter when a Zerg forms, basically a mass of hundreds and hundreds of players who swarm over the map in an unorganized fashion - joining a friendly Zerg can be a rewarding or frustrating experience, but fighting off an enemy Zerg is like nothing you've ever played before - if you've ever liked the idea of an epic last stand to the bitter end, this game is for you.
It's free to play, and I have to say that it is extremely well balenced in terms of the base weapons agains the purchasable unlocks, with the exception of vehicle weapon upgrades - those are pay to win, at least until you run into a group of six guys with the vanilla rocket launcher then you are pretty much *danced*.
I'm rolling with the Barney Battery Cult, aka the Vanu Sovereignty (VS) on Briggs, the Aussie sever. The Vanu are a bunch of Scientists and Free thinkers who have found enlightenment though alien technology and see to bring light and prosperity to the rest of mankind... at the point of a laser rifle - Basically they are a bunch of crazy technology worshiping cultists. Your other options are the Smurfs AKA New Conglomerate (NC), you're all american, freedom loving mercenaries who are really fighting for the megacorporations who fund them and fight for the bottom line more often than liberty, while the third faction is the Elmos AKA Terran Republic (TR) - The TR are a free and open democracy, or at least where - they resemble little more than a well armed authoritarian dictatorship.
Each faction has it's advantages and disadvantages, NC weapons might fire slow but they hit like motherfuckers, while TR weapons don't do as much damage they have so many goddamn bullets it won't matter, while the VS weapons fire slower and don't do as much damage they are very accurate. And we get hover tanks.
Which is what I've been doing; spend most of my time rolling around in Magriders, basically a hover tank with a nitrous injector commonly known as the "Magmower" because of it's tendency to run down enemy and friendly alike with it's swift maneuverability. I got mine decked out with an anti-infantry BFG cannon, anti-tank sniper rifle, green neon undercariege, zebra paint job and a similey face hood ornament.
If your machine can run it, I'll get on it.
