Holy crap I need to contact SOE to see if I can get my old account from forever ago(9 years now, jesus).

I remember when I first heard about the original Planetside. I don't think I had ever been so excited for a game before it was released.
Up to that point, Ultima Online was my only MMO experience and the appeal of a game that combined that sort of persistent world + massive number of players + FPS gameplay (I was a big CS 1.5 player at the time) was almost too much to handle.

I actually joined up with a bunch of folks on a forum before the game was released and made a clan of sorts. We pretty much played BF1942 and Counter Strike together to get ready for Planetside.
We played New Conglomerate when the game finally came out. Played for a few months but couldn't play when I was home from school because my parents only had dial-up and the lag was tough to deal with. Man I miss that game.
Favorite thing to do was find a base being fought over by Vanu and TR and take one of the small scout bikes (forgot the name), load it up with bolt-driver ammo and camp the path between the two bases. I'd take pot-shots at both armies from my little hiding spot. With the main battle going on, the other players hardly noticed when a blue name would pop up across the top instead of a red or purple one.
Never got to play with the Mechs (stopped playing before they were added) but being part of a massive dropship raid on a base was also a hell of a lot of fun.

...really need to find my old SOE account info...

soullogik

United States1171 Posts

June 14 2012 20:52 GMT

#405

On June 14 2012 23:34 MooseyFate wrote:
Holy crap I need to contact SOE to see if I can get my old account from forever ago(9 years now, jesus).

I remember when I first heard about the original Planetside. I don't think I had ever been so excited for a game before it was released.
Up to that point, Ultima Online was my only MMO experience and the appeal of a game that combined that sort of persistent world + massive number of players + FPS gameplay (I was a big CS 1.5 player at the time) was almost too much to handle.

I actually joined up with a bunch of folks on a forum before the game was released and made a clan of sorts. We pretty much played BF1942 and Counter Strike together to get ready for Planetside.
We played New Conglomerate when the game finally came out. Played for a few months but couldn't play when I was home from school because my parents only had dial-up and the lag was tough to deal with. Man I miss that game.
Favorite thing to do was find a base being fought over by Vanu and TR and take one of the small scout bikes (forgot the name), load it up with bolt-driver ammo and camp the path between the two bases. I'd take pot-shots at both armies from my little hiding spot. With the main battle going on, the other players hardly noticed when a blue name would pop up across the top instead of a red or purple one.
Never got to play with the Mechs (stopped playing before they were added) but being part of a massive dropship raid on a base was also a hell of a lot of fun.

...really need to find my old SOE account info...

if you remember ur old email or id/pw, might be able to get soe to reactive it

soullogik

United States1171 Posts

June 15 2012 02:12 GMT

#406

terran republic 4 life

diLLa

Netherlands247 Posts

June 15 2012 12:19 GMT

#407

Although i will pick NC, I don't like that their leaked music is all guitar oriented

Ramong

Denmark1706 Posts

June 15 2012 12:52 GMT

#408

I am a little torn on what nation to pick. Vanu seems to have the best gunships, even if SOE tries their best to balance them I can't see Vanu lose with the mobility they got.

On the other hand Vanu have the least interesting ground units I think. As infantry I would rather try TR or NC :/

dormer

United States1314 Posts

June 15 2012 13:49 GMT

#409

On June 15 2012 21:52 Ramong wrote:
I am a little torn on what nation to pick. Vanu seems to have the best gunships, even if SOE tries their best to balance them I can't see Vanu lose with the mobility they got.

On the other hand Vanu have the least interesting ground units I think. As infantry I would rather try TR or NC :/

How are their infantry less interesting? Everyone gets the same classes; weapons are different, but there's a lot of customization you can do to fine-tune your playstyle, and we really don't have a lot of specific weapon details yet.

I think I'll try out both NC and VS at first (assuming I find a job and have the money for a gaming rig so I can play this amazing game). I disagree with the TR ideology too much to really get into them; NC and VS I can both see some merits to, and I'm curious to try out the VS energy weapons and see how they feel. I just found the reload animation on some of their guns pretty cool -- having a little round power-cell type thing instead of a clip.

Ramong

Denmark1706 Posts

June 15 2012 15:42 GMT

#410

Well, mostly their infantry looks

But also the way they are played.
TR high burst lowest dmg, etc.
http://i.imgur.com/HJUHO.jpg

Endymion

United States3701 Posts

June 15 2012 16:23 GMT

#411

gah all i want to do atm is play this beta!!

oob

Sweden630 Posts

June 17 2012 18:19 GMT

#412

I'm gonna be as unbiased as I can right now.

Pick TR or die on the field.

Candadar

2049 Posts

June 17 2012 18:41 GMT

#413

If you support Terran Republic, you support human progress and unity and peace.

If you support New Conglomerate you support terrorism and fear mongering and irresponsibility

If you support Vanu scum you support genocide and communism and hitler.

I think the choice is clear.

Ramong

Denmark1706 Posts

June 17 2012 18:43 GMT

#414

On June 18 2012 03:41 Candadar wrote:

If you support Vanu scum you support genocide and communism and hitler.

That is a lot of bad things in 1 :p

But yeah, it does seem I have to pick TR
Their gunships aren't as bad as NC's

Orcasgt24

Canada3238 Posts

June 17 2012 18:54 GMT

#415

On June 18 2012 03:41 Candadar wrote:
If you support Terran Republic, you support human progress and unity and peace.

If you support New Conglomerate you support terrorism and fear mongering and irresponsibilityQS

If you support Vanu scum you support genocide and communism and hitler.

I think the choice is clear.

I support genocide, communism and hitler then....

BTW communism is a TR thing, its not genocide is you experiament on everyone and hitler didn't have purple tanks

Power to the Purples!!!

Orcasgt24

Canada3238 Posts

June 17 2012 18:55 GMT

#416

If the Magrider is anything like it was in PS1, its the best tank BY FAR. Strafing is OP in Tank battles.

edit: damn it, ment to edit my last one not double post >_<

Candadar

2049 Posts

June 17 2012 18:56 GMT

#417

On June 18 2012 03:54 Orcasgt24 wrote:

Show nested quote +

I support genocide, communism and hitler then....

BTW communism is a TR thing, its not genocide is you experiament on everyone and hitler didn't have purple tanks

Power to the Purples!!!

BTW communism is a TR thing

Someone hasn't read the lore.

P.S.: They added quite a bit and revamped it quite a bit.

Candadar

2049 Posts

June 18 2012 04:07 GMT

#418

New screens.

hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng

+ Show Spoiler [lots of high res images] +

oob

Sweden630 Posts

June 18 2012 07:33 GMT

#419

On June 18 2012 03:41 Candadar wrote:
If you support Terran Republic, you support human progress and unity and peace.

If you support New Conglomerate you support terrorism and fear mongering and irresponsibility

If you support Vanu scum you support genocide and communism and hitler.

I think the choice is clear.

You put it perfectly my fellow soldier.

And gawd damn at those screens, I keep getting surpriced at how awesome this FREE game actually looks.