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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.
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.
Does it work on Linux?
absolutely
Cool, my friend always told me about it but when I looked into it last it didn't seem to work on Linux. Must try it.
They fixed the anticheat when Steam Deck come out, no issues since then from what I understand
oh, that makes sense then. I moved to linux after steam deck came out. Thanks for the info! im definitely glad i delayed my move to linux slightly because the early days did seem kind of rough
Nice thanks, will check it out. I last checked pre- Steamdeck.
it's worked on linux pretty much ever since i moved to linux.
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.
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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Love that game! Been playing on & off occasionally with a couple friends. TR on Miller (formerly Cobalt). I mainly play Engi and duo/solo Harasser. I love that vehicle, it's so much fun chasing damaged enemy tanks with the Vulcan. High risk high reward! Other times I mainly play LA or Infil (the TSAR-42 is fun). And medic when I want to feel more useful :p
One friend of mine has an interesting playstyle... He takes a light assault with the ambusher and exclusively uses the knife. Calls himself Sir Boosh. Risky AF but he became really good at it somehow 😆
This was my favourite game once, then they ruined it. Now it just makes me sad to remember.
I liked playing as infiltrator and messing with enemys, also played vanu.
Haven't played in ages but I was obsessed during the summer of 2014. I always played TR, they feel like the most "legit" faction in the series. As for favorite class, heavy assault was always my go-to.
Come back! We're still going strong! I'm putting in like 20 hours a week in planetside2 rn
Haven't played in like 3-4 Years but I was pretty active on Cobalt during the whole Cobalt Clash phase there.
Played Vanu at the start (to BR100+ I think) but then I found a outfit in NC I really liked the playstyle of, so I switched to NC, squadlead a bit and yeah, was a good time.
Played a lot of sniper but like, close range. And not just the CQC Sniper (was it ghost?), I played every sniper in close range, just loved that shit, I think I even made it to the moonshot (?(auraxium sniper)) that way.
Towards the end I got super into aircrafting and 1v1s, even had my own jaeger account from all the training but then I moved cities and lost the time to play, as I had a new and different life all of a sudden.
Kinda wanna go back sometimes but I sold my pc of and I doubt this random thinkpad is good enough for the slop that is ps2 code base xD
Edit: Oh and since you asked about vehicles: I absolutely love and adore the skywhale, tried to aurax is at some point but lost the drive halfway through but damn, that thing is amazing. Just bonking a unsuspecting lightning is the best feel ever :D
a thinkpad isn't good enough probably i'd agree, but i was playing on a minipc with a ryzen 780m apu and i used optiscaler to convert DLSS to FSR 3.1, now i have an external gpu for this but it was fairly playable at medium like that, i was also running bazzite. it's fairly amazing what performance you can get out of these little machines with linux. i was playing battlefront 2 and darktide and other games fairly well too. not at the best graphics but it was quite playable.
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.
Well someone's got to play them otherwise the game wouldn't be much fun :p Personally I started out Vanu, but made another TR character to check out the mosquito, and ended up falling in love with the Vulcan
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'd love to see a modern mmofps, I can't think of anything coming close to Planetside on that front.
That said, I mostly did TR flash zergs when running solo, and VS C4 fairies when my friends were online.
We all kinda dropped the game after the Combined Arms Initiative was rolled out and removed the need for vehicles, as heavies were stronger than MAXes and could solo pretty much all armor without breaking a sweat, and we could break up a hours-long tank line stalement using a sunderer and 3 Archer-equipped engineers. (Multiple tanks and some infantry peeled off to stop us, but we could kill pretty much anything with 2-3 salvos, usually before they found us. The sunderer was mostly just to get there).
it seems the people who made ps2 are making a spiritual successor it doesnt sound promising thus far, it's being funded by cryptobros apparently, which is possibly worrisome.
It's fine if they fund it only. I also trust Smedley more than EG7.
yeah if it's ONLY funding then it might not be bad, but i've not heard much else, it at the least seems worrisome. Remains to be seen what the game actually is, he's only teased it to my knowledge so we don't really know much of anything. if it takes the eve approach and turns it into a crypto game, then i will probably never play it.
Great game! I played until it shut down in 2016, when SOE was sold off.
Planetside 2 is still going, my dude. Only the first Planetside was shut down.
But should we call PS2 post Construction and CAI updates the same game?
Ah, the ship of theseus arguement.
there is still the fan remake, planetside forever. It need more players though.
im not sure how im still playing then unless you're joking or being sarcastic.
Or maybe you're referring to the first game, too lazy to look it up atm.
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.
The unlocks progress now much faster and there's little to no power behind paywall. Come and say hi again 😉
oh thats why it doesn't feel as P2W as people say it is. it has felt far less grindy than years ago, i think the main grind is in implants now. which suck to grind, but i've gotten a few infantries kitted out, not sure if ill get to vehicles. i still sub, but there are some things about sub i definitely don't like, nanite regen has to go, everyone should get a boost or the nanite regen should be removed, but im not sure as many would sub if nanite regen wasn't a thing with sub, which might kill the game faster. i feel pretty mixed on it. esp with how uncertain the future is rn for the game.
I played Vanu for a while, but live service games just rub the wtong way lately.
I play off an on. I'm on Vanu because their weapons have greater range before the damage turns to shit. (Plus purple is a cooler color)
I always have issues with player rendering though. Like, I will spawn in an active fight, come out of a tower and look out and see nothing but my own team, fly down to ground level and die before it renders in the thousand enemy players who were there the whole time.
I played years ago but lost interest after I reached BR 100 on my NC char
I have about 400 hours on steam
When I first started I was NC all the way then eventually I moved to VS.
My favorite class, medium assault (medic). There's no better feeling than throwing a clutch revive grenade and getting everyone back up just as things look grim.
Favorite vehicle has got to be the OG battle bus. Get 12 heavy assaults in a fast sunderer. It's so much fun to all hop out at the same time and just launch 12 rockets at whatever you all decide is the enemy and destroy it immediately.
Also I gotta add on that the sunderer sets the pace of the game. Without a mobile spawn point like that the game wouldn't work. It's perfect.
My favorite part of the game overall though is the social aspect. I've met so many good people and we had the most fun roleplaying together or just getting bored and racing with the ATVs. There really will never be another PS2. Even now it's not the same but that just might be because I'm older.
Right now I don't have a PC but I'd love to start a Lemmy clan with everyone, that'd be awesome
i miss the battle busses, those aren't popular anymore but sometimes they spontaneously happen. im sure its not as fun for most everyone else who dont get a turret slot in the sundy. the idea is cool, but im not sure if i would be good at anything social in such a game. i think i'd rather follow orders than give them in this game. or operate solo.
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.