[Megathread] Planetside 2

[peggleftw]

woo battlerank 4 !!!though i have literally no idea what i going on! its not very noob friendly, when i first joined, i got shot as soon as i started, not a good start.

[Yriel]

woo battlerank 4 !!!though i have literally no idea what i going on! its not very noob friendly, when i first joined, i got shot as soon as i started, not a good start.

Happened to me, too. Just started playing but my biggest problem is identifying the enemies. The uniforms look all the same i haven´t found any indication if the person i am aiming at is a friend or an enemy.
Is there some toggle i missed or some other secret ?

[Totori]

Happened to me, too. Just started playing but my biggest problem is identifying the enemies. The uniforms look all the same i haven´t found any indication if the person i am aiming at is a friend or an enemy.
Is there some toggle i missed or some other secret ?

If there's a blue arrow on top of em, they're friendly.
Blue = NC.
Red = TR.
Purple = VS.
The uniform reflects it most of the time.
If they look like aliens, they're definitely VS. Lol.
NC tends to have blue and yellow.
TR tends to have red and white.

[Syce]

ya the more you play the easier it will be to identify who the enemy is.

[Istaril]

What server is everyone playing on?

Ceres (Eu) myself.

[Nirawen]

What server is everyone playing on?

Ceres (Eu) myself.

Miller EU here. A lot of the old Planetside outfits, including mine (Outcasters TR), from Werner EU went there so I followed .

Happened to me, too. Just started playing but my biggest problem is identifying the enemies. The uniforms look all the same i haven´t found any indication if the person i am aiming at is a friend or an enemy.
Is there some toggle i missed or some other secret ?

Another tip is to press Q when aiming at them, if they suddenly go red then it's an enemy.

[Erenax]

Connery (US West) and Waterson (US East). Both NC. Didn't want to play the laser light show of the VS or join the TR zerg.

[peggleftw]

just been playing for a good few hours!

so much fun when i got into it. i got lucky and got into a good squad with a good leader, helped me out a lot since i was a total noob. the games got a good feel to it, we was going round in a squad taking different bases, while there was still a massive war waging on in background between everyone else.

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What server is everyone playing on?

Ceres (Eu) myself.

lithcorp (eu)

[Tea]

Noone knows about bouncing worlds?=)

Well, I never played fps at all before ps2 (except trying Quake once back in the past and my ex bf that I had then nerdraged because I managed to kill him and his friends laughed) but it's quite easy to get into. Sure hard to compete with aiming against childrens of fps but I get cp slow and steady. Got premium to boost it a little. Heavy assault is a nice starting class, but I guess for cp farming engineer or medic are better choices... or to rock around in vehicles. I want to learn to shoot though, so I heavy and sometimes MAX myself and try to knock some heads down :P

[evokanu]

What server is everyone playing on?

Ceres (Eu) myself.

Woodman EU as a new conglomerate infiltrator

[Erenax]

Noone knows about bouncing worlds?=)

Well, I never played fps at all before ps2 (except trying Quake once back in the past and my ex bf that I had then nerdraged because I managed to kill him and his friends laughed) but it's quite easy to get into. Sure hard to compete with aiming against childrens of fps but I get cp slow and steady. Got premium to boost it a little. Heavy assault is a nice starting class, but I guess for cp farming engineer or medic are better choices... or to rock around in vehicles. I want to learn to shoot though, so I heavy and sometimes MAX myself and try to knock some heads down :P

Engineer is great for large fights at chokepoints. Just drop an ammo pack on the ground near the largest amount of your teammates and watch the XP stream in. You also get more XP if your squad/platoon use it as well.

[mirodin]

Engineer is great for large fights at chokepoints. Just drop an ammo pack on the ground near the largest amount of your teammates and watch the XP stream in. You also get more XP if your squad/platoon use it as well.

Medics are nice when you are attacking a base and ppl need healing or are dieing all the time. If you are defending/attacking a bio lab i found light assault to be perfect to manouver around the place.

[Zakkarioth]

The render distance just ruins the game for me, i like to snipe from mid to long range, but i can't because game says i can't see enemies that far.

[Toccs]

The render distance just ruins the game for me, i like to snipe from mid to long range, but i can't because game says i can't see enemies that far.

Why would you ever need to snipe from that far?

I play an infiltrator i tend to run around close to mid range most of the time as my job is to hack enemy targets for my team to use.

[Zakkarioth]

Why would you ever need to snipe from that far?

I play an infiltrator i tend to run around close to mid range most of the time as my job is to hack enemy targets for my team to use.

I think you missed out on how MMOs work, there's no set in stone way of playing the game, if i like to give my team long range support from a safe distance, why shouldn't i be allowed to? it's a sniper rifle for a main weapon afterall..

[evokanu]

I think you missed out on how MMOs work, there's no set in stone way of playing the game, if i like to give my team long range support from a safe distance, why shouldn't i be allowed to? it's a sniper rifle for a main weapon afterall..

It is possible to snipe from silly distances already, it does not really need to gain any more range. It is already possible to both see and hit people that is far out of range from normal weapons.

[Zakkarioth]

It is possible to snipe from silly distances already, it does not really need to gain any more range. It is already possible to both see and hit people that is far out of range from normal weapons.

That's where you're wrong, it needs more range, the render distance is determined by how many people are in your area and decreases down to granade throw distance in a big battle, this means that a sniper rifle becomes next to worthless against any other weapon in the game.

[evokanu]

That's where you're wrong, it needs more range, the render distance is determined by how many people are in your area and decreases down to granade throw distance in a big battle, this means that a sniper rifle becomes next to worthless against any other weapon in the game.

What is your PC specs? My render distance does not change even when things start to heat up and its far better then "grenade throw" distance. GW2 had a hardware limiter coded into the game to prevent stutter on lower end machines, might be something similar here. There is also a render quality option in the settings menu that was on 100% for me.

[MrDeadcruel]

What server is everyone playing on?

Ceres (Eu) myself.

Hey m8 im Ceres also but im NC what faction are you ?

[Ballistic]

They need to nerf a lot of Vanu shit stuff. Scythe maneuverability, You go in dog fight with it you always lose w/e you are flying with. Also there is overpowered gun I can't remember its name that shoots energy balls ppl start to purchase it with SC, It's freaking unbelievable how is this gun overpowered.