So I stumbled upon the subreddit for this game last week sometime and after watching a few videos of both the first game and preview footage I am pretty excited.

Planetside was/is a game that takes place on a persistent planet where 3 factions battle in an endless war for control over continents and valuable resources. The min feature of the game is hundreds of players participating in every battle. For example here is some footage from the first game, there are no AIs in it anywhere.

This game is going to be free to play compared to being a monthly sub like the first game.

http://www.planetside2.com/

Looks great, I would love to see Zipper try and make another MAG for consoles. It's not really active and I'll probably have to upgrade for this game...

Did anyone else crack up when the executive producer introduced himself in the opening of the second video? As for this game...I'm not sure, I don't really see anything particularly special about this game aside from the large number of players playing simultaneously in one area :\

(01-12-2012 12:55 PM)ReaverKS Wrote:  Did anyone else crack up when the executive producer introduced himself in the opening of the second video? As for this game...I'm not sure, I don't really see anything particularly special about this game aside from the large number of players playing simultaneously in one area :\

Planetside

- 300 players
- Three factions, each with a hundred men. Fighting over their own continent
- Vehicles. Faction specific, ranging from the light buggy to the huge Galaxy air gunships. Many of them require a crew.
- Real ranks and a chain of command.

Along with other things. That's just the first game, this is the type of game you go to if you want to fight in an actual war. Of course it's futuristic warfare but it's massive.

This one's going to beat MAG as far as player count goes but we'll have to see if it's worth the hype as MAG wasn't as intense as I had originally expected.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/r8..._industry/

Here is an AMAA by the creative director of the project

Also here is the GDC footage of the game, this server has roughly as many players in it as an average BF3 game so the actual game will be much more intense.

(01-12-2012 11:13 PM)noduhelmo Wrote:  

(01-12-2012 12:55 PM)ReaverKS Wrote:  Did anyone else crack up when the executive producer introduced himself in the opening of the second video? As for this game...I'm not sure, I don't really see anything particularly special about this game aside from the large number of players playing simultaneously in one area :\

Planetside

- 300 players
- Three factions, each with a hundred men. Fighting over their own continent
- Vehicles. Faction specific, ranging from the light buggy to the huge Galaxy air gunships. Many of them require a crew.
- Real ranks and a chain of command.

Along with other things. That's just the first game, this is the type of game you go to if you want to fight in an actual war. Of course it's futuristic warfare but it's massive.

More than 100 players per faction by far.

EDIT: hurr durr didnt put the video in.

I thought Planetside 2 can support up to 1000 players on one map?

Oh well, I still want to try this Game. MAG can't touch this game!

There are no maps per say, there is the planet, which has 3 continents that the factions are trying to control with is in turn divided into territories to be controlled, but these territories are not "maps" people can move between them and fights with the only real restriction being what the servers can deal with. Most fights will be a forces or outfits from on faction striking out from a base in a territory they control to to try take a base in a neighbouring territory and will need resupply of vehicles and manpower from the base they have left. They may capture the base and increase their territory or they could fail and the enemy could push them back and counter attack their starting point then reinforcements can start pouring in from elsewhere on the planet as players go to where the fight is.

EDIT: another video.


This one is the GDC footage condensed down with a couple of new bits.

Signed up for the beta, willing to give it a try.

Really want this to hurry up and beta already, its been quite a while since signups were opened.