Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|6645|Canberra, AUS
Finally got on. Fun game. Laggy, though.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
Eagle
Togs8896 is my evil alter ego
+567|6602|New Hampshire, USA
If I could fix the framerate issues, I would be super happy with this game
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_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6687|Riva, MD
What specs are you playing with?

I have a fairly dated computer now: Intel Q9550 quad core, 4GB of DDR2 RAM and a GTX 260 and I can play it acceptably on all medium settings
iceman785
Member
+93|6643|Alaska, mother fucker.
Not having any frame rate issues here...

Just had an epic battle at one of the bio-labs. Enemy teams had all four of the outlying bases which had jump platforms and teleporters up to the bio-lab. We owned the bio-lab itself. Took the Terrans over 4 hours to finally cap the lab lol. Fucking intense battle, got well over 150 cert points and bought soft tipped ammo and the NV sight for my LA/engi gun.
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6687|Riva, MD
Had some serious frame rate troubles today, really pissed me off.  I think this game just isn't optimized well for some reason or another, the game already looks like absolute shit with my current settings and it still plays like it too.  It's like back when I had a Radeon 9600 all over again
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6742|PNW

iceman785 wrote:

Uh what? There are audio settings, I turned down most of them and turned off the music yesterday. And I haven't had any problems with the interface, seem pretty straight forward to me. If your friend is in your squad he isn't very hard to find, it's number coordinated. How is this stuff not accessible? Hitting P to see your friends list/squad and matching their number is not hard at all.
There's tutorials all around the internet for this shit. There's nothing wrong with that, but the fact that they're necessary in the first place is kind of facepalm. Adding friends was easy enough. Then I tried clicking his name to spawn on him. Tried right clicking. Nothing. Looked at the map, didn't see anything obvious to spawn on. Neither of us knew where the fuck we were, and as many tooltips as the game was bringing up, none were helping.

Granted, it's a huge concept...but it just isn't very accessible. Still, the fighting's fun, so I'm just going to have to learn my way about it. At least it's not as bad as EVE.

The game could REALLY do with some sort of offline interactive tutorial mode. And the in-menu ability to unassign "/" from chatbox. I mean seriously...wat.
iceman785
Member
+93|6643|Alaska, mother fucker.
As far as I know you can't spawn on your team mates. He needs to get a spawn beacon for 5 certs and then you can spawn on that when he places it down. At least that's how it was in beta. The map shows you as a gigantic arrow when you hit esc and go to it, you can also "hot drop" into zones that are under heavy attack when they have the deploy button on them. Hot dropping has a 15 minute cooldown.

In the deployment screen you can choose from the right hand side of places you can spawn at, either sunderer's, beacons or bases you own. I do believe the game will show where your squad mates are anywhere on the map as well.
Eagle
Togs8896 is my evil alter ego
+567|6602|New Hampshire, USA
I think I'm going to specialize as a mosquito pilot. Sooo much fun to fly around, escorting the transports and finding dog fights. Reminds me of the old bf1942 days before every plane flight with heat seeking missiles
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iceman785
Member
+93|6643|Alaska, mother fucker.
Just wait til people get heat seeking missiles>.> I'm saving up atm for counter-measures, I hate getting locked onto then simultaneously raped by multiple SAM's.
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6687|Riva, MD
Bought a .50 cal for my buggy, lol.  It's actually very efficient even on the move

I think most people seem to slip up and don't realize it has a "primary weapon" section in the certifications area because it didn't already come with one equipped.  Either that or they spend it on more useful things, lol.  Nothing wrong with slapping a weapon on the cheapest vehicle in the game, which wouldn't normally come with a weapon at all.
War Man
Australians are hermaphrodites.
+563|6684|Purplicious Wisconsin
I thought the Flash was the cheapest vehicle?
The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6687|Riva, MD
That's the one I'm talking about
War Man
Australians are hermaphrodites.
+563|6684|Purplicious Wisconsin

_j5689_ wrote:

That's the one I'm talking about
ATV/Quad =/= buggie, I take it they haven't added the buggies yet from what I get from your confusion. Sad, I can't wait for the VS buggie.

This is what you would call a buggie.
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Last edited by War Man (2012-11-23 21:47:54)

The irony of guns, is that they can save lives.
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6742|PNW

iceman785 wrote:

As far as I know you can't spawn on your team mates. He needs to get a spawn beacon for 5 certs and then you can spawn on that when he places it down. At least that's how it was in beta. The map shows you as a gigantic arrow when you hit esc and go to it, you can also "hot drop" into zones that are under heavy attack when they have the deploy button on them. Hot dropping has a 15 minute cooldown.

In the deployment screen you can choose from the right hand side of places you can spawn at, either sunderer's, beacons or bases you own. I do believe the game will show where your squad mates are anywhere on the map as well.
Instead of telling you this stuff right off the bat in an offline tutorial mode, it just drops you into the middle of nowhere right after making your first guy. Then you get the stand around idly configuring your stuff in-game. It's awkward.
m3thod
All kiiiiiiiiinds of gainz
+2,197|6642|UK
game sucks
Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6742|PNW

War Man wrote:

_j5689_ wrote:

That's the one I'm talking about
ATV/Quad =/= buggie, I take it they haven't added the buggies yet from what I get from your confusion. Sad, I can't wait for the VS buggie.

This is what you would call a buggie.

good ol 1m47s
IrishGrimReaper
Field Marshal | o |
+142|6692|Ireland | Monaghan

Back in the day, they just don't make them like that anymore.
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iceman785
Member
+93|6643|Alaska, mother fucker.
That intro gave my chills. I remember watching that for the first time sitting in a lan center because my comp was too shit to play it. FPS's at their finest right there.
Blade4509
Wrench turnin' fool
+202|5479|America
o7 Salute, what a bad ass game right there.
"Raise the flag high! Let the degenerates know who comes to claim their lives this day!"
FFLink
There is.
+1,380|6661|Devon, England
I remember watching all the Battlefield videos on the old site before release. So damn cool.

The chopper chase on Zataar where the missile went through the Blackhawk. Damn cool.
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6625

I'm NC. I support the whole satirical thing of being Americans liberating places by turning them into war zones and bombing the shit out of them. They did that on purpose right?

Playing on Connery, west coast. Thought it'd be the best because it's home to a lot of big outfits and there'd be a ton of teamwork going on. Nope. Just retards everywhere who stand outside of a shielded spawn room or base getting killed over and over again trying to shoot through and hope it goes down.
iceman785
Member
+93|6643|Alaska, mother fucker.
I play on connery too!
Eagle
Togs8896 is my evil alter ego
+567|6602|New Hampshire, USA
Just dropped a ton of money on a Radeon HD 7870 graphics card, should be here in a day or two.  I've wanted a gaming graphics card ever since BF1942 but never had either the funds or a good enough excuse to get one.  Between not even being able to run BF3 and Planetside 2 running like shit, I finally justified it to myself.  I can't wait to play this game with an framerate average above 8-12 fps
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mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6625

You might have to upgrade your CPU. PS2 is mostly bound to that. I get shit framerates regardless, but get way better if I increase the graphics options since it gives the GPU more work to do
Eagle
Togs8896 is my evil alter ego
+567|6602|New Hampshire, USA
Just installed my new graphics card and PSU and I can run the game on high settings at an average of 45 fps.  I'm very happy with planetside 2 now
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