Comments on: Planetside: The 1%

By: aircool

aircool — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:36:40 +0000

Anyone remember Pig Benis?

By: analogpoweredbass

analogpoweredbass — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:29:18 +0000

I also had the “I WAS THERE TOO MAN” experience. I played PS from very early beta to just after the cave expansion was released. Let me just say that pre-cave expansion planetside was THE BEST AND MOST FUN GAME i’ve ever played. Then after the cave expansion the already dwindling population was then spread out even more and the dense raid mega battle gameplay started becoming more rare and eventually non-existent. Instead of adding the caves and ancient tech, the devs shouldve simply changed the layout of some bases and added more features to the bases to make them less redundant. It wouldve been quick and easy upgrade and I WOULD STILL BE PLAYING THIS GAME AND HAPPILY PAYING 15 BUCKS A MONTH.

I still tell people how great this game ‘was’ and the awesome comraderey (spelling?) that our outfit had. The best was outfit wide raids where we would all spawn vehicles at the sanctuary and then rollout out in one huge mega army of prowlers, reavers, sunderers, etc.

I fucking loved driving the sunderer. Running people over, squashing people with our cannnos, taking shots from enemy tanks, deploying and taking bases. Sooooo much fun.

SOE, please please please get back to the basics of planetside (pre cave-expansion)

Focus on:

1) More layouts for bases
2) Anti-cheating
3) Net optimization for 300 vs 300 battles
4) Don’t add caves or additional weapons… just the stuff you had prior to the cave expansion
5) Keep the music because it was awesome

and I will gladly pay you 15$ a month

By: GenTech4

GenTech4 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:02:02 +0000

Well, according to John Smedley, we could be looking at Planetside Next in March 2011.

I look forward to fighting for the new incarnation of the NC, assuming there is one…

By: Squeejee

Squeejee — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:59:53 +0000

Man, I remember this game – I played it at about the same time I stopped playing Star Wars Galaxies, and then after they introduced giant mechs I resolved never to touch a SOE game again :P Great story, as a VS player I would have enjoyed knifing you in the back had I been there :D

Most of my memories of it involve hopping around solo in a stealth suit, humming splinter cell music to myself, and hijacking the tower out from under the enemy. Good times, I died a lot, but good times nonetheless.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:00:20 +0000

I still fondly remember starting a trucking clan. Me and some chums would ANT up and tour around making sure all the friendly bases on the frontiers had enough nanites to be able to keep our people supplied.

Air cover? Faugh. Armored escorts? HA!

Just us crazy truckers tooling around.

By: Zachg56

Zachg56 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:00:43 +0000

I WAS THERE, MAN!

Well, not for the epic battle you were in….
I was a Gal pilot for the New Conglomerate for a while when it first came before my computer decided it hated the game and wouldn’t let me on anymore…

Hell, I even tried installing it onto my laptop just to play it again rather recently…(it hated the game even more, kept crashing everytime I booted it up)

Alas, I can’t wait for a PlanetSide 2 or W40k MMO FPS

By: Meeps

Meeps — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:58:50 +0000

I WAS THERE, MAN

All i wanted to say actually…
I’ve been looking into some rumors that theres a PS2 in development??
They’ve been calling it “Planetside Next”..
If anyone has more info on gameplay.. setup.. or GOD FORBID release date..
Please mail me at >> meeps_8@hotmail.com <<

Couple more things though…

Terran Republic, Loyalty untill death!

Last thing i want to say is..
My thanks go out to you mate.. reading this story got me feeling fuzzy inside..
If only i were online at the time.. maybe i, the one man, would have gotten us to 2%!!
One more time.. Thank you..

Cheers Meeps…

By: Chaosgabe

Chaosgabe — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:10:57 +0000

I WAS IN NAUM, MAN! There, indeed.
Still the best bloody game i´ve ever played. EvE is a close second, and there are similaritys in the broadness of the increase in power, how you create bonds with your mates in fights and the way groups/armies work. Everything is a bit bigger in EvE, but on the other hand there is no first person shooty, so thats a big downfall. I´ll have a look at the current state of the servers tomorrow because now i have to research this Planetside Next you guys are talking about. ^^

Chaosgabe NC Werner.

By: TimA

TimA — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:25:18 +0000

Wow. Well since this has been bumped and I’d not read it before I may as well comment. I was there too! Easily the most fun MMO experience I have ever had. It’s crazy to see those old names pop up, I founded the outfit that Ostekake took over when I had to leave the game. Oh good times, good times…

By: Nero905

Nero905 — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:04:58 +0000

PS was the greatest game ever! Just started playing again yesterday after hearing the news about PS Next. Im so thrilled for the sequel. By the way, the sturmgrenadiere video is epic.

I was there to guys.

By: tbeard

tbeard — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:57:30 +0000

Planetside was definitely one of the best games ever, while it lasted. Nothing can top it.

By: tony2times

tony2times — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:53:35 +0000

It wasn’t about winning. It was just about beating the other guy! Over and over and over…

Especially in the caverns. That’s where the real man on man fighting happened :D

Good time.