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.
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.
So, I managed to recover my accounts (for some reason I had two, but I managed to figure out which was the proper one).
Anyway, after changing my controls around to dvorak and running around a bit it’s obvious that I have a lot to re-learn.
I think I might as well start a new character, as it seems all of my certs have been reset. Which server would you recommend for EU/EEA? And what’s a decent faction these days?
EDOT: My certs haven’t been reset. I just have a lot of unspent ones (was there a refund again? I remember there was one for peo0le who had bought weapons that were merged, such as individual left and right anti air for the max suit)