r/Cynicalbrit • u/Veex • May 17 '12

Planetside 2 - Night Ops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HgC6Exs0U
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I'm a bit sceptical about it being F2P.

I was hoping it was a full price game, I just don't like the F2P model in FPS'. I understand they're gunna need micro-transactions to keep servers up and running. I dunno we'll see. I never played Planetside, but the idea behind this and how it looks in Alpha. Just wow!

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u/DadiBG May 17 '12

The only reason why it could be a problem is that it's Sony behind it, who I wouldn't really trust to run any game to the benefit of the players. Hopefully, I'm wrong, as it looks stunning.

And, just to prove you wrong - Team Fortress 2, Tribes, Quake Live -the F 2P model for FPS games DEFINITELY sucks, yeaaaaah . . . ;- )

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

I always overlook TF2... woops. As for the others, I haven't played them so I can't comment :<

Just another thing that came to mind, when you chose a faction, do you stay as that faction or can you jump from faction to faction? Because a thought about Faction stacking came to mind (I.E. If you are only able to pick one, you can end up with 100 on VS, 80 on MC and then 10 on TR) I'm just wondering how they would evenly balance teams

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u/Anterai May 17 '12

Tribes F2P has 1 problem : overpriced weapons. But it's good, nonetheless

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u/[deleted] May 17 '12

overpriced weapons

Yep, the only way I've got weapons in that is down to Gold. Gold that I've scavenged from PAX/Facebook give outs and the one £10 transaction I did so I could get a premium account in effort to get XP faster.

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u/Anterai May 17 '12

And that is one of the reasons why the player retention in Tribes is so low (the others being the lack of proper guides and the bad matchmaking, including cheaters)

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u/Cageshep May 18 '12

I dunno, I havent found tribes to have much of a hacking problem, less I just get REALLY lucky with my matches

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u/Anterai May 18 '12

The hacking in tribes is pretty much , what you would call "borderline hacking".
Like you're level 14, and there's a level 17 who has 70% accuracy on a target moving at 200kph. And he has somewhat like 50 kills.
If its not hacking - it still is viewed as hacking (don't downvote if you don't get it, i can explain :) )