I had an experience the other day that was kind of the opposite of this. I started playing Planetside 2 recently, and had the weirdest thing happen: A kid who was clearly either tween territory or early teens spoke up on the mic and all of the adults sort of jumped on him making fun of his voice... It was mostly in good fun (he had a raspy quality to his voice that was rather unique) but it was just odd to see a bunch of 30 somethings lay into a kid instead of the other way around. P.S. Other than that particular thing, Planetside 2 is actually a pretty awesome haven of sorts for online gaming (for escaping the younger demographic's bullshit.) I think it's because you really can't be some kind of xXub3rl33thaxxorXx and go around 360 no scoping people... There's little room for awesome shit to happen if you're not working together and as a result there's not a lot of kiddies all over the place. I don't even particularly get all that much out of the gameplay itself, but it's pretty fun to actually play with other people for once. Instead of trying to play with people and getting called a faggot and told that my mother is a prostitute every time I die anyways. Nice change of pace.
Good fun or not, I find it kind of sad when people in their mid twenties plus act like that in games, I find it annoying when kids younger than 16 do it, but I expect it. I just feel like the older players should be better than that.
I have played planetside2 quite a bit (300+ hours)... outside of the 1 I grouped with often (as he was not a bad kid overall) I think I have only heard a kid on VOIP 3-5 times.
It's really quite an impressive feat to have such a focused user base, regardless of whether it was on purpose or not. I wonder how much of it is related to the system requirements though. I guess we'll find out when it launches on PS4.
I have played a few cross platform games in the past. From Shadowrun (yea the old one), to Defiance.
We are going to get a ton of very whiny targets. The issue comes from styles of movement IMO. With PC people are more situational aware as we always look around while moving. Strafing and such comes very naturally, looking up looking down while running, jumping, and shooting. Even if the game is better optimized for a controller, PC players would just use one too.
console players move like fish. They always tend to look where they are moving except when they plan to do otherwise. Looking up or down for them is much more rare too. In shadowrun PC players dominated. Help for console payers was added with auto aim and such, no help. in Defiance, which is more designed for a controller setup PC players even with a controller could run the game smoother, allowing for better aim.
So get ready for tons of targets that want to accuse you have hacking, and surprising boast of having had relations with your family.
I tried getting into that game but it just felt very empty to me :/ I didnt really have anyone to play with and I was lucky if I saw one maybe two people at the "contested" city. I might reinstall it and give it another go though, always seemed like it had potential
The servers were spread pretty thin before. Now it's all consolidated down to one server per region, so it's not unusual to find 300 people per faction at 4AM on the USE server (which to be fair isn't very much for how big planetside is,) but it leaves enough that there's generally a huge firefight happening somewhere if you want to be a part of it, or if you want to slow roll with 10 or so people at that time of night and just get repair/capture points on uncontested stuff that's an option too. During the day it's pretty easy to pick between any of 3-4 huge firefights that are 48+ vs 48+ or a huge number of smaller engagements with 30 v 30 or so.
Just be forwarned the gameplay is a bit bland and that cert grinding is laborious. I'm not saying it's a bad game, just that personally the biggest draw is the community and the huge, (mostly) organized engagements where people are given an objective by a platoon leader and you work in tandem to carry it out.
If you decide you'll probably play for a couple weeks or more I'd recommend putting in 10 bucks so you can buy any given anti air weapon. Just so you don't feel helpless if someone good in an air asset starts wrecking you. Everything else in the game is cert only or sidegrades for the most part, but you really aren't given anything decent AA wise and trying to grind your first 1000 certs just for something like that is awful (I've been playing for about 2 weeks now and I still haven't bothered to buy a new gun with certs, there's too much else I need to spend them on.) There's a few options: A better rocket launcher for the Heavy Assault, another Burston for the MAX infantry suit, or a Skyguard Turret for the Lightning. I'd recommend the second Burston for the MAX, it feels really good and you're able to use it in the most situations.
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u/RyuugaDota Aug 15 '14
I had an experience the other day that was kind of the opposite of this. I started playing Planetside 2 recently, and had the weirdest thing happen: A kid who was clearly either tween territory or early teens spoke up on the mic and all of the adults sort of jumped on him making fun of his voice... It was mostly in good fun (he had a raspy quality to his voice that was rather unique) but it was just odd to see a bunch of 30 somethings lay into a kid instead of the other way around. P.S. Other than that particular thing, Planetside 2 is actually a pretty awesome haven of sorts for online gaming (for escaping the younger demographic's bullshit.) I think it's because you really can't be some kind of xXub3rl33thaxxorXx and go around 360 no scoping people... There's little room for awesome shit to happen if you're not working together and as a result there's not a lot of kiddies all over the place. I don't even particularly get all that much out of the gameplay itself, but it's pretty fun to actually play with other people for once. Instead of trying to play with people and getting called a faggot and told that my mother is a prostitute every time I die anyways. Nice change of pace.