0c21c5 No.14797140
what about the real initiator of the battle royale meme
86a5a4 No.14797278
>>14797140
It was fun until devs added BFRs and ruined everything. The sequel is even worse.
d97825 No.14797298
c570cc No.14797301
WWII Online pre-dates PS1 by about two years. Also Battle Royale and MMOFPS are completely different.
0c21c5 No.14797303
>>14797278
>BFRs
>Bad
nice meme just zerg it rofl.
but yes ps2 was shit
3e5320 No.14797325
0c21c5 No.14797345
>>14797325
moving away from alpha/beta crown ruined ps2
48ad90 No.14797356
>>14797303
>>14797278
This kills the PS1fag
48ad90 No.14797361
>>14797356
Fug
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0c21c5 No.14797367
>>14797361
can confirm this kills me
ed6247 No.14797370
>>14797303
BFRs were a fucking disaster. Day one of that patch was some comedy. You'd get raped to death by BFRs but their shields were so strong they'd not die even when holding down the opposing faction's spawn point solo. Even a BFR couldn't kill a BFR due to the extreme shielding. It quickly devolved into everyone having to be in a BFR to survive but being unable to kill anything so everyone was just standing around talking shit about SOE. It was such a trainwreck that they pulled all the marketing material for the expansion from their home page as if it hadn't even been released.
The game was already dying, but that just shot it in the head. The kind of showy suicide SOE was famous for.
0c21c5 No.14797382
>>14797370
>what are EMP grenades
>what is circlestrafing and blowing up it's components
plebs
48ad90 No.14797397
>>14797370
>but being unable to kill anything so everyone was just standing around talking shit about SOE.
Give me more PS stories anon, I missed out on it and I'd really like to more.
ed6247 No.14797398
>>14797382
>what are a bunch of options that weren't viable before everyone quit
Sorry to hear you weren't there for the glory days of PS1.
0c21c5 No.14797404
86a5a4 No.14797410
>>14797361
Ah, the balancing woes of NC weapons. The jackhammer was variously useless or godtier depending on the patch. Their other weapons were hilarious too. The remote controlled missile being used by pairs of players to snipe still makes me laugh.
the most rounded and fun gun in the game was the TR cycler though
ed6247 No.14797529
>>14797397
It was pretty unique in how important huge organized efforts were. Back when there were so many people you could poplock multiple continents and keep things a two faction fight, the game would turn into an Alterac Valley style stalemate that could last for days. So special ops and huge armor / liberator pushes would try to break the stalemates. Those were impressive to see and created some intense fights and really felt awesome when pulling off something decisive that won a long conflict.
Was also fun just being a dick. There was an artillery vehicle called the fail flail that SOE added to try to get people to buy their shitty Core Combat expansion and it was overpowered as fuck. It was supposed to be used from a very long distance and could only aim at a high angle. But, you could park it on the side of a hill to counter that angle restriction. If you anticipated where the enemy would get forced to respawn at after getting pushed back, you could be in position at that tower ready to just spam it to death with these massively explosive rounds that would just blow everyone to hell in one shot. They couldn't easily get out of that situation quickly so they'd often wind up huddled in their tower while I waited for some retard to pop the door open so I could land a shot inside. The kill spam was amazing.
355e08 No.14797563
>>14797140
Possibly one of the most mistreated IPs in recent memory. PS1 was such a unique and interesting game and it kills me that we'll never see a proper sequel.
PSForever is still being worked on but I'm afraid the playerbase won't be sufficient to keep it alive.
c570cc No.14797565
>>14797397
Eventually they were balanced but by then they'd done about all the damage to the game that they could do. After they were balanced they could be easily soloed by anyone bailing out of a light aircraft over them. Just spam them with EMP grenades on the way down which would impair their movement speed, then quickswap Decis into their taint until dead. Sometimes the pilot would get out to try to kill you on foot but PS1 wasn't like PS2 where you teleport in and out of vehicles or between guns. Getting in our out of a vehicle required a long animation unique to the mounting spot and during the animation you were completely vulnerable to being sprayed all over the hull of your tank/bangbus/whatever. So if they tried to get out of their BFR you'd shoot them dead while they were helpless.
When the expansion was released BFRs were the perfect example of P2W because you needed the expansion to access the area where you'd "attune" yourself to the BFR so you could pilot it. If you didn't have the expansion for whatever reason you might as well have just quit right there.
48ad90 No.14797650
>>14797529
>>14797565
Thanks, this shit is both hilarious and interesting.
355e08 No.14799375
Does anybody in WWEW still play? I know I'll just be disappointed but I sort of want to jump back in
>>14797325
Every step PS2 took towards becoming more like PS1 is a step in the right direction
3b5712 No.14799834
>>14799816
Early WWEW was fucking great.
7c05f7 No.14799848
>>14799834
I'm sorry I missed it.
7508e1 No.14800354
0c21c5 No.14800648
>>14799851
This gives the Vanu an erection
52d34b No.14801243
I still play Planetside 2 daily spent over £400 on this game so far, and I don't even regret it. Must have well over 1000 hours in this game as well, got a character on all 3 factions, all high level, all with top end gear. In an outfit for all 3 factions as well, but you know what really grinds my gears? It's the nostalgia fags who say something was better just because it was older. It's always the same, for every single game out there. Nostalgia fags, not even once.
0c21c5 No.14801280
>>14801243
>Planetside 2 is better than Planetside 1
Fuck outta here.
48ad90 No.14801297
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>>14801243
While PS2 gunplay is streamlined and better everything else is fucking awful from game design to actual teamplay.
52d34b No.14801344
>>14801280
No u.
>>14801297
While I like Lord mandalores reviews, he's a bit wrong on some points. I'm disagreement friends with him, we talk about our respect autist groups we associate with a lot
Although I would say NC is my least favourite faction (TR being my favourite). The outfit I'm in on my NC character has really tight and good teamplay, they focus on territory, making sure each person has a function, not all light one class.
The fun I've had as part of a Valk squadroon flying from base to base, capping, taking out rival squads on other factions.
I love the smell of Vanu salt in the morning, it tastes like, Victory.
7508e1 No.14802542
0c21c5 No.14802547
5cd7d2 No.14802587
Why the fuck is that font so familiar?
4560e8 No.14802676
>>14797140
I'm gonna be the one to say it, Battle Royal is nothing more than an oversize version of last man standing basically if someone modded that game mode in halo 3 to have 100 players back in the day and had a custom map big enough to hold that many people, then we would hopefully not having this conversation in that timeline. the only difference is that spawning is done by that plane system and the map hazard closes in to kill you if you don't move in which people could do in halo 3 as well by having it rain explosive barrels after a certain period of time around the corners of the map to force people inward
c44ed9 No.14803118
I've been under a rock regarding this Battle Royale business.
The concept sounds intriguing; bunch of players on a map grab things littered around and fight until the last man stands, but I don't know much about the genre or why it's considered so cancerous (besides lootboxes, but that can't be the only reason since other genres like Mobileshit and companies like EA been doing shit like that in other games for a while). Is it because it's been cloned hard like other fads?
0c21c5 No.14803127
>>14803118
tremendous faggot here
never played a Battle Royale title so i'm with you too.
f6e0a4 No.14803140
>>14803118
I never played it either. PUBG seemed to be exactly what you described except it's a standard fare super low TTK realistic iron sight shooter. The other big one is fortnite which actually watching good people play the game there's a lot of dynamic action going on in tandem with the building. Things like riding on rockets used by teammates seems really cool, as does launching yourself/enemies with impulse grenades. It's nice to see a game which takes that sort of liberty in its arsenal hit the mainstream.
0c21c5 No.14803146
>>14803140
So one (pubby G) is GDI garbage, the other is GOOD HEARTY SHIT BLESSED BY KANE?
f6e0a4 No.14803158
>>14803146
One reminds me of call of duty and one reminds me of tfc just a little bit. My coworkers talk to me about ninja so look up some clips of him playing.
58df2a No.14803236
>>14803118
BR games are cancerous for the same reason survival games were cancerous; It has nothing to do with the genre itself, it's just that all examples of the genre are poorly-made, buggy, early access pieces of shit.
0c21c5 No.14803239
>>14803158
Cod is pretty bad so I'll avoid PubbyG
Maybe fortnite might not be so bad; but the last time I got excited about a game was Evolve
0c21c5 No.14803245
>>14803236
just kill me now my hobby is ruined and I cannot an hero
58df2a No.14803252
>>14803239
PUBG feels nothing like Cawadooty, it's watered-down ARMA.
0c21c5 No.14803320
>>14803252
translate that to me so that somebody of my caliber who prefers old-doom/quake/ut/C&C and so on follows
a2a83f No.14803337
>>14797140
It wasn't though, it was an ARMA mod that started it all, DayZ: Battle Royale.
>>14803252
It is a watered-down ARMA clone with shitty optimization.
f6e0a4 No.14803344
>>14803320
slow paced shooting with a lot of lying down and seeing a group of 6 pixels move on the horizon that suddenly kills you in a single shot.
58df2a No.14803353
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>>14803320
It's this but less autistic.
355e08 No.14803400
>>14803252
This. PUBG, and to an extent other battle-royale-type games, are the natural evolution of the Day Z formula.
There was a time when Day Z was more about finding people to work together with to overcome the zombies and the environment, but game theory played itself out and it became a game solely about slaughtering other players in a competition for resources. PUBG is the logical next step: it's Day Z, minus the zombies, with the reward cycle significantly shortened so players can smash the button on that motherfucking skinner box even faster.
96a529 No.14803428
>>14803118
It's cancerous because it's popular
52d34b No.14804000
OI YOU CANTS LISTEN UP
If any of you still play apart from myself, now's a good time to jump back in. From tomorrow the 18th until 25th everyone gets 2 time experience on account of Planetside celebrating it's 15 year anniversary special bundles are up for sale along with special guns just for this event if there are any whales out there apart from myself
This runs into the member weekend where if you are one, you'll receive 4x exp, and of course all of this stacks with any boosts you activate. So now is a good time to play Planetside 2.
4a7e2d No.14804085
>le
I'd call Vanu gay but that would probably insult the gay community.
52d34b No.14804100
>>14804085
I came across a Scrim a couple of days ago and ruined it because they teamkilled me just for observing, got an ESF and blew up the sundies around with C4. Aren't I a shitter.
0c21c5 No.14804904
>>14804000
>planetside 2
don't you mean torture?
355e08 No.14805008
>>14804000 (check'd)
yeah I'll probably jump back in over the next few days
96a529 No.14809059
>Install
>Cash shop selling weapons
>Uninstalled
Thanks for wasting my bandwidth faggot
52d34b No.14810354
They're selling planetside1 armors and camouflages. It looks great.
>>14809059
All weapons can be bought with Certs, which are gained in game. Thats the point of the 2x exp you window licker.
288f65 No.14810452
>no random loot
>BR
No. Simply no.
895f1d No.14810502
>>14810354
Not him, but you're still potentially sharing the game with p2w faggots.
captcha: umnice
e36ac4 No.14811050
>>14810502
Pay2Win only applies if you can get things better than the ones available to free players, anon. This is Pay2NotPlay.
96a529 No.14814923
>>14811050
No you double nigger you can't just change definitions like that. When timmy with $300 and me both start playing, Timmy has a giant fucking advantage. Ergo sum this piece of shit is p2w.
0c21c5 No.14817823
>>14814923
its p2w as fuck
7aa312 No.14817838
>>14803337
I miss baneposting.
ebcff7 No.14817857
>>14817838
The uninitiated can't see the baneposting.
0c21c5 No.14817949
>>14803337
arma wasn't released in 2003 bitch