Planetside trial for a year

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:02 pm

http://planetside.station.sony.com/reserves/

I'll fuck around with it since it's free

Limited ranks, but I don't give a shit, it was fun...

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:36 pm

what rank does it limit you to?

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:53 pm

Limits you to BR6. Can't recall how effective you will be at BR6.

Thon · Post by **Thon** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:15 pm

is it possible to pilot those giant pwnage mechs at BR6?

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:17 pm

Doubtful, those things are badass

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:03 am

no, you have to be like br12, and have capped 5 core missions, AND have 75 kills in the core

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:18 am

downloading now to try it out.

-Adam

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:47 am

at BR6 you can get 1 vehicle cert, and med armour IIRC

lightning tank ftw!

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:27 pm

Yeah, you could still tear it up real good with a lightning. Makes me kind of want to reactivate my account for a month and play it a bit.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:16 pm

i THINK you have to get a new account to play for free?

if I could find a regular group, i'd get it on the all access pass

I really enjoyed planetside, but it bites without a regular squad on non-retards

Thon · Post by **Thon** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:00 pm

what's cool is i found out if your char is younger than 7 days you can take certification points off at will, no limit to how many times you can respec. wasn't like that when i first started playing i don't think

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:18 pm

Well I tried this game out but I'm getting a horrible stuttering during gameplay. It stutters every second but when it's not stuttering i'm getting 100+ FPS. It makes no sense. I have 1.5GB of Ram, Geforce 6800GS 256mb, Althon 2.5 GHZ cpu.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:28 am

weird

it always ran pretty smooth for me, and your hardware is better than mine

Thon · Post by **Thon** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:12 am

i noticed there was an option somewhere in video to automatically switch textures to low-rez ones if FPS drops below a certain limit. default was 60, i put it at 45. it might be that your comp is dipping under and over 60 FPS a lot as people get on screen and you turn/etc. so that it keeps switching textures, try setting it at 30 or 45 fps.

other than that :dunno:

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:19 am

I'm about to give up on it. I can be staring at the ground and it stutters, it doesn't matter where I am. Between the every second stutters I'm posting 100+ fps.

Post by **Lyion** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:16 am

If you're using the beta Nvidia oblivion drivers, I'd bet they're the cause of the stutter.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:20 am

Nope, using official drivers ~_~

Post by **Lyion** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:25 am

Saw this on the boards

http://psforums.station.sony.com/ps/boa ... 525&page=2

This is from a few days ago

While yes, the game is still playing like powerpoint I read somewhere that there was a new test server patch. With this I copied my PS folder blah blah blah and fired up the Test Server and what do you know, no stutter.

If that is a coming soon patch then it looks like our issues are over with, if not who's up a few round on the Test Server since the main servers are playing up

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:40 am

Grr still stuttering on test server.

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:13 pm

I played for like 3 hours today, had some fun. Got Battlerank 4 pretty quickly.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:26 pm

bunch of us going to be playing on the east coast server

it's mostly olderguys who suck at FPS, but like shooting stuff

DESX · Post by **DESX** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:42 pm

Sniping in this game is fucking unbelievably horrible in this game has to be the worst in a shooting game.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:14 pm

it was done purposely to keep faggots at bay

in beta, the dev basically said they did it they way they did it to keep the gimpy bunny hopping, head shot sniper CS guys from being able to unrealistically dominate the game

maybe if you had an xbox controller you could hit the broad side of a barn tho!

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:27 am

Tikker wrote:maybe if you had an xbox controller you could hit the broad side of a barn tho!

Owned.

Aatrex · Post by **Aatrex** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:46 pm

For some reason this thing crashes to desktop whenever I try to run it, piece of shit!