Planetside Beta This game is amazing - Page 2

Galaxies being able to carry Lightnings is going to be a big improvement I think.

I've been lagging quite a bit the last couple days I hope that gets worked out.

I'm down with that Gemini name the server!

Alright, I'm signing on to the Markhov server as Terran Republic.

Since it's such a big freakin world maybe we should set up a time to meet in Sanctuary. Like 10p central tonight or whatever. What do you think?

Heh, Sojourner, I've seen you running around before I swear. I'm jumping back on in a couple minutes. The lag was killin me so I rebooted and cranked down my AA and AF settings. Hopefully it will be better. Lag makes Reavers freakin worthless!

Damn servers down for 15 min. Lowering the settings on my GPU made a huge difference in lag but it doesn't look anywhere near as good. Ill take it though.

This game has officially brought my POS 1.4Ghz system to its knees. The major battles have become slideshows and I can't do a damn thing but get my equipment, run or fly to the battle, get killed because I hit lag and freeze for 5 seconds so anyone with a pea shooter can have some target practice. The good news is all I need is a new case, Mobo, CPU and Ram. The rest of my system is still top-o-the-line, for now anyway. AARRRGGGHHH, why do the best games always have to come out when my system is at the end of its life. The same damn thing happened when Tribes 2 came out. Ahh well. Such is the life of a PC gamer.

I have 386Mb of system Ram and 128 on the GPU. It's crappy, old, SDram anyway so even if I went up to 512 it wouldn't do much. The upgrade will only cost me $400 or less for all that I mentioned above so I'm not overly worried about it. I can even keep my current case but I really like the new Antec Sonata which is supposedly one of the quiter cases on the market and it looks sweet! I don't know, I'll probably just start with the CPU/MOBO/RAM and get my rig up to date and then worry about the case. There's just something about building a new PC and having to have a new case every time.

All servers are down

World Reset (and Patch Notes) -- 5/9/03

The world state is being reset tonight. Characters are NOT being deleted, and your world position is not being reset...but the state of the world is being set back to Day One conditions. All facilities and towers will revert to original ownership.

Why?

We've changed the global lattice ("war web") and this dramatically changes ownership potential of the buildings.

Why did we change the lattice?

Because the old one was static and boring. The three "backyards" (the one-hop continents that were three-hops for all other Empires) were always continent locked and hardly ever fought over. The three "hot continents" (the one-hop continents shared between two Empires) were great to fight in...but they were always population locked.

What this resulted in was you getting boxed into your Sanctuary with only the locked "backyard" to trudge through or the drop pods as your only ways out.

We've changed the world grid so that now, each Sanctuary has three one-hop continents...and all other continents are two-hops from your Sanctuary. There are no longer any "three-hop" continents.

The objective of this is to spread out the fights across more continents, as well as to make all of the continents valid combat areas by making them less likely to population lock nor by making them incredibly easy to continent lock.

Other changes include:

1) You can no longer loot enemy knives.

2) The death penalties (time added to your respawn duration) have been reduced slightly. You incur the following penalties depending on how many times you have died during the last 10-minutes:
0-1: No delay
2-4: +5 sec
5-7: +10 sec
8-10: +15 sec
11+: +20 sec

3) The additional delay in respawning to the Sanctuary, after either choosing it on your respawn interface, or after the 30-second timer expires when "Recall to Sanctuary" is used, has been removed. This was the equivalent of a design "appendix" and has been removed.

4) Additional CTD bugs were resolved. One when using terminals one was due to the way we map the terrain in the VR Driving Area, and a few others were fixed as well.

5) Greatly enhanced network optimizations for objects at rest.

6) The reticule accuracy has been improved significantly through a code fix. The center of your reticule is now accurately the center of your Cone of Fire.

7) Found an error in the xp system that was causing incorrectly assigned BEP and CEP whenever a promotion occurred in a squad (whether intentionally done or whether automatically done when the current leader quits out and someone else becomes leader). This is fixed now and experience should be correctly distributed now.

8) When you /quit out of the world, you will now go to the Server Select screen (instead of just disconnecting).

NOTE: The Shuttle bug from last night's patch (where people would get dropped when trying to use the shuttle) was fixed in a server rev earlier this morning. Just including that note here in case you weren't aware that it was fixed.

That sucks. I can't imagine it being very good on a 56k though to be honest although it's hard to tell with my system dogging so bad. The lag has gotten slightly better in the last couple days due to the patches but it still has a very hard time dealing with the larger battles especially if I'm in the Reaver. I did have a really great time the other night in a reaver squad though. here were 8 of us and we worked very well together. To me the key to making this a great experience is dependant on teaming up with the right people. Once I get this thing upgraded it'll be a blast.