I went with Connery(US WEST) in the end, suffering the nerfy underdog fate as a TR Loyalist.
Is it just me or does the NC not only have the most proper looking guns in the game as far as ballistic weapons go, best looking tank *cough* and nicest looking personal armour (at least once the camoflauge goes on)? The sound fx and music, imo, are cringeworthy but is a small price to pay for looking like badasses. There. I said it. Took me 9 years to even remotely praise the space redneck scum art direction. I sense some serious Higby bias...
Also,
, in "repayment" to me after I finally showed him how gratifying Liberator artillery runs can
really be, suggested I give the Vanu a shot on Briggs(AU). What can I say. 16/0 with the Saron turret and Scythe in the first hour alone. Countless more for him as the Magrider pilot. And when we had to bail, which was once, I think I took out 3 NC with mah pewpewQQ lazarrifle that kills faster than my TR MCG before getting put down by a bolt driver. I think we're competent, but we're not even aimbot twitchy like the COD kids of this generation. It pretty disgusting how easy it is to dish out the hurt as Vanu. Feels like im playing some super TTK game like COD4. The kind of BS macross airbraking you can do with a scythe is also downright filthy.
All I know is I left Briggs with a really bittersweet taste in my mouth and its hard to fight the temptation to want to stay with what I see as a really butt ugly, Imperial Guard like faction that doesn't seem to do anything particularly well. Well.. save for the mossie and my repeater which is an abomination of game balance
But that's hardly enough recompense, is it!
What are your thoughts, fellow TR players(who have actually played the other 2 factions)? I hate to turn my back on the TR and I'm hoping the devs find a way to make it feel less of a "master of none" faction.
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So they changed the server structure... almost completely..
For some strange reason I'm experiencing more lag on AU than EU servers, as opposed to Beta. I can think of a million factors for this but was wondering if any fellow PS2ers know of a ping calculator for the servers?
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Anyone playing on the Eurydom server? I play TR, mossie pilot mostly
I go by the handle DiveSignal there.
(I am 10% partial to playing an NC alt, only because my Reaver is there and the CAS30 looks sweet. But otherwise I'm pretty much decided on sticking with TR forever. Dakka dakka, and all that! Vanu could have been my #1 choice if not for the fact the design direction changed completely from Planetside 1's Vanu.. which I had really adored.)
Side rant: So I noticed the flak armour upgrade for the mossie.. you know that
could have been the ideal excuse to make it just like the fully armoured cockpit in the concept art...and also as an excuse to remove the obstructive cockpit layout with the reasoning that the pilot be able tor see via 'camera optics' just like EVERY OTHER ENCLOSED GROUND VEHICLE?... I don't get the logic there? Now with the flak upgrade my mossie looks like its a white member with a black foreskin. Seriously, damn it. Why should pilots suffer visibility penalties when Tankers get away with it? Oh well. You still have my money, Sony.
Lastly, whoever designed the algorithms/shaders in Forgelight's rendering engine is a damned genius. Truly breathtaking at times. I actually find it incredibly inspiring as an illustrator how the richly diffused atmospheric/environmental lighting play such an active role in harmonising the factions' distinct and uncomfortably bright colour schemes into this beautifully visually balanced world of almost surreal hues and gorgeous tones. It is visually -from a gameplay standpoint- very playable and practical and from a purely aesthetic standpoint, also manages to hit the right notes in value and chroma for me at the same time, a near perfect match of 'pseudo' realism and post processing to give it that extra level of eye candy. It really is a welcome breath of fresh air amidst the dystopian, bleach bypassed look adopted by most wargames of this generation.
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