Planetside 2 closed beta.
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Cool, I'll have to give it another shot soon. One thing I don't like is that friendly fire is active, I always hate that lol.
I've put in about 4 hours thus far.
Early impressions:
Good
It controls similar to BF4 but with an ability prompt on L1, camo, jetpack etc depending on class.
The scale is impressive
Visuals are nice overall considering with great effects
Framerate is smooth in small skirmishes
The sound fx
Bad
The framerate was a mess with about 50+ players fighting in a battle, it felt around 10fps at times
The hit detection is just erratic
I've been killed by friendlies more than enemies.
Some of the textures looked washed out, not sure if its 1080p, but it looks fairly blurry at times. Zooming in with the turret placement, enemies and structures just seems to wash out, I couldn't distinguish well.
Overall I couldn't help but be impressed by the scale and ambition of this game, but it just seems like a lesser version of BF that attempts to be more. None of the core elements work as well, movement, hit detection, or navigation as the BF series, but then again this is a beta.
Early impressions:
Good
It controls similar to BF4 but with an ability prompt on L1, camo, jetpack etc depending on class.
The scale is impressive
Visuals are nice overall considering with great effects
Framerate is smooth in small skirmishes
The sound fx
Bad
The framerate was a mess with about 50+ players fighting in a battle, it felt around 10fps at times
The hit detection is just erratic
I've been killed by friendlies more than enemies.
Some of the textures looked washed out, not sure if its 1080p, but it looks fairly blurry at times. Zooming in with the turret placement, enemies and structures just seems to wash out, I couldn't distinguish well.
Overall I couldn't help but be impressed by the scale and ambition of this game, but it just seems like a lesser version of BF that attempts to be more. None of the core elements work as well, movement, hit detection, or navigation as the BF series, but then again this is a beta.
I see a lot of PS4 players excited, but as someone who's played the PC version a bit I'm expecting peoples expectations might be a bit high. The majority of Planetside 2 fights end up in a big spawn camp. Literally 50+ people all firing at a spawn building waiting for people to poke their heads out of the shields. This goes on till the shield finally goes down, everyone rushes the spawn building and clears it out then the cycle repeats. The game is also incredibly grindy if you want to get some of the other guns as well as upgrade your character significantly. They are the two main reasons why I grew bored of the game.
Don't get me wrong, when you do get a huge firefight going it is an amazing, unique experience and a crap ton of fun but I would often play for 1-3 hours and not have a single fight like that. They've made some improvements to it, such as continent locking which not only helps get more players on 1 map but also stops the game from turning into 24/7 Indar. But even then, your gameplay experience will change from night to night with the game.
Don't get me wrong, when you do get a huge firefight going it is an amazing, unique experience and a crap ton of fun but I would often play for 1-3 hours and not have a single fight like that. They've made some improvements to it, such as continent locking which not only helps get more players on 1 map but also stops the game from turning into 24/7 Indar. But even then, your gameplay experience will change from night to night with the game.
I got in and it's good. Who knows how Planetside 2 will turn out but the beta is solid. It's a fun game.
if i get selected for the beta and get any buddy keys i will let you guys know.
I've been playing this for awhile now and I cannot play this game on PS4 any longer the frame rate plummets and is basically unplayable (for me) when you're in the middle of a decent sized battle. Much better on PC. There's only so much you can do with a low power tablet CPU.
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I signed up months ago, the first day the signups were available and still no invite. At this point, I don't even care about the game anymore.
There are certain times, I believe during the week the server goes live at 6pm eastern, on the weekends it's open the whole time.