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yeah im not fully sure nor remember tbh.

do they actually have better damage falloff? i know they don’t have bullet drop but i didn’t know that? honestly i might agree with others that they’re a bit op if they have both better range and no projectile drop. but i’ve seen all factions win, so it’s kind of impossible to tell if it has as drastic an impact as i think. Also for some reason i thought that to counter the no bullet drop for vs that they had less range overall. i.e. cant shoot as far as nc or tr, but you can shoot them from closer more easily without having to account for bullet drop.

bullet drop annoying someone should remove it from reality. gravity must be banned. i dont care if we all start floating upwards it’s better than having to move my scope up slightly to get a better shot /joking

i wish battlebit had better linux support, but non eac servers i guess is something. Foxhole i would love to play but you can’t solo in it or just keep to yourself while playing from what i know.

Also yes, i love the weird kills this game can allow for that i can often be impressed by, sometimes im impressed by my kills or an enemies. i think my favorite kill i did recently was when i was going after a camping medic as an infiltrator, i killed them previously, but they returned to the location they were shooting from, so i went back and i put down a mine where they might run over to get back if they decided to camp again, i uncloaked nearby but slightly out of range so they might not hear me, they ended up going to where i was for cover and saw me, i cloaked up and sprinted around the corner to my mine and past it to some slightly better cover, i got hit a few times, but they ended up running into my mine.

Completely accidental kill, i literally did not plan it that way before i went to engage, my plan changed like right in the middle of it lol. i think that’s a prime example of what i enjoy about this game.

im pretty sure orbital strikes didn’t exist 10 years ago. Also there are a number of weapons that didn’t exist, and vehicles. Also all faction vehicles not only have the basic m20 basilisk gun that all vehicles have but every faction has their own faction specific basic gun, i think TR has some kind of chain gun for vehicles, and VS has a plasma gun thing of course and NC has this slower firing canon. I actually prefer these faction specific guns for vehicles over the m20 basilisk, they just feel better.

also a number of graphical changes, reflections, actual anti aliasing, DLSS/FSR 1. better explosions.

OH, also we have a 4th faction now, the NSO operatives, in the lore Nanite systems is the company that invented nanites, which is what is used to both repair things as an engineer and heal/revive players as a medic. Essentially nanite systems just is a company that enables the war as a whole. All 3 factions technically buy from nanite systems. Also this means that in planetside 2, death isn’t exactly a thing. But it does have a monetary cost. Anyway, NSO operatives are basically a mercenary faction, they are placed onto the faction that has the least population on a map. Also all of their weapons are terrible but their tank and fighter are quite interesting, terrible, but interesting. it seems to be a faction for the more hardcore players or people that want to keep the population count healthy per faction.

im sure theres a lot of other stuff. OH we are also getting an entire new weapon type that also adds more to the lore. A new type of alien weapon, because it turns out the Vanu were not the only alien species on auraxis or at least not the only one fighting on auraxis, there was another species that the vanu was fighting against, and that species are/were the creators of these new alien weapons, they look very inspired by lovecraftian/cthulhu-esque themes. Not sure we’ll actually get them but they sound neato. and the art looked neato.

also fishing is a thing now. worst april fools ever.

it is dying yes, but the population is recovering if you do have any interest in trying the game again before it does die, a lot of players seem to agree that now is kind of the right time to enjoy it before it does die, if it dies.

i’ve been enjoying myself, heck even a bit more than i did back in 2012. i never played this much back then.

they did have a very minor graphics update like a few years ago, it’s actually maybe a bit more major than im saying depending on your eye for graphical enhancements, one is that we have real anti aliasing now, instead of edge AA. We now have FXAA, and TAA and a combo of FXAA and TAA. We also got FSR 1 and DLSS (which i can confirm works with optiscaler so you can convert DLSS to whatever you want) we also got some texture improvements i think at some point but those are even more minor, i think the biggest graphical change is screenspace object and water reflections. and i can’t really recall but i think they also made new explosions that are less intensive on one’s system and also somewhat more realistic (actually kicks up dirt and stuff from the ground).

It’s not much but i do appreciate it if the game is possibly gonna die and i dont have much time left to play.

Ah, the ship of theseus arguement.

thanks for the laugh.

in my opinion, every pvp game has a toxic playerbase. it comes with the territory of pvp games, planetside 2 is just about the only pvp game i don’t absolutely despise and want to kill myself while playing. it will probably be the last pvp game i ever play in my lifespan. Hackers will make pvp an irrelevant concept over time as devs don’t know how to deaal with the problem, pve and single player games are the only future where things are fair until the hacking problem in all pvp games is gone or reduced significantly. until that time, people will continue to self harm with pvp games i think. which yes, i do consider most pvp games self harm, league of legends is the worst of it. It’s a prime example of exactly what pvp creates, i dont think competition makes people better, i think it just turns them into the worst possible assholes. Once planetside 2 is gone, pvp will be dead for me for the remainder of my lifespan i imagine until something in the gaming noosphere changes.

mechanics have changed quite a lot over the years, i played around 10 years ago as well. I came back because the game is dying and i want to enjoy it before it’s gone, it’s been quite good surprisingly, im enjoying my time. It’s weird that my experience is soo much more positive than most planetside 2 players, but i guess im also a more casual player of not just planetside 2, but all games, i dont put all of my brain or emotions into games really unless its narrative focused. im there to have a good time, not argue with people. Hell, it’s the only game i don’t usually get that annoyed at being killed repeatedly because i understand the nature of the game is going to end up with me dying a LOT. I got killed by a TR mosquito the other day, and i was very impressed with their kill, i was just sniping as i have been doing lately, and out of NOWHERE, because im not looking at my map at that moment, a mosquito just unleashes thousaands of bullets on me from behind and SCARES THE ABSOLUTE CRAP OUT OF ME

but i imagine irl i wouldn’t even have that much time to feel fear, more like a split second of fear before im dead.

This is the only game where i will literally /tell enemy players to complement their kills if they’re interesting, funny, or really clever or cool.

yeah if it’s ONLY funding then it might not be bad, but i’ve not heard much else, it at the least seems worrisome. Remains to be seen what the game actually is, he’s only teased it to my knowledge so we don’t really know much of anything. if it takes the eve approach and turns it into a crypto game, then i will probably never play it.

im not sure how im still playing then unless you’re joking or being sarcastic.

Or maybe you’re referring to the first game, too lazy to look it up atm.

na servers merging too on the 8th, very exciting, i think ya’ll should be getting your new name on the EU server, i think it’s wainwright? i know NA got osprey for the new server name

i miss the battle busses, those aren’t popular anymore but sometimes they spontaneously happen. im sure its not as fun for most everyone else who dont get a turret slot in the sundy. the idea is cool, but im not sure if i would be good at anything social in such a game. i think i’d rather follow orders than give them in this game. or operate solo.

oh thats why it doesn’t feel as P2W as people say it is. it has felt far less grindy than years ago, i think the main grind is in implants now. which suck to grind, but i’ve gotten a few infantries kitted out, not sure if ill get to vehicles. i still sub, but there are some things about sub i definitely don’t like, nanite regen has to go, everyone should get a boost or the nanite regen should be removed, but im not sure as many would sub if nanite regen wasn’t a thing with sub, which might kill the game faster. i feel pretty mixed on it. esp with how uncertain the future is rn for the game.

thats true, someone has to be canon fodder for the unfeeling dictatorship so that i can kill them for my enjoyment, TR sacrifices are not in vain, at least for me.

it seems the people who made ps2 are making a spiritual successor it doesnt sound promising thus far, it’s being funded by cryptobros apparently, which is possibly worrisome.

why TR? do you like their fast fire rates? i prefer NC and VS because of the higher damage per shot for nc and zero projectile drop on vsweapons.

Also I play NC and VS because i like roleplaying and the lore, i’m here to kill fascist authoritarians and not much more i guess.

i feel dirty playing TR when i do.

oh, that makes sense then. I moved to linux after steam deck came out. Thanks for the info! im definitely glad i delayed my move to linux slightly because the early days did seem kind of rough

it’s worked on linux pretty much ever since i moved to linux.