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SOE President:https://twitter.com/j_smedley
Creative Director Higby: https://twitter.com/mhigby
Sr Art Director: https://twitter.com/PS_TRay
Planetside2 main: https://twitter.com/planetside2
Game Designer: https://twitter.com/PurrfectStormThese are apparently the twitter channels to watch for keys, though there have been none given out in the last week. They did mention mid week that they had stopped giving them out temporarily though, possible because they were away to some conference somewhere, and possibly also because they gave curse.com exclusive rights for the weekend.
Played a bit more of this into the wee small hours last night, with line and max, but it was a frustrating experience. We had squadded up but even then we found ourselves seperated a lot of the time. When we were together we had seemed to acquire the knack of either turning up to a fight when it had finished or running into and overwhelming force, so most of the night was spent running about and I finished up with doubts over how engaging the game will be.
That bwing said, I had much more fun this morning. I had a conversation with voo on steam before calling it a night and discovered he was playing this as well in the eu beta 03 server and he directed me to a stream showing some coordinated action which was pretty epic. What was happening isn’t really relevant other than to say that that is where the game is, so this morning I joined a random squad. Now the one I chose was rubbish but I tried to link up with some guys who were at least focusing on the fight and got myself into quite a hard column of armour on a wrecking mission across the map. We ran into a variety of defences, steamrolling a few, and hitting a brick wall against a few others, however the teamwork on display was much better than the night before. I think that going forward today we should get ourselves into a squad first, then make it public so as to grow our numbers then make an attempt to coordinate and attack or defence. This isn’t a game yet for small squads, or lonewolfing, but with more numbers we should start seeing the game’s potential.
pm’d you one, and sadly that’s all the keys I have used up now. Get that 30 meg line working tomorrow and I’ll join you for some action after the football tomorrow 🙂
When you get it downloaded line, add me to friends in game. I’m in there as Alzir, and Ben’s bmstalker.
Oh and do you have a microphone?
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done it already through a proxy mate . dont know how many viruses i picked up along the way but im downloading now .
edit , how big is the download btw ?
Sorry just noted the edit, it’s 4.5 gb roughly.
oh nice, I couldn’t get it to log in right via a proxy. For anyone else interested then, try this via http://www.curse.com/betas/planetside-2-beta-key
Got any friends in the states line who are unlikely to be interested in a key for themselves? There’s a site giving them away if you register but you need a North American IP for it (and a proxy doesn’t work).
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xfactor’s also live streaming some gameplay just now, which should be worth a watch to see how it actually plays from a good player’s perspective.
It’s really not that complicated, but I was struggling with this on my first play today, so if you manage to get on the beta, this is how you capture a point.
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The NDA has been lifted on the beta so you’ll start seeing some videos on this coming out over the next few days, and above is levelcap’s first video on the subject, covering some of the game basics. Have to say I’m getting quite excited as it looks like the game has got some great depth to it.
lol you made real hard work of that first sniper (I do that all the time as well :)), but that was an awesome shot at the end. Interesting that there’s not much bullet drop.
I agree hippo, but it’s a pet peev of mine that we automatically rule out the use of things like this simply because the word exploit is associated it with it. There are many things in the game which could be considered exploitation, but until the developer fixes them, as you say, there’s nithung we can do. This particular example is one I have no problem with, a bit like the way you can jump and marginally increase your speed traveling from a to b. I also think this is quite a skilful one to pull off.
