24th November Birthday Bash!

Ok here’s some info for the Saturday 24th Birthday Bash with Planetside 2

Downloading the Client (9GB Download)
Recommend everyone does this even if you don’t have an account

You Have 2 Choices

Steam Instructions
(This is best idea for people who don’t have any sort of SOE Account)

Just Download the game like any other Steam Game
(If you get errors trying to download, restart steam)

Website Instructions

Goto http://www.planetside2.com/
Log into your Account via the very top menu bar on that page
Once logged in then click the the big “Play Free” button
That should download the PS2_Setup.exe file and then run that to install.

Account Creation
If you already have a SOE account (you will if you were in the Beta or have played any other SOE Game) I think your free to just log in with that account and play.
If you don’t have an account I’m not sure which is best, making a SOE account or making one from the Planetside 2 EU website (At time of posting I get 500 bad gateway errors trying to access site). Need to wait till my download has finished and see what happens since I have the Alpha Squad pack and SOE Account. Need to find out if I still ok with EU servers etc.

Edit: Create your account on the EU website since the US one doesn’t let you select any EU country’s as your residence

Character Creation Info

Please DON’T Add Hussars Tag to your name, the Outfit system built into the game does that for you, just use your normal on-line name.

Also the character creator doesn’t allow you to put “special” characters, including things like _ – { [ etc. Blacky managed to get his Blackadder name by adding UK to end of his name in upper-case, this maybe a good idea for people trying to get their names. So if your struggling to get your usual on-line name in-game then add your country abbreviation to the end of it and see how that goes.

Server Info

EU Server Name: Woodman
Faction: New Conglomerate

Account Creation

Ok I managed to get to the Account creation on the US website and the first part of it is putting in your Date of Birth and your country, unfortunately it doesn’t list any EU country there at all (not that I could see) so it looks like you need to make an account on the http://www.planetside2.eu/

Outfit

Blackadder has created the 1st Hussars outfit so hopefully catch either me or him before Saturday and we should be able to add you, if not we’ll just do it on Saturday night during the bash

Steam Version

There’s a slight problem with the Steam version of Planetside 2 and the fact its giving the EU players the US version of the launchpad which won’t let you log-in if you’ve made an account on the Planetside2.eu website (which EU players have to do)

NOTE: If you have a Sony Station account you don’t need to do this (ie if you’ve been in beta or had a subscription to any of the old games they’ve done)

If you have an EU account then you need to do the following below

Murphy has tested and works

This is now working! At least for me.

Locate your PS2 directory (probably located in SteamsteamappscommonPlanetSide 2), edit LaunchPad.ini and add the following line at the end:

environment=psg

Then launch the game from Steam and it should let you log in properly

Nah he’s playing as NC and as MurphyUK