I think many of you (hopefully) know me as that one guy who always has a gif to put in any thread, or a joke to crack whenever possible. I don't do nerf threads, don't agree that any one faction is greater than the other, and even do my best to stay friendly with all 3 factions in every server. Today, however, I shall crack open a bottle of whine and share it with the lot of you. The implants are total crap. The new weapons for the most part are boring uninspired crap. The fact that it replaces my AoE heal makes the shield regen tool crap. Medics being able to use Battle Rifles is awesome, but constantly I'm reminded in even long ranges that against even a carbine the BR is crap. Making these implants cost real dollars as well as a secondary thing to actually use them which no one wanted in the first place is a word beyond crap that I cannot use because it's improper to use naughty words with a game that advertised itself by liquifying a human being onto our frikkin screens (though that's a different debate altogether). Point is, I've lost hope in this game ever getting better. When they announce new guns, it will just be another thing that shoots bullets at full auto. If they make new abilities, either it will be only a mild tweak of something that already exists or an actual new idea executed so poorly no one uses it competitively. Hossin might be fun but we'll all end up back on Indar eventually (IF it comes out). Right now the only thing worth getting in the cash shop is player studio stuff because A) they look better than anything the devs have made so far, and B) these are fans of the game that put hard work in their creations and deserve whatever comission they make on it. This game has turned into that box of stale crackers that has been sitting in the food cupboard for god knows how long. Sure they might have been some seriously good crackers one upon a time and you were told they'd be insanely better once mom came back from the store with cheese to put on them, but the cheese never came and now it's half-opened and lost all it's crispyness. Instead, just for the sake of the metaphor, we have different pieces of different crackers to make it taste a little bit different, but in the end all you're eating is a cracker with none of the promised cheese. I love this game (or at least what it was going to be), for the most part I love the people that play it, I love the few guys left in my outfit, hell I even love you guys on forumside. But right now, $120+ into the game with another 1500SC card on the backburner, I've never been more tempted to uninstall and find something else to scratch my FPS itch. I just felt like venting out, feel free to insult me at will
The game needs some serious creative spark to get back the excitement it had during beta, but with downsizing and SOE focusing on other titles, I just don't see it happening. Still a good game, I'll still play it, but without some serious change it will just languish in its current state. Not every game can be a blockbuster, this one certainly had the potential. Maybe SOE will surprise us yet.
Forumside fury and QQ is the best fury and QQ. I like the new guns a ton, and the implants were apparently tweaked to not be BS and their drop rate is actually pretty crazy good. Alongside some new sounds and stuffs, this patch was nothing but good from what I can see. Except for the return of crazylegs. **** crazylegs.
You sure are right about new guns just things that shoot bullets at full auto. It's like this game isn't even a sci-fi shooter. We can't have cool creative guns because that might scare away the casuals, or something. I wonder, are there people that would quit the game if it was filled with crazy sci fi weapons? I don't mean that the regular rifles and shotguns were removed, but if we also had sci fi weapons?
The new explosion sound effects will drive people away if they don't change it. Really bad and very annoying.
I'd be up for some sort of laser beam weapon - frankly surprised the Vanu don't already have one tbh.
Yep, SOE continues to add features and guns that no one really cares about while people have been begging for a resource revamp/additional meta game play since day 1. Game is feeling more and more like a cash grab every patch and it definitely feels like just a way for them to profit a bit off the development of their forge-light engine unitl EQN was done (and probably was the plan all along). Really wish they'd see the potential of Planetside and give it the development attention and promotion it deserves. There is nothing else like it anywhere while there are a stupid amount of voxel building games and fantasy RPGs. Oh well, It's been a long time since I've purchased or spent any SC, so I'm just along for the ride. For free, it's still fun, just so much wasted potential.
They have the lancer. Too bad the laser beam is not visible in first person view. But I assume you mean a constant beam.
I'm surprised every week to see how long they can keep the boat afloat as they constantly shoot themselves in the foot and keep patching the holes with dollars. Maybe they got some help from whales...
I have been playing mostly with sound off so I havnt heard it all yet, but I have sure noticed the new viper impact sound and its somewhat annoying. I cant remember what the old wS like but it never bothered me.
So we get less than a handful of actual sci-fi weaponry from PS1 (Lasher, Lancer... and?) Where is my: Rocklet Thumper Radiator Maelstrom Spiker Switchblade Scorpion Dragon Router Cloaking bubbles Thresher Phantasm Etc. etc. etc.
You can't have cool and exciting guns because some jerkoff will complain that their gun isn't as cool or OP.
Oh yeah, forgot about that thing But aye, like a laser beam - something like the Type-52 Special Applications Rifle from Halo Reach, something that can be held down for a short time as well as fired instantly.
