And sadly, when these big battles start shaping up is when the chop starts rising. Not being able to move for two or three seconds at a time makes shooting things difficult. The videos we have for you today will give you a little glimpse into my frustration ( I did try to get the smoothest videos of the bunch). Much of the time, PlanetSide has been unplayable for me. I have been having enormous problems with this. Anybody who plays FPSs will know that tagging a moving target is really, really hard when you're getting lag and heavy chop. Now the big problem with any of this, and I know not everybody seems to be having these problems, is performance. Even if it's only the squad leader with this function, it'll make your experience more enjoyable. After playing in one group with this, as you'll hear in the videos, it makes all the difference in organizing your squad and getting them to places they need to be. I recommend, if you have the Internet connection and gear for it, is hooking up the voice-over-Internet option. The route to saying what you want to say will take some time to figure out and remember because there are just so many things to say. So using either the keystroke voice chat has to be done, much like it was in Tribes 2. Typing everything you want to say in is really hard to do when in the middle of a huge firefight. The box comes with a cheat sheet keyboard map, but you'll still have to spend some time familiarizing yourself with the controls, especially when it comes to communication, which is the most important part to any part of the game. Some of this confusion is due to the interface, which can be large and confusing at times. It's also very easy to get confused when first beginning to play the game. It's easy to get confused when your own friendly troops (not involved in your particular squad) begin to run around getting in your way, mucking up your organization. While I personally like the teamwork approach (playing with an organized team is always more fun) the scope and number of friendly troops that can move into the area make it nearly impossible to control at times. It seems that battles don't just request teamwork, they demand it. But if you don't have these disciplined gamers playing together, the battles can dissolve into mass chaos with troops running willy nilly all over the place getting nothing done and losing every fight against more organized enemies. And when you see a couple of squads working together in concert to do something like this, it really is almost like an army simulation of some sort. I've noticed some very organized squads at this point that will drop from a Galaxy transport ship onto the top of an outpost and within a matter of a couple of minutes secure the area, destroy any regeneration pods so reinforcements can't spawn in the base, and set up automated defense turrets with a hack and capture following very closely. At the same time, this level of disorganization depends entirely on the people that are playing. You might think that this could be a bit chaotic and unorganized and you'd probably be right. So far I've seen battles with what must have been close to a hundred people around a base. Three different sides battling over multiple control points and continents has a lot of potential, especially when a lot of people are battling it out at the same time over the same little piece of land. If you want to know more about this, we have previews that go in more depth. So now these three factions, the Terran Republic, Vanu Sovereignty, and New Conglomerate fight over the planet by fighting over bases scattered across the 10 continents and three faction sanctuary islands. The carving is just turning out to be a very violent matter. After being marooned thanks to a worm hole that decided to close after tons of people had made their way through to the other side, rebellions began and three sides came out with sufficient power to try and carve their own niche on the planet Auraxis. PlanetSide takes place on a planet far away from Earth. After getting into the game a bit, chatting with players, and trying to pick some fights, it's apparent that some of the players are certainly having a blast. Sony Online was hoping to offer just that when PlanetSide was released last week. The opportunity for tactical decision making, the emergence of leaders to organize offensive and defensive maneuvers, and the pure fun of an action and skill based massively multiplayer game. A war being fought over a world where players work together to overcome the evil of the other side, whatever that other side may be. The idea of PlanetSide has always appealed to me.
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