Planetside 2

"PlanetSide 2 is a science fiction MMOFPS set approximately 300 years after the discovery of Auraxis, although the chronology of the game universe starts a few years before. After the Earth has nearly come to ruin after being torn apart by war, the world's governments came to a consensus and united under one banner: the world-wide Terran Republic (TR). Some time later a wormhole, one which scientists fail to explain, appears and later disappears without a trace. Ex-President of the Terran Republic, Tom Connery, believes that the wormhole is a sign of existing extraterrestrial life and launches several space expeditions. The first expedition to Moon Belt gives a lead—a figurine of alien nature—giving Connery a reason to start a second expedition further into space. Several Terran Republic ships travel through the wormhole and are stranded for a very long period of time; their situation grows dire. Due to the crew's mental exhaustion and provision limit, strict curfews are applied. Later, a vote is held about the necessity of the measures. The positive vote wins, but only barely. There are nearly as many negative votes. A second vote is called. However, a terrorist bomb destroys the ship on which the vote is to occur, killing everyone aboard, including Connery. Curfews pass. Later, the expedition discovers the planet Auraxis, and exactly 175 years later, the war between the Terran Republic and the New Conglomerate breaks out. Following this, a group of combatants calling themselves the Vanu Sovereignty join the conflict."

This game features three factions to chose from:

Terran Republic

An authoritarian government that leverages military might to maintain strict control over the colonial citizens. The Terran Republic is obsessed with the preservation of law and order and are thus seen by some to be an oppressive and dictatorial force, but many view the TR as the only hope for lasting security on Auraxis.

New Conglomerate

The New Conglomerate operates as a loosely organized band of freedom fighters, vehemently opposed to the stranglehold that the Terran Republic has on Auraxis. Led by an unusual quorum of outcasts, industry titans, and pirates, the New Conglomerate is unwavering and prepared to achieve freedom from oppression by any means necessary.

Vanu Sovereignty

The Vanu believe that only through the mysterious power of ancient technology can humanity truly evolve its next state of existence. They are an advanced and cunning faction, employing powerful alien technology on the battlefield. Their singular purpose is to uncover the secrets hidden away in ancient artifacts scattered over the surface of Auraxis and they annihilate anyone who interferes with their progress.



I believe that this game will provide lots of entertainment for us all and that everyone should at least try it. Before I start the game myself, I'd like to know what side you guys want to play. Some games are more fun playing with people you know so it would be more fun to be on one side, grouping together and taking parts of the map in a covert operations.

Terran Republic 4 lyf

Started playing tonight. Good fun, but I realised I a) need a new mousemat and b) need to get a new wireless card, because apparently my current one is giving me crippling CPU lag spikes. My account name is doswillrule and my player name is MrBiggles, I'm not sure which one people need. I will be shit until Christmas.

Downloading it right now, been waiting to play this for a while

While waiting for people to comment on this thread I created a character in the New Conglomerate. I'm already a battle rank 7 and I prefer sniper role. It's really enjoyable to sit back, spot people and get a random lucky headshot. The lack of ammo makes me think twice about wasting bullets and grenades(which you have to buy with infantry points).

So far the game is really great, mainly because we are kicking ass and Vanu are almost non-existent. Hope to see more people join in on this awesome game.

Vanu Sovereignty! All about future tech son.

I seem to enjoy Heavy Assault at the moment. High cyclic rates on weapons and a rocket (Well, like plasma launcher thing for my faction) for the numerous tanks and vehicles. I'm at rank seven already, but it's rather disheartening how long it takes to save up the certs to unlock new things. I guess we'll see if they change that later on.

Anywho, it's enjoyable thus far. FPS on a truly clusterfuck scale. Planes flying all the places, tanks everywhere and a boatload of infantry all fighting each other. Good times.

New Conglomerate @ Woodsman server.
Liberator with 150 Dalton, Tank Shredder on the nose and A30 Walker on the rear is serious business. All weapons packing the infrared sights also.
So many tanks already been taken out with this, let alone infantry.. They made the sights on IR lot better since in the beta, where it looked like a primitive night-vision with units and vehicles being all bright white.

Playing on Van'u, Connery Side. Username is Majorn if anyone wants to add me.

It looks really interesting, going to download it later tonight.

Terran Republic.

Between rebels and cultists who ally themselves very often (against the TR), which is completely insane. We fight for the sanity of the planet.

Good game, been playing for the last few weeks but have only played a few times since the beta ended and they wiped the servers.

Terran Republic, going by "Calvin" on the Miller (EU) server.

I'm noticing a lot of Fakkuza playing this game on steam, we wanna get an outfit going or something?

I wish my 3gb ram could handle this, but, alas, it cannot :(

The game is poorly optimized, i'm running a high end machine and i still only pull 25 FPS on low settings. They'll get it better as the game goes on, first week release usually has a lot of lag.

Terran Republic on Helios (US WEST), mysteakhouse, lost a lot of ground to the Vanu.

I am horrible on PC FPS.

Don't forget to update your drivers, solved all that lag right away for me. I'm running this maxed out in around 50~ on a somewhat high end rig.

Downloaded this tonight. Tried out the NC for my empire. It seems interesting, but It'll be much more fun with other people to play with.

What server are you on? i re-rolled NC on Hellios, name is Mordrun

For the Republic! Loyalty until Death! I like playing Heavy Assault, mostly cause it seems like every major engagement has like 20 tanks in a line so its quite needed, I switch to Medic if I need to raid Bio Labs and other tight areas.

And...Vanu too OP.

Ended up switching to TR and jumping server to SolTech. Soldier name is DougManyon if anyone is on that server.

I was on Jaeger, name TheSTFUppercut, but I was planning on moving to a different server if we got a group rolling.