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Comment on Weapon Mechanics by Iridar

Iridar — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 22:58:34 +0000

https://iridar-mirror.knyazev.io/planetside2/weapons/weapon-mechanics/#Recoil_Recovery_Acceleration

Comment on Weapon Mechanics by Ufio

Ufio — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:09:30 +0000

What is Recoil Recovery Acceleration?

Comment on Spawning Rules by Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 07:33:40 +0000

Join combat on the PS4 is completely broken. It says “not ready” no matter what you do, even if the population is 20% like you listed. It doesn’t matter what’s available to spawn at, it won’t work. The obnoxious thing is when starting a new character you are now stuck with basic training on the screen unable to complete it or move on with the process to get the extra certs. Daybreak is a bunch of AHole that refuse to fix their buggy game. It’s been broken for a while now. They won’t let PS4 players use the codes they give out all the time on PC and PS4 in game prices are higher than on the PC. I’ve dumped money into the game to support the devs and the AHoles refuse to fix anything. They have combined us to one server, so that people switch teams just to TK when they are loosing and getting annoyed. Also they will have a few players switch sides and camp inside base defenses like AA guns so you can’t use them, if they are getting shot down too often. Groups like the goon squad (they are notorious for this in every online game they play) do this regularly, working together having some of their players switch sides just to mess with the opposing team. They openly talk about it in chat too. The devs do nothing to stop the cheating. You can’t even attack them back or you get weapon locked. Our (now one) server on PS4 has to be the cheapest hardwire they had left over, because with 100mbps connection (tested) the lag is insane even with only 600 players logged and about 100 in the immediate area. It was not like this during PS4 beta, so they had to downgrade the server when they switched to only one.

I understand there is a new planetside coming out in the next month or so, but treating console players second rate, especially those who paid to support this junk won’t win them any new or existing players. And these idiots wonder why they have such a low player count. The hit detection is awful, over 0.5 seconds off compared to PC (on the same connection) which is around 0.2 seconds. I hope daybreak goes bankrupt. I hope planetside arena or whatever the hell they are calling it fails; it sounds awful. They had something good with Planetside 1, then they ruined it in PS2 by making junk FTP, which just attracted every 10 year old idiot tk’er that sits around and shoots each other or farms by dying over and over instead of taking objectives. VS now on PS4 is unplayable due to these retards ruining it for everyone, which of course is where I spent $ a few years ago in the game on cosmetics (to support the developers). It wasn’t like this in BETA, but now it’s awful.

Comment on Rate of Fire vs Framerate by Modinstaller

Modinstaller — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:13:16 +0000

I’ve been using RTSS for a while at 90 fps so I was alarmed and ran some tests : I got an average of 21.74 time to empty the EM6 which is 92% rof.

Using smoothing is out of the question since my pc certainly can’t handle 144+ fps in PS2 at all times and the point of capping in the first place is to have stable frametimes.

I switched to the MaximumFPS solution, and my frametimes were jittery and induced stuttering exactly like what that guy had https://old.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/bhypyz/your_game_stutters_a_lot_try_rtss_to_get/ and in short the game was absolutely unplayable.

A comment in the reddit thread suggested that you could have the best of both worlds by using both rtss and MaximumFPS, but in my tests, whatever MaximumFPS was set to : 250, 93, 91, the rof stayed at 92%.

So my conclusion is this : if MaximumFPS introduces jittery frametime and stuttering for you (I’d be interested to know if it happens for everyone) and if your monitor has a refresh rate far above what PS2 can run at which is most 120+hz owners since PS2 runs like shit in big fights, then your only choice is to use RTSS and suffer from the slight handicap that reduced rof will bring.

Comment on Ads on the site by Andrew Penney

Andrew Penney — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 05:01:38 +0000

I turned my ad blocker off for you, as long as they don’t come in pop-up, video, or sound format, I will let them through to help with your upkeep. Thank you for the site, and I hope that it stays up longer then Planetside 2’s official servers do… because I expect fans to end up making some unofficial servers at that point 😛

Comment on Performance and Customization Guide by foliage man

foliage man — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:06:33 +0000

Seems like the Flora Quality does actually do something, on High there are some extra rocks or bushes that don’t show up on Low, maybe something else as well.

Comment on Carbines by InvaderFox

InvaderFox — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 13:06:02 +0000

As of July 2019, The Horizon and Charger’s guides are outdated. The Charger now sports 7 bullets of higher damage shots per magazine but is still limited by its long reload times. The Horizon however is now a 167/600 weapon comparable to the Mercenary but with best in the game hipfire and airborne hipfire, less ammo per battery (when used with the mandatory capsulate ammunition) and generally worse ADS performance at higher ranges.

Comment on Known Alert Rewards by Check

Check — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 05:35:44 +0000

Still no Liberator Shark Fins and Magrider Enhanced Hover Pad.
Got Amerish and Esamir Fieldplate(no Indar or Hossin yet) and Worn Panel Camo tho(Amerish Alert 100% participation. Might be possible that you get it from any continent with a very small chance).

Oh, and I got the Heavy Composit Armor….just been really unlucky there.

Implant Pack right now is a single implant. And it can only be very, very common ones. So it’s basicly 25 ISO.

Comment on Assault Rifles by sorian

sorian — Thu, 30 May 2019 05:53:53 +0000

are you going to add the NSO aurax weapons ever to these lists ?

Comment on Implants by Iridar

Iridar — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:27:19 +0000

I’d say it’s not worth it anymore, as the main things that made it good got removed. But that’s just my opinion.