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It is really slow-paced. Unless you get involved in a huge scale battle, it can get kind of weak, at the earlier levels, anyhow.
I enjoyed it but it's not very fast-paced like you might be expecting. And the default armor is slow enough, but as you get better stuff you move slower and slower, and if you stay alive in battle for long enough, you'll probably run out of ammo.
BUT these things all contributed to my enjoyment. Strategizing, fighting in groups, obeying commanders...if you play with a group, it actually can feel at many times like a real kind of war scenario.
I don't play anymore, but man--I have some great ****ing stories to tell from that game. I feel like a veteran. hehe.
I enjoyed it but it's not very fast-paced like you might be expecting. And the default armor is slow enough, but as you get better stuff you move slower and slower, and if you stay alive in battle for long enough, you'll probably run out of ammo.
BUT these things all contributed to my enjoyment. Strategizing, fighting in groups, obeying commanders...if you play with a group, it actually can feel at many times like a real kind of war scenario.
I don't play anymore, but man--I have some great ****ing stories to tell from that game. I feel like a veteran. hehe.
I played the win xp 30 days free thing, stoped after 10 days or something. Yes i had the sky valkerie upgrade so i could fly the hunter and fighter planes. But still, it was boring as hell. It was fun at first, but it just lost its charm for me.
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I have been playing planetside side since setember i evern got the expansion pack and i stop playing it about 3 weeks ago because with each patch it gets buggier and slower the fps gets worse. I have a 3.7 amd 64 processor 2gig ram k8 deluxe motherboard radeon 9800 pro etc and it played like a ***** and got worse every patch.
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It was fun for awhile, I was an airplane certified player. Respawn times were slow, though. Slow paced. :/ Not worth playing at this point.
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My favorate thing about Planetside is how scalable the fighting is. If you want to be in the middle of a huge large-scale battle you can throw on some heavy armor and go out blasting. Of course there is a downside... you'll die pretty fast, and it'll take a while to get back into the fighting. On the other hand, if you want to organize little hit and run skirmishes on bases you can do that too. Lastly, if you want to pretend you're playing Dungeons and Dragons you can throw on the inviso-suit like I always did and take total advantage of sneaking and stabbing with your knife. The downside to the latter is that you need an implant to do decent stabbing damage, and the armor that allows you to cloak only allows you to hold one pistol or nine grenades (assuming you are bringing a hacking tool). The upside is that you're invisible most of the time, so you spend much less time at the respawn screen.
I raved to Alea about solo encounters or encounters with small groups, but I can rave to everybody else too. I found the most satisfying experiences in Planetside not to be full scale battles but solo against small groups inside or just outside of bases using stealth. There's just something really awesome about cloaking in a corner and waiting until an enemy pokes his head outside to stab him in the face; cloaked units sitting silently inside of bases are rarely anticipated. I had several awesome one on one and one on two encounters throughout the seven day trial Alea and I took part in involving stealth... it's a really eerie feeling for both parties when they know you're cloaked in their base and they start looking around really slowly, and you know they know, but you can't move from A to B until they turn their back on you. I find real hiding "in the shadows" to be much more satisfying than Role-Play style hiding.
Hiding is also interesting in large scale battles but you'll probably swallow a rocket pretty quick if you aren't totally still. Watching fifty of your enemies literally charge right past you and into the fire of your team mates is pretty damn awesome. Either way, I'd say cloaking and being tactical and stealthy was the only way I really enjoyed Planetside... the rest of it is just a matter of hitting each other until one person dies and respawns, or trying not to get shot down right away in your plane, or trying to take as few hits with your massive tank as possible. You can be the grunt trying to hold off the next wave of incomming enemy armor trying to overtake the base, or you can be the stealthy hacking figure that saves the facility from the enemy at the last second hiding in the control room, it's all up to how you handle it.
I raved to Alea about solo encounters or encounters with small groups, but I can rave to everybody else too. I found the most satisfying experiences in Planetside not to be full scale battles but solo against small groups inside or just outside of bases using stealth. There's just something really awesome about cloaking in a corner and waiting until an enemy pokes his head outside to stab him in the face; cloaked units sitting silently inside of bases are rarely anticipated. I had several awesome one on one and one on two encounters throughout the seven day trial Alea and I took part in involving stealth... it's a really eerie feeling for both parties when they know you're cloaked in their base and they start looking around really slowly, and you know they know, but you can't move from A to B until they turn their back on you. I find real hiding "in the shadows" to be much more satisfying than Role-Play style hiding.
Hiding is also interesting in large scale battles but you'll probably swallow a rocket pretty quick if you aren't totally still. Watching fifty of your enemies literally charge right past you and into the fire of your team mates is pretty damn awesome. Either way, I'd say cloaking and being tactical and stealthy was the only way I really enjoyed Planetside... the rest of it is just a matter of hitting each other until one person dies and respawns, or trying not to get shot down right away in your plane, or trying to take as few hits with your massive tank as possible. You can be the grunt trying to hold off the next wave of incomming enemy armor trying to overtake the base, or you can be the stealthy hacking figure that saves the facility from the enemy at the last second hiding in the control room, it's all up to how you handle it.
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My roomate has it, and I played it for awhile. I love the artillery in the expansion, both firing it and hunting it down. I did the 30 day trial, I managed to join an outfit and any time we saw that big blue rainbow we all hopped into a strike craft and took it out.
I absolutely HATED infantry skirmishes though, especially when I was had the tripe MAX cert. That's probably because I was Terran though. It was too laggy in large battles for infanty, you needed a grenade launcher or you would never hit what you were aiming at.
I absolutely HATED infantry skirmishes though, especially when I was had the tripe MAX cert. That's probably because I was Terran though. It was too laggy in large battles for infanty, you needed a grenade launcher or you would never hit what you were aiming at.
I liked it, even with very low FPS 
because some clanmates from other games played it. and I just flew everybody with a gal (one big ass ship with seats for like 10 people). so I flew people around, dropped them, met them at rendezvous..actually had fun doing that. I think it's a good game for a team, but not for a solo career.
because some clanmates from other games played it. and I just flew everybody with a gal (one big ass ship with seats for like 10 people). so I flew people around, dropped them, met them at rendezvous..actually had fun doing that. I think it's a good game for a team, but not for a solo career.