#planetside 2

[cleridwen]

I never thought I'd say this, but after years and 4500 hours, I'm done with PlanetSide 2

This used to be my game, my home, my safe haven. my mid day distraction, my late night habit. PS2 means so much to me. But just about a year ago, I met someone who showed me sights I had never seen before. We played so many games. co-op shooters. MMOs. survival games. more years than I ever played in the many years past. doing it with another creature, helped me get over the feeling of emptiness I always felt with singleplayer games.

And now, whenever I launch PlanetSide, all I feel is, why? why bash my head for hours against poor netcode, outfits ruining fights with big numbers in seconds, sundy killers, a2g, and slow netcode, just on the chance that I may eventually stumble on a good fight or two?

Basically, why let my fun be determined by other players? it's so easy to to feel bad when I get mowed down a lot, just as it is to feel good when i get a lot of good kills. those good moments happen, and the dopamine hit is unlike any other, but at my skill level, it's practically gambling. I go online, chasing the rare dopamine hit, just to mostly be presented with disappointment. And all I think about now, is why. why am I here, when I could get guaranteed, unconditional fun, by simply starting another game

It's hard to believe this is happening. There's still so much to like in PlanetSide 2. I have so many good memories. I still feel the rush of getting kills from the years of experience properly controlling and timing my shots. All the time spent adjusting my sensitivity, hardware, peripherals, to make me into a better player. And all those years in game. So many important times in my life, I spent there, in PlanetSide.

But PS2 isn't "here" anymore. It's "there". I feel scared. I want the grounding, familiarity, and stability of a game I'm so intimately familiar with, to call my home, a refuge to turn to. But I've walked greener pastures, and my hometown doesn't feel like somewhere I want to be anymore.

How do you move on from this? am I griefing a video game, a different time? with time, I'm sure I'll feel better. but there's nothing scarier than to walk an uncharted path.

but, I'll do it. im not alone. not anymore. PlanetSide brought me so much. I'm thankful for all those years.

<3

[lilostrike]

you cross me, there are deadly consequences.

[mr-kench]

Online Cooperative Games form such weirdly natural friendships. I’m not even talking like people you’d hang out with or anything but you just interact and get talking as if you’ve known each other your whole life and then leave not even remembering them the next day.

The most memorable moment I had like this was in Elder Scrolls Online. I was in the PVP area and I came across a raiding party and joined up we got into a casual conversation with everyone, started talking about work and finances all while tearing down a fortresses walls and slaughtering everyone inside. It was such a tonal dissonance between what was happening and what we were doing.

Another game is a cult classic game that’s been going since the ps3 era of games called PlanetSide 2. If you need to know what it is imagine Helldivers except it’s on a single planet across 3 continents and it’s three player factions fighting each other. You actually travel across the continent taking bases and outposts with the goal to dominate each continent. Really fun, really simple and I’m shocked that sort of gameplay never caught on.

However during while fighting to take the mountain base called The Crown all three factions met one was fighting from the base while my faction and an opposing faction were storming the Beaches of Normandy to climb that mountain. Everyone was getting into it myself included and bonds were formed as rag tag group formed to help each other climb just a few inches further. I heard someone yell “we won’t let those fuckers take this land!” I was an Infiltrator (basically a spy armed with a Sniper Rifle, pistol, radar gun and cloaking tech) I remember saving a group that was surrounded by sniping a few soldiers and distracting them enough for the others to mow them down. I was a squishy class meant to move solo and… Infiltrate but in that moment I became a part of the crew. We legit started taking bullets for each other as I led them to an emergency exit tunnel I scouted out. It was poorly guarded and I like to think we helped turn the tide by sneaking in a squad into the center of the enemy base. Michael Bay wishes he could direct the story that unfolded during that battle.

[emma-dennehy-presents]

Started playing Planetside 2 again. Had to post one of my favorite memories. Really wish i still had the original image instead of just this from my old 9gag account. Dont remember the region but we dropped over 200 people from my outfit onto the same bio lab, during an alert. This would have been about 2016. I was Squad Leader for some light armor, and it was basically a second full time job. (Engi 4 life) Really wish i got into things like that still.

[orchidvioletindigo]

Extremely funny thing happening in the Planetside 2 community I have been informed

[toaarcan]

I'm pretty sure nobody here cares about this game, but... after the better part of a year and a half (don't @ me I'm bad at games okay?), I have finally achieved the goal I was striving for in Planetside 2.

The Black Camo is mine.

5800 total kills, 2/5s of that with two versions of a weapon I came to loathe, but now I have the coolest armour colour in the game.

[notsaber15]

attack of the skywhale

[goldeklee]

Today I remember waaaay back in 2013 where I got a 970 for my computer, so I used it to play Planetside 2 at ultra settings for the first time and was utterly blown away by it all. PhysX, huge player battles, enough explosions to give me a sensory overload... it was quite an experience! It’s still a game I like coming back to occasionally too