The Warpgate

1:24 AM

"Planetside 2 is basically Elmo versus Smurfs versus Spandex." - Code Review user Mast

Tweeted by DevNamedEthan on November 25, 2015 at 11:43 PM

4 hours later…

5:36 AM

@Mast Are you playing from steam, or just the standalone client?

6:01 AM

Okay, so I just found this review for ps2 on steam:

All factions explained in two words.

Vanu Sovereignty
1.Spandex
2.Lazers

Terran Republic
1.Heil
2.Hydra

New Conglomerate
1.Shotguns
2.Freedom
3.Shotguns
4.Shotguns
5.Shotguns

Overall a 10/10 game as long as you have a good computer and can put up with swarms
of spandex wearing oompa loompas

4 hours later…

10:02 AM

@EthanBierlein Standalone, it wasn't on Steam yet when I started playing.

10:38 AM

And yea, NC are like CQ champions.

Scattercannon MAXes were feared for quite some time in Biolabs.

And they still hurt.

5 hours later…

3:19 PM

Cool

3:56 PM

graaah

I hate it when I press Shift + Tab by accident

and then the game starts to constantly register me pressing a key

and then I have to restart the entire game

3 hours later…

6:41 PM

Never happened.

6:59 PM

Shift + Tab opens the steam community

which you wouldn't have

dammit

steam is down

7:29 PM

@EthanBierlein Ah, yes, that works in other Steam games.

I can imagine that would be hindering.

It sometimes is

7:50 PM

@EthanBierlein for me, just going back into the game and pressing the stuck key usually fixes it.

You can also disable the Steam Overlay.

I like having the overlay up sometimes

sometimes pressing the stuck key works, other times, it doesn't

on an unrelated note, I think one of the members of this outfit just raged-quit in the funniest way possible

So, here we are, and there's this guy who spawns in a galaxy at the warpgate.

He waits for a little bit, and then takes off once there's 11 people in there

Then, he flies towards the capture point, I think it was a tech plant or something

Now, instead of slowing down the galaxy and dropping everyone off at the capture point, he flies the galaxy up into the air, as high as he can get, and then points it straight downward

The next thing I know, this guy yells "allahu akbar" in the chat and crashes a galaxy full of 11 players into a mountainside.

needless to say, he's no longer a member of that outfit

I've been meaning to check out Planetside 2, but never have.

It's a pretty good game.

It could use a small number of improvements though.

The only F2P shooter I ever really played with any amount of seriousness was Loadout

I've heard of Loadout.

8:00 PM

@EthanBierlein what kind of improvements?

@GnomeSlice A story namely, and more continents to fight on.

So just more content

That's a good sign I guess

Yeah

Oh, and the ability to change your character's server.

The gameplay is solid then

Yeah, it's pretty nice.

I do feel like when you first start out though weapons are a little too "inaccurate"

8:02 PM

There have been a lot of fun multiplayer games that probably would have survived better if they had been F2P

Metal Drift, Rooks Keep, Greed Corp

hmm yeah.

Oh you have to like, level up your accuracy?

Hm.

@GnomeSlice Sort of. You can upgrade and customize your weapons

Ah, nice.

It's mostly just the automatic rifles

when you shoot them for more than a couple seconds, your aim starts to move upward

8:04 PM

That's pretty standard

but, again, upgrades tone that down as you level up more

In shooters

yeah

Well, I started out with TF2, so that mechanic was rather unpleasant to me at first. :P

Do you like RTS games?

Ah, heh, tf2

TBH, I haven't played many rts games.

8:06 PM

Hey, is this room new?

I think I played starcraft once at a friends house for, what, 10 minutes maybe, but that's about it.

I'm not a huge fan either, but Airmech is worth checking out if you're interested.

@ardaozkal Yeah

F2P as well

+1 for airmech

8:07 PM

@ardaozkal It was mostly created because some of the users over on Code Review didn't want to flood the main site chat room with gaming talk.

You should give the room a more unique name

suggestions?

420noscopers chat .s

Shrug. :)

Up to you

hmm

8:08 PM

I'm thinking of doing a giveaway (5th year in steam in 2 days). I'll give away 5 steam games. Any (cheap) tips? This room seems awesome to ask this.

Meltdown

Cubetractor

Sweezy Gunner

Poof vs the Cursed Kitty

Skydrift

don't kill me for suggesting this

I thought that you were going to say bad rats.

The Elder Scrolls V - It's only $4.99 right now

Pls

Dusrforce

Dust*

Convoy

8:11 PM

I've a copy of ETS2 on hand too

room topic changed to The Warpgate - Gaming Chat: Polite chat about video games and such. [gamez-ftw] [lower-console-race] [pc-master-race] [planetside-2]

let's try this

Skyrogue

That's a cool name

thanks

So I accidentally chose wrong year in steam yesterday and I can't view %90 of steam

just spam "retry" until the screen comes up again

that's what I did when I entered the "wrong" date

8:13 PM

worked

Also I'm in Turkey and the gifts I buy are locked to Turkey only... Any tips? Should I try g2a, kinguin or humble store, or is there a workaround?

Are gifts really locked to your country?

That seems like an, odd.. mechanic.

hey, I actually have a question regarding steam "etiquette"

Gifts bought in Russian areas are locked to C.I.S, turkey is locked to turkey and etc.

is it okay to "request" that a game be gifted to you in your profile description

I feel like it's something I shouldn't be doing

8:18 PM

"If you are planning to gift me a game, I'm planning to buy xyz and would love if you gifted me that."

@EthanBierlein Sidegrade, not upgrade.

Your shields you can upgrade, but weapons are just sidegrades of each other. One shoots more bullets, other shoots more accurate, other shoots at higher velocity.

@EthanBierlein Taking trolling to the next level?

Yup

2 hours later…

user58869

10:41 PM

hello