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Ethan Bierlein

01:24

"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…

Ethan Bierlein

05:36

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

Ethan Bierlein

06:01

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…

Mast

10:02

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

Mast

10:38

And yea, NC are like CQ champions.

Scattercannon MAXes were feared for quite some time in Biolabs.

And they still hurt.

5 hours later…

Ethan Bierlein

15:19

Cool

Ethan Bierlein

15:56

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…

Mast

18:41

Never happened.

Ethan Bierlein

18:59

Shift + Tab opens the steam community

which you wouldn't have

dammit

steam is down

Mast

19:29

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

I can imagine that would be hindering.

Ethan Bierlein

It sometimes is

GnomeSlice

19:50

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

You can also disable the Steam Overlay.

Ethan Bierlein

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

GnomeSlice

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

Ethan Bierlein

It's a pretty good game.

It could use a small number of improvements though.

GnomeSlice

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

Ethan Bierlein

I've heard of Loadout.

GnomeSlice

20:00

@EthanBierlein what kind of improvements?

Ethan Bierlein

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

GnomeSlice

So just more content

That's a good sign I guess

Ethan Bierlein

Yeah

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

GnomeSlice

The gameplay is solid then

Ethan Bierlein

Yeah, it's pretty nice.

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

GnomeSlice

20:02

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

Ethan Bierlein

hmm yeah.

GnomeSlice

Oh you have to like, level up your accuracy?

Hm.

Ethan Bierlein

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

GnomeSlice

Ah, nice.

Ethan Bierlein

It's mostly just the automatic rifles

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

GnomeSlice

20:04

That's pretty standard

Ethan Bierlein

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

GnomeSlice

In shooters

Ethan Bierlein

yeah

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

GnomeSlice

Do you like RTS games?

Ah, heh, tf2

Ethan Bierlein

TBH, I haven't played many rts games.

ardaozkal

20:06

Hey, is this room new?

Ethan Bierlein

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

GnomeSlice

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

Ethan Bierlein

@ardaozkal Yeah

GnomeSlice

F2P as well

ardaozkal

+1 for airmech

Ethan Bierlein

20:07

@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.

GnomeSlice

You should give the room a more unique name

Ethan Bierlein

suggestions?

ardaozkal

420noscopers chat .s

GnomeSlice

Shrug. :)

Up to you

Ethan Bierlein

hmm

ardaozkal

20:08

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.

GnomeSlice

Meltdown

Cubetractor

Sweezy Gunner

Poof vs the Cursed Kitty

Skydrift

Ethan Bierlein

don't kill me for suggesting this

ardaozkal

I thought that you were going to say bad rats.

Ethan Bierlein

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

GnomeSlice

Pls

Dusrforce

Dust*

Convoy

ardaozkal

20:11

I've a copy of ETS2 on hand too

Ethan Bierlein

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

GnomeSlice

Skyrogue

That's a cool name

Ethan Bierlein

thanks

ardaozkal

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

Ethan Bierlein

just spam "retry" until the screen comes up again

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

ardaozkal

20:13

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?

Ethan Bierlein

Are gifts really locked to your country?

That seems like an, odd.. mechanic.

ardaozkal

Ethan Bierlein

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

ardaozkal

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

Ethan Bierlein

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

ardaozkal

20:18

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

Mast

@EthanBierlein Sidegrade, not upgrade.

Ethan Bierlein

Mast

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?

Ethan Bierlein

Yup

2 hours later…

user58869

22:41

hello

Ethan Bierlein

Hello! Welcome to The Warpgate! :)

user58869

23:08

how are things?