*NOOB!* Downloading PlanetSide atm

Jeffey · 2004-12-26, 11:45 PM

Hi everyone, let me introduce myself. I'm Jeffey, long time EQ player. I've played alot of Rogue Spear and America's Army on the side. Lately I'm finding EQ pretty boring so I decided to give PS a whirl.

I'm downloading the game right now off D2D. I just got done reading over most of the information on the SoE site, now I'm hoping to get some info from you guys about the game.

So I guess I'm asking if you have any advice for a noob? Any speculation to the community of the game right now? (Things are everything but happy on EQ right now) Any information you think I should know, thanks!

GreyFlcn · 2004-12-27, 01:12 AM

Alright, first off
Where are you from?

East Coast, West Coast, or Europe

Second off
Download TEAMSPEAK
Download Ventrillo
Since you will be required to have atleast one of these to play with any good "Guild", or as we call them Outfits.

Second and a Half
Download this movie, and watch it when your done reading this:
http://www.marcopolo.me.uk/PSMovies/PS_AD_LARGE.wmv

Third off
Watch this movie. Now.
Should get ya going.
Especially check out that part where it flashes up a bunch of roles.

Fourth off
The "Training" button on the launchpad is worthless

Fifth off
The building where you spawn at, walk around the side of it.
Should be 3 doors. Walk in there and go to the shooting range.
What you need to do is pull out every weapon (no need to fire, but couldn't hurt)
Use every gun, item, and armor type.
Step into the thing in the middle of the room, and go to the vehicle training area.

Sixth off (You could skip this if it's too complex)
Walk up the the vehicle terminal
Buy a "Router" vehicle.
Press B when it comes to a stop
Press G to get out of the vehicle
Press I to open your inventory, drop the pistol on the ground
Walk around the side this vehicle while looking up at it.
One of the sides should allow you to aqquire a teleportation pad
Walk back to the vehicle pad, and then deploy that teleportation pad near to the vehicle terminal

Seventh off
Likewise, use every vehicle, and make sure to hop in the gunner seat for every vehicle.
Press M to check the map, there should be a slightly larger vehicle pad sorta near to the middle south of the map
Thats an air vehicle pad

Eighth off
Use every air vehicle
The Liberator for instance has 2 gunner positions

Ninth off
Leave the VR area, and look at everything with a shiny grey PlanetSide logo.
This includes lockers, terminals, and even TOWER which you can locate on your map.

Tenth off
NOW you should have atleast battle rank 3, allowing you 6 cert points to spend however you like.
What I would suggest are Medium Assault, and AirCavalry
What this allows you is access to a variety of the most common weapons
It also allows you to pilot 2 of the fastest vehicles in the game, giving you lots of mobility
This allows you to solo a bit while you rake in some XP to get more battle ranks.

Twelth off
Make some inventory FAVORITEs using the inventory terminals:
For instance, heres a good one with agile armor

Make another one with standard armor, that has 4 of those brown packs

You can switch to the standard armor favorite to regain your health using the brown packs.
Switch back to agile armor to regain your armor.

Thirteenth off
Learn how to use your keys
Some simple changes I can suggest to you:
Press Escape, K, then change the dropdown menu up top to from GLOBAL to HUD
Then go down to "Toggle Inventory"
Change that to the TAB key
or basically
Escape, K, Toggle Inventory --- TAB
Escape, K, Use Quickslot 1 --- Scroll Mouse Down
Escape, K, Vehicle, Bail Vehicle --- J (or something you won't press by accident)

Should be able to see a mouse icon, suggest ya click it, then set you settings to look sorta like this:

Fourteenth off
Base Capture XP
The way you get XP is by getting near a base, that has a unique number of enemies in it.
It does not matter how long you have been in that base "Sphere of Influence" (Aka colored circles on the map) to gain that experience.

Kill XP
Pretty obvious. You make kills you get XP.
The longer people have been alive, the more XP they are worth.

And yeah, thats about as far as I'll go to start.
PlanetSide, if anything is amazingly complex.

For everyone else:
Can you think of anything I missed?

Jeffey · 2004-12-27, 01:16 AM

wow thanks alot! Looks like it will be incredibly helpful.

I live on the east coast, New York, so I plan on starting on the Emerald Server.

Also I see theres an expansion for PS, now on EQ, it's pretty much essential that you have all the expansions in order to play, otherwise you won't be able to do much at all, is Core Combat a 'must have' or can I play the game to it's fullest for a while without CC, or will I be mostly left out if I don't have it?

GreyFlcn · 2004-12-27, 01:29 AM

Core Combat is NOT a must have

All you get is access to a few extra weapons, few extra vehicles, and access to a few extra zones that you don't really need to go to.

Jeffey · 2004-12-27, 01:31 AM

right o!

Well Grey, I can't thank you enough for this massive noobie write up, going to be my bible for the rest of the night =P

Oh, also on EQ the common chat commands are /g for group chat, /rs for raid say, /ooc for out of character, etc etc.

what are the basic chat commands for PS? Namely squad, platoon, ooc (zone wide), and outfit?

JetRaiden · 2004-12-27, 01:55 AM

PS is a little slow to start, with limited certs and whatnot, but once you get around BR8ish you'll be at a satisfying level.

Well thats just the feeling I get when I make new characters and go through all the early BRs again.

Also:
-don't TK
-If you see a BFR, run for cover, fast
-don't be overly aggresive. You'll just die alot.
-Find a squad and contribute.
-Be nice.
-carry jammers you can destroy mines and fuck up enemy spitfires/vehicles, saved my life a billion times
-Do VR training. You'll be *almost* to BR3 by the time you use everything.

Eldanesh · 2004-12-28, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by GreyFlcn

I suggest 2 stacks of jammer grenades to replace 2 of those plasma grenades. Its more likely you will use them - they fry mines, screw up BFRs, disable implants and stop turrets and any vehicles from firing. (also right click items in your inventory to hotswap them to their holster quickly.)

Jeffey · 2004-12-27, 01:58 AM

whats a BFR =(

GreyFlcn · 2004-12-27, 02:13 AM

Big Fucking Robot

For some twisted reason they gave one version of them the ability to FLY at 80kph

Trying to get that one removed from the game.

JetRaiden · 2004-12-27, 11:38 AM

thats a BFR. you have been warned.

Infernus · 2004-12-27, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by JetRaiden

thats a BFR. you have been warned.

Speaking of BFRs, Jet I play Markov now...so if I get a chance I'll run over and step on ya sometime.

Jeffey · 2004-12-27, 12:03 PM

okay, I played all last night, i had a blast =P Few simple questions I have now...

When I join a squad, is there a way to have my voice macros not go to squad chat ( pressing V V D and all that)?

Once I train to repair vehicles, how do I repair them in the field?

This could just be me speaking - but I didn't seem to notice much unity among my empire, outfit, or squad. I was invited into squads and I could hardly even find my squad members, much less execute attacks with them. People were just throwing invites to squads and platoons and outfits without much care at all, am I missing somthing?

And the most mega noob question of them all - how do I skip the two long ass cinema scenes when I load PS!!!

ChewyLSB · 2004-12-27, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by Jeffey

okay, I played all last night, i had a blast =P Few simple questions I have now...

When I join a squad, is there a way to have my voice macros not go to squad chat ( pressing V V D and all that)?

Once I train to repair vehicles, how do I repair them in the field?

This could just be me speaking - but I didn't seem to notice much unity among my empire, outfit, or squad. I was invited into squads and I could hardly even find my squad members, much less execute attacks with them. People were just throwing invites to squads and platoons and outfits without much care at all, am I missing somthing?

And the most mega noob question of them all - how do I skip the two long ass cinema scenes when I load PS!!!

When you're in a squad, and you do a voice macro, everyone in your squad can read your voice macro in chat. However, you're voice macro still echo's locally, so everyone who would be in range normally will hear it normally.

Once you get Engineering, you'll be certified to use... the glue gun. I don't even remember it's normal name. It takes up a rifle slot, and all you have to do is take it out, point at a vehicle, and be within range, and hold on the fire button. A bar will come up indicating how much longer until it is fully healed. Also, the vehicle you are attempting to heal and you must be completely stationary.

GreyFlcn · 2004-12-27, 02:52 PM

As for not being coordinated
Yeah... PS has been like that for a while.
Heres a term for you:

"The Zerg"
Basically any soloers, or people not in your guild. People just running around in a disorganized crowd doing whatever.

Well, you get a lot of Zerg in the game. Even squads formed of Zerg, just so that the "leader" can leach some command XP off of em.

However to run a GOOD organization, you need voice communication.
Thats why I told you to download Teamspeak and Ventrillo

It's a very different exxperience playing with a GOOD outfit on voice coms, than it is with the Zerg.

If I had to pick one of the best Emerald outfits to my knowledge would be on the Terran Empire in Emerald.

You can contact Hedron, ObjectiveTruth, etc to join.
Check the movie

If you like it, let me know and I'll PM you some Teamspeak info.

FatalLight · 2004-12-27, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Jeffey

And the most mega noob question of them all - how do I skip the two long ass cinema scenes when I load PS!!!

That only pops up the first time, you'll never see them again