Planetside Free for a Year

[Sovy Kurosei]

That's us

Hold on there, hombre, you still need to create your game.

 

[spacemoose]

All of the guns in Planetside are so nerfed to the point where none of it makes sense. You can kill an advanced armor with three or so shots of a shotgun pistol, but it takes 6+ guided rockets to kill someone in light armor.

disagree, its actually very well balanced right now. every weapon has a specialty that its good at, and if you try to use it for something else, you will probably get your ass handed to you. as you mentioned, rockets don't hurt infantry much, this is because they are meant as AV weapons, not AI

 

[kingcomrade]

Yes, but that also doesn't make any sense. Rockets are filled with explosives. It doesn't make any sense that something that can hurt a heavily armored tank or a guy in power armor can't hurt a guy in light armor.

As for the other guns, it still holds true. The only gun which is efficant (er, adjective form of efficacy) is the mini chaingun. The rest are pretty spammy in nature.

 

[Sovy Kurosei]

It doesn't make any sense that something that can hurt a heavily armored tank or a guy in power armor can't hurt a guy in light armor.

I think it needs to be balanced in that respect because it is stupid-easy to get any of those big guns when you access one of the consoles near the regeneration tubes. Also the anti-armor weapons are just as weildy and easy to use as normal guns in Planetside, unlike the real world. You shouldn't be able to shoot and hit another combatant who is firing their SMG into your stomach, nevermind even keep the launcher on your shoulder.

 

[kingcomrade]

Yes I understand that it is done so for balance reasons. It's still stupid. The anti-armor weapons are actually MORE wieldy and easy to use. Tribes had the same problem, "balance" was attained by making all of the guns frustratingly difficult to use. Now, I did pretty good at Planetside (low ping + experience with Tribes), but it's not much fun.

 

[Sovy Kurosei]

The anti-armor weapons are actually MORE wieldy and easy to use.

Now that I think about it, yeah, you are right. I know I usually switch to my rockets when flying with my reaver when attacking some infantry, just because it is a pain to try and hit the infantry with my machine gun and I am sure to at least get some splash damage with the rockets.

Maybe if there was some kind of auto-aiming feature that helps you hit targets when you are using a relatively smaller gun compared to using rocket launchers or main tank guns it would be better.