It has frame rate issues right now. If you turn down certain things it becomes perfectly playable. I haven't noticed any lag myself. Are you playing on a server in the right part of the world?

Killing people and completing objectives doesn't have the same weight to it as in Dust, but that's to be expected, as it's not ever going to be something with an actual economy and so on. It's meant to be a game you just hop into, kill some people, and have a good time without needing to give it much thought. In that respect it is much better than Dust is. But, there are a LOT of weapons/etc to be unlocked, and most unlocked stuff can be upgraded, and killing/capturing gets you points with which to upgrade stuff. So there definitely is some reward for winning.

Teamwork in Planetside is more pronounced. You have specific classes, with weapons/abilities totally locked out depending the class you have equipped at the moment. Only two classes get anti-armor weaponry, only one can heal, only one can repair or restore ammo, etc. You need to rely on people about the same as in Dust.

I have no idea how you could say it doesn't need skill. In fact, it requires even more skill, as the weapons in it are not hitscan and therefore you need to lead targets and compensate for drop (apart from Vanu energy weapons).

This carries over to sniper rifles as well. In Planetside 2, sniper rifles: Have bullet drop, have bullet travel time, and leave a tracer in the air as they're fired. Most of them also only kill in one hit if you get a headshot. So sniper rifles, in particular, require much more skill in that game than in Dust, where you just point and click like an imbecile.

Flying is fine. It's not as finnicky as in Dust, but there's actual dogfighting and maneuvering around and so on. It's hard to compare a game like Dust, where battlefields are tiny and the only aircraft is the dropship, to flying around a huge map in something that's a weird mix between a jet and a helicopter.


Areas Planetside does well are many.
- It does sniper rifles fairly well, but even then I take exception to the one-hit-kill sniper rifles. I imagine they might get nerfed, as they did state they didn't want OHK weaponry, but we'll see. Anyway, sniping actually takes some skill in that game for long-range shooting. Dust could learn from it.

- You can customize your armor configuration, your helmet, your armor colour scheme, your weapon colour scheme, your insignia, and you earn titles as you rank up/etc. Vehicles can also be customized in a similar way. Planetside 2 has a lot of customization options, and will only add more as things move forward. Dust, by contrast, has armour colouration that exists only for one armor type, and gets away when you die wearing that armor. In Planetside, you buy a colour scheme, apply it to an armor/weapon/vehicle, and it's yours forever.

- You can spend money in Planetside to unlock weapons/etc sooner, but all weapons/etc can be unlocked via points earned in-game as well. Nothing is exclusively paid-for. Overall it handles the stuff players pay for and what they don't need to pay for much, much better than Dust. Maybe CCP has plans for stuff later, but of course they've not even hinted at it, so at this point I'll assume all their plans are is for guns and armor that cost 6 cents and go away when you die with them.

- From the get-go you can use any class type, any vehicle. You don't have all the options available to you, but you can still do some damage in a stock tank, and can still be an effective support or sniper character without investing any points into upgrades. It's cool, because you can play a lot of different ways whenever you want. In Dust, you're much more limited by your finances and your skills.

- Large battles are very impressive. Swarms of tanks and aircraft, attacking some massive base at night on a wintery continent, with the aurora borealis streaming overhead and tracers lighting up the skill, is impressive to behold. It is an epic game.

- The continents are nice and interesting. Arid badlands sort of continent, a grasslands one, and an arctic one. It's nice having terrain variety. "Dusty industrial hellscape" has its charms, but it does get old.


Anywya, bottom line is you're on drugs if you think this game is a failure. Years from now, when Dust is out of beta and all the stuff we keep saying "well JUST YOU WAIT until it's added!" about is actually added, it will be the superior game. For now, however, Planetside 2 is a lot of fun and will keep you entertained a good long while.

been playing it for 2 days now, and its WAY MORE FUN THAN DUST. I came here cause I dont have my PC right now to play it, and I was hoping that CCP would wake up, and realize that PS2 is what Dust should have been.

scrap this game. remake it from the ground up to be a real MMOFPS. put it on PS4 instead of PS3, since that has better RAM to handle a large persistent game world to battle in.

But its repetitve.Its good i like it but all you do is capture the same bases and outposts over and over on the same 3 continents.I know more will be added but a 4th wont make a difference if all 3 have already been taken over on every server in just 3-4 days.Besides when i meant skill planetside 2 skill is about the same as BF3. Its easy to counter bullet drop.After playin BF3 so long its not even a small challenge to play planetside 2.But planetside 2 is much better in different areas.But i find Dust 514 much more addictive since its actually doing something different while planetside 2 has only a few things that keeps it from bieng a regular generic FPS

It isn't any more repetitive than Dust. There's much more variety in the places you fight in Planetside. Continent locks don't last forever. You take over a continent, you hold it briefly and get a discount on tanks or something, and then the other two empires begin pushing you back. You get to keep the bonus until the continent is taken by another side, but it's essentially a continuous swapping of continents. This, incidentally, is Planetside's weakest area and where Dust will eventually have it beat, as both Faction Wars and nullsec will be far more engaging.

Bullet drop and bullet travel time don't make it really hard to shoot, but it certainly makes it more hard than in Dust. Hitscan weapons, especially for snipers, are trivially easy to use. I don't think it's such a major point either way, but to say that it doesn't require skill and yet Dust does is silly. Nothing in Dust requires any more skill than in Planetside. Even being a medic, you need to actually hover over a dead friendly for a few seconds to revive them instead of Dust's instantaneous method.

Anyway, Planetside has its own niche. It's very different from Dust. They aren't competing. People who want really big wars where you don't lose anything if you win or lose will have a lot of fun with Planetside. People who like smaller battles where the stakes are bigger will like Dust. It's possible to like both of them too, though. And definitely acting as if Planetside 2 has nothing to offer is just a mistake.

Planetside 2 is going to be developed into the future as well, so how about its exciting possibilities?

Dust is going to have only temperate planet types for probably a couple years or so. Given the pace they've been developing this game at I don't imagine they'll have all of those planet types introduced within the next 5 years. And the Planetside devs have expressed interest in both space and naval combat. Plus they'll be introducing new continents (which have new terrain types, like volcanic terrain) as they go.

As for my review in a nutshell.

Possibly oceanic combat in the future for dust maybe.And i think boarding capital ships has been confirmed.But Dust 514 will have much more possibilities than planetside 2s.But there both awsome we know that.

It has frame rate issues right now. If you turn down certain things it becomes perfectly playable. I haven't noticed any lag myself. Are you playing on a server in the right part of the world?

Killing people and completing objectives doesn't have the same weight to it as in Dust, but that's to be expected, as it's not ever going to be something with an actual economy and so on. It's meant to be a game you just hop into, kill some people, and have a good time without needing to give it much thought. In that respect it is much better than Dust is. But, there are a LOT of weapons/etc to be unlocked, and most unlocked stuff can be upgraded, and killing/capturing gets you points with which to upgrade stuff. So there definitely is some reward for winning.

Teamwork in Planetside is more pronounced. You have specific classes, with weapons/abilities totally locked out depending the class you have equipped at the moment. Only two classes get anti-armor weaponry, only one can heal, only one can repair or restore ammo, etc. You need to rely on people about the same as in Dust.

I have no idea how you could say it doesn't need skill. In fact, it requires even more skill, as the weapons in it are not hitscan and therefore you need to lead targets and compensate for drop (apart from Vanu energy weapons).

This carries over to sniper rifles as well. In Planetside 2, sniper rifles: Have bullet drop, have bullet travel time, and leave a tracer in the air as they're fired. Most of them also only kill in one hit if you get a headshot. So sniper rifles, in particular, require much more skill in that game than in Dust, where you just point and click like an imbecile.

Flying is fine. It's not as finnicky as in Dust, but there's actual dogfighting and maneuvering around and so on. It's hard to compare a game like Dust, where battlefields are tiny and the only aircraft is the dropship, to flying around a huge map in something that's a weird mix between a jet and a helicopter.


Areas Planetside does well are many.
- It does sniper rifles fairly well, but even then I take exception to the one-hit-kill sniper rifles. I imagine they might get nerfed, as they did state they didn't want OHK weaponry, but we'll see. Anyway, sniping actually takes some skill in that game for long-range shooting. Dust could learn from it.

- You can customize your armor configuration, your helmet, your armor colour scheme, your weapon colour scheme, your insignia, and you earn titles as you rank up/etc. Vehicles can also be customized in a similar way. Planetside 2 has a lot of customization options, and will only add more as things move forward. Dust, by contrast, has armour colouration that exists only for one armor type, and gets away when you die wearing that armor. In Planetside, you buy a colour scheme, apply it to an armor/weapon/vehicle, and it's yours forever.

- You can spend money in Planetside to unlock weapons/etc sooner, but all weapons/etc can be unlocked via points earned in-game as well. Nothing is exclusively paid-for. Overall it handles the stuff players pay for and what they don't need to pay for much, much better than Dust. Maybe CCP has plans for stuff later, but of course they've not even hinted at it, so at this point I'll assume all their plans are is for guns and armor that cost 6 cents and go away when you die with them.

- From the get-go you can use any class type, any vehicle. You don't have all the options available to you, but you can still do some damage in a stock tank, and can still be an effective support or sniper character without investing any points into upgrades. It's cool, because you can play a lot of different ways whenever you want. In Dust, you're much more limited by your finances and your skills.

- Large battles are very impressive. Swarms of tanks and aircraft, attacking some massive base at night on a wintery continent, with the aurora borealis streaming overhead and tracers lighting up the skill, is impressive to behold. It is an epic game.

- The continents are nice and interesting. Arid badlands sort of continent, a grasslands one, and an arctic one. It's nice having terrain variety. "Dusty industrial hellscape" has its charms, but it does get old.


Anywya, bottom line is you're on drugs if you think this game is a failure. Years from now, when Dust is out of beta and all the stuff we keep saying "well JUST YOU WAIT until it's added!" about is actually added, it will be the superior game. For now, however, Planetside 2 is a lot of fun and will keep you entertained a good long while.

First : We are in beta: work in progress

1-Customization will be like the one on eve. You will create your own character to walk and do normal stuff but fot fighting you have a standar color and look

2-you dont play EVE do you?
at the end there will be no AUR only items because it will be a player driven economy : you can buy stuff with aour and then sell it on the market for isk

3- You have all kinds of weapons and modules in militia gear so you actually test which class do you like before specialising

5- PS will be stuck for ever with the same maps because its set on earth
Dust will have an endless amount of maps everyone being different from the other because there are l-+thousend of planets in new eden

any areas it was good in?
easy to get into?
better UI?

Spot on Fivetimes.

When PS2 came out, I downloaded it and played once only not to start it ever again. There was something repulsive to it, maybe graphics, not sure. Got me PS3 and was in this closed beta. After a month in DUST and getting a bit bored I saw some texts and videos on TMDC on PS2 and gave it another shot.

Like Suarra mentioned, first hour I was massacred form enemies I couldn't even locate, but after that it was just getting better and better. Last few days I hardly start DUST; to my wife's pleasure as she can now level 2nd char. I am very excited about it, even it has serious issues, but there, like here, is a hope of what it may all become.

Played with Light Assault and a lot with Infiltrator. Latter, beside long-ranged sniping which works perfectly, is a bit broken/unbalanced class, tho nevertheless it gives me much more fun playing it then anything (Nova Knives Ninja) in DUST so far.

The very scale of the game is just something which compensates for all underdeveloped/non-existent mechanics the game needs. And, as said, PS2 beside being released, still has potential to grow. Can't imagine how fun will it be once tools for meta-gaming are on.

And I may only hope DUST reaches such scale. Really would love to play a game like that made by CCP.