Not recommended anymore

2015 was the last time I played this and back then it was amazing and justly won a "game of the year" award - but having an itch for it recently I went back in to find - wall to wall aimbots, wallhacks, bugs, WAAY OP classes, ridiculous cosmetics, very little team co-operative play and a whole bunch of NOPE !

12 years ago this game took a significant amount of my free time (and I even paid for the monthly perks), my faction group (Terran Empire) was doing TRAINING twice a week for newer players for solo and team play tactics - when to call a maxcrash and when not to, teaching people what skill perks to work on first and a whole load of things to give them an edge from your average clueless n00b.

Seems that community has died off and been replaced with Fortnite "I only play for me and the rest can GFT" mentality not caring if the faction dominates the area or not.

If you want to play this game for mindless shooting - go ahead, but you'll just be more fodder for the cheaters ready to pick you off with a headshot at impossibly long distance while you're on a quadbike. (which I only ever managed ONCE and completely by accident - headshotted as an infil (Overwatch was my speciality) some poor b'tard on a quad who was behind the target I was aiming at - god he was P1SSED - lol makes me grin now to think of it)

But honestly, there's better ways to waste your life.

I know this is waaaay past it mattering, but if the guys who were responsible for this "sequel" had just modified Planetside 1 with modern day graphics, people would be so much happier than they are now. That game was a masterpiece of a genre that nobody gave a damn about.

great game!

War..War never changes..

love it

good

It's sad leaving a negative review on this game as it can be such fun and I haven't found much else like it.

Unfortunately, though, the game is just plagued with cheaters. Every night there's someone new shooting through floors - flying through the sky - some other nonsense. Some random level 10 with 300 kills in a minute.

Devs are either royally incompetent or just don't care. I can get not wanting to ban based on reports - but a simple check of oh hmm this player killed 150 people in a few minutes without dying is not that much of an ask lol.

Tis sad to see this game slowly die as I only joined in the past few years - but what can you do? :(

There's no longer "thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents" it's now a few hundreds worldwide.

PS2 was amazing... back in the day. I liked it a lot, but ultimately got bored with the OP metastrats and the devs using OP weapon releases to drive sales (and then nerf them from god guns to less than average).
I decided to give it a try after many, many years. There might be new content and a fairly friendly community, but it was very stale. Players use the exact same hiding spots, routes, methods, etc. No offense to the players, but it is fairly brainless at this point with only hardcore vets left.
I don't exactly blame the game, this is the meta-movement of games itself. When new, it attracts lots of new players and a delightful chaos ensues as people enjoy the game as they figure it out. After a bit, the majority of players move on to the new, hot thing and those that are left are stuck in a grind meta of winning and learning methods of gaining the most advantage.