I am in! I will look for you guys once I get it downloaded and installed!
We’ll be playing all night, so hop on mumble if you want to play. Remember to put your character on TR on Helios.
Yeah, you stay classy and keep insulting half the country, Senorbeef. That’ll get people to play online with you.
Wow, you are a professionally persecuted butthurt if you construe “libertarian frat boys who drink mountain dew and call each other broseph who are funded by corporate interests” as pertaining to half the country. Come play with us, Bandit. Your delicate psyche would cause your head to explode.
The tea party wishes they were half the country. Flying is more fun with a 360 controller than keyboard and mouse, at least in my opinion.
Flying is hard as shit. If you try to fly in this game, do not be discouraged if you crash and burn immediately. I suggest finding YouTube tutorials and watching them before taking a plane out.
I’ve played it a bit; just enough to know that I need to play a lot more to get ‘good’ 
But I find it to be a lot of fun. I can play for 15 minutes or several hours, depending on how I’m feeling on a particular day…
I don’t recall which server I first rolled on (I think it starts with a ‘W’?)…but I haven’t progressed too far, so I’ll jump on over to Genudine/Helios and start over.
Yeah, you might as well reroll and play with us. We can help you learn the game and Helios is now a good server (genudine was not), so no reason not to try.
I play as New Conglomerate, but ironically. I’m no Libertarian, but I like the color scheme and hearing audio macros of “FREEEDOM!” when we capture a base is entertaining.
Also the TR voice person sounds whiny 
We’ll be playing all night, hop on mumble if you want in.
I have less than zero idea what I’m doing in this game. I think I died three times before I even saw someone.
Half the country is fratboys and rednecks? I mean, living in Chicago, I’d say half of Wrigleyville is fratboys, which is why I tend not to go there (and the bars, on the whole, suck ass.)
And most rednecks would actually find Beef’s comment amusing, at least in my experience with rednecks.
Regardless, they’re hardly half the country. And neither is the Tea Party, who’s numbers are actually dwindling, not increasing.
Overreact much?
Can you give me your solemn assurance that this would in no wise rebound to the benefit of Electronic Arts?
I know you keep a weird schedule, but if you can play with us sometime we can make the transition easier. It can be confusing at first - you’re thrown out into a huge world with none of the linearity or handholding that most shooters have - but just stick with it for a while, you’ll become familiar pretty quickly. Even joining a public squad (from the squad screen, there will be a list) and following their orders/waypoints should at least give you some idea of where to go. If the squad isn’t very organized, leave and find another.
This isn’t an EA game, they’re not involved with it at all.
Permission granted.
Hmmmm…sounds enticing.
I’m tempted…but WoW is releasing a new patch tomorrow with some new raid content…
How “twitchy” is the game? By “twitchy” I mean will my old, clumsy, and sometimes arthritic fingers be able to control the avatar well enough to be reasonably competitive with others? In WoW, I do pvp, but only at the lowest skill level. I just can’t react fast enough to play high end pvp.
Infantry combat, especially at close range, is quite twitchy with low time-to-kill and people jumping and running around to avoid your fire. Ground vehicle fights are a bit more forgiving and you can be useful as a support character without having to duke it out if you don’t mind playing an engineer or a medic. Even then if you stand still too long there’s a good chance a sniper will blow your head off.
Too late to edit, but just wanted to add that since there’s no artificial team/raid size limits, you don’t need to be good to be useful though. You aren’t taking a spot from a better player no matter how bad a day you are having with the game, which is actually one of the things I really like about Planetside 2. Nobody cares if I sit behind the lines in some forgotten AA gun turret and enjoy the sunset or if I just drive around in an ATV. As long as you don’t kill your own teammates its all good.
Downloaded both PS2 and Mumble…started up “Yeticus Rex” in Helios, but was unable to locate SDMB on Mumble, but still played a couple of hours and help supported a roving group of base capturers, mostly engineering and sitting in a sunderer turret shooting at stuff that moved.