Smedley tweets PlanetSide Galaxy transport image

Looks a lot more realistic and perhaps a little more contemporary and less futuristic. So far I like the direction though these teases are killing me. Probably not a bad marketing strategy, at least as far as former/current players of the original Planetside are concerned.

And I got reminded of Star Wars Galaxies... great...

In any case, I am still looking forward to Planetside 2 (I'm just gonna call it that), but I wish it came out like a year or two ago, or even now. Now I'm gonna have to wait, and looking at how long Agency is taking, this is gonna take forever.

I'm getting more and more excited by this.

I would say the Galaxy model looks better than the Vanguard, but it's good to hear they are not in-game assets.

I just hope when the game comes out they are higher poly models with nicer textures. Planetside looked dated in 2003 and that looks like it belongs in Planetside lol.

whocares if it looks a tiny bit better. I really don't understand how you can defend these pictures, they look so fucking dated it's untrue! You're all fucking crazy SOE are making a joke out of the Planetside IP and you're all gonna bend over and take it again.

I mean show that to any non fanboi and they will laugh at how bad it looks.

I still remember, years ago, riding in a galaxy over a primary target -- flak everywhere, the roar of gunfire and rockets deafening -- and getting the call to jump. Then seeing the squad hot dropping onto the roof and practically kicking one of the roof doors in, guns blazing the whole time. Heh. I hope the new game will be able to preserve or improve on those kinds of experiences.

Will be interesting to see how the Tribes MMO and this one compare.

Dropping onto the roof of a base from a Galaxy and fighting your way inside was one of the things I always enjoyed in Planetside - glad the Gal is back - as long as we can hot-drop from it and float (/fall :p ) down to a target below then it's all good.

Vive la hot-drop!

Couldn't really give a flying frogs #$% what it looks like. I just want that Planetside gameplay on a huge scale again.

The artwork does look nice, even if it is drastically different from the feel on the original planetside (as someone else said it looks more modern with a slight sci-fi added on then the very sci fi of the old planetside).

However, I didn't quit the original planetside (only a couple months after it launched) due to graphics. I quit because the balance was so utterly terrible and everytime they tried to "fix" it they just swung it in the other direction. Since the game was so easy to level up, people just jumped ship to each new over-powered side with each update.

The game had a lot of potential but the gameplay was lacking (let's take a whole planet and then log out and come back tomorrow and take it over again, rinse and repeat for everyday as the stuff swapped back and forth every few hours since there was no way to lock it in for a period of time and no actual gain for holding it vs letting the other side take it and capturing somewhere else while they were distracted) and the balance was so terrible that the game overall became a joke.

I will be far more interested to hear how they're changing/adjusting gameplay/balance/leveling/abilities than the artwork.

"Oh John Smedley, you coy devil!"

WTF, why is Massivley obviously sucking up to the most hated man in MMO history ?

Smedbucks IS the reason why players hate $oE.

Please wipe you nose off Massively.

Ahhhh, the Galaxy. I remember playing Planetside early in my MMO/FPS career, and sucking terribly. So I respecced to repair and fly vehicles. Grabbed a Galaxy, called for a crew and carried a full compliment of bloodthirsty soldiers over the enemy lines and right over their main base. Turn around, repair, rinse, repeat. It made the poor noob I was feel like I was actually contributing.

I'm way more excited for this than I've been for anything else for some time.

I was looking at this game.

Is it good?