Planetside 2 Beta NDA Lifted: Details Come Out at PAX Prime

Ravi Sinha — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 08:28:59 +0000

For those in the know, Sony Online Entertainment has been hosting a closed beta for it’s long awaited MMO shooter, Planetside 2. Now, however, the NDA has been lifted and at PAX Prime, show attendees and beta testers were allowed to discuss and live stream their war journals in the fights for Auraxis.

Each player who’s joined the beta has averaged about 2 hours a day playing. What other interesting numbers popped up? According to SOE, there were:

8.5 billion points of damage done to players
5.8 billion points of damage done to vehicles
535 million shots fired
194.6 million shots hit
6.3 million player deaths
2.3 million rockets launched
571 thousand grenades thrown

The total Empire allegiance breakdown was finally Terran Republic: 34.67%, New Conglomerate: 32.96% and Vanu Sovereignty: 32.37%.

PAX Prime marks the first consumer showing for Planetside 2 in North America. As it stands, there’s no release for the game, which is a sequel to the 2003 original, but if development and hype pick up, it’s only a matter of time.

FPS MMO in the works at Crytek

Will Kenny — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:21:01 +0000

Although Crysis 2 is already in the works and is set for release some time in 2010, Crytek are already busy on their next project; a Massively Multiplayer Online FPS. According to a Linkedln profile, a so far unannounced MMO FPS is in the works.

According to the aformentioned profile, belonging to Yegor Bondar from Crytek Kiev, the developer of Crysis and FarCry fame is working on a ‘MMO FPS’. We have no details other than that on the mysterious game, but expect more info shortly.

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Planetside 2 Beta NDA Lifted: Details Come Out at PAX Prime

FPS MMO in the works at Crytek