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I DLed the beta and tried it for a bit just to see how it plays.

The netcode seems sturdy enough (despite me being 2k miles away and 160 odd ping). It was smooth enough.

But, and this is a big but, there's no way my PC will be able to handle more than 20-30 players in local vicinity at once, especially near the larger structures.

There was one point where two players attacked me and it was in front of a structure owned by them so I expected to die (lowly rank 3 me with basic starting weapons and on my own) but what horrified me was the disgusting FPS lag.

Inside it runs just fine and I could imagine myself spending the money per month to get into this game (Hell, I am still paying for 2 EQ accounts right now that I hardly ever play anymore, and I played that game for years).

But, I won't have the time so there's little point.

No matter how easy it is to get into battle quickly this will not be a game for the casual gamer.

If it's anything like EQ you'll be spending more time LFS (looking for squad) than anything else. Medics and hackers will get squads really easilly and frontline players will not (similar to Clerics, Enchanters and Warriors in EQ).

Eventually the game will be dominated by one particular Outfit (or clan) who spend 23 hours a day playing and there will be very little point in playing casually.

There is no "low level game" in Planetside (unlike EQ). So you either get dedicated or you die. Lots.

So, not for me.

Meh, I'm waiting for HL2.