[quote name='tiktok0']I am not a FPS fan to start with, but I was part of the Planetside testing and initial group of players. My guess is that Mag is 80%+ Planetside as framework. That game had so many things it needed changed to make it better and there was a huge problem with lag an unfortunate amount of times. The lag should no longer be a problem, the original Planetside let dial-up users play. There was a lot of room for improvement and I believe subsequent updates did make it a better game.
I doubt many here would know what I am talking about, but Planetside was originally being developed as the sequel to a game called Tanarus. But, they split majorly from the original Tanarus game and made it mostly about ground combat, whereas Tanarus was entirely about the tanks. Tanarus is still the best first person(tank) shooter ever made and I really wish Sony Online would bring it back in full glory.[/quote]
I know what you are talking about, I was into Planetside/Tanarus too. :lol:
It'll be different here in that everyone will have the same hardware compare to all the different specs you find in the PC environment. So that could be another factor to lessen the lag.
Also we don't know if the 256 will all be in one area, or split up like they were in Planetside do we? Sure planetside had high numbers of players, but the way the game was designed not everyone is bogged down in one area.
I also think I noticed three icons representing the factions which I believe was (is?) the same amount there was in Planetside.