From what I understand while ps1 vets will indeed be invited to the closed beta early. Signs have shown (tentatively) that the beta will commence as soon as thursday. And in several interviews they have said that plans are in place to quickly ramp up the number of beta testers to stress test the servers. I guess that's why they are giving out so many beta keys. I just hope that I'm in one of the first waves.

 

I tried to join the Facebook group but all I could do was like it (I am a Facebook scrub). Amidoinitrite?

 

It should let you join I set admin permissions to everyone 13 and up. On a side note anyone here (in southern California) want to go this event in san diego? I'm stuck without a ride (car got stolen) up here in oceanside and it's at the Sony building from 12 to 9 pm free admission, Planetside 2 gaming stations will be set up and free pizza/drinks and free drawings are to be provided.

Address is
8929 Terman Court, San Diego, CA 92121.

Anyway I'm goin if I have to take the train down tthere but I will have to leave really early to get back. So If I can get a ride I'll buy lunch to the ride provider.

 

That is probably a bad idea. I would just leave your address out and send it in a pm when someone contacts you. This part of the forum is public access after all.

 

lol, no that is where the planetside event is happening. At the Sony online entertainment building. 8929 Terman Court, San Diego, CA 92121 thats the address.

 

It begins.

Well, the Tech Tests do anyway. E-mails going out apparently. Nothing here but, it's stupidly early anyway, so, keep your eyes open guys, you might get lucky! - Source

 

Yep... I can confirm. I got my acceptance e-mail about two hours ago, and am just now downloading the client. Looking forward to returning to the world of Planetside! Hopefully it's as badass as I want it to be... and hopefully some of you get in too, so I'll have some people to play with!

It's looking like the initial installation of the game is just shy of 9GB, for those of you who might be curious...

 

Well, congrats on getting in, I've been looking at my inbox every few hours and had nothing. That said, it's based on tech specs and I never found out how to submit my specs, might be why. Still, looking forward to an eventual beta invite.

 

Ok this is on our ps2 page on facebook as well but I thought I would post it here too. Oh, my apologies for my writing it's been a while since my last english comp class.

Ok my apologies for taking so long to put what went on down in San Diego on here but I've had a busy weekend.

I got down to SOE building at about 07:30 am because public transportation really sucks here in socal, and if I came later I wouldn't get there until 3 in the afternoon. So, I got on the bus with 3 other people that were all wearing planetside 2 gear and we talked about the game as we walked to the the Sony Online Entertainment buildings (there are 4-5 of them) and when we got there it turned that the three guys (all who were TR players weird enough) were not there for the event but were there for work. FML

So I walk to the buildings and end up in the soe smoke pit just shooting the breeze with some of the "green badges" (to get into the different building you have different color badges with varying levels of access) who don't really work for soe but are kind of like..temps? idk but they are hired by an agency who have a contract with soe and provide like it support and stuff.

Yeah, After talking awhile with the employees I have it suggested to me that I need to check with security and with nothing but time on my hands I do so. He directs me over to a building that had 3 guys who apparently drove all the way down from bakersfield in a sort of all nighter whitecastle esque reenactment. They apparently had been waiting since 5am.

So I get over there talk a bit about the game, Factions, what to expect. And apparently the president of the company was checking up on the preparations for the event. He said; "You guys here for the event?" we answered "of Course" and he then proceeded to tell us that since we showed our loyalty by coming so early we would walk away with some good swag ie (PS2 gear) So one of the people setting up for the event ran off and sure enough not 20 mins later they came out and gave us some badass shirts (whatever faction we said we would like) and gave us some one on one time with the devs.

Getting kind of tired finish up later.

 

I hope you got a lot of free keys and had fun. This game looks interesting, and DLP is full of smart people, so we could be really amazing as a group at this game.

 

Well, as the beta's officially started I'm sending out the 4 spare keys I have to the people that first asked waaaay back when. If you got a code recently please pass it onto the next person in line, he says hoping people on the internet can actually share...

Anyway. Keys are on their way, hopefully I get in before I go back to Uni with my laptop that'll melt at the sight of the game and where the net is... less than stellar. Enjoy guys.

 

http://www.twitch.tv/las0m

Creative Director is doing a live stream of his beta play. Looks great so far!

 

You can get a beta key for the beta test weekend during 17-19th. Nvidia is the one doing the promotion. Link.

 

I didn't see anything about a Beta in that link.

 

I have 2 beta keys I got from the events so please pm me if you want one. Oh, the nvidia was a fluke they were suppose to wait to release them.

 

Just a heads up to the people I sent my keys too (and everyone else whose applied thus far) - I just got my invite & download link so, keep your eyes peeled.

 

Yep, me too!! See you in-game, although we only have tonight/tomorrow. Servers will be offline sunday so make the most of it.

 

Might just be me but all servers are appearing as 'locked' so I assume they're all offline. Also, assuming you get when the servers will be up off the forums, or is there an article I'm missing somewhere?

Edit - And there's the tweet, derp. GOnna be a fun day, GW2 into PS2, can't wait.

 

16MB of 4535MB, holy shit. It will take me 10 hours to download. FUUUUUUUU-

 

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EDIT: Forget that.

Is anyone else unable to download the client? Also, I've read around a bit and apparently there's a massive update going on, so if you download the client now you'll have to re-download it tomorrow.