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PlanetSide 2 is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS) game developed by Toadman Interactive.The game supports battles with thousands of players and incorporates modern first-person shooter mechanics.
PlanetSide 2, a sequel, was released in 2012, featuring faster-paced gameplay, modern first-person shooter mechanics and high graphical fidelity. The main series games in the franchise chronicle the efforts of three factions (the New Conglomerate, Vanu Sovereignty and Terran Republic) as they fight for control of the planet Auraxis.
The ForgeLight engine is a game engine developed by the company, and used for Free Realms, Clone Wars Adventures, PlanetSide 2, Landmark, EverQuest Next, Just Survive, and H1Z1. [50] The engine is able to support up to 2,000 players on a single game server and allows over 200 players to be rendered by a game client at once.
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Planetside 2 is one of the most hotly anticipated FPS titles of the year. At E3 2012, we gave it awards for "Best Shooter" and "Best MMO", beating out titles like Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 ...
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[7] [8] The ForgeLight engine is primarily single-threaded, but has been modified to better support multithreading prior to the release of games using the ForgeLight engine on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. [9] [10] [11] The engine's renderer, originally supporting only DirectX 9, has also been upgraded to support DirectX 11 in PlanetSide 2. [12]
PlanetSide battles concern control over territory and strategic points, and can cause repercussions to all three factions. To date, PlanetSide remains one of the few MMOFPS games ever created. A sequel, PlanetSide 2, was released in November 2012. Rather than a direct sequel, it is a "re-imagining" of the first game.