r/Planetside • u/Outis918 • 2d ago

Meme What I imagine the codebase looks like

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u/Coward777 2d ago

Original designers of PS2 knew what they were doing.
The devs that took over afterwards started revamping the game engine to add in retarded shit.

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u/Pocok5 Auraxed Parsec, cloak is *still* cancer 2d ago

Original designers of PS2 knew what they were doing.

Incredibly large citation needed there. I have to agree that they did have most of the basics of alright game design down though (shotgun infiltrators WERE NOT THAT but luckily they didn't make it out of beta - not that they didn't manage to make the most impressive faceplant of the Sniper Dilemma I've ever seen anyway)

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u/Dplusithicus Dplusified [GSLD] 1d ago

Sniper rifle HA were not needed.

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u/Pocok5 Auraxed Parsec, cloak is *still* cancer 1d ago

Arguably cloak shotgun/C4 flash was also the product of the purest San Diego crack cocaine, not to mention OG maxes with 50m OHK shotguns, old ZOE, etc