On console, PlanetSide 2 is as opaque, frustrating and brilliant as it was on PC

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Obtuse and overwhelming, PlanetSide 2's gargantuan free-to-play MMOFPS arrives on PlayStation 4 virtually undiminished from its PC incarnation. This is still a game that makes few concessions for new players, bombarding you with icons, mission updates and map markers but pretty much leaving you to figure things out for yourself.
As such, your initial time spent in PlanetSide 2 is a real sink or swim experience. There's much more to this game than the basic squad-based Conquest action you might expect from an online shooter, but those first hours do so little to explain or even suggest what lies in store that you may find yourself bouncing off its hard metal exterior.
Part of the problem, bizarrely, is the way the game tries to ease you in but focusses on the wrong elements in doing so. When you first join the game, having picked one of three factions and a server for your character to inhabit, you're automatically spawned on Koltyr, a sort of beginner's zone map which supposedly introduces the game's key features.
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