History Trivia / PlanetSide

* FanNickname: Generally, they're either persistent ("Bangbus" below) or temporary ("Lagsher" for the first game's Lasher heavy infantry weapon and how its projectiles, when fired, caused framerate drops).
** Each of the factions has a bunch of common, derogatory nicknames:
*** Terran Republic: [[Series/SesameStreet Elmos]], [[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[DirtyCommunist Commies]], [[CommieNazis and]] [[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] (though the latter two aren't quite as applicable in the second game).
*** New Conglomerate: [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Smurfs]], and in ''[=PS2=]'', [[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[{{Eagleland}} America]] and the Music/{{Nickelback}} Conglomerate - due to their theme music. The term '[=NeoCon=]' also applies, not only because their ideology is rather neoconservative, but because ''it is a correct abbreviation of their actual name.''
*** Vanu Sovereignty: [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barneys]] or Ding Dong Vanu, after the Stanry Woo [=TORtanic=] meme. "Spandexes" after their [[FutureSpandex favorite attire]].
*** Disorganized pubbies are often called "greenies" or, in the New Conglomerate (which attracts [[CrutchCharacter lots of inexperienced players]]), "blueberries". "Raspberries" and "grapes"/"eggplants" haven't quite caught on.
** [[ZergRush The]] [[VideoGame/{{Starcraft}} Zerg]], for the herds of aimless, uncoordinated players pushing down a lane for no reason other than the fact that a lot of other people are doing the same. Some "zergfits" (zerg outfits) are derided for having no tactics except numbers. Many high-tier outfit tactics are specifically about manipulating zerg behavior, such as luring hostile zerg into "pop traps" - lengthy slugfests over relatively-unimportant locations, which ties up a large chunk of a faction's population. "Tank zergs" and "air zergs" are common for masses of vehicles.
*** A less derided variant is the [[AlphaStrike "MAX Crash"]]; usually [[DesperationAttack a last-ditch effort]] to defeat an enemy force with [[EliteMooks a lot of MAXes.]] Popular with both beleaguered defenders cornered in their spawn rooms, and frustrated attackers hoping to overwhelm entrenched defenders.
** "Clegged" for parking Galaxy in odd position. The name came from one of the Planetside 2 developers.
** "Bangbus" or "Funbus" for Sunderer.
*** "Battle gal" and "battle bus" for sunderers and galaxies (transport vehicles) configured with the armor and firepower for combat.
** The VS [[HoverTank Magrider tank]] has the nickname "Magmower" due to how it could easily mow down enemy infantry in seconds (see CarFu on the main page for more info on that). Unfortunately, its just as effective at mowing down ''friendly'' targets.
** Grandpa Vanu (Or, Papa Vanu) for the Vanu announcer.
** "C4 Fairy" for light assaults that hover over the battlefield dropping C4 onto passing vehicles.
** "Sky Knight" or "Sky Samurai" for fighter jocks who want other pilots to follow their code of honor [[OldSchoolDogfighting (e.g. to not use air-to-air lock-on missiles).]]
** "Airchavs" / "Skygods" for high-tier players that farm infantry, tanks, and other aircraft with [=ESFs=] and Liberators.
** "Lolpods" for the infantry-obliterating air-to-ground rocket pods. The name persists even after several nerfs.
** "Sky whale" for Liberators and especially Galaxies, due to being big, slow, and vaguely whale-looking. Galaxies in the second game even got a horn sound that sounds like a whale.
** The Gauss SAW got the nickname "God SAW" for being able to mow down half a squad in a single magazine. Again, the name persists even post-nerf.
*** Became an AscendedMeme when an update included Auraxium weapons, that you can only use once you've got Auraxium medals with enough weapons in that category ([=LMG=], Sniper Rifles etc.). The New Conglomerate Auraxium [=LMG=]? The [=NC6A GODSAW=].
*** Since it has the same high damage output and similar insane recoil as the SAW, the AC-X11 carbine is sometimes refereed to as the "Pocket SAW".
** "Pizzas" for tank mines, due to their triangular, pizza box shape and (before being shrunk) size. Players say "Pizza delivery!" after getting a mine kill or to describe a tank mine-laying operation.
*** "Pizza delivery" also refers to running up behind infantry or vehicles and throwing mines of either kind directly into traffic.
** "Christmas presents" for C4 bricks, which look like little boxes that bring explosive joy to all the good little tanks and Sunderers. During Christmas time, there's even a reskin option to make the bricks look like gift-wrapped presents.
** "Spawn room hero"/"Spawn room warrior" for players who hide safely behind the spawn room force fields and shoot out, padding their kill-death ratio, instead of pushing out to defend the base. There's a few cases where this tactic is viable; the NC-specific Phoenix camera-guided rocket launcher is very effective from inside spawn rooms thanks to the shield protecting the operator while he's guiding the missile toward its target.
*** "Coward Box" for the spawn rooms and teleporter rooms that said spawn room warriors hide in while trying to shoot anyone that walks by, particularly ones that provide good fields of view.
** "Ghost-capping": sneaking into unguarded bases and flipping the control points, hacking terminals, and switching turrets to get free certs. Frequently they are Stalker-cloaked Infiltrators who repeatedly sneak in and out of control points to harass and irritate the defenders, and often require several people with motion trackers and darklight flashlights to smoke out.
** "Redeployside" for the practice of coordinated squads and platoons rapidly using the redeploy option to bounce between hotspots across a continent to reinforce vulnerable bases or overwhelm a defending force.
** "Jesus grenades" for the Medic's revive grenades.
** "Planetmans" is a general term for the players in general.
** "Big Game Hunting" for Engineers carrying an Archer, ideal for dropping MAX suits and swatting [=ESFs=] out of the sky.
** Pub-stomping refers to veterans who always prefer to go into fights where there's lots of 'noob' players.
** Fan names for some of the faction tanks exist. Magriders are called Maggies, and Vangs are of course short for Vanguards.
** The servers are jokingly referred to as 'Hamsters'.
** Spitfire turrets are called 'Spitties', and has become so prevalent that an NSFW smutfic called 'Spitty Bae' was made. Due to this story being an OldShame for the creator, it's much harder to find the smutfic.
** That low battle-rank NC sniper that just killed you with the bolt driver, and also seems to have had ImprobableAimingSkills? We refer to those as 'Bolt Babies'.
** Stack-fits are outfits filled to the brim with veteran players, who are virtually unstoppable unless they encounter another stack-fit. They have gained particular infamy in the outfit wars.

* MemeAcknowledgement: Planetside's devs on reddit have been shown to enjoy memes made by the PS2 community.

* FollowUpFailure: The developers of Planetside 2 began shifting resources and manpower to a new sequel to the Planetside franchise called Plantside: Arena. From the very beginning it was met with controversy as a blatant cash-grab that sought to copy the then-popular Battle Royale format. The game underperformed upon release, and was later shut down entirely.

** MemeAcknowledgement: Planetside's devs on reddit have been shown to enjoy memes made by the PS2 community.

** Spitfire turrets are called 'Spitties', and has become so prevalent that an NSFW smutfic called 'Spitty Bae' was made.

** Game files reveal that additional voice lines were available for the characters. There were also various other weapons, but the concepts were later scrapped. The idea of additional anti-vehicle sunderer weapons were introduced, but also scrapped by the devs.

*** Terran Republic: [[Series/SesameStreet Elmos]], [[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[DirtyCommunist Commies]], and [[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] (though the latter two aren't quite as applicable in the second game).

** "Airchavs" / "Skygods" for high-tier players that farm infantry, tanks, and other aircraft with ESFs and Liberators.

*** Disorganized pubbies are often called "greenies" or, in the New Conglomerate, "blueberries". "Raspberries" and "grapes"/"eggplants" haven't quite caught on.
** [[ZergRush The zerg]] for the mass of uncoordinated players pushing down a lane. Some "zergfits" (zerg outfits) are derided for having no tactics except numbers. Many special ops tactics specifically manipulate your faction's zerg to beat the enemy's. "Tank zergs" and "air zergs" are common for masses of vehicles.
** A less derided variant is what's called a "MAX Crash", usually a last-ditch effort of the defenders to overwhelm the attackers with a lot of [=MAXes=]

** "Battle gal" and "battle bus" for sunderers and galaxies (transport vehicles) configured with the armor and firepower for combat.
** The VS' Madriger tank had the nickname "Magmower" due to how it could easily mow down enemy infantry in seconds (see CarFu on the main page for more info on that). Unfortunately, its just as effective at mowing down ''friendly'' targets....

** "C4 Fairy" for light assaults that hover over the battlefield dropping C4 onto enemies.
** "Sky Knight" or "Sky Samurai" for fighter jocks who want other pilots to follow their code of honor (e.g. to not use air-to-air lock-on missiles).

** "Pizzas" for tank mines, due to their triangular, pizza box shape and (before being shrunk) size. Players say, "Pizza delivery!" after getting a mine kill or to describe a tank mine-laying operation.

** "Coward Box" for spawn rooms and teleporter rooms that spawn room warriors hide in while trying to shoot anyone that walks by.

** Grandpa Vanu for the Vanu announcer.

*** Became an AscendedMeme when an update included Auraxium weapons, that you can only use once you've got Auraxium medals with enough weapons in that category ([=LMG=], Sniper Rifles etc.). The New Conglomerate Auraxium [=LMG=]? The [=GODSAW=].