tecknojock

Wait, so we can now pull MBTs at construction terminals? Neat. Does this apply even if you dont have a tech plant?

I *believe* that applies to the Desolation terminals at each faction/outfit warpgate, but will have to confirm on Test.

Ansicone

I understand this will apply only to Desolation, as there are otherwise no vehicle terminals - but maybe this will affect normal continents?

Only on Desolation, yes. Those would be separate balance changes we'd look at in a future patch. Next week's patch will primarily focus on Outfit Wars / Desolation / Sanctuary / Bastion fixes / additional high-priority fixes occurring on Live.

Whiteagle808

Well according to Wrel in the other thread, not YET, but they are open to the idea of giving Construction the Heavy Vehicles...

yup, this. Straight from the source :)

X9SalvaTore9X

THANK YOU GUYSSSS, finally i can play in italian 🤣u/a_sites, 💜

prego!

Whiteagle808

And again I should GET TO WORK ON MY PLANETSIDE PROPOSAL WRITE UP!!!

Damn you procrastination, DAMN YOU!!!

lol, you and all of us my friend :)

Hi all,

Just a heads-up that PTS is currently down as we work to bring a new update to the Test Server for this weekend. PTS should unlock by 3:00 PM PDT today (Friday, March 20) - that's probably conservative, but this patch does include new map exports which are pretty large files.

Today's patch includes extensive changes for Outfit Wars and Desolation, the new Asteroid continent utilized in OW competitions, which remains work-in-progress leading into our first preseason competition. There are also plenty of new fixes for the Bastion and other issues. The goal is to test these changes on PTS this weekend, before bringing them to live servers next week.

Reminder on how to access the Public Test Server can be found here.

Full patch notes below:

Outfit Wars Schedule

We've enabled a new Outfit Wars schedule for this weekend. There will be two Outfit Wars that take place each day (EU and NA primetime). They will follow the schedule below:

First Outfit War - Sat. March 21 & Sun. Ma...

Taltharius

Nice find. Also, I'm pretty sure mentioning a user doesn't work if it's in the opening thread post; it needs to be in a comment, instead.

Lol, ^{this^} is correct. But thanks for the (incredibly thorough!) report, will check to see if we’re already tracking this.

Noktaj

Only when you don't have a bidet. Silly Americans.

LOL

FYI - just pushed this announcement a few minutes ago, 2XP is ON starting tomorrow at 8AM (after servers come back up for maintenance) and running through Sunday March 22 at midnight.

IrishKing

Number one priority for all of you is definitely making sure you're safe and you're keeping your loved ones safe. We waited patiently for a month for you guys to polish up a fantastic patch, I think we can all wait while you guys take care of the truly important things first.

Stay safe everyone at RPG, I would be really upset if something happened to you lot after all the work you folks put into turning PS2 around.

Thank you! Our thoughts are with everyone in our community as well - stay safe out there. The communications challenge aside, I think we’re pretty well-situated now to not lose significant time when it comes to live service ops and future development.

YogSothothTR

Hope you guys stocked up on toilet paper, damn!

Priorities 😂

EDIT (430pm, March 19): In case people missed my response below, 2XP is ON for this weekend starting after we patch tomorrow (~8am PDT) and running through Sunday, March 22 (11:59pm PDT).

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We haven't confirmed dates/timing internally yet - getting the entire team setup in WFH environments to safely continue development took priority, bear with us! - but we had already been planning a 2XP event to make up for time lost due to the EU login issues last weekend.

We're just making sure those issues are fully resolved and that we don't have any remaining significant crashes occurring on Live before confirming timing.

GomorraDaAsporto

A small variation to improve the worth of tactical captures would be to award additional points for cutting off latus links. It would be a relatively small change that awards good map awareness without modifying the core concept of the update.

Yea, that’s a cool idea. I’ll have to check with Carto, Wrel and co where there thinking is right now. It definitely is a topic we could/should really dive into whenever we’re able to livestream next.

(edit: sorry for the double comment, fat phone fingers)

Thanks for the post, u/OspreyyFR, really appreciate the amount of thought and work you put into this.

It's still (very) early for us to fully analyze how OW impacts the meta, given we haven't yet started qualification for our first preseason - and I'd emphasize that it IS a preseason, one we intend to use to gather community feedback so we can change, iterate, balance, etc. I 100% agree that what it means to be the "best" Outfit in PS2 isn't entirely clear-cut and quantifiable, and we don't want qualification to simply turn into a farming simulator for the biggest Outfits.

Apart from continuing to make changes to refresh the competition itself (I don't want to overtease before we've even played our first "war" but I think we have some pretty cool concepts that could play out over many seasons) the qualification process itself will likely see a lot of work between seasons. No telling what those will be until we start playing it through.

tl;dr we want to see how this first cycle play...

Echoing this sentiment. Be well, take care of yourself, your friends and your family. Lets all pull through this together.

DontWaitWalk

Glad to hear you guys are trying to get this fixed for tomorrow's patch. Any chance we could get some compensation iso and certs for all the alert rewards we missed out on while this was broken?

We’re discussing make goods, but focused on shoring up the issues first. Hang tight, we’ll make it right.