Thank you for the heartfelt send off Deringer. And sorry I didn't respond to your DM on twitter, its been a pretty crazy couple of days. I am confident all of the team members let go from the PlanetSide team will find new jobs very quickly. They are an incredibly talented bunch of people.
Is this just fantasy
Caught in a landslide.
The PTS server will be coming down this evening for an update.
New Weapons
VE-A1 Lacerta (Vanu Sovereignty - Assault Rifle)
The Lacerta assault rifle syncs an accurate, three round burst to a moderate refire rate, and creates a melodic barrage of plasma, perfect for mid-range engagements.
MG-A1 Arbalest (Terran Republic - Assault Rifle)
Designed as an alternative to the popular SABR-13 assault rifle, the Arbalest fires concentrated, 6-round bursts with low recoil and high takedown potential at mid-range.
MGR-A1 Vanquisher (New Conglomerate - Assault Rifle)
The Vanquisher's performance is defined by its excellent stopping power over distance, delivered through a low recoil, three-round burst.
UI Changes and Fixes
- Character select screen no longer shows squished character models. (Previous attempts to fix this had failed.)
- Squads now have an option to prevent players from being auto-filled into their squad on login. This allows players oriented toward a specific style of p...
PS4 servers will be taken offline on Thursday, September 26th, 2019 at 6:00am PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 2 hours.
Fixes and Changes
- Join Combat should once again be working instead of giving an error.
- Motion Blur has been disabled.
- NS CandyCannon 3000
- Slasher Knife
- Halloween Vehicle Horns
- Vehicle Tire Trails
- Flaming Skull Helmets
- Halloween Variety Helmets
PC servers will be taken offline on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 6:00am PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 2 hours.
Aerial Anomalies
Improved server performance while these events are active.
Buoys have all been lowered by 100 meters.
Buoy deposit range from 150 meters to 200 meters.
Misc. Fixes, Changes, Additions
Fixed some issues relating to faction balance queues.
NSO characters will now get a friendly fire warning when firing on allied terminals.
Prowler has deploy and undeploy sound effects again.
Your first loading screen tooltip should no longer inform you of the game you're currently playing.
PlanetSide: Arena Early Access is here!
To celebrate PlanetSide: Arena's early access release, we've added a special PlanetSide: Arena themed bundle with weapons and cosmetics for your Planetside 2 characters!
PlanetSide: Arena - Mercenary Bundle - 2499 DBC
This bundle will be available until October 1st, 2019, at 12:00am PT, and comes with the foll...
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PlanetSide: Arena - Mercenary Bundle - 2499 DBC
This bundle will be available until October 1st, 2019, at 12:00am PT, and comes with the foll...
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There are currently issues with the launcher effecting all Daybreak games. We are currently looking into the problem and hope to have it resolved soon.
There are currently issues with the launcher effecting all Daybreak games. We are currently looking into the problem and hope to have it resolved soon.
There are currently issues with the launcher effecting all Daybreak games. We are currently looking into the problem and hope to have it resolved soon.
On September 18th, 2019 starting at 8AM Eastern we will be performing an extended maintenance of the server hardware for the Emerald server. All other servers will remain online and unlocked during this maintenance. Expected downtime is 6 hours. Stay tuned to this thread for any changes or additional details will be posted to this thread.
I love it. Well done sir.
[INDENT]PS4 servers will be taken offline on Wednesday September 11th, 2019 at 6:00AM PT (1300 UTC) for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 2 hours.
Continent Events
Aerial Anomalies
This event has been restructured to encourage more active participation and offer more tactical depth.
In this new version of Aerial Anomalies, Data Buoys will appear in the center of the map, and Anomalies themselves will coat vehicles in a mysterious residue called Tempest.
Players must deliver Tempest to the nearby Data Buoys located into the center of the map.
Players must deliver Tempest to the nearby Data Buoys located into the center of the map.
- Galaxies can carry up to 500 Tempest.
- Liberator can carry up to 400 Tempest.
- Valkyrie can carry up to 250 Tempest.
- Empire Specific Fighters can carry up to 100 Tempest.
PS4 servers will be taken offline on Wednesday September 10th, 2019 at 6:00AM PT (1300 UTC) for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 2 hours.
Continent Events
Aerial Anomalies
This event has been restructured to encourage more active participation and offer more tactical depth.
In this new version of Aerial Anomalies, Data Buoys will appear in the center of the map, and Anomalies themselves will coat vehicles in a mysterious residue called Tempest.
Players must deliver Tempest to the nearby Data Buoys located into the center of the map.
Players must deliver Tempest to the nearby Data Buoys located into the center of the map.
- Galaxies can carry up to 500 Tempest.
- Liberator can carry up to 400 Tempest.
- Valkyrie can carry up to 250 Tempest.
- Empire Specific Fighters can carry up to 100 Tempest.
[INDENT]PS4 servers will be taken offline on Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 at 6:00am PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 2 hours.
Bug Fixes
- Lighting models are working correctly now. Night time should be less pitch black and lighting should now be more uniform.
- Strange after effect images like ghosts should no longer appear.
- Generators will no longer instantly revive after being destroyed
- One of the few remaining crashes should now be fixed.
At 6AM Pacific on August 27th the Briggs server will be merged with the SolTech server. All characters currently associated with Briggs will become SolTech characters. That same morning we will be opening a character transfer window between the SolTech and Connery servers. That window will stay open until the end of September (9/30/2019 @ 11:59pm Pacific). Merging the Briggs server was not a decision we came to easily and we hope the Briggs players this merge is effecting will understand why this has to happen. That reason being the population of players on Briggs is not able to sustain the costs of continuing to operate in that region. We appreciate the support the game has received from all of the Briggs players and hope they will continue to play PlanetSide 2 on either SolTech or Connery servers for the foreseeable future. Our apologies if this announcement seems a bit late, we spent a very long time weighing all our options as to how best to proceed.
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PC servers will be taken offline on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 6:00am PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 2 hours.
Bug Fixes
- EMP flashback effect has been fixed
- Smoke grenade and other particle opaqueness has been given another pass from our graphics engineers
- Generators will no longer instantly revive after being destroyed
- Another speculative fix for viewing outfit applications causing crashes
Ok thanks for the response
Can we get a confirmation that your keeping an eye on our bug reports? Some major ones include no one having name tags and 2018-like stuttering
We are paying very close attention yes.
Current known issues I am tracking: (QA is collecting even more and I'm trying to prioritize traffic) Out of memory crashes are not gone. (although appear to be much better) Name tags not rendering. Promotional Platinum Tengu costs 1 BC instead of 1 Cert. Valk model being borked on the EU version of the game. Night time is way to dark right now.
This should be 1 cert, not 1 BC.
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An animator? That's strange...it's been an animation bug this whole time?
Yes, the bug is in how the animation network causes the audio events. This much we know. We are still tracking down all of the details of how the animation network gets in this broken state. Turns out its not a simple as detecting and preventing the broken state.
We know why this is happening and there is an animator working on the fix right now. Hopefully you will see a client update in the coming week with a fix for this.