Planetside Dev Tracker

Empire Assault Rifles The new assault rifles have gotten a pretty warm reception so far on the public test server, and we're going to do some accuracy adjustments on all of them. The VS and NC weaponry were too accurate for the damage output, and the TR weapon felt lacking at distances we'd want it to perform well at. The changes below have been made with that in mind. VE-A Lacerta (VS Assault Rifle)

• ADS cone of fire bloom from 0.05 to 0.06
• Hipfire cone of fire bloom from 0.10 to 0.12
• ADS standing cone of fire from 0.00 to 0.03
• ADS crouch-walking cone of fire from 0.15 to 0.06
• ADS walking cone of fire from 0.06 to 0.15
• ADS crouching cone of fire from 0.1 to 0.00

MGR-A1 Vanquisher (NC Assault Rifle)

• ADS standing cone of fire from 0.00 to 0.03
• ADS crouch-walking cone of fire from 0.03 to 0.06
• ADS walking cone of fire from 0.06 to 0.15

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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 ...

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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.

October seasonal items coming soon! In preparation for our Halloween event (Oct. 18 - Nov. 08), you will see seasonal items become available on October 1st, with more to come later in the month. You'll see the following items start appearing in the Depot:

• 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: A... Read more

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.

[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.

• 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.

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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.

• 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.

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Servers will be coming down Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 3:00pm PT to fix the following issues. Downtime is expected to last less than an hour. Continents should no longer unlock themselves immediately after a Meltdown alert. Continents no longer lock themselves in the year 2155. Players in outfits should once again see their outfit information when they select the outfit pane. The Prowler's Rampart Projector now uses the correct increased projectile velocity while anchored.

PC servers will be taken offline on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 6:30am PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 3 hours. Connery and Soltech Server transfers are now available both to and from Connery <-> Soltech for a limited time. This window of availability ends September 30, 2019, at 11:59pm Pacific. 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.

• Galaxies can carry up to 500 Tempest.
• Lib...

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[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.

We're currently investigating issues with PTS being offline. Once those issues are resolved, the following changes will be making their way there. Prowler Rampart Defense Mesh has been refunded and removed. Rampart Projector (Defensive Slot) While deployed, the Prowler receives increased front armor and projects a hardlight barrier forward to shield allied infantry. This barrier is tied directly to the Prowler's health pool, and damage to the barrier will also damage the Prowler.

• Rank 1: 10% additional front armor.
• Rank 2: 15% additional front armor.
• Rank 3: 17.5% additional front armor.
• Rank 4: 20% additional front armor.

Misc. Changes, Fixes, and Additions

• Changed the model for the Stealth attachment visuals on Flash and Harasser.
• Lightning's Engagement Radar attachment now uses the correct UI camera.
• NSO characters can no longer lock onto allied vehicles.
• Hardlight ...

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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. A small note on character tra... Read more

Aerial Anomalies Resource rate when depositing to a Data Buoy from 50 per second to 20 per second. This ensures players have more time to kill targets with larger Tempest capacity.

• Galaxy resource carry capacity from 1000 to 500.
• Liberator resource carry capacity from 500 to 400.
• Valkyrie resource carry capacity from 500 to 250.

Still working to fix an issue where vehicles are sometimes unable to acquire or deposit Tempest. Automated Bounties

• Bounties will now be automatically placed on characters who have an active 10 kill streak or greater. There is a long cooldown between how often this can occur.
• When a target is bountied, it receives a 5 stack of bounties immediately.
• Kills on bountied targets now award a flat rate of experience, instead of basing it on the stack count.
• Stacked Bounties are now stripped one at a time when killed, instead of removing the entir...

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PC servers will be taken offline on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 2:00pm 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

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

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PC servers will be taken offline on Friday, August 2, 2019 at 2:00pm PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 3 hours. High Priority Fixes

• Tank Mines and C4 now correctly despawn when detonated, and we've made additional changes that should clean up NPCs more quickly and efficiently.
• Maximum Pressure continent event now correctly grants rewards to all participants.

Misc. Changes, Fixes, and Additions

• Mentor Rating currency decay reduced to 12 per 24 hours, down from 24 per 24 hours. Rating lost at login is now capped at 100.
• Mentor Rating per ribbon earned increased from 1 to 3.
• NSO Valkyrie VLG no longer has a 1.5 second reload time, instead of the intended 2 seconds while unscoped.
• Animation fix for NS-45 Pilot magazine reload.
• Ani...

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High Priority Fixes

• Tank Mines and C4 now correctly despawn when detonated, and we've made additional changes that should clean up NPCs more quickly and efficiently.
• Maximum Pressure continent event now correctly grants rewards to all participants.

Continent Events WE WILL BE HOSTING THE FIRST PLAYTEST OF THE NEW AERIAL ANOMALIES EVENT AT 2PM PT TODAY. 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 from Anomalies to the nearby Data Buoys in order to score points.

• Galaxies can carry up to 1000 Tempest.
• Liberator can carry up to ...

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PC servers will be taken offline on Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 6:00am PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 3 hours. Mentor System Expansion Mentor Squads were implemented late into last year, and around that time period we had discussed implementing a Mentor rating system, but ultimately decided not to commit to the work until we knew how players would make use of Mentor Squads in the first place. Trying to craft a rating system of any kind can be difficult for a game with a sandbox focus, and is at risk to negative and exploitative behaviors. Knowing this, we wanted to devise a system that is light on gameplay rewards, and is instead geared specifically toward players who already engage in the right behaviors. The expansion of the Mentor System isn't a substitute for tutorials, (which we're also focused on delivering later this ... Read more

Mentor System Expansion Fresh recruits enter the battlefield on a daily basis, and now we're giving you more tools to get them into fighting shape! Mentor Rating We've introduced a new Mentor Rating system that recognizes veteran community members that have made it their goal to help new players. Mentor Rating is earned each time a Mentor Ribbon is awarded. Mentor Ribbons can now only be earned while leading a Mentor Squad when players beneath BR30 earn battle ranks. Mentor Rating decays slowly over time, so it needs to be maintained to keep the benefits. Mentor Tiers Mentor Rating is sorted into tiers for recognition. These tiers are shown when players are hosting Mentor squads in the squad finder. In a later update we'll be making this tiering more visible.

• Copper Tier: 0 - 199
• Silver Tier: 201 - 499
• Gold Tier: 500 - 799
• Auraxium Tier: 800 - 1000

New Player (Wel... Read more