[2020] Some changes in our day to day development process at Rogue Planet

Hello everyone,

In light of the constantly expanding efforts and restrictions throughout the world to deal with the COVID-19 situation, beginning tomorrow (Tuesday the 17th), the Rogue Planet Games dev team will begin working from home. While this will result in a pretty significant adjustment in our day to day development process, we are taking steps to ensure that our ability to support Planetside 2 is not disrupted in any measurable way over the coming weeks – we will be hotfixing live issues as needed, as well as continuing to work on upcoming feature/content releases. So lots of team voice chat, and hopefully not a lot of accidentally leaving web cams on.

Tomorrow (Tuesday), we have scheduled a full client/server update with several bug fixes. Of which, details can be found here - https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/march-17-2020-escalation-hotfix-pc.253691/

Unfortunately, the Emerald hardware upgrade that we had planned for Wednesday the 18th has been delayed. It still might happen later this week, but I’m waiting on a confirmation from the Daybreak TechOps team tomorrow and will share the details as soon as I have them.

Thank you in advance for your understanding. Rogue Planet is a relatively small team of developers, so we’re confident that we can maintain the resurgence that the Escalation update has provided Planetside 2. We plan to keep up the communication as we’ve done over the past several weeks, but please bear with us while we iron out any wrinkles that might surface with this transition.

Thanks,

Andy