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Hey everyone,
Since it’s Planetside Anniversary week, and I haven’t posted an update in a few weeks, I wanted to provide some details on the various initiatives the Rogue Planet team has in motion...
Right now, we are preparing the next game update, which as you know includes the Colossus Tank, to go to PTS. Our intent is to have it ready for PTS late next week and we will be broadcasting a live stream to showcase the update in its full - not fully polished - glory. This is a fairly significant update, so we intend to bug fix and iterate on PTS for a couple weeks before it goes live.
Our progress on the intermittent comms issues I mentioned last time have been progressing slower than expected. Our Technical Director is continuing to troubleshoot, along with support from a few very helpful community members that have provided additional details. As soon as I have more to share, I will post asap.
And on to a few other topics…
Playstation 4 Support
As I mentioned last time, we were able to hire a dedicated programmer to begin porting a large portion of the Escalation update to PS4. He started work last Monday (May 11th) and has been making great progress. He still has a few more weeks of work before its ready for QA, but I at least wanted to provide some proof of life for the PS4 – let me know if I should post these screens in front of a copy of today’s newspaper for 100% confirmation.
We hope to have more info to share during the dev stream next week.
Chinese and Russian Translations
After publishing the translation to PTS, the majority of the feedback was related to the various world location, weapon and vehicle names that in many cases were vastly different than the English versions. The concern was that this would cause confusion with both new and old players when coordinating with others. As a result, we’ve requested the translation company to update all of the proper names back to the original English naming. As straight forward as this might seem (find and replace doesn’t work), its about 68k different text strings that need to be updated. Their estimated delivery of the new translation is June 5th. Once we receive the drop, we plan to perform a quick QA pass and publish to PTS for additional feedback.
Outfit Wars
With Outfit Wars Alpha Cycle 2 wrapping up last weekend, the team met to discuss the next round of changes that we intend to incorporate before Alpha Cycle 3. Based on the feedback, along with our own observations, our goal is to include all of the changes in the June game update, so the next Enlistment phase can begin shortly after it hits Live servers. Going forward, we plan for OW Alpha Cycle 3 to be the final *testing* phase. After Cycle 3, we will transition to the official Outfit War competition schedule.
We intend to discuss this in greater detail, along with the planned changes for OW Cycle 3 during the live stream next week.
And finally, I wanted to acknowledge a pretty damn epic milestone that was achieved this past weekend by one of our long time players. Mentis2k6 scored his 1 millionth (MILLIONTH!) kill in Planetside 2 – after 358 DAYS(!) of actual play time. Needless to say, we’ve had a flood of suggested rewards come in over the past several days. We appreciate the ideas, but something as monumental as this deserves a reward that is truly special and unique. At the risk of ratcheting up the suspense, you’ll all need to tune into the live stream next week to find out exactly what we have planned for this great soldier 😊
So as you can see, we will have a lot to cover during our next broadcast! We are targeting late next week for the stream and will post the official date/time once we can confirm.
Have a great weekend and we look forward to speaking to you soon.
Thanks,
Andy
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