Awesome patch, Wrel!
Not really related to this patch, but are god rays are still going to be fixed in the future, or are they just abandoned at this point? It's already filed in issue tracker, but not responded by DBG people yet.
That's pretty low on the priority list at the moment, but ideally it comes back.
Awesome patch notes! Keep up the changes and refinements to spawn system revamp and I think we'll be in a good place soon.
these locations have all been standardized to roughly 1 minute capture times.
Is this a tacit admission to the failure of vehicle/construction capture bases? Seems like a good concept, but has not been adopted by players and is basically ignored.
Is this a tacit admission to the failure of vehicle/construction capture bases?
Pretty much. The only time these places generate fights (opposed to being happenstance) is when someone who enjoys construction has already built a base there. Since that group of players is much smaller than the players that want to get to fight at the next lattice base, we're reducing the capture time so these areas can be moved through more quickly. At the same time, players who do decide to build construction on these areas can still add value to those areas. So, win win.
There are some other adjustments I'd like to make in the future, mostly to deal with infiltrators back capping in the middle of an open field, but I'm still putting together my thoughts on that one. Other alternatives are more feature rich, but maybe I'll talk about them once I get some prototyping done.
64.37.174.142 is the address of one of several gateway servers that host players on Connery. They are physically located in Las Vegas.
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I typically run Open squads in my platoons, and don't limit it to Outfit only (although the majority of players come in from my outfit).
It really isn't what I would call "Outfit Hosted" as opposed to "Outfit Only" if you have the "Outfit" box checked. If I check that box, the only other checkbox available is "Friends".
So short of being "Outfit & Friends Only" in your squad, there is no good way to keep lead in the outfit if I disconnect.I prefer running Open squads where we can have new players join to run with our squads in our Platoon to help them learn and see coordinated play, but I would much prefer knowing if I disconnect that lead would go to highest rank in my outfit in the platoon until I reconnect. That way I know lead will get handed back when I reconnect and my squad/platoon won't become a zombie or get usurped by another player.
My mistake. We started on the Outfit hosted feature a long time ago, but never finished it due to various issues. This is a feature I thought had gone Live back when we did our big squad revamp, buuuuuut it did not.
Can there please be a new feature that gives squad lead to either an outfit member, friend, or highest ranked player if the current squad lead crashes or logs out?
If your squad is outfit hosted (it's a checkbox you can select in the squad pane,) it passes lead to other outfit members when one is disconnected. Beyond that, when we get some free time maybe we can look into exactly what the auto-sorting system is for passing leader.
EDIT: Welp, I feel dumb. Outfit hosted was a feature we started development on, but never finished.
This is fixed on PC and will make its way to PS4 with the DX11 build.
Various shaders are bugged with the introduction of DX11, and some bugged prior to that. Example being that some infantry weapons and cosmetics use the vehicle shader, these weapons don't play nicely with the cloak shader. Currently, the same is going for the shield shader when it's applied to some of your weapons.
At any rate, the bug is in the process of being fixed (both the shield and cloak shaders have tasks in for them.)
I do agree in general though. If we had more shader options, and more flexible options for screen effects, we could message a lot of the first person effects better.
Fixed how? Still able to spawn there if you died in it, or from outside of it (I hope not)?
I would be happy if hard spawns were no longer an option but soft spawns (Sunderers, Beacons, etc) remained. Much harder to hold on but perhaps enough to keep the fight going for a bit if you really wanted to do so.
From the unreleased patch notes of the next update.
Cut off regions now only disable defender hardspawns in that region, and remaining spawns are placed on a priority 2 cooldown time. Spawning into a cut off region from afar can now only be done via squad tools.
Dev Note: Previously, attackers couldn't maintain an attack on a cutoff region as it was most spawns to that region for both sides. This change should help fights in these areas more naturally draw to a close.
Read moreLast November in 24x7's Discord we were told that Construction would be getting looked into by Drew and that he was aware of builders concerns - this included taking another look at structures, walls, repair values, modules etc. Drew was adamant this would be a thing and to be patient. Not long after the instant action podcast released a segment where Drew talks about it. Nick Silva also told everyone during a Dev Stream we would be getting a Construction Facelift after the "December" period where Drew got to look into it.
Time passed and as we begin discussing it in Discord around January - Drew said some REALLY unprofessional things to not only myself and others in Discord's gen chat but to my members in private messages as well. Stuff that would get you a vacation or a word with the boss in any other industry. This time again we were assured Construction Facelift was still a thing.
So here we are now...nearly 7 months later and still no Construction Facelift. If ...
In December, we tried to open up some time for personal projects. Drew had some construction tasks he wanted to look into, but very little time was left for personal projects given our heavy workload, so many of us couldn't get to them. I can't speak to what Drew discussed with you, but there are no plans for taking another sweeping pass at construction at this time.
Limbo?
u/Wrel It's been nearly 7 months since we were promised a Construction Facelift from the Devs via Discord, Dev Stream, Podcast etc. DBG has avoided the question multiple times when asked on the stream when you would follow through with said promises.
How about giving us all here some insight as to why Construction has been ignored? I could just start posting Drew's Discord comments and/or private messages he sent to people in my outfit via Discord...which besides being a PR nightmare for DBG won't solve anything.
Construction got its facelift already, not sure what you’re on about.
Looks like you're in a region that's cut off. Currently, most spawns are disabled there. This is getting fixed in the next update though.
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Severe underpop (10% vs 60%/30%) has also been causing spawn lockout. From what I understand it’s because they are keeping people from being “farmed” or something.
That's incorrect.
A BSOD will almost always be caused by something running in kernel mode. It is extremely rare to have something in the user space cause a BSOD. Like all other Windows applications, Planetside2 runs in the user space. I would not expect any application developer to be able to help you with a kernel issue.
With that being said, we can do some additional troubleshooting. If the problem is only happening with Planetside2, I suspect the problem is with BattleEye. BattleEye has several pieces, but one of them is a driver (that runs in Kernel mode) that starts when Planetside2 starts.
As others have mentioned in this thread, I recommend the ...
Read moreI had to roll my windows update back to the 1803 build to stop it. Seems the 1903 build has broken battleye
I didn't want to respond to OP until I heard back from BattleEye. This is indeed the issue. They are working on a fix for this today.
Might be important information for you guys since OP found a way to fix the bug. Possibly a step in replicating it.
Thanks for looking out, I'll add it to the bug report.
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Fixed in the next update. Until then, set your "Graphics" quality to Medium or higher, as /u/SirCypherSir mentioned.
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First of all, thanks for this post, its good info, and people were waiting for it.
Can you sai something about the Elysium Spawn type? Why did the binding option got removed? It makes building a base completly usless when i can not spawn there once i left the base for what ever reason.
We don't have the ability to check for matrixed spawn points with the new system at the moment, but we'll try to get it online in the next update, along with some more lenient rules for construction bases in general.
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