Planetside Dev Tracker

UPDATE @ 5:30PM (Pacific) - We've contacted our CDN provider, who appears to be having issues across their entire service, and they can't provide an ETA on when it will be fully resolved.

In the meantime, we will unlock PTS as soon as the CDN issues are resolved, so players can check out the latest changes included in the patch. But we will be rescheduling the North American PTS playtest to 4PM tomorrow (Wednesday), so everyone that showed up tonight, and can't wait, will be able to join again tomorrow.

The EU PTS playtest is still on-track to happen at 11am (Pacific) / 7pm (GMT) tomorrow as planned.

We're sorry for the delay.

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UPDATE @ 4:45PM (Pacific) - There appears to a CDN issue that is preventing everyone (internal and external) from downloading the patch. TechOps is investigating. We will kick off the playtest as soon as its resolved.

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That’s fair. It should be implicit that any Test server publish could have unanticipated issues, but I def see your point. based on the direction of feedback over the last week, we just feel really good about our chances of locking the build after these playtests.

tl;dr - tomorrow should go well, we’re reasonably confident it will, then we’re ready to go.

(BTW-the primary reason we’re hosting two play tests is for NA and EU primetime convenience. We’ve been guilty of too many late afternoon PST publishes that are hard for EU players to make)

We’ve been going through the PTS feedback over the weekend and overall, things are looking fairly solid. However, in addition to a handful of general tuning/polish improvements we would like to get in before it goes live, there is a physics-related client-crash that seems to be fairly prevalent. We’ve seen this crash happen on live, but it appears to be happening at a higher frequency on PTS.

The team is preparing another PTS build that should be ready to publish later tonight or early tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. It should contain a handful of bug fixes and polish, along with a potential fix for the client crash I mentioned. We will also be sending out an invite for a North American playtest tomorrow (Tuesday) and depending on the results an EU region playtest Wednesday morning to ensure the build is looking solid at scale. To further encourage participation in these tests, and by popular request, players that join during the times outlined in the upcoming invites will rec...

Daybreak TechOps team reported that there was a switch failure in the EU data center which caused population drops in all Daybreak games (PS2, H1, EQ, DCUO, etc). It should have been corrected shortly after.

Of course!

100% agree with this. All our creative is produced in-house; every cinematic trailer and video uses real gameplay captured on live servers that accurately represents our game (no expensive CG or editorial fakery).

Of course, we’re still going to invest in marketing around big updates (like Escalation’s upcoming launch) and major events, but the beating heart of all our campaigns is the community support. Even if we did have some massive AAA marketing budget (we don’t), promoting community content like VODs, guides, threads, live-streams, and all the other good stuff you guys make is always ALWAYS the best, most effective, most authentic way for us to continue attracting players new and old back into the game.

You’ll def see some similar tactics to those you’re suggesting when Escalation launches, but please do keep suggesting ideas!

We’d like to, yea. There’s some development overhead and Twitch buy-in required, but I think you’ll see Twitch drops integration for PS2 at some point in the not so distant future.

I’ll have to check - I imagine it’s a pretty significant physical hurdle. But it’s a good question.

Appreciate that. Just trying to make it more visible for more people who aren’t as familiar. The more you know...etc :)

Hey everyone,

So I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can help guide new players to the right Outfit, especially those who are less socially comfortable getting out there and trying to find the right community on their own.

Over the next week (and beyond) I’d love to feature more Outfits that are actively recruiting new members, and open to helping out new players get into what is an...amazing...unique...but super challenging game experience. By “feature” I mean promote on our social channels, steam page, website, and even in-game launchpad.

What I’m asking from you is, if you’re part of an Outfit that’s actively recruiting and looking to get involved, please share it on this thread. Outfit name, empire, server/region, size or specialty etc. any details you feel are relevant for someone just getting into the game, or a solo player who’s always been a bit shy of getting more involved. Logo and motto encouraged :)

Or, if you have any favored communit...

The timing is a good question. I’m not necessarily against the warning in general - it’s not my decision , but I like it being broadcasted - but I agree it shouldn’t be easy enough to just bail and avoid.

YES. Would love to do another loading screen submissions - need to brainstorm some new ideas so we can come at it from a fresh angle