Planetside Dev Tracker

Forum notes here: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/pc-game-update-june-6-2019.251940/

PC servers will be taken offline on Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 6:00AM PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 3 hours.

Misc. Changes, Fixes, and Additions

• Players using Join Combat to travel to a new continent (like in the event that they are leaving a locked continent) will now spawn at the Warpgate, instead of being dropped from orbit without a drop pod. Eventually we'll want to resolve the issue with ch...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Thanks for looking out, I'll add it to the bug report.