Planetside Dev Tracker

Our effects are not dynamic in game. There are things that I could quickly alter, but dramatically new looks are not quick. I also don't have "low" setting particles and then "high" setting particles, they are all the same asset. If I can find out exactly what I have to work with there, or get code support for defining what can and can't be played based on settings, then there would be more flexibility.

Let me know what you think. This is only for rapid file guns on vehicles for the most part.

That does sounds pretty cool. Redoing all of our tracers would be a ton of work, and the trails are the expensive part that I can't go to town on (without new code options to make them optional). It could be a road map feature though...

I am all for giving you guys back the pre-O:MGF effects assuming it is behind an options menu. I don't know what kind of code work that would entail though, and my guess is that neither PhysX or this would be trivial. I can ask about it though, you're definitely not the only one asking.

That is a Bill thing, he handles the sky files now

Yeah, unfortunately the persistent trails are very expensive performance wise.

I like the ideas. Hopefully we can see some of this with the planned code support for new weapon/projectile behaviors. Tracers lingering longer is harder for performance reasons. I am looking into what kind of flexibility (if any) to put some of this FX stuff behind the settings menu. Again, just have to get together with code and see what I can do.

Auto-turrets do not have a DarkLight.

The file shaql found isn't hooked up to anything.

It's just an idea we were kicking around that there could be a variant turret with a darklight on it, that would probably do less damage or have some other drawback.

Not supposed to.

I'm guessing you saw the entry I added to the deployable cost map. That was a test and it actually doesn't do anything.

Full notes posted here. https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/ppa-changes-on-test.204621/

The direct damage removal was an intended change, but it looks like some of the fields on the Harasser version were missed.

Me too. I remember watching the one episode where Airwolf got shot down and I was devastated.

The flight model is working as intended. Yes it is different, yes it is slow, yes there is no leaving hover mode. But this doesn't mean it is the final flight model or speed, so please give feedback. It is intended to feel more helicopter like and make more use of the vertical thruster compared to other aircraft.

Resistance to small arms was set incorrectly. That is fixed internally. I think that was the only egregiously incorrect resist. So if the feeling is it is too weak in against other weapons, then provide feedback about those weapon types specifically.

Edit: Clarification.

We've made some adjustments based on that feedback but it has mostly influenced our long term goals with the Valkyrie. The main thing is we really want to give it an awesome and unique mechanic beyond some new guns and rumble seats. Unfortunately something like that wouldn't make it in time for our targeted launch.

A lot of that feedback was also the same as some of the ideas we had planned for a Galaxy update. It might make sense to give the Valkyrie something unique and then give the Galaxy something else to further differentiate the two aircraft. When the Valkyrie is live and in the hands of players for awhile, we might have a better idea and more feedback on what those should be.

Vulcan (as well as some other tank balance concerns) is something we've been discussing, but we don't have any details on what might change to share yet.