Wrel

Hey there.

Think this post outlines a lot of issues correctly, and there's some agreement from our side as well. The long and short of it is that we're stretched thin. You all feel it, too. Updates feel more rushed, missteps are more common, and the dev team is stuck in a reactionary state, instead of the proactive development we'd all feel more comfortable with.

Both Andy and Justin filled key roles on the team, and their departure was abrupt. Despite doing as much as they could to distribute that workload and bring others up to speed in their field, losing people in those roles means that their responsibilities fall to others. To that end, the same level of responsiveness or support shouldn't be expected, because... well... that's why there are people in positions dedicated to that.

Ultimately we're trying to take some time to re-center as a team to break the cycle. This started with sliding some of our priorities and timelines around to help create more s...

Hijacking the top comment to chime in.

The semi-auto strafing issue is currently our animator's top priority. Our animator started around summer-ish of this year or thereabouts. Having to take on an entirely new pipeline that uses older technology (Morpheme is no longer developed,) and deal with the mess that is our animation network, has taken some time. He's been ramping up for the past few months and is able to take on some of the more problematic tasks now, like the side-strafing issues.

Regarding the "without any recognition from the developers" usually comes down to missing when it was actually acknowledged, which for this particular issue, was quite some time ago. The med-tool/repair-tool issues have been in the game for even longer, quite a few years at this point.

We've solved a large list of long-standing issues this year, and 2021 should be even better for it, as part of our focus is revisiting a lot of what was "left hanging" due to lack of devel...

Been meaning to get to this. Can probably get it in for January.

Thanks for the report. We did take a quick look at this one a while back, but couldn't get it sorted at the time. We can circle back around after the holidays and see what can be done.

Got a fix in for the next update. Thanks for the heads up.

Can hide than NPC in an upcoming hotfix. When Esamir gets some changes in Chapter 3 though, that'll probably be coming back with an exit that's a bit closer to the bridge/vehicle terminal to shorten up travel time to the capture point.

We'll get there. It's been a little rough when we've got NSO to worry about, but once that faction's arsenal gets filled out, we'll be able to do cool variants for faction weapons, instead of needing to fall back on common pool stuff.

Hey. We've gone more than 5 years without an NS-15M. I think we're overdue for a really cool looking and sounding version of one of the best common pool weapons in the game.

Hijacking the top comment to mention that we've made the change over to Motion Assists internally. Should hit when Chapter 2 begins, if not earlier.

Bug? This is an actual cosmetic in the game now, my dude. We made new masks for NSO this year.

Send me your character names, please.

If something changed with Showdown, it's a bug. That weapon doesn't need any less power.

It's enabled again.

Are you saying you're axing the A7 currency entirely?

No plans for that currently, but it's something I've been mulling over.

A7 was originally intended as something we could give instead of certs and ISO as a way to, ironically, feel like you were getting more rewards from an alert win without harming the economy like I mention in the original post. It ultimately ended up not having enough supporting structure to make that worthwhile, however.

Campaigns actually fills the role A7 was originally intended to do, by adding a secondary reward path that doesn't bloat the main forms of progression. For the time being, A7 will be earnable through missions, and can still be discovered throughout the world.

P.S. Pleaaaaase fix the plant spawning it's driving me insane

This is an issue that we're currently working to fix. It seems like the raycasts we'd typically use for this sort of thing...

Happy cake day!

Oh, hello again. Thought I'd chime in before the weekend to allay some concerns.

There's obviously a lot of blowback regarding the alert reward removal, and it's totally understandable at this stage. Alert currency rewards were added in 2017 and increased a fair amount over the years that followed, so it's become the norm for a lot of players. That said, it does puts us into kind of a strange place with Missions reward-wise.

One of the goals with Missions was to not only provide more rewards to players in ways they have easy access to per session (especially for new players,) but also to have better control over our economy overall. We don't want to be in a state where we can't justify the creation of new content because of veterans able to instantly hoover it up with easy access to certs (I've seen your cert balances,) and we can't shower veterans with ISO because that's one of the better cert sinks we have access to.

Alert rewards definitely have issues, l...

Yeah, that'll be changed in a hotfix. Definitely more new players getting help now, but some trolly folks in chat as well.

Does your faction currently own the Eastern Warpgate, or is it all Warpgates?

any chance to rework the ocular shield implant to make it more useful? (such as delete the need to use a Medical Kit or Restoration Kit to gain immunity or raise effectiveness to 50% at level 5).

I'd say there's a good chance of this. Ocular Shield doesn't justify the opportunity cost most of the time, but if it had a stronger tier 5, and some better scaling at earlier levels it'd probably see more use.

also any chance you're working to fix the bug with nades not showing when ADS?

Not currently. Last time I asked which was a couple years ago, it wasn't an easy problem to solve. It's not that they don't show while you're ADS, it's that they use the same 50% opacity reduction as other HUD elements on that layer, and when they're rolling around at your feet they can be easy to miss.

Hey everyone. I don't typically like to follow up topics where people are hurling personal attacks, but in spite of that, I wanted to let you all know that your voice is heard when it comes to feedback.

For context, buffing and debuffing is an experiment we've been trying out more over the past few years with damage over time effects, various implant benefits, snares, health or armor increases, all sorts of things. Some of these effects have meshed well, some of them haven't, and others are still a question mark. For the long term health of not only PlanetSide 2, but any future projects we'd want to do in the genre, I believe it's our duty as developers to find the edges of the creative boundary box. Even in a game almost eight years old.

That's the heart of it. If you don't agree or care about anything else, at least take that away.

In regards to BEC Ammo/Condensate Grenade specifically, the majority of the contention stems from the rate of fire reduction. ...