Upcoming Patch Notes

[Hamma]

Since I didnt see a thread on this.. Spork has released the notes for the upcoming patch.
Upcoming Patch (v.1.5)
1) The Skyguard anti-aircraft buggy is now available for use. Enjoy!

2) Hotspot algorithms have been improved. The Hotspots now scale up and down in size so that you can see the relative size of the battles in progress. Additionally, they are much more accurate (there is always a battle there now if you see a hotspot) and they refresh much more often. You should find them much more useful in finding battles now.

3) You can now respawn to a hacked building if you are a member of the owning Empire. Previously, once a building was hacked, the option to respawn there was unavailable. This is no longer the case.

4) The Advanced Hacking certification is now required in order to hack equipment terminals or vehicle terminals.

5) The issue where vehicles purchased at a vehicle pad would sometimes fire from the weapons pad (instead of their muzzle points) causing players unintentional grief when they killed their friends accidentally at the pad, has been fixed.

6) You can now assign keys to the camera in/out functions on the Keymap screen.

7) Errant hotspots no longer show up in corners on the Global Map.

8) You should no longer lose your text input cursor when death messages occur in the status window. (Only happened on a few screens, like the /bug screen.)

9) Command chat works properly again.

10) Because "H" is typically the hotkey for "Help" and because "H" was the toggle for "Hotspots" on the map screen, there was no hotkey for Hotspots that functioned. "Hotspots" now has a hotkey of "O" on the map screen.

11) Missiles no longer move with their shell shape sideways. They fly properly to target now.

12) Waypoint beams now sort correctly against hill bottoms and buildings so that the base of the beams no longer shows through those objects.

13) The HART Shuttle is now visible on the proximity map while inside an Shuttle Building.

14) You can no longer see infiltration suits while your view is zoomed.

15) Spitfire turrets can no longer fire at targets inside a warpgate bubble.

16) The exploit allowing folks to get the stealth effect to "stick" to an incorrect armor type has been sealed.

17) First-time help tab (on your Character Info screen) now shows all completed first-time tasks.

18) Magrider Heavy Rail Beam projectile now fires in the center of the reticul e (instead of slightly above).

19) Players can no longer avoid Phalanx Wall Turret fire by merely strafing left.

20) Fixed an exploit that allowed infiltration suits to equip rifle-sized objects.

21) Fixed an exploit that allowed folks to damage objects while they were supposedly linkdead.

22) You can no longer hack an enemy base if the friendly base connected to that base (on the lattice) is already hacked. In otherwords, if your base of operations is hacked, you can't use that base to link to other enemy bases. Therefore, you can't hack enemy bases until your own rear area is secure.

23) 3000x800 video resolution is now supported.

24) You no longer crash if you exit a vehicle while it is upside down.

25) Pulsar was boosted in damage slightly per shot against soldiers. Also, the AP fire rate was increased to match that of Standard shots.

26) The VS MAX Quasar had its default ammo increased from 40 to 60 shots. It's AP damage is ever so slightly less to compensate, but its infantry damage is the same.

27) The population lock indicator has been changed to show how many slots are left for your Empire on that continent. In otherwords, it now shows a number instead of a percentage. The number caps out at 100, so if more than 100 slots remain on a continent, the indicator will say "100+".

[starrider]

COOL
skyguard AND better pulsar damage

[DuDeMaN]

Sweet, can't wait for that skyguard.

Any word on the day the patch will be out?

[Hamma]

I didnt see any info on when we'd see it

[Jarlo]

Lots of nice changes overall, should be fun 8)

[EarlyDawn]

Good deal with the skyguard, but what happened to the rearm pads/bays? That's what I was really looking forward to.

[Hamma]

Still have a week or so for them to toss that in :D

[Maglin]

Hummm... Inf. suits will not show up in zoom mode.... I can see a lot of flames on this one.... Snipers are going to be PISSED....

On the whole... Sweet patch..

[Tryndamere]

Awesome patch, I'm sick of seeing NC reinforced stealthers with Jackhammers.

[Peacemaker]

I dont like the advanced hacking needed for Equipment and vehical terminals. Id be really happy with just vehical terminals

[Warborn]

Originally posted by Maglin
Hummm... Inf. suits will not show up in zoom mode.... I can see a lot of flames on this one.... Snipers are going to be PISSED....

On the whole... Sweet patch..

I snipe and I think it's fair. Infiltrators have enough crap to deal with in terms of Darklight and whatnot, they shouldn't have to worry about snipers plinking them from 300m away.

[Hamma]

Yea i agree.. that was pretty lame.

This one interests me:
9) Command chat works properly again.

Be nice if they said what was broke :confused:

[Nitsch]

14) You can no longer see infiltration suits while your view is zoomed.


Woot! I won't keep getting killed by my own snipers! For some reason enemy snipers didn't bother to kill me much but friendly ones seem to have a heyday with me!

[Plato]

Originally posted by Hamma
16) The exploit allowing folks to get the stealth effect to "stick" to an incorrect armor type has been sealed.

20) Fixed an exploit that allowed infiltration suits to equip rifle-sized objects.

Infiltrators with Jackhammers and stealthed REF grunts? wtf?
I'm glad they're fixing these exploits although I've not come across them..yet

[Prowler]

A lot of goodies inthis patch. :)

[Zenny]

3) You can now respawn to a hacked building if you are a member of the owning Empire. Previously, once a building was hacked, the option to respawn there was unavailable. This is no longer the case.

Bout time for this one! Couldn't stand defending a base where I couldn't respawn at the dumb place. It used to force you to attack your base that they are attacking which pretty much is lose then. So definitely a change I will love to have over any other.

[JonnyK]

is the liberator one of the vehicles coming out in the next week or less? or was it planned for later release? i'm excited about that. and i want those re-arm pads too, do you know if they will have htem for both ground and air vehicles?

[Lillemanden]

Originally posted by JonnyK
is the liberator one of the vehicles coming out in the next week or less? or was it planned for later release? i'm excited about that. and i want those re-arm pads too, do you know if they will have htem for both ground and air vehicles?
Yes the Liberator is suposed to come out within the next week, and there are gonna be rearm/repair pads inside the courtyards for the ground vehicles, and the airpads which are allready in will repair/rearm air vehicles. Not Gal's though (unless they make some bigger pads).


What I would like them to see is to increase the accuracy on the sniper rifle when looking around (very slowly), and decrease it quite a bit when running.
And the blastdoors/forcefields they said is comming within 3 weeks..

[ColdbringeR]

I'm very happy with all of these changes/updates/improvements. Especially the Vanu improvement stuff. I've been using punisher because that Pulsar is truly and utterly ineffective. Can't wait for this patch!

:D

[malikai3k]

don't seem to have fixed the cloaked wraith/warp gate bug that causes a crash to your desktop everytime

[Lise]

Originally posted by Hamma
14) You can no longer see infiltration suits while your view is zoomed.

HALLELUJAH. I can use my Markov NC infil guy (SpaceDrake) once again.

The rest sounds good, too. Feel the Vanu luff. :love:

[Thrik]

Don't forget to use /bug to report things like that, malikai3k. While you may assume that the Devs are aware of it because others have told them, they have probably assumed just like you. :D

[Chito]

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3) You can now respawn to a hacked building if you are a member of the owning Empire. Previously, once a building was hacked, the option to respawn there was unavailable. This is no longer the case.
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I like this idea, although I'm afraid spawn-tube camping will be absolutely insane =/

Time will tell :D

[Intruder]

wow good stuff

[MJBuddy]

no, people will just blow the tubes and keep them destroyed to hold down a base...much harder to break in that far then for me to just walk in and hack open a base and win instantly

when's this patch coming?

[NoSurrender]

:( no liberator

[�io]

Originally posted by Plato
Infiltrators with Jackhammers and stealthed REF grunts? wtf?
I'm glad they're fixing these exploits although I've not come across them..yet

I actually got killed by a cloaked lasher a few days ago. Sucked big time, he got like half my squad and a few others before he uncloaked and got killed. :)

[Netsurfer733]

Ok, so when is this patch coming out already???????????

[�io]

Originally posted by Netsurfer733
Ok, so when is this patch coming out already???????????

Hopefully soon, my free month ends monday. :ugh:

[Hamma]

That mean you arent renewing?

[Hamma]

btw Skyguard was always slated to be the first vehicle released.

[�io]

Originally posted by Hamma
That mean you arent renewing?

I am just not now. My 256 of PC2100 was doing fine in beta and even the first week of release but too many people now for my weakling PC so i have to wait till i can upgrade zee RAM. Sadly that might only be in the fall. :tear:

I'll be here everyday still though, just won't know wtf you guys are talking about. :lol:


Oh and i'm glad the Skyguard is first, Reavers + Bombers without AA buggy = bad living for ground troops :)

[NightWalker XI]

No changes to the Beamer?

DOH

[Deadlock]

<~~ sniper at times, and yes im pissed about the zoom thing.

nothing can describe the feeling of sniping a stealther. its hard as shit to do if its not a dumbass stealther in the first place. its not really that big of a deal but i wish they weren't doing the zoom change thing.

however, everything else has me drooling. BRING ON THE SKYGUARD, I HATE REAVERS!!!

[ZionsFire]

REAVERS ME HATES ME BE KILLED BY THEM MANY TIMES THAT MY FIRST CERT AFTER PATCH!party:

[Kikinchikin]

I dont like the idea of being able to spawn at hacked bases, but i guess it somewhat evens out since u can no longer hack a base latticed to one thats already been hacked... hmmmm i dunno how that will affect it, good or bad... we'llsee i guess

[MilitantB0B]

3) You can now respawn to a hacked building if you are a member of the owning Empire. Previously, once a building was hacked, the option to respawn there was unavailable. This is no longer the case. Uh-oh, this makes taking a base a little more interesting. Oh well, does anybody know how many boomers it takes to destroy a spawn tube? ;)

[Vick]

Originally posted by MilitantB0B
Uh-oh, this makes taking a base a little more interesting. Oh well, does anybody know how many boomers it takes to destroy a spawn tube? ;)

My CE infil used to try, but it takes 3 or4 boomers per tube, and I can only carry 4 and a REC, not to mention how long it takes to place them, bound to be cought.

What I did was blow the equipment terminals, plant a boomer between the right and middle and left and middle. Blow those, the middle one explodes, and the others are damaged. Then put one infront of each remaining terminal (I like to wait for some to be re-equiping at them first, for that extra jazzy touch) blow them, take a moment to be proud. Then hope no one remembers the 4th terminal.

[Madcow]

Originally posted by Nitsch
Woot! I won't keep getting killed by my own snipers! For some reason enemy snipers didn't bother to kill me much but friendly ones seem to have a heyday with me!

That's because the name stops appearing after a certain distance, and it's impossible to judge whether the infil is friendly or not. I got to the point that I had to absolutely know that the infil wasn't friendly (as in firing on one of our men) before I'd pull the trigger.
I also killed an infil friend in a hallway, no name showed up but I couldn't run past a certain point so I pulled out my sweeper and he fell dead. Oops.

[Kikinchikin]

gulp

me (reaver pilot)---- no like skyguard

(sees skyguard coming) :scared:

[Kaikou]

skyguard eh...I want my liberator...

and I like the spawn at hacked bases idea because it will make base caps much more action packed, and it will even make use of that back room behind the spawn room that no one ever goes in.

[Nitsch]

We now won't be pissed when someone blows up the generator during the hack!

Now we will just be pissed that they blew up generator after the spawn tubes are down.

[SumYungGui]

I can't help but wonder where they got the inspiration for their vanu 'fixes'. their approaches to balance seem to have nothing to do with the actual weapon's usefulness or what people point out in any given message board. the only saving grace is that they didn't mention the lasher or thresher so I can hope/pray that this is not all they intend to do in balancing vanu...because this is not nearly enough, nor is it correct.

[Cyber]

Be nice if they said what was broke

I suspect it may be the fact that CR2 can't talk to CR3 and so on and so forth.

[Hamma]

Yea, but there is a /report in the game, why would they build in that command if you were supposed to be able to talk to higher CR's

perhaps CR chat is supposed to have a higher range

[Prowler]

Dio, I can give you a good deal on ram if thats what you need. :cool:

[�io]

I do indeed and thanks but for now i can't afford any deal no matter how good. Hopefully i'll get some cash soon and get me a stick. I gave up on Corsair so it won't be too hard/expensive to get me 512 of PC2100, i just needs the $$.

[NoSurrender]

now prowler where is this deal from???

[�io]

I assume himself, Prowler = PC pimp. He's cheap, he's good, he just basically pwnz. :p

[Prowler]

Originally posted by �io
I assume himself, Prowler = PC pimp. He's cheap, he's good, he just basically pwnz. :p

:love: , I have already sold some really l33t stuff to people. Like Duffman ;) Now Dio you don't have 20 USD for 512 Corsair ram :rolleyes:


EDIT: and yes I do financing w/ 0% interest

[Stimulate]

Uh... wheres the Liberator? :(

[Agathon]

Excellent!

Well, the cheaters be damned, and the exploit fixes are the most awesome thing about this upcoming patch. There isn't anything else in a game that pisses me off more than a punk arse cheater. the two major exploitable fixes about to go live will make the game a ton more enjoyable for me personally. When I get owned, I want to know it was fair. hehehe

The buggy will be nice. I'm looking forward to testing it out. I believe it will cut down on the swarms of reavers and mosquitos in the sky, and it will make protecting AMS's and convoys from air attack much more possible.

I was fighting VS almost all the time for the little bit I was on last night, and they were doing very well. People saying their weapons suck boggle my mind frankly, and they were easily holding their own against us NC by using good tactics. Their combat engineers in particular did a fantastic job helping to defend a tower on solsar last night around 9-11PM EST. I was impressed and died a lot trying to break their defenses. They don't need better weapons imho and based on my experience, but we'll see how the changes go!

There is a wonderful mix of changes coming, so my hat's off to the people working on PS. Thanks!!!

8-)

[beavis88]

You can no longer see infiltration suits while your view is zoomed.

This is retarded. Did Microsoft sneak some DRM software into our zoom gadget?

Can infil suits no longer see the rest of us when their view is zoomed?

Bleh. Dumb.

[Navaron]

DIO'S BACK IN THE GAME!!!!!!!

WOOOOT!

[Jarlo]

Agathon wrote..
I was fighting VS almost all the time for the little bit I was on last night, and they were doing very well. People saying their weapons suck boggle my mind frankly, and they were easily holding their own against us NC by using good tactics. Their combat engineers in particular did a fantastic job helping to defend a tower on solsar last night around 9-11PM EST. I was impressed and died a lot trying to break their defenses. They don't need better weapons imho and based on my experience, but we'll see how the changes go!


What weapons were the VS using though? I bet you didn't see tons of pulsar, beamers, thresher, and lashers did ya? Prob alot of rocklet rifles, spitfires, mines, decimators, sniper rifles.. VS does well with the common pool and lancer but that is still not a good reason for their other weapons to suck. Pulsar may get a bit better but not if they do not change the damage drop off with range.

[beavis88]

I bet you didn't see tons of pulsar, beamers, thresher, and lashers did ya?

I for one saw TONS of lashers last night. The VS had 4-5 guys with lashers covering a tower door -- let me just say that no one made it out that way. CC defenders were also carrying lots of lashers. Both perfect opportunities for the lasher to shine (at TR's expense, heh).

Also saw several guys carrying pulsars, which are not nearly as bad as I thought at medium range (say, ~100m or less). They seem to be considerably more accurate than the cycler at that range, even if damage per shot is lower.

Didn't see any beamers or threshers though...I will agree that those are two worthless pieces of "technology". :)

[Nitsch]

Most VS i know that cert in heavy weapons is not for the lasher, but so they can loot a jackhammer or minigun :)

[Agathon]

Hello,

I saw a lot of maxes, some kind of fast firing electric assault rifle (maybe this is the pulsar?), and a lot of VS sniper rifles. I don't know what the weapon they were using was most of the time, but they were definitely electrically based. You have to keep in mind that such weapons kill through armor easily. They used tactics, not just engineers and common pool equipment.

For example, they were concentrating fire VERY effectively. When you were seen, it wouldn't be one person shooting at you. It would be three or four. It was a superb battle to have watched from a distance because the VS were working together so well. They were not ant-lining, and they were counter attacking in groups. Maxes would come out of the tower two or three at a time with infantry supporting them. They had guys in the turrets and people repairing them as quickly as we blew them up.

The only disadvantage I noticed the entire fight was that out in the open and when alone, the VS are out-gunned easily. This is because of skills imho though, not from their weapons. I simply led them better, aimed better, and moved better with my supressor than they did with their weapon. They killed me with their weapons though, and NC ultimately got pushed back because we were out numbered and our tactics were not as good. NC kept ant-lining and everyone was disorganzied. It seemed to me we had 20 snipers and no one willing to charge the base of the tower. Without getting close, we were doomed.

8-)

[Jarlo]

Agathon is more skilled that any soldier in the VS army.

:clap:

All bow down to his superior skills!

When I play NC I beat VS one on one nearly 100% of the time. However I do not think I am more skilled than the other player, just better armed. Before I picked up the amazingly powerful jackhamma again I was beating Lasher users with sweeper shotgun or Gauss pretty easily... and that is just WRONG.

Do not attribute your one on one victories only to your skill, weapons make alot of difference. It is not right that there has to be 3-4 VS concentrating fire to hold off an enemy, they should win one on one fights.. and they DON'T!


Of course maybe you are simply more skilled than all the VS players you fought, if so then more power to ya.

[Agathon]

Hello,

Jarlo, hehehe, I wasn't bragging man. The argument that it is just better weapons does't work with my example at least because I was playing my newbie GrobbDsM, and all I had when not in a max was a supressor! ;-) I only spoke about my personal experience because the VS last night had stuff other than the supressor, and they were electrically based. I'm no expert on their weapons because I do not play them nor have I tested their weapons. I also said they did kill me last night, but I just found one on one fights easier than I would up against a TR guy with a cycler or chain gun. <smile>

Maybe it is their weapons, and they fire too slowly or inaccurately when the opponent is on the move? I'm not bragging but just trying to give personal examples.

8-)

PS We all know the supressor is actual kinda nice in regards to accuracy, and if I have the time to empty a mag into someone they will die. It is a weak weapon but highly accurate! hehe

[MilitantB0B]

Originally posted by beavis88
This is retarded. Did Microsoft sneak some DRM software into our zoom gadget?

Can infil suits no longer see the rest of us when their view is zoomed?

Bleh. Dumb. Yeah, that is retarded. :rolleyes:
You know what else is retarded? When an infiltrator is crouch-moving and barely visible to the enemy soldiers right next to him, only to be killed by the sniper because while looking through the sniper scope, infiltration suit glow like a neon sign. Now thats retarded.

[SumYungGui]

if you do some hunting around on the *shudder* official forums you'll find that spork reworded that particurlar line somewhere else.

you CAN see infiltrators if you are zoomed. the difference is that now you are forced to live with all the rules of visibility as if you were looking at them normally. ya see, there was this bug where zooming in 'concentrated' (only word I can think of) all of the white predator-like glowyness you would see at normal non-zoomed range into a gigantic neon-white (stop laughing!) beacon of visibility. basically, if you zoomed in on an area and did a sweep with your scope you were 100% guaranteed to find any and all infiltrators regardless of their status of movement or activity. they could be standing perfectly still for 10 minutes with absolutely nothing around them and if you did one zoom-sweep they lit up like a christmas tree.

additionally, Agathon, please play as vanu for day or so. they ARE gimped. many Vanu are amazed by the fact that we weren't literally so gimped that our weapons all did stupid stuff like snare the enemy or mez them. yes, our weapons still do damage and are technically capable of killing people. they are not, however, balanced in any way, shape or form. the only thing I'm willing to even get close to grudgingly accepting balance on (even after this kick-to-the-nuts 'boost') is the lancer. howver, I still say it should lose the CoF bloom, lose the AI damage, lose the travel time and get down to the business of actually hurting some vehicles.

[�io]

Originally posted by Nitsch
Most VS i know that cert in heavy weapons is not for the lasher, but so they can loot a jackhammer or minigun :)

Said VS aren't skilled is all. I for one love the lasher, if you're smart and use it like it should be (mid to close range) you can kill a shitload of peeps. :)

[NoSurrender]

yea dios right but its sad that in 11 days dio wont be playing planetside for a while :(...

[Phaeton]

thank god for pulsar love is all i have to say

[�io]

Originally posted by Pyro_Man
yea dios right but its sad that in 11 days dio wont be playing planetside for a while :(...

It's actually 3. Valid till June 23rd.

[Xao]

Noticed Hamma missed this last patch note.. Figured I'd add it.



28) The Orbital Strike, EMP Blast and See All Enemies/Friendlies are now functioning on the Command Uplink Device. Take Command!

[Arakiel]

Originally posted by Hamma

Be nice if they said what was broke :confused:

I'm almost absolutely sure that refers to the cutoff between CR ranks being able to use command chat together. As it stands, command chat is fairly useless.

As far as I know, report goes to your rank and higher and that's how it's supposed to function - a "report" to the higher commanders.

They could also be referring to continent chat being flagged CR5 instead of CR4, though. You can only continent broadcast at CR5 now, when it's supposed to be 4.

[NoSurrender]

ouch that sucks :( well miss you dio