GU04 Inbound Tomorrow [Updated]

[Hamma]

https://twitter.com/mhigby/status/311644720868782081

Updated: GU04 Incoming

Hey all –

We’re currently set to release GU04 tomorrow morning at 6am PST.As always there is a chance that some issues could be found in the next few hours that would cause us to delay the update, but as of right now it’s looking like a “GO”.

GU04 is one of our biggest updates so far on Planetside 2 (seriously, the patch notes doc is 9 pages long!) and will have a huge number of new additions, game tuning and bug fixes including highlights like:

A brand new VR Training area, a place to try out every weapon, cert and vehicle in the game risk free
Flash Update which brings a new rumble seat, wraith module and the new S12 Renegade shotgun
New Respawn / Map interface
New drag-and-drop functionality on the platoon management window
Balancing of reserve ammo on infantry weapons
Tuning of AOE damage
Increased rewards for vehicle destruction
All new tower ground floor design
Warpgate rotations
Increases to passive cert gain for members as well as new member status panel
TONS o’ bug fixes

There are a couple notable features that are not on the list that I want to give an update on:

The Account Level Unlocks are extremely complex and important feature – the most popular feature we’ve had on the Roadmap thus far. Obviously it is a feature that is critical for us to get absolutely right. The potential for any changes to the how our player inventory system works to cause problems with your hard earned items means that we’re being exceptionally cautious with the rollout. Our plan right now is to release the Account Level Unlocks feature 1 week from GU04 release as long as we don’t run into any major hiccups in testing. We know you’ve been waiting for this feature and we’re sorry for the delay, but we hope that you understand the reasons for being cautious here.
We are still working on tuning and balancing for Empire Specific Rocket Launchers and don’t feel comfortable unlocking them quite yet, as soon as we feel like they’re ready to go we’ll be putting them up for you guys.

We’re really excited to get GU04 out to you guys and we’re confident the wait has been worth it!

http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/state-of-gu04-update.103246/

[LazarusJJ]

I hope so. I just hope the no damage bug gets fixed with the update. It's killing me to restart the game every 10 minutes.

[Ghoest9]

i hope they fix that turrets are immune to C4.

[SternLX]

Here's to hoping all goes well! *raises beer then chugs*

Oh wait, I was going to play tonight, better ease up on the spirits intake. :)

[DirtyBird]

1am 14th March 2013 (Melbourne EST, UTC +11)
3am 14th March 2013 (Auckland NZDT, UTC +13)

[Hamma]

Updated OP with more info from Higby

[OctavianAXFive]

Can we see the patch notes doc? Pretty please?

How about another teaser on the rush-lane system? A screenshot of the southwest warpgate perhaps? No?

Okay this'll do.

[ThatGoatGuy]

>Delayed faction specific launchers
*Disappointed* :(

[Bocheezu]

new S12 Renegade shotgun

Is this the better pump-action shotgun, to continue the "release the shitty one first and the better one two weeks later so everyone buys both" business plan?

[Dragonskin]

Updated OP with more info from Higby

Thanks Higby for further expanding on why key features are being delayed. Appreciate the effort you guys are going to on this and also nice to see that the launchers were held back for more balancing.

Sadly though my drive to play lies on the account wide unlocks since I have like $60 of common pool stuff I am dying to use. I guess I will play Crysis 3 for a week and come back for my account unlocks on my TR. Well... probably try out the VR Training room and maybe a few things during the week. Damn game being so freaking addictive.....

Is this the better pump-action shotgun, to continue the "release the shitty one first and the better one two weeks later so everyone buys both" business plan?

Fairly sure the new Renegade shotgun is the attachment for the Flash they have been talking about. The flash gets 3 things this patch. Rumble seat, wraith module for infiltrators and the renegade shotgun attachment.

[Goldoche]

Must. See. Patch notes.

[Chewy]

Yeah, just in time for me to start babysitting my just out of hospital Mawmaw (grandmother).

(She will ALWAYS some first over a game because it's my mawmaw and fuck any who disagrees with that. Just saying that this is going to nag me ALL DAMNED DAY.)

[Micro]

Everything we want delayed... :banghead:

[Skarn]

Balancing of reserve ammo on infantry weapons

wait... WHAT! Infantry ammo nerf?

[DeltaGun]

wait... WHAT! Infantry ammo nerf?

He's gotta be referring to the fact that weapons with less ammo per magazine carry less ammo total. More realistically and reasonably from a balance perspective, you should be able to carry more magazines if each one is smaller.

[Mordelicius]

Woohoo. Finally the Prowlers will be fixed. They're wrecked the good things the server merges brought in. No one wants to be farmed in a spawn room by HE and HEAT nonstop. :no:

In fact the former heated battles against the TR has degenerated to long range Prowler spamming :(

[Mastachief]

so what? another drop of 10fps?

[Mastachief]

wait... WHAT! Infantry ammo nerf?

Don't panic it's likely just a nerf for the NC.

[Bunk]

so what? another drop of 10fps?

oh boy.....

[Pella]

GU04 is one of our biggest updates so far on Planetside 2 (seriously, the patch notes doc is 9 pages long!)

Expect a shit ton of changes to all empires. These are just highlights.

My money is on a ninja NC Scat max nerf.

[ultimatox]

Is this the better pump-action shotgun, to continue the "release the shitty one first and the better one two weeks later so everyone buys both" business plan?

Nope, this is a shotgun for the flash. But the new shotguns have showed up on the Players site which i made a reddit post about here http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/1a56y6/second_batch_of_shotguns_on_planetside_2_players/

[ChipMHazard]

So it's finally here.

I read "Tuning of AOE damage" as "Turning off AOE damage", and I thought... Wait, what now?:p


My money is on a ninja NC Scat max nerf.

I'm guessing that they might be holding off with MAX changes until they get to that specific part of the roadmap.

[Thunderhawk]

Hmmmm...... not really that excited about this purely from the amount of bugs we will see on Friday/Saturday and game won't be playable till Monday ;)

*ok being cynical*

Be good to have the whole patch notes provided so we can mull them over prior to actually playing rather than have to discover changes whilst playing then go back and look at the patch notes to see if its mentioned.

[ChipMHazard]

Be good to have the whole patch notes provided so we can mull them over prior to actually playing rather than have to discover changes whilst playing then go back and look at the patch notes to see if its mentioned.

Aye, and also have them be more detailed. Thinking back to the tank damage buff where the notes didn't include percentages but the reddit post did.