March Update - We're halfway there?

[Assist]

Where's our thread on the march roadmap stuff! Lots of interesting stuff in this update compared to last one, IMO. I wonder if it's on time though, considering we still don't have stuff from the earlier updates.. account wide unlocks wru!

Continent locking coming before Hossin and Implants!

[HiroshiChugi]

I thought continent locking and implants were coming WITH Hossin, not before...?

[Koadster]

We havent got half of febs update. Dont expect March's update til late June, esp if they start taking dev resources to make a new arena shooter (PS2: MLG edition)

[Rolfski]

First, the road map was not about when stuff should get released but when it will be in their internal project planning. Which is confusing for the average player of course that can't be bothered with project planning.

Besides that, rule no 1 in project management is that hardly anything ever gets delivered with time, budget and QA requirements. Meaning that you should expect these road map features to crop up more and more over time. Stuff that's in the road map for June should probably see the daylight around August.

[Babyfark McGeez]

First, the road map was not about when stuff should get released but when it will be in their internal project planning.

Which probably wasn't exactly the most clever idea, ESPECIALLY considering the nature of project planning (i.e. shit allways takes longer than announced/expected).

But you pretty much said that, so i will just roll my eyes instead: :rolleyes:

[Hamma]

Supposedly we will be getting account unlocks very soon. After that, we can start probably expecting march items to trickle out.

[camycamera]

We havent got half of febs update.

so what hasn't been added yet that was in the Feb roadmap?

[Sledgecrushr]

The planetside 2 app still hasnt been released. Ive been looking forward to seeing it forever.

[Phantomdestiny]

can't wait for (in order):

new lattice

continent locks if done right

mission system

[HiroshiChugi]

It should all be released in the newest update coming up, which if I'm not mistaken, includes Hossin as well. (correct me if I'm wrong)

[SGTHACK]

Just so we don't have another FPS disaster. I am excited :)

[DirtyBird]

We got these last week:

Passive Certification gain ftw.
Virtual Reality Training Center, praise baby jesus.
Flash Update with dinking seat, cloaking and new weapon in the renegade shotty.
Respawn & Map screen revamp as cancerous as it is now with the random instant actions.


We should see this later in the week:

Empire specific Rocket Launchers with a free bucket of tears.



Probably wont see this until late next week at the earliest.
And first part of GU05 is due then as well

Account level unlocks


And these from the original February Roadmap have been pushed back to another time TBA.

Improved Item Preview
Loadout Screen Revamp
Regional Empire Priority System


And none of that is set in stone either.
I want to be absolutely clear that all of this is tentative, and until it's on the server it's not a guarantee! We want to keep you guys as up to date as possible with the current development, but it must come with the understanding that features slip & dates slip, and what we're giving you is our best possible projection of what and when.

[DOUBLEXBAUGH]

So the 5 year plan became a 3 year plan, that became a 6 month plan, that became a 3 month road map, that became a "this is what we hope to do next month but will probably take 3 months to get it all"?

[Figment]

So the 5 year plan became a 3 year plan, that became a 6 month plan, that became a 3 month road map, that became a "this is what we hope to do next month but will probably take 3 months to get it all"?

No, there's still a 5 year plan, but it's hard to plan this far ahead and tell players now - especially considering potential competition (protect USPs).

The 6 month plan is more of a "we're going to start work on that around this and this month, give us feedback ahead of time please" thing.

[Tenhi]

They updated the Roadmap... tons of new stuff and many things got changed to "Unscheduled".

Hossin and Continent Locking are on hold (Unscheduled) until they implemented the "Battle Flow Improvements (http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/april-battle-flow-improvements.106337/)" (i.e. Lattice System).

Edit: They changed the "Convenience Items" into 3 seperate Items and changed them all to "Unscheduled" -_-. So no Server Transfer, no Name Change and no Cert Reset :(

And to stay on topic: With that update you can see that their Roadmap is more of a "Whats maybe coming in the future" than a strict "plan".

[Chewy]

According to this (http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/new-empire-rocket-launchers-coming-this-week.106445/) it seems like an update this week that gives us the ESLs.

If it's the March GU or not I can't say.

[Koadster]

Well after seeing the updated roadmap. Marchs contact locking is unscheduled along with a lot of other needed thinhs.. good news, we can reset our K/D... fucking awesome /sarcasm. Games starting to spiral hard now.

[Falcon_br]

I don't understand why people count passive certification as a new feature.
I remember receiving them from day 1!
Ok, now there is a pop up screen, that some people really hates it, but nothing has changed.
I don't know for sure, but I think the passive certs got changed In GU 02 from 24/day to 12/day.
And with GU 04 they changed to premium member receive lots and lots of it.

[Hamma]

The planetside 2 app still hasnt been released. Ive been looking forward to seeing it forever.

Yea, Not sure why this is taking so long.

They updated the Roadmap... tons of new stuff and many things got changed to "Unscheduled".

Hossin and Continent Locking are on hold (Unscheduled) until they implemented the "Battle Flow Improvements (http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/april-battle-flow-improvements.106337/)" (i.e. Lattice System).

Edit: They changed the "Convenience Items" into 3 seperate Items and changed them all to "Unscheduled" -_-. So no Server Transfer, no Name Change and no Cert Reset :(

And to stay on topic: With that update you can see that their Roadmap is more of a "Whats maybe coming in the future" than a strict "plan".

Interesting.. I'll have to check this out. I can't load the roadmap here at the office for some reason I get the spinning wheel.

[Assist]

Yea, Not sure why this is taking so long.



Interesting.. I'll have to check this out. I can't load the roadmap here at the office for some reason I get the spinning wheel.

It's not pretty :| The only good thing I see is they've added Battle Flow (Lattice system) to April

[Sonny]

They updated the Roadmap... tons of new stuff and many things got changed to "Unscheduled".

Hossin and Continent Locking are on hold (Unscheduled) until they implemented the "Battle Flow Improvements (http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/april-battle-flow-improvements.106337/)" (i.e. Lattice System).

Edit: They changed the "Convenience Items" into 3 seperate Items and changed them all to "Unscheduled" -_-. So no Server Transfer, no Name Change and no Cert Reset :(

And to stay on topic: With that update you can see that their Roadmap is more of a "Whats maybe coming in the future" than a strict "plan".

Looks like the result of a crunch meeting at SOE where they realised how far behind they were on many of the features. I guess every feature is taking longer to get perfect than they assumed.

Oh well, I'd rather they do everything eventually relatively bug-free than rush everything out of the door.

Sonny