Upcoming MLG Weekend Events

[Hamma]

On the latest ReachCast show:
http://reachcastshow.com/planetside-2/podcast/episode-39/

It was revealed that Battle Islands aka the Competition Maps will be revealed during MLG this upcoming weekend. We don't know a ton about these other than they will be based on Esamir.

MLG Weekend News:
http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-upcoming-mlg-weekend-events-3040.htm

[bpostal]

The real news here is that there's a new ReachCast show that I've not listened to yet.

[Kalee J]

The real news here is that there's a new ReachCast show that I've not listened to yet.

Guess I know what I'm doing when I get home.

[Vashyo]

Revealed as in we see pics or real ingame footage?


Not too excited since it's just MLG stuff :/

[bpostal]

Revealed as in we see pics or real ingame footage?


Not too excited since it's just MLG stuff :/

They talk about Sardus' resource post (http://www.planetside-universe.com/showthread.php?t=55712) at or around 31 minutes in. They start talking about the reveal at or around 34 min. Still, I'd suggest listening to the show. I can't stop thinking about hobo babies.
Or read the bit below. Der knows more about it than I do.

[Deringer]

Revealed as in we see pics or real ingame footage?

Good question. We were only told that they would be revealed. That could mean either or both!

[CrimsonTemplar]

Didn't the Devs say the reveal would happen at Annaheim already? That the first 'map' would be based off of Esamir at E3?

Don't believe it's anything new. Nice to have it fully confirmed though.

[Hamma]

Yea not sure if it will be screenshots or video. Hopefully there will be some kind of overview video like we saw with other continents. I rewatched the E3 vid, all they revealed was the Esamir piece.

[Ghoest9]

If its just for MLG only then I dont give a f---

[basti]

"they"?

As far as i know, there is only Nexus, means only one BI.

[camycamera]

good news. can't wait for this new continent. hopefully we also do get Hossin as well this September so we have 5 continents to fight over :D

[Dougnifico]

I'm very interested to see these resources taken away from Hossin and Searhus...

[Deringer]

Here's a quick announcement video I threw together.

http://youtu.be/CSEqYlXtdDs

[moosepoop]

I'm very interested to see these resources taken away from Hossin and Searhus...

battle islands is basically oshur

[GreyFrog]

If its battle islands like a continent of islands or a chain of islands to fight over normally and they just restrict it for MLG.....it actually sounds awesome.

[capiqu]

It's The Battle Island(S) so nexus will be the first of most likely 4 islands comprising the continent of Oshur. this is exactly like Planetside1. Now if I remember correctly nexus was also an icy map this may be what they mean by it will be like Esamir. I also remember that it only had 1 base in PS1 and that was on it's center. If I heard Higby right the new Nexus will have 7 outpost.

Now I read somewhere that Oshur In PS2 will look exactly like the one on PS1 is that true?

[basti]

It's The Battle Island(S) so nexus will be the first of most likely 4 islands comprising the continent of Oshur. this is exactly like Planetside1. Now if I remember correctly nexus was also an icy map this may be what they mean by it will be like Esamir. I also remember that it only had 1 base in PS1 and that was on it's center. If I heard Higby right the new Nexus will have 7 outpost.

Now I read somewhere that Oshur In PS2 will look exactly like the one on PS1 is that true?

Yes. Apperently Old Oshur. But it will come after Hossin and Searhus, so dont expect it this year. :/

[SternLX]

The size of the battle islands was already answered in a Command Center episode iirc. Something about them being the same size as the VR area.

[MrMak]

If its battle islands like a continent of islands or a chain of islands to fight over normally and they just restrict it for MLG.....it actually sounds awesome.

From what they said they plan to use the islands as arenas for MLG limited to 2 factions with 48 players each. Later they will be iincluded in to the continent locking mechanic as a sort of buffer between continents.

[ringring]

I think you're being a bit previous to say that BI are basically Oshur.

Hasn't Higby said they're bring back original Oshur anyway with the layout very similar?

In any case BI are built for 48 vs 48 matches. We have no idea if they can be properly integrated into a PS world or whether they'll be kept to one side as stand-alone for challenge matches between outfits or team.

[Hmr85]

I'll be honest. I am really not a fan of MLG at all and it kind of pisses me off that all this work they put into these islands could of better been used to well.... work on Hossin or improve the current game even more. I really feel this whole slide towards MLG has been the bane of us seeing updates/improvements coming in at a faster rate.

[CrimsonTemplar]

Yes. Apperently Old Oshur. But it will come after Hossin and Searhus, so dont expect it this year. :/

Actually Oshur Prime is scheduled to come out, after Hossin and before Searhus. That's what Higby said in that PC Gamer article a few months back.

The Article quote again (from PC Gamer UK Issue 252):

'After Hossin comes Oshur, a continent that SOE are billing as a direct throwback to the first Planetside. "The idea was to make it follow the roadmap of [the original] as much as possible", Higby says. "The roads are in the same locations, facilities are roughly in the same locations so it plays very similarly. Interesting just to see how that would feel, to take a Planetside-oriented map and put it into Planetside 2. It seemed like a fun experiment.'

[Assist]

I'll be honest. I am really not a fan of MLG at all and it kind of pisses me off that all this work they put into these islands could of better been used to...well work on Hossin or improve the current game even more. I really feel this whole slide towards MLG has been the bane of us seeing updates/improvements coming in at a faster rate.

What bugs me is we were told it was a separate group working on the MLG stuff and it wouldn't slow down development on the core game, but this has turned out to be a lie.

[Vashyo]

I'll be honest. I am really not a fan of MLG at all and it kind of pisses me off that all this work they put into these islands could of better been used to...well work on Hossin or improve the current game even more. I really feel this whole slide towards MLG has been the bane of us seeing updates/improvements coming in at a faster rate.

Exactly, everything gets pushed back over and over and the game is as repetitive as ever. And we just need to have some MLG thingy so the 1% of hardest of the hardcore can play and watch MLG.

[Hamma]

Higby made it sound like these new areas would be available to everyone during the E3 streams. Hopefully we will hear more this weekend.

The only thing (imo) that has been delayed as a result of this work is Hossin. Everything else has been going well, only we can complain about the massive updates we get every GU :lol:

[Assist]

The only thing (imo) that has been delayed as a result of this work is Hossin. Everything else has been going well, only we can complain about the massive updates we get every GU :lol:

I think some of us are used to larger 'content' updates than what we've seen with PS2. Maybe they just have a small development team, but most of the updates we get are just tuning, balancing, and bug fixing.

For instance I don't consider adding 6 weapons to a game when there's already dozens to be a massive content update. The update where we had nothing but gun balancing for infantry I wouldn't even consider a content update. I'll give you the Harasser as a content update, and the lattice as a massive update. But I wouldn't call every GU to be massive and most of them haven't even been content driven updates.

Maybe we are greedy, or maybe we just acknowledge there's a large difference between content, bug fixing, balancing, and art updates. Content adds to the existing game, the rest just update things that should of been fixed before. We haven't had many content updates that would be considered massive, IMO.

[capiqu]

Well my confusion was which Oshur was Higby talking about when he said that they will try to bring Oshur to PS2 as much as possible to the original. So was it Oshur(Battle Islands) or the original Oshur. I'm getting from you guys that it was the original so I'll go with that.

[Hamma]

Maybe we are greedy, or maybe we just acknowledge there's a large difference between content, bug fixing, balancing, and art updates. Content adds to the existing game, the rest just update things that should of been fixed before. We haven't had many content updates that would be considered massive, IMO.

"Content" can literally be defined as almost anything. The amount of improvements on the UI level among many other things have been pretty large and take significant amounts of time. Continents and Maps take even more time therefore you don't get those every update. So yes, we are greedy. Bi-weekly updates are pretty consistent and often times are sweeping updates to many different aspects of the game.

Your definition of "Content" seems to be more maps.

[GeoGnome]

yeah hold up a moment, my understanding of things, was that the Battle islands were separate from other cotinents, not Oshur. Oshur would be something else entirely.

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-upcoming-mlg-weekend-events-3040.htm

[Dragonskin]

From what I remember the Battle Islands would be intergrated into PS2 for all players to play on. They would have much smaller player limit caps than the other major continents and they would be used as part of the continent locking mechanic. The idea was for each island to be locked to 2 factions fighting for control so that we wouldn't have the constant 3 ways. They were going to make it part of the regular game so that players had the oppurtinity to play these maps and learn them.. the catch being their faction has to be able to access them since they are locked to 2 factions.

If that is all accurate then the MLG will provide benefits to non-MLGers. Sounds like a solid win for everyone.

[CrimsonTemplar]

Well my confusion was which Oshur was Higby talking about when he said that they will try to bring Oshur to PS2 as much as possible to the original. So was it Oshur(Battle Islands) or the original Oshur. I'm getting from you guys that it was the original so I'll go with that.

Yeah it's the original, with the battle islands as a separate map/cont. I doubt we'll see another bending happen.

[Chewy]

Not much in details to talk about is there? Good luck to the outfits taking part in what ever it is though.

Id say NUC needs the practice so that they give better fights. Their air power is good, but not so much in ground pounding.
(friendly jest between competing outfits)

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-upcoming-mlg-weekend-events-3040.htm

I went ahead and merged the two threads since my news post covers it all. :)

[Sledgecrushr]

The only outfit that I know of for sure participating in this mlg event is Future Crew.

[Galron]

If its available to everyone how do you get 48 of your own outfit in and not any pugs? If you are pugging it, does it auto squad you? How do you balance an outfit only 48 vs. a pug 48? Are resources and cooldowns reset before and after the match? What happens in the regular continents when 96 players go missing?

I like the idea, but don't want it to make the non battle island fights suck.

[Hamma]

The only outfit that I know of for sure participating in this mlg event is Future Crew.

The ones I listed should be "for sure" from what I've seen on Reddit and otherwise.

[bpostal]

If Jennyboo gets a bat with which to hit bailers, then it might just be an MLG I would watch!

[Hamma]

:rofl: She's no longer allowed to get near any blunt objects.

[Jennyboo]

:rofl: She's no longer allowed to get near any blunt objects.

Or so Hamma thinks :brow:

[camycamera]

also hopefully these battle islands will bring swimming into the game.

and also, this was just a thought.... what if they put in a overhaul on the maps like indar that add moar water in the centre of the maps.

[Hamma]

Stream Schedule posted!

http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-upcoming-mlg-weekend-events-3040.htm

[Luperza]

Woot! Can't wait!! It's going to be fun!!!

[SternLX]

Maaaan... wish I had a job that allowed me to actually attend these events.

Over worked, underpaid. Story of my life.

[SternLX]

yeah hold up a moment, my understanding of things, was that the Battle islands were separate from other cotinents, not Oshur. Oshur would be something else entirely.

Your understanding is correct. I'm paraphrasing here but Higby talked about the BI's during E3 in which he basically stated they would be separate of major continents and included on the live servers available for everyone at anytime. Well, 2 factions at time. Eventually they have to add the game mechanics that allows a faction access to those battle islands. Most would like to see continent locking to for that. I'm thinking they may use the current mechanic were when one faction holds the majority of a continent it adds another button to select at the Warpgate terminal.

Oshur was only mentioned long long ago as a continent of it's own that will be added after Hossin and Searhus. That will bring us to 6 total Continents plus Battle Islands.

[capiqu]

Does anyone know how Nexus will fit in with the rest of the continents we currently have. I heard Nexus will have 2 warpgates and that only 2 empires can be let in at one time. So what will be the mechanism to pick the 2 empires? I imagine it would have to be an achievement in all the other 3 conts. For example the 2 empires with the most territory on all 3 Indar, esamir, and Amerish will have 1 warpgate each open up on nexus.
Anyone hear anything about how it will work?

[wasdie]

So is it pretty much set in stone that we'll only see 1 battle island right away with more hopefully coming throughout the rest of the year?

[capiqu]

yup this was like lets get something up for MLG ASAP.

[Phantomdestiny]

Does anyone know how Nexus will fit in with the rest of the continents we currently have. I heard Nexus will have 2 warpgates and that only 2 empires can be let in at one time. So what will be the mechanism to pick the 2 empires? I imagine it would have to be an achievement in all the other 3 conts. For example the 2 empires with the most territory on all 3 Indar, esamir, and Amerish will have 1 warpgate each open up on nexus.
Anyone hear anything about how it will work?

When continental locking come in my guess will be that you will need to capture a specific warpgate to access it. This is due to the fact that they will use battle island as connections between continents to make sure people can still log in to continents. Long term indar , amerish and esamir will be 2 way fights instead of the annoying 3 way we have right now

[EVILPIG]

Let's put a hand in for Future Crew, some members of which are PSU users, for the fun they're going to have! It's great to attend an event and participate. A blast to meet outfit mates!

[Hamma]

Indeed! Looking forward to meeting them all as well. Fun weekend ahead!

[bpostal]

So...look for it on twitch.tv/planetside2 in about an hour from now?

[Calista]

So...look for it on twitch.tv/planetside2 in about an hour from now?

2 hours...

[bpostal]

2 hours...

Cheers, I'm staring at the clock but I couldn't get the numbers to kajigger! See you there

[typhaon]

Is this connected to the regular game, or is it just PS2's version of a BF3 map?

[bpostal]

The way I understand it, Nexus will be available just like another other continent. It will only support 48 players though.

The stream itself was pretty good, I dislike MLG but the stream was fun. It was way too tempting to just jump in and play though. Especially when I saw hamma jump into fights with 5v1 odds. TwF had the future crew behind him so getting at him was a pain in the ass and Sardus ran with his outfit (Even Jennyboo was in a platoon!) but poor Hamma was just getting smoked by himself :(

[Hamma]

I got an awesome medic train after a while :P

[bpostal]

I got an awesome medic train after a while :P

Good, Because you're going to have to bring your A game today!

[NUKABAZOOKA]

The way I understand it, Nexus will be available just like another other continent. It will only support 48 players though.

The stream itself was pretty good, I dislike MLG but the stream was fun. It was way too tempting to just jump in and play though. Especially when I saw hamma jump into fights with 5v1 odds. TwF had the future crew behind him so getting at him was a pain in the ass and Sardus ran with his outfit (Even Jennyboo was in a platoon!) but poor Hamma was just getting smoked by himself :(

Hey, he mentioned your name on stream!

[Hamma]

Just a reminder the the ReachCast Show guys and myself will be on the live stream with Luperza tonight at around 6:30PM PDT 8:30PM EDT. www.twitch.tv/planetside2

[bpostal]

I'll have to watch the recap though because while the stream was open, I was much, much too drunk to watch it.

On another note: Bump for the last day of MLG!

[Micro]

Just a reminder the the ReachCast Show guys and myself will be on the live stream with Luperza tonight at around 6:30PM PDT 8:30PM EDT. www.twitch.tv/planetside2

Europe time pls. I'm on my mobile and too lazy to check. :P

[bpostal]

europe time pls. I'm on my mobile and too lazy to check. :p

edt = gmt-4 iirc

[Micro]

So that'd be 2 AM for me... Guess I'll watch the recording afterwards. ^_^

[Hamma]

We will be going on again in a bit. It will be my last appearance this weekend flying back home this afternoon.

[bpostal]

We will be going on again in a bit. It will be my last appearance this weekend flying back home this afternoon.

Shame. You missed the piece of shit car ad that was randomly inserted into the stream. Right when Higby was talking about the intercontinental lattice.
On the bright side it sounds like everything is going to be linked through Hossin, so we won't HAVE to play on the battle islands. Also: More Hossin is always good.