Hossin to be on PTS this week according to Higby.

[fierce deity]

https://twitter.com/mhigby/status/362259576143364098

If you can't display the tweet for some reason here is what it says,

"For those of you not lucky enough to check out Hossin at SOE Live this week, Hossin will be released on Public Test this week as well!"

[LeilaniRock]

\0/, rushed in from outside to post this in here, damn u beat me:)

[fierce deity]

Do you know how to properly embed the tweet? I can't seem to get it to work.

Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out.

[Qwan]

Did he give a specific on when this week, just curiouse ill be going out of town this week.

[fierce deity]

Did he give a specific on when this week, just curiouse ill be going out of town this week.

No he did not.

[CrimsonTemplar]

Allow me: https://twitter.com/mhigby/status/362259576143364098


Does that work?

[fierce deity]

Allow me: https://twitter.com/mhigby/status/362259576143364098


Does that work?

Yes it does, but you're a bit late. I figured it out myself.

[CrimsonTemplar]

Yes it does, but you're a bit late. I figured it out myself.

Oh dang. Ah well, we've reinforced the tweet then :lol:.

[Micro]

Yes! :D

[Timealude]

and the internets explode

[VaderShake]

Your all welcome.......I am going on vacation this week so naturally Hossin will be added to test server when I am gone........just like the Grey Scale Camo was only offered last week when I was in Wisconsin.......and double XP weekends only happen when I am out of town........I am scheduled to go to Minnesota for 3 days the end of August...expect some new awesome thing I wont be able to participate in then as well...

[CraazyCanuck]

Lol Vader..man you need to improve your scheduling habits. That.....or NEVER LEAVE YOUR HOME! But then we'd never get anything else cool added to the game. Higby has it out for you!

[fierce deity]

Your all welcome.......I am going on vacation this week so naturally Hossin will be added to test server when I am gone........just like the Grey Scale Camo was only offered last week when I was in Wisconsin.......and double XP weekends only happen when I am out of town........I am scheduled to go to Minnesota for 3 days the end of August...expect some new awesome thing I wont be able to participate in then as well...

Wow that is some bad scheduling luck. But we greatly appreciate your sacrifice.

[NewSith]

Like SOE's "this week" or fo' realz?

[Mastachief]

This week next year?

Oh and what about nexus?

[Rolfski]

It's about time, I would say. But then again, for it to be officially get out to the public, they probably need at least another two months before being ready to release it as one go with the battle islands.

[ringring]

It's about time, I would say. But then again, for it to be officially get out to the public, they probably need at least another two months before being ready to release it as one go with the battle islands.

Yea, the BI and I'd guess the warpgates and lattice will be together, or should be.

[Mastachief]

It's about time, I would say. But then again, for it to be officially get out to the public, they probably need at least another two months before being ready to release it as one go with the battle islands.

Yeh i reckon the Amerish update will be September 2nd week with Hossin and BI arriving end of November and the Indar refresh being January

[CrimsonTemplar]

This week next year?

Oh and what about nexus?

Did you need to ask about Nexus? We all know it's coming soon...in 2015 :rofl:.

[GeoGnome]

It's about time, I would say. But then again, for it to be officially get out to the public, they probably need at least another two months before being ready to release it as one go with the battle islands.

Not necessarily.

It seems like the things are being introduced to the PTS not to test, but in order to give people a sneak peek.

I'm betting after 6+ months of development, Hossin is mostly ready, they are just releasing it so that people can see it and get used to it.

I know I intend to spend all the time after it's released, running through every nook and cranny.

[Selerox]

Sounds good, although I'm not entirely sure I want to re-install the PTS client just for this.

[camycamera]

sweet, i hope they did something different in regards to spawn room design (you know, so it isn't campy and outside?) in Hossin, and base design itself. interested to see.

[SilverAura]

Not necessarily.

It seems like the things are being introduced to the PTS not to test, but in order to give people a sneak peek.

I'm betting after 6+ months of development, Hossin is mostly ready, they are just releasing it so that people can see it and get used to it.

I know I intend to spend all the time after it's released, running through every nook and cranny.

I'd say it's probably less of a sneak peak and more of a larger scale input bed. Things do get tweaked and adjusted quite dramatically from test to live, take the lattice for example. It's almost unrecognizable.

That being said of course, you're ultimately right. Things don't seem to take long to jump from test to live since they're already in the final stretch to being released.

I can't imagine a whole continent is going to be dramatically reworked once cross continental lattice is added. It will probably just work like Indar and Esamir do now.:)

[Rolfski]

If anything, I certainly wouldn't mind if they would release Hossin first as just "another" continent before introducing the BI's and cont locking. Gives them the opportunity to properly stress test and fine tune it properly while making the frustrating long waiting times for new maps more bearable for us.

[Stew]

Did he give a specific on when this week, just curiouse ill be going out of town this week.

MY bet was as soon as they annonced hossin was going to be playable at SOE live i was expecting them to release it on the Test servers just to make it populated to demo it properly at SOE live , it was my guess

iam not sure but , hossin icon on the warp maps is there since quiet a while now , and how they could show a Decent hossin demo whiout enough players in it ?


So no sure but i expect it to be live at the same time they will show it at SOE live ;)

[Stew]

If anything, I certainly wouldn't mind if they would release Hossin first as just "another" continent before introducing the BI's and cont locking. Gives them the opportunity to properly stress test and fine tune it properly while making the frustrating long waiting times for new maps more bearable for us.

They just push back Amerish lattice and revamp to ( unshedrule ) on the road map ,so yep , the reason given was they had to finish and polish up hossin , so hossin will come out before Amerish lattice and revamp goes live

[Blynd]

I just hope that they put some space between the outposts and bases all 3 current maps you can shoot from one base to the next it makes transports like sundies and gals pointless in the main other then a ams unit on a sundie but most of the time outside of outfit ops my sundie is a 1 man vehicle not a 12 man as its intended as for gals only for lol suicide missions to i pull one of those as its a pointless feature atm.

[ringring]

I just hope that they put some space between the outposts and bases all 3 current maps you can shoot from one base to the next it makes transports like sundies and gals pointless in the main other then a ams unit on a sundie but most of the time outside of outfit ops my sundie is a 1 man vehicle not a 12 man as its intended as for gals only for lol suicide missions to i pull one of those as its a pointless feature atm.

I agree.

But I'll be interested about the general topology. We know there will be swamp land and lots of tree cover, Higby also said that will provide lots of protection for infantry against lolpodders (that was quite a while ago) so lets see if it remains true.

I'll also like that space you mentioned to allow tanks fighting because the new Esamir terrain is no longer lends itself that well for it.

I'll also take a good look at the Interlink. From Luperza's tweet it seems like it will be pretty defensible and maybe farmable, unfortunately the history of defensible bases in PS2 is that when they make them they then unmake them, e.g. the Old Tech Plant and the Bio Lab.

[Osskscosco]

MY bet was as soon as they annonced hossin was going to be playable at SOE live i was expecting them to release it on the Test servers just to make it populated to demo it properly at SOE live , it was my guess

iam not sure but , hossin icon on the warp maps is there since quiet a while now , and how they could show a Decent hossin demo whiout enough players in it ?


So no sure but i expect it to be live at the same time they will show it at SOE live ;)

Sounds possible, but then i will find and kill higby just to be on the SOE live stream.

[Levente]

and for god sake put some rivers this time on the new continent cause every continent is just one massive dry land. PS1 continents had better designs. how about some waterfalls and shit? hossin will be a swamp continent right?

[NewSith]

and for god sake put some rivers this time on the new continent cause every continent is just one massive dry land. PS1 continents had better designs. how about some waterfalls and shit? hossin will be a swamp continent right?

It's all because Clegg doesn't want to shave his head.

[Ruffdog]

That being said of course, you're ultimately right. Things don't seem to take long to jump from test to live since they're already in the final stretch to being released..:)

Things don't seem to take long to jump because no fucker plays on PTS. Live is test!

[Dodgy Commando]

and for god sake put some rivers this time on the new continent cause every continent is just one massive dry land. PS1 continents had better designs. how about some waterfalls and shit? hossin will be a swamp continent right?

Amerish has some water features.

Granted, they are in the middle of nowhere...


Didn't expect to get to see Hossin so soon. It felt like it was going to be forever. Not that I was impatient, I'd rather they spent the time to make it real good. I guess I was resigned to the fact we wouldn't be seeing Hossin anytime soon. Then again, its nowhere near release yet :rolleyes:

[Phantomdestiny]

quote from clegg from ages ago


Originally Posted by Phantomdestiny View Post
please tell me there is rivers and bridges on hossin please
clegg : "it's a swamp, it will have lots of water. Pretty sure there's a bridge or two, haven't seen the whole continent yet."

[Hamma]

Lots of big trees.

[Levente]

Lots of big trees.

big as the tech center? that would be neat :D

[Assist]

Looking forward to it Higby! I'll be back playing once it is out :)

[Calisai]

They just push back Amerish lattice and revamp to ( unshedrule ) on the road map ,so yep , the reason given was they had to finish and polish up hossin , so hossin will come out before Amerish lattice and revamp goes live


I am so happy for this. Amerish doesn't play that bad with the old lattice system due to the terrain anyway.... (at least not as bad as Esamir did... that was horrible)

A new cont is much better for SOE live and bring back interest in players than redoing a cont that usually had minimal activity except for alerts.

[Timealude]

I am so happy for this. Amerish doesn't play that bad with the old lattice system due to the terrain anyway.... (at least not as bad as Esamir did... that was horrible)

A new cont is much better for SOE live and bring back interest in players than redoing a cont that usually had minimal activity except for alerts.

untill we have the global lattice though, i fear that hossin might turn into the same minimal activity like amerish

[kologa]

Looking forward to this. Will be nice to have somewhere new.

[Levente]

i hope Hossin wont be boring as esamir or Amerish. Indar is good it has variety. how about making a continent that doesnt look like a square?

[SternLX]

i hope Hossin wont be boring as esamir or Amerish. Indar is good it has variety. how about making a continent that doesnt look like a square?
Addendum: Boring for YOU.

I can't stand Indar, over played it during Beta. Amerish is my fav. Although with Esamir's make over it's quickly becoming the one I use the most these days.

[Hmr85]

Really looking forward to Hossin. It was always one of my favorite continents. Test client updated and ready to go :D

[Snipefrag]

The lack of people on the PTS IMO is mostly down to the lack of awesome shit landing on there ! If Hossin + Interlink facilities + big fucking trees doesn't pull in the punters for a organised public test then i don't know what will !

Its easily the most exciting thing to land on there so far since release.

[ringring]

The lack of people on the PTS IMO is mostly down to the lack of awesome shit landing on there ! If Hossin + Interlink facilities + big fucking trees doesn't pull in the punters for a organised public test then i don't know what will !

Its easily the most exciting thing to land on there so far since release.

I recall test server on PS1 being more useful for fight tests. The difference between PS1 and ps2 was, ps1 was not available all the time, tests were set up prior and announce, e.g. Wed at 3 pm. A test always had a goad, e.g. NC defend base X while TR + VS attempt to capture it.

[Mastachief]

No sign of it yet. So tomorrow?

[Mastachief]

I recall test server on PS1 being more useful for fight tests. The difference between PS1 and ps2 was, ps1 was not available all the time, tests were set up prior and announce, e.g. Wed at 3 pm. A test always had a goad, e.g. NC defend base X while TR + VS attempt to capture it.

Properly run by Devs and gm's on all sides oh and they had xp fountains.

All this said, the test client wasn't a separate installation like it is now.

I'm slowly getting more and more of my outfit to get the test server sorted, we are doing this by the outfit running training fights 50/50 against each other as TR and NC. So far there are about 16 of us out of 39 but i expect this to grow as hossin hits.

SOE need to pull their finger out and run proper tests (you should run them during downtime too.)

[Phantomdestiny]

1.5 Gb patch on PTS RIGHT NOW

[Figment]

Zomg if it was a patch right then, that means it might be a patch RIGHT NOW TOO! D:

EDIT: but the server isn't.

[ringring]

1.5 Gb patch on PTS RIGHT NOW
*sad face*

a patch is there but the server is offline.