Game Update 14 August 12

[Hamma]

All servers will come down at 6:00 AM PDT (3:00 PM CEST) for Game Update 14.

Downtime Start: 6 AM on Monday morning

Downtime ETA: 90 minutes

http://wiki.planetside-universe.com/ps/Game_Update_14_(2013/08/12)

https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/server-downtime-for-game-update-14-august-12-2013-6am-pdt-3pm-cest.145926/

Similar to the patch that went out on PTS earlier this week.

[Goldoche]

Wow, it's fucking nothing (again).

[Hamma]

Constructive, good post. :rolleyes:

[maradine]

Looks like a lot of QoL to me - thumbs up.

[Falcon_br]

I can finally stop telling my gunners to not save ammo with my vulcan/walker.
They all think I have almost no ammo, while I got more 1.000 after the end of the display number! The worst part is with the vulcan: 60/080, the gunner almost always think he just have one more mag to go.

[Ruffdog]

I can finally stop telling my gunners to not save ammo with my vulcan/walker.
They all think I have almost no ammo, while I got more 1.000 after the end of the display number! The worst part is with the vulcan: 60/080, the gunner almost always think he just have one more mag to go.

Damn that was quite the oversight. Glad that's getting fixed.
Can drivers see how much ammo the secondary has left? I can't remember. That would be a good QOL upgrade. Also on Libbys and the like. Good for a quick look when you don't have microphone communication.

[camycamera]

awww, that ain't a GU, that's just some hotfix.

[KesTro]

Yall kidding? I've been asking for the ability to choose your loadouts/classes with keys since GU2! I'm pretty stoked for that alone everything else is fluff.

[hashish]

Yea im quite disappointed.. again :(

No Amerish Lattice..

No new continent (Hossin)..

No new ESF weapons..

Just a bunch of bug fixed that should have been implemented on a weekly basis.. :/

[Rumblepit]

OMG..... they are going to give me the option to carry more av nades? I like it...

[phungus]

Yea im quite disappointed.. again :(

No Amerish Lattice..

No new continent (Hossin)..

No new ESF weapons..

Just a bunch of bug fixed that should have been implemented on a weekly basis.. :/

I've never understood this mentality.

This is the list of items the developers are comfortable with releasing. If they were pressured to add more features they'd just be bugged and/or poorly implemented... Also this list of items is a good list of stuff, all solid improvements and it's always nice to see bug fixes.

I would have liked it if the ESF weapons came out with this update, but they aren't ready yet. No reason to be disapointed.

[phungus]

I have a question regarding the player studio:

So I have Maya and 3d studio Max. What type of files should I be creating if I want to create art assets? If I designed a 2 man air vehicle (think aerial harrasser) that looked cool would it stand any chance of becoming used, or is the studio only for infantry art assets?

Relatedly is C++ code also worthy of submission? We don't have access to the API, but there are some things, like player spawning, that the basics could be written down and 90% of the functionality could be coded without it. Would these be worth our time to work on?

[Micro]

I have a question regarding the player studio:

So I have Maya and 3d studio Max. What type of files should I be creating if I want to create art assets? If I designed a 2 man air vehicle (think aerial harrasser) that looked cool would it stand any chance of becoming used, or is the studio only for infantry art assets?

Relatedly is C++ code also worthy of submission? We don't have access to the API, but there are some things, like player spawning, that the basics could be written down and 90% of the functionality could be coded without it. Would these be worth our time to work on?

https://forums.station.sony.com/playerstudio/index.php

Post your Player Studio related questions there.

[maradine]

I have a question regarding the player studio:

So I have Maya and 3d studio Max. What type of files should I be creating if I want to create art assets? If I designed a 2 man air vehicle (think aerial harrasser) that looked cool would it stand any chance of becoming used, or is the studio only for infantry art assets?

Relatedly is C++ code also worthy of submission? We don't have access to the API, but there are some things, like player spawning, that the basics could be written down and 90% of the functionality could be coded without it. Would these be worth our time to work on?

Also, TGA textures, and OBJ objects. All of the submission guidelines are here.

https://www.planetside2.com/player-studio/get-started

[Aaron]

Yall kidding? I've been asking for the ability to choose your loadouts/classes with keys since GU2! I'm pretty stoked for that alone everything else is fluff.

Wait, you mean they're adding loadout hotkeys? Is it this patch, because I don't see it in the notes.

[Isokon]

Wait, you mean they're adding loadout hotkeys? Is it this patch, because I don't see it in the notes.

Class Terminal Loadout Hotkeys

·Pressing [E] with terminal screen open will now resupply/equip your selected class
·Press F1-F6 to select Classes
·Press 1-0 to select a Loadout Tab

[Ruffdog]

New in the Depot

Available Now

Drakon Armor
This much-requested slimmed down armor has arrived in the Depot.


Anyone know what this looks like?

[Edfishy]

Class Terminal Loadout Hotkeys


Pressing [E] with terminal screen open will now resupply/equip your selected class
Press F1-F6 to select Classes
Press 1-0 to select a Loadout Tab


It'd be great if the hotkeys were editable (I'd like to make select class CTRL+1-9 instead of F1-F9, or maybe "H" for heavy, etc)

Also double tapping the same class or loadout should exit the screen. This way if I need to quick flip into an AA Max I can just hit E-F6-F6.

[KesTro]

Anyone know what this looks like?

Search up in youtube Vanu Labs Drakon Armor. he did a preview of all the factions versions. It's pretty much just the armor we had in alpha and is a slimmed down version of composite armor. What I'm curious about is if our freaking decals will show up on these slimmer shoulderpads lol.

[Climhazzard]

No Amerish Lattice..

Good. People were extremely disappointed with their first attempt at the Amerish lattice. They thought they could get away with just slapping a lattice on top of the existing Amerish, but it turned out be rather bad.

No new continent (Hossin)..

God dammit, people. Hossin isn't even scheduled until September. It's the height of stupidity to whine about "no Hossin today... again". If you'd just pay attention, you wouldn't look like idiots.

:rolleyes:

[KesTro]

God dammit, people. Hossin isn't even scheduled until September. It's the height of stupidity to whine about "no Hossin today... again". If you'd just pay attention, you wouldn't look like idiots.

:rolleyes:

Not to mention the roadmap should be taken for as a guide and not LITERAL release dates.

[DirtyBird]

I guess that the long overdue server Transfer Tokens will be in two weeks time for GU15.
They've been pushed back a month each time they are due* for release.
There is a heap of stuff still listed for August, GU15 will be huge compared to this one.

(* as a guide provided by SOE)

[Qwan]

Well its over guys, BF4 for PC is coming out this fall, so ill be logging in to collect my certs but thats about it. Hopefully they will have a real patch by the time I get done with the campain and am bored with the online. But dont worry Ill be coming into PSU from time to time to laugh at the comments and make some of my own.

[Slackermagee]

Well its over guys, BF4 for PC is coming out this fall, so ill be logging in to collect my certs but thats about it. Hopefully they will have a real patch by the time I get done with the campain and am bored with the online. But dont worry Ill be coming into PSU from time to time to laugh at the comments and make some of my own.

BF4 has at least another half-dozen generic modern combat shooters to compete with.

Planetside has zero homologous competitors and it could be argued that there aren't any true analogous competitors either. Its in the FPS category but its a far cry from the CoD/BF clones.

[Lonehunter]

Mostly just a bunch of adjustments and fixes. The hot keys for selecting classes and loadouts is probably my favorite part, but there's not much else to have a favorite about lol

[PredatorFour]

BF4 has at least another half-dozen generic modern combat shooters to compete with.

Planetside has zero homologous competitors and it could be argued that there aren't any true analogous competitors either. Its in the FPS category but its a far cry from the CoD/BF clones.

Yeh but.... they modelled the game on the battlefield series. We will see what effect it has in due time.

[Shuuda]

BF4 has at least another half-dozen generic modern combat shooters to compete with.

Planetside has zero homologous competitors and it could be argued that there aren't any true analogous competitors either. Its in the FPS category but its a far cry from the CoD/BF clones.

Well, only CoD really. But as far as I'm concerned Battlefield is just EA's attempt to snatch CoD's success. Not so much a game than it is another EA money engine.

[Ruffdog]

Updating now

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[Dragonskin]

Mostly underwhelming patch to me. I do like that we will have hotkeys for classes/loadouts and I like the new grenade bandoliers. Can't wait to be able to carry 4 AV grenades... it will be almost pointless to put a max now.

Anyway, just going to chime in on the Planetside 2/BF4 thing. Planetside 2 is modelled after FPS games in general. It's about as much like Call of Duty as it is Battlefield. Personally as a Battlefield 2 player Planetside 2 feels more like BF2 than BF3 does. Getting tired of the BF series honestly. They keep making it more arcade like and while the frostbyte engine is amazing the destructibility gets old fast. Not to mention the painfully slow patches they push out because of Xbox and Playstation having stupid restrictions on their updates for consoles. What was it? Like 3-4 months between patchs on BF3? It was a terrible joke. If they messed up a weapon it was another 3-4 months before they attempted to fix it... lame.

No thanks. At the risk of sounding like a PS2 fanboy... I will just stick with PS2. As much as I want to get back into Battlefield.. it's just not the same anymore... this is coming from someone that played BF2, BF Free, Bad Company, Bad Company 2 (best new BF version) and BF3.

Plus FF14 is coming out in 2 weeks and that will be my major break from FPS gaming for awhile. Not bad since my PS2 membership ends the beginning of September anyway.

[Kalee J]

BF4 or no BF4...I'll be sticking with Planetside 2.

[Assist]

Plus FF14 is coming out in 2 weeks and that will be my major break from FPS gaming for awhile. Not bad since my PS2 membership ends the beginning of September anyway.

Hopefully it turns out better than the first go around. Game had far too many flaws to stick with it during the first release, not sure enough has been done to remove the boring parts of the game. My PS2 sub ending in a week or so I believe, hopefully I get lored back with Hossin release.

[Dragonskin]

Hopefully it turns out better than the first go around. Game had far too many flaws to stick with it during the first release, not sure enough has been done to remove the boring parts of the game. My PS2 sub ending in a week or so I believe, hopefully I get lored back with Hossin release.

FF14 is my MMO filler until Everquest Next comes out. I'm just hoping it will tide me over till then. Having played the original FF14 beta and been part of the new FF14 beta process... the games are almost completely different. FF11 lasted me for about a year and a half. If I can get close to that out of FF14 it will be well justified.

Sadly... Elders Scrolls Online has lost all appeal to me since coming back to try FF14 and the announcement of Everquest Next on the horizon. Only thing that ESO had going for it was the 3 faction PvP.. but FF14 will have that eventually with the grand company battles similar to Guild Wars 2. Arena PvP will be in the first patch after release. So... yea.. was looking forward to ESO, but now I don't care. Just want an awesome FF14 story and then move to EQN to live the story of the server I end up on. Planetside 2 will still be there for my FPS fix every couple months.

[Wahooo]

Class Terminal Loadout Hotkeys

·Pressing [E] with terminal screen open will now resupply/equip your selected class
·Press F1-F6 to select Classes
·Press 1-0 to select a Loadout Tab

yeah... hope it will be more customizable soon.
Only issue I see is running up to a term to re-supply my max, hit 'E' hit 'E'... Fuck now i'm light assault and my max is on a timer and I will need to build resources for another one!

[VaderShake]

Well its over guys, BF4 for PC is coming out this fall, so ill be logging in to collect my certs but thats about it. Hopefully they will have a real patch by the time I get done with the campain and am bored with the online. But dont worry Ill be coming into PSU from time to time to laugh at the comments and make some of my own.

Lol,...oh man, that's fine. Let those who value repetitive 15 minute matches go play BF4 and get strung along by DICE and there extortion model of "expansion packs", the gameplay will be shallow just like BF3, the maps will be small just like BF3, you will be forced to play DICE'S way just like BF3, the game will die off within 8 months just like BF3.

PlanetSide 2 is the game the BF franchise should have evolved to but has not so SOE has filled the void where no one else has tried to go.......massive online warfare........not "battlefield" skirmishes...wash rinse repeat, I have over 10,000 hours in the BF franchise and it ended within 4 months of BF3's release.

Also I wonder how may PS2 players that go back to a 64 player match will find it underwhelming compared to a few hundred players battling over territory....and come sliding back to PS2.

Just look at the map BF4 is showing off, ...it's Karkand again, same rough layout, same approximate size maybe a tad bigger, bridges in the same place, same, same, same,....DICE lost all of their talent and now there designs are all cookie cutter.

Ok back to GU14 talk.....

[BlaxicanX]

^ It's funny because PS2's gameplay is repetitive as fuck.

"Run into near-empty base -> take capture point -> surround enemy spawn room and wait for base to flip".

Rinse, repeat. That's about 8/10 battles, even on the latticed continents. Sometimes the PS2 Gods will smile upon you and give you a decent fight at the Octagon or something. But, yeah- I never understood the smugness about PS2 compared to its competing shooters. PS2 is basically an arena shooter, except you have to physically travel to the [base]level you want to fight at rather than just automatically spawn there.

[exohkay]

BF3 was a fucking joke. I played BC2 competitively, logged 500ish hours in it, bought the vietnam expansion.

I bought BF3, BF3 premium, and the gameplay is shallow, but feels deep due to all the unlocks you need to grind.

There are huge glaring inconsistencies with the game, (no voip), battlelog was shit, Premium was a fucking bullshit nickel and dime policy (yet I've put 3x into PS2 what I put into BF3, go figure DICE).


If you want to go play BF4 (which is basically BF3 with a few improvements). Go nuts. People will still play metro 24/7, you'll still get raped into the ground by helicopters and jets that you simply cannot compete with, and you'll never receive any new maps without paying $25 bucks for the privilege.

[BlaxicanX]

Fuck yeah, Premium was a nickle and dime scheme.

lol, my anus is still raw from that. That's EA games for you, though. I don't buy games under that label anymore.

[NewSith]

you'll still get raped into the ground by helicopters

You either played BF3 for a very short while after it started, or you never actually tried flying a heli. At some point they made it so a jet can destroy a helicopter in 1 pass, even with missing half the shots. And then they removed below radar. Aye and Javelin missiles never got distracted neither by flares, nor ECMs and the bug still exists.

The BF4 argument has a point - as I said before PS2 was only good to make dice realise that there is a good competitor to their game, so BF4 will outshine PS2, I'm quite sure about it.

[Belhade]

BF? I'm still playing BF2. Project Reality 1.0 finally came out, after all...mods FTW.

[maradine]

Never understood flares interdicting a laser-guided seeker . . .

[DirtyBird]

Had to check my BC2 hours, 983.
Only 234 for BF3.
And PS2 is already 1392, a clear winner.

And on the patch, I didnt expect much more from it being so close to SOE Live.

[Snipefrag]

BF3 was a massive disappointment IMO. Not even considering buying BF4.

[Mox]

Just disappionting again. I am off for some months. Playing some games which are not as halfbaked as ps2. I will play again when intercontinental lattice/cont locks are implemented. So probably not before n3xt year. LOL...

[Crator]

Really like the new keyboard shortcuts for the load outs! Going to take some getting used to but will help in the long run.

[ChipMHazard]

Can people please keep on topic and stop going off-topic with Battlefield rants.

[camycamera]

Can people please keep on topic and stop going off-topic with Battlefield rants.

make another thread for them and they might consider it done :lol: