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Hamma
2013-10-03, 07:11 PM
PTS has been updated:

The Public Test Server will come down for maintenance at 12:00 PM PDT for an update.

Test Patch Notes
Gameplay:

The game client should no longer crash upon exit.
Reinforcement spawn locations are now more likely to show up for front line battles.
Instant Action now has a higher chance of choosing a location on the player's current continent.
Warp Gates owners have been rotated for the World Domination Series
Standard Spawn Options: Increased standard spawn options to include

Nearest Small outpost by lattice links
Nearest Large outpost by lattice links
This should alleviate situations where pilots and others are downed more than one region away from a friendly territory and are stuck with no good spawn options. This change will offer the nearest small outpost and nearest large outpost in addition to the nearest major facility that is already available. This should allow those players to either join the nearest front or fall back to spawn another vehicle at a larger facility. Please note that the distance is by lattice-links, not as the crow flies.


Depot:

Fixed a bug with purchasing boosts while in the VR training zone.


There's some additional in depth analysis in this Reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/1no3zf/pts_unofficial_patch_notes_26090210_loads_of/

GreyFrog
2013-10-03, 07:43 PM
I'm glad they are looking at changes to respawn options.

maradine
2013-10-03, 08:47 PM
The game client should no longer crash upon exit.

Dear. Sweet. Zombie. Jesus.

Belhade
2013-10-03, 08:50 PM
Dear. Sweet. Zombie. Jesus.

http://livingitoutdaily.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/every-knee-will-bow-bulletin-cover.jpg?w=600&h=453

I don't know how many times I've woken up in the morning and turned on my monitor, only to find the "Planetside.exe has crashed" error which has been sitting there for seven hours while I slept.

DredVS
2013-10-04, 05:37 AM
Does the crash fix include the alt-tab crash as well?

Calista
2013-10-04, 08:29 AM
Sounds good. I'll have to go check this out. In fact, the PTS client is the only one I have loaded on my machine right now. I just mess around on the test server until things improve on the real game servers.