Sunday's Patch-

[Navaron]

Sunday, May 11th

1) Fixed a floating bridge segment, a slightly sunken tower, and a couple of interpenetrating objects on several maps.

2) Reduced the number of continental lattice links, as well as made them more geographically logical.

3) Bridges now show up on the Proximity Map.

4) Waypoint indicators now appear on the Proximity Map again.

5) You should no longer be able to get your MAX weapons to appear in your (*cough*) lower abdomen.

6) VoiceIP hosting options are now available to set the codec being used (to reduce bandwidth for voice, if desired) as well as to set the actual port and IP being used.

7) The incorrect (and often misleading) warpgate signs have been removed from the Sanctuary Villas.

8) Improved the Deliverer's handling at top speed so it can turn better.

9) Improved the agility of the Harasser as well.

10) After analyzing experience curves, we are reducing experience gained for soldier and vehicle kills. This is the first step in a multi-part experience overhaul and is the small part of the change.

11) The Basilisk certification has been reduced from 3 points to 2 points

[LesserShade]

Everything looks good to me. The basilisk definitely needed to be knocked down to 2 certs.

[Navaron]

Yep- I got it originally cause it was so much fun to drive, but it's not really useful for anything if you're in a squad.

[MilitantB0B]

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
10) After analyzing experience curves, we are reducing experience gained for soldier and vehicle kills. This is the first step in a multi-part experience overhaul and is the small part of the change.
:(

PS: On a unrelated note, I just doubled my menory (now 512) and I can't wait till I see how PS runs!! :D

[TekDragon]

11) The Basilisk certification has been reduced from 3 points to 2 points

Sweetness :)

[Sentrosi]

Still nothing about the mini map in the upper left hand corner only having a dot to represent you. Should be something a little bigger so I know the orientation of my vehicle to waypoints.

[Cyanide]

They still haven't fixed the microscopic radar icons...Grrrr.

[Navaron]

Anyone else getting that uberlag on the east coast server? BOHICA moved off of it tonight it was so bad.

[Angelos]

Cleared up after you left. Ha! j/k

Well, I haven't played much since the patch today, but I don't expect much problem with the exp thingy. I don't like the treadmill anymore than anyone here, but it did seem pretty easy to get exp... I figured after a week of playing I'd have all I needed. Only thing real useful as a squad leader is CR1 to get waypoints, and all I really need is a vehicle, some armor, and a gun. Not many certs there.

[TheAngelOfWar]

so THAT's why i couldnt find you bastards =P

[Warborn]

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
Yep- I got it originally cause it was so much fun to drive, but it's not really useful for anything if you're in a squad.

It tears up infantry if no anti-vehicular weapons are around (which is extremely rare).

All in all a good patch.

[OneManArmy]

gee, planetside still locks up on me all the time... (so I guess they havent fixed the radeon problem yet....) sigh...

[Hamma]

Mine locks up. But instead of every 20m it doesit every 2 hrs hehe

[Hamma]

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
Anyone else getting that uberlag on the east coast server? BOHICA moved off of it tonight it was so bad. Emerald was hosed for a time yesterday, not sure what was going on with it

[LesserShade]

A patch or two ago they claimed to have fixed some of the 9700 lock up bugs. I ran into one last night however. :/

As far as Emerald lag is concerned, yes it is generally bad. Earlier last week it was absolutely outrageous, so bad that I switched back to markov just so I could play. Two east coast servers will be good. I am trying to figure out how the new gold and blue balls method of determining a server's population works, but Emerald consistantly has a whole lot more gold balls than either of the two west coast servers and I'm sure that probably is contributing to the retarded lag.

[Hamma]

yea, there needs to be another east coast server. Although they are probably getting some good stress test data out of leaving it as is hehe

[Peacemaker]

Yey! If u guys notice the number of fixes getting less and less, it used to take two posts to name em all now just like a small one. That means we getting close to release!

[mikkyT]

Emerald one is lagged bad because its the only east coast one, with a much lower ping to Europe than the West coast ones (for obvious reason) therefore every Euro that installs the game after downloading from Fileplanet will automatically pick the low ping server.

Hence your getting a massive population, because every foreigner and his dog are going on Emerald.

[Plato]

Luckily my Radeon 8500 runs just fine. I guess the problems are just w/ the 9700. Since they started the crashlogs, I have had just one CTD.

The Basilisk is a good transport for a lone REF grunt but they can get shot to pieces so quickly.

I think I'll still take the harasser because its so fun to drive w/ a buddy and rack up the odd roadkill from soldiers standing in the open.

[Jarlo]

Amen to the guy who mentioned the radar and vehicles... PLEASE add the little arrow that shows the direction you are facing on the mini radar when you are in a vehicle! That is so annoying.

[Trebor95]

Originally posted by Plato
Luckily my Radeon 8500 runs just fine. I guess the problems are just w/ the 9700. Since they started the crashlogs, I have had just one CTD.

The Basilisk is a good transport for a lone REF grunt but they can get shot to pieces so quickly.

I think I'll still take the harasser because its so fun to drive w/ a buddy and rack up the odd roadkill from soldiers standing in the open.

9700 user here and not one CTD same with my Ti4200 not a single crash, do however recieve the common

"You have been disconnected/left the server" message though.

[Plato]

Probably server crashes then and many of those have been fixed of late and the game has become incredibly stable over the last 2 weeks. I can't wait until the devs turn their attention from bug fixes to additions :)

AMD 1800 1.53G
RADEON 8500 64Mb
512 PC2700

Runs great at 1024x768 @ Medium graphics