News: SOE Updates PlanetSide2 Road Map

[Rolfski]

Love where the mission system is going. This is going to be a very good game changer.

[Carbon Copied]

Seem kind of dull and not well thought out to me:

• Escort Mission – SL places mission on a friendly player or vehicle, and the mission follows that player around until killed or destroyed.

Really... in a low TTK game... and you don't see this encouraging people to sit back, do nothing and avoid the fight? Also looks rather exploitable to me cue the "cattle farming squad" logging in.. I just don't get why this is even relevant when there's no in game significance or outcome bearing to an individual in a squad? Sounds more like an awful rabbit style run to me..

I thought these were going to be at least semi-interesting like "go blow that objective / go gather that >insert lore friendly thing here<"? Be nice to have the chance to engage abit of thought rather than dance to the tune of yet more shit boring team death match mechanics.

Don't see these as being anything more than xp boosts dressed up as "missions" for being in the right place at the right time and doing what you should be doing anyway..

[NewSith]

New Mission System seems rather... pointless.

Originally Posted by Carbon Copied

I thought these were going to be at least semi-interesting like "go blow that objective / go gather that >insert lore friendly thing here<"? Be nice to have the chance to engage abit of thought rather than dance to the tune of yet more shit boring team death match mechanics.

Don't see these as being anything more than xp boosts dressed up as "missions" for being in the right place at the right time and doing what you should be doing anyway..

This^ is what I think in a nutshell. Unless, of course, "go there" mission is dynamic depending on the objective.

[Rolfski]

Originally Posted by Carbon Copied

Don't see these as being anything more than xp boosts dressed up as "missions" for being in the right place at the right time and doing what you should be doing anyway..

Valid point but not for newer players.

[Ertwin]

The escort mission is probably intended for AMS sunderers, and the upcoming ANT module.

[Greenthy]

or possible LLU's

[Carbon Copied]

I see that these "missions" are the foundation for other possibilities post global lattice/resource revamp etc. but the xp carrot on the stick is getting severely over used and trivial now - if xp is the only thing PS2 has going for it and that's all they can repeatedly come up with; then its kind of a sorry state for things.

[DviddLeff]

I can not wait to see what they do with the mission system. What they have guested sounds good - I hope they have figured out how to avoid exploits however (simple fix for the escort mission is to only award extra XP for kills near the vehicle).

[Ertwin]

Originally Posted by DviddLeff

I can not wait to see what they do with the mission system. What they have guested sounds good - I hope they have figured out how to avoid exploits however (simple fix for the escort mission is to only award extra XP for kills near the vehicle).

Or kills on enemies that have recently hit the vehicle, as well as xp for repairing it.

[Ehsun]

I really hope the Server Transfers is actually being worked on...

[Assist]

Originally Posted by Ehsun

I really hope the Server Transfers is actually being worked on...

lol

They have server transfers done, as they have transferred characters of certain individuals. I guess some of us are just not special enough.

Originally scheduled for the 30th of January 2013. Hopefully before Jan. 2014, but let's be real it's not gonna happen.

[capiqu]

But if I will be able to play my character on both PC and on PS4, then why won't I be able to play on all servers?

[DirtyBird]

Originally Posted by Assist

lol

They have server transfers done, as they have transferred characters of certain individuals. I guess some of us are just not special enough.

Originally scheduled for the 30th of January 2013. Hopefully before Jan. 2014, but let's be real it's not gonna happen.

A week from the end of August and it hasnt been changed yet so its still possible.
Of course I have not forgotten they moved it to August in late July.

You'd think it would be good to go now but the recent caveat that Smeds just passed gives them months to shuffle stuff or simply not release anything.

Deadlines come first.

[stargazer093]

didn`t mean to dig an old post for fun, but really, it`s kinda sad when looking at these promised things being marked as "unscheduled" now

[Snoopy]

Basically everything has been bumped back or is unscheduled. Pretty pathetic, really. SOE aren't feeding their monkeys enough Bananas, clearly.