News: 2 Servers after New Patch

Geist · 2012-10-03, 11:27 PM

Kind of interested in what a Server looks like with all the great outfits on at the same time.

Bittermen · 2012-10-03, 11:34 PM

This doesn't mean there will be only two servers.

From what I've gathered only two servers will have both continents. The rest will be one or the other.

Geist · 2012-10-03, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by Bittermen

This doesn't mean there will be only two servers.

From what I've gathered only two servers will have both continents. The rest will be one or the other.

Honestly, it's not all that different. Who's going to a server with only 1 when you can go to one with both?

Bittermen · 2012-10-04, 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by Geist

Honestly, it's not all that different. Who's going to a server with only 1 when you can go to one with both?

True. People new to beta I guess.

Crator · 2012-10-04, 12:41 AM

Nice. This load test should be interesting. Prepare for server crashes.

bullet · 2012-10-04, 03:58 AM

Originally Posted by Crator

Nice. This load test should be interesting. Prepare for server crashes.

Prepare for extreme lag with many more people too.

I barely get 20 FPS in a good sized fight now. This should make it unplayable unless these optimizations with the new patch kick ass.

Dagron · 2012-10-04, 05:44 AM

I'm not sure that will affect performance too much. I always assumed the DB (character stats, etc) would be shared but each map would be loaded into different hardware and just linked together, so each time you traveled from one continent to the other you'd effectively switch servers and the performance wouldn't be much different from what it is right now. But that's just a theory, i don't really know how it works. :P

IRSAudit · 2012-10-04, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by Bittermen

This doesn't mean there will be only two servers.

From what I've gathered only two servers will have both continents. The rest will be one or the other.

In the preview video (at 37:15) Higby really implies that there will be only one server for each region. Here is him quoted in a question about endgame in PS2"

"The endgame of Planetside 2 is PvP. The starting game of Planetside 2 is PvP. So the endgame is your gigantic, extremely well organized outfit fighting against another gigantic, extremely well organized outfit. Hopefully with having one server up now we'll see more of that happening. Since previously it seemed like a lot of the outfits were spread out across multiple servers and now with one server we'll have more organized outfits fighting against each other more often."

Sounds awesome.

Dagron · 2012-10-04, 06:51 AM

Oh i just watched the preview video... yeah, increased pop cap will likely affect performance. Hopefully not too much, i can't wait to see huge fights when there are nearly 2k ppl in one continent.

psijaka · 2012-10-04, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by Dagron

Oh i just watched the preview video... yeah, increased pop cap will likely affect performance. Hopefully not too much, i can't wait to see huge fights when there are nearly 2k ppl in one continent.

This is what I've been waiting for.

Up to now the action that I have seen has been mostly limited to localised battles with plenty of options to flank around, rather than a continuous front line.