Weekly Development Activities

[Strygun]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/index.php?newsid=896

[ChewyLSB]

That proximity squad thing sounds interesting, it should help aspiring CR's. I'm just hoping I don't get flooded with them, as I solo mostly...

[Sonic625]

I hope that if you have it on solo you wont get these!!!!

[Wraithlord]

I wonder if all the previous kills/hacks/veh kills/medic/repair stuff will go on there, or if we will have to earn it all

[Nalar]

I wonder if all the previous kills/hacks/veh kills/medic/repair stuff will go on there, or if we will have to earn it all

Im thinking that you will have to earn it with stuff that you do from the next patch forward. That's why they said that they will implement data tracking. Im pretty sure that the only merit you will get without having to earn it through stuff you do after the next patch will be the "one year service" award.

[Lartnev]

Originally Posted by Wraithlord

I wonder if all the previous kills/hacks/veh kills/medic/repair stuff will go on there, or if we will have to earn it all

Put it this way, how will they know?

Kills and hacks are quite easy, but that ****** the commendations to those activities. Basically, they're gonna get the tracking in, and then everyone starts off from the same place. The exception will be the veteran medal (or whatever they've called it) which you get if you've played Planetside for over a year.

[EarlyDawn]

I'm annoyed that we won't actually be able to get commendations in the initial Merit Commendation release. Don't release a half-assed version of it, get the whole thing done and ready to ship at once.

Phantasm looks cool. Waiting on more Battle Island info.

[BadAsh]

"A new feature is being implemented called Proximity Squad formation. This feature will simplify the squad formation process by sending an invite to un-squadded players within a certain radius of the player who initiates the command."

If you get these rapid spam invites while "solo" this is going to suck. I'd like this if only players in "looking for squad" status got invites.

Also, while near the subject, I'd not mind seeing a change to inviting that would notify the inviter that the person he invited is "solo" and not bother the solo player. It never fails that when you solo you still get several squad invites with that lame modal acceptance box that you have to dismiss to get rid of. Then comes the interrogation of why you don't want to squad with some ramdom n00b. A SOLO selection should mean you don't and can't spam or bother me. It's already bad enough that my squad preferance is not remembered to the next gaming session and I have to reselect it every time.

Players in your Outfit and or in your "buddies" list should be exempt from this SOLO squad invite block. So your friends can invite you but others can't...

[Incompetent]

The Map screen will now feature an overlay grid, dividing the map into sectors that can be easily identified and communicated. A soldier's grid location will be shown in the proximity radar.

THANK YOU GOD!!!

[KIAsan]

Geeze what a pile of crap. Ok, the map references are cool, but give me a break on the rest of this junk.

I mean, come on. "Merit Commendations"???? I can see it now, look at me, I have earned my merit badge!!!! If I wanted merit badges, I would be in the boy scouts. And whats with the Meritorious Serives BS??? They are rewarding us for being a paying customer for a year??? Jeeze, do they really think folks will keep their subscriptions just to get this award?

And what's this crap about Proximity Squad Invites. I get enough frigging spam now. I DON'T NEED more spam from clueless idiots who want to form squads. I can see it now, major tower battle, then bam, 10 invites in a row with the spam window popping up to distract you each time. If they put this garbage in game, they need to fix the squad invite window so the user can set it to SOLO and have it ignore any invites. That way, instead of ME having to click off each squad invite, that SL would get a simple message stating that player x is playing solo. Now that is a fix I would love to see.

[EarlyDawn]

Merit Commendations aren't just for show. If you want the Elite Abilities (Beyond Battle Rank 20) when they come out, you'll have to have invested the approperate time into the respective commendation to give your character access. Such abilities that have already been announced are

- Full barrel rolling ability for pilots
- Air-to-air missles for the mosquito
- Countermeasures for aircraft (Counter-Counter measures are also in the works)
- Second pistol slot for Infiltrators.

[Yerster]

A new feature is being implemented called Proximity Squad formation. This feature will simplify the squad formation process by sending an invite to un-squadded players within a certain radius of the player who initiates the command.

i hope thay make it so you can turn this off so you dont get spamed with squad invites if you do not wont to.

[jsloan31]

Originally Posted by EarlyDawn

Such abilities that have already been announced are

- Full barrel rolling ability for pilots
- Air-to-air missles for the mosquito
- Countermeasures for aircraft (Counter-Counter measures are also in the works)
- Second pistol slot for Infiltrators.

Oh, freaking awesome!

[BUGGER]

NO one said this, but I really like the second chat window. Yes it will block another section of the screen, but alteast you can be more oroganized by squad/platoon/outfit chats and just normal hillbillie chat. I really like that option.

[Onizuka-GTO]

It doesn't say anything about bug fixes, and balancing impliments.

i wonder why?