News: Interesting stuff from Chinaside

[Bonius]

Out of curiosity; How do you enable HD-quality on that video? There's an outlook message popping at 02:47 that needs decyphering.

EDIT: And another one at 02:56

EDIT: Hell they're all over the place!

[xXGumpXX]

Originally Posted by bullet

You should just go ahead and ignore Gump. All of his posts are so overly negative and troll-istic (hell yeah I made that up). He has so much hate towards PS2 and he hasn't even played it yet. Go view his past posts, they're all hate-filled with comparisons to BF3/CoD and then stating how PS1 was the epitome of gaming.

lol you are such a prat , i don't have any hate towards planetside 2 at all and infact i think it looks amazing and i cannot wait to play it , all i'm saying is keep it original , planetside is planetside and planetside is not battlefield 3

[Electrofreak]

Originally Posted by Bonius

Out of curiosity; How do you enable HD-quality on that video? There's an outlook message popping at 02:47 that needs decyphering.

EDIT: And another one at 02:56

EDIT: Hell they're all over the place!

To enable HD, click the Chinese text between the volume slider and the wrench, and pick the left-most option button. No, I can't read Chinese, but I know they read right to left, and the default option was all the way to the right, so it made sense that HD would be on the left.

I decided to go ahead and freeze the screen at each of these, transcribe them, screenshot them, and crop them. If anyone really wants I can have the images hosted. Good luck figuring out what the VS MAX one says though!

So here are the Exchange notifications that pop up during the video, preceded by the point where they occur:

0:46
Release Note Bot
rgates [Audio] [Main] CL#49748 Replaced the Mosquito...

1:14
Halsey, Shad
Food is downstairs

1:16
Release Note Bot
jjonas [Art] [Main] CL#49783 flora alpha clump masks a...

1:21
Release Note Bot
jjonas [Art] [Main] CL#49784 ocean rock addition to ind...

1:41
Release Note Bot
*Name obscured* [Design] [Main] All AOE Heal abilities now accoun...

1:43
*Sender's name obscured*
Re: Coffee?

1:49
*Sender's name obscured*
Staying Late? Want Dinner?

2:01
****@soe.sony.com
Planetside2 - Main Server Deployment - *tops of numbers appearing to be 0.0.1357.5015*

2:06
Release Note Bot
*name cut off* [Design] [Main] VS MAX *text cut off*

2:36
Release Note Bot
apatel [Code] [Main] CL#51126 hud - facility diagram o...
https://removedurl/RL51

2:42
****@soe.sony.com
Planetside2 - Main Server Validation - #head [Art] (Dupli...
Common_Props_Biolab_IsolationTanksLarge_Lod0.dme

2:46
****@soe.sony.com
Main Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...
Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -

2:52
****@soe.sony.com
Main Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...
Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -
*Yes, this is the same as the previous*

2:56
Release Note Bot
mschade [Art] [Main] CL#51207 Added dirt particle effe...
https://removedurl/RL51

[Hamma]

[CrystalViolet]

wait, where did this come from? Some of those links look like they lead to in game assets on internal SOE servers.

[Hamma]

His e-mail is visible during parts of the video and Electro got them from the frame by frame. Removed e-mails and internal URLs from the post.

[Electrofreak]

Originally Posted by CViolet

wait, where did this come from? Some of those links look like they lead to in game assets on internal SOE servers.

Yes, they do. URLs have been removed but even so, they were only partial URLs, and I would expect SoE has security in place to prevent people doing bad things.

That said, I once... "logged"... into Westwood Studios private FTP server to get a patch that my buddy on a 56k connection couldn't download without failing.

Saw a whole bunch of uncompiled code files in there, which I did NOT touch. Downloaded the patch and left a little note telling them they needed to patch a security hole.

A couple days later they'd fixed the vulnerability.

I'm not so sure SoE would like us testing the security of their private servers though. We want happy devs that listen to us after all...

What I really hope people will come away from my post with is an understanding of how hard these guys are working. As this guy makes a scope for a rifle, emails are filtering in with asset updates, main server updates, and the 3 "casual" emails are about coffee, delivered lunch, and dinner for those staying late. Sounds like they're pushing hard to get us the game we want...!

[Skitrel]

[email protected] is already all over the internet anyway, they were all publicly known emails anyway? I tried all the urls though, they were only partial though so they didn't work, didn't need making more partial either.

Oh well.

[CrystalViolet]

Originally Posted by Electrofreak

Yes, they do. URLs have been removed but even so, they were only partial URLs, and I would expect SoE has security in place to prevent people doing bad things.

That said, I once... "logged"... into Westwood Studios private FTP server to get a patch that my buddy on a 56k connection couldn't download without failing.

Saw a whole bunch of uncompiled code files in there, which I did NOT touch. Downloaded the patch and left a little note telling them they needed to patch a security hole.

A couple days later they'd fixed the vulnerability.

I'm not so sure SoE would like us testing the security of their private servers though. We want happy devs that listen to us after all...

What I really hope people will come away from my post with is an understanding of how hard these guys are working. As this guy makes a scope for a rifle, emails are filtering in with asset updates, main server updates, and the 3 "casual" emails are about coffee, delivered lunch, and dinner for those staying late. Sounds like they're pushing hard to get us the game we want...!

ah yes, I remember the early days of the internet when a little creative URL editing could get you into places where you weren't supposed to be.

[Electrofreak]

Originally Posted by CViolet

ah yes, I remember the early days of the internet when a little creative URL editing could get you into places where you weren't supposed to be.

Hehehe, I decrypted a file that was called by their patcher, and it produced a plaintext username and password which I then used to log into their FTP server using the IP address the patcher connected to. That's what happens when you don't use proper encryption, and place your assets on the same file server that a public client connects to.

This is why I'm now an enterprise WAN Data technician.

[Bonius]

Originally Posted by Electrofreak

To enable HD, click the Chinese text between the volume slider and the wrench, and pick the left-most option button. No, I can't read Chinese, but I know they read right to left, and the default option was all the way to the right, so it made sense that HD would be on the left.

I decided to go ahead and freeze the screen at each of these, transcribe them, screenshot them, and crop them. If anyone really wants I can have the images hosted. Good luck figuring out what the VS MAX one says though!

So here are the Exchange notifications that pop up during the video, preceded by the point where they occur:

0:46
Release Note Bot
rgates [Audio] [Main] CL#49748 Replaced the Mosquito...

1:14
Halsey, Shad
Food is downstairs

1:16
Release Note Bot
jjonas [Art] [Main] CL#49783 flora alpha clump masks a...

1:21
Release Note Bot
jjonas [Art] [Main] CL#49784 ocean rock addition to ind...

1:41
Release Note Bot
*Name obscured* [Design] [Main] All AOE Heal abilities now accoun...

1:43
*Sender's name obscured*
Re: Coffee?

1:49
*Sender's name obscured*
Staying Late? Want Dinner?

2:01
****@soe.sony.com
Planetside2 - Main Server Deployment - *tops of numbers appearing to be 0.0.1357.5015*

2:06
Release Note Bot
*name cut off* [Design] [Main] VS MAX *text cut off*

2:36
Release Note Bot
apatel [Code] [Main] CL#51126 hud - facility diagram o...
https://removedurl/RL51

2:42
****@soe.sony.com
Planetside2 - Main Server Validation - #head [Art] (Dupli...
Common_Props_Biolab_IsolationTanksLarge_Lod0.dme

2:46
****@soe.sony.com
Main Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...
Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -

2:52
****@soe.sony.com
Main Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...
Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -
*Yes, this is the same as the previous*

2:56
Release Note Bot
mschade [Art] [Main] CL#51207 Added dirt particle effe...
https://removedurl/RL51

Awesome stuff Electrofreak! I completely forgot they are RTL and not LTR

So as we can see, they're in the closing phases of *something*.

****@soe.sony.com
Main Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...
Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -

This is probably a meeting schedule. "0.0.1385.5117" is obviously a release candidate, seeing as it's being deployed to the main server. In turn, that would also mean that they're having some form of consistent testing going on (especially since they're gathering everything into human readable release notes).

[Design] [Main] All AOE Heal abilities now accoun...

This is also a very interesting note; "AOE Heal" - have we heard anything about this?


Now for some theory:

At my company, the only time you continously mail people about food and coffee is when you're in the run-up phase of a big project that needs to be done before a set date. You usually don't make people work over the alotted 9 hours a day, since the effectiveness of this is highly debateable.

The art/design team is obviously pushing for something, otherwise they wouldn't be doing all these little things (dirt particle effects).

[Sirisian]

Originally Posted by Bonius

This is also a very interesting note; "AOE Heal" - have we heard anything about this?

We have a thread about this here. Basically the developers were talking about a possible AOE healing/reviving device that is thrown like a grenade. Looks like they went with it.

[Hamma]

No crazy info in it but it's interesting to see what is going on. I'm pretty sure these guys have been getting dinner for some time judging from Twitter.

[Hamma]

The video is now available on YouTube

[Coreldan]