News: Esamir Coming and Character Wipe

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/n...-wipe-2881.htm

Originally Posted by Higby

Hey all -

As some of you have fondly noted, the cost for certain certs in the game are a bit out of whack right now. We're in the middle of a big certification rebalance which will be up on beta with next week's push. This will affect cert prices as well as cert point accumulation rates.

With tonight's patch we will be re-enabling passive cert point gain and for the next week we will be cranking the rate of the gain up quite a bit. We're doing this so that we can test a lot of the higher level certs which are impossible to acquire right now with the current costs and cert point acquisition rates. I want to be clear that this weeks passive cert point rate is ABSOLUTELY NOT indicative of our final rate, it's juiced way up.

Now for the painful part - with next week's patch and certification point rebalance we will be doing a character wipe. Next week's patch is going to be really exciting, we'll be adding Esamir to the game as well as ungating almost all of the remaining certs and solidifying cert point costs across the board. So this week, enjoy the fast cert point gain, try out lots of certs and let us know what works well, what works too well, and what doesn't work at all.

Looking forward to seeing your feedback and finally getting that Nanoweave armor...

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mh

Originally Posted by Higby

1 - pretty fast, enough to make some serious progress through the cert tree.

2 - with next week's patch the cert accumulation rates will be balanced to our intended final values. They will continue to be tuned as necessary beyond that.

[BorisBlade]

They gonna be upping auraxium gains too so we can test all the vehicle weapons too? So many of them havent ever worked right, it would be nice to see if they are working yet or not without having to waste absurd amounts of the resource just to see if its fixed or not.

[Lonehunter]

F-awesome!

I was wondering if we would actually test the things that are impossible to unlock with our time frame and cert gain.

[Geist]

Let me test all the high level certs at the cost of a character wipe? Fine with me.

[Hamma]

More on the cert point rate:

Originally Posted by Higby

1 - pretty fast, enough to make some serious progress through the cert tree.

2 - with next week's patch the cert accumulation rates will be balanced to our intended final values. They will continue to be tuned as necessary beyond that.

[Lonehunter]

So by next week the cert costs and passive gain will be balanced, Esamir released, and a character wipe.

So the super fast cert regen is only for the weekend? Must be pretty insanely fast to be able to acquire stuff that is 500+ cert points

[getembees]

Yessssssssssssssss!!!! Need that Gal spawn cert ASAP!

[Hamma]

Buffed cert gain for a week until next patch i believe.

[SGT Apone]

Nice excellent news

[SixShooter]

Cool, this next week should be fun.

[capiqu]

WE all gonna get a raise? hot diggity dog havent seen one of those since 2008.

[Crator]

Originally Posted by capiqu

WE all gonna get a raise? hot diggity dog havent seen one of those since 2008.

Yeah, well, they trickle paid us for the last week or so. Time for back pay!

[NewSith]

And there was me hoping to get my g-ams. Only got 75 certs including 15 I wasted on Laser Dot and Reflex...

[Hyncharas]

This will sound annoying, but it might be pointless purchasing anything from cert points you earn if they're going to perform a character wipe whenever there's a major change, as right now, that's every couple of weeks!

Hopefully there will be some measure of normality the closer we get to full launch status.

[ringring]

It's good but is only 1 week of testing of the advanced certs enough? I'd say not.