News: PTS Patch OCT 03

[Hamma]

PTS has been updated:

Originally Posted by Luperza

The Public Test Server will come down for maintenance at 12:00 PM PDT for an update.

Test Patch Notes
Gameplay:

• The game client should no longer crash upon exit.
• Reinforcement spawn locations are now more likely to show up for front line battles.
• Instant Action now has a higher chance of choosing a location on the player's current continent.
• Warp Gates owners have been rotated for the World Domination Series
• Standard Spawn Options: Increased standard spawn options to include
  • Nearest Small outpost by lattice links
  • Nearest Large outpost by lattice links
  • This should alleviate situations where pilots and others are downed more than one region away from a friendly territory and are stuck with no good spawn options. This change will offer the nearest small outpost and nearest large outpost in addition to the nearest major facility that is already available. This should allow those players to either join the nearest front or fall back to spawn another vehicle at a larger facility. Please note that the distance is by lattice-links, not as the crow flies.

Depot:

• Fixed a bug with purchasing boosts while in the VR training zone.

There's some additional in depth analysis in this Reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/c...0210_loads_of/

[GreyFrog]

I'm glad they are looking at changes to respawn options.

[maradine]

Originally Posted by Hamma

• The game client should no longer crash upon exit.

Dear. Sweet. Zombie. Jesus.

[Belhade]

Originally Posted by maradine

Dear. Sweet. Zombie. Jesus.

I don't know how many times I've woken up in the morning and turned on my monitor, only to find the "Planetside.exe has crashed" error which has been sitting there for seven hours while I slept.

[DredVS]

Does the crash fix include the alt-tab crash as well?

[Calista]

Sounds good. I'll have to go check this out. In fact, the PTS client is the only one I have loaded on my machine right now. I just mess around on the test server until things improve on the real game servers.