Full buildnotes are up :)

[Vash]

For those that cant access the beta site or dont have their CD's yet...

(loooooooong)

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Upcoming Megapatch

1) Increased turret rotation (tracking speed) for the following vehicular turrets:
- (slight increase) Magrider, Prowler (main gun), Vanguard, Sunderer
- (medium increase) Prowler (12mm), Enforcer, Marauder, Thresher, Deliverer, Galaxy
- (fast increase) Harasser

2) ALL MAPS HAVE BEEN REVISED. Some maps have had facilities actually added to them, many have new bunkers and towers, and trees have been moved to create more chokepoints. You should find many more "battle-worthy" areas on the various maps now.

3) Fixed Pulsar. (Bad data was causing it to be gimped. No longer.)

4) A few AMS cloak bubble exploits were sealed up.

5) You now (properly) get the "Hit K to cloak" message when you first don an Infiltration Suit.

6) Fixed a bug where differing Empires could get into the same vehicle if it had been jacked.

7) The exploit of starting a hack, manipulating your inventory, and then being able to move away from the control console with the hack still in progress has been fixed.

8) Strikers will no longer home in on a cloaked AMS.

9) You can no longer kill other players in the VR Driving Area with splash damage.

10) Character statistics are no longer shared between your account's characters. They are now (properly) individual between your characters.

11) Capture vs. Capture Assist statistics: If you are the hacker of a facility, or in the squad which has that hacker in it, and you capture the facility successfully, you get a "Capture" stat. If you get xp for the capture any other way, then you get a "Capture Assist" stat.

12) You now get a stat for hacking a Tower. (We're not saying it's a useful stat...but you get one.

13) We now properly track ANT kill stats.

14) You should no longer lose your mouse cursor after using chat on the map screen.

15) If you get to zero stamina, you now have to rest up until you get 20 points of stamina before you can run again. (Previously, you only had to get one point of stamina back.) We also now have "panting" fatigue sounds to help you understand when you have hit zero stamina during a battle.

16) Different classes of armor now reduce more damage. For instance, tanks now have an armor value that reduces incoming AP damage directly, which makes small-arms fire against tanks very ineffective (or even completely ineffective with some weapons).

The net result is that tanks should be much more fearsome now and anti-tank weaponry (and other tanks) will be critical to have to stop the advance of other tanks. More details below:

Best absorption (deflection)
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AMS
Magrider
Prowler
Vanguard
Sunderer

Medium absorption (deflection)
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Deliverer
Galaxy
Lightning

Lightest absorption (deflection)
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ANT
Enforcer
Marauder
MAX
Reaver
Thresher

No absorption (deflection)
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Basilisk
Harasser
Mosquito
Wraith

Note: It's important to note in the above that this is for soldier assault weaponry (machine guns, shotguns, laser rifles).

Dedicated anti-vehicular weaponry still inflict full damage, as do vehicular machine guns (and MAX weapon systems).

17) Enforcer, Marauder, and Thresher received 25% armor increases. Harasser received a 20% armor increase.

18) 75mm shell received slight increase in damage versus soldiers.

19) Reduced AP damage from pistols by roughly 50%. Pistols can still use AP ammo, but they inflict much less damage than their rifle counterparts. NOTE: This is BEFORE the absorption system (above) kicks in...so pistols are pretty ineffective against tanks now.

20) ATI8500 cards should now see textures correctly.

21) The map issue with ATI9000-series cards is now resolved.

22) Vehicles now (properly) fall to the ground when a driver leaves it. (No more "propped up in the air" AMSs and such.)

23) Magriders and Threshers now do collision damage to other players.

24) Light vehicles will now suffer damage when ramming other dynamic objects (players and vehicles) while heavy vehicles will suffer very little such damage.

25) The AMS can no longer be deployed on a vehicle pad.

26) You shouldn't be able to make the Vanguard (or other vehicles) flip erratically end over end.

27) You no longer take damage when braking while driving a vehicle.

28) Thresher and Magrider now properly drive out of a Tech Plant tunnel.

29) AMSs can no longer be deployed while underwater.

30) Female avatars are now visible when bailing out of an air vehicle.

31) You can now (properly) kick other players out of a Galaxy via the passenger listing on your vehicle properties.

32) You can no longer bail out of a vehicle and then immediately mount back into it.

33) Moved inertia down on tanks so they don't behave like boats when they hit bumps.

34) Fixed chat shortcuts. They are now:
- /l = Local Chat (open chat heard by players in the area)
- /b = Broadcast Chat (only heard in friendly SOIs)
- /s = Squad chat (must belong to a Squad)
- /o = Outfit chat (must belong to an Outfit)
- /c = Command chat (CR3 and above only)

35) Zone population limits are now in place. They are currently set very high, so you won't see them in action very much. They are set high so that we can keep breaking the zones in beta to determine where we can improve our code. But in Release, these caps will be hard limits to the number of players that can be in a zone. There's a hard upper limit on total population, but there are also Empire-specific limits in place to prevent "squatter locking" of continents where you just pile in lots of people and win because no one else can get there. Those Empire-specific limits are shown on the map interface and are easy to understand.

36) Spitfires and Mines will no longer cause grief to the Combat Engineer who laid them. These are automated systems and not under the control of the CE, so they don't cause grief.

37) The TRMAX Burster no longer explodes when hitting non-aircraft targets. It does kinetic damage instead (less damage) when hitting non-aircraft targets.

38) You can no longer "quick-switch" firing modes in the Reaver to get 250 rockets.

39) Decimator can no longer be fired in guided mode by switching firing modes quickly.

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[Vash]

40) Relaxed the tolerances for slope when deploying ACE items.

41) GeForce cards got a large number of graphics fixes. (NOTE: You *can* use the 43.45 drivers. These are the latest on nVidia's site and they fix many issues even without these code changes. However, those drivers are technically Beta drivers since the Windows Hardware Quality Lab has not yet authorized them...so only use them if you're comfortable with nVidia's quality check.)

42) Massive front-end appearance improvements. All the front-end (server select, character select, etc.) screens are visually improved.

43) Shadows now work on Matrox Parahelia cards (which have great performance with PlanetSide, by the way, now that they upgraded the card drivers...make sure to get latest from their site).

44) You now get grief points for running over friendly Spitfires.

45) The grief system has been overhauled. It should be much more difficult to grief accidentally. You'll still be warned that you hit a friendly, but if you don't "grief" very often, your grief points will remain small. We've also increased the grief dissipation rate and we've capped the maximum amount of grief you can get from any one instance. Therefore, if you're a Griefer and dedicated to causing harm, you will eventually go into weapons lock or get your account banned. But if you are just playing normally, and you watch to avoid friendly harm, you should be just fine. Daily dissipation will take care of most of the points you accrue each day if you are an "accidental griefer".

46) Lancer: Increased ammo clip to six shots. Increased ammo box to six shots.

47) VS MAX Comet: Increased damage versus armor. Slight increase in damage versus soldiers. Slight increase to damge potential at edge of the blast.

48) VS MAX Starfire: Increased to six shots. (Still to come: Improvements in the overall tracking mechanism for this config.)

49) Battleplans: If you have Command Rank 3 or above, and you are the squad leader, you can draw battleplans on your overhead map view that will be automatically transmitted to all players in your squad. If you're CR3 or above, you can access the draw, text, and eraser tools in the "Battleplans" menu on the overhead map (which doesn't appear unless you're the appropriate rank).

50) Empire incentive mechanisms are now turned on. They track the active time each player spends for each Empire in the game as a means of determining the "evenness" of sides. If the active time of an Empire is dramatically higher or lower than other empires, then the "underdog" empires may receive xp bonuses, while the outnumbering empire receives minor penalties. Eventually, if things get too out of whack, the outnumbering empires will actually suffer maximum health penalties to offset some of their huge imbalancing numbers. NOTE: We will eventually allow defections to other Empires so that players can voluntarily balance the Empire sides. That feature is not yet available.

51) Grenades that directly hit another player will now also splash damage other players around that player. (Previously, a bug prevented splash damage to other players if a player was impacted by the grenade directly.)

52) Greatly reduced the ability of terrain to damage vehicles as they move across it. You can still take damage from big impacts, but the little nicks and scrapes should no longer ding away at your ground vehicles.

53) You can no longer bail out of the HART shuttle, manned turrets, or implant terminals.

54) The bailout effect is properly centered on the player now.

55) The zoom scope effect now scales correctly at different resolutions.

56) Some weapons are modified so that they take longer for the CoF to expand fully (thus allowing bursts of more accurate shots before the cone expands). Those weapons are:
- Cycler (medium burst before recoil kicks in)
- Gauss Rifle (very short burst before recoil kicks in)
- Pulsar (long burst before recoil kicks in)
- Chaingun (longest burst before recoil kicks in...but it does kick in now)

57) Increased armor damage a bit for Reaver Rockets and Rocklet Rifle.

58) Slight increase in damage versus armor for the 20mm machine gun.

59) You can now damage spawn tubes WITHOUT opening the door. Previously, you couldn't just shoot the door...you had to open the door and blast the back of the tube. Obviously, that's incorrect behavior and it has been corrected now.

60) We have fixed the "disappearing map icons" problem with the overhead map.

61) Network interpolation for projectiles has been improved. You should see more accurate state on those projectiles now.

62) The tech plant garage door now opens properly again when approached from outside.

63) If you are driving a ground vehicle which uses WASD for directional control and mouselook for swinging your view, you can now recenter your view to straight forward by hitting ALT+R (or whatever you map "Reset Controls" to on your keymapping).

(Example vehicles: Lightning, Basilisk, Vanguard.)

64) If you are zoomed in, you can now hit ESCAPE to back out to 1X zoom level (normal zoom level).

65) MAX arms no longer stick out of the sides of drop pods.

66) You can no longer use the afterburner on an air vehicle while under grief lock.

67) You can now INSTANTLY UNLEARN a certification, once per 24-hour period. The points will be immediately available for use once you unlearn the chosen certification.

68) Portal errors should be a thing of the past and you should no longer have flickers of "seeing through the world" when passing through doors and into new rooms.

69) You will no longer see weapon effects or explosions within an AMS cloak bubble when you are outside that bubble. Conversely, you won't see any explosions or weapon effects *outside* the bubble if you are *inside* of it. This completes the illusion of nullity on both sides.

70) The Lasher will no longer lash friendly targets. If fired near a friendly, it will simply ignore them. Direct hits will still harm friendlies, however.

71) The control points in Towers have been moved to either the third or fourth floor (depending on the type of Tower). This will move fights vertically through the Tower instead of having the entire fight be centered in the basement of each Tower.

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Megapatch indeed

[�io]

[Nubi]

OFN?

Oh fucking no?

what's wrong with it? from what I read it looked like a good patch

[�io]

OFN = Old fucking news

This has been posted already, and before the flames come on i was (as i am always) just kidding around.

[Vash]

OFN? Bite me Dio


In other news, no grief from deployables makes my day... almost. You ruined it for me dio! l33t whore indeed


edit: if anyone has a junk account they can give me with access to the beta site, I'd appreciate it
It seems SOE has no intention on letting my beta account view it

[�io]

[Zarparchior]

Thankee Vash... But wasn't this already done today - which happens to be in the wrong forum as well?

http://www.planetside-universe.com/f...&threadid=6706

[Dharkbayne]

Dio, how do you make the D with a line thru it on a U.S. Keyboard?

[Vash]

Sorry Zarp, I was unaware of a forum dedicated to build notes here on PSU


Great card Dio, thanks much

[Seer]

#71 wasn't on the other thread. So it's new!

[Vash]

Yes! I am teh winnar! Compare your lives to mine then kill yourselves!


erm... can someone lock this thread? hehe

[Harps]

to make that D isnt it like hold alt then some nubmers on the keypad

[Mazuli]

It's not old news. It was just posted today.

[Tieom]

Huh... I thought OFN stood for 'only for noobs'.
I like that better than old fucking news.
Ah well.