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During the holidays they've been putting the various anniversary bundles on sale. For the next two days the 5th, 6th, and 7th year anniversary bundles are 40% off and the 8-10th will be on sale in a week or something (they did 1-4th a week back). The 5th and 6th year bundles have implants but not Perfect implants so they're generally lower value. 7th year had perfect implants that unlock for your whole account.
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Double XP for all during December 22nd-26th. The 8, 9, and 10 year anniversary bundles are 40% off this weekend (making them 1080, 2160, 4320 DBC for the different tiers). The 8th year had Endeavor variants of four NS guns that are all pretty good. The endeavor underboss feels like it handles better than the actual one even though it's just graphics changes. I like the HA armor in the nine year and the treasured version of some of the popular LMGs. The tenth anniversary box isn't great but it does have Fafnir variants of the MBT AP guns which are something to work on if you already Auraxed the AP main cannon. I think I'd only done it on the Vanguard, but the Fafnir one looks pretty cool with chains on it. The LA armor you get from that bundle is hit or miss depending on the faction. I love the NSO one but the others not so much.
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They also posted a dev update, though I wasn't clear on when the Sunderer changes would be going in other than "some time in 2024."
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Oh yeah that looks positive: https://www.planetside2.com/news/dev-letter-dec-2023 I do hate how sometimes sunderers get popped nearly instantly in low pop when there aren't enough dudes to defend it as well as attack. I think the only thing that concerns me in their post is the gate shield diffuser temporarily disabling gates, as it could make amp stations more vulnerable. Then again, you can still park a sundy against a gate and people can just get enter the vehicle to get inside, and that hasn't changed in forever, so it probably doesn't matter.
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They've got triple XP for members this weekend, Dec. 29th- Jan. 1st. The Auraximas event directive ends on Jan 1st as well so it's worth a shot if you want some of the stuff. It's pretty easy to get the Ice Dragon camo and title and banner and frame if you've already got resupply and healing ribbons since they're counting retroactively. The other easy to do ones are tour guide, taking a trip with a passenger, Acts of Kindness which is just resses or sunderer spawn xp, operation snow fort, which is dumping cortium into silos in contention areas, snow-man slaughter which is easy but a little tedious to find the snowmen. Honestly none of the directives are too bad this year, I skipped around and did different ones on different characters, but I mostly skipped the one where you run people over because while that's fun I don't usually set out to do that normally.
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My new favorite PS2 youtube channel is chinoYochino who has a really good comedy takes on PS2 stuff channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDJehCsfG0
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Rare sighting!
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There's a January 2024 guide to running PS2 on linux if your beard is grey enough. https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/18xzh1m/planetside_2_on_linux_with_recursion_stat_tracker/
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2024 year of the planetmen. Someone tell CM Mithril because he dated this post wrong. https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/january-17-2023-pc-update.262259/ quote:Game servers will go down for our scheduled pc update tomorrow @ 6am pt / 3pm ct. for a 3hr downtime window.
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The patch was supposed to fix squad beacon particles not cleaning themselves up but it didn't work so they're still sticking on the map sometimes even when the beacon itself is destroyed (it will look like the beam is just coming out of the ground). The other bug in the patch is that when burst firing your gun does a little twitchy animation thing when you stop firing and it's annoying but every gun seems to be doing it. The conduit base changes seem fine so far, I still don't love it but it's a different mechanic and a lot of bases that used to be CTC are just back to normal. They did some map updates but sometimes streams or rivers show up as a weird grid of squares on the map. So, there are a few bugs but nothing show stopping. I've been playing Rexxed again a bit, and I finally got off my rear end and finished the last 200 kills with the NS-11C to get the Eclipse aurax carbine. It's pretty good! It has a heat mechanic like a lot of VS weapons but it also gets Unstable ammo or Soft point as its ammunition types so it's a solid gun for playing as LA. Like all the carbines it also has an impulse UBGL (if you don't equip any of the other rail items) which is good for distance drifting or doing some long distance impulse skiing.
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I like the conduit changes. In the old system, I could never figure out where to take the flag. It was super confusing for casuals.
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The new one's a little weird, too. You take the flag to the conduit, like the old one, but that just lets you turn it into a capture point to start the four minute timer. Further flag caps reduce the timer by 45 or 50 seconds or something, so it can turn over the bases quickly, but I see a lot of people walking away from the conduit because its capture time is sloooooow. I do think I like it better than constant flag runs, though. Anyway, hotfix tomorrow. Some issues should've been higher priority imo, but at least they're acknowledging things and working on them: https://www.planetside2.com/patch-notes/jan-25-pc-hotfix-2024 quote:JAN. 25, 2024 - PC HOTFIX
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Rexxed posted:The new one's a little weird, too. You take the flag to the conduit, like the old one, but that just lets you turn it into a capture point to start the four minute timer. Further flag caps reduce the timer by 45 or 50 seconds or something, so it can turn over the bases quickly, but I see a lot of people walking away from the conduit because its capture time is sloooooow. I do think I like it better than constant flag runs, though. What kinda shake are we talking in the "Single shot camera shake / recoil bug introduced in previous patch" patch line still to be fixed? I'm a big LMG user and SMG user so I haven't really noticed this one.
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When you let up on the trigger and hit it again (burst firing, but like manually, not with a burst gun) the gun will do a weird partial animation thing. I'm not sure if it throws off your aim, but it makes the screen shake a little like a flinch and is distracting. It's very quick but when you're trying to get that aim down on someone's head and your screen is doing a thing it can be very annoying. Most guns will do it but if you're a LA and use the rocklet launcher it will be pretty noticeable.
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Today's hotfix broke some stuff on Cobalt and Miller so they took them down for emergency maintenance but I haven't logged in to see how Emerald is yet. Hopefully it's fine. The dev team published a dev letter that talks about some of the commentary about the upcoming sunderer rework. Mostly it addresses the commentary that people didn't want to lose the rep bus ability for a repair cargo deployable since that's less flexible than a rep bus. I think their counterpoints are good, which is that it will make the sunderer driver have to choose more carefully about where they drop a rep cargo but also sunderers will be much harder to kill so the vehicle itself will survive better without being in a group of rep busses, I guess. They also talk about having a dev dedicated to working on their anti-cheat so let's hope that that improves, even if they can't give details. https://www.planetside2.com/news/dev-letter-jan-2024 quote:January 2024
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Today there's a Lunar New Year sale with the bundles they've released for those before as well as a new one for $10 (899 DBC with membership) with a Lunar Dragon banner, decal, banner frame, 1 day xp boost, and helmet. The helmet is a little silly but fun. There's also a feedback survey in the launcher. When I did mine it was basically a 1-10 "would you recommend the game to friends" and then an open ended question about why or why not. Folks are using it to complain about stuff which is fair, I guess. Emerald is still good on population since more outfits moved from Connery. After outfit wars, recursion and gobs and some other outfits stopped exclusively playing NC and as a result there's been a lot more variation from night to night in who is the most dangerous faction.
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Patch tomorrow for a rebalance on construction base pulled vehicles (half nanite cost, seems fair), and a valentine's event:quote:FEB. 14, 2024 - VALENTINE'S DAY UPDATE (PC UPDATE) They included the event directive stuff as a table on the website and I couldn't figure out how to paste it into a bbcode code block so I just took a screenshot.
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Also in "what the hell is going on" news, the Planetside IP was bought by a shell company called Bay Tree Tower from E7 (or DBG) for 5.9 million dollars. No idea what that means for the future of the game. DBG had layoffs from the DCUO team. May be unrelated, who knows. https://www.gameinformer.com/2024/02/13/dc-universe-online-developer-and-publisher-suffer-layoffs This reddit post has some info and further down in the thread there's a link to what was sold: https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/1aqdun9/shell_company_bay_tree_tower_limited_is_buyer_of/ quote:Titles include:
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Bay Tree Tower... What has Smedley been up to these last few years?
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One theory about the sale was that they were rolling planetside into being entirely under Rogue Planet Games but I don't know why there'd be a shell company involved. Also, it's still using their Daybreak Cash payment system so there's a lot of unknowns. I kind of hope whoever bought it plans to keep the game running while using the IP for a Planetside 3 but it's impossible to say. Today's patch is resetting people's keybinds, but the originals get backed up. It's part of the vehicle keybind changes in preparation for the sunderer patch that's coming soon. That patch will add deployables to sunderers as cargo, so they needed a separate keybind for drivers I guess to be able to select things in addition to hitting F or whatever to use them. In today's patch they changed the InputProfile_User.xml file and added InputProfile_User0000.xml (same folder as your UserOptions.ini) to use a new version (5 instead of 3) and left the old keybinds into an InputProfile_User.xml file. If you launch before backing up you'll have to close the client and copy your old settings into the new file, change 3 to 5 and edit one specific section. I read the details in this reddit post and I'll quote it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/1aqv26q/if_you_lost_your_keybinds_after_the_recent_patch/ quote:In case anyone lost their keybinds after the new updates: your keybinds weren't lost. In the same folder as UserOptions.ini, there's two other files, InputProfile_User.xml and InputProfile_User0000.xml. The one without the 0s contains your old keybinds. The file with to 0s might not exist if you haven't started the game yet. To keep using these keybinds, do the following: edit: the instructions above have been simplified. If you just change the version number for your original input config and launch with it, the client will then add the appropriate new binds for vehicles, no need to do so manually. Also your old keybinds are in the original file, the new ones were in the 0000 file, it should be obvious due to the 3 or 5 at the top (old keybinds 3, new ones 5). You can overwrite the 5 file with the contents of the 3 file and it will fix itself as long as the 5 is in there. Rexxed fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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Here's the info on the current event. It's basically the same as last year's Valentine's day as far as I can remember, but with new rewards. I forgot to grab a screenshot of the first tier directives and there's some kind of connection issue that's keeping me from loading a character in on Connery where I haven't been able to play for two days, so I can't grab one right now, but it only takes 2 completions and they're all cumulative.   I had completed it here but the final tier of "And I'd Walk 500 More" is 2000m.  I didn't get the tooltip for the sixth one but it's just to complete the below missions: There's 6 missions available on sanctuary and you get two every 12 hours but can only complete each one once. You also only need to do 5 to get the event directive complete so if you want to skip one you can, but it will continue to be offered after the others are done. Here's the six missions: Facilitator Campner (top floor of Sanc) wants you to go to a specific location on any continent that's open. You can just fly there and eject onto it, nothing special. Representative Nalla (main deck of Sanc) wants you to drive a ground vehicle 10,000m. There's a bug where the Chimera doesn't count. Representative Ayla (bottom floor of Sanc) wants you to mine 10,000 Cortium. Real easy at a warpgate, all ANTs hold 10k now. Praetor Umatherin (VS embassy) wants you to heal or res 60 times. Not bad during prime time but awful on off-hours since healing doesn't always give an XP tick. Field Officer Knightly (TR embassy) wants you to kill 6 people as a vehicle gunner. You can kill base turrets or even things like mines on the road which seem to count. You have to be a gunner so it has to be a multi person vehicle. Assists seem to count. Warden Hadley (NC embassy) wants you to repair or resupply 60 times. It's pretty easy to finish up, the 60 heals/revives was the worst part so far. There's also a new valentine's bundle in the shop but it's all cosmetics, no weapons, so the price seems pretty high to not include a gun. The helmet isn't bad, but I'm not sure it's a $30+ item, that one month heroic boost seems to be doing a lot of work for that price:   
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They're doing a President's Day sale, 40% off Vehicle Gear (cosmetics). It just started and will go for four days (through Wednesday). I also figured out my network issues, it wasn't DBG, it was a bad cable.
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They're doing a hotfix today: https://twitter.com/planetside2/status/1760474998891016232 Seems to mostly be bugs with the valentine's event stuff. I reported the Chimera one, so it's cool that they're fixing it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/1axcekz/feb_22_2024_pc_hotfix_bug_report_megathread/ quote:Bug Fixes
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The hotfix also lowered the Love Bomber Bundle (one decal, one camo, one helmet, one month heroic boost) from $35 to $13.99 which is a lot more reasonable but still kind of sucks since there's no guns.
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They're doing a patch tomorrow. Mostly St. Patrick's day stuff and some bug fixes but the patch notes talk about the upcoming Sunderer changes and also reducing the amount that Oshur shows up in continent rotation since revamping it would be too much dev time right now. https://www.planetside2.com/patch-notes/mar-7-patch-notes-2024 quote:MARCH 7, 2024 - PC UPDATE
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The patch introduced a couple of bugs. There's some invisible vehicles, vehicles with weird behavior (the turret won't appear to turn but they will be shooting you) and some issues with turrets, both base and vehicle. I took a ride in a bastion turret last night and it made me kind of queasy since you had to look upside down to do anything. Trying to look "up" or "down" beyond the top and bottom of its rotation would just spin you around. You could also shoot through the invisible bastion body (although the hardpoints would block shots). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erpHf1RdBtg I'm not sure what they changed to cause this, the extra turret rotation is an advantage but the view and being able to shoot anything is bad. Also, invisible vehicles is pretty uncool. They say there's a hotfix coming but who knows when, I'd imagine next week at this point since there's been no announcement about one today.
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New owners (probably?) transferred the DNS off DBG hosting last night and it's affecting the website and logins. Workaround for now is to edit your hosts file to include: 64.37.174.148 lvspsn-liv-l01.planetside2.com and then do a ipconfig /flushdns in a command prompt. I assume the dns changes will propagate over the weekend but in the meantime the population is a little low since a lot of folks just open the launcher and try to play and then get a G99 (which leads to an expired domain or one complaining about the security cert being invalid).
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DNS should propogate within 60 minutes unless they're doing something very odd.
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Ynglaur posted:DNS should propogate within 60 minutes unless they're doing something very odd. Some folks are getting redirected to a namecheap site saying they're waiting on icann verification or something. Someone probably hosed up and then hosed off for the weekend. Much like the issues with Thursday's patch which are going to be looked into next week, so we get weird broken turrets this weekend. I had a weird one last night which seems to be indicative of the patch bugs (many people have these weird issues pulling from the warpgate). I pulled a harasser at the warpgate from the map screen. I appeared at the warpgate by the terminal, my harasser was invisible and sitting on the vehicle pad. I ran out to it and hit E to get in. I was then still apparently infantry but could move at the speed of a harasser. I was just trying to do Message Courier so I decided to try again to get a real harasser and since there was no "getting out" of myself, I redeployed and walked to the vterm to get another harasser, but that was a weird one.
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Supposedly the invisible vehicles and bugged turrets were hotfixed today: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/march-12-2024-pc-hotfix.262515/#post-3598599 quote:We released a client side hotfix this morning to address some issues from our patch last week. We'll see what's fixed when I log in, I guess.
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So yeah that does seem to have fixed the weird vehicle and turret bugs. There's no really broken bugs at the moment, just stuff that's been around forever like pulling vehicles from the map screen being hit or miss depending on whether terminals got hacked before a base flip.
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Server pop has been a little lower the last couple of weeks. I think everyone's trying Helldivers 2 but who knows! There's always prime time alerts and queues on Emerald, though. https://wt.honu.pw/ is a good site to track alerts and open continents as well as players online. https://ps2alerts.com/ still works too but I find the honu one to be a little more reliable. Update tomorrow, but no pictures of the cosmetic items yet, just this little graphic from the update article (which shows maybe a groucho marx cosmetic for NSO):  https://www.planetside2.com/patch-notes/mar-28-patch-notes-2024 quote:MARCH 28, 2024 - PC UPDATE
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The patch has one little bug where the new puzzler bundle is listed in the store at 10 certs or 1 DBC but just errors when you try to buy it (since it doesn't unlock for 3 1/2 days). It does let you get a look at the items included as previews, though, since they didn't include much information. The Puzzler bundle is essentially a riddler knockoff which is Clown Horns for all vehicles, Puzzler Hairmet, Puzzler Hood Ornament, Puzzler Glass, Puzzler Camo, Puzzler Banner Frame, Puzzler Banner, Puzzler Decal.        I just took some screenshots from the preview windows, not all of which work (the banner one espeically) so it's a little jank. No real price on this bundle yet either, I'm expecting around $40. The Primed Ruby commissioner looks cool, too, similar to the Primed Amethyst from the 10 year anniversary bundle which is on the store on its own now as well. I kind of wonder if they didn't have one made up for each faction color gemstone and decide to make them different items for sale instead. One nice thing about these new pistols is that they added them to the normal Weapon directive for Sidearms, unlike most cosmetic items. They're also in Specialty under Exceptional VIII which now has 9 weapons in it but still lists its aurax reward as Coming Soon.  I should mention that they've been adding class banners, banner frames, and infantry decals for 10 certs or 1 DBC each, which is almost free. So far there's Infiltrator and Light Assault ones which look alright. They also had a set of 10 cert decal and banner for the 2023 outfit wars season with a "I was there" theme that is outfit wars sitting at a table in a room on fire, similar to the K C Green "this is fine" comic. If you haven't logged in for a while there's a few things to grab in the depot for certs. 
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Apparently the puzzler bundle will be 10 certs or 1 DBC when it's available in 3 days (CM Mithril mentioned it on the reddit bug reporting thread for the patch) so it's intended to cost that much but just not available yet. Pretty good, really, must be an effort to get folks to log in.
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The April Fool's stuff is live including double XP for all through the 4th. Here's the VS version of the puzzler camo:  The Puzzler Bundle it comes from is 1 DBC or 10 certs and only available for 10 days! If you haven't played in a while you may want to hop in just to pick it up this week. It's all cosmetics but there's a lot.
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There's about three days left to pick up the cheap Puzzler Bundle (1 DBC or 10 certs)!
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thanks for the heads up on the puzzler bundle Rexxed! being playing again from time to time. seems like things are pretty lowpop outside of primetime (just judging by the unstable warpgates). Is Koltyr still in the rotation ? I'd love to play on that continent sometime but surprised I've never seen it in rotation (I usually play around like 10AM or 11PM US Central time) . I got the impression it's only for early morning though.
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cmdrk posted:thanks for the heads up on the puzzler bundle Rexxed! They only had Koltyr active for a few months in 2021 (I think?). Some servers were low pop enough to be stuck on Koltyr for long periods of time and folks got mad so they took it out entirely. They've talked about reworking it so it comes back in but for now it seems like it's just going to be normal continents where at very low pop there's just three lanes to the central base, medium-low pop the outside ring is also open, and if there's a low pop 45 minute alert (they happen after a continent is open 4-5 hours) it will do three lanes to the middle but there's a widening part way there and multiple middle bases open. The main change in rotation is going to be that they're going to change it from a strict rotation to a weighted system where the four popular continents are opened a similar amount of time and Oshur is on a lower priority to open because folks don't want to see it very much. That's slated for the next content patch which also includes some sunderer reworks to make them a little tankier when deployed but less powerful as a rep sundy armor column. The repair module will be a thing you deploy instead of an always on AOE.
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