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[Myomoto]

Looks super cool, although I kind of fear that this is going to act as a replacement for their initial idea of the quest system?

 

[Anton Sugar]

Are Alerts basically dynamic missions? If so...

 

[MrBig]

Looks super cool, although I kind of fear that this is going to act as a replacement for their initial idea of the quest system?

Nope.

 

[Gen.Grievous]

Try to take Indar on Miller hahaha. TR ghost locked it at night and defended it for about a week with epic battles until it was ghost neutralised during the night. Heck it took NC and VS to work together to get it done. Take Indar in 2 hours lol.

 

[Myomoto]

Nope.

Ah, well that's pretty cool then. Now I just hope player quests won't be drowned out by the dynamic server stuff (although I guess the Alerts are for when there ideally wouldn't be anyone online giving quests anyway).

 

[YouEnjoyMySelf]

The Alert System looks really cool. Hopefully the quest system ends up adding some sense of completion to get more people playing.

 

[razgriz417]

Looks like extra character slots are purchasable in GU6 and extra loadouts are coming later

 

[Lonestar]

purchasable for non-members? Higby seems to imply Members get the extra character spaces (which, are they really necessary? Once I've done work on one character, I don't have much desire to move over to a level 1 character, not unless there's some large GAF clan I'm missing out on.)

 

[razgriz417]

From Twitter

Matthew Higby
@mhigby
In addition to Premium Members getting 3 new character slots, players will be able to add additional character slots ala carte w/ GU06!

Matthew Higby
@mhigby
"Why new character slots? I want new loadouts!" Character slots got done faster, they're easier. Loadouts are coming.

I mainly just want to make an NC character to play around with the phoenix lol

 

[Lonestar]

Strange that character slots are "easier" than loadouts.

Loadouts should be incredibly easy. They're just lists of equipped items, saved, while Character slots get into the base user account, and which character has which purchased items (that aren't crossed over items)

 

[MrBig]

Strange that character slots are "easier" than loadouts.

Loadouts should be incredibly easy. They're just lists of equipped items, saved, while Character slots get into the base user account, and which character has which purchased items (that aren't crossed over items)

Likely tied to the loadout UI overhaul.

 

[Lonestar]

Likely tied to the loadout UI overhaul.

oh yeah, seem to remember seeing a picture of it somewhere. Anyone have that?

 

[ThreePiMatt]

That's good to hear. I'd definitely like more than three loadout slots.

 

[Woorloog]

I finally managed to patch this game (goddamn 7GB worth of patches)...
Where does EU GAF play? Which faction?

 

[mr_nothin]

Soooo GU06 tomorrow morning!

 

[Woorloog]

Another patch? I just patched this frigging thing yesterday, when can i play if i have to patch it every time i open it...
Argh!
Still need to know where i should make character, would like to play with others, non-randoms.

 

[razgriz417]

Weeee! Shotty and NC max nerfs are in!

All servers will come down for Game Update 06 beginning at 6:00 AM. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 2.5 hours. Players may note the following changes:

General Updates

Service Ribbons

• Service Ribbons are quick-to-earn achievements that are repeatable and grant a reward for completing them.
• Service Ribbons are earned by killing enemies with infantry weapons and by supporting your allies. We will be adding more ribbon types (ex: teamwork, base capture, and vehicle ribbons) in future updates.
• Players earn an experience bonus (on top of the normal ribbon experience reward) for the first few ribbons earned each day
• Weapon Ribbons = 10 kills
• Revive Ribbon = 15 revives
• Healing Ribbon = Heal 10,000 points
• Repairing Ribbon = Repair 15,000 points
• Piloting Ribbon = 20 driver assists
• Rewards for each are 250xp
• An additional 500xp if it’s receiving the daily bonus

Alerts

• This is a new, dynamic, server controlled event system. Alerts are automatically triggered and communicated to players through notifications and the
  screen.
  [*]The Alert type being introduced in this initial phase of implementation is Continent Capture. In Continent Capture, empires will need to control a specific continent within a fixed amount of time. If an empire captures all regions on the designated continent before the timer expires that empire will be declared the winner, ending the alert. If no empire captures all regions within the allotted time, all empires will receive a reward proportional to the territory control (i.e. an empire that owns 40% of the territory will earn 40% of the reward). Players do not have to be on the alert continent to receive the reward. The reward is server-wide.
  [*]While participating in the event areas players will receive a percent increase to their experience rewards.
  [*]We will be adding more alert types in future updates.
  

New Membership Benefits

• Members now have access to an additional daily sale
• Members now have access to an additional three character slots as part of their membership

Client stability improvements

New in the Depot

• Extra character slots can now be purchased from the Depot
• The new common pool NS-15M LMG has been added to the Depot
• New Mercenary Helmets for Combat Medic and Engineer

Infantry Updates

Tank Mines Will no longer arm if thrown on top of a vehicle.

All Shotguns

• Maximum damage per pellet reduced to 134 damage on all shotguns that previously did 143 damage.
• Slowed down to 700 MS, from 575 MS (now matches assault rifle equip times and not carbines).

Slug Ammunition

• Slug animation no longer lowers rate of fire when equipped.
• Now reaches minimum damage at 40 meters, reduced from 65 meters.
• Minimum and maximum damage are unchanged on semi-auto and auto shotguns. Pump-action slug ammunition had its minimum damage raised to 400 from 360.
• Iron sights and optics have been realigned to give a better sight picture.

NC Mauler S6, TR FA1 Barrage, and VS Pandora

• Rate of fire slowed down to 225 RPM.
• Short reload time slowed down to 2050 MS.
• Long reload time is faster at 3350 MS.
• Lowered vertical recoil to 1.3, from 1.5.

NC Sweeper, TR TS4 Haymaker, and VS Nova

• Rate of fire slowed down to 225 RPM.
• Short reload time slowed down to 2900 MS.
• Long reload time slowed down to 4100 MS.
• Lowered vertical recoil to 1.3, from 1.5.
• NC Piston, TR AS16 NightHawk, and VS Thanatos
• Rate of fire slowed down to 260 RPM.
• Short reload time slowed down to 2600 MS (long reload unchanged).
• Recoil recovery rate slowed down to 12 degrees per second, from 15.
• Minimum damage lowered to 50 per pellet.

NC GD-66 Claw, TR TRS-12 Uppercut, and VS Phobos VX86

• Chamber time slowed down to 600 MS.
• Recoil recovery rate slowed down to 12 degrees per second, from 15.

All NC MAX shotguns

• Extended ammunition lowered from +5 ammunition to +4.

NC Scattercannon

• Rate of fire slowed down to 180 RPM.
• Projectile speed slowed down to 300 m/s.
• Magazine capacity lowered to 6.
• Short reload time slowed down to 3800 MS.
• Long reload time slowed down to 3000 MS.

NC Mattock

• Rate of fire slowed down to 180 RPM.
• Projectile speed slowed down to 400 m/s.
• Magazine capacity lowered to 6.
• Short reload time slowed down to 3800 MS.
• Long reload time slowed down to 3000 MS.
• Spread accuracy improved and is now at 2.5 degrees.

NC Hacksaw

• Rate of fire slowed down to 209 RPM.
• Projectile speed slowed down to 300 m/s.
• Magazine capacity lowered to 6.
• Minimum damage lowered to 50 per pellet.

NC Grinder

• Rate of fire slowed down to 180 RPM.
• Projectile speed slowed down to 275 m/s.
• Magazine capacity lowered to 8.
• Short reload time slowed down to 4300 MS.
• Long reload time slowed down to 3400 MS.

Fix for the Phoenix dumb-firing if fired quickly after entering iron sights
The charge on the Lancer can now be sustained through switching to different fire modes (in/out of ironsights)

NS-11c

• Fixed weapon not working with the ammunition belt.
• Fixed reload speed being 2 seconds for both the short and long reloads. New reload times are:
• Short: 1.85 seconds
• Long: 2.35 seconds
• Fixed forward grip not being aligned with the rail.

• MAX weapons no longer have incorrect access to rail attachments in the VR zone.
• Rez icons should now properly display for combat medics over downed ally MAX units
• Sprinting while reloading a pump action shotgun should no longer cause animation issues
• Fixed animation issues with using under-barrel attachments
• MAXes should have proper access to the Ammo Storage Container Suit in VR training
• The GD-66 Claw reflex sight’s zoom functionality should now be working properly
• Scope overlays should no longer be removed when hit with an EMP grenade
• Claymores and Proximity Mines should be causing appropriate damage again
• Addressed some UI inconsistencies with Heavy Assault’s shield indicator when using Adrenaline Rush
• Fix for the LX Tacti-Eye no longer being accessible after logging out with the scope attached

Vehicle Updates

• Magrider survivability in large falls should be more in line with other vehicles
• Sunderers should no longer slide after stopping on slopes
• Reaver composite armor should no longer cover decals
• When landed and idle, Galaxies should no longer slowly roll backwards
• The Flash’s Wraith Cloak will now deactivate when the driver changes seats
• Normal vehicle effects like brakes should come back when the Wraith cloak effect is removed
• Vanguard IR Smoke, Shield, and Mine Guard utilities will no longer clip through the back plating of the tank
• We no longer have Safe Ejection utilities that fail to eject you safely
• Vehicles should no longer start rocking after firing a few times
• You should now be able to properly exit the Flash rumble seat if they re-mapped their “exit vehicle” key

UI Updates

• /l is now a valid shortcut for leader chat
• The death cam should no longer cancel an active revive prompt
• Squad Leaders should no longer see “Set Primary Defense” as an option in the Quick Action Menu when targeting allied soldiers
• Waypoints now properly display on the minimap
• Updated spawn indicator art on the respawn screen to be more visible
• Vehicle acquisition timer UI should now be updating properly after spawning a vehicle
• The AMR-66 should now be filtered properly in the Depot
• NS weapons should no longer be lacking the preview button in the depot
• Fix for non-selected characters being deleted in error during character deletion process
• Enabling Auto join on Log in will properly persist when you navigate away from the UI page

Facility Updates

All Phalanx Turrets

Increased damage resistance to Aircraft Machine Guns from 85% to 94%. This makes it similar to the damage aircraft machine guns can do to tank top armor.

Spear Phalanx Turret (Anti-Vehicle)

• Min damage upped from 1000 to 1250
• Projectile flight characteristics now match Vanguard 150mm HEAT
• Speed increased from 200 to 250
• Gravity multiplier decreased from 5 to 4

Xiphos Phalanx Turret (Anti-Personnel)

• Changed damage type from personal weapon to heavy machine gun. Allowing it to damage heavy armor targets.
• Adjusted damage and fall off
• Max/Min damage adjusted from 218/150 to 200/167
• Max/Min range adjusted from 100/75 to 85/10

Aspis Phalanx Turret (Anti-Aircraft)

• Can now pitch 10 additional degrees downward.
• Jump pads at The Traverse should now properly acknowledge base ownership
• NPCs should now spawn more reliably in the VR Training Zone
• The Peris Amp Station Barracks, Tower, and Eastern Grove forward spawns have proper capture points again
• Addressed occlusion issues near Zurvan Storage Yard
• Addressed cosmetic geometry issues at Rashnu Bio Lab
• Addressed an issue with players getting stuck in geometry near the SE pass of the Crown
• All banners at Mao Tech Plant should accurately reflect base ownership
• Addressed an issue with prop objects stacked on a capture point at Mani Biolab
• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to pull a free MAX from the VR zone and take it to other continents
• Tower teleporters in VR now work properly.
• Floating objects in the VR tower have been nailed down.
• Fixed the floating AV turret at Heyoka’s western forward spawn
• Fix for SCU shields not properly stopping projectiles and deployables
• Leaving the VR zone with a tool equipped will no longer break your loadout until you resupply

Audio Updates

• There should now be appropriate audio when using the Flash’s turbo utility
• You should once again be able to hear your own footsteps after exiting a vehicle

Surprised at the Turret buffs, guess my lancer will get some more use against them. No general max and battleflow update yet. Wonder when we'll see those.

About the Tank Mines, there's some on reddit saying that shooting them will destroy them but not cause them to explode, but it is still unclear until the servers are back up

 

[Woorloog]

Again, are there any EU GAF players, squads, outfits...? The player list in the OP has only US players. EDIT oh, Miller for EU? Which faction, all?

Also, what kinda limits there are for characters/servers/empires? One empire per server? Can't find clear answer for this... admittedly my google-fu sucks but still.

 

[razgriz417]

Again, are there any EU GAF players, squads, outfits...? The player list in the OP has only US players.

Also, what kinda limits there are for characters/servers/empires? One empire per server? Can't find clear answer for this... admittedly my google-fu sucks but still.

I haven't seen any activity for EU gaf in a long time. You can have 3 characters per account (but after this update you can buy more if you want), they can be on different factions on the same or different server (because of a recent server merge I now have both a VS and TR on Mattherson and another VS on Waterson). The only perk of having characters on the same account is that all weapons, camos and decals bought with real money (SC) can be shared across account (assuming its not faction specific)

 

[Deleted member 47027]

That is a tasty-ass update.

 

[Woorloog]

Thanks.
Good to know i can have multiple characters, hate to have multiple account for same game. Hated the original idea of one character per account.
Hopefully there are EU GAFers playing this still, playing on US servers will have way too much latency probably.

 

[Lonestar]

Think there are 3 of us as VS on Mattherson (think we're all in AzureTwilight). MrNothin is also on Mattherson as TR and acksman is on NC.

Here's the portion of the OP that'll give you more info, but it also needs updating by anyone currently playing.

New players fill out this form: Planetside 2 GAF Players

This is for the soldier that you'll use to play with other GAF players; you may submit any other alternate soldiers you want people to be able to find you as on other servers. You can also opt to be sent an invite to the GAF outfits via the form.

The NeoGAF player list can list can be accessed here. Sort the list by your faction of choice and send out friend invites after you submit your own character to the list. Send a friend request and a /tell to outfit leaders or officers to get invited to the GAF outfits in-game, or have the outfit box checked when signing up on the form and they'll contact you. Note that currently you have to be online to be invited to an outfit.

Graph data can be viewed here.

This list was purged from the launch rush on 3/15/13. The original list can be viewed here.

Looks like I need to go bug Bamelin and Jhriad to come back.

 

[razgriz417]

Thanks.
Good to know i can have multiple characters, hate to have multiple account for same game. Hated the original idea of one character per account.
Hopefully there are EU GAFers playing this still, playing on US servers will have way too much latency probably.

You could always give it a try since you can delete the US server characters if need be. If you can't find any EU gaffers to play with definitely try to join an outfit on whatever server you choose, this game really can be quite aimless if you're not playing in a group

 

[Woorloog]

VS is popular with GAF, looks like?
OK, they've got good music and have pew pew weapons and a hover tank but... those colors, style... and worst of all, the name. Vanu? It means "wadding" or "lint" or maybe "wad" in Finnish.

You could always give it a try since you can delete the US server characters if need be. If you can't find any EU gaffers to play with definitely try to join an outfit on whatever server you choose, this game really can be quite aimless if you're not playing in a group

I guess. I'll make a character on US server once servers are up and see how bad the latency is. I doubt it is going to be good though.

 

[razgriz417]

Think there are 3 of us as VS on Mattherson (think we're all in AzureTwilight). MrNothin is also on Mattherson as TR and acksman is on NC.

Here's the portion of the OP that'll give you more info, but it also needs updating by anyone currently playing.



Looks like I need to go bug Bamelin and Jhriad to come back.

Crap could someone delete my Waterson entry? Made an oops.

VS is popular with GAF, looks like?
OK, they've got good music and have pew pew weapons and a hover tank but... those colors, style... and worst of all, the name. Vanu? It means "wadding" or "lint" or maybe "wad" in Finnish.

Lol wow we're waddling lint in Finnish...(we actually got a guy in outfit named Vanu )

 

[razgriz417]

Just tested the change to tank mines in VR. Seems like they won't detonate when placed under or on top of a stationary vehicle, but shooting them or grenading the mines will still cause them to detonate

 

[Woorloog]

Anyway to see ping/latency?

And... I had some other questions but i forgot them...

EDIT oh, yeah, why doesn't the game offer 1280x720 resolution by default? Had to set it from damn config file. Yes, i know it is rather low resolution but i need to squeeze all performance i can from this thing.

 

[MrBig]

Anyway to see ping/latency?

And... I had some other questions but i forgot them...

EDIT oh, yeah, why doesn't the game offer 1280x720 resolution by default? Had to set it from damn config file. Yes, i know it is rather low resolution but i need to squeeze all performance i can from this thing.

Search for the server IPs, they've been posted in several places.

Do not lower the resolution to sub native levels. Set it back to native and decrease the render quality as far as you need to, this decreases the rendering resolution of the game while rendering the UI natively. alt+f displays FPS and tells you whether you are GPU limited or CPU limited. If you're CPU limited, try disabling shadows and flora in the ini and decrease the render distance. If you're GPU limited lower particles, render quality etc.

 

[Woorloog]

Search for the server IPs, they've been posted in several places.

Do not lower the resolution to sub native levels. Set it back to native and decrease the render quality as far as you need to, this decreases the rendering resolution of the game while rendering the UI natively. alt+f displays FPS and tells you whether you are GPU limited or CPU limited. If you're CPU limited, try disabling shadows and flora in the ini and decrease the render distance. If you're GPU limited lower particles, render quality etc.

Running with everything on low (except textures), render distance at 3000 (for starters). It seems i'm both CPU and GPU limited, the indicator switches beetween them pretty much constantly. When no action around.
Gotta find some action...
As for resolution, if i recall correctly from beta, lowering render quality tends to make the game more blurry looking. Don't like that, so keeping it at 100% for now. But will lower it if the game runs like shit when there's action around.
Also, 1280x720 is 16:9 resolution, and close enough to 1280x768 resolution the game offers (but that one looks horrible on 16:9 display) that i doubt there are any UI problems. And even if there are, they're minor. Until it prevents me from doing something... EDIT the game offers even lower resolutions, what exactly is sub-native?

EDIT also, most certainly not playing as Vanu. I'm no wadding and the weapons look horrible. TR or NC for me, more likely the latter.

EDIT is the game supposed to hang up on character creation? I press finish after naming the thing and nothing happens... The indicator just rolls around.
EDIT apparently the game creates characters BUT i cannot play them. Name i tried on Miller can't be used anymore... but the game claims i have no characters.

 

[razgriz417]

Running with everything on low (except textures), render distance at 3000 (for starters). It seems i'm both CPU and GPU limited, the indicator switches beetween them pretty much constantly. When no action around.
Gotta find some action...
As for resolution, if i recall correctly from beta, lowering render quality tends to make the game more blurry looking. Don't like that, so keeping it at 100% for now. But will lower it if the game runs like shit when there's action around.
Also, 1280x720 is 16:9 resolution, and close enough to 1280x768 resolution the game offers (but that one looks horrible on 16:9 display) that i doubt there are any UI problems. And even if there are, they're minor. Until it prevents me from doing something... EDIT the game offers even lower resolutions, what exactly is sub-native?

EDIT also, most certainly not playing as Vanu. I'm no wadding and the weapons look horrible. TR or NC for me, more likely the latter.

EDIT is the game supposed to hang up on character creation? I press finish after naming the thing and nothing happens... The indicator just rolls around.
EDIT apparently the game creates characters BUT i cannot play them. Name i tried on Miller can't be used anymore... but the game claims i have no characters.

Looks like the login servers are a bit slow to respond, the name is in use because the character has been created but it didn't log you in yet

 

[Woorloog]

Looks like the login servers are a bit slow to respond, the name is in use because the character has been created but it didn't log you in yet

Wonder how long that's going to take. Running out of names for characters...

 

[razgriz417]

Wonder how long that's going to take. Running out of names for characters...

Try restarting the client, I was trying to make an NC on connery to check the changes to scat maxes, took me a bit to login

 

[Woorloog]

Try restarting the client, I was trying to make an NC on connery to check the changes to scat maxes, took me a bit to login

Restarted like 5 times now. Nothing happening, names unavailable. I'll wait 20 minutes or so, if nothing happened afterwards, i'll try the game in a couple of months again. Not getting to play after installing/patching/creating characters is really off-putting, and i have other games to play as well.

 

[razgriz417]

Restarted like 5 times now. Nothing happening, names unavailable. I'll wait 20 minutes or so, if nothing happened afterwards, i'll try the game in a couple of months again. Not getting to play after installing/patching/creating characters is really off-putting, and i have other games to play as well.

Yea just awful timing for ya, servers are just coming up after a big patch and login servers are hammered, not excusing it but it happens after every big patch

 

[Woorloog]

Yea just awful timing for ya, servers are just coming up after a big patch and login servers are hammered, not excusing it but it happens after every big patch

Last time i tried the game, a month, month and a half back, first try ended up with patch getting corrupted at 99%, and when i finally had patched the game, servers were offline for some reason. That try ended there.
Now this.
Fucking bad luck... I have a feeling i'll end up trying this every few months, never getting to play.
Last time i truly played was during beta in october or so, a couple of hours with my friend.

 

[ThreePiMatt]

Running with everything on low (except textures), render distance at 3000 (for starters). It seems i'm both CPU and GPU limited, the indicator switches beetweey. When no action around.
Gotta find some action...
As for resolution, if i recall correctly from beta, lowering render quality tends to make the game more blurry looking. Don't like that, so keeping it at 100% for now. But will lower it if the game runs like shit when there's action around.
Also, 1280x720 is 16:9 resolution, and close enough to 1280x768 resolution the game offers (but that one looks horrible on 16:9 display) that i doubt there are any UI problems. And even if there are, they're minor. Until it prevents me from doing something... EDIT the game offers even lower resolutions, what exactly is sub-native?

EDIT also, most certainly not playing as Vanu. I'm no wadding and the weapons look horrible. TR or NC for me, more likely the latter.

EDIT is the game supposed to hang up on character creation? I press finish after naming the thing and nothing happens... The indicator just rolls around.
EDIT apparently the game creates characters BUT i cannot play them. Name i tried on Miller can't be used anymore... but the game claims i have no characters.

Rendering Quality is actually effecting the resolution. So 100% RQ with the resolution of 1080p just means the game is rendering at 1080p. If you into the Ini file and raise it higher then you are effectively super sampling. The game is rendering at a higher resolution then down sampling to whatever resolution you actually set it at. Conversely, setting it less than 100 will render it lower than your set resolution then upscale it, which can make it look a bit blurry.

 

[Woorloog]

Rendering Quality is actually effecting the resolution. So 100% RQ with the resolution of 1080p just means the game is rendering at 1080p. If you into the Ini file and raise it higher then you are effectively super sampling. The game is rendering at a higher resolution then down sampling to whatever resolution you actually set it at. Conversely, setting it less than 100 will render it lower than your set resolution then upscale it, which can make it look a bit blurry.

Which is why i'd rather have lower resolution with 100% render quality (can't run the game with high resolution, too much performance hit if 100% render quality). Dislike blurriness of any sort: I'd probably disable motion blur even if i had a system capable of running the game with maxed out graphics.

Let's see if things work now...

EDIT nope, doesn't work.
I give up. I'll try again later... in a few weeks i can think of something else to play. Something with single player so that i don't have to deal with fucking server issues.

 

[MrPing1000]

lol at how many bugs are in the new patch. Mostly minor stuff, mostly silly. Seen terminals the wrong colour, the cap animation and sound playing over and over (even when you're not in a main facility), uncappable outter spawns. Radar dart radar width seems to be back to default regardless of upgrades.

 

[Woorloog]

Works, finally.
But EU servers are down. I had 4 characters on Miller...
Trying out US East, Matt-something. NC.

EDIT is sun supposed to be just a plain white ball? I doubt that. Looks horrible, what setting determines how it looks?

EDIT looks like i'm more CPU limited than GPU...

EDIT also, latency to US East is not too bad. At least i don't have any issues hitting enemies, assuming i hit them in the first place, and no warping

 

[Lonestar]

how large was the file for GU06?

 

[Woorloog]

how large was the file for GU06?

The patch was just some 160MB i think.

EDIT So... flight controls are wrong. I want roll to A and D and yaw to mouse. Don't suppose that is possible? If not, i won't be flying, can't stand mouse roll.

 

[Lonestar]

Had some sort of computer hangup when I went to start up the game (and install GU06). Restarted the computer and it finished, now the load in screen starts at 15% and never moves, and locks up. I've gone and hit validation and it seemingly found errors, now installing 750 mb of "stuff"

As long as it work.

 

[Sanic]

How CPU dependent is this? Even if I drop everything way down, I can't get a locked 60fps on a gtx 660. I really want to enjoy this, but performance is so sporadic and I can't play it like that.

 

[razgriz417]

How CPU dependent is this? Even if I drop everything way down, I can't get a locked 60fps on a gtx 660. I really want to enjoy this, but performance is so sporadic and I can't play it like that.

Def more CPU than GPU dependent. Ton of players, vehicles and particles to render. What kind of cpu do you have?

 

[mr_nothin]

Holy shit, everybody and their mom is on Esamir on Mattherson right now. I have never seen so many RED enemy activity zones in this game....ever. Dat 10,000xp bonus :O
I'm in a queue line of 26 with a 15-20min wait

Jeez, ppl only play for points :/
I cant wait for Amerish to get some lovin!

 

[Lonestar]

Holy shit, everybody and their mom is on Esamir on Mattherson right now. I have never seen so many RED enemy activity zones in this game....ever. Dat 10,000xp bonus :O
I'm in a queue line of 26 with a 15-20min wait

Jeez, ppl only play for points :/
I cant wait for Amerish to get some lovin!

heh, I logged off cause AT Management was pissing me off again. We were camped out trying to hold an AA Battery near Serrano Listening Post, and then we all were ordered back to warpgate. Then no decision was to do something else for a couple minutes.

 

[RadioactiveLobster]

Holy shit, everybody and their mom is on Esamir on Mattherson right now. I have never seen so many RED enemy activity zones in this game....ever. Dat 10,000xp bonus :O
I'm in a queue line of 26 with a 15-20min wait

Jeez, ppl only play for points :/
I cant wait for Amerish to get some lovin!

I'm a subscriber so I was able to get into Esamir in about 2 minutes.

That was fun. They need to do this more on Esamir/Amerish and not do alerts on Indar. I hate Indar.

 

[ThreePiMatt]

Now, I'm always skeptical whenever anyone on the Planetside 2 forums comes out with some magical FPS boost, its usually something stupid like some obscure setting in the ini file, or disabling cores or hyperthreading or some useless advice like that.

So when someone on the forums mentions disabling the pagefile and getting a significant (15+) FPS boost I was ready to just completely blow them off. But more and more people kept adding to the post saying it helped them. Lo and behold, the boost is absolutely significant. Even in the middle of the crazy fights on Esamir during the Alert event I was still doing 45-50FPS when I usually do 30. I would get GPU limited in fights. Its ridiculous and it shouldn't happen, but it worked.

That said, I also have 32GB of RAM. For probably 90% of players, disabling pagefile will probably end up being a bad thing. But if you have 16-32 (maybe even 8) its worth a shot to try out. I was completely taken by surprise.

To add in, the Alerts system is pretty sweet. That massive fight on Esamir had a certain intensity that I hadn't experienced with the game since launch. Hopefully the Alerts combined with the lattice system should be ballin'.

Finally, the ScatMax nerf is a real pain in the ass. The lowered ROF, less ammo, and slow ass reload just really feels like overnerfs.

 

[mr_nothin]

Now, I'm always skeptical whenever anyone on the Planetside 2 forums comes out with some magical FPS boost, its usually something stupid like some obscure setting in the ini file, or disabling cores or hyperthreading or some useless advice like that.

So when someone on the forums mentions disabling the pagefile and getting a significant (15+) FPS boost I was ready to just completely blow them off. But more and more people kept adding to the post saying it helped them. Lo and behold, the boost is absolutely significant. Even in the middle of the crazy fights on Esamir during the Alert event I was still doing 45-50FPS when I usually do 30. I would get GPU limited in fights. Its ridiculous and it shouldn't happen, but it worked.

That said, I also have 32GB of RAM. For probably 90% of players, disabling pagefile will probably end up being a bad thing. But if you have 16-32 (maybe even 8) its worth a shot to try out. I was completely taken by surprise.

To add in, the Alerts system is pretty sweet. That massive fight on Esamir had a certain intensity that I hadn't experienced with the game since launch. Hopefully the Alerts combined with the lattice system should be ballin'.

Finally, the ScatMax nerf is a real pain in the ass. The lowered ROF, less ammo, and slow ass reload just really feels like overnerfs.

Serves you right!

 

[razgriz417]

Now, I'm always skeptical whenever anyone on the Planetside 2 forums comes out with some magical FPS boost, its usually something stupid like some obscure setting in the ini file, or disabling cores or hyperthreading or some useless advice like that.

So when someone on the forums mentions disabling the pagefile and getting a significant (15+) FPS boost I was ready to just completely blow them off. But more and more people kept adding to the post saying it helped them. Lo and behold, the boost is absolutely significant. Even in the middle of the crazy fights on Esamir during the Alert event I was still doing 45-50FPS when I usually do 30. I would get GPU limited in fights. Its ridiculous and it shouldn't happen, but it worked.

That said, I also have 32GB of RAM. For probably 90% of players, disabling pagefile will probably end up being a bad thing. But if you have 16-32 (maybe even 8) its worth a shot to try out. I was completely taken by surprise.

To add in, the Alerts system is pretty sweet. That massive fight on Esamir had a certain intensity that I hadn't experienced with the game since launch. Hopefully the Alerts combined with the lattice system should be ballin'.

Finally, the ScatMax nerf is a real pain in the ass. The lowered ROF, less ammo, and slow ass reload just really feels like overnerfs.

Any tutorial on how to disable the page file? I got no clue what that is. As for the Scat Max nerf, being on the receiving end of it, (the maxes not the nerf) I still feel like its still super effective in general shotgun ranges, but can no longer destroy enemy maxes. That being said I'm VS so I have my biases. You'll be happy to know that the next big patch in 2 weeks is the Max overhaul patch and every max will be getting additional weapons for different ranges. That community update tonight also had a programmer say that melee max weapons won't make it into the next patch but should be added shortly after and will be something to be feared Each faction's maxes are getting special abilities too, still have no idea what us zoidbergs are gonna get, knowing Higby it'll be lame. They're suppose to show off some of the new weaps on FNO this Friday if anyone is interested

Edit: forgot about the flamethrower that's coming next patch too.