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GU06 Info and Feature Preview

Discussion in 'PlanetSide 2 Gameplay Discussion' started by Higby, Apr 1, 2013.

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Rhyl
Higby said: ↑

“Greetings Auraxians!

GU06 is right around the corner and has some pretty cool new additions to the game that I wanted to give you guys a sneak peek at. So, here are some highlights:

New Membership benefits:

Members will have access to an additional 3 character slots

Members will now have a new, exclusive Daily Sale in the Depot

Alerts System:
The new Alerts system is a dynamic server controlled system that initiates server-wide game events. When an Alert triggers, players will have a set amount of time to achieve the Alert goals. Players on the victorious Empire, regardless of where in the world they are, will receive a large bonus when the Alert is completed, and all players fighting within an Alert area will receive bonus XP. The first Alerts that we've implemented are continental conquests, but in the future we plan on adding more, such as: controlling the most of a certain facility type, or controlling the most of a certain type of resource.
There are two ways to win the Alert; a "Dominating Victory", in which the empire controls 100% of the goals, and a "Normal Victory", where they control a larger percentage to the other empires when the timer expires. In a Dominating Victory the Alert ends immediately and the entire Alert reward goes to players in that empire, in a Normal victory the reward is split based on the % of objectives controlled. Here's a preview of the UI displaying the current Alerts status. There is also a small notification in the main HUD letting you know the time remaining for the current Alert.

In the above example the reward is 3000xp, if the TR were able to rally and capture 100% of Indar before the time the Alert ends (good luck, guys!) each TR player on the server would receive 3000xp. However, if the territory control stays where it's at, VS players would get the victory and 1260xp, NC and TR players would get a consolation reward of 1050xp and 630xp respectively. Additionally, all players fighting on Indar during the course of the event will be getting a 20% xp bonus.

Alerts are designed primarily to fulfill two main goals for the game:

Give players incentives and direction to participate in combat in other areas of the game than they normally might.

Encourage competitive, exciting fights during offpeak hours.

As such, these events will primarily be activated when the servers are lower on population, during the offpeak hours, so more players online can participate. During the more crowded hours players have plenty of options and plenty of incentives to fight anywhere they want, so it's less likely this will activate past a certain server population threshold.

Service Ribbons:

We're also launching a new Service Ribbon system with GU06. The Service Ribbons system is primarily intended to give small, incremental goals to fulfill during normal moment-to-moment gameplay. Each Ribbon should take between 5-10 minutes to achieve depending on how you play and which Ribbon you're gunning for, but a lot of it is very situational. Ribbons can be earned for kills earned with Infantry weapons, vehicle kills with AV weapons, and support tasks (repair, heal, revive). Vehicle Ribbons are still being worked on and will be released with a future update. Each Service Ribbon you earn will give you 250xp, and the first 5 each day will give an additional 500xp bonus.

You can check out the progress of your Service Ribbons on the profile stats page:

In addition to Service Ribbons and the Alerts system, we've got a slew of balance, tuning and bug fixes coming along with this update. Full patch notes will be available as we get closer to releasing the update.
We hope you're excited for GU06 and as always, if you have any questions, comments, concerns let us know!
-
Matthew Higby - @mhigby
Creative Director, @Planetside2”

Can you please fix our mines during this update?
- x 5
Rhyl, Apr 1, 2013

#21
Lazaruz
It all sounds pretty good on paper, but so have the past updates...
Whenever I see an "Update x coming" thread, I feel frightened and excited at the same time.
- x 2
Lazaruz, Apr 1, 2013

#22 Last edited by Lazaruz, Apr 1, 2013
Ripshaft
Higby said: ↑

“Greetings Auraxians!

GU06 is right around the corner and has some pretty cool new additions to the game that I wanted to give you guys a sneak peek at. So, here are some highlights:

New Membership benefits:

Members will have access to an additional 3 character slots

Members will now have a new, exclusive Daily Sale in the Depot

Alerts System:

The new Alerts system is a dynamic server controlled system that initiates server-wide game events. When an Alert triggers, players will have a set amount of time to achieve the Alert goals. Players on the victorious Empire, regardless of where in the world they are, will receive a large bonus when the Alert is completed, and all players fighting within an Alert area will receive bonus XP. The first Alerts that we've implemented are continental conquests, but in the future we plan on adding more, such as: controlling the most of a certain facility type, or controlling the most of a certain type of resource.
There are two ways to win the Alert; a "Dominating Victory", in which the empire controls 100% of the goals, and a "Normal Victory", where they control a larger percentage to the other empires when the timer expires. In a Dominating Victory the Alert ends immediately and the entire Alert reward goes to players in that empire, in a Normal victory the reward is split based on the % of objectives controlled. Here's a preview of the UI displaying the current Alerts status. There is also a small notification in the main HUD letting you know the time remaining for the current Alert.

In the above example the reward is 3000xp, if the TR were able to rally and capture 100% of Indar before the time the Alert ends (good luck, guys!) each TR player on the server would receive 3000xp. However, if the territory control stays where it's at, VS players would get the victory and 1260xp, NC and TR players would get a consolation reward of 1050xp and 630xp respectively. Additionally, all players fighting on Indar during the course of the event will be getting a 20% xp bonus.

Alerts are designed primarily to fulfill two main goals for the game:

Give players incentives and direction to participate in combat in other areas of the game than they normally might.

Encourage competitive, exciting fights during offpeak hours.

As such, these events will primarily be activated when the servers are lower on population, during the offpeak hours, so more players online can participate. During the more crowded hours players have plenty of options and plenty of incentives to fight anywhere they want, so it's less likely this will activate past a certain server population threshold.

Service Ribbons:

We're also launching a new Service Ribbon system with GU06. The Service Ribbons system is primarily intended to give small, incremental goals to fulfill during normal moment-to-moment gameplay. Each Ribbon should take between 5-10 minutes to achieve depending on how you play and which Ribbon you're gunning for, but a lot of it is very situational. Ribbons can be earned for kills earned with Infantry weapons, vehicle kills with AV weapons, and support tasks (repair, heal, revive). Vehicle Ribbons are still being worked on and will be released with a future update. Each Service Ribbon you earn will give you 250xp, and the first 5 each day will give an additional 500xp bonus.

You can check out the progress of your Service Ribbons on the profile stats page:

In addition to Service Ribbons and the Alerts system, we've got a slew of balance, tuning and bug fixes coming along with this update. Full patch notes will be available as we get closer to releasing the update.
We hope you're excited for GU06 and as always, if you have any questions, comments, concerns let us know!
-
Matthew Higby - @mhigby
Creative Director, @Planetside2”

Interested to see the effects, thanks for the update.
Ripshaft, Apr 1, 2013

#23
Craigr910

What about test server and the battle flow improvements

Craigr910, Apr 1, 2013

#24
AnotherNoob

I like the idea with the alerts, but 3000 xp for capturing indar? come on...

AnotherNoob, Apr 1, 2013

#25
Higby Developer
Ash87 said: ↑

“What about The Test Server. Has this been scrapped?”

Nope, we're very close to having it ready to bring up. I can't give an exact ETA without being wrong.
- x 13
Higby, Apr 1, 2013

#26
Ash87

Higby said: ↑

“Nope, we're very close to having it ready to bring up. I can't give an exact ETA without being wrong.”

Thank you. As long as it is still on the way, it was just getting worrisome with no word since March 13th

Ash87, Apr 1, 2013

#27
ItZMuRdA
I like the service ribbons, as I'm a huge achievement nut/completionist/progression-focused player in any game I play. Even though they are simple in scope, I'll enjoy going after all of them and think it's a good direction for hopefully more advanced achievements in the future.

The alerts system I can't say anything bad about, I really like the 20% exp bonus for the duration of it, but I'm hoping the 3000 reward for capturing Indar is a placeholder number. I feel like that should be much, much higher. Especially on Mattherson, capturing Indar almost never happens. Either that, or make the objective of the alerts a bit more accessible to higher pop, balanced realms.

Completely aside, but I'm really looking forward the most right now to the empire-specific account level unlocks and server transfers, so while it doesn't look like they will be included in GU06, I hope to see them soon!
- x 2
ItZMuRdA, Apr 1, 2013

#28 Last edited by ItZMuRdA, Apr 1, 2013
Higby Developer
AnotherNoob said: ↑

“I like the idea with the alerts, but 3000 xp for capturing indar? come on...”

We will of course be watching the system closely and tuning rewards, timing, etc as we see how it plays out.
- x 8
Higby, Apr 1, 2013

#29
Astealoth
April fools. Tomorrow they're announcing GU06 is postponed indefinitely and the game servers will be closing down permanently in 24 hours.

Oh wait, this isn't an EA forum.
- x 6
Astealoth, Apr 1, 2013

#30
ExarRazor

will we be able to display service ribbons on our character models like we could in ps1?

ExarRazor, Apr 1, 2013

#31
Joram

For all the people asking for is this gonna be fixed is this gonna be ready for the patch, is a sneak peek not the full patch notes.

Joram, Apr 1, 2013

#32
SDD
So... what happens to the 3 other character slots when the subscription expires?
- x 4
SDD, Apr 1, 2013

#33
GSZenith

Kedyn said: ↑

“I wish I had known this was coming - I didn't like deleting a BR26 to move to a better server, but I'm mostly over it already.

However, I like the rest of these details! Service Ribbons are being added exactly how I would have wanted them added - attainable but not obnoxiously so.”

how about deleting a br49 to move to a better server -_- /wrist
also.
Where is my blackjack

GSZenith, Apr 1, 2013

#34
Nocturnal7x

Higby said: ↑

“Greetings Auraxians!”

Please stop.

Also, you use indar as an example for the alert system? And you'er adding a BF style ribbon system? Oh good. This isn't going to help the BF/cod kids stay with the game or anyone for that matter. We need meta game, and also new player tutorial/guidance system. This system should be UI based.

Nocturnal7x, Apr 1, 2013

#35
DJPenguin

Rusky said: ↑

“3000xp seems rather low for something like "Cap Indar".

Capping an Amp station is already 1k, capping an entire continent should be more like 10-20k.”

^

i can get 3k worth of kills attacking a tower or base in 10 minutes. Ideally, you'd want the reward to be something that's sought after.

DJPenguin, Apr 1, 2013

#36
Bucketnate

WalrusJones said: ↑

“More XP is always a good thing.”

Im afraid that its to quick to rank up to the highest, then what?

Bucketnate, Apr 1, 2013

#37
Bucketnate
HellasVagabond said: ↑

“What about fixing BUGS ? There are so many right now that whatever updates you may have planed will be for nothing if these aren't resolved.”

They have multiple teams working on the game, the ui design team can't help the bug fixing team. Get to know game development man
- x 1
Bucketnate, Apr 1, 2013

#38
Bucketnate

Sharpe said: ↑

“WTH? Awesome stuff coming in this update? This has to be the April Fools post.”

nope, the next update is wednesday

Bucketnate, Apr 1, 2013

#39
Ranik

So we are turning the game more and more into BF3 rather than more and more into PS2. Great way to run the game into the ground.

Can we at least expect to see some ESRL / MBT fixes and balance? I'm going to guess none.

Ranik, Apr 1, 2013

#40

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