Launcher just download 37mb of new data, is this another fix?

Soooo Can someone tell me how the mag rider now performs (difference) after THIS hot fix and pre patch 2?

At work Can't check.

Ouch. My fps has gone down by 20 or more. 25-30 fps in a crowded amp station is no fun.

Have you looked into the 'Burster MAX OMG orange lazers everywhere' thing? Seems like some particle effects going completely mental.

That change should be in the current patch.

Thanks for the hard work.

If you ever hear someone around the office implying that releasing a major update on a Friday is a good idea, make sure you persuade them otherwise.

Also, a test server would do wonders.

Awesome news.

Feel bad for the folks working on freekin Superbowl Sunday.

Cycles should get a raise or something for keeping us in the loop and assuaging our collective rage. Maybe... yes, he deserves a banana sticker:



Thank you Cycles.

Haha! Good one. And yes Cycles... /salute!

Getting some severe frame drops, which was especially noticeable when driving a tank in Indar, around the desert region (can't remember the exact hex it was in though). Normally I get 40-70 fps, but this dropped it to 1. My gunner, who had a weaker computer said they were dropping 30 fps to 1 around the same time, and more severely when it intermittently happens.

Yeah it is something that is happening to many if not most of us. Something they are working on.

TEST SERVER

check rendering distance?

I use to run with the render distance at 6000, i currently have it at 4000.

Yeah and I have it at half that ~2000. This is looking very similar to what was occurring in early beta, where just one enemy or friendly shows up in the near vicinity and the hitching starts. Once that player is present after the hitching it gets back to normal and the situation repeats when another comes around. Very much like beta. They might need to check if some old code got recycled into this build.

In my office, I would have to work on weekend too if I decided that it was a good idea to push major update when everyone else went home.

Looks like some guys over on reddit are trying to help you guys narrow it down!

http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/17ts14/concerning_fps_dropsstuttering/

What the OP noted in that thread is exactly what is happening to me too, glad to know it wasn't just me.

well i seem to be having stutters and directional lag with MBT around.. recorded this yesterday with my tablet:

there were a couple of magriders heading to crossroads watchtower. also: The Crown..

It seems to be culling of friendly icons (the "clutter reduction") that is usually at work. Looking towards a clutter-reduced area often turns the stutter on while looking away immediately fixes it.

This is well in line with my impression too. Guess the server needs to discern whether you need all that data or not? I guess, you could give it a hard limit of anything being beyond your client's terrain render distance.