OW - Nexus Season 2 (Announcement Discussion Thread)

I really hope Outfit wars is not the promised "Big news". Mithril, can you confirm please?

Will disconnected players be able to rejoin the match this time? That was a massive issue last year. Did you fix the nexus hitching?

Can I please get a clarification for ANTs begin available without terminal access?
Is this specifically relating to not having a construction terminal when deplotyed?
Does this mean that ANTs can be obtained without a vehicle terminal somehow?
Do ANTs that have a deliverer module not have an equipment terminal when deployed?

I understand how this could be considered "big news", but at the same time, a vast majority of players assumed it was going to be a major content update with new guns, armor, maybe even a new vehicle and some revamped bases/continents... but this? That announcement was made months ago, back when Outfit Wars was confirmed to not being happening this year. Why the backpeddling on that? If this truly is the big news, please, make sure confusion like this doesn't happen again. People are up in arms since, really, Outfit Wars only applies to a very tiny section of the fanbase and isn't going to draw new players or likely even veteran players back in.

Outfit Wars must come to an END.

Outfit Wars is a needless event that only a small handful of select PlanetSide 2 players can participate in. Even now as this is written, there are posts being made in the forums from concerned players regarding population decline and dying servers.

So I must ask...

Why hasn't Daybreak chosen to work towards the next noteworthy content update that the entire PS2 community can benefit from? Why has Daybreak continued to host an exclusive limited time event that the majority of the PS2 playerbase has little to no interest in?

• Outfit Wars has historically consumed developmental time and effort, delaying updates.
• Outfit Wars has historically seeded drama that fractures the community and results in further player loss.
• Outfit Wars is plausibly responsible for delaying the redesign of Esamir and Oshur - a highly requested fix.
• Outfit Wars denies live server access to the original "Battle Island" continents by reserving maps like Ascension, Desolace, Extinction and Nexus even though the PS2 community has demanded "Infantry Only" gameplay for years.
• Outfit Wars does not benefit the already declining PlanetSide 2 community at large that is desperate to keep or bring new players in. The average player doesn't care about Outfit Wars because they can't even participate!
• If Daybreak wishes to use Outfit Wars as a means to advertise the game, then why host it during the fall when more gamers are playing during the summer instead?

If you were to collectively calculate all the time spent on Outfit Wars throughout the years, the PlanetSide 2 community would likely have the famous volcanic continent of Searhus added to live servers for the first time since PlanetSide 1.

Quality of life updates are necessary to fix unresolved dilemmas and begin providing player-requested periodic content updates to renew player interest.

Outfit Wars is nothing but a black hole of wasted effort. Enough is enough!

As much as I disagree with Outfit Wars coming back I can at least respect that you guys are still working on the game and seem to still plan on continuing work on the game.

But the game is in a bad state, population has decreased a ton, like only 3 outfits on Emerald can field 48 players, Connery is borderline unplayable at this point because of their low population. Are there any server merges happening?

Agreed. It's honestly frustrating to see development time being dumped into something that will just kill the game faster. We need new content to bring in new and returning players, not a very controversial event.

So far we have only seen seasonal updates and no major ones.

There is one serious hole in your plan. There is currently no unit in the game that could gather such an impressive number of players.If you expect that the players will return with this news, I will disappoint you, most of those I know are already negative about this news. Those who left the game in anticipation of the update are probably also not happy with such news.We were expecting a roadmap, not this.

The main game needs an update to bring players back long term, not this outfit wars nonsense that will spike population for a few weeks.
Remove CTF from all non-amp station bases, disable oshur, add old Esamir back (keep new Esamir as well if you want). Remove vehicle damage from the archer, fix mouse acceleration on vehicles, update the bad UI design to be more like battlefield so new players know where to go, spawn system adjustments, vehicle physics, janky movement and animation system updates, new squad and platoon features, etc. The game needs so many things more than outfitwars.
I was hoping the devs would be looking at community discussion and trying to find out what the game actually needs to improve, outfit wars just shows how out of touch the devs continue to be.

Outfit wars is not my thing but as long as the seasonal events and occasional bugfixes keep coming, that's good enough. The game is great as it is. Even Oshur isn't that bad. There's a lot of entitlement here and on Reddit, so I thought I'd just stop in and say thanks for the amazing game.

Besides the Soltech community, OW wasn't really asked for this year and we were already told it wasn't coming this year.

What the overall Planetside 2 community has been asking for is a roadmap or gameplan for the game along with directly addressing the many compounding balance issues and design issues that are having a negative tangible impact on PS2's game health and game population.

To the overall Planetside 2 community, OW out of the blue just seems very misplaced or misguided when it comes to other greater priorities that are plaguing the game right now.

It's as if OW was added last minute this year either because a big update that was going to happen wasn't ready at this point or there isn't a big update coming at all so a decision was made to add some type of content in hopes of distracting the community until the anniversary.


If the PS2 Dev Team has time, please directly show them these threads and have them thoroughly read them, especially the suggestions/plans in them:


1) https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/16uh55a/operation_tourniquet_how_to_stop_planetside_2s/

2) https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/16bzkme/comprehensive_plan_to_revitalize_and_restore/

3) https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside...the_game_health_of_planetside_2_removing_the/

4) https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside..._undercover_as_a_new_player_on_the_4_empires/

Could you ensure that official channels are used for game and player feedback? Vice outlets like the fandom wikki, or reddit? (again)?

Outfit Wars was believed to finally be canceled - the community was delighted.
At last, a tidbit of reassurance that effort would be focused solely upon polishing the game for all players.
The community asked and wished for pie all along... Yet announcement arrived in reply; "Let them eat cake."

I digress, as requested.

Mithril,

Thanks for continuing to communicate with us. I understand the mood is very sour in the community lately, but the worst thing that could happen is silence from the team. Here is my feedback on Outfit Wars as an outfit leader on Connery who has participated in previous Outfit Wars:

Please delay the start of outfit wars. Population and enthusiasm are at all-time lows, and even large outfits are having difficulty getting a full platoon of coordinated players online. If we go ahead with Outfit Wars before there's content updates, account transfers, etc. to ameliorate the situation, there's bound to be teams that can't muster enough players, or players that resort to measures that go against the spirit of the event, like playing multiple accounts across different outfits in the same tournament. Many outfit leaders and veteran players faced with these issues are feeling dread right now, and Planetside should be fun. Let's not go ahead with us until we're in a healthy position to fully enjoy it.

Allow us to move our characters that we've spent a lot of time and money on from Connery to Emerald before this happens.

That would be great if that could happen.

Unfortunately, there are very few such players. Personally, I'm afraid that the game will start to move into session battle mode.