PlanetSide 2

PSForever PlanetSide 1 18th Birthday Event (Thursday, May 20, 2020 + Weekend) 1pm EDT and 7pm EDT

PSForever is a fan-based, not-for-profit PlanetSide 1 emulation project.

Hey PlanetSide Community!

The PSForever Team has been hard at work for the past year to bring you yet another big update for the PSForever PlanetSide 1 Birthday Event!

Schedule

• Main Event: Thursday, May 20th, 2021
  
• Friday, May 21st, 2021
  
• Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
  
• Sunday, May 23rd, 2021

Expect fights all day, particularly at both European and North American primetimes! Players are encouraged to play all weekend, but peak login times of 1pm EDT & 7pm EDT are suggested for those wanting a more specific time.

Setup Guide

You can find our setup guide here[docs.google.com]. Setup is now easier than ever. If you have had issues with our launcher before, try the secondary method provided in the document. It is also highly recommended you join our Discord server here[discord.gg].

Beginner's Guide

For more information on how to play the game once online, you can view our Beginner’s Guide[docs.google.com].

Spectator Camera

If you are interested in having our Spectator Camera feature added to your PSForever account to capture video footage or stream the Event, please reach out to Nick#6970 on Discord!

Below you will find the patch notes for most everything we’ve done since last year’s event.



* Character Progression has been added.
* New characters will currently begin at Battle Rank 15.
* **NOTE:** Characters will likely be wiped at some point in the future, but not for quite some time.


* Your Battle Rank and Command Rank are now persistent
* Your Certification choices are now persistent
* Your Implant choices are now persistent
* Customize Appearance for high Battle Rank characters are now visible to all players and persistent
* Base ownership and NTU Level is now persistent


High Altitude Rapid Transport (HART) Shuttle & Drop Pods

* The HART and Drop Pods are now functional. See a video of them in action [here](https://streamable.com/yi71tk).

Power Generator

* Generators now control the power of each Facility
* Destroying the Generator results in a power down, shutting down all Terminals

Base Auto-Repair and Base Drain

* Damaging or destroying Base Equipment is now functional
* Facilities will now Auto-Repair this Equipment at the cost of NTU from its silo

Base Benefits

* Base Benefits will now be severed when hacking a Facility, or cutting off transferred Benefits to the lattice link with the destruction of Generator
* All Base Benefits have now been added

Lattice Logic Unit (LLU)

* Lattice Logic Units (LLU) are now functional (“Capture the Flag” style Base Capture)
* The LLU spawns when hacking into an LLU Facility. Read more on it [here](http://wiki.psforever.net/wiki/Lattice_Logic_Unit)

Environment Damage

* Drowning, Lava damage, and disabling submerged Vehicles are now implemented

Oshur Battle Islands

Oshur Battle Islands have been updated! Appropriate certs will now correctly be granted for free on each specific Battle Island, depending on the ruleset.

Here are the rulesets:

Extinction

* Ground Vehicles Only
* No AA MAXs, Skyguards, or BFRs allowed
* Grants use of all Ground Vehicles (except Skyguard and BFRs), along with the Engineering and Anti Vehicular certifications

Ascension

* Air Vehicles Only (and AMS, ANT)
* No AA MAXs or BFRs allowed
* Dropship Center Aircraft can be pulled from all Vehicle Terminals
* Grants use of all Air Vehicles, along with the Engineering and Anti Vehicular certifications

Desolation

* Grants use of all certifications
Event Items are enabled (i.e. Wild West Weapons, Fusion Blades, and Super Stamina/Super Armor/Super Medkit)
* Dropship Center Aircraft can be pulled from each Base's Air Terminal

Nexus

* Infantry Only
* No MAXs allowed
* No Vehicles allowed other than the Phantasm, Galaxy, AMS, ANT, and Router
* Grants use of Medium Assault, Heavy Assault, Anti Vehicular, Phantasm, Galaxy, AMS, ANT, and Router certifications

Weapons, Armor, & Equipment

* Boomers are now functional and can be detonated manually or by EMP effects.
* Other Mine Types are now implemented (currently triggered via jam only)
* Maelstrom alternate fire modes are now working
* Spiker is now working
* Damage Over Time Effects are now working
* Dragon Flamethrower is now working
* Plasma Grenades are now working

Vehicles

* The explosion created when Vehicles are destroyed now do damage

Bug Fixes

* Airpad and Ground Silo repair terminals do not repair a vehicle that has been damaged in the last 5 seconds
* Spectators no longer take damage from Pain Fields
* The Inventory bug which would cause various issues has now been fixed
* Some server issues for people playing on non-Windows operating systems/under laggy circumstances have been fixed
* MAX Timers now use separate cooldowns
* Fixed an issue with Enhanced Targeting armor values
* Refactored a ton of code and fixed many various issues
* Fixed a bug with the Dragon Flamethrower
* Tells are once again no longer case sensitive
* Fixed Medkit cooldown display
* Fixed an issue where players would acquire the incorrect MAX type
* Fixed an issue where implants were not being uninitialized when fatigued
* Fixed a database issue
* Fixed an issue where /gmtell would not send properly
* Fixed trunk/vehicle inventory bug when mounting
* Vehicle creation/entry bug fixed
* Cyssor water height fixed
* Base Ownership once again persists after a server restart
* Fixed issue with Cargo Bay mounting
* Fixed many other bugs and implemented new stability fixes and code refactoring