Sony Online Entertainment and the PlanetSide 2 team have published the latest patch notes for the update that went into effect over the weekend. Changes include vehicle and weapon updates, client improvements and UI alterations.

Experience Updates

• As an added bonus to our earliest supporters, we’ve increased the bonus percentage of our Alpha Squad boost to 50% resources and XP.
• Added tiered kill xp
  • Killing a player who has been alive for less than 10 seconds and has not earned more than 5 xp will yield a diminished “Spawn Kill” xp reward of 25 xp
  • Killing a player who has been alive for more than 10 seconds, or earned more than 5 xp and less than 1000 xp will yield a normal “Kill” xp reward of 100 xp
  • Killing a player who has earned equal to or more than 1000 xp but less than 2000 xp will yield an enhanced “High Threat Kill” xp reward of 150 xp
  • Killing a player who has earned equal to or more than 2000 xp will yield an enhanced “Extreme Menace Kill” xp reward of 300 xp

Read the full patch notes on the PlanetSide 2 forum.

More reason for new players not to play this game.

Concept is good. Performance is terrible (even on good systems), combat is clunky, and cheating, from what I hear now, is rampant.

Performance is good for me, combat is awsome, iv seen no cheating. so this guy is a troll.

Awsome changes btw

Mostly balancing changes and the promised spawn camping disruption

Wake me up when they have added more meta-game

Cheating isn't bad... every now and then you run into some hacker but it is not as bad as people say.

The performance is horrific, yes they screwed the pooch on this one.

They have issues, a good chunck of them I will admit but in the end it is a fun game for people new and old.

Originally posted by mmoDAD

More reason for new players not to play this game.

 

Concept is good. Performance is terrible (even on good systems), combat is clunky, and cheating, from what I hear now, is rampant.

For all new players--DO not listen to this!  Amazing performance, smooth and fast combat, best mmofps around.

I can admit the game has its flaws and that there are hackers (even if it's not as bad as people claim - not at all, actually) but performance hasn't been a problem for anyone I've played with. Heck, I even played this on a laptop over shitty hotel wi-fi with no problems.

If you have performance problems with this game, perhaps it is time to upgrade or at least run a   good benchmark test to see if there's something wrong or lacking.

Biggest problem with Planetside 2 was the lack of incentive or tools for defending and a bit of balance. Balance of XP is more or less fixed in this latest patch and defenders have gotten more advantages and defending has gotten a lot easier. Balance is of course always something any developers are working on, and while I'm sure it's not perfect I have no issues enjoying myself as infantry.

Are you on the fence? The game is free - download it and try it; don't just listen to me or anyone else - form your own opinion.

Originally posted by mmoDAD

More reason for new players not to play this game.

 

Concept is good. Performance is terrible (even on good systems), combat is clunky, and cheating, from what I hear now, is rampant.

I like the "from what I hear" part. It s nothing as you say. Performance is great, combat is far far far from clunky, and while cheating I m sure happens, I have yet to see it once.

Peformance took a hit from this patch, for reasons I don't know if anyone is sure of yet. The game ran much better before the patch. Hopefully they fix whatever went wrong.

Beyond that though i'm pretty happy with the changes, particularly with XP and redesigned spawnrooms.

Originally posted by dinams

Mostly balancing changes and the promised spawn camping disruption

Wake me up when they have added more meta-game

waiting on the same thing :)

Plays ok here using 2 x Xeon 3645 and 4 x GTX 570, and a i7 920 with a hd5870 :P

What i hate about this game is the spawncamping with vehicles its so terrible never seen anything like it.

Dont think changing the Experiance  is gonna help neither.

Group of 10 peeps trying to def a base and no way to even get out of the spawn point.