The Fallen Earth blog has been updated with information about next week's Thanksgiving events in game as well as the news that the public test server is back in business. Players logging into the PTS will be able to check out the faction control feature that is scheduled to head to live servers very soon.

Lastly, the team has outlined a few changes incoming on how players will earn faction.

You will not need to choose a faction to run missions in Faction Towns or do any PvE content. Your chosen faction will only affect PvP systems. We are also removing shoulder factions. If you do a mission that gives you Enforcer faction, you will only lose CHOTA faction. If you kill a Tech, you will only gain Vista faction. This will open up more content to players who have maxed two factions instead of having all three. This prevents players from being punished for running missions for both shoulder factions, and it will open up the possibility for players to have unusual alliances.

Read the full post on the Fallen Earth blog.