Coming next to Planetside 2
SOE president John Smedley has posted an open letter to Planetside 2 beta players outlining what's coming up for the MMOFPS.
Smed, as he's known on the SOE forums, revealed: "A bunch of stuff is coming in the next few weeks. Our goal is to have all certs in the game in the next few weeks. It's a lot of work and we may not make it but that's our goal. you can expect big changes to the gun balance in the game and a lot of changes related to spawning behavior that Matt put up in his other post."
"Matt and his team are also considering adding base ownership benefits and discussing the third rail "continent locking" issue in more detail (note this does NOT mean I'm saying we are going to add continent locking.. just they are discussing the issue and ways to address player desires for something along those lines.. no promises here)."
"I want to be very clear that we are listening very, very closely to what you are saying. Those spawning changes (Sunderer, Galaxy, Maxes) are the direct result of us listening to what everyone (and I do mean all viewpoints here) has been saying and carefully considering how we think they will impact game balance."
It was also revealed that Esamir, the second of three continents that players will fight over, is close to completion. But that Amerish is further away, and the release of this continent may be pushed back until after launch: "We also are working hard on Esamir. It's getting closer and closer to a finished state where we want you guys to play on it. It's pretty awesome and very different gameplay wise than Indar."
"After that Amerish will go back to being worked on. These continents are taking longer than we expected and it's possible we end up launching with two and delivering the 3rd shortly after launch."
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