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Title: [PTS] October 8, 2019 - PTS Update
Post by: PSNews on 09/10/2019, 00:47
The PTS server will be coming down this evening for an update.

New Weapons

VE-A1 Lacerta (Vanu Sovereignty - Assault Rifle)

The Lacerta assault rifle syncs an accurate, three round burst to a moderate refire rate, and creates a melodic barrage of plasma, perfect for mid-range engagements.

MG-A1 Arbalest (Terran Republic - Assault Rifle)

Designed as an alternative to the popular SABR-13 assault rifle, the Arbalest fires concentrated, 6-round bursts with low recoil and high takedown potential at mid-range.

MGR-A1 Vanquisher (New Conglomerate - Assault Rifle)

The Vanquisher's performance is defined by its excellent stopping power over distance, delivered through a low recoil, three-round burst.

UI Changes and Fixes



Infantry

Frag Grenade (All factions)

Dev Note: Frag Grenades often sting, but rarely kill. These damage changes increase the consistency of the explosive a bit more. The new explosion visuals are intended to add a bit more faction identity to each grenade.

Sticky Grenade (All factions)

Dev Note: Sticky Grenades already do 800 damage to stuck targets, in addition to the normal 1275 blast damage. We want to create more of a tradeoff with the standard Frag, and reducing the outer explosion area will require players to be a bit more accurate.

NS-03 Thumper (Common Pool Heavy Weapon)

Dev Note: We've pulled back some of the downsides of the weapon to make it more worthy of use in more situations.

VE-S Canis (VS SMG)

Dev Note: Holding down the trigger will cap out the cone of fire bloom at around half way through the magazine when used with an advanced laser sight, and earlier without, leaning a bit harder into the weapon's spinup characteristics.

NS-61 Emissary (Common Pool Sidearm)

Dev Note: Small increase in damage here for skillful shots to give it more desirability among alternatives. And yes, we know about the animation issue where the gun isn't centered correctly on the screen even during ADS.

Vehicles

Reload Certifications

We're doing a wide sweep on reload speed certifications, and are converting them to percentage-based buffs. The weapons listed below will be capped at 10% reload speed at max rank, which for some weapons is a power reduction.

The scaling for these cert lines is now heavily weighted toward the first levels so that new players have less required investment to compete with other maxed out vehicles.

We will continue rolling out percentage-based refactors to all weapons as we iterate through them, but for the time being, the weapons impacted are listed below.



MBT, Lightning, Sunderer, ANT (All factions)

Dev Note: This shifts up all of the light anti-armor based weaponry's power level against heavily armored vehicles a bit, which currently tend to be some of the less popular weapons in the game. This change also gives Harassers more of an edge against the targets listed.

ESF

Dev Note: With the introduction of the Wyrm, and the efficacy of A2A missile setups, ESF now have more powerful counters to solo Liberators, and have re-enabled one-shot kills with the Dalton against non-composite ESF, and made the vehicles slightly more vulnerable to gatling gun style weaponry. The increase in A2G warhead resistance gives ESF doesn't impact most A2G warhead weapons in a meaningful way, but sets Dalton up for changes we're making further down.

Liberator

Dev Note: With the Liberator's integrated afterburner, added bottom armor, and now "free" fire suppression, players felt the Liberator was too tanky, and became less interesting to fight both with ESF and other Liberators. So for the time being, we've reverted the bottom armor change, and can consider bringing it back as a Defensive slot option if the demand is high enough. The air to ground resistance reduction will help, alongside changes below, with Liberator versus Liberator fights, and add a bit more power to Hornet Missiles, for ESF who want to risk getting closer to the vehicle.

Dalton (Liberator Bellygun)

Dev Note: Due to extensive community feedback regarding this weapon, we've made some significant changes to the Dalton. In 1v1 Liberator versus Liberator confrontations, shots to kill will be brought from a 5/6 shot burning/kill (or 6/7 shot burning/kill with all bottom armor shots) to a 3/4 shot burning/kill from all angles. Non-composite armor ESF will once again be one-shotted when struck. We've also lengthened the reload time of this weapon and increased the damage to emphasize its power, and reward skillful aim over spam.

Dual-75 Duster (Liberator Bellygun)

Dev Note: This change buffs the direct-hit damage on the Duster against armored ground targets, increasing the versatility of the weapon.

VLG (Valkyrie Nosegun)

Dev Note: The reload speed certification was overlooked when the VLG was buffed some updates ago, we're reeling that in to be in line with other weapons, and slightly reducing the base reload speed of the weapon.

M60-A Bulldog (Galaxy)



M60-G Bulldog (Harasser)


M60-G Bulldog (ANT)


M60-G Bulldog (Sunderer)

Dev Note: The Bulldog changes listed above are meant to provide some more stopping power on direct hits, especially more against lightly armored vehicles. Magazine sizes have been decreased to counterbalance the overall damage output. This does result in a less spammable weapon, and as its original goal was to disperse infantry, we'll keep an eye on it and make adjustments if the weapon feels like its fallen too far in that respect.

M4-F Pillager (TR Flash Weapon)

Dev Note: This weapon gets a bit stronger with the Light Anti-Armor resistance changes to heavily armored vehicles, but the main issue we're addressing for the time being is the limited ammunition capacity. We've noted the performance hit caused by firing the weapon, and are looking to address that as soon as we can.

Misc. Changes, Fixes, Additions

Player Studio


Source: Planetside 2 Test Server: Announcements (http://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?forums/planetside-2-test-server-announcements.69/)

Title: Re: [PTS] October 8, 2019 - PTS Update
Post by: MrFFF on 09/10/2019, 10:15
Shitty patch, i hate it. Is that a massive buff to Canis? No fucking shame. like the unique granade explosions and lib nerf / dalton buff tho.
Title: Re: [PTS] October 8, 2019 - PTS Update
Post by: FelixTheLion on 09/10/2019, 10:43
Dalton (Liberator Bellygun)

    Direct damage from 1200 to 1500
    Reload from 2.5sec. to 3.25sec.
    Changed the first person trail particle effects to better represent projectile distance from the player.
    Changed the explosion particle effect to better reflect the blast radius of the weapon.

Dev Note: Due to extensive community feedback regarding this weapon, we've made some significant changes to the Dalton. In 1v1 Liberator versus Liberator confrontations, shots to kill will be brought from a 5/6 shot burning/kill (or 6/7 shot burning/kill with all bottom armor shots) to a 3/4 shot burning/kill from all angles. Non-composite armor ESF will once again be one-shotted when struck. We've also lengthened the reload time of this weapon and increased the damage to emphasize its power, and reward skillful aim over spam.


extensive community feedback

When you sit in front of your keyboard as a dev writing this and you have to write something without using the words "whiny reddit shithole" but "constructive" is the least fitting world in the whole english vocabulary. ^^

And yes, the Canis buff makes like zero sense since this weapon performs great (just not as unfairly overwhelming as right after release).
Title: Re: [PTS] October 8, 2019 - PTS Update
Post by: Wolkenwand on 09/10/2019, 12:04
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Squads now have an option to prevent players from being auto-filled into their squad on login. This allows players oriented toward a specific style of play to keep squads open with less frustration.

I like this  one very much
Title: Re: [PTS] October 8, 2019 - PTS Update
Post by: PandaFraHelvete on 09/10/2019, 17:53
I see no love for the charger... I guess we will be stuck with the shitty reloading time and underwhelming mechanics

The canis buff is really uncalled for
Title: Re: [PTS] October 8, 2019 - PTS Update
Post by: ChargeMaximus on 09/10/2019, 19:06
So they finally decided to take a look at VLG reload time reduction, noooooo  :'( . However, if for once they nerfed the most under-utilised vehicle in the game currently, why haven't they upped the power of the weaker weapons like Pelters or that stupid Hellion?
Title: Re: [PTS] October 8, 2019 - PTS Update
Post by: DumpDeadHUN on 10/10/2019, 15:55
canis buff shit sure but i would like the dalton deserve the high dmg is need som skill to shot whit it. also better for solo lib players