PlanetSide 2 Executive Producer Announces New ‘Escalation’ Release Date
After being delayed twice, the PlanetSide 2 Escalation update is finally on track for release next week. In a Producer’s Letter published earlier today, Rogue Planet Games Executive Producer Andy Sites officially announced that the update will be rolling out on March 11th.
“Let me start by saying THANK YOU for your patience and support over the past 4 weeks as we’ve been preparing the Escalation update for launch!
[. . .] With any update for a game of this scale, it’s practically impossible to catch every bug, or perfectly tune gameplay on a Test environment. There are just too many variables that cannot be accounted for until the update hits Live. But we believe the extra time we’ve taken, along with the amazing level of community support and feedback in our playtests, has created a much stronger foundation for this update that will allow us to immediately shift our focus to finetuning/balancing, rather than scrambling to hotfix critical issues. The past couple of playtests have given us the confidence to announce a new launch date of Wednesday, March 11.”
Aside from introducing new content, the highly-awaited Escalation update will also feature improvements to the Outfit system and Outfit Wars which should effectively solve the problems of leaderless Outfits. When the update rolls out, players will be able to submit tickets to reassign leadership of their Outfit to the next highest ranking active member with the longest service. The update will also introduce the new Bastion Fleet Carrier and the new Sanctuary social hub.
Sites also details the studio’s plans to move EU servers to a new data center on the same day that Escalation comes out. He also assures affected players that they will be taking steps to ensure that the relocation is “done as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
