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Planetside Next - Coming March 2011...

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Really looking forward to this, as long as there's more to pull you back than the original - continent captures were an anticlimax to say the least. Some more advanced hit detection will be greatly received too.

PS was incredible for its time, but unfortunately neither the engine nor technology could really handle it (there were... issues... accommodating those 200+ player battles). Will be interesting to see what SOE can do now.
 
Yesterday Smedley (CEO Sony Online) posted this over on the PSU forums addressing the delay in news and media revolving around PSN.
What I have been trying to do is to keep the folks at PSU updated because you guys are the most loyal Planetside fans. Ive released stuff ahead of any marketing or PR push. Recently ( a few weeks ago actually) we made the call to update the game to a new internally developed engine. Doing that meant delaying the game, but we thought it was in the best interests of Planetside Next. It also means delaying releasing further info for a little while. I will let you all know more when we firm up the schedule. The likely next step is a larger scale release of information and the beta signups going up. As I've said previously current Planetside subs will be included automatically.

Normally when we do game announcements we do a much bigger concerted information push all at once and these kind of one off posts don't happen. In this case I feel like the Planetside audience has hung in with us for a long time and I really want to involve you all more in advance of the official info. However what happens is everything gets carried across the net and the actual info gets changed. I'm sorry for that happening. We will do our best to keep you informed early. But that necessarily means that sometimes when things change you have to be ready for that too.

Smed

Planetside will be a sequel and all three empires will remain in the game. The certification system looks to remain the same. Which is a great thing. Once a newbie completes the VR training they are at BR6, which is sufficient to get the soldier out into the field and fighting along side his or her BR31 brothers. No word on how high Battle Rank will go, but I hope it's not going to be as high as it is now. No word yet on the letter, but this gives everyone something to look over.

Here is the forum where I got this info from. Smeds also answers a few questions from the community in this thread.

Much <3 to PSU for this info.
 
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