PSForever is a fan-based, not-for-profit PlanetSide 1 emulation project.

Hey PlanetSide Community!

The PSForever Team has been hard at work for the past year to bring you yet another big update for the PSForever PlanetSide 1 Birthday Event!

Schedule

• Main Event: Thursday, May 20th, 2021
  
• Friday, May 21st, 2021
  
• Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
  
• Sunday, May 23rd, 2021

Expect fights all day, particularly at both European and North American primetimes! Players are encouraged to play all weekend, but peak login times of 1pm EDT & 7pm EDT are suggested for those wanting a more specific time.

Setup Guide

You can find our setup guide here[docs.google.com]. Setup is now easier than ever. If you have had issues with our launcher before, try the secondary method provided in the document. It is also highly recommended you join our Discord server here[discord.gg].

Beginner's Guide

For more information on how to play the game once online, you can view our Beginner’s Guide[docs.google.com].

Spectator Camera

If you are interested in having our Spectator Camera feature added to your PSForever account to capture video footage or stream the Event, please reach out to Nick#6970 on Discord!

Below you will find the patch notes for most everything we’ve done since last year’s event.



* Character Progression has been added.
* New characters will currently begin at Battle Rank 15.
* **NOTE:** Characters will likely be wiped at some point in the future, but not for quite some time.


* Your Battle Rank and Command Rank are now persistent
* Your Certification choices are now persistent
* Your Implant choices are now persistent
* Customize Appearance for high Battle Rank characters are now visible to all players and persistent
* Base ownership and NTU Level is now persistent


High Altitude Rapid Transport (HART) Shuttle & Drop Pods

* The HART and Drop Pods are now functional. See a video of them in action [here](https://streamable.com/yi71tk).

Power Generator

* Generators now control the power of each Facility
* Destroying the Generator results in a power down, shutting down all Terminals

Base Auto-Repair and Base Drain

* Damaging or destroying Base Equipment is now functional
* Facilities will now Auto-Repair this Equipment at the cost of NTU from its silo

Base Benefits

* Base Benefits will now be severed when hacking a Facility, or cutting off transferred Benefits to the lattice link with the destruction of Generator
* All Base Benefits have now been added

Lattice Logic Unit (LLU)

* Lattice Logic Units (LLU) are now functional (“Capture the Flag” style Base Capture)
* The LLU spawns when hacking into an LLU Facility. Read more on it [here](http://wiki.psforever.net/wiki/Lattice_Logic_Unit)

Environment Damage

* Drowning, Lava damage, and disabling submerged Vehicles are now implemented

Oshur Battle Islands

Oshur Battle Islands have been updated! Appropriate certs will now correctly be granted for free on each specific Battle Island, depending on the ruleset.

Here are the rulesets:

Extinction

* Ground Vehicles Only
* No AA MAXs, Skyguards, or BFRs allowed
* Grants use of all Ground Vehicles (except Skyguard and BFRs), along with the Engineering and Anti Vehicular certifications

Ascension

* Air Vehicles Only (and AMS, ANT)
* No AA MAXs or BFRs allowed
* Dropship Center Aircraft can be pulled from all Vehicle Terminals
* Grants use of all Air Vehicles, along with the Engineering and Anti Vehicular certifications

Desolation

* Grants use of all certifications
Event Items are enabled (i.e. Wild West Weapons, Fusion Blades, and Super Stamina/Super Armor/Super Medkit)
* Dropship Center Aircraft can be pulled from each Base's Air Terminal

Nexus

* Infantry Only
* No MAXs allowed
* No Vehicles allowed other than the Phantasm, Galaxy, AMS, ANT, and Router
* Grants use of Medium Assault, Heavy Assault, Anti Vehicular, Phantasm, Galaxy, AMS, ANT, and Router certifications

Weapons, Armor, & Equipment

* Boomers are now functional and can be detonated manually or by EMP effects.
* Other Mine Types are now implemented (currently triggered via jam only)
* Maelstrom alternate fire modes are now working
* Spiker is now working
* Damage Over Time Effects are now working
* Dragon Flamethrower is now working
* Plasma Grenades are now working

Vehicles

* The explosion created when Vehicles are destroyed now do damage

Bug Fixes

* Airpad and Ground Silo repair terminals do not repair a vehicle that has been damaged in the last 5 seconds
* Spectators no longer take damage from Pain Fields
* The Inventory bug which would cause various issues has now been fixed
* Some server issues for people playing on non-Windows operating systems/under laggy circumstances have been fixed
* MAX Timers now use separate cooldowns
* Fixed an issue with Enhanced Targeting armor values
* Refactored a ton of code and fixed many various issues
* Fixed a bug with the Dragon Flamethrower
* Tells are once again no longer case sensitive
* Fixed Medkit cooldown display
* Fixed an issue where players would acquire the incorrect MAX type
* Fixed an issue where implants were not being uninitialized when fatigued
* Fixed a database issue
* Fixed an issue where /gmtell would not send properly
* Fixed trunk/vehicle inventory bug when mounting
* Vehicle creation/entry bug fixed
* Cyssor water height fixed
* Base Ownership once again persists after a server restart
* Fixed issue with Cargo Bay mounting
* Fixed many other bugs and implemented new stability fixes and code refactoring

Join us on PlanetSide 1 for the 17th Birthday of the game. Requires connecting to the PSForever Server. See psforever.net and chat.psforever.net (the Discord) for more details.

CORRECTION: Date is 15 January 2020, not the 14th

Due to some interest on the Planetside subreddit, PSForever is hosting an impromptu event tomorrow during PS2's extended downtime (7:30am EST to 7:30 PM EST.

Peak login time is 12pm EST.

Please come join us and see the new changes!

Recent Updates:

• Squads
  
• Camera Guided Missiles/Lock on Missiles
  
• Base Benefits/Transfer of benefits via Lattice
  
• Vehicle Hacking
  
• Capital Domes
  
• Jammers
  
• Improved Anti-Hack
  
• Autodeployed test servers for new Github PRs
  
• Stability/bug fixes
  
• Lots of project refactoring, added server logging, and development documentation

Currently in testing (nearly live):

• Core Combat Caverns
  
• Web Based Account Management
  
• Some other goodies
  
• An experimental modded PS1 experience accessible to any players without a patch on the "Old Oshur" continent (accessible via command)

Hey all!

I wanted to invite you all to join in for some PlanetSide 1 action every Sunday! The PSForever community has put together a weekly PlanetSide 1 battle every Sunday at 1pm EST. This was organically created by some of our passionate community members, and supported by the PSForever team. It’s been a great success so far!

Every Sunday, players log into the PSForever server. The PSForever CSR team is on hand to set up a specific set of bases and even end objectives. Then a really fun battle ensues.

Peak player count has been great over the last few weeks. Last week we had 45. We want to get this number up even more!

For now, we are preferring players to play two of the three factions, so the maximum amount of teamwork can be utilized, and new players don’t get too lost. This Sunday, we will pit the Terran Republic against the New Conglomerate.

Squad chat is currently functioning as a global chat to all members of your team, so it’s something important to make use of! Additionally, the PSForever Discord server has multiple voice channels, so each faction can jump in and voice chat if they wish.

Interested in playing? It’s easy!

• Follow the Setup Guide @ http://psforever.net ("Play PSForever button")
  
• Join the Discord: http://chat.psforever.net
  
• Check Discord right before the battle to see which factions are available for the fight
  
• Follow instructions in game

Having trouble getting started? Post a question in the #help channel on Discord.

What do you mean by “objectives?”
Due to a smaller player count, we are setting up specific objectives for each battle to add more variety and ensure fun gameplay during our weekly play sessions. For example, two weeks ago was simply a single set of TR base vs NC base, whoever captures the enemy base first is the winner. Last week's objective was to capture a neutral base, while VS and NC launched attacks from a base each.

If the objective has been completed, CSRs are on hand to set up a new battle or objectives, or just set up for a normal battle.

In the near future, Campaigns will also be a part of our weekly battles. Imagine a string of “Scenarios” over the course of a few weeks or even months. Campaigns would have themes (i.e. rulesets and possibly even lore), as well as unique lasting consequences and rewards. The beginning stages of this will go into effect for this week’s battle, as NC lost last week, and this week’s battle will be TR vs VS.

For now these would be separate from normal gameplay (like for our Sunday battles), but in the future they could become persistent aspects of the ordinary gameplay depending on community input.

General Tips and Information:

• Account creation is automatic. When you first log into the game, your account and corresponding password will be saved.
  
• Your characters and loadouts will persist. Make sure to remember the account info you logged in with!
  
• Entering a message without using a slash (/) command will default to Broadcast, which currently is a Global chat for all factions
  
• Use /s (squad chat) to send faction messages globally
  
• /who will show a player count for each faction
  
• The /suicide command can be used to kill your character if you get stuck, bugged, or need it as a redeploy mechanism
  
• If you forgot your account info, consult the #help channel on Discord

Gameplay Tips:

• Several modifications have been applied serverside. Read about them [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YLHrrZeQCZm2Q5jR7oXwlH6eieUbncj_Jt_Eyyt_F-k/edit#).
  
• Certain weaponry is not functioning properly: Avoid using Plasma Grenades, Jammer Grenades, Maelstrom Grenades, Striker, Phoenix, Flail, and Radiator
  
• AA MAXs are disabled for NC and VS, and the Lancer/Lancer Ammo is currently available to all three factions (although TR and NC can’t save them to a loadout currently)
  
• All Enemy Vehicles is enabled for all empires
  
• BFRs, Spawn Tube destruction, Generator destruction, and power downs due to NTU are not currently functional

Time Zones:

• Pacific - 10:00/11:00 AM
  
• Mountain - 11:00/11:00 AM
  
• Central - 12:00/12:00 PM
  
• Eastern - 13:00/1:00 PM
  
• UTC - 17:00/5:00 PM
  
• British - 18:00/6:00 PM
  
• CEST - 19:00/7:00 PM
  
• Moscow - 20:00/8:00 PM
  
• Beijing - 01:00/1:00 AM

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Hope to see you in the battle!

Disclaimer: PSForever is a fan-based, not-for-profit PlanetSide 1 emulation project.

The PSForever Team has been hard at work to bring you a massive new update for this year’s Planetside Day Weekend Event! Join us on May 18 and 19th at 12pm EST to celebrate PlanetSide’s 16th Birthday.

Setup is now easier than ever. If you had issues with setup before, I urge you to give it a try again! You can find our setup guide here[docs.google.com]. It is also highly recommended you join our Discord server here[discord.gg].

And now, without further ado, are the patch notes:

• Initial account creation is now live!
  
• Simply typing an account and password into the game client will create an account for you automatically.
  
• Characters and any Loadouts you create with them will now be permanently saved to your respective accounts and characters.
  
• If you have issues with your accounts, please use the #help channel in our Discord.

Warpgates

• You can warp to every Battle Continent using the now functioning Warpgates. The war for Auraxis is back!
  
• For now, Forseral will be the starting location when a player enters the game. If no spawn locations are available on Forseral, you will start in your faction’s Sanctuary.
  
• GMs can now set base ownership while the server is live to set up a specific fight configuration.

Sanctuaries

• Sanctuaries are now implemented, with the exception of the HART shuttle.
  You will spawn in your faction's Sanctuary if you do not control any bases on Forseral.
  
  
• You can spawn at your faction’s Sanctuary at any time like normal, allowing you to use it as a location to acquire certain vehicles and bring them to a continent you may not have access to them on.

Base Capture

• Bases and Towers can now be hacked into and captured.
  To capture a base, use the Remote Electronics Kit (REK) to hack an enemy Control Console.
  
• Bases currently only support Hack and Hold capture methods, as the LLU method is currently a WIP.

Global Lattice

With the combat area being expanded to each Battle Continent, and Base Capture being added, the Global Lattice is now functional for the purpose of hack links.

Base States

• Bases now have an NTU resource level, can run out of NTU, or be refilled by the now functioning Advanced Nanite Transport (ANT) vehicle.
  
• NTU is drained 10%/60 min
  
• Won’t go neutral at 0% (currently working, but disabled)
  
• Note: This is a temporary setup until we can implement the proper mechanics for NTU depletion. These are subject to change and just experimental. GMs also can change NTU levels at their discretion.
  
• Base States are still a work in progress, as Spawn Tubes and Generators cannot be destroyed yet.
  
• Base Benefits are still hard coded at this time, so benefits will not transfer through the lattice.

Base Equipment Functionality

• All base equipment that has been implemented thus far is now functional at each base on every Battle Continent.
  
• Wall Turrets are functioning and upgradeable with the proper Advanced Engineering certification, but don’t actually become destroyed; the gunner will be killed when the turret reaches 1 hitpoint. They can be repaired.
  
• Lockers will work and store items during a gameplay session, but beware, those items will be lost at the end of the session, as storage is not yet persistent.

• Many weapons have undergone damage audits. They should now be more accurate.
  
• The Lasher’s Lash now works properly.
  
• Splash damage degradation has been added.
  
• Some weapons that lacked a visual projectile, sound, and damage indicators have been fixed.
  
• Firing modes for weapons with with camera modes, lock on features, and all AA MAXs are temporarily disabled until further work is done.

Lasher Balance Update

• Lash damage has been increased from 6 to 9.
  
• The distance before Lasher orbs can begin lashing has been reduced from 5 meters to 0 meters (effectively ~2.5 meters).
  
• These changes are experimental and may be occasionally changed or reverted.

Advanced Hacking

• Advanced Hacking is now fully functional.
  
• Characters with Advanced Hacking can now hack a greater variety of base equipment, such as Equipment Terminals and Vehicle Terminals, and do it more quickly.

Combat Engineering

• Combat Engineering deployables are now in the game, but some lack damage, AI, and some other features that make each deployable fully functional.
  
• One Man Field Turrets are functioning and do have damage.
  
• To create deployables:
  Acquire an Adaptive Construction Engine (ACE) or a Field Deployable Unit (FDU) at an Equipment Terminal
  
• Place it at a valid placement point.

Router

• The Router teleportation pad vehicle is now fully functional.
  
• To use a Router:
  
• Acquire it from a Vehicle Terminal
  
• Deploy it with the ‘B’ button
  
• Acquire a Telepad from the underside of Router with the ‘G’ button
  
• Place it at a valid placement point.
  
• After a short delay, friendly and enemy players alike will be able to teleport between the Router and the Telepad.

Advanced Nanite Transport (ANT)

• The Advanced Nanite Transport (ANT) can now fill their capacitors with NTU at Warpgates and use it to fill a Base’s NTU Silo.
  
• To fill a Base with the ANT:
  
• Acquire an ANT at a Vehicle Terminal.
  
• Drive to a nearby Warpgate and fill your capacitors with the ‘B’ button.
  
• Once filled, drive the ANT to a Base which needs NTU.
  
• Approach the Base’s NTU Silo in the Courtyard.
  
• When prompted, press the ‘B’ button to fill the Base’s NTU Silo.

Advanced Mobile Station (AMS)

• The respawn circle for the AMS is now functional. You no longer need to use the !ams command.
  
• As a fun modifier, the AMS can be loaded into a Galaxy Cargo Hold.

Galaxy and Lodestar Vehicle Cargo Hold

• Cargo Holds for the transportation of vehicles within Galaxy Dropships and Lodestars are now fully functional.
  
• To use a cargo hold:
  
• Acquire an appropriate vehicle at a Vehicle Terminal.
  
• Approach a Galaxy or Lodestar cargo hold, and press the ‘G’ button when prompted.
  
• As a fun modifier, the AMS can be loaded into the Galaxy Cargo Hold.
  
• There is a known disconnect bug that can occur if the Galaxy your vehicle was inside is deconstructed (via the pilot bailing midair, or the pilot manually deconstructing it, you can be disconnected from the game.
  
• As a fun modifier, the flight ceiling has been raised from 400 to 500.
  
• As a fun modifier, you can pull a Galaxy Dropship from any terminal in which you can acquire air vehicles.

Reaver Balance Update

• Max health reduced from 1000 to 900 to revert the never reverted “Coder Madness 2” patch from Live

The two currently implemented Implants are:

• Surge
  
• Darklight Vision

• An issue where an AMS can despawn but still act as a respawn point has been fixed
  
• Load screen freezes when initially loading the world and zoning should no longer occur
  
• Sanctuary vehicle terminals now work
  
• If a GM uses the /zone command inside a vehicle, the vehicle will no longer linger and potentially cause zone crashes
  
• Terminal/IFF Lock hacks will now clear when a base is hacked or resecured
  
• Enemy doors will no longer give the “Enemy owned facility - door is locked” message when the door lock is unlocked
  
• Corrected an issue in which Anti Infantry MAX could be acquired at an AMS terminal by Favorite Loadouts
  
• You can now properly acquire Standard Exosuit at an AMS with Favorite Loadouts
  
• Fixed various issues with deconstructing at an AMS
  
• When clicking a respawn location more than once in rapid succession, it will no longer send you to your faction’s Sanctuary
  
• You can now open hacked Terminal menus at a base that has been hacked without channeling the REK beam on it to open the window
  
• Doors that sometimes would not close will now correctly close
  
• Acquiring items from the Repair/Rearm Silo or Landing Pads will now properly automatically place the items directly into your vehicle’s inventory
  
• When respawning to a Sanctuary, the respawn time will now be instantaneous instead of 10 seconds
  
• When choosing to respawn to Sanctuary, you will no longer spawn in dead
  
• Players in a vehicle that bails from the Cargo Hold of a Galaxy that deconstructs will no longer be disconnected
  
• ...and many, many more!

Server side Mods
We can now use a special packet called PropertyOverrideMessage to create short or long term modifications by overriding some of the properties the game stores client side. As these changes are applied to the game server side, meaning that no download or patching is needed.

Along with many other things being controlled by the server, robust modification of Planetside can now occur with an unchanged game client.

Although you may have read some of them in the above patch notes, you can find a list of currently activated modifiers on the PSForever Live Server here[docs.google.com].

Client side Mods
Regarding client side changes, several new discoveries have been made, particularly when utilizing both client side and server side mods. The following features have had proof of concepts created:

• New vehicles
  
• New weapons
  
• New MAXs
  
• Terrain changes
  
• Map changes
  
• ...and so much more!

We’d still like to get a working patcher that can patch and verify files up and running before tinkering with mods which require a download.

While our developers’ work has been amazing, we could always use more. To continue making PSForever a reality, we need your help! If you have any interest, here are some of the skills needed to assist us:

• Server Development (Scala, Reverse Engineering)
  
• Tools Programmer (C# / C++, Launcher/Patcher)
  
• Client Reversing (DLL Hooks, etc.)
  
• Database Designer

Even if you are not a developer, having a large and active community is helpful. As always, the best place to play, help out, or just find out more information on our project is at the PSForever Discord server: http://chat.psforever.net. We hope to see you there!

• Setup Guide[docs.google.com]
  
• Discord[chat.psforever.net]
  
• Website[psforever.net]
  
• Forums[psforever.net]