Planetside 2 to get first major optimization patch in October

Michael Dunaway
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While SOE seemed to have drug its feet in the past when it came to addressing major performance issues, the company now seems to have hurled itself into a full on sprint. Just a little over a week ago SOE announced their Operation: Make Game Faster initiative, a slightly cheesy but sincere attempt to pull back the veil and show players the efforts the studio is putting towards these trouble areas.

Surprisingly, according to an official announcement posted yesterday on the Planetside 2 forums, SOE has already improved the frame rate on their test hardware by up to 30 percent. The announcement goes on to mention that there is still more to be done, but SOE knowing how their community has been anxiously awaiting the news, wanted to share some tentative dates of when the developer intends to release some of the improvements.

At their current pace, the first major optimization patch will be completed internally on October 9th. Shortly thereafter, SOE will release the patch on the Public Test server in order to verify the performance increases the studio was seeing internally. Finally, on October 23rd the first major optimization patch will be released.

Of course these dates are all tentative. Things can and often spring up which require extra attention and can sometimes slightly delay a patch. However, it's pretty safe to assume the new update will arrive in late October regardless.

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (18)

Prof3$$0rMMO 11 years ago
if there would be a cross platform of this game, PC users will win because they can fully customize their mouse sensitivity from 1 to 100 unlike all of the general console analog stick senstivity adjustments; Which are 1 - 10

realist 11 years ago
ALL YOU NEED TO DO ALL IS URGRADE YOUR TOAST COMPUTERS DUDES !!!!

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Jakoul 11 years ago
Sweet, they're finally working on optimization after the game has been out a goddamn year!

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Bic Boi 11 years ago
Yay +2 frames per second in dis patch woot yolo.

Deroni76 11 years ago
Jeez, about time. Let's hope I get more than 15 FPS during battles now.

Hermond 11 years ago
He drugged his feet? LOL

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M-16 11 years ago
I wish that some day, the same will be done with firefall.

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Round Guy 11 years ago
Yeah, hopefully lower grade systems wont struggle too much on low settings anymore. Though I don't expect anything too over the top for low performance players.

mattmanrx99 11 years ago
I am very excited to see this and hope I can play this game on at least medium

Sweet 11 years ago
i want a ps4 to play this !

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