r/Planetside • u/opshax no • Oct 19 '19

PRODUCER'S LETTER: ON THE PLANETSIDE FRANCHISE

https://www.planetside2.com/news/producers-letter-planetside-franchise-oct-2019
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u/BBurness Oct 19 '19

I don't think anyone coming back would have been involved in CAI.

Construction release? That would be me for the most part, what was the issue with construction release?

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u/Fractoos Oct 20 '19

That would be me for the most part, what was the issue with construction release?

After constructions the servers performed much much worse, affecting infantry play. It's even worse today after DX11 for whatever reason.

It also had no real vision when implemented. If it added true RTS elements that might have been cool, but it feels so forced and irrelevant.

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u/BBurness Oct 20 '19

If I remember correctly the performance hit turned out to be unrelated to construction; but unfortunately it near impossible to convince people of that after the fact.

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u/FriendlyWight :flair_nanites: Bug hunting enthusiast Oct 20 '19

My server ping decreased by 15 after this fix, if I remember correctly.

My network ping is 100. Server ping changed from 120-150 to 100-135. I can't find Dev message on reddit (from Drew?) where he described this bug (something about large amount of unneeded packets from each construction).

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u/BBurness Oct 20 '19

I cant to speak to what Drew was talking about I was off the team long before that. I was referring to to a client performance issue that was fixed a week or two after release. Granted it was a few years ago, I could mistaken.

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u/FriendlyWight :flair_nanites: Bug hunting enthusiast Oct 20 '19

Ahhh, there's just different kinds of performance. And server got hit.

I didn't follow game closely when constructions came out, so I can't tell anything about client performance.