PlanetSide 2 is launching a massive seasonal campaign system, and the open beta starts soon

Even eight years after it launched, there's still nothing else quite like PlanetSide 2's massive scale, ongoing sci-fi battles. Other shooters have certainly borrowed ideas from the free Steam game over the years, and now, Rogue Planet Games is borrowing something in return: the seasonal narrative system popularised by Fortnite. Today, Rogue Planet Games has announced The Shattered Warpgate, a new seasonal campaign system that is aimed at giving players a new way to experience PlanetSide's story and lore.

The Shattered Warpgate update will be available to play for free on the PlanetSide 2 public test server starting "soon", Rogue Planet says. You'll be headed back to the frozen world of Esamir, which has been torn apart by some kind of technological apocalypse. As the season progresses, you'll be able to take on new missions to discover the cause of the calamity.

It's a new approach for PlanetSide 2, which has traditionally been hyper-focused on its squad-based combat. That focus, in fact, has acted as a barrier to entry for new players at times - being able to jump in and understand what's going on could be extremely difficult if you wound up with a bad drop.

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