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PlanetSide 2 Extra Life fundraising event!


This year gamers from all over the world unite together for a very strong cause. Children in hospitals need our help. We are excited to announce that we are launching our Extra Life Team to help give back to those in our community in greatest need.

The PlanetSide 2 Extra Life Team is working towards a goal of surpassing $10,000 in donations to support Rady Children’s Hospital, our local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital in San Diego, CA. The studio is donating an initial $5,000 to kick off our fundraising, and we hope that you will consider joining or supporting our team to meet that goal together!

[h2]About Rady Children's Hospital[/h2]

Rady Children’s Hospital is:
  • The largest children’s hospital in California and the 6th largest in the country (based on admissions)
  • The only hospital in San Diego dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare
Rady Children’s treats:
  • 92% of the region’s kids
  • Nearly 250,000 kids per year
Every year at Rady Children’s we:
  • Use about 880,000 diapers
  • Give out about 280,000 bandages
  • Hand out more than 29,000 popsicles to patients
  • Go through more than 9,900 packs of crayons
  • Provide more than 2,900 crutches for our patients
The Rady Children’s team consists of:
  • Nearly 900 physicians
  • More than 1,400 nurses
  • 40 dogs that are on campus 5 days per week through the PetSmart Paws For Hope canine therapy program
  • Learn more about Rady Children’s Hospital and find out how you can join the effort and make a difference in a child’s life.

[h2]How can l help?[/h2]
Join our team! It’s a minimal commitment to sign up – you simply promise to play games (any games!) for a total of 24 hours over the course of the month or anytime until Dec. 31st. You’re welcome to join our team from any location and play for Rady Children’s Hospital. Or, if you can’t spare the time to participate, help out by donating or sharing the news! Every little bit helps.

To Join our Team:
To join the PlanetSide 2 team, join via Extra Life’s website (https://www.extra-life.org/) or click "Join our team" here.

When you join as a team member, you can set your own goals, milestones, and incentives. Just set up your account, join our team and follow the links on your profile page for further instructions.

To Donate:
If you choose to just donate instead or donate while being a team member (this can be anonymously as well), click the "Donate" button from our page and follow the instructions there.


After selecting the Donate button from the team page choose any of the team members listed. Even though some team members may have reached their personal goal, you can still donate to that team member which will contribute to the PlanetSide 2 team goal of $10k.

Enlist today for the kids, soldier!

📢 July 23, 2024 - PC Hotfix 📢

Servers are coming down at 6AM PT / 3PM CEST tomorrow for a hotfix that will address the following below. Estimated downtime may be up to 3 hours.

[h2]Cert Refund Status[/h2]
We are considering all technical solutions for the cert reimbursement over past Sunderer module upgrades. As soon as an acceptable option is found, we will immediately inform you.

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
  • Sunderer mobility and speed balance pass.
  • Fixed a doubled up sound effect when the M12 Goblin SP for the Colossus is firing in third person.
  • Fixed a sound issue where the following weapon sound effects would be really quiet or disappear when changing from first to third person camera modes:
  • M20 Kestrel
  • L-24R Spur
  • M18 Locust
  • Antares LC
  • Saron Laser Cannon
  • DV-22 Raycaster
  • DV-21 Lotus
  • Fixed a bug where soft currencies such as ISO–4 and A7 do not show visually on the user interface when received as a reward or obtained through other methods.

📢 July 17, 2024 - PC Hotfix 📢

Servers are coming down at 6AM PT / 3PM CEST tomorrow for a hotfix that will address the following below. Estimated downtime may be up to 3 hours.

[h2]Sunderer Update Follow Up[/h2]
We are happy to see players explore the new modules added to the Sunderer this week. We've been reading your feedback across social media, the forums, reddit, discord, steam, youtube and twitch. We agree with the census that the Sunderer could use some rebalancing. We are working on an update that will hopefully make proper balance adjustments to the Sunderer's capabilities. We'll post more information about that update later.

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
  • Fixed an audio bug where audio is faint or disappears when changing camera view when firing the following weapons:
  • M20 Basilisk,
  • G40 Ranger,
  • CT-102 Satyr
  • M20 Drake
  • M202 Wyrm
  • M18 Palisade
  • A30 Walker
  • Lightning Skyguard
  • Sunderer cargo units will no longer remove ownership of the Sunderer itself from the player.
  • Sunderer Ammo Tower cargo unit now has the correct cooldown in the descriptions for each tier on its cert tree.
  • Fixed Sunderer's Deploy Dome to allow its top mounted weapons to not collide with the shield.

[h2]Known Issues:[/h2]
  • Some players may have purchased the "Directive Bundle: Tides of Summer 2023" from the members only section. The icon for this bundle wasn't ready and was accidentally sent live. Although everything else in the bundle was correct (and for those who have purchased it, yes you may keep it!) However since the cat is out of the bag, we plan on making previous Event Directive rewards available to purchase with Daybreak Cash (Account wide purchase) or A7 (character only purchase) if you are a Daybreak Member. We weren't planning to go live with this until later this year as we have been heavily focused (art wise especially) on upcoming content, rewards, and Depot items.
  • We have seen feedback regarding Member Only Bundles and that players would like to preview them before considering purchasing a membership (totally understandable!). In a future patch we will make previewing available to all players (we just have to get it all through QA first).

📢 July 11, 2024 - PC Hotfix 📢

Servers are coming down at 4:30 PM PDT / 1:30am CEST today for a hotfix that will address the following below. Estimated downtime may be up to 3 hours.

[h2]Module Removal[/h2]
The following previously unlockable modules will no longer be equipable on the sunderer.

Returning to PlanetSide 2? Check out the new sunderer redesign here with a video preview here, and our latest update for it here.

  • Blockade Armor
  • Deployment Shield
  • Fire Suppression System
  • Gate Shield Diffuser
  • Nanite Auto Repair System
  • Mine Guard
  • Proximity Repair System
  • Proximity Radar
  • Rival Combat Chassis
  • Racer High Speed Chassis
  • Smoke Screen
  • Vehicle Ammo Dispenser