PlanetSide 2 News

[h2]Outfit Wars Enlistment Begins![/h2]
Enlistment for this season's Outfit War event runs from Aug. 03 - Aug. 14. You must have at least 48 players in your Outfit in order to sign up, and 48 players must sign up individually to confirm your Outfit's participation in the event.


[h2]Summer Directive - Sullen Swells![/h2]
The last of our Summer Directive lineup runs from Aug. 03 - Aug. 17!

• Beat the Heat - Score kills with a Summer Holiday Weapon.
  
• Summer Support - Earn Summer Support ribbons by resupplying or repairing vehicles while in a vehicle.
  
• Beach Episode - Earn squad experience.
  
• Sunscreen - Earn healing experience.
  
• Strife Aquatic - Capture seapost bases on Oshur.
  
• Air and Ocean - Earn kills underwater or mid-air as infantry.
  
• Completing the last tier of this directive unlocks Countershade! Conceal your presence on land and sea with this new exceptional implant. Countershade will be made craftable, and found in implant packs after the event ends.
  

Countershade
Killing an enemy will conceal your radar signature from detection devices for 8 seconds. Triggering this implant while underwater applies this effect until you resurface.

[h2]New to the Depot![/h2]
Traitor Bundle - 2999 DBC
There's a spy among us... The Traitor Bundle makes its way to the depot. Be the assassin you've always dreamed of (?) with this new common-pool bundle. Weapons apply progress to the Exceptional VI directive.

• NS-7 "Assassin" PDW
  
• NS-45 "Assassin" Pilot
  
• Flash Assassin Plating
  
• Flash Stealthwave Tire Trails
  
• ANT Stealthwave Tire Trails
  
• Harasser Stealthwave Tire Trails
  
• Sunderer Stealthwave Tire Trails
  
• Chimera Stealthwave Tire Trails (NSO only)
  
• Title: Traitor
  

An infiltrator wielding the new NS-7 "Assassin" PDW.

[h2]Misc. Changes, Fixes, and Additions[/h2]

• Cleaned up an issue preventing NSO outfit leaders from enlisting their Outfits
  
• Optimized Basilisk firing audio for ground-based vehicles. (This was already done for Corsairs.)
  
• Optimized particle FX for tank mines, EMP grenades, C-4, Claymores, and various vehicle death explosions.
  
• Nanite Boosts now show your proper boosted amount per tick in the loadout screen and TAB screen.
  
• Fixed an issue where god rays could wash out flora color.
  
• UBP-1 "Steel" Starfish now counts toward the Exceptional VI directive.
  

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

• We're currently investigating periodic hitching taking place on Amerish. This is our highest priority at the moment.
  
• Homing and wire-guided projectiles still need a tuning pass, as of the Surf and Storm update.
  

This weekend, The Late Shift stream team dusts off their uniforms and heads PlanetSide.

On Saturday, July 30, beginning at 10pm EST: GassyMexican, BurkeBlack, CrReaM, and CletusBueford will be on the battlefield alongside hundreds of other Auraxians on the Emerald server!

Be prepared for big battles, unusual events, and glorious mayhem. Faction assignment will be revealed once boots hit the ground!



We encourage folks to swing by, create some fun fights, and make our community moderators' lives easy throughout the event.

You can check out The Late Shift team page here! https://www.twitch.tv/team/thelateshift


*Start time has been corrected in this news post. The stream event begins 7PM PT / 10PM ET.

Daybreak All-Access members can enjoy Double EXP today through July 31st.

Check out the LateShift livestream happening this weekend.

Learn more about Daybreak All-Access here.

See you in game, soldier!

This weekend, The Late Shift stream team dusts off their uniforms and heads PlanetSide.

On Saturday, July 30, beginning at 10pm EST: GassyMexican, BurkeBlack, CrReaM, and CletusBueford will be on the battlefield alongside hundreds of other Auraxians on the Emerald server!

Be prepared for big battles, unusual events, and glorious mayhem. Faction assignment will be revealed once boots hit the ground!



We encourage folks to swing by, create some fun fights, and make our community moderators' lives easy throughout the event.

You can check out The Late Shift team page here! https://www.twitch.tv/team/thelateshift

Welcome to Outfit Wars
Outfit Wars is a tournament-based event where outfits (organized groups of players) compete against one another to show who is the most prepared, coordinated, and fearsome on the field of battle. Outfits will fight for leaderboard placement match after match in hopes of achieving rewards, recognition, and maybe some bragging rights. Below we'll walk through how Outfit Wars has changed in 2022, so that you can prepare to claim victory in the upcoming season.

Phases of War
There are four main phases in Outfit Wars (Enlistment, Qualifiers, Playoffs, and Championships) that take place over the course of seven weeks.

1. Enlistment - When the Enlistment phase begins (Aug. 03,) any outfit with at least 48 players can sign up to participate after paying the resource entry fee. At that point, at least 48 players from that outfit must confirm their participation to verify the Enlistment.
   This is slightly different from last year, and is intended to reduce the amount of "ghost outfits" capable of signing up. While 48 members are required to validate the signup, they are not the only outfit members allowed to play. Any outfit member can jump into a match that has begun, provided their outfit rank has the "Outfit War" assigned. These privileges are determined by your outfit's leadership.
   
2. Qualifiers - When the first week of Qualifiers begins, Enlisted outfits will immediately be assigned their upcoming match day and times. Matches take place once per week on a Friday or Saturday at 8pm or 8:30pm server time. When that week's matches are over, placements for the next week will be determined, and new match times will be assigned. This gives outfits an entire week to get organized and stock War Asset supplies as necessary.
   
3. Playoffs - After four rounds of Qualifiers, the top eight outfits will make their way into the Playoffs. The first-round Playoff winners will then move into the final Playoffs matchup to determine who will match up against one another in the Championships.
   
4. Championships - When the final Playoffs match is complete, their scores will determine the Gold/Silver and Bronze/Fourth place matchups. Placement in this last match determines the final winners in the Outfit Wars season. Championship games will take place exclusively on Saturday, with the Bronze/Fourth place battle starting at 12pm server time and the Silver/Gold matchup at 12:30pm server time.

The 1v1 Format
For the new season, outfits will be pitted against one another in one-versus-one combat on the battle island of Nexus.

• When a match begins two teams of up to 48 players can travel to their match on Nexus.
  
• Each match has a 20 minute preparation phase, during which players can enter the zone and start getting organized. Players are confined to the Warpgate during this time.
  
• When the preparation phase ends, a 45 minute match timer begins, and no other players will be allowed into the match.
  
• The Colossus and Bastion Fleet Carrier are unavailable on Nexus, though other War Assets are fair game.
  
• Construction is unavailable on Nexus as well, though ANTs are still available without terminal access.
  
• Continent lock benefits, and boosts to Nanite gains are not in effect on Nexus.
  
• The snowy battleground of Nexus is divided into two Warpgates and nine bases. The three center bases begin neutral, and the three bases nearest each Warpgate begin owned by their respective faction.
  
• When the alert begins, players will be released from their Warpgates, and be able to begin capturing and defending these bases.
  
• The team with the most controlled territory at the end of the alert, or the team who can connect their Warpgate to the opposing faction's Warpgate, will win the match.
  

Win/Loss and Bracket Points
At the end of each match cycle, outfits will be sorted into their next matchups based on who has the strongest win/loss record. When ties in win/loss record exist, Bracket Points determine who has the better overall standing.

Each match on Nexus has a pool of 500 points that outfits are capable of earning. Once per minute, two points from this pool are given to an outfit for each base they currently own. In the case of a dominating victory, and remaining points in the pool are given to the victorious outfit.

This mechanic is meant to incentivize aggressive play where scoring a decisive victory is going to be more beneficial than a long, drawn out encounter. It also helps more quickly segment outfits of varying skill levels throughout the Qualifiers.



Same Faction Fighting
For the first time, we will be allowing outfits from the same faction to fight one another whenever the matches line up that way. Each team will be assigned to either the Red or Blue team while on Nexus, and your tracer fire, abilities, and HUD indicators will be updated to follow suit. We've also made accommodations for setting your own HUD indicator colors while specifically on Nexus. Nanite Systems Operatives players who have chosen a home faction will now also be able to compete alongside their outfit.



Rewards
Outfit Wars rewards come in a few varieties, though the awards listed are subject to change:

• Each match on Nexus awards ISO-4 when the alert ends, for all participants.
  
• Any character that has ended at least one match on Nexus will be eligible for placement rewards.
  
• Placement rewards are made available for outfits who make it into the Playoffs and beyond.
  
• A special Outfit Wars profile banner is available for outfits in the top eight and higher, while unique Bronze, Silver, and Gold banner frames will be available for the top three outfits.
  
• When Outfit Wars ends, statues for the victorious outfits will remain visible in Sanctuary until the next season begins.