Planetside Update

[[AK]Hylander]

We are releasing a patch shortly that will include the following items:
1) Facility Link Benefits have been implemented. There is more information on these benefits in our online manual.
2) The Enemy Density Warning System has been implemented. When a large number of enemy units invades a facility's SOI, all friendly troops on the continent will receive a message alerting them to the buildup.
3) Vehicle access will no longer be reverted to Empire-wide access when an owner is killed.
4) Fixed a bug where players would be invisible for several seconds after they respawn. This also fixes the issues that caused a delay in accessing equipment terminals after respawning and vehicles trunks after getting out of them.
5) Changed Decimator's secondary mode rate of fire to match primary mode.
6) Certain Framerate optimizations were made for higher end machines. Lower end machines will also notice some improvement.

Servers will need to come down briefly for this update. We will try to keep the downtime as short as possible. Players are currently being notified to finish any captures they have in progress and log out.


Also, more info on the Core Combat Expansion.

Core Combat Bases will feature the following:

Equipment
Allows the purchase and capacitor recharging of the Ancient-Tech weaponry: Maelstrom, Spiker, and Radiator. Additionally, the MAX reacquire timer is reduced significantly.

Vehicle
Allows the purchase, repair, and capacitor recharging of the Ancient-Tech vehicles: Router, Flail, and Switchblade. Additionally, the vehicle reacquire timer is reduced significantly.

Pain
This module powers pain fields in various areas of the facility that do damage to enemies invading those areas. This includes the Barracks and other critical areas of the facility.

Health
Soldiers that spawn here do so with more maximum health than when they spawn at other facilities. Additionally, friendly soldiers in the Sphere of Influence slowly regenerate health over time.

Shield
This module powers a force field across the wall gate openings. This force field stops all bullets, damage and enemy vehicles.

Speed
Significantly reduces the respawn delay at this facility. Additionally, all friendlies in the area get a footspeed increase.

[[AK]Squidly]

Core combat expansion? As in "expansion pack that you have to go out and purchase?"