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Post by wrexhammerhead on Aug 31, 2013 6:29:26 GMT -8
So, I got this in my email.  The World Domination Series: Preseason is an intense 5-week long series of weekly challenges. Empires will collide in this all-our war that will require strategic teamwork, communication and skill. Think you have what it takes? Revealed Saturday, August 31st at 6:40 pm PDT |
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Post by Swatz on Aug 31, 2013 7:46:07 GMT -8
Please to whatever god you believe in NOT OUR SERVER AGAIN!
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Post by Fearhawk on Aug 31, 2013 8:21:31 GMT -8
Nice. You jinxed us Swatz. GG Connery. We're doomed.
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Post by Atron on Sept 1, 2013 8:14:50 GMT -8
Of course they "forgot" to announce anything on the 31st about this.
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Post by Hereticus on Sept 1, 2013 15:20:24 GMT -8
7:54 in on the Planetside2 Friday Night Ops from 8/30/2013, Arclegger explains what the world series is. It's exactly the Ultimate Empire Showdown except instead of just 1 day where only X amount of people are able to get involved for X duration of the event, They want to spread it out across 5 weeks so that everyone is able to participate. For our new-recruits who may have no idea what the Ultimate Empire Showdown is: Last Year what it was is the event admins will periodically announce across all server "Go Attack X Facility and meet X Objective" similar to the Alerts we now face on a day to day basis. The Ultimate Empire Showdown was hosted on our Connery server with youtube celebrities TotalBiscuit leading the TR, LevelCap leading the VS, and Seananners leading the NC. So essentially the entire Planetside2 population and all of these 3 Youtube celebrities fan bases were all trying to log onto a single server for a 4 hour long event... The war being fought was apocalyptic to say the least... This time around they will have people from Machinima on Youtube filming and recording events on all servers that will be highlighted every Friday Night Ops, sort of like the War Correspondent that Robert Stoneman did if anyone remembers that. Each Machinima representative, one for each server, will also have a team of Machinima artists under them also filming, presumably to cut-down on the risk of people attempting to crowd the observer for 15 seconds of fame and photo-bomb. Arclegger also explains that we will have access to a in-game UI to monitor the progress of the World Series Empire Showdown, presumably coming in with GU15 this week, that you can bring up similar to the Scoreboard or Alert progress status that comes up when you hit your TAB key. This time around the Empire "Leaders" won't be some outside Youtube celebrity and instead be 3 of the game devs themselves. The confirmed faction leaders and what servers they normally play on are... - Arclegger for the NC (Connery) - Malorne for the TR (Matherson) - Taylor for the VS (Unknown) It's unknown if you'll see them all on one server for all five weeks, All on one different server for each week, or each of them on there own respected servers for the whole event. Official day/time of the showdown for each week have yet to of been announced. All we know is it's this Month starting sometime after next weeks GU15 launche. |
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Post by Hereticus on Sept 1, 2013 15:31:30 GMT -8
IMO this whole World Series Ultimate Showdown is probably just field-testing this new optimization stuff under the disguise of a fun event sense they can't get the numbers of people needed on the Test-Servers to properly test this before going live.
If the optimization guys do there job right, This time around the Showdown won't be so damned laggy and unplayable!
It's probably also a big publicity stunt sense they just had PAX prime and also started airing TV Commercials for Planetside2 in Europe this last Friday with there new European retail box version. Planetside2 will have a big influx of new players coming in and SONY wants to get these people hooked on the game by being good hosts and introducing them to a major event with huge fights.
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