PlanetSide 2 News

The massive PlanetSide 2 Arsenal Update is now live on the Public Test Server as developer Rogue Planet Games promised last week. The update introduces over 800 new weapon attachments and makes existing ones usable with more weapons, giving players access to new weapon setups. The update also adds new empire-specific top-mounted guns for each empire’s main battle tank as [...]

PlanetSide 2 is getting a boatload of new additions to its arsenal of futuristic weapons and vehicles in the MMOFPS’s next update, aptly-named the Arsenal Update. Arsenal will introduce a whopping 829 new attachments spread out between the sci-fi shooter’s 241 infantry weapons with more currently in the works. Directive Weapons will also be getting a balance pass to make [...]

After being delayed for three years, the new Oshur continent is finally live in PlanetSide 2 as part of the Expedition: Oshur update. Players from all three playable factions can now fight over new tropical-themed points-of-interest, outposts, and bases to secure sectors and dominate the entire map. “Oshur was designed with an emphasis on logistics and diversity of gameplay. The [...]

Last weekend’s PlanetSide 2 playtest saw over a thousand well-armed troops descend on the new Oshur continent, all of which will receive an exclusive “Work in Progress” profile banner for their help. Aside from getting to try out and explore the new tropical-themed map, Test Build 01 also gave players the chance to test out planned adjustments to how players [...]

Rogue Planet Games is giving PlanetSide 2 players a chance to experience and test out the new Oshur continent on the test server over the next two weekends. The first playtest will run from January 14th at 2:00 pm PT until January 15th at 11:00 am PT while the second test will run from January 21st until January 22nd and [...]

October is just around the corner, which means that Halloween celebrations will be kicking off in various MMOs, including sci-fi shooter PlanetSide 2. The Nanite of the Living Dead returns to Auraxis this Friday offering bonus experience, rewards, and more for the whole month of October. The Sanctuary social hub will also be getting a Halloween-themed makeover with spooky sights [...]

As promised, the Planetside 2: NSO _Integration update is now live on the PlayStation 4, giving free account users access to the previously sub-exclusive Nanite Systems Operative, or NSO, faction. Upon reaching Battle Rank 20 and completing a mission, free players can now roll as a Chappie-like NSO bot mercenary to help reinforce and beef up the ranks of the [...]

Rogue Planet Games will be revamping the PlanetSide 2 new player experience in the sci-fi MMO shooter’s next major update. Almost every aspect of the tutorial will be undergoing a makeover, from character creation, which will be getting visual and UI upgrades, to the main tutorial, all the way up to the Sanctuary where players will get to go on [...]

PlanetSide 2’s NSO _Integration update will finally be arriving on PlayStation 4 next week, nearly two months after it launched on PC. The massive update will be launching on Sony’s gaming console on August 25, bringing with it a major revamp of the Nanite System Operatives (NSO) faction. As PC players might recall, July’s highly-awaited NSO _Integration update gave free-to-play [...]

NSO _ Integration, PlanetSide 2’s biggest update to date, is now live in the faction-based sci-fi shooter. As the weirdly-formatted update title suggests, NSO _Integration features the long-awaited revamp of the members-exclusive robotic mercenary faction – the Nanite Sytems Operative, or NSO. As of the update’s release, the NSO is no longer locked behind a paywall and is now available [...]