PlanetSide 2 News

After being delayed by a few weeks to work on the new Containment Sites, Rogue Planet Games has finally released the final chapter of the first-ever PlanetSide 2 campaign. In Chapter 3, players will gain access to three new Containment Sites and will continue their search for the missing Sanctuary representative. “The empires of Auraxis celebrate as three new Containment [...]

Rogue Planet Games, the Daybreak Games substudio handling PlanetSide 2, has just announced their plans to release a massive game update called The Shattered Warpgate. The update will be coming soon and will feature a whole host of new content including a new narrative that will unfold through the new Campaigns feature. “This massive game update permanently evolves the war-torn [...]

Things are looking good for Daybreak Games and Rogue Planet Games, as PlanetSide 2 breaks its own Guinness World Record for “Most Players in a Single FPS Battle”. According to Executive Producer Andy Sites, 1,283 players participated in an epic battle on Esamir during the weekend and breaking their 2015 world record of 1,158 players. The sci-fi shooter also saw [...]

After one delay after another, the long-awaited PlanetSide 2 Escalation Update is finally going live on PC today. Escalation is the game’s largest update since the game launched seven years ago and features much-needed changes to Outfits, including leadership change petitions, and endgame Outfit Wars. The update also brings with it the new Bastion Fleet Carrier and the new Sanctuary [...]

After being delayed twice, the PlanetSide 2 Escalation update is finally on track for release next week. In a Producer’s Letter published earlier today, Rogue Planet Games Executive Producer Andy Sites officially announced that the update will be rolling out on March 11th. “Let me start by saying THANK YOU for your patience and support over the past 4 weeks [...]

PlanetSide 2 publisher Daybreak Games and developer Rogue Planet Games might be pushing back the release MMO shooter’s Escalation update as they try to work out a few more kinks in the new Sanctuary Zone and Bastion Fleet Carriers. Executive Producer Andy Sites explains on Reddit: “This past Friday, we published another full build to PTS for public testing/feedback. Overall, [...]

The upcoming PlanetSide 2 Escalation update will be escalating a bit later than expected to give Rogue Planet Games time to incorporate player feedback gathered during the updates PTS run. According to Studio Head Andy Sites, they decided to push back the update’s release by a week to make sure that it’s well and truly ready to go live. “Based [...]

With hundreds of players battling it out in PlanetSide 2 and thousands of bullets flying through the air, performance has always been an issue in Daybreak Games’ sci-fi shooter. Players will be happy to know that the latest update has just dropped a slew of new content into the game including full DX11 integration which should have a noticeable effect [...]