Key points
- Offers a strong level of graphical customisation.
- Regularly updated and to be officially supported until 2025.[1]
- Players are reporting extremely poor CPU optimization.[2][3][4] A response by the development team acknowledges these claims.[5] The developers temporarily stopped working on content and focused entirely on optimization. The first patch of 3 to improve optimization was released recently.[6] Reports from players vary from very little improvement up to an increase of 50%.
General information
- Official website
- Official forum
- PlanetSide 2 Wiki - a good place to get gameplay-related information.
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- All versions require a Daybreak Account.
- ProSiebenSat.1 accounts are no longer supported as of September 29, 2014.[7]
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Video settings
FoV comparison - 74 (top) against 100.
Top: 4000x900 (limited at 110 hFoV without PS2FOV), Middle 4000x900 (automatically set correctly at 135 hFOV with PS2FOV), Bottom 1444x900 (automatically set correctly at 80 hFOV for comparison) Game is set to 59 vertical FoV
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- Options menu features an FoV slider with values of 55 up to 74.
- The adjustable Field of view (FOV) setting in this game is vertical FoV (like in Battlefield: Bad Company 2) rather than horizontal FoV like in most other games.
- Vertical field of view calculator http://www.rjdown.co.uk/projects/bfbc2/fovcalculator.php
- FoV can be tweaked to values higher than in-game maximum or lower than the in-game minimum.
- Horizontal FoV is fixed at 80 inside vehicles and limited to 110 when on foot. This presents a significant problem for multi-monitor setups, even with a low vertical FoV set in the game.
- This can be remedied with a tool called PS2FOV.
Input settings
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Logitech 3D Pro POV pad
If you only use the ingame key bindings, the pad will just stop working after a few seconds. In order to use the POV pad of the joystick for the cockpit view, follow these steps[8]
Audio settings
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Network
Multiplayer types
Issues unresolved
All ground and units disappear
- Often during morning and midday, all foreground objects disappear. This includes the units, world and building. Icons remain and the map etc. stays available. This bug fixes itself after about 30 seconds.
Issues fixed
Cannot install game (Steam)
Planetside2.exe has stopped working
Low frame rate
Game download starts over after ProSiebenSat.1 account migration
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9 |
|
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
|
Middleware |
Notes |
Physics |
PhysX |
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Use of SweetFX is officially listed as a banned client modification.[9]
System requirements
- A 64-bit system is required.
Windows |
|
Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
7 64-bit | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core i5-760 AMD Phenom II X4 |
Intel Core i7 AMD Phenom II X6 |
System memory (RAM) |
6 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
20 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 ATI Radeon HD 4850
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 AMD Radeon HD 6870 |
Notes
- ↑ Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References