Today Planetside was released to the world one year ago.

Tonight's Ask the Devs on Planetside-Universe promises a major announcement from Sony on this occasion. You can bet I'll be

there. It's on PSU's AGN shoutcast, 8pm EST. This section will be updated as the announcement is made public.

UPDATES from PSU's Ask the Devs tonight:

Battle Islands! CriticalMass announced that more continents are going to be coming to Planetside, each one with a varied style of gameplay. The devs have stated this will impact Capitol Buildings as well as access to the Core Combat caverns, among other things. And yes, Home Continents are returning. Also mentioned was that population caps would be the same for these smaller, more content-packed islands.

Battle Islands are scheduled for patch 2.9. As you probably know we are coming up on the release of 2.7 with vehicle variants and empire incentives, and then 2.8 for Merit Commendations.

Info on Battle Islands will be revealed in a Press Release probably next week, at such time images/maps will most likely be available for viewing.

Merit Commendations will eventually take the form of Post-BR20 abilities. Earning merit medals in a cert or style of gameplay will unlock abilities for that cert.

1st Anniversary War: PSU has also reported that Sporkfire announced players can re-activate old accounts for a 10-day war starting this coming Monday.

Update: With the lack of any official announcement so far concerning the 10-day war event, we must assume it is intended for a later date, possibly the following Monday.

Other plans and Dev desires of note:

• Galaxy gunship (pilot/3 gunners/no passenger/more room for ammo = gunship)
• Phantasm (possible new aircraft: half-squad air transport that can cloak, as of now designed to be piloted by infiltrator only)
• The desire for more vehicle and MAX variants
• Vehicle chat and driver XP probably after 2.9
• Multi-crew Empire specific aircraft in brainstorming process
• Improvements to Core Combat like IFF locks on doors, stats for facilities, etc.
• Bunker improvements possibly after 2.9 patch
• Request Revive future feature for medics to help them find dead people better
• Revision of XP system so support people are more obviously rewarded

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This is all incredibly juicy information and I would like to thank our site host, Planetside-Universe, and to the Developers for tonight's Ask the Dev's, and sharing their plans with us. No doubt PSU will provide more information as it becomes available, so be sure to check them out as well download the shoutcast later tonight so you can hear all this info for yourself.

The Patch Notes section has been updated with a few small items:

AMS deploy warning icon - This feature has been requested many times, so I've whipped up a small image for how it could look.

Vehicle Pane improvements - Also frequently requested by the community, these improvements include remote viewing of a vehicle's ammo supply, type of weapons, and vehicle health. The AMS gets a Group Spawn select.

UPDATE:

Zone Radar - an aircraft tracking feature attached to the Urban Areas concept.