The MMO shooter Planetside 2 will soon learn to play with building blocks. On the test server, players can already start building bases and harvesting resources.
Base building and everything related to the topic is a hot thing in Planetside 2. It has been announced for a while, there have been rumors circulating, and in November it was finally said: It’s coming in 2016. Just before Christmas, Daybreak Game Company then smuggled a patch onto the test servers, which brought the first phase of base building, as reported by MassivelyOverpowered. It operates via the “ANT” system, that’s the vehicle you can use to build.
In Planetside 2, they already say: There is still a lot to do, this is just the first step. Even if a lot is still unfinished, the corresponding features are expected to arrive relatively early in 2016.
But players are already having fun trying out the new gimmicks on the test server. Here are 2 videos that introduce the topic in more detail.
Perhaps these elements are now the X-factor that Planetside 2 had been missing lately. The new Creative Director of the studio pointed out the serious financial situation in which Planetside 2 finds itself:
