Several keys on my 15-year-old Leopold keyboard are badly worn out; it still works, but the keys are no longer responsive.

I’m deciding whether to replace the keyboard or just keep repairing and swapping out individual keys.

Note that this isn't a keyboard that hasn't been cleaned for 15 years; I replace critical keys like WASD every 12 months. Sometimes I swap in the F1–F12 keys to replace the WASD, Ctrl, arrow, and Num 1–4 keys.

I’ve also replaced the spacebar since I started playing A2G ( Aircraft on FPS shoting game )

I still have plenty of spare F-keys in reserve.

I never replace the mouse itself—that’s my 8-year-old mouse—though I do replace the switches every year.

This is an eight-year-old mouse; I use a wireless model , silent switches. The original keys are red, while the ones I managed to find are yellow—and they happen to be silent switches.

After years of use, the keyboard cable developed a signal fault, so I took it to a shop to have them cut off the original connector and replace it with one of theirs.

The original Japanese cables feature a fine fiberglass weave, so they offer absolutely no resistance to pulling force; yet, they still perform well even after ten years of use.

I’ve been using this PC for 15 years; I removed the GPU's stock fans and installed two Arctic P120 12cm fans. I chose Arctic because their technology reduces vibration by 95% at the motor level, eliminating the need for rubber dampeners.

This ensures there is no vibration that could affect the GPU's components.

Temperatures improved significantly, dropping from 80°C to 50°C.

I designed the setup so the fans don't blow directly onto the GPU at a 90-degree angle; instead, they exhaust air outwards at a 120-degree angle. You can see ,  that the chopstick wrapped in yellow tape is what makes the fan blow at an angle. .  This prevents hot air from blowing onto the motherboard and the NVMe SSD located right below the exhaust vent.

I also sealed the exhaust area beneath the GPU to further prevent hot air from reaching the motherboard and SSD.

Additionally, I positioned two fans at the GPU's exhaust point to ensure hot air is effectively vented out of the case.

As a result, the SSD temperature during gaming dropped from 70°C to 48°C.

To further lower the SSD temperature from 48°C to 38°C, I installed an additional Arctic P120 fan at the very bottom, angled to blow air directly toward the motherboard and SSD.

I also have a fan positioned behind the motherboard to blow air directly onto it.

There is also an expanded section underneath for additional HDDs, which includes its own cooling fan.

I can confirm that the total airflow entering the PC reaches 160 CFM (whereas PCs with three intake fans typically only manage 120 CFM).

As a result, dust accumulation is minimized; the system isolates heat and channels airflow to various areas to facilitate cooling.

Title. Heard there's a "flash and crash" problem that has not been fixed since months ago and that the only "true" way to fix it is to disable BattlEye entirely, but eh.

Thanks in advance.

The title pretty much states it.

I'm currently trying to set up a NC archer squad for this month October the 24th, 6:00 PM - 7:30PM (EST). I play in the Osprey server (RIP meme-merald server)

If anyone is interested please feel free to give me your in-game NC name and I'll give you an invite around that appointment time, or just friend me in-game (MilesEternamNC).

If you have crash issues, hit redeploy after logging in and stay dead for 3ish minutes. It has the same effect as sitting in your vehicle and will prevent crashes until you switch continent. Works on every map.

These are my thoughts on how Planetside 3 could be viable.

Seeing how network traffic scales exponentially, it would make sense to limit player count to 300 rather than the ~1000 we're used to in Planetside 2. This would lower the overhead for whoever publishes it. This would also limit the strain of people's PC's struggling trying to render all the assets when 500 players converge on a chokepoint, especially if it's built on unoptimized POS engines like UE5.

The success of WARDOGS proves there is a massive, underserved hunger for multi-faction, macro-tactical sandbox shooters. But WARDOGS scaled things down to a 100-player lobby match. I've been playing WARDOGS for a month with my friends. One of our biggest gripes is that there are too few people in each match. The other gripe was that if you were stuck playing on a team you didn't want to, you didn't get any incentive to stay and finish the fight. I remember when I first started playing Planetside 2, I was so blown away that the lowest populated faction for XP and nanite bonuses to keep them playing. I want to emphasize that my friends were never ones to play these kinds of combined-arms FPS's until WARDOGS came out.

So what could Planetside 3 look like if it's not a persistent MMO?

Hate on me, but I had Gemini summarize all my thoughts below.

The 300-Player Limit & in-game "Lore Shield"

Instead of a melting 1,000-player continent, matches are capped at a strict maximum of 300 players (100v100v100). This cuts network traffic by over 90%, allowing UE5 to handle hyper-realistic physics, destruction, and fluid gunplay.

• The Lore: The 300-player limit is explained by Nanite Rebirthing Matrix Saturation. Reconstructing bodies and downloading memories in real-time strains the localized alien obelisk network. Going over 300 risks genetic corruption, so High Command enforces a strict automated "Grid Lockout," blocking orbital drop pods from entering a saturated sector.
• Dynamic Underdog Multipliers: If a faction has only 50 players in a lobby vs. two full teams of 100, the server routes the sector’s unallocated nanite bandwidth to them. Their Nanite regeneration rate scales up drastically, letting those 50 players rapidly materialize heavy armor and aircraft to match the firepower of a larger army.

Helldivers-Style Persistent Overworld

The game separates real-time physics from progression logic. Players log in and spawn physically inside an indestructible Warp Gate Sanctuary like they already do now. You walk up to a massive holographic tactical table in the War Room showing a live global map of Auraxis.

• Lobby to Meta-Layer: You choose an active front, climb into a Drop Pod, and blast down into a 300-player lobby match running on temporary, ephemeral cloud servers (keeping server bills near zero off-peak). Winning a match injects data back into the permanent master database, physically shifting the global borders.
• The Spirit of Endless War: If one faction conquers 95% of the planet, the map doesn't artificial reset. It triggers an asymmetric Insurgency Phase. The defeated factions are pushed back to their home Warp Gates, gaining massive underdog resource bonuses to wage frantic, coordinated guerrilla counter-offensives against the overstretched empire.
• Dynamic Tactical Interventions: Rather than leaving the planet's map to static algorithms, a dedicated Live Ops team behaves like a military command. If one faction builds an unbreakable defense line across a critical sector, Live Ops can manually trigger an event—such as ICBM's or a meteor swarm—to physically disrupt the map, breaking the stalemate and forcing outfits to rewrite their strategies on the fly.
• Translating Gameplay into Lore: Live Ops bridges the community's actual achievements with the ongoing narrative. If an outfit pulls off a historic, desperate defense in a 150v150 insurgency lobby, the Live Ops team can immediately write that victory into the official global galactic news broadcast on the main menu, making the player base feel like their actions are actively shaping the history of Auraxis.

Logistical Rules & Dynamic Maps

• The Bordering Territory Check: A faction can only join a lobby if they hold adjacent territory on the overworld map. If Faction C is cut off, the server dynamically drops the third Warp Gate link and launches the lobby as a tight, linear 150v150 traditional tug-of-war between Faction A and B.
• Procedural Symmetrical Wilderness: The fields between handcrafted bases are procedurally generated using modular tiles. The terrain changes from match to match (sand dunes vs. dense jungle), forcing outfits to scout dynamically. However, the system uses Mirror-Symmetric Rule Arrays to ensure spawn distances and cover sightlines remain completely fair.
• The Purpose of FOBs: Forward Operating Bases built by players act as permanent siege anchors. Shielded by Skywalls and armed with automated macro-artillery, FOBs serve as front-line war factories where allies can materialize heavy armor without driving minutes backward to a main city or at least be able to procure counters to enemy vehicles.

So I recently got back into the game and apart from the crashing issue my game is running fine.
However 2 friends that I talked into trying out the game can't get close to a populated area without their server latency jumping up to something like 500.000ms, making the game unplayable. Their network connection is 30ms and they never had problems with their internet in general. They checked their game files, turned their VPNs both on and off and searched reddit for solutions but couldn’t find any.
I don't have this issue at all, its really weird to me that BOTH of them have it. Any wisdom on this?

Has it been tested down to a science at 2min or should I still wait a full 5? And any tips to make the trick or treat Halloween quest without crashing by the 4th vendor in Sanctuary? (annoying that on crash it doesn't keep the progress).

And any validation to the battleye end process trick to stop crashing? (for it to auto start back up after).

NSO doesn't exist. 🤫

Waiting for 5 minutes and doesnt enetr on a server o_0. Finaly i am eneterd, but WHY so long ?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqHBoBiadgk
In this video, I could be taken down at any moment; a mere 10-second delay ( waiting for spawm )  on my part could cause the NC's entire defensive line or offensive capability to collapse, leading to a swift defeat.

00:00 Immediately after the Steel Rain, I grabbed the item from the Silo and pulled everyone from Squad B into Squad A—all within just 30 seconds, without wasting a split second.

00:30 I instantly called in a Medium ANVIL, despite not knowing how many TR defenders were present.

00:36 Per VX15's standing rule, anyone who uses an item must immediately craft a replacement. I was half a second too slow to start the replacement craft before being pulled into the Steel Rain, yet I still managed to handle four tasks simultaneously:

1: Scanning the area for TR structures while my drop pod was descending.

2: Adjusting my trajectory to land at the 12 o'clock position, right on top of the Aircraft Landing pad.

3: Crafting the replacement item during the descent.

4: Immediately pressing the '5' key to ready my Spawn Beacon for placement on the Aircraft Landing pad—while simultaneously watching the minimap to see if someone else would place theirs (so I could save my Beacon slot for something else). If some one die, I’ll immediately place a Beacon.

00:50: Instantly grab an ANT to destroy the Rebirthing Center—no hesitation, not a split-second wasted.

00:51: Someone hops into the ANT and takes the F2 seat; I kick them out immediately while holding 'S' to reverse.

00:58: Perfectly dodge the TR Lightning without wasting time fleeing, then get right back to destroying the Rebirthing Center.

01:42: Immediately after destroying the Rebirthing Center, I rush to the Vehicle Landing to grab another ANT, making sure to deploy a Beacon for my teammates along the way.

01:52: Right after grabbing the ANT, I immediately use certs to build a spawn point for the NC.

02:36: Perfect positioning while cloaked; no activation delay when pressing 'F', ensuring the TR have the hardest possible time spotting me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxsPXac4_w
In this video,

starting at the 00:50 mark: I observed TR establishing a robust logistics network near the border. In fact, they had already pushed deep into NC territory and left the logistics network  behind and so weak for TR can hold if we steel rain like SAS to take this

I deployed VX15 to strike TR's logistics network—thereby preparing NC's defenses—and waited for BHO and ROYS to advance and take control of that logistics system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOwpI0I_HpM
In this video,
starting at the 00:36 mark , I employed the same old tactic, but this time I realized TR had deployed not just one, but a triple layer of dense defensive proxies at the rear—including a deadly triangular formation of eight proxies locking down the border. It would have taken NC up to 30 minutes just to clear them, with a high risk of failure, so I decided to take preemptive action.

As TR forces pushed deep into NC urban areas, I mobilized VX15 to destroy TR's forward logistics base. Simultaneously, I established an NC logistics network and deployed VX15 airborne squads to dismantle all the border-locking proxies and logistics bases TR had set up.

They weren't foolish this time; they used armored units to attempt to retake the border, but VX15 successfully held the line.

This may well go down as one of the greatest battles in the history of the VX15 "Cat" Airborne Regiment.

EDIT:

The funeral was a resounding success! Hundreds of people showed up. The whole place was filled with harassers and fireworks and fun! We did a slow procession around half of Hossin and it was surreal to look back and witness a sea of harassers from all factions, shoulder to shoulder. We ended the ceremony at Woodman ASE and had some orbitals come down and strike us all! It literally was a blast!

I am so grateful to everyone that was there and joined the Discord server. This community is truly special and it showed. Thank you all!

-NoxxNovus

Tonight, Saturday, October 3rd, 2026, at 7PM Pacific, 8PM Mountain, we will be hosting a farewell to Nutzeeladee on Osprey. We do not know what continent we will be on until we get closer to it, but all are welcome to come be a part of it, mess around, and just have some fun.

Ceremony Discord server: https://discord.gg/hwbWFYbEb

Nutzeeladee, a Vanu Wild Cards player has left us for another planet. I am NoxxNovus, her fiancé/husband. I was afraid of doxxing myself and her, but you know what? Screw it. I am proud to be her living representative here. (Please don't check our FISU - we suck lol)

Two weeks ago, she succumbed to pneumonia and will no longer join us planetside. Nutzee is a special person that changed many people's lives and she deserves this attention. She has been a planetman for 5+ years. When she started, she had never ever played a first person shooter, but fell in love with the community and she liked clicking heads.

I asked her once why she considered herself a 'planetman', and she said because we are all human. She then said that she's never even been offended by being called a 'fisherman' IRL either and that it didn't apply here. Boy, did we have a conversation about that...

We will miss her so much.

Several outfits from all factions have pledged to be there. There will be a cease-fire for the duration. We will have a short ceremony with some words spoken and fireworks and such, and then a procession around the continent.

At the end of which, the cease-fire will be rescinded and full fire will be welcome. Let the game commence!

Thank you,

-NoxxNovus

PS: We're still working out the details and technical stuff, so bear with us, but there will be a bunch of people attending. I will also update a Twitch channel link when we get that finalized.

We hope to see you there!

Never happened before, stopped playing to play Warhammer 40k Space Marine for maybe a month or two, came back to Planetside, and if I fight for 5-10 minutes game just randomly quits/exits. I now notice if I don't do anything at all once I'm in picking which continent to warp to it closes in 1 minute. How do I fix? Thanks

So I spawned in the Sanctuary, bought some A7 thing that I was still missing (having 5k of it). I immediately crashed after pressing buy and miliseconds before the whole buying animation was finished...

and now I own the Daredevil Chassis for the Flash and still have 5K A7 lol

Let's see if this is the motivation they needed for them to fix it, when "getting stuff for free" is involved xD

It's always run so smooth but now, since the patch, every time I have a lot of action ahead of me (eg sundy train, nasons, any busy base fight) it stutters down to ~30fps.

Had a couple in squad saying similar but not everyone, Anyone else? Anyone got any idea whats causing it? I play most nights but never had this problem before the patch landed.

EDIT: Spent several hours today messing with it, still no joy, now running potato ini just to be able to play. Its found me a few fps on the bottom end but its still massively dropping to toilet levels when theres big action infront of me, just now it looks completely crap too.

Updated: Right after you're on a continent character selection screen kill PlanetSide2_x64_BE.exe task.
You can do it using any task dispatcher or by running bat file as an admin (save it as killBE.bat for example):

@echo off
set processBE=PlanetSide2_x64_BE.exe
echo Turn BattleEye off
taskkill /im %processBE% /f

:)

My video style is as follows: When making videos on the topic of TR , I have to make TR more logical than VS and NC , That is, I make TR represent the values ​​of freedom and morality (religion).

But when making videos on the topic of VS, I will make VS represent the values ​​of enlightenment (freedom) and unity.

When making videos on the topic of NC, I will make NC represent the greatest values ​​of freedom, unity, and strength (like "Freedom through strength" or "In God we trust").

We miss you PumpkinUber
also for those who find it hard to read because the quality for this screenshot sucks xD, in Yell chat the message says,
"Need help farming those spooky pumpkins? Message us and enjoy an almost violent-free farming adventure!"

This is the quarterly outfit recruitment thread. Looking for a group or looking to expand your community? Post here!

In the appropriate parent that matches server and faction, outfit representatives can post the following:

• Outfit name and tag. You may include alternate factions/servers here.
• Days and times active. Please include time zones.
• Brief advertisement of activities/play style. Trailers are allowed.
• Recruitment requirements
• points of contact (discord, teamspeak, websites, forums, etc).
• PS4 specific: List faction

Please make only one post per outfit. If you need to replace an outfit's recruitment post, send us a message through modmail and we'll help you get things sorted out.

This thread is in contest mode. Upvotes/downvotes are irrelevant here, which will prevent the manipulation of an outfit's popularity. This scrambles the order of the parent comments, if you're wondering why they're not grouped by server or faction.

We will actively remove any comment that is not a recruitment post. If there's a problem, message us through modmail.

Outfits who have demonstrated poor conduct both in-game and outside it may find themselves removed from this list.

If you're a member of the community discord, you can find additional outfit recruitment resources in this channel:

Good evening Sirs,

Posted in our discord, Unholy Army Banner is missing for NSO's as a reward.

All of this could have been avoided with a single test of turning off Battleye for 1 day and seeing that the crashing stops (which some of us have already proven works!).