One of our resident community members Knocky uncovered a new video of artist Patrick Ho designing the NC 4X Rifle scope. In the video there are several other scopes shown including a ballistic scope, a red dot scope, and an IRNV scope.

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2012-04-03 10:47 PM

Electrofreak Re: Interesting stuff from Chinaside CViolet Originally Posted by wait, where did this come from? Some of those links look like they lead to in game assets on internal SOE servers.



That said, I once... "logged"... into Westwood Studios private FTP server to get a patch that my buddy on a 56k connection couldn't download without failing.



Saw a whole bunch of uncompiled code files in there, which I did NOT touch. Downloaded the patch and left a little note telling them they needed to patch a security hole.



A couple days later they'd fixed the vulnerability.



I'm not so sure SoE would like us testing the security of their private servers though. We want happy devs that listen to us after all...



What I really hope people will come away from my post with is an understanding of how hard these guys are working. As this guy makes a scope for a rifle, emails are filtering in with asset updates, main server updates, and the 3 "casual" emails are about coffee, delivered lunch, and dinner for those staying late. Sounds like they're pushing hard to get us the game we want...!

2012-04-03 10:49 PM

Skitrel Re: Interesting stuff from Chinaside [email protected] is already all over the internet anyway, they were all publicly known emails anyway? I tried all the urls though, they were only partial though so they didn't work, didn't need making more partial either.



Oh well.

2012-04-03 11:01 PM

CrystalViolet Re: Interesting stuff from Chinaside Electrofreak Originally Posted by



That said, I once... "logged"... into Westwood Studios private FTP server to get a patch that my buddy on a 56k connection couldn't download without failing.



Saw a whole bunch of uncompiled code files in there, which I did NOT touch. Downloaded the patch and left a little note telling them they needed to patch a security hole.



A couple days later they'd fixed the vulnerability.



I'm not so sure SoE would like us testing the security of their private servers though. We want happy devs that listen to us after all...



What I really hope people will come away from my post with is an understanding of how hard these guys are working. As this guy makes a scope for a rifle, emails are filtering in with asset updates, main server updates, and the 3 "casual" emails are about coffee, delivered lunch, and dinner for those staying late. Sounds like they're pushing hard to get us the game we want...! Yes, they do. URLs have been removed but even so, they were only partial URLs, and I would expect SoE has security in place to prevent people doing bad things.That said, I once... "logged"... into Westwood Studios private FTP server to get a patch that my buddy on a 56k connection couldn't download without failing.Saw a whole bunch of uncompiled code files in there, which I did NOT touch. Downloaded the patch and left a little note telling them they needed to patch a security hole.A couple days later they'd fixed the vulnerability.I'm not so sure SoE would like us testing the security of their private servers though. We want happy devs that listen to us after all...What I really hope people will come away from my post with is an understanding of how hard these guys are working. As this guy makes a scope for a rifle, emails are filtering in with asset updates, main server updates, and the 3 "casual" emails are about coffee, delivered lunch, and dinner for those staying late. Sounds like they're pushing hard to get us the game we want...!

2012-04-03 11:04 PM

Electrofreak Re: Interesting stuff from Chinaside CViolet Originally Posted by ah yes, I remember the early days of the internet when a little creative URL editing could get you into places where you weren't supposed to be.



This is why I'm now an enterprise WAN Data technician.

2012-04-04 01:33 AM

Bonius Re: Interesting stuff from Chinaside Electrofreak Originally Posted by



I decided to go ahead and freeze the screen at each of these, transcribe them, screenshot them, and crop them. If anyone really wants I can have the images hosted. Good luck figuring out what the VS MAX one says though!



So here are the Exchange notifications that pop up during the video, preceded by the point where they occur:



0:46

Release Note Bot

rgates [Audio] [Main] CL#49748 Replaced the Mosquito...



1:14

Halsey, Shad

Food is downstairs



1:16

Release Note Bot

jjonas [Art] [Main] CL#49783 flora alpha clump masks a...



1:21

Release Note Bot

jjonas [Art] [Main] CL#49784 ocean rock addition to ind...



1:41

Release Note Bot

*Name obscured* [Design] [Main] All AOE Heal abilities now accoun...



1:43

*Sender's name obscured*

Re: Coffee?



1:49

*Sender's name obscured*

Staying Late? Want Dinner?



2:01

****@soe.sony.com

Planetside2 - Main Server Deployment - *tops of numbers appearing to be 0.0.1357.5015*



2:06

Release Note Bot

*name cut off* [Design] [Main] VS MAX *text cut off*



2:36

Release Note Bot

apatel [Code] [Main] CL#51126 hud - facility diagram o...

https://removedurl/RL51



2:42

****@soe.sony.com

Planetside2 - Main Server Validation - #head [Art] (Dupli...

Common_Props_Biolab_IsolationTanksLarge_Lod0.dme



2:46

****@soe.sony.com

Main Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...

Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -



2:52

****@soe.sony.com

Main Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...

Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -

*Yes, this is the same as the previous*



2:56

Release Note Bot

mschade [Art] [Main] CL#51207 Added dirt particle effe...

https://removedurl/RL51 To enable HD, click the Chinese text between the volume slider and the wrench, and pick the left-most option button. No, I can't read Chinese, but I know they read right to left, and the default option was all the way to the right, so it made sense that HD would be on the left.I decided to go ahead and freeze the screen at each of these, transcribe them, screenshot them, and crop them. If anyone really wants I can have the images hosted. Good luck figuring out what the VS MAX one says though!So here are the Exchange notifications that pop up during the video, preceded by the point where they occur:Release Note Botrgates [Audio] [Main] CL#49748 Replaced the Mosquito...Halsey, ShadFood is downstairsRelease Note Botjjonas [Art] [Main] CL#49783 flora alpha clump masks a...Release Note Botjjonas [Art] [Main] CL#49784 ocean rock addition to ind...Release Note Bot*Name obscured* [Design] [Main] All AOE Heal abilities now accoun...*Sender's name obscured*Re: Coffee?*Sender's name obscured*Staying Late? Want Dinner?Planetside2 - Main Server Deployment - *tops of numbers appearing to be 0.0.1357.5015*Release Note Bot*name cut off* [Design] [Main] VS MAX *text cut off*Release Note Botapatel [Code] [Main] CL#51126 hud - facility diagram o...https://removedurl/RL51****@soe.sony.comPlanetside2 - Main Server Validation - #head [Art] (Dupli...Common_Props_Biolab_IsolationTanksLarge_Lod0.dme****@soe.sony.comMain Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -****@soe.sony.comMain Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -*Yes, this is the same as the previous*Release Note Botmschade [Art] [Main] CL#51207 Added dirt particle effe...https://removedurl/RL51



So as we can see, they're in the closing phases of *something*.



****@soe.sony.com

Main Server Deployment - 0.0.1385.5117...

Planetside2 Main Deployment started by abaker -



[Design] [Main] All AOE Heal abilities now accoun...





Now for some theory:



At my company, the only time you continously mail people about food and coffee is when you're in the run-up phase of a big project that needs to be done before a set date. You usually don't make people work over the alotted 9 hours a day, since the effectiveness of this is highly debateable.



The art/design team is obviously pushing for something, otherwise they wouldn't be doing all these little things (dirt particle effects).

2012-04-04 01:45 AM

Sirisian Re: Interesting stuff from Chinaside Bonius Originally Posted by This is also a very interesting note; "AOE Heal" - have we heard anything about this? We have a thread about this here. Basically the developers were talking about a possible AOE healing/reviving device that is thrown like a grenade. Looks like they went with it.

2012-04-04 09:32 AM

Hamma Re: Interesting stuff from Chinaside No crazy info in it but it's interesting to see what is going on. I'm pretty sure these guys have been getting dinner for some time judging from Twitter.

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2012-04-04 03:20 PM

NCLynx Re: NC rifle scope timelapse They put it on youtube 30 minutes after I sent my friend the link to the Chinese(?) site it was hosted on. Oh well lol. Still an awesome watch.

2012-04-04 03:21 PM

CidHighwind Re: NC rifle scope timelapse This video also seems to have some new music as a background... hello Don/collaborator :-). Good to hear some of your stuff?

2012-04-04 05:16 PM

Bonius Re: Interesting stuff from Chinaside I don't see the exchange messages popping in and out in that video... Let the conspiracy theories commence!

2012-04-04 05:48 PM

Knocky Re: Interesting stuff from Chinaside Bonius Originally Posted by I don't see the exchange messages popping in and out in that video... Let the conspiracy theories commence!



I am SO screwed now for posting the one from China....









PLEASE DON'T BLACKLIST ME FROM BETA!!!!!!!

2012-04-04 06:12 PM