Originally planned for June 30th, version 1.5.2 or Open Beta 2 was delayed due to lag and memory issues, but has now gone live on server this morning. Open beta 2 contains major changes and adjustments to many of All Points Bulletin systems including missions, matchmaking, skill rating and district recommendations.
Due to these major changes, GamersFirst also stated that over the next week they expect many small patches will be required so testers should expect random downtime.
it’s very difficult to simulate some of the effects of these changes in QA or even in the smaller “Test World” – so for the next week we will be watching all the data coming in from these changes very closely, so everyone should expect there to be rather frequent patches over the next week.
In other words – YES – between now and next Friday I expected daily occurrences of “15 minute warnings” to take districts down for patching. If you see one of those, then please just log in after the patch and continue testing.
Also announced was that support for Nvidia SLI graphics cards is on its way in the form of a driver update, which is expected in about 2 weeks.