# PlanetSide 2 September 3, 2026 - Patch Notes - Product: PlanetSide 2 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/planetside-2) - Vendor: Rogue Planet Games - Date: 2026-09-03 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/218230/view/704400583238352899 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/planetside-2/releases/2026-09-03-september-3-2026-patch-notes What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **fixed** — Alerts now finish correctly - **fixed** — Continent changes work smoothly again - **fixed** — Crash in the garbage collector implementation used for render objects has been fully resolved - **added** — New yearly in-game event called Military Academy featuring new Directives and cosmetics - **added** — New Directives added: Field Medicine, Recycling Master, Demolition Man, Eyes to the Skies, Invisible Threat, and Immovable Wall - **added** — Military Academy Event Directive rewards available from September 3rd to October 1st, 2026 - **added** — New cosmetic items added to the Depot including Academy caps, berets, and Military Academy armor for all factions - **changed** — Working on displaying a clear message when a connection is lost, including information about the possible cause ##### The servers will be down for a scheduled game update tomorrow @ 6am PDT. Please see the patch notes below for fixes and changes. --- ##### Alerts and Continent Changes We’re happy to report that **Hotfix #3, released on August 31, has resolved the issue affecting the alert and continent change systems**. - Alerts should now finish correctly. - Continent changes should work smoothly again. --- ##### Client Crashes Update We’d like to provide an update on the current state of client crashes and our ongoing investigation. While **this update does not include any new fixes, specifically related to client crashes**, we want to share the latest information and outline what we are currently working on. According to our crash statistics, **the number of daily client crashes has been reduced by approximately 50% since Hotfix #2, released on August 27**. We can also confirm that the **crash in the garbage collector implementation used for render objects has been fully resolved**. However, we are still receiving reports from players experiencing client crashes, and our logs continue to show several different types of crashes. Our investigation and work on these remaining issues is ongoing. - **Crashes occurring when switching characters** — we are continuing to investigate this issue. - **Connection issues being perceived as client crashes** — our logs show a significant number of connection drops related to network issues. In some cases, players receive no indication that their connection has been lost, which can make these incidents appear to be client crashes. We are currently working on displaying a clear message when a connection is lost, including information about the possible cause. - **Additional GPU diagnostics** — we are working on adding additional diagnostic tools for both **NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards**. This will help us investigate more specific cases that may be related to particular GPUs or driver configurations. - **Anti-cheat investigation** — at the moment, we do not see any evidence in our logs that the anti-cheat system is contributing to the current situation. However, we are continuing to investigate this possibility as well. We will continue to keep you informed as our investigation progresses and we release fixes as soon as they are ready. Thank you for your continued reports and feedback — they are helping us identify and address these issues. --- ##### New Event We’re excited to introduce a new yearly in-game event — **Military Academy**. The event features completely new Directives and a pack of new cosmetics. We plan to bring this event back every September in the future. We look forward to hearing your feedback! --- ##### Directives [table equalcells="1" colwidth="125,424,74,56"][td colwidth="125"] **Directive name** [td colwidth="424"] **Directive condition** [td colwidth="74"] **Difficulty** [td colwidth="56"] **Count** [td rowspan="4" colwidth="125"] Field Medicine [td rowspan="4" colwidth="424"] Earn healing experience. [td colwidth="74"] Novice [td colwidth="56"] 250 [td colwidth="74"] Adept [td colwidth="56"] 500 [td colwidth="74"] Expert [td colwidth="56"] 1000 [td colwidth="74"] Master [td colwidth="56"] 2500 [td rowspan="4" colwidth="125"] Recycling Master [td rowspan="4" colwidth="424"] Earn Recycling Master Ribbons by resupplying allies or repairing vehicles. [td colwidth="74"] Novice [td colwidth="56"] 3 [td colwidth="74"] Adept [td colwidth="56"] 30 [td colwidth="74"] Expert [td colwidth="56"] 35 [td colwidth="74"] Master [td colwidth="56"] 175 [td rowspan="4" colwidth="125"] Demolition Man [td rowspan="4" colwidth="424"] Kill or assist in killing enemy vehicles. [td colwidth="74"] Novice [td colwidth="56"] 5 [td colwidth="74"] Adept [td colwidth="56"] 15 [td colwidth="74"] Expert [td colwidth="56"] 30 [td colwidth="74"] Master [td colwidth="56"] 75 [td rowspan="4" colwidth="125"] Eyes to the _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/218230/view/704400583238352899]_