U38 tomorrow?

[Brandall]

Any verification of this?

[Cordovan]

No, it won't be tomorrow (Tuesday). We are working on a release candidate build today. We'll have more info once things are locked down.

[chrysahor]

Will you still do a restart tomorrow then? Or is it postponed later this week for u38?

[Gabrael]

what does "candidate build" mean?

[hp1055cm]

Good! No rush... take your time.
I'm enjoying playing my Monk in heroics atm and will probably take a short break once I get f*&^%$ over.

Maybe I'll go back to dual-wielding since that's being fixed.

[Dorian]

No, it won't be tomorrow (Tuesday). We are working on a release candidate build today. We'll have more info once things are locked down.

Thanks for the update. Can you at least tell us it's NOT going to be released this week?

I know people that are holding off on TRs because they thought the update was coming out this week. If I hear "not this week"... I'm going to grind out a quick Epic past life.

[Cordovan]

Thanks for the update. Can you at least tell us it's NOT going to be released this week?

I know people that are holding off on TRs because they thought the update was coming out this week. If I hear "not this week"... I'm going to grind out a quick Epic past life.

We are expecting to release Update 38 this week.


what does "candidate build" mean?

Basically, a final final build that gets approved to be released to the live worlds. Until it is signed off on by QA and others, it's a candidate.


Will you still do a restart tomorrow then? Or is it postponed later this week for u38?

No, we will not be doing a restart tomorrow.

[Yamani]

We are expecting to release Update 38 this wek.



Week or Wed? Possibly both?

[Memnir]

Week or Wed? Possibly both?One or the other, since they're not doing a restart tomorrow. Probably just fold that into the launching of the update later in the week.

[edrein]

No, it won't be tomorrow (Tuesday). We are working on a release candidate build today. We'll have more info once things are locked down.

I severely hope the druid pass is getting pushed back to be released in one of the post U38 patches, it certainly wasn't ready during the two Lamannia Previews.

[Kza]

I severely hope the druid pass is getting pushed back to be released in one of the post U38 patches, it certainly wasn't ready during the two Lamannia Previews.

That is your opinion. Looked fun and flaworful to me. I really want to play them! :-)

[SerPounce]

That is your opinion. Looked fun and flaworful to me. I really want to play them! :-)

Did you go on lamania and try it? It might look flavorful reading the trees, but there were a lot of glitches, inconsistencies, text not matching functions, and nonfunctional mechanics along with extremely dated sp costs, cooldowns, and dcs that haven’t been rebalanced. Casually reading through the release notes isn’t going to give you the whole picture.

[edrein]

That is your opinion. Looked fun and flaworful to me. I really want to play them! :-)

That's the opinion of someone who thoroughly tested and gave feedback during both previews. Who listed bugs that weren't fixed between the two previews as well. It's the opinion of someone with knowledge on the subject. There are plenty of issues that still remain as pointed out by SerPounce, I'm not merely saying "It should be pushed back" because I have some agenda to stop people from playing druids this week. I have an agenda to prevent a buggy disaster with a few bad design flaws from going through.

Let alone Torc said that they were behind on the bear work, and had additional stuff they were going to do to the tree based on feedback. That's the sort of thing you don't just randomly spring out on live given the state of bears during the preview. Better to push Druids back another week or two and atleast post the third version of the trees for additional feedback or testing.

Edit: My 'opinion' had nothing to do with the trees being powerful, flavorful, etc. I'm merely speaking from the fact there were still major changes to be made without any form of player feedback or viewing, as well as the fact there were several major bugs and issues that persisted through two Lamannia previews and thus warrant a need to suggest postponing the druid portion of U38 for a patch or two.

[Seikojin]

what does "candidate build" mean?

it means no new code changes. Only fixes to existing code that get individually validated to ensure no data loss, crashing, etc, occur with that build. Also the new quests probably should be completable.

[SCPRedMage]

what does "candidate build" mean?
A "Release Candidate" build is exactly what the name suggests: build that's a candidate for being released. Basically, it's a build that they believe might be good to release, so the developers basically "freeze" the code (don't allow any more changes), then put it through the Quality Assurance process. If it passes, that's the version that's released. If it doesn't, they fix the problems that they found, then that becomes the next Release Candidate; repeat until you have a build that you're willing to actually release.

[LT218]

Did you go on lamania and try it? It might look flavorful reading the trees, but there were a lot of glitches, inconsistencies, text not matching functions, and nonfunctional mechanics along with extremely dated sp costs, cooldowns, and dcs that haven’t been rebalanced. Casually reading through the release notes isn’t going to give you the whole picture.
So in other words, it's like every other piece of content or new mechanic they've released in the past few years.

If your description is true, it'll be released this week, they'll fix a few bugs and broken things here and there over the next few updates, then it hits the "screw it, good enough" phase and gets neglected like everything else because they'll be moving on to the next new, shiny thing.

Then they wonder why bug lists never gets shorter year over year...

[thedip]

My main is a melee drood and I have been under-powered for quite some time and so waiting for little more time is better than releasing an unfinished pass. By all means release the new dungeons so that I can decide if I want to run them or not - but please fix the bugs before releasing the drood or Arti updates.