Scheduled Server Downtime: 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) Thursday, August 29

[ValenGodspeed]

Release Notes are up.

So the Epic Destiny feats are WAI, or was that just to much benefit for players to fix? Figures...

[Ovrad]

Release Notes are up.

So still no sagas?

[MrRoboto]

I am guessing von 1 will be fixed with this update.

[HernandoCortez]

The end of an era:

"Vault of Night

Tharashk Arena

Fixed an issue with the end reward list."

LOL...

[Jedthered]

So the Epic Destiny feats are WAI, or was that just to much benefit for players to fix? Figures...

Did you fix titan's forge? Are you going to put it on the known issue list? Are you going to close the raid? what gives? yes a bug report is in...

[katz]

hmmm. a patch thread. lets see...

someone cracking jokes about what exploit(s) will be fixed. check (also, LOL... nice one)

someone, upon looking at the BIG things that DID get fixed, immediately complained about one other big thing that didn't. check.

patch notes posted, artfully ignoring the roiling arguments. check.

someone complaining that a company based on the east coast of the US is patching the game during their prime hours instead of paying extra (in overtime) to patch in the middle of the night. check, double check, and check again.


only thing we're missing is someone complaining about ship buffs.

[enochiancub]

:: Shakes his cane :: You bloody kids and your ship buffs, ruining the neighborhood!

How's that?

[Grimlock]

lel.

[patang01]

Fixed beguile and von1. As they should be fixed - wrong is wrong.

Sad tho that the messed up CR on critters is still not fixed. Red named with dreadful amount of HP making it near impossible for first life normal geared toons to do basic Epic quests.

But I am happy that this was not JUST a fix to something that benefits players - but also a fix of other broken things like end reward list. Good - now I can go back to working on my citw 20th.
What I wonder however is why is there a diff between heroic and epic 20th? I mean the only one I can think of is something like Demon queen but none of them drop already epic items. Now that would be cool but that won't happen - unless they're also going to add shards to the end reward list - which would be nice.

However - I suspect that next update (rumored to be an update of existing content) will epify an already heroic raid. I'd like to see ToD since those rings need an update now when the enhancement overpass is out.

Anyways - interesting addition.

[HernandoCortez]

However - I suspect that next update (rumored to be an update of existing content) will epify an already heroic raid. I'd like to see ToD since those rings need an update now when the enhancement overpass is out.

Epic Vale. But I can't link you to the source.

[FalseFlag]

Fixed beguile and von1. As they should be fixed - wrong is wrong.

True, wrong is wrong. But beguile wasn't wrong. Red name immunities are wrong. They are poor, lazy design.

[Beethoven]

Be realistic too : You are not the center of the world, even if you think you are.

That's an interesting quote coming from someone who effectively argues that people of other races/nations/cultures should be forced to work through the night just for their personal entertainment.

There is no racial/cultural/divide beyond your own sad attempt of playing a race card. Software engineers are usually only called in during off-hours to deal with an emergency (such as a software crash or a situation that can cause significant damages if not dealt with immediately). European software companies don't habitually call in their staff either only because it may be more convenient for Americans.

You paying 25 (US) cents (roughly 0.20 Euro) for the service. It takes a special kind of person to then insist their whole company should be working through the night and play the race card to insult an entire nation if you don't get your way. Also, I am European and even as such find your conduct pathetic.

If you are more numerous than peak hour Europe then it's ok, but all the numbers from DDOracle says that it's the lowest activity time. Thus, the time when there will be the least disruption.

It's also about how to treat your own employees. You may not consider them having any value as human being because they are Americans, but their employees do not have that liberty and if Turbine keeps calling in their software engineers to work through the night for every update and bug fix then they soon will find themselves short a few software engineers because they will start look for employment at a different company which does not require them to work through the night as often.

You got any statistics for that? Because having worked in management (in Europe) I do.

[Celebras]

However - I suspect that next update (rumored to be an update of existing content) will epify an already heroic raid. I'd like to see ToD since those rings need an update now when the enhancement overpass is out.

Anyways - interesting addition.

Epic Restless Isles, would make it interresting again...

[Urist]

Furthermore, anyone who's had a server patch or upgrade go sideways (and I'm sure many at Turbine can remember such occasions) knows well that you should start the patching process as early in the day as possible (ie. not just before you go to lunch), so that when things do go pear-shaped, everyone's there who might be needed to help, and you reduce the amount of *unexpected* overtime you have to pay for people to stay late into the evening.
Seriously? 1130? Does it really take that long to get everyone to confirm that nothing has changed since the code was prepped the day before?

And to everyone complaining about people complaining: What the heck else do you expect us to do, when the game is down during our prime playing time :P

[Havok.cry]

Thank you for the quick and timely release notes

[BOgre]

So just some special notes regarding this patch...

We're breaking our usual pattern here a bit with today's update. Normally we like to give more advanced notice for "patches", but we are trying to get the bug fixes/crash fixes out ahead of the holiday weekend for players. Apologies for the short notice. Release notes will be available very shortly.

How about you start putting these events on the Calendar? It's fixed now, and most of us would find it pretty easy to add checking that link to our daily routine.

[Ovrad]

However - I suspect that next update (rumored to be an update of existing content) will epify an already heroic raid.

Is it Tempest Spine!? Please let it be Tempest Spine!

It's still the raid with the best gameplay in my opinion, because it's one of the only one where you feel like storm an enemy Stronghold, instead of just beating down a sack of hp.

[Grosbeak07]

How about you start putting these events on the Calendar? It's fixed now, and most of us would find it pretty easy to add checking that link to our daily routine.

You could staple down times to players foreheads and you would still see people posting "Why you take server down with no warningz?"

[UurlockYgmeov]

was cannith challenge gear fixed ? don't see it in the release notes - and nothing mentioned in known issues...

[BOgre]

You could staple down times to players foreheads and you would still see people posting "Why you take server down with no warningz?"

I'm not trying to suggest a solution that would please those types. And yeah, I was shaking my head at all the ppl wondering where the "new posts" link went, despite the Notice at the top of every page... ugh. No, I'm talking about the rest of, smart enough to actually use the resources provided to us. The calendar page exists, it's fixed, it should be used.