Downtime Notice: Tuesday, December 12th 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened. Thank you!

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable on Tuesday, December 12th from 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for a hotfix. Click here to read about the changes.

[LeoLionxxx]

Kobolds previously had two dances, but they were not hooked up correctly. Until now!

INTERESTING. So now when we force Kobolds to dance for our safety and/or amusement, they'll randomly choose between one of the two?

[Quikster]

Any word on a fix for those people crashing all the time?

[mudfud]

Any word on a fix for those people crashing all the time?

That looks like its covered in the quest/adventure fixes. Near bottom has a line snuck in about fixing crashes in barovia. Possibly it?

[Quikster]

That looks like its covered in the quest/adventure fixes. Near bottom has a line snuck in about fixing crashes in barovia. Possibly it?

I saw that. I don’t even know what the gates are because I crash too much trying to get into RL. There was also mention of discovery of problems that caused crashes into other explorer areas by a dev, and was hoping...maybe...

[Aelonwy]

Can we please have Ravenloft loading screens when we log onto a character already in Barovia? Also is there any possibility of a Ravenloft log in screen? Perhaps with the castle in the background? It would really affirm the new world of the expansion for the log in screen to Barovia not be Eveningstar.

Also will halforcs be decently covered?

[Qhualor]

Engineering work has been done on spell casting to help alleviate client "hitching" seen in recent weeks.

is this player or mob spells? I assume this is the freezing issues we have been posting about the past month?

[brian14]

Scarecrows are no longer healed by electricity.

So that was not WAI? Good to know -- I was about to do some major rework on my level 30 lightning-specced wizard.

[LrdSlvrhnd]

Engineering work has been done on spell casting to help alleviate client "hitching" seen in recent weeks.

is this player or mob spells? I assume this is the freezing issues we have been posting about the past month?

I dunno, but I've noticed the hitching while just running. So this probably won't fix all the problems...

[Dreppo]

Kobolds previously had two dances, but they were not hooked up correctly. Until now!

Preparation for playable kobolds, perhaps?

[ForgettableNPC]

Nothing on items from past updates that are dropping with missing enchantments.

[Mephisto-Helix]

Engineering work has been done on spell casting to help alleviate client "hitching" seen in recent weeks.

If that's the cause for all the irritation since Night Revels, this will be a downtime I'm happy about, holding thumbs!

[CaptainPurge]

"Engineering work has been done on spell casting to help alleviate client "hitching" seen in recent weeks. "

You better fix this. It's really getting old. It always seems to proc in groups of dangerous mobs in reaper when you don't have a chance to react because suddenly the game decides to lay a large stinky brown object and freeze for a couple seconds. You have to time your defensive reaction to the moment your game decides to start working again. Lame AF fam.

[Loholt-UK]

"Engineering work has been done on spell casting to help alleviate client "hitching" seen in recent weeks. "

You better fix this. It's really getting old. It always seems to proc in groups of dangerous mobs in reaper when you don't have a chance to react because suddenly the game decides to lay a large stinky brown object and freeze for a couple seconds. You have to time your defensive reaction to the moment your game decides to start working again. Lame AF fam.

There are lots of triggers for this behaviour apart from spell casting. Reapers are unplayable because one of the triggers for freezes is reapers spawning. Getting targeted by enemy archers is also a trigger. There are many more triggers that are not at all spell related.

[cdbd3rd]

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Also will halforcs be decently covered?

I want shorts for my Horc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





(Bonus if the shorts on female Horcs turn into Daisie Dukes!

[Branir]

Scarecrows are no longer healed by electricity.

Wow, those scarecrows were shocking!

[Annex]

Also will halforcs be decently covered?

Whoa. I think I've seen that guy in Berkley.

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Also, thank you for working on the hitching thingy caused by spells and archers and whatever. Until now I thought my somewhat feeble computer was causing that problem.

[itstheguy]

Scarecrows are no longer healed by electricity.

Wow, those scarecrows were shocking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGg_HTls8ME

[GeoffWatson]

There are many epic-level named weapons that can't currently be made sentient. Will they be fixed?

[OfElectricMen]

There are many more triggers that are not at all spell related.

The two triggers I've personally noticed the most are trying to cast Evard's Black Tentacles (especially if moving), but the far more common trigger across all my characters is simply turning: a corner, in place, while moving, while swinging a weapon, etc. Other things cause it too, but these are the ones that have most caught my attention.

You are very correct in that it's not just a spell casting thing.