Downtime Notice: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) Thursday, February 14th

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened.

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Thursday, February 14th to release Update 41.3.1. Click here for the Release Notes.

[zehnvhex]

> Players who earned enough Favor to unlock a Tier reward added in Update 41.3 will now retroactively receive their reward.

Yay. <3

[blerkington]

Really glad to see that change to favour rewards, much appreciated.

Assuming it works, it's a really good thing to do for the community.

Thank you.

[Vooduspyce]

Favor

• Players who earned enough Favor to unlock a Tier reward added in Update 41.3 will now retroactively receive their reward.

Hurray!!

[Sunnie]

Do we have to talk to the patrons to get them or will they just appear?

[PublicEnemy]

<<Players who earned enough Favor to unlock a Tier reward added in Update 41.3 will now retroactively receive their reward.>>

For something that seemed -understandably- difficult to code to add the retroactive effect, that was surprisingly and efficiently fast to add (granted it'll work as intended, and I have good hopes it will).

Thank you for your continued hard work at Ssg!

[Mornyngstar]

Friends in Low Places - Fixed an issue with crest placement.



Tried 6 times to complete before finally getting an instance where the first crest hadn't dropped thru the floor.

[guzzlr]

Favor retroactively applied = woohoo! Thank you!

[ahpook]

Do we have to talk to the patrons to get them or will they just appear?

It seems that they just appear

[LogiTinker]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Thursday, February 14th to release Update 41.3.1. Click here for the Release Notes.

Any reason not to put this on the launcher yet again? Just something like 'Don't bother making any plans to play'

[LadeeM]

Frame Work - Minotaurs are now curious enough to open gates for strangers under certain conditions. Their chieftain, however, has decided to no longer leave his keep.

I wondered why they weren't doing this! LOL We ended up using the ballistas. lmao Then Doris was disturbed by how many minotaurs we killed. >.>

Also, thanks for making the favor retroactive!

[TitusOvid]

I checked 3 characters of mine so far. It didn't work flawlessly. Some are still missing retroactive boni. Some more than others. I try to work it out in detail in the updoming days.

[Khalibano]

Hi Devs,

I've been logging my alts and checking their character sheets to see if the favor rewards have applied retrospectively. I found a few bugs, and thought I should mention them here.

- On my barbarian level 9, who has already achieved T1 and collected favor reward for House Phiarlan [currently he has 99 favor], there is no 'Favor' tab under the features section, so it is not registering in the char sheet.

- On my bard level 30 who has 5k+ favor, there is a favor tab, but the list is missing: House D tier 2 (tier 1 is listed) and House J tier 2 (T1 listed). I am not sure if it's just the icon missing from the list or if the bonus did not apply, as I did not record his HP value before the patch.

- On my artificer level 30 who also has 5k+ favor, there is a favor tab, but his list is missing more than the bard (so not sure if there is a pattern or not): PDK tier 2, House D tier 2 (T1 listed), House J tier 2 (T1 listed) and Harper tier 1. Also not sure if the bonuses missing from list already applied or not.

- On my paladin level 30 there is a favor tab, but the list is missing: Jorasco tier 1 (T2 listed), Harper tier 1 and Phiarlan tier 1.


I have 17 alts in total, but these are the ones I have checked so far.

Anyone else experiencing these issues?

Thanks for your work applying these retrospectively Makes a huge difference to those of us who play several alts, and would otherwise only benefit from these in a few years time when we managed to tr each of them.

On a side, but related note: The favor 'Blessings of the feather' shows under the tab <Special features>. Since this is a favor reward (+2 svs vs undead), it should go under the <Favor> tab

[dsmwhiteknight]

I am missing any favor feat that I am not one rank beyond. For example, I have 312 favor in house Deneith. I automatically received the House Deneith skill bonus feat, but have not received the hit point bonus feat. Talking to the patron does not help. The next rank is unattainable, so I am assuming I won't get it this life.

I have 141 House Phiarlan Favor and have not received the skill bonus feat. Talking to the patron did not help. Curious if I will get the feat retroactively when I hit the next rank?

Relogging did not fix it either.

Not to worried personally because I do TR. But I don't imagine this is working as intended.

UPDATE: I now have 150 Phiarlan favor and have taken the next rank. Still don't have skill bonus feat. Tried re-logging and also tried restarting client.

[Cordovan]

We are looking into these reports about Favor rewards.

[glennson]

I am missing any favor feat that I am not one rank beyond. For example, I have 312 favor in house Deneith. I automatically received the House Deneith skill bonus feat, but have not received the hit point bonus feat. Talking to the patron does not help. The next rank is unattainable, so I am assuming I won't get it this life.

I have 141 House Phiarlan Favor and have not received the skill bonus feat. Talking to the patron did not help. Curious if I will get the feat retroactively when I hit the next rank?

Relogging did not fix it either.

Not to worried personally because I do TR. But I don't imagine this is working as intended.

UPDATE: I now have 150 Phiarlan favor and have taken the next rank. Still don't have skill bonus feat. Tried re-logging and also tried restarting client.

I can confirm and on multiple characters I can say definitively it seems to only be occurring with House J, P & D +5 hp tier 2.

[Hawkwier]

Didn't expect the fix to the retrospective favour rewards to be implemented so soon.

I know it didn't fully work as intended and a few of the rewards are still missing for me, but nevertheless I am grateful for the attempt and the rapid response in doing so.

I look forward to the matter being fixed fully soon enough, but thanks to the devs for their efforts on this to date.

Nice one.

[Highdracolich79]

Remember how the cloaks update in October broke the two weapon fighting animations and that was fixed in a relatively short amount of time? Were you going to fix this newly broken animation i see since the December update... remember the update from December that affected orbs? ever since, i see when i try to use the Sunder feat with an orb or shield equipped in my off hand, the character bounces up and down sideways and the entire screen shakes violently up and down. Clearly this animation is broken but it looks like it got missed on the last 2 patches and today's hotfix also. The placement of orbs was messed up (were appearing on your forearm instead of in your hand) but that got fixed, I guess no one has noticed or mentioned this broken Sunder animation while wielding an orb or shield?

P.S. Also, why is the forum telling me this post was made and edited at around 9PM when my computer is telling me that it is right now closer to 3PM in central USA? Is this time stamp set in England or something? ... more broken code? ;p

P.P.S I sincerely appreciate all the efforts gone into making DDO a great game over the years and especially all the effort went into fixing the many troubles DDO has had with it's messed up parts. Sending a shoutout to Standing Stone Games for saving DDO when Turbine wanted to sell us off. Can't stress enough how much I want to thank you guys for all you have done. THANK YOU

[Arkat]

P.P.S. hahaha just noticed my join date is pre-Cordovan, says he joined 2010 and that I joined in 2009

2010 is when Jerry Snook joined Turbine as an employee and took the DDO Forum handle of "Cordovan."

Before that, Jerry was a player like the rest of us. I believe he joined the DDO Forums in 2006 and his forum name back then was "Mockduck."

So he's actually been around a lot longer than you!

[Highdracolich79]

I just tried logging in after today's hotfix is applied and it tells me my premium account has been downgraded to a free account and i can only use 10 of my 12 character slots. I bought Ravenloft Ultimate Fan Bundle back when it launched for $130. After the 2 months of VIP expired I was downgraded to a Premium Account. it's getting downgraded again randomly out of the blue? Unintended bug? Or was my account downgraded for real from Premium down to Free account? i took a screenshot... and then shut it down until i get more information.