Downtime Notice: Thursday, March 28th 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Elxir]

Updating my client now, I suggest everyone else do the same, even if you don't have time to play now.

[janave]

Updating my client now, I suggest everyone else do the same, even if you don't have time to play now.

Patching now.

Doing a dice roll then sleeps..

[Acellon]

Thank you.

Hopefully this doesn't drag out for four days again...

[Evean]

The release notes will be published tomorrow.

Bueller?

[Natashaelle]

Sorry, I thought Europe started observing CEST last weekend, not this weekend, so we're still in that odd state where, while we are officially -4 GMT, Europe is largely five hours ahead of us instead of six.

A longstanding annoyance among the Oldier among we Brits is that your timezone is in fact statically (indeed geographically) located at -5 GMT.

Ah well, hopefully the forthcoming abandonment in Europe of these ludicrous "daylight saving" times will help keep things a bit less confusing twice/year during Equinox. It's hardly the fault of the US that GMT and BST are not one and the same thing.

Honestly, can't you just post your times as EST and then assume that your European and other non-US players are savvy enough to know what that means ???

Truthfully, I'd also like you to stop the 12 AM/PM confusion (given that international standards in this matter do not exist), but instead adopt a clearer military style 00 hours to 23 hours etc.

[Natashaelle]

Are there no Release Notes ?

[Jomee]

Are there no Release Notes ?

I found them by accident.

https://www.ddo.com/en/update-414-release-notes

[Natashaelle]

I found them by accident.

https://www.ddo.com/en/update-414-release-notes

Cheers mate

[Vish]

Ok, my experience of this update

Yesterday, last nite about 730 I started the update
It took the first part of awesomeium download ok then said it patched, and restarted the Updater
Usually this first file always downloads
But then it gets to the big file and it gets errors
I tried multiple times, each ending in a 3038 error
I have chalked this up in the past to like busy server connection
So I tried like? A dozen times, but it kept failing
So only thing I do then is wait another day and try during non peak hours

So then I got up this morning at 430
And tried again
Well it kept downloading a part of the awesomeium, then said it patched, then restarted the Updater to continue
But always on that second attempt it kept failing
It would download a little bit of it, patch, then restart
Tried like a dozen times to get it to take
It's like the server just ain't holding onto me
So I kept waiting a min or two, reopening Updater
And finally, finally, ran a clean copy and downloaded the whole awesomium file

So finally got the dat portion downloaded
Then comes the next hurdle, iterations
2000+
Means lots of files to download
So it went thru and processed the iteration list
Then started downloading files, got to about 25, patched, and restarted
So it's been my experience that it always leaves off, ie it tracks how many iterations youve downloaded and continues from a previous point
So then I started get hang ups
I started getting e fails
It would patch complete then restart, then fail on the second attempt
Again I tried like 5-10 times, waiting sometimes a few minutes, or sometimes immediately restarting the Updater
But it was stuck on like 1975 iterations
In the past sometimes it does them in chunks
And I have to just keep trying, sometimes over a day or two
But then a miracle happened
It got a good bite? Idk it did the iteration list, then it started downloading files
And it kept downloading
And I stared at the screen, expecting it to hang up
But it kept downloading
You know, like it's supposed to
All the files at once
And it kept going, 500, 1000, 1500, and finally It does the last one a English file,
And it gave me per caching logic, and then a log in screen
I mean isn't this how it's supposed to work, that it downloads everything and keeps going
But I consider it a miracle
It doesn't take long if it just continuously downloads the files
Sometimes it hangs up in the high res files
But the miracle occured and it finished

So I always close it after it gets to login screen
Then wait a few minutes and open a new Updater client
I want to see it process through the steps and get to login in one smooth motion
And it did
So I entered my password, has Sarlona preselected, and hit enter
So then something new happened
When I pressed play, for Sarlona,
A message pops up and says there is already another copy of ddo running,
And I have a message to bring to front the current copy
Well I didn't investigate it completely
It seemed like a bug
Never had it happen before
Like it was dual boxing, with multiple copies open
So then I hit bring to front,
And it loaded, and got me into the game
So I was in world, played once quest, palace of stone,
Just to check that the game was running right
Then I logged off
And exited ddo
So it closed that instance, but on my screen I still had another copy of launcher running,
Poised at the play button
So I don't what's going on
I will investigate it when I play again this afternoon

[fatherpirate]

Nice patch

My client worked once after patch...then
client patching (again) crash
trying again, crash, again, crash, again, crash
attempting game repair
crash, again, crash
and so on, forcing me to uninstall current game and attempt to re-download from scratch.

This happens from time to time.
It really should really NEVER happen, after the first time.
If it keeps happening, it is a bug you never bothered to fix.

I am not going to rage quit or anything.
But I will stop wasting cash buying stuff in game.

have a nice day