U42 Preview 3: 5/03-5/06

[Cocomajobo]

(EDIT: The third preview for U42 has ended. Thank you to all who came out to give it a look! Please inform us of any feedback or bugs found in the appropriate threads.)

Disclaimer

Everything seen on the preview server, Lamannia, is not final and is subject to change or removal before live release.

Hey, all! The pre-sale of our new Expansion (visit www.ddo.com/sharn) is available! The preview server will be opening up for a third (and final) preview of the contents of that expansion, which will be Update 42, on Friday May 6th and will be closing on Monday May 6th. This preview is expected to contain the following features:

• New Dungeons:
  
  • 9 Sharn Story Dungeons
  • 8 Cogs Explorer Dungeons
• The First Raid from the Masterminds of Sharn
• The Cogs Explorer Area
• New Named Loot (both Quest and Raid)
• Minor Artifacts
• New Filigree

In addition to those main features there are an assortment of smaller changes and/or bugfixes which are listed below

Character

• Favored Soul's Bonus Feats have much clearer and more concise wording
• Fixed Obscuring Mist doing Obscuring Darkness FX
• Fixed Obscuring Mist's effect having the name/description of "Obscuring Darkness"
• Fixed Fireball's/Domain Fireball's spell description (never got updated in U41)
• Fixed some animation issues on Male and Female Tieflings
• Tiefling's innate Fire Resistance and Infernal Resistance enhancements (acid/cold) now properly update their values when you level up without needing to relog
• (non-Scoundrel) Tieflings no longer innately use Fiddles for Bard songs
• Tiefling/Scoundrel players are now immune to fear, as they're supposed to be.
• The spell Spawn Screen no longer scales its number of targets (badly) via caster level, and instead affects all allies in the AOE.
• Druid: Tier 1 of "Force of Nature" (in Tier 5 of Nature's Protector) now grants the following in addition to its current effects: "Your attunement to Nature is emboldened - Your Druidic Oath is no longer broken by wearing metal armor or shields."
• Wail of the Banshee now has its signature Wail sound effect back!
• Tieflings, both male and female, now have a second dance.
• Tieflings now have their own taunt animations.
• Tieflings now have their own laugh emote.
• Sorcerer Savant's Air Elemental Form is now much less visually obscuring.
• All Sorcerer Savant Elemental Forms no longer erroneously drop on death.

Items

• The tooltip for the item effect "Ghostly" now correctly states that it grants a bonus to incorporeality, rather than concealment

Monsters

• N/A

Quests

• The Salve of Stone to Flesh in Eyes of Stone now has a cooldown of 5 seconds, rather than 30.
• Nudged a pair of hobgoblins in the quest Caverns of Shaagh to help them not become one with the stairs.

Misc

• Shield Guardian Hirelings have updated sounds
• The engine will no longer limit video/virtual memory usage as harshly on systems which have sufficient virtual memory. The game should properly take advantage of virtual memoryresources available to it.
• The character sheet UI now uses abbreviated class names, and has moved all four class fields onto the same line
• The character sheet UI now displays your Offhand Doublestrike underneath Doublestrike.
• Work has been done to eliminate various sources of server performance issues.

[Cocomajobo]

Preview 3 is now open! After you spend some time checking out Lamannia please leave your feedback in the appropriate thread linked above!

[J1NG]

Having trouble updating the Lamannia client.

"Unable to decrypt and de-serialise the data downloaded from the server."

Dns issue still or something else?

:: edit ::

Ah, false alarm. It appears that my update pre-empted the actual confirmation the server is up by a few moments, so it was stuck at that stage. Should be good to go for all users.

:: further edit ::

Nope, it progressed a bit seemingly then the same issue came up. Unable to decrypt, etc.

J1NG

[J1NG]

Restarted the client to update, and still a no go.

Anyone else having the same issue?

J1NG

[xRyanex]

It goes to download and tells me there's an error generating the hash code?

[Edwinge]

Mine keeps telling me "There was an error generating the hash code for a patch file."

[J1NG]

UK here, what's the geographical locations everyone else having trouble at?

J1NG

:: edit ::
Update of client progressed a bit, will notify once I'm fully through, but otherwise treat as also failed to update for now.

[Althotas]

[QUOTE=J1NG;6208662]Having trouble updating the Lamannia client.

I was able to update and load it fine so far . But then I spent the last 24 hours getting into the live game so maybe I cleared up both installs for the same reason.

[J1NG]

I was able to update and load it fine so far . But then I spent the last 24 hours getting into the live game so maybe I cleared up both installs for the same reason.

Through now as well. Although the issues I experienced for updating and installing are a bit different to everyone elses it appears. Will continue testing things as things develop.

J1NG

[Tist]

I couldn't see anywhere if the quests now have their final expected XP or not. Do they now give their intended xp at heroic and leg?

[Cocomajobo]

I couldn't see anywhere if the quests now have their final expected XP or not. Do they now give their intended xp at heroic and leg?

An XP pass has been done on the content. As with all things in preview, this is subject to change before live release.

[xRyanex]

Couldn't get the client to work, kept telling me it has an error generating a hash code for a patch file. Uninstalled to reinstall client to see if that would work, and download link is not working either.

[SinnJinn2]

I'm getting the same hash code error as others

[Cordovan]

People having trouble downloading the Lamannia client should try it again from this URL: http://live.ddo.com/sites/clientdl/d...ddopreview.exe This new URL has been added to the How to Access Lamannia thread as well. People able to log into Lamannia do not need to worry about this, but anyone with outstanding DNS issues will want to use this URL rather than the older one.

[xRyanex]

YAS Thank you!

[SirShen]

People having trouble downloading the Lamannia client should try it again from this URL: http://live.ddo.com/sites/clientdl/d...ddopreview.exe This new URL has been added to the How to Access Lamannia thread as well. People able to log into Lamannia do not need to worry about this, but anyone with outstanding DNS issues will want to use this URL rather than the older one.

Did this and it gets to 88% then restarts and nothing. Does it each time i try.

Fixed it - restarted the computer and it worked.

[Shikagami16]

People having trouble downloading the Lamannia client should try it again from this URL: http://live.ddo.com/sites/clientdl/d...ddopreview.exe This new URL has been added to the How to Access Lamannia thread as well. People able to log into Lamannia do not need to worry about this, but anyone with outstanding DNS issues will want to use this URL rather than the older one.

will this work for the error for the error "server is full" i tried logging on and it kept saying that and just closing the application??

[KingKoz]

Disclaimer

Everything seen on the preview server, Lamannia, is not final and is subject to change or removal before live release.

Hey, all! The pre-sale of our new Expansion (visit www.ddo.com/sharn) is available! The preview server will be opening up for a third (and final) preview of the contents of that expansion, which will be Update 42, on Friday May 6th and will be closing on Monday May 6th. This preview is expected to contain the following features:

huh? Lamma opening Friday May 6th closing Monday May 6th? U42 will be on Lamma for a year? cut/paste requires proof reading I guess :-)

[QuantumFX]

• The engine will no longer limit video/virtual memory usage as harshly on systems which have sufficient virtual memory. The game should properly take advantage of virtual memory resources available to it.

I noticed that opening the map in the client isn't killing my framerate in the Lammaland client. Is this the reason why?

[Whisper1]

Can you fix Thiefling misspelling. In racial tree.


"Incineration" instead of current "incEneration". Also in description of 1st tier of this skill need "additIonal" instead of "additonal".