Downtime Notice: Thursday, August 15th 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Thursday, August 15th for a hotfix. Click here for the Release Notes.

[Drecas]

Cool changes, too bad you guys didn't fix the broken "dominate" (paralyze) effect on master vampire. Next patch then?

[Sythe777]

Glad to see some clarification on the xp changes and reset to the ransack penalties. Glad to see some of the bugs fixed. Sad to see that some EDs haven't been fixed yet. Sad to see my poor vegneance reaper go away

[Steelstar]

Sad to see that some EDs haven't been fixed yet.

We're working late to knock those bugs out and get a fix to you soon.

[thewolf14]

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[Memnir]

None of this looks important enough to shut the server down during peak time Friday night in the asia/pacific region, please reschedule this for next week and try and remember that not everyone lives in America.

Pretty sure the players on Macs who haven't been able to access the game for the past two days would disagree that fixing their issue could wait a week. The other fixes are gravy on top of that.

[mistress_minx]

We're working late to knock those bugs out and get a fix to you soon.

The game just crashed for everyone. 1:10pm Thurs Aug 15th 2019. Will not reload for anyone I'm talking with on Facebook or my cell abt it. Forums here are wonky also

[Mark0044]

I am one of Mac people. Thanks for working hard for us to play. But, well, next time hope you guys will test it well bc the same thing happens over and over (after the patch last time I couldn't log in). Then if you birng that major changes in the middle of summer, when people are likely to have more free time and want to play, when things go south (and likely to go south when you try to do a lot of things in too short a time under much pressure), the damage will be massive for everyone. Maybe you guys should do this before or after summer. Not in the middle of prime time of entertainment. This devastated many people's summer fun.... like mine this week I had a whole week off and that doesn't happen every week or evey month or even..

[tinyelvis]

We're working late to knock those bugs out and get a fix to you soon.

Good luck

[erethizon]

A quick question about epic Bravery Bonus. For the longest time level 20 quests got Bravery bonus only when you were within 3 levels of base (and all other epics when within 4 levels of base). Will this update finally allow people to be within 4 levels of base for level 20 quests or will they still require you to be level 23 or less if you want full BB?

[pelaaja]

I highly disliked the 42.4 change to optional XP. This change? It's still horrible.

This change alone kills epic Wiz-King, epic Devil Assault, and other epic quests which relies heavily on the optional XP bonus to get the big XP. You can most likely get more XP from doing The Snitch 3-4 times in a row and in faster time than it takes for you to finish eDA.
(Side note, yes eDA isn't usually done for XP but the amount of XP you got while farming tokens was a great add-on)

Personally it should be tied to the quest ransack itself. If you really want to try to punish people doing the same quest over again just for the optional XP, make it that the optional XP ransacks twice faster, (on second run, optional XP is -40%, third run it's -80%) but have it still be able to get the daily reset.

Or if the issue is that people do the optional then leave out the quest without finishing the quest, don't give the optional XP right away and instead give them once the quest is complete.

Or if the issue is only with the heroic quests, make it not happen in Epic levels.

[JackLV]

The DDO game worlds will be unavailable from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Thursday, August 15th for a hotfix. Click here for the Release Notes.

Soc what I'm hearing is that for the third day in a row I won't be able to play because the game is going down. Do you under stand that some people only have a limited time in the morning to play a game they Pay For normally about 8AM to about 1PM! What part of waiting until all the updates are ready and then adding them? It's not like you stick to the Tuesdays for updates statement you made! Here is an idea if you cant deliver on what we pay for come up with a rewards list, the more days we have down the higher on the list you go for your customers you know the people who help pay you. Hope to see you in the game if its ever up again

[Fedora1]

Is this update still happening this morning? I've been on for a couple hours and have not seen the usual T-60, T-45 and T-30 minute warnings announced in-game. Since it is now less than 30 minutes until the downtime I was wondering if it still going to happen.

[Sevans]

Corrected an issue that prevented users of the legacy Mac client from launching the game. Note: The current Mac client can be downloaded here.

(emphasis mine.) (from here: https://www.ddo.com/en/update-4241-release-notes)

Anyone know if the current Mac client is different from the legacy mac client?

[Saekee]

thanks for fixing mac client!!!

Huge xp boost, folks, with expanded BB in epics and +10% daily; you won’t care about Wiz King with that

[AstorPotamus]

(emphasis mine.) (from here: https://www.ddo.com/en/update-4241-release-notes)

Anyone know if the current Mac client is different from the legacy mac client?

If the "current" client is the same as the one I downloaded last week, it's gonna be unusable garbage for me. The ONLY stable Mac client I've been able to find since they murder-hobo'd the SSG download version for the Sharn PreRelease is thru Steam.

Also, am I going to have to put in a ticket to get reimbursed the lost VIP & Season Pass time?

[Fedora1]

Is this update still happening this morning? I've been on for a couple hours and have not seen the usual T-60, T-45 and T-30 minute warnings announced in-game. Since it is now less than 30 minutes until the downtime I was wondering if it still going to happen.

Well it is now 9:02 EST and the servers are still up.

[MoBlackChaos]

Well it is now 9:02 EST and the servers are still up.

Warning started 10:00 pm new time I guess.

[Lynnabel]

Downtime Announcement: we are moving the downtime forward 1 hour (so now starting at 10:00 AM EST). Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you in game soon!

[TrinityTurtle]

Is this update still happening this morning? I've been on for a couple hours and have not seen the usual T-60, T-45 and T-30 minute warnings announced in-game. Since it is now less than 30 minutes until the downtime I was wondering if it still going to happen.

I got those announcemnets showing up in game in my world feed starting at 8am eastern time, so it's apparently working for some of us.