Downtime Notice: Thursday, April 9th 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)

[Cordovan]

UPDATE: The game worlds have reopened.

The DDO game worlds will be brought down on Thursday, April 9th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) for a hotfix. This hotfix includes a change aimed at fixing a recent bug discovered that is impacting game performance.

[ReyalsNogard]

Here's wishing the DDO exterminators all the luck in the world. SQUASH THAT BUG!

[Merfyn]

I had thought perhaps the hamsters had died in their wheels, or maybe were all eaten by wandering kobolds...

but I haven't seen many kobolds in Sharn so far, and that's where I noticed most of the bugging out.

[Memnir]

[cdbd3rd]

Hopefully it's the same 'performance bug' that making Hobbit-side pretty much a nightmare as well. (I haven't forum-hopped to see)

[Saekee]

release notes: horses no longer function in wilderness areas once any DA is activated

[GeoffWatson]

release notes: horses no longer function in wilderness areas once any DA is activated

I guess they feel they've sold enough horses/KotB packs.

[Cordovan]

The game worlds have reopened. Please use this thread to let us know how your game experience goes once you log in post-patch. The state of the game world prior to today's update is not as relevant, unless today's patch doesn't do what we think it will.

[FranOhmsford]

release notes: horses no longer function in wilderness areas once any DA is activated

Where are these release notes?

Or are you being witty?

[Cocomajobo]

Where are these release notes?

Or are you being witty?

They were being witty. Horses are still present in DDO and should be unchanged in this patch.

[EnragedBears]

The game worlds have reopened. Please use this thread to let us know how your game experience goes once you log in post-patch. The state of the game world prior to today's update is not as relevant, unless today's patch doesn't do what we think it will.

Orion works fine - just did quest "Escape Plan" R4 heroic with out lag, 251 online during quest.

[FranOhmsford]

They were being witty. Horses are still present in DDO and should be unchanged in this patch.

While you're here - Would it be at all possible to have Invisibility work on Horseback?

Trying to catch up with zerging parties in Sands, {or Orchard, Vale and Amrath Heroic - GH isn't so bad as there's lots of space without mobs} going from OoB to Wiz King or Chains it would be nice to be able to not get mobbed with Red Alert!

[HungarianRhapsody]

I don't know what changed, but I now have a new, ugly cloak as my default that I didn't have yesterday.

That doesn't seem to make a difference in my game's performance, but I did turn off my cloak because it was SUPER ugly. Red and mustard-yellow diagonal quarters with my robe clipping through the cloak.

I am not currently wearing a cosmetic cloak.

[Thar]

release notes: horses no longer function in wilderness areas once any DA is activated

this would be awesome... make it so...

those of us without horses have to deal with all the **** they leave behind... literally...

[HungarianRhapsody]

this would be awesome... make it so...

those of us without horses have to deal with all the **** they leave behind... literally...

It's pretty easy to get a horse currently (until April 30).

[mikarddo]

this would be awesome... make it so...

those of us without horses have to deal with all the **** they leave behind... literally...

I like my horse, a lot, and I am definitely guilty of red alert charging through wildernesses without killing anything - simply because its fast.

Horses definitely ruined wildernesses completely. Apart from Orchard in Epics I don't kill anything at all in wildernesses any longer if I can avoid it... but I guess that horse has left the barn.

[Cordovan]

The horse talk is basically fine, but is not helping us get your in-game experience post-patch in this thread. If you are in-game or have been in-game since today's patch, please let us know how things went.

[rabidfox]

If you are in-game or have been in-game since today's patch, please let us know how things went.

So far, quite nice on Khyber. No more insta-"lag" when a quest finishes and even the nasty parts of Wheloon have been smooth for me. I guess the real test now will be to see how things hold up as the week progress towards the next weekly restart day.

[Draxis]

The horse talk is basically fine, but is not helping us get your in-game experience post-patch in this thread. If you are in-game or have been in-game since today's patch, please let us know how things went.

Seems like lag from the client has greatly decreased. I still get a few network stutters, where everything freezes for a sec then speeds up to catch up, but that's kinda expected. The whole internet has been a bit like that lately. But the client lag, where my PC fan sounds like a jet engine and stuff freezes and then unfreezes without the speed-up a bunch of times (Or until I leave that instance), I haven't yet experienced since the update. Load times are also greatly decreased. I was seeing it take several minutes sometimes to just load up the character selection screen, and that's gone. And sometimes when jumping between instances the load screen would sit at 0% for a bit while my PC fan went nuts - That's gone as well. So far so better.

[Faltout]

The horse talk is basically fine, but is not helping us get your in-game experience post-patch in this thread. If you are in-game or have been in-game since today's patch, please let us know how things went.

We will need at least a couple of days to compare lag to previous experiences. So far there hasn't been any lag, but I haven't used the "kite monsters, break line of sight, cause massive lag" technique. Nor have the number of ghost LFMs/ghost airship instances had the time to increase. And the servers have not had the time to accumulate players stuck in loading screens/reincarnations/etc. and forcefully logging off.

I'm just saying that lag reports are not going to appear immediately after a server restart.