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Folks,

Well, it’s Friday and time for another Sneak Peak at the next major patch. In this case it will be an early look at the Patch 1.2 patch cycle. While we could easily call this patch Combat & Careers Part Deux, I think a better name is the Bugs, Careers, RvR, Bugs, Items and Bugs Patch. Over this patch cycle we will have addressed and resolved about 500 bugs and issues (some internal, most external) and some of the changes have already been pushed to LIVE. Now, while a lot of these are teeny tiny little bugs, such as grammatical errors in tool tips, the majority of them are substantial. This patch is intended to be made available to our Core Testers next week on our Public Test Server (PTS). We also intend to break with tradition a little bit and make the entire patch notes available to the community before the patch goes to the PTS. So, without further ado, here are some highlights from the 1.2 patch cycle.

1) Bugs: I’m certainly not going to list 500 bugs/issues here, but the list is rather lengthy and right now bug fixes alone are coming in at about 16 pages of notes.

2) New Careers: Two new careers have been added, the Slayer and the Choppa. For those that got a look at the Choppa during Beta, you’ll see some changes and improvements but the Slayer is all new and ready to take the field for the first time.

3) Combat and Careers Adjustments: Lots and lots of bug fixes, adjustments and tweaks to all careers. This Balance patch focuses on addressing a number of global issues identified by the players that have been affecting the overall feel and balance of the game. This includes items such as Resistance stacking, Disorient effects, and Damage Absorb shields. In addition to these more global changes, we continue to work on each individual career addressing many of the more significant balance concerns and bugs brought up by the community. This includes a focus on the following careers; Witch Elf, Witch Hunter, Chosen, Knight, Black Orc, and Swordmaster.

4) Realm vs Realm: RvR is introducing several great changes including the new Open RvR Rallying Cry, Zone Domination System, and Siege Weapon Improvements and more!

5) Items: Itemization improvements and fixes for Gunbad, Bastion Stair, Lost Vale, Fortress Raid Rewards, City Invasion Rewards, and more!

6) Crafting System Improvements: Overall improvements to the system with Apothecary being the focus of this patch. New ingredients, improved interfaces and more.

7) Public Quests: Easy PQs for Tiers two, three, and four! This completes our first pass at the Easy PQ system and we will continue to review and tweak the system as necessary. As we have already done for Tier One, we have gone through the PQs in each Tier and made sure that at least one per chapter can be completed by 1-3 people.

8) New Live Event: The Bitter Rivals event will be launching with this version as the official kick off for the anticipated introduction of the Slayer and Choppa!

9) New Scenario: The Twisting Tower Scenario will be making a special preview appearance!

10) User Interface: Lots of UI improvements for both old and new systems! These improvements cover everything from crafting to RvR.

11) Mail: Send multiple items attached to each mail! Easily one of our most requested features by the players.

12) Client Stability: Continued improvements to the client in the areas of stability performance and visual quality. Improvements to an MMO’s client, just like the server, are ongoing and these will continue now and in the future to be one of our priorities.

As always, there’s a lot more to this patch than I can hope to cover here and things are subject to change during testing, but 1.2 is a huge patch for us and it will be followed by another large patch, 1.3. I’m also working on a State of the Game that will lay out, in more detail, our plans for the rest of 1.2, 1.3 and beyond. And once again, this is only a Sneak Peak. happy

Mark

It's 'peek'.

I think I might, while bored at work, go back and look through how many times they have said they were improving stability in the previous patches... sounds like a fun and time consuming thing to do tomorrow.

I am about done though posting about WAR, it's getting old and the lines are being drawn in the sand between fanboi who will play till the servers burn in a fire and those that are admitting the product is garbage and have moved on. Although, the forums are a hoot, back to focusing on Eve.

When your patch fixes over 500 bugs and comes 4 months after release, that should be a sign that you released too early and lollygagged for 4 months..

4) Realm vs Realm: RvR is introducing several great changes including the new Open RvR Rallying Cry, Zone Domination System, and Siege Weapon Improvements and more!

I had to block it days ago  :grin:

I don't understand.  It doesn't bother me at all.  Maybe its like one of those magic picture things where my eye can't pick up on the disturbing frequencies or whatever.

I am eagerly awaiting the PR spin for the Russian release combined with the drop of subs for Q1 2009. We all know they are still losing users, however with their current trend of "well we never said we had 800k subscriptions, just registered users" I wonder if they pull the same thing with Russia. "We sold XXX number of boxes and gained XXX number of registered users" all the while steering clear of saying 'subscriptions'.

Doesn't bother me at all either.

Doesn't bother me at all either.

Looks like an epileptic Simon LeBon

What what in your Seven and the Ragged Tiger

Every time I see the little animation he says:  FLEX FLEX!  (in the butt)

Thanks so much for planting "The Reflex" in my head...   This was intentional wasn't it?

We are introducing the new Rally Call system. At various intervals, players will be called to join the battle in the Tier 1 and Tier 2 RvR lakes. A button will appear near the mini-map, enabling willing participants to jump right into the action.

55 pages of patch notes (http://herald.warhammeronline.com/patchnotes/index.php?id=2009_1-1-2)

here are the actual 1.2 patchnotes. Long read:

http://herald.warhammeronline.com/patchnotes/index.php?id=2009_1-1-2

Look, it's really very simple and I've said this more than once. This is not 2001 and we are not going to blithely make changes to our game just because some people think that we are wrong before they even get a chance to see the changes in action or worse, just because we are getting yelled at by a very vocal minority. We'll gather the data, look at all the feedback and then make a decision. If we're wrong, we'll correct the decision but at least this time we have all the data we need to make the right call and we are not getting swayed either by just the loud voices or a few wrong-headed individuals. So, if you feel the need to talk about canceling in these threads, of course you have that right. Just don't think that we are going to react to it the same way we might have at times back in 2001, we need to be smarter and react more carefully than that.

/ignore will persist properly between logins.

A gigantic patch like that is one you usually see during beta.

Reminds me of them admitting ToA was horrible and loosening its stranglehold on the game only AFTER everyone quit because of it.

This sounds promising but why only tier 1&2?  They don't seem to realize that most people have fun in tier 1&2, it's tier 3 causes people to quit.

The negativity here is really astounding.

These are exactly the fixes and polish required to release a modern MMO.

Once they finish the PvE polish and work out the design inconsistencies with RvR they should be set to start the hard work of game testing the 1-40 experience to make sure it flows.

I personally am very excited about the upcoming release in 6 months.

Sarcasm

This is something I've been bitching about since the first fucking month. They are putting it in but only for T1 and T2? WHAT THE FUCK? It's like they WANT people to quit in T3.

(http://iria.chem.uh.edu/f13/flower.jpg)  What, was my link not pretty enough?

Playing on Med/Med Server actually and T3 is daily RvR with at least 1 WB on each side. So, not really a problem at the moment in T3 and T4

Long patch notes for a niche game.


I'd be reluctant to actually admit that some of that stuff was still broken.

* The use of Trade skills will now be interrupted when the character moves.

DAM, i thought that was a feature, my girl would put herself on follow (typed in chat, as the UI right click was disabled for some reason) and craft as i lead us to the next area.

Bitches.  :mob:

Five-star drive, three-star talent.  (Though I'd be kind of upset with that quotable gem were I part of the talent.)

I can't wait for the expansion.

I bet it will be set in an underwater world with complex encounters, rare drops, and items to level!

items to level!

You know, when Mythic first started hyping ToA and items that level were first hinted at, I thought it actually sounded like a fun idea.  Back then, before the details started to become known, for some reason I thought the item would level as you level.  The item would improve proportionately to your level and new abilities would unlock.  Of course, they actually turned out to be end-game only grind 2.0 crap that you had to level separately and in most cases only on specific mobs.  Good job, Mythic!

You know, when Mythic first started hyping ToA and items that level were first hinted at, I thought it actually sounded like a fun idea.  Back then, before the details started to become known, for some reason I thought the item would level as you level.  The item would improve proportionately to your level and new abilities would unlock.  Of course, they actually turned out to be end-game only grind 2.0 crap that you had to level separately and in most cases only on specific mobs.  Good job, Mythic!

A sick part of me really enjoyed the extra wacky ones, the ones where you had to, say, kill Albs while it was snowing outside Nottmoor. Just to read about, of course, not to actually DO.

I bet it will be set in an underwater world with complex encounters, rare drops, and items to level!

Oh, you guys are being serious?

55 pages of patch notes (http://herald.warhammeronline.com/patchnotes/index.php?id=2009_1-1-2)

I thought this was sarcasm...  :ye_gods: :cry2: :crying_panda: :sad_red_panda: :ye_gods:

Hrm. I really did like the underwater crap in WoW. Rubbish aggro mechanics, but fun concept.

My problem with an underwater adventure is how murlocks ignore ship walls.

It was sarcasm, at least on my part.  Apparently we really do need to go back to green. :uhrr:

Thats because Murlocks rule the world.

Part 3 top 10 games right now part (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDita7tRqhY)

Again, interesting the two games he didn't mention.

I also found it interesting that most of his choices in the second part were console or handheld titles.

Got 7k as quest xp rewarded. Xp needed to level 33 was 565k.

Tbh, you could unlock the KotbS and the BG in about 5 hours /played.

We pushed 3 zones and made it to Inevitable City in like 6 hours.

Needless to say, the horror of the concept of a healer that didn't fold like a cheap table upon which one has dropped a block of cement has caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Dammit, people shouldn't start saying good things about the game.  The addicted among us might be tempted to do something unwise. 

My understanding with AMs is they had an ability that reduced damage, which had no cooldown timer.  That, with a couple of their morale abilities being fixed, plus stacking detaunts, plus AP drain, led to AMs being able to survive.

Dammit, people shouldn't start saying good things about the game.  The addicted among us might be tempted to do something unwise. 

Dammit, people shouldn't start saying good things about the game.  The addicted among us might be tempted to do something unwise. 

No, more like a healer that was unkillable.  WP are pretty nasty last I played.