The Patch Thread.

[schild]

Figured I should change the title of the thread to better reflect how it has been (and probably should be) used.

[schild]

General
 
*Fixed some more server and client crashes.
*An issue which could make NPCs evade forever has been resolved.
*An issue which could lead to pets become unresponsive has been resolved.
 
 
GUI
 
*You should now receive feedback if you try to take items from the guild bank without having enough rank.
 
 
Items
 
*Items in tradepost now show stack-size.
*Resources Gathering: Cotton and Cottonwisp have been fixed.
*Kheshatta: Drop rate for Scorpion plate has been increased.
*Fixed a grammatical error with Knarled Leather. It should now be named Gnarled Leather.
*Boltshock Bangles are now properly classified as "Cloth Armor" instead of "Wrist Armor"
*Thunder River: The quest item 'Smoked Meat' has re-received its visual appearance.
*Field of the Dead: 'Fur of Bloodclaw' will no longer end up in the quest inventory.
*Thunder River: The quest item 'Helvenia's Herbs' has re-received its visual appearance.
*Sanctum of the Burning Souls: The boss drop 'Bloodtainted Hoop' will no longer end up in the quest inventory.
 
 
Massive PvP
 
*PVE Player city buildings should no longer be attackable.
 
 
NPCs
 
*Bartholomo's Wife will now respawn more often.
*Acheronian Ruins NPCs will respawn more often
*It should be easier to deal with Renton's Corrupt Friends when doing the quest Awakening II.
 
 
Player Characters
 
Barbarian
*Finishing Blow damage boost should only affect the first hit after the charge.
*Thirst for Blood should correctly trigger it's stacking damage bonuses for you and your team.
 
Necromancer
*Pets should not auto dismiss so fast when they cannot reach their owner.
 
Ranger
*Knee-Capping should no longer trigger Root Immunity on NPCs
*Marked for Death should give the correct damage values for bow/xbow.
*Marked for Death cooldown has been adjusted to 3 minutes like originally intended.
*Critical Aim should no longer fail to execute in some situations.
*Critical Aim duration increased to 10 seconds, but it will instantly terminate on the next ranged hit
*You should no longer get messages about getting non existing abilities when training Eagle Eye.
 
Tempest of Set
*Triumphant Life of Set has had its total damage dealt per cast increased.
*Triumphant Life of Set now deals the damage over 3 seconds instead of instantly.
 
 
Quests
 
*Old Secrets: Golden Golem should now always spawn.
*The Demon in The Tree: The Demon in the Tree Minions should now always attack the player.
*End Battle: Strom should now respawn, making it impossible to break the last part of the end battle.
*Quests Bloodroot, Concealing the Chinks, Purging the Fallen, and Source of Contagion have been improved in Tarantia Noble.

These are from the Euro forums. Obviously the 'gnarled' thing was never an issue on the US servers. Or at least wasn't for me.

[apocrypha]

One post-patch bug discovered so far: can apparently stack your own buffs and stances now, although the effects aren't predictable. For instance, my PoM can double-stack Divine Vigour but all it does is increase the size of the health bar, the health never actually goes up to the top but stays at the max for a single cast.

Some melee classes were saying they were getting double effects from stance stacking.

[schild]

If patching is already done for Europe, can you check to see if mousing over a newly gem-inserted socketed item tooltip makes the client crash?

[Kirth]

PVP Policy

Rules of Conduct

And the same update notes got posted on the US forums.

[Numtini]

I like that the PVP rules mention that if you don't like PVP, you can always play on a RP-PVE server. Except, of course, there isn't such a thing in the US version.

[apocrypha]

If patching is already done for Europe, can you check to see if mousing over a newly gem-inserted socketed item tooltip makes the client crash?

I would do but I've never yet seen a socketed item nor any gems to put in one 

[schild]

If patching is already done for Europe, can you check to see if mousing over a newly gem-inserted socketed item tooltip makes the client crash?

I would do but I've never yet seen a socketed item nor any gems to put in one 

Awww I wanted Rattran to wake up happy. Or at least wake up and craft me a shitload of gems (HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR)

[Xeyi]

Dance mode also went in with the patch.

Somehow there's something not quite right about a big hairy bear shaman doing handstands though 

[schild]

[Mrbloodworth]

Dance mode also went in with the patch.

Somehow there's something not quite right about a big hairy bear shaman doing handstands though 

Dance mode?

[Kirth]

Early impressions of this patch:
There is a Window at the login that says something like "Server status information will go here"
All my cotton is now usable in my recipes
my 3 stacks of rough leather is not
I can have all buffs that I have up at the same time, despite some of them saying "..you can only have one of this type up at once.."

UPDATE : the buffs seemed to sort themselves out when I zoned, but I could just reapply the extra ones. None of my buffs got removed when I died but did after I zoned somewhere.

[Xeyi]

Dance mode?

Yup, it's in the abilities list and can be toggled on and off.

From what I can see each race/sex has their own dances and there are several combos you can do by pressing 1-3.  My Cimmerian does a handstand and some belly flop thing for instance.

[Lum]

I like that the PVP rules mention that if you don't like PVP, you can always play on a RP-PVE server. Except, of course, there isn't such a thing in the US version.

Isn't Wiccana the "unofficial" RP-PVE US server?

[Signe]

I like that the PVP rules mention that if you don't like PVP, you can always play on a RP-PVE server. Except, of course, there isn't such a thing in the US version.

Isn't Wiccana the "unofficial" RP-PVE US server?

It is.

[Mrbloodworth]

Dance mode?

Yup, it's in the abilities list and can be toggled on and off.

From what I can see each race/sex has there own dances and there are several combos you can do by pressing 1-3.  My Cimmerian does a handstand and some belly flop thing for instance.

sweet, i will have to check that out.

[Miasma]

The patch stealth nerfed boobies!  Subscription cancelled!

[Kirth]

Potions are not being consumed on use.
EDIT - maybe is was just the type I had, was the level 30 sta potion.

[apocrypha]

The patch stealth nerfed boobies!  Subscription cancelled!

Can't see the US forums, what're people saying?

My EU boobies are fine after the patch...

[schild]

I always set mine to the smallest, so I'm not shock they didn't change.

[Hawkbit]

I get the impression that /dance was added in to give the teenagers something to do (namely naked dancing) while the rest of us wait for crafting to come out of alpha and the post-40 to come out of beta.  I'm not entirely sure why designers ensure to have /dance in every game out there, but I tire of it.  At least now we can rock out with our... /sigh. 

[schild]

No helmets make your hair disappear anymore (IT WOULD SEEM, HAVEN'T TRIED A BANDANNA).

This /dance is interesting Simply Because you can have a line of people doing an elaborate dance all timed together. Also, makes clever use of the combo system. Some crafting things have been fixed I've heard, haven't heard about gems yet though. Old leather seems to not work but cotton does. I want to start building houses since they can't be attacked now.

[Miasma]

The patch stealth nerfed boobies!  Subscription cancelled!

Can't see the US forums, what're people saying?

My EU boobies are fine after the patch...

Botched boob job
Greetings,

Funcom can confirm that some of the female models in the game have
had the size of their breasts changed. This is due to an unintended change in data that was introduced in an earlier patch, data which controls the so-called morph values associated with character models and the size of their respective body parts. We are working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon.

The plastic surgeons of Hyboria apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you,

[schild]

Guild banks are now set so only the top two tiers of people can withdraw. Which is nice.

[Mrbloodworth]

I get the impression that /dance was added in to give the teenagers something to do (namely naked dancing) while the rest of us wait for crafting to come out of alpha and the post-40 to come out of beta.  I'm not entirely sure why designers ensure to have /dance in every game out there, but I tire of it.  At least now we can rock out with our... /sigh. 

Yes, because every designer, every coder and artiest on the development team were necessary to complete this one feature. All of them, even the janitor had to put down the mop, because work simply cant be done while this is being worked on.

[schild]

Reitemization was in the patch. Heh.

Big thing to leave out.

[Sky]

Uh oh.  I hope they hurry because when those cotton balls get rotten, you can't pick any more cotton, you know.

Apparently there is a workaround. First you have to jump down, then you will have to turn around. Then you will be able to pick a bale of cotton.

[Signe]

Uh oh.  I hope they hurry because when those cotton balls get rotten, you can't pick any more cotton, you know.

Apparently there is a workaround. First you have to jump down, then you will have to turn around. Then you will be able to pick a bale of cotton.

Do I have to jump to the left and take a step to the right, too?

[Brogarn]

Uh oh.  I hope they hurry because when those cotton balls get rotten, you can't pick any more cotton, you know.

Apparently there is a workaround. First you have to jump down, then you will have to turn around. Then you will be able to pick a bale of cotton.

Do I have to jump to the left and take a step to the right, too?

With your hands on your hips...

[Tarami]

Ooooooh, fluff!

[schild]

Get that shit out of this thread.

Fucking lyrics.

[Signe]

It's Sky's fault.  And Oban's in that other thread.  You should spank them.  Hard.  In the junk.

[Lantyssa]

And make sure to tell them it's the spot you don't love anymore.

[Teleku]

Get that shit out of this thread.

Fucking lyrics.

LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!

[Falconeer]

Not sure if this has been noted elsewhere, but this is an official statement appeared on the Developer's announcement corner of the EU boards:

Default Funcom statement on botched boob job
Greetings,

Funcom can confirm that some of the female models in the game have had the size of their breasts changed . This is due to an unintended change in data that was introduced in an earlier patch, data which controls the so-called morph values associated with character models and the size of their respective body parts. We are working on a fix for this and your breasts should be back to normal soon. The plastic surgeons of Hyboria apologize for the inconvenience.

Funcom Development Team