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issue20 tuesday?

Aggelakis

By Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2011-04-04 24:20 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Friggin_Taser View Post
This straight forward, "Give The Customers A Date When Asked" pre-announced issue release is a great thing and should be a part of any future issue publish. It beats the tar out of the old school procedure of being overtly... cryptic... about the whole ordeal and giving customers the run around.
This is pretty much a "can't win" situation, because if they say in advance that "Issue 20 will launch next Tuesday" and then they find a last-minute show-stopping bug, the "THEY LIED TO US" howls will pretty much drown out the "thanks for keeping us posted on your plans" responses. (See also: that one time Positron said "We're aiming for the 16th with Issue 19" and it ended up coming out on the 30th.)



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First post after Taser.

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Originally Posted by V-Tron View Post
Sorry this doesn't work for you, but it's the way it is. I'm sure if the NCsoft Launcher supported pre downloads then they would have made it do it. They probably figured they didn't need it since the NCsoft Launcher does do trickle downloads and unless you go and change the setting the Launcher remains running in the background and starts downloading an update, and will update the game on it's own (I noticed the beta server install on my system is now updated yet I didn't tell it too). If you really don't want to have to wait for the update to download you can allways use a service like Logmein.com to remote into your computer from work and start the update your self.

and by the way Cryptic started the pre-downloads with i1
Except that (annecdotally of course) a lot of people have set it to NOT run in the background because it's a resource hog. Additionally, it's also not able to run if my machine isn't turned on, which it isn't unless I'm using it.

 

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All nice and updated!

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I'm downloading a 313.4MB patch. Any one else?

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It's even listed in the post. PS; there is no EST right now. It's EDT.
i had to look it up because i was confused too.

PST = PDT and EST = EDT when daylight savings are in effect, which is now. just a way to keep track of which zones are off by an hour from GMT/UT.

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yup just downloaded and updated.

Damn the NCsoft launcher is ruddy fast.

 

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All updated and no servers to play on :P


I wonder if I'll get to play for a few mins before I go to work today

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Am now updated as well. Blows my mind considering my ISP and that it's raining here!

New launcher kicks *** and takes names!

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Less than 10 minutes to download the patch and update my main and Euro accounts - the new launcher is quite good
But the servers are still downnnnnnnnnn. ( ' ;


Edit: Be kind, leave your launcher up so others can download fast too!

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But the servers are still downnnnnnnnnn. ( ' ;


Edit: Be kind, leave your launcher up so others can download fast too!
Why? Does it use Torrent Technology?

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Why? Does it use Torrent Technology?
Some think so due to this line from the initial announcement.
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The NCsoft Launcher provides several new enhancements, including the ability to download patches faster through a content distribution network.
Which could simply mean multiple NCSoft servers, but I don't think any dev/com rep has confirmed it one way or the other.

 

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Originally Posted by Texarkana View Post
But the servers are still downnnnnnnnnn. ( ' ;


Edit: Be kind, leave your launcher up so others can download fast too!
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Why? Does it use Torrent Technology?
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Originally Posted by Tylerst View Post
Some think so due to this line from the initial announcement.


Which could simply mean multiple NCSoft servers, but I don't think any dev/com rep has confirmed it one way or the other.


Watch your network status' upload speed.

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What do you people do for a living?

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Some think so due to this line from the initial announcement.


Which could simply mean multiple NCSoft servers, but I don't think any dev/com rep has confirmed it one way or the other.
If it were to use torrent like technology then a direction connection should be established between player A's PC and player B's PC. Regardless of who connects to who there will mostly be the same issues because near everyone here will be dealing with NAT.
I don't know about others, but I don't do things like UPnP whilst on the other hand I do maintain strict firewall policies, so I don't even have to look at it to be able to tell you that - regardless of technology used or if my launcher is running or not - no one is downloading from here.

What does this matter? In itself not much. But it does illustrate why if there were such a thing as torrent like technology involved NCsoft/Paragon Studios had better tell us so we can actually do something to make it useful from our end.

For this reason, I will assume there's no such thing in play.

Edit: Also the launcher provides no port range options or anything such to allowing inbound connections on which technically isn't necessary for it to work (user interface elements are never necessary), but without that I wouldn't even make it work for others if it did turn out to be something like this.
It's fairly safe to state even without monitoring network traffic this launcher does not use anything like an approach similar to torrents.

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What do you people do for a living?
Network and application engineering / development.

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What do you people do for a living?
I'm a student with a pretty flexible schedule

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Well

1) On different timezone (here in good old Blighty).

2) Shifts varies, today just so happens to be one of my short shifts (6pm-9pm).

So nya!

Annoyingly that means I'll be at work as the Issue is released though.

 

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What do you people do for a living?
Im a superhero

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What do you people do for a living?
I'm a Shepherd.

Like Derrial Book; not like an actual Shepherd dealing with bleating animals......

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I'm a Shepherd.

Like Derrial Book; not like an actual Shepherd dealing with bleating animals......
Did somebody mention sheep?

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Argh, so close; can log in to select servers but they're still doing internal testing.

I am a project manager at a non-profit. Currently have the day off (total coincidence i20 is going live).

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Originally Posted by Eldritch_Knight View Post
I'm a Shepherd.

Like Derrial Book; not like an actual Shepherd dealing with bleating animals......
Those of us who know Firefly, know what you meant. ( ' ;

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