They're in the late stages of introducing a huge number of changes to game systems. More patches to the game is an unfortunate side effect of improvements.
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The statements don't indicate there are game improvements going in. The lack of patch notes would indicate that as well. Perhaps there are some insidious exploits uncovered during last 2xp weekend? There was also a mid weekend shutdown, wasn't there?
Seems unlikely they need to trickle patches for Freedom now on live servers.
Hopefully, this doesn't become "daily" as suggested by the Admin message:
[Admin] Attention! In 30 minutes, City of Heroes and City of Villains will go down for daily server maintenance. The "downtime" window is two hours long but maintenance may or may not take that entire time. We will have the game back up as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!
That admin message is the same one they've used for most of 7 years, and shouldn't "suggest" anything to you.
Additionally, they never post patch notes until after the patched Live servers are back up and running. It's standard procedure. If you want to know what's coming, check the test server patch notes for the most recent changes, that's what we will be getting on Live.
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I thought I recall them using a similar message, but saying "scheduled server maintenance" instead of daily. This announcement specifically said patch notes would not be applied.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=269154
This is just a short but necessary maintenance and as such no patch note will be available.
That doesn't sound like a trickle down of patches to the live servers from the Beta. It seems excessive to have 5-7 days of near consecutive downtime scheduled unless Freedom launches today.
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Originally Posted by makerian
I thought I recall them using a similar message, but saying "scheduled server maintenance" instead of daily. This announcement specifically said patch notes would not be applied.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=269154 This is just a short but necessary maintenance and as such no patch note will be available. That doesn't sound like a trickle down of patches to the live servers from the Beta. It seems excessive to have 5-7 days of near consecutive downtime scheduled unless Freedom launches today. |
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That's because it isn't. Test isn't Beta. As I said in another thread:|
Originally Posted by makerian
That doesn't sound like a trickle down of patches to the live servers from the Beta. It seems excessive to have 5-7 days of near consecutive downtime scheduled unless Freedom launches today.
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At least one maintenance was cleanup from DXP. Another was probably "normal" maintenance. This one is seemingly the most recent patch coming from Test Server.
Truthfully though, people ought to think about it a bit before they get huffy and complain. The devs have clearly been in the process of ramping things up and implementing fixes since the Anniversary event/stress test in May.
They seem to be working hard to finally fix several long standing issues/complaints. Lag Valley on the ITF is gone. Last night I was on a 24man BAF that had less slowdown and lag than I have ever seen. Basically, for all the times people begged them to take a serious look at this stuff, they're finally doing it. I for one say bring it on.
Since they've scheduled Weekly Stress Tests on the test server, I think it's fair to say you can probably expect a patch at least every other week if not ever week, in addition to regular maintenance.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
Im just coming back to CoH.
I have 1-2 hrs per morning thats about it (work two jobs and have school).
Friday Down
Monday Down
Tuesday Down
Thursday Down
and now tomorrow Down?!
Good grief!
Why is it coming down tomorrow? Shinies?!
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