Discussion: Live Server Maintenance - 9/20/11
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Posted on: 2011-09-19 16:25 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
o.O Saturday the 20th?
*coughs* tomorrow is Tuesday, not Saturday.
*starts a collection to get Freitag a new calender*
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Uh, it'll be a saturday in 2014!
Sorry guys, it's been fixed!
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Hmm, clearly need to finish any new characters tonight.
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Originally Posted by Freitag
Uh, it'll be a saturday in 2014!
Sorry guys, it's been fixed! ~Freitag |
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Sooo wait. This means that tomorrow Freedom goes live for all? I mean, that leveling pact post 'does' state that once Freedom goes live, at the end of the head start, the leveling pacts will be taken down. I suppose thats a plus side.
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Guess we'll find out tomorrow. I thought they would have announced that part though if it was truely going live for the free players tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by Matt_King
Guess we'll find out tomorrow. I thought they would have announced that part though if it was truely going live for the free players tomorrow.
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Probably just the patch that went up on beta on Friday.
At least the LRSF will be fixed.
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Originally Posted by Kemphler
Sooo wait. This means that tomorrow Freedom goes live for all?
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To stealth release something this big would be facepalm worthy. Double facepalm worthy even.
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Why am I not suprised.... didnt we just have one saturday.
1. Signature story arc was not to become available until the game went free to play.
2. Level pacts were slated to be broken/removed when the game went free to play.
Number 1 opened up about an hour ago.
Number 2 goes away after maintenance.
Guess this pretty much confirms it's going fully free tomorrow.
Which makes me kind of sad, though I knew it was coming, because issue 21 needs a LOT of fixes. A lot. I almost feel bad for anyone picking up the game to play for free tomorrow because they're walking into a broken, buggy mess.
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Originally Posted by Kemphler
Sooo wait. This means that tomorrow Freedom goes live for all? I mean, that leveling pact post 'does' state that once Freedom goes live, at the end of the head start, the leveling pacts will be taken down. I suppose thats a plus side.
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Originally Posted by Avatea
During the VIP Head Start, amongst other things accessible to our VIP players, Level Pacts will be available in order to take advantage of the brand new Power Sets that will be released then. However, after the head start has ended, Level Pacts will need to be disabled and new Level Pacts won't be available to anybody until we have been able to revisit the system at a later point.
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Well, at least I can log into the forums again.
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Maybe I am ignorant... but what's buggy and/or broken?
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Originally Posted by Captiosus
I almost feel bad for anyone picking up the game to play for free tomorrow because they're walking into a broken, buggy mess.
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Originally Posted by Captiosus
Which makes me kind of sad, though I knew it was coming, because issue 21 needs a LOT of fixes. A lot. I almost feel bad for anyone picking up the game to play for free tomorrow because they're walking into a broken, buggy mess.
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Like what? I haven't come across too many bugs at all with this release. We had a Lost getting wall-embedded during a sewer run yesterday, but that's been happening since day 1.
Other than that and the fact the Wisp aura is missing I can't actually say I ran into any bugs at all, which is pretty good.
Non I would consider important enough to delay.
Off the top of my head, from reading here and seeing in game though;
Purple Paper Dolls graphics bug when using Dimension Shift Cemote or HoB.
Rest not appearing in trays at level 2 (this is important for the true new players)
Numerous pieces missing from the costume creator.
Memory Leak issues
Game crashes when changing costumes in mid-flight.
Super-Tailor crashes the game.
Those are the only ones I'm aware of and aren't really enough to worry over, considering how bad it could of been.
Still. It doesn't feel right releasing Freedom without some buildup. A set date we can all start touting as 'The Day'. To push it live and then say oh by the way, it's live! just feels off. We should know a few days ahead of time.
That's why I think this is just a minor patch and the arcs being avail. wasn't intended. At least that's what I'm hoping.
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I'm pretty sure that Freedom won't be sprung on us without a warning. It's possible though that it will be announced today or tomorrow. As for the release date, I would have expected another week at least, but the Head Start date was announced only 4 days in advance so who knows. Jewish new year starts on the 28th at sundown. 
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They had a set days for things. Remember the game packs were suppose to get removed within a short time of the head start, but game breaking bugs delayed it for 2 weeks. Than the launch day turned into the launch night because of bugs popping up when patching the new servers with the i21 data. Even after the head start finally started, some parts of i21 were not released for a few more days because of issues. |
Originally Posted by Dark Sweater
I'm pretty sure that Freedom won't be sprung on us without a warning. It's possible though that it will be announced today or tomorrow. As for the release date, I would have expected another week at least, but the Head Start date was announced only 4 days in advance so who knows. Jewish new year starts on the 28th at sundown.
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At this point they are most likely behind where they wanted the game to be and do not want to risk losing the chance of noobies joining. Especially since another MMO has decide to go to a hybrid model next week as well.
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Well, at least I can log into the forums again.
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If you're talking about a certain superhero MMO, its press release said "late October", so the CoH devs still have time. I'm sure Freedom will launch before that regardless, so I don't see that as a reason to spring Freedom on us without an announcement. Jewish New Year still looks like a good target date. |
Originally Posted by chartube13
At this point they are most likely behind where they wanted the game to be and do not want to risk losing the chance of noobies joining. Especially since another MMO has decide to go to a hybrid model next week as well.
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And I'm definitely going to check that superhero MMO when it goes free, but from what I've read CoH doesn't have that much to fear.
The Live European and North American City of Heroes servers will be offline for maintenance on Tuesday, September 20, 2011.
Start Time: 4:00 a.m. PDT / 7:00 a.m. EDT / 12:00 p.m. BST / 13:00 CEST
Expected Duration: 3 hours
Expected Finish Time:7:00 a.m. PDT / 10:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 p.m. BST / 16:00 CEST
PLEASE NOTE: You will no longer be able to create level pacts following tomorrow's maintenance. For more information on this issue, please read this post.
We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!
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