New Thursday Patch: Beta or Test?

Well the other thread went to heck because of some grumpy old guy. Does anyone want to speculate what is in today's patch/publish?

I'm hoping it's the Beta stuff. I haven't been keeping careful track of Beta, but it seemed really close to being release worthy. And there was Posi's post last week explaining how he saw the rewards for the Trials being adjusted, which everyone seemed cool with.

But I guess it could be Test server too. Does anyone feel they have a better handle on the state of Test or Beta?

Obviously this is just fun speculation while the servers are down. Leave the grumpiness on your side of the keyboard, mmkay?

for 6 hour downtime it better be i21.5

It seems odd to put a major publish on a Thursday, since that essentially means you're working the weekend, and no-one wants to do that. The reason they do this on a Tuesday most usually is because you can come early on a Tuesday, having done the prep work on Monday and you have the whole rest of the week ahead for things to go wrong and fixes to be made before you hit Friday afternoon.

With this in mind, I expect to see the dog and the hat. Why six hours? I can't say. Remember they did multiple 12-hour maintenance windows soon after launching I21 without actually putting a patch out on any of them? I'm thinking it's like that.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I, for one, hope that the flashing issue will be fixed. (Although I only had it happen once, it was awful.) Perhaps the mace/costume issue will be fixed. And finally, the Character Copy needs to be up and running. If the new issue goes live, I will be a happy camper.

Ponies, a big red ball, and a moon zone.

I'm betting on a broccoli monster invasion

Just checked server status, every server, except Pinnacle, is unknown.

run away!!!!!! run away!!!!!!!!

Its close to their office hours so i shall expect zwill to pop in or somebody to confirm or deny what this is

My hope is that it is i21 Special Update and that I am wrong about the following.

As many have said, they typically launch large updates on Tuesdays. With that in mind, I am going to guess that this a lot of background stuff for i21 Special Update, and that it will actually launch this coming Tuesday, with a lesser patch and downtime thanks to today's preliminary patch.

Senior citizen discounts in the market.

Oops. Wrong thread.

Heh Pinnacle is still down. Though at least we can download a 113.8mb patch now.

Hey I play on pinnacle and I don't drink alcoholic drinks. :P It's just a fun server to be on without all the drama and you can go to Pocket D without people thinking you're going there to ERP.

Also hey I liked the movie Grumpy Old Men.

Beta and Test have the same version number (2150.201111031938.1.0), but there are a few differences (that I noticed, but I don't have much presence on Test):

1. The TPN and MoM trials are not listed in the LFG window on Test.
2. The Christmas event is active on Beta.
3. Some, perhaps most, elements of the Halloween event are active on Test. The Kane trial wasn't available, but everything else seemed to be.

However, other 21.5 things like the new Incarnate trees are available on Test.

And...

The post-patch version number for Live is now the same as Beta and Test. So... we'll see.

"Start Time: 6:00 a.m. PDT /9:00 a.m. EDT / 2:00 p.m. GMT/ 15:00 CET
Expected Duration: 6 hours
Expected Finish Time:12:00 p.m. PDT / 3:00 p.m. EDT / 8:00 p.m. GMT/ 21:00 CET"


Um, the devs do know that Daylight savings time is over now, right?






I'm excited about the patch, but after my first day off after 6 twelve hour shifts, I sure would like to be able to log in, too.

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