[EU Herald] Server Maintenance

[Avien]

From the EU website:

This afternoon at 14:30 CET we will be restarting all servers. This is to fix a problem where the ingame time is stuck at midnight. The servers will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes and we will update this news to keep you informed of the situation.

Source (http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en155&lang=en)

[Lolen]

From the EU website:



Source (http://www.war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en155&lang=en)

Well - somewhat, its a good thing that they patch..but at 14.30pm? Should have done it in the morning :rolleyes:

[bmwm3oz]

Better make sure that in game clock is working!!! .................:rolleyes:

[Khelor]

Don't panic, nobody panic ...

[HeWhoLurks]

And theres me thinking they would raise the population caps.

[Kongo]

What the.. Get your priorities straight, I don't give a damn about the in-game time. Fix this at 5am or something instead..

[Khelor]

What the.. Get your priorities straight, I don't give a damn about the in-game time. Fix this at 5am or something instead..
hehe, don't be angry, you'll live longer...

[Iradurodi]

hehe, don't be angry, you'll live longer...

hehe agreed. As long as it doesnt take much more than the 30 mins eta then Im happy.

[Hazzlehoff]

Darn, just when I had a great party for PQ:s. Not so easy to find when playing dwarf. Friggin destruction is pwning the server.

[Khelor]

hehe agreed. As long as it doesnt take much more than the 30 mins eta then Im happy.
What happens then? You go down town shoot up the shoppers?

[xozah]

i really hope they also fixing something else than the ingame time, cus bringing them down for 30min for a clock seems lame haha

[Aziraphael]

i really hope they also fixing something else than the ingame time, cus bringing them down for 30min for a clock seems lame haha

Of course they will be....

They'll be fixing whatever they break when they fix the clock..:wink:

[Khelor]

Server back up

[Qucas]

Update: It's 14:30 CET and it is not necessary to shut down all servers. The following servers therefore have now been shut down and the rest will remain open:
Axe Bite Pass
Dragonback Mountains
Karak Eight Peaks
Karak Azgal
Karag Dron
Eltharion
Finuval Plain

More updates as we get them.

[yohnson]

Trust me to chose Dragonback...

[SaintyBoyo]

there coming back up already :D

[Draig]

Your position 146 blah blah wait time 45 mins........

[SharTeel]

297 in queue at 3pm, when will they increase server cap?

[Cleofis]

297 in queue at 3pm, when will they increase server cap?

I hope soon. Massive server queues but running around the Tier 2 areas i'm lucky if I see more than 1 other player per hour.

[Draig]

54 of 319 11 mins

[TheMissingNin]

Oh Crap.

I'm back to getting the "Authentication Failed - Application will now terminate" message every time I try to log in.

Was working fine this morning!

[TheMissingNin]

NEVERMIND!

Thank Sigmar! I got back in!

[Beeblebrox]

282 of 398 in the queue only another 1h20mins to go :( Karak eight peaks is in desperate need of higher caps

[ak47orc]

Common Raise the server caps already !!! always full server

[Skulzap]

They are letting more of you humans in bit by bit to make sure the world doesn't collapse. Giv it time git faces.

[Sidagel]

Change cap pls:) ppl cant play, all EN server full with 200-400 queue.
I want play and dont wait 2h to join:(

[Jacina]

1. Correction not ALL are full, just the one YOU want on.
2. Order seems fine ;)

[Lonni24]

198 out of 260

30 min wait time...

[Lonni24]

And when you get crashed out of the game, then its suddenly 400 in line with 1 hour waiting time..

[S O U L]

367 of 528 :( 1h 3m 29s,, waagh!!

and no, not because I like this server i'll wait, but i'm in lvl 10 not rdy to start a new char on another server just for the que, so please consider raising the cap soon :(

[Cindadarx]

Guess ill make this a try new classes day then..sux really that you aint got the chance to play with your friends because the cue is at 430 and takes over 1 hour to get in..and not only that you get thrown out also when you que...

Headstart my a**

[Khelor]

Guess ill make this a try new classes day then..sux really that you aint got the chance to play with your friends because the cue is at 430 and takes over 1 hour to get in..and not only that you get thrown out also when you que...

Headstart my a**

I've had a good day, only 1 crash, a little lag at peak time and 9 levels, methinks you chose the wrong server.

[AbaddonUK]

Had an excellent day, apart from the waiting for the code in the morning and my friend having to wait a while to connect after he crashed, all in all got my Chosen from 1-12(almost 13) my friend got his Marauder to 12 also. Enjoyed the Open RvRness and PQs/Scenario. I'd say 9/10 for a headstart, only downside was the que times, which I only experienced once when I did CTD, not that much of a wait though.
Good Job GoA.

[wulfdan]

Not been too bad as far logging on - but the lags in the chapter 2 PQ areas :mad:

[beogard]

could we please have server maintenence on Karak-Hirn, we havn't been able to travel to capital city since headstart begun, so no one can create any guilds, everytime you try to go there you get disconnected

[Albinsson]

A question to you GOA: why dont you have the maintenence at night when everyone is asleep? Or atleast early in the morning.

[Draig]

A question to you GOA: why dont you have the maintenence at night when everyone is asleep? Or atleast early in the morning.


It would be better, losing all the morning for 2 out of 3 mornings is getting annoying.

[Goldhammer33]

as a player I say the servers proved to be stable at cap so why not raise that cap I wonder? adding more servers is appreciated but you see that most of the server are like 1h queue to log in.. ppl wont be happy log into another new server start a new char all over again. please consider raising servers cap.

[KalZakath]

Indeed. They should know that people have booked at least a day or 2 off work to get "head started" :) Several hours downtime is a bit annoying at the moment, come on GOA, don't waste my week for me! :) heh

[simkenys]

Are the servers down now ??
Because i can't check the news on war-europe.com (can't see anything on the site except the tabs on the left)
And if the servers are down what is the ETA till they get back up ?

Grtz Simke

[BloodravenNL]

Are the servers down now ??
Because i can't check the news on war-europe.com (can't see anything on the site except the tabs on the left)
And if the servers are down what is the ETA till they get back up ?

Grtz Simke

They should fix the site. Imo Flash is the problem...

[KalZakath]

Are the servers down now ??
Because i can't check the news on war-europe.com (can't see anything on the site except the tabs on the left)
And if the servers are down what is the ETA till they get back up ?

Grtz Simke

Yes, the servers are down now. When I see the problem on war-europe.com (no news), Firefox is usually showing "transferring data from authid.goa.com" in the status bar - hitting refresh usually gets me a page with news on it.

Lunchtime is the ETA, so probably 11:00 UK and 12:00 CEST.

[simkenys]

Thank you for the fast response :D
Let's hope the servers will be back online soon :)

[Loser]

Has anyone been able to get any news off the war-europe website?? Everytime im on there i literally just get a black page and warhammer top bar lol

[KalZakath]

Thank you for the fast response :D
Let's hope the servers will be back online soon :)

Hehe, no probs :) I'm also waiting to get in there! :D

EDIT: Loser, refresh a couple of times, it should appear.

[Loser]

lol ive been refreshing that page all morning and I havent seen anything change lol :D Guess I will just have to wait ;)

[KalZakath]

Hmm, wonder if you have DNS problems? I can see the news no problem - they just added an entry saying that account management is live again, no update on the servers though. My ISP, Pipex, had some DNS issues yesterday - a bunch of my regular sites were inaccessible, but they re-appeared yesterday evening.

[Loser]

For some reason my Internet Explorer just didnt want to know so ive tried it with Firefox and its working ok for some reason lol

[KalZakath]

Heh, the news isn't actually accurate tho :) lol. It says to log in and hit the My Profile button to change your info, but I don't see a My Profile button. Ah well! :)

[Loser]

When you login the button just above to "Log Out" changes to "Profile". thats the little one your after ;)

[Nelien]

You don't see the My Profile button? It's right there where you just clicked Log In. Instead of "Insert Code" or whatever it was there before they Acc management went up.

[kromgruk]

We have temporarily reopened the account management pages today. This will allow you to change details such as your email address, password, personal information and secret question. To access this service you must first log into the website, using the box in the top left and then click on the 'My Profile' button. This service will be suspended tomorrow morning but we plan to reopen it once again on Friday.

Announced at 11:30 CET.
It is now 12:06 CET.
it obviously took them 36 minutes to realise that they had to actually put the button in their flash site...

[Nelien]

Announced at 11:30 CET.
It is now 12:06 CET.
it obviously took them 36 minutes to realise that they had to actually put the button in their flash site...

No, that is certainly not correct. I logged in 11:45 and could without problem see the My Profile button. At 11:50 I had my e-mail changed without problem.

[PinkysBrain]

Why do they still have this POS website? The frontpage of a MMORPG website should be bullet proof ... even if everything else goes down that is where they should be able to put updates.

[Iradurodi]

Servers up!

[Kiatfe]

Was there a patch, and if so what are the patch notes?

[Paragonn]

yea, looks like there is a patch..wonder what it does :D

[KalZakath]

You don't see the My Profile button? It's right there where you just clicked Log In. Instead of "Insert Code" or whatever it was there before they Acc management went up.

No, it isn't :) lol. I'm logged in with the account I use to play the game, and there is no "My Profile" button - only the Product Key button. It looks exactly as it did before, and that's afer several refreshes. Hmm :) Wonder if I have to clear my Firefox cache, really shouldn't be an issue though.

EDIT: Weird! The button still says "Product Key", but clicking it takes me to my profile. Borked! :) lol

EDIT2: Yep, refresh was no good - had to clear my Firefox cache, now the button says My Profile.

[TheGrimOne]

September 24th 2008

10:00CET - All Servers are Closed:

This morning we have brought down all servers for an update. This is the operation that was postponed from yesterday. This maintenance is mostly to make some internal fixes for stability.
Tomorrow we will be cloning the busiest English servers so there will be another downtime at the same time tomorrow. We will keep you updated as to the progress of this operation but we expect that the servers will return by the early afternoon.

Yea, I may be complaining, but why is it that the EU servers don't get this maintenance in the wee hours of the morning, like 4-5am like pretty much all mainstream MMO's do? Is it something to do with French working hours? Or are they just too lazy to come in early to satisfy those who themselves work funny hours and like to play at 10am in the morning? I wonder if they will ever change the times - did they do this with DAOC too?

[Nataska]

Yea, I may be complaining, but why is it that the EU servers don't get this maintenance in the wee hours of the morning, like 4-5am like pretty much all mainstream MMO's do? Is it something to do with French working hours? Or are they just too lazy to come in early to satisfy those who themselves work funny hours and like to play at 10am in the morning? I wonder if they will ever change the times - did they do this with DAOC too?


totally with you there. I mean wtf!? lazy GOA LAZY!!!!!

[Artaxerxes]

I'm fairly pissed this is happening at the moment as I pulled a sickie from work today (man flu) but I recall SW:G used to pull the same trick when that was updating, america first everyone else bugger off so I'm not to surprised by the time of the update

[Lord Tareq]

Blizzard Europe is also based in France, so I doubt its the french working hours, as they do server maintenance in the night.

[Sindo]

in the night they are hunting frogs, no time for server maintenance

[Zaphira]

I dunno if its just me but since the last maintance patch thismorning, to "increase stability", I have had more bugs and crashes than ever before, I hadn't really had any issues till now, but today, the game crashes, is laggy and I've lost equipment.

Does any testing actually go on before they apply these patches, or is it like a bad doctor? Take these and see what happens, if it gets worse come back in 2 weeks!!!

[Khelor]

I dunno if its just me but since the last maintance patch thismorning, to "increase stability", I have had more bugs and crashes than ever before, I hadn't really had any issues till now, but today, the game crashes, is laggy and I've lost equipment.

Does any testing actually go on before they apply these patches, or is it like a bad doctor? Take these and see what happens, if it gets worse come back in 2 weeks!!!

I had the same problem in an earlier patched, checked my graphics drivers 169, latest where 175 updated and everything works fine.

[Kandra]

So, are the servers currently down? I get a weird incorrect password error whenever I try to log on. But my Password is 100% right.

A bit confused about the time.

edit: ah I assume they are cloning already and thus I can't really connect to the login server..or something like that..

[Loser]

I was logged into the game just now for 5 minutes and it looked like someone had taken all my Graphics settings and threw them in the dumpster lol. Yesterday morning I had no issues now Its really jumpy lol

[Zaphira]

I had the same problem in an earlier patched, checked my graphics drivers 169, latest where 175 updated and everything works fine.

I got a 8800GT and just updated the drivers, was same as you 169 now 175, but I ma still getting lag.

I have never had a problem with lag till after this patch, even in OB it was not an issue

[Nymfo]

server shutting down for maintenance @ 18:35 GMT+1

/facepalm

[Aleanath]

well its 18.06 gmt+1 now and its been down for 20 mins or so - whens it back up?

[ahile]

this is VERY poor customer service, wtf is going on ... why are the servers down ...
can any1 please link me to some info about this ?

thank you very much

[Eorlin]

I dunno if its just me but since the last maintance patch thismorning, to "increase stability", I have had more bugs and crashes than ever before, I hadn't really had any issues till now, but today, the game crashes, is laggy and I've lost equipment.

Does any testing actually go on before they apply these patches, or is it like a bad doctor? Take these and see what happens, if it gets worse come back in 2 weeks!!! Hahahaha I lol'ed.

[Sidsmut]

sigh, finished work at 7am, came home to see servers down, got out of bed at 4pm and karak norn is offline :(
if only this game was reliable as WoW, looks like i'll be heading back there

[Turrican]

omg downtime at primetime, it's a GOA

[xLost]

this is VERY poor customer service, wtf is going on ... why are the servers down ...
can any1 please link me to some info about this ?

thank you very much

here is some info provided by GOA. (http://mudora.com/)

[ahile]

here is some


my point exactly

[Ondskaben]

sigh, finished work at 7am, came home to see servers down, got out of bed at 4pm and karak norn is offline :(
if only this game was reliable as WoW, looks like i'll be heading back there
Relax. As one having played everquest for 3.5 years, DAoC for 1.5 (atlantis ruined it imho) and WoW for another 3.5 years this is perfectly normal for a newly launched mmorpg. I'd actually go as far as to say theres been remarkably little trouble with Mythics launch so far compared to the previously mentioned launches, even handled by GOA (as i hear people are dreading very much).

So take a chill pill, the game won't dissappear and stuff gets better over time just as they did with the other games ;)

Edit:
On THAT note however, fast communication skills to the masses are still important. Something that neither Sony (EQ), Mythic/GOA (DAoC/WAR) or Blizzard (WoW) has been very good at in the past.

[Via]

OMG the game time was stuck at midnight!
Can't you people see what could have happened, global disaster of biblical proportions!
Someone may have thought it was midnight, when it wasn’t *breaking out into a sweat*

[Eorlin]

OMG the game time was stuck at midnight!
Can't you people see what could have happened, global disaster of biblical proportions!
Someone may have thought it was midnight, when it wasn’t *breaking out into a sweat*The Vampires didn't get any sleep!!!

[izorplank]

sigh, finished work at 7am, came home to see servers down, got out of bed at 4pm and karak norn is offline :(
if only this game was reliable as WoW, looks like i'll be heading back there

When WoW was released they had similar problems, didnt communicate, had terrible lag on all servers, servers wen kaboom!, all sort of new mmo teething probs.


Come back and try the same statement you made, in three and half years,

[drjanitor]

Strange that with evry patch more problems are rising
My game crashes more, more lag and my skills are so bugged it's almost impossible to play anymore

[JeroKane]

Strange that with evry patch more problems are rising
My game crashes more, more lag and my skills are so bugged it's almost impossible to play anymore

Well if they keep up with this kind of patching it won't be long till we are in the same ritual we were with AoC a couple months ago.

JeroKane

[AranStormah]

Oh man, don't even say that out loud in fear of it coming true. AOC was a promising game that ended up horrible. Watching it die was even worse.

[Genlor]

Oh man, don't even say that out loud in fear of it coming true. AOC was a promising game that ended up horrible. Watching it die was even worse.


Agreed, it was such a shame to see AoC flop because it had real potential that was ultimately wasted. Based on the frequency of hotfixes and patching in comparison to the inital twice weekly then once weekly of AoC, in which more ended up being broken than fixed for the majority of the time, I say WAR has better potential now than AoC may ever have had.

[Sivian Glow]

Is it normal that my patcher wont even pop up anymore????

[Vandread]

You're not alone facing that problem, check this thread (http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195616).
It also offers several options for possibly being able to patch and login.

[Nic_GOA]

Hey all!

News will go up any minute now. Just wanted to give you a (very short) heads up on this:We are bringing all servers down at 19:00 CET for an urgent maintenance to resolve a stability issue which was just found and corrected by Mythic. We expect that the servers will be down for approximately one hour.

We apologise for the very short notice and for any inconvenience and to reflect this disruption to your play time, we will credit all accounts with a free day of gametime.

We will naturally keep you informed of the progress of this maintenance.

We realize that for our European players this means a downtime in the absolute middle of prime time and we wouldn't do this unless it was a critical problem that we need to correct.

[BlackWarder]

Thanks Nic.

Warder

[Heavenfall]

Oh well, oh well, unforeseen stuff always happens, and I am sure better realm reliability = better game = worth it either way. Thanks for the extra day of gametime.

[Zaknarakh]

Hey all!

News will go up any minute now. Just wanted to give you a (very short) heads up on this:

We realize that for our European players this means a downtime in the absolute middle of prime time and we wouldn't do this unless it was a critical problem that we need to correct.

Fortresslag?

[Grayle]

Thanks for the info, Nic. If it improves stability, then 1 hour is peanuts, and gogo free play time.

[SimonVDH]

grrr! In the middle of great battle for the Keep in Marshes of Madness... ok, it wasn't that great and it was already taking over 1 hour and we took other Keep earlier but still...

[Rank]

Fortresslag?

I wouldn't get any hopes up on this one mate.

[Kotik]

Fortresslag?

You are fast Zak!

I do hope it is for the "Fortresslag" but i dont think so......:(

[Sangius]

Fortresslag?

We can only hope :P

[Slacka]

Thanks for the info, Nic. If it improves stability, then 1 hour is peanuts, and gogo free play time.

im not gonna hold my breath... Mythic have also posted that all US servers are coming down now, only Mythic say its gonna take 3 hours, wont be suprised if our downtime becomes a similar duration...

[Imperium]

im not gonna hold my breath... Mythic have also posted that all US servers are coming down now, only Mythic say its gonna take 3 hours, wont be suprised if our downtime becomes a similar duration...

And that's Mythic. Unfortunately we have GoA, so expect around 3 days downtime.

[Nic_GOA]

im not gonna hold my breath... Mythic have also posted that all US servers are coming down now, only Mythic say its gonna take 3 hours, wont be suprised if our downtime becomes a similar duration...

Due to the severity of this fix we are doing our downtime together with Mythic. As the downtime is during prime time for our European players we are trying to keep it as short as possible and plan to be done by 20:00 CET.

If there are any changes to this plan I will let you know here as well as update the news on our website.

[Osgard]

Wow, whatever the problem is it must be pretty serious.

[Geidew]

They forgot to feed the hamster they bought from Blizzard, and it would seem the nearest pet shop is closed.

THE HORRORS!!!

but on a serious note. Don't care when its fixed, as long as it is - i'll just go have a nap.

[Nic_GOA]

Update: The maintenance is progressing as expected and servers are now back up internally for testing purposes.

We still expect to open the servers again around 20:00 CET

[Gawa]

Cheers Nic, it really is great to see such prompt notification, realistic/accurate estimations which are being kept to, and updated communication. Long may it be so thanks!

[SergioMendoza]

Agreed, Thanks for the updates Nic.

[Nic_GOA]

The servers are back up.

Once again we apologize for the inconvenience.

Enjoy the game!

[Otyg]

The servers are back up.

Once again we apologize for the inconvenience.

Enjoy the game!

You do a great job keeping us up to speed. Thank you Nic!

[Zaknarakh]

The servers are back up.

Once again we apologize for the inconvenience.

Enjoy the game!

Dude, what about the Fortresslag?

[Sivian Glow]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh! can anyone help me.. I haven't been able to play for like 8 days now, am I the only one now who can't log in?

[Lhel]

The fortress was better yesterday, but by no means good enough.

champions was spawning/retreating all over the place, draw distance was only a few feet, 20-30ft at best after entering the inner keep fortress area I would imagine. It was possible to use some skills, but not really to a playable standard.

We found it impossible to reach the lords room largely due to these circumstances. There is improvement, but still room for further improvements.

[Nic_GOA]

Good morning all. News will go up any minute now on our site:

We are bringing all servers down today at 10:30 CET for an urgent maintenance to resolve a stability issue which has been identified and fixed by Mythic. We expect that the servers will be down for approximately two hours.

We apologise for the very short notice and for any inconvenience.

We will naturally keep you informed of the progress of this maintenance.

[Conath]

Hey Nic, can You say has the todays server stability hotfix anything to do with fortress lag/server crash? Thanks, cheers;)

[Gawa]

:) cheers for the notice, i just saw the message ingame after you posted heh.

While we have you here heh, is there any word on when the text limit problem with logging might be fixed please? I would soo love it if this is todays fix :o

(many of us have to disable the combat logging entirely to avoid CTD's due to this. I spoke to a CSR about it a while back and they said its a known issue, but i havent heard anything officially from GOA or Mythic about it)

Cheers again.

[Alaz]

Just got in a PQ group and then the message pops up lol, ah well. Wishing it a speedy fixy thingy.

[zeraqour]

Just got in a PQ group and then the message pops up lol, ah well. Wishing it a speedy fixy thingy.

***We are bringing all servers down today at 10:30 CET for an urgent maintenance to resolve a stability issue which has been identified and fixed by Mythic. We expect that the servers will be down for approximately two hours.***

Dunno if you call that Fast but . . . Hehe ! 2h from now is about the time i must head for work :oops: *Garrrgh*

[Ivanish]

For once I want some of that instability that the servers are beeing brought down for! Seems like I never have the issues a lot of people have. Why, oh why, am I cursed with a stable game! ;)

[cYYAN]

You guys really gotta find better patching times....

Why not do it at 5-6-7 AM? :rolleyes: .. U can go home early on patch days then ;)

[Sahrokh]

Nic, are you going to also add the new post-1.0.6 client they provided to the US players yesterday?

[Nic_GOA]

Nic, are you going to also add the new post-1.0.6 client they provided to the US players yesterday?

We already did yes. As it went live around the same time 1.0.6 went live for us we did it at the same time and combined the notes.

[Nic_GOA]

Servers are back up.

[Narwin]

Did this patch fix the delays on cast and other non instant spells like engineer nades?

[Grondik]

When i played my DWARF ENGINEER after patch 1.06 was applied (around 7pm UK TIME).

I found that the grenades CONCUSSION grenade, FIRE bomb, Flashbang were taking even longer to throw, about another 2 seconds longer than before.

So even though that quite a few grenades have damage increase that is getting offset by the extra time delay which means that it looks like the dwarf engineer is still going to have a problem when in a fight.

It did not mention anywhere that this delay would occur, logged this as a bug and i hope it gets sorted soon, as this means the dwarf is still going to have a few problems.

Thank god that i can play my new KNIGHT which seems to be runnin well at the moment. (early days).

[Lhel]

When 1.06 patch did not deliver too well, the "fixed" guild ui has honestly never been worse, beta included. Sent ingame feedback and done what I can about it, but must say it was slightly disappointing.

Guildkick via the ui was not possible, but instant and with no confirmation using commands, promotions/demotions was a mess, kicked members was still in the roster and more. The old bugs that was fixed in earlier patches have come back even :(

[Sahrokh]

Thank you, Nic.

I was asking because in the release notes, said client was supposed to bring performance improvements I did not really notice a lot.
It still made damage reporting much more "live" (i.e. health bars are updated much more in real time) so it's still worth the download.

[Gameface]

Did this patch fix the delays on cast and other non instant spells like engineer nades?
If you mean the delay between your cast bar finishing, and the spell landing, then no, it wasn't fixed :?

[Narwin]

If you mean the delay between your cast bar finishing, and the spell landing, then no, it wasn't fixed :?

Damn thats sad. Any Dev or Goa member got an ETA on when this will be fixed or is it intended to do this???

[Nic_GOA]

Any Dev or Goa member got an ETA on when this will be fixed or is it intended to do this???

We have commented on this (http://war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en286&lang=en) yesterday and the following was added to the patch notes for clarification:

Cast Bar Responsiveness
In version 1.0.6 we resolved a number of issues that related to cast bar functionality and combat responsiveness. The following improvements have been made:


Spells will no longer be interrupted accidentally if you begin moving after the cast bar has disappeared
Cast bars will no longer restart or flicker after the spell has finished.
Spell effects and animations should no longer restart after the spell has finished and the cast bar has disappeared
Damage values and impacts will now sync up closer to when the actual damage is applied to the target

As a result of these changes players may experience spell animation looping or a slight pause after completing a spell cast in certain environments. We are aware of concerns players are expressing over these changes and are closely monitoring the issue. We are working on a fix to eliminate the graphical delay after the completion of a spell or ability.

I'm afraid that we do not have any additional information to give on the topic at the moment.

[Dragir]

The delayed casting of spells is the first thing that annoys me about the game. I hope they fix it soon. :(

[Raidyn]

I'm getting really sick of the servers getting pulled offline all the time. I play in the morning, and they're NEVER up! Goddamn it.

I'm paying a monthly fee to load up the game every morning, see all the servers greyed out, and pressing the quit button. Awesome.

[Guru]

They really should set a week day and then try to use that specific day each week to do the patching unless ofc it is a critical update. This way at least we know that this day we can expect the servers to be offline.

[Aedus]

Instead of doing it 4 days in a row couldn't they wait and do it one day instead? It's getting ridiculous and they won't even give us any game time back :rolleyes:

[Aedus]

5 days in a row, my bad :)

This is just getting pathetic. Do it at 1am and effect the people who stay up till 4am playing instead of people who wake up early for once? Ahh no. Can't do that. Lets do it the same time everyday and just piss off the same people all the time ;)

[Hittori]

Whilst this is a necessary thing to do and I applaud them for working hard to do so, it is annoying that they do it at 8 am. Why not at 6 am? At least this would annoy fewer people and they don't have to get up extra early to do it. A sensible compromise I would think. ;)

[Raidyn]

Load game. Look at servers. Quit game. I should make some macros for this crap.

[Melinian]

This is becoming very annoying that the server is constantly down I suggest you guys write a complaint in the official website when you login to raise a concerned issue about these 2 - 4 hour maintenance every day during game play hours can they not script it to do it out of hours?

[cYYAN]

Since i play for free, got 20 time cards from my brother when he stopped playing i don't really care about the money. I do however care about the fact that its been everyday for a week the server has been down for 2-4 hours during MY prime time :rolleyes:

[Thuragrum]

By Grungni's Beard, I can't stand it anymore. :mad:

[Dijskra]

Its so sad.... it must be all morrons joined forces together to go with a plan with implementing patches 2 days, not really early mornings of NOT WORKING DAYS!!
wtf with u ppl? Saturday and Sunday? it is our playing time, some of us working whole week, so those 2 days are our only chance to site for more then 1-2 h to play !! if u have to do it make it 6 or even 5 am !! i don't care u need a sleep!! it's not my fault that game have errors, it's urs, I can't play now and that's ure fault, we are paying u to have possibility to play!

[Siilverr]

Gotta admit I thought it was a joke when the server went down yesterday morning. Today as well!

Can't they gather all these fixes and do one patch mid-week?

I guess going to bed at a normal hour and waking up early does not fit well with MMORPGS.

Merry Christmas.

For the suck-up below: been for a jog already, don't have all day to play this so can't be as cheerfully optimistic as you.
This isn't a thread for suggesting alternative pursuits, so shove off.

[Charmed]

Its so sad.... it must be all morrons joined forces together to go with a plan with implementing patches 2 days, not really early mornings of NOT WORKING DAYS!!
wtf with u ppl? Saturday and Sunday? it is our playing time, some of us working whole week, so those 2 days are our only chance to site for more then 1-2 h to play !! if u have to do it make it 6 or even 5 am !! i don't care u need a sleep!! it's not my fault that game have errors, it's urs, I can't play now and that's ure fault, we are paying u to have possibility to play!


Jeez, anyone reading that would think that WAR is the only game you own,lol. Now is the chance to play a different game for a couple of hours or go for a jog, clean the house or maybe chill and watch a bit of telly.
I know they could maybe do it a little earlier but at least they work on things constantly to make the game better for us. ;)

[boltan]

Really starting to get annoying.

Why cant they patch during the early hours of the morning ?

This is 5th day in a week that servers been greyed out during the morning.

[ReasonS]

Jeez, anyone reading that would think that WAR is the only game you own,lol. Now is the chance to play a different game for a couple of hours or go for a jog, clean the house or maybe chill and watch a bit of telly.
I know they could maybe do it a little earlier but at least they work on things constantly to make the game better for us. ;)

On a sunday morning ?? Wow they must get paid soem huge overtime for this i tells ya.

[Dijskra]

Jeez, anyone reading that would think that WAR is the only game you own,lol. Now is the chance to play a different game for a couple of hours or go for a jog, clean the house or maybe chill and watch a bit of telly.
I know they could maybe do it a little earlier but at least they work on things constantly to make the game better for us. ;)

lol what are u ??
u really think it is ok when someone is taking money from u and then shows how deep in @!#!@ he got by actions like this?

and no i don't play other games, dont have time for it i only play that game cose i like to play from time to time, and no ima not going to jog, cose it's raining outside and its something about +3 C, cose we have @!#!@# winter !! so i do my gym. by going for a swiming poll 3 times a week but not on Sunday wich i prefere to spend on playing on mornings while my GF is study so i can give her full atention when she will come home at 11.30 AM
and why ure not playing some other game? or maybe u need that jog more then me? why u on that forum defending ppl that scruing theyre job we pay for?? they wont give u extra item for it...

[Dijskra]

*Edited for content*

well maybe it's not ..whats that word? remotely? i know i can check dictionary but da hell i don't wont to, :D so english is not my language then my post maybe are not so clear for alll
ima pity for u and all who write me to grow up... we talk about it when u will come to my age, when u finish ure education, have to work on ure self, and wanna find some time for fun... and don't attack my girl pls saying words like that about her, ima not writing anything about ure mom or ure teddy bear so pls...

[louisalexander]

Ive never had problems before but now the servers seem to be down on a sunday and its 11 am, how strange. Am i missing something here.

[Siilverr]

Reported Charmed for attempting to derail thread and personal attacks on Dijskra.

Go and preach somewhere else.

[Smarty]

I'm all in favour with continual effort to make the game run perfectly and I understand that the servers need downtime in order for patches/fixes etc to implement.

But

I'm a person who plays in the mornings due to how my work pans out. This week alone I've had four seperate occasions where I have been unable to logon due to patches/fixes taking place.

I would like to know,

1. What steps are being taken to ensure this increased level of disruption ceases to an acceptable minimal level of once per week?

2. When will my account be credited with extra gametime as way of an apology for the multiple times I've been unable to play due to patches/fixes?

[louisalexander]

2. When will my account be credited with extra gametime as way of an apology for the multiple times I've been unable to play due to patches/fixes?


Yeah good question, i think they should add compensation time for it.

[Dijskra]

2. When will my account be credited with extra gametime as way of an apology for the multiple times I've been unable to play due to patches/fixes?

that would be most welcome, but they won't do it, like they didn't do anything about time we lost playing on empty servers... not single day plus

PS. thx Siilverr for ure understanding, and see u all in future i run out of time for now

[razor39999]

Just a note on the fix that made the fort fights playable - it's not working. I'm coming from a fortress attack on Shining Way and the whole time I had the exact same issues as before the aforementioned patch that "fixed" fort fights - huge lag especially noticeable when activating abilities (up to 10 seconds from the time I press a skill until it fires off), disables lasting up to half a minute, crashing to the character selection screen. Good job...:rolleyes:

[Dijskra]

And again servers down !! what a surprise :) today ive heard was on but i was at work tomorrow starting work at 10:30, but hey lol servers down since 8:30 :D
my subs ends 24.12, i think ima not going to buy another card.

[Raidyn]

Arrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! :mad:

[Azzazzello]

I really dont understand why GOA cant do their updating and maintenance at early morning hours like 4 AM as most others who run a service like this. Sure, it might be a hassle for the people performing the service at such an hour but on ther other hand you would see a lot less negativity from the clients.

Or are you telling me that there are more people playing at 4 than at 8:30?

The only time that daytime (yes i consider 8 in the morning daytime) downtime should be needed is in the case of emergency patching due to gamebreaking bugs or the like.

[Dijskra]

This is responde for my email to customer service: all i asked was : can u do ure maintance on other hours?earlier like 5 or 6 AM and will we have some refunds becose of servers off they wrote to me:

Dear Customer,

In response to your query about a refund for maintenance downtime. As all
MMO's go through maintenance from time to time, especially within their
first months open to the public, there will be no refunds for maintenance
downtime.

Kind regards,
W.A.R. European Customer Support

change ure maintance hours thats all we ask for!!

[Hittori]

I really dont understand why GOA cant do their updating and maintenance at early morning hours like 4 AM as most others who run a service like this. Sure, it might be a hassle for the people performing the service at such an hour but on ther other hand you would see a lot less negativity from the clients.

Or are you telling me that there are more people playing at 4 than at 8:30?

The only time that daytime (yes i consider 8 in the morning daytime) downtime should be needed is in the case of emergency patching due to gamebreaking bugs or the like.


Totally agree. Not only is it more convenient but allows the extra time for extended maintenance so therefore the servers are not down till near lunchtime.
Today they were meant to be back up at 10 am cet but have gone over that time so if they had the, let's say a 4 am server maintenance time, they would theoretically be back up now without further disruption to the playerbase.

[wearedoomed]

I bet this has been said a hundred times already, but you guys are a bunch of whining little lemmings, who actually have no understanding at all.

It doesn't matter what time they patch and or have server maintenance, it will ALWAYS piss some people off. Or do YOU feel mistreated because the downtime affects you, or would it be better if someone else had their only possible hours to play ruined by some stupid game developer?

EVE-Online has a DAILY downtime of one hour, between 11:00 and 12:00 GMT, and no one is complaining there.

[Beast of Bodmin]

2 hours overtime...it's lunchtime in 17 minutes. Wtf is this ! Getting sick of these extended server downtimes.

At least Funcom did their stuff at 4am in the morning.

[Charmed]

I bet this has been said a hundred times already, but you guys are a bunch of whining little lemmings, who actually have no understanding at all.

It doesn't matter what time they patch and or have server maintenance, it will ALWAYS piss some people off. Or do YOU feel mistreated because the downtime affects you, or would it be better if someone else had their only possible hours to play ruined by some stupid game developer?

EVE-Online has a DAILY downtime of one hour, between 11:00 and 12:00 GMT, and no one is complaining there.

Aw, did someone not have a good nights sleep. I see some constructive posts here yet yours is not as they do have a point. Also this is not Eve and nor is it 1 hour at a pre scheduled time where everyone can go have their lunch in that time.
What I see from the other posts is that they are suggesting an earlier downtime to make it better.
So why not stop posting rhetoric and do something more constructive with your time instead.

[delavey]

EVE-Online has a DAILY downtime of one hour, between 11:00 and 12:00 GMT, and no one is complaining there.

being 3 yo eve player i freaking NEVER LIKED that idea, neither did great part of people im familiar with, tho i can imagine what would happen with tranq w/o those. Your comparision is kinda out-of-whack by that.

and yeah @ dude above me

[wearedoomed]

Aw, did someone not have a good nights sleep. I see some constructive posts here yet yours is not as they do have a point. Also this is not Eve and nor is it 1 hour at a pre scheduled time where everyone can go have their lunch in that time.
What I see from the other posts is that they are suggesting an earlier downtime to make it better.
So why not stop posting rhetoric and do something more constructive with your time instead.

Yeah people are real constructive.

- duuuh do the maintenance earlier...... duuuh

How would that change anything? will people playing earlier not be affected somehow?

And don't try and convince me that at around 10 GMT on a Friday is some kind of WAR prime time, cause it sure aint.

However, I'm gonna stop stating the obvious and let people go back to their constructive solutions to this matter.

[Nic_GOA]

The reason for the extended downtime was so that our technicians could incorporate some additional updates that have been made on the US server Vortex and which are due to be run today on all remaining US servers. This means we will not need a separate maintenance to implement those fixes.

Our apologies for any inconvenience.

[Gottaa]

Sounds like a very good idea Nic, keep up the swift updates

Only issue I've ever had with downtime was when I was going to pull a sicky and there servers were down, so I went into work anyway (probably a good thing in the current climate). For my 1p, if the servers are up outside normal working hours I'm happy, if they are down while I'm at work I really don't care

[Paragonn]

If magnus or nic sees this, any ETA on the EU getting the latest patches? (the fortress lord changes and the newest stability patch)

The lord changes were applied over the weekend on the US servers and theyre still not applied to the EU servers, and needless to say, it's a very important patch.

[Nic_GOA]

The latest stability patch was included in our scheduled maintenance on Friday. (yes before it was applied on all the US servers, to avoid another downtime shortly after) as we announced here (http://war-europe.com/#/news/?id_news=en333&lang=en).

The change to keeplords was done the morning after it went live on the US servers as per our usual update schedule.

[Paragonn]

It's already been applied?

awesome, thank you very much for the quick reply :)

[fatgit]

edit - replied to wrong post :)

[Paragonn]

anyone else having trouble with the account section? i need to renew but cant seem to access my profile.

i log in, click on profile, but then i'm promted to log in again, and when i hit log in after entering my details, i simply get undefined...

[Scorpius2008]

I got that also a few times. Make sure your browser accepts cookies and pop ups, delete all teh cookies and cache in the browser before accesing the page, it will prolly work after that.

[Kerran]

I got that also a few times. Make sure your browser accepts cookies and pop ups, delete all teh cookies and cache in the browser before accesing the page, it will prolly work after that.


N-N-N-N-NECROBREAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:p

[Rauko]

If you know anything about MMO's you should know:

Never play on patch day.

Although I'm exited about trying my slayer to I do not expect to play. If I get to play it's a bonus. If not I'll continue painting some models.