[US Herald] - Happy Holidays!

[Garthilk]

From the From the Dev Team category we have: Happy Holidays!

Folks,


As we head into the holiday season, here’s a quick update on where we stand plus a little bit of holiday cheer.

As the community knows, our engineering team has been focusing on a number of key issues that have been affecting WAR over the last few weeks. These issues include crashes-to-desktop (CTDs), fortress crashes, and lockup issues when exiting scenarios and at certain loading screens. I’ve got some great news to report on all of these fronts. Over the last few weeks, we’ve gone a bit overboard in the number of patches that we have been making to both the client and servers in order to resolve these issues quickly, especially before the end of the year. Sometimes we have announced these patches, but sometimes these patches were done quietly while we tested out some of them on individual servers. The results of these efforts by the team and these patches have been quite wonderful and I’m happy to be able to talk about them now.

Our client crashes (CTDs), are now at their lowest point at any time during development or since we’ve gone LIVE. Over the last couple of weeks, we cut the number of CTDs down by 75% across all players in North America. In terms of fortress takes and their affect on server stability, we have had only one server that has crashed due to a fortress take in North America since Monday (and that was on a server that had the older code). While this is not a guarantee that we have solved all the issues, the fact is that the fixes we have made have resulted in numerous fortress assaults and lots of exciting open RvR action. Finally, in terms of client lockups, we have fixed the problems that came about after the 1.1 patch and we will continue to work on this issue with additional patches today and tomorrow. While I know that this has resulted in a bit more patching during the week than is usual for us, the results have been well worth it. All of these improvements have and/or are being sent to our partner GOA for rapid deployment for our European players.

And now for some more holiday cheer! Starting today, December 18th, we are going to be speeding up the leveling curve in WAR for a few weeks. We’re going to increase the rest experience multiplier bonus in a hotfix today as well as reducing the time that it takes you to earn rested xp while logged out of the game, especially in Tiers 3 and 4. This will result in players’ time to level being approximately 10% faster in Tier 2 and 20% faster in Tiers 3 and 4. We hope you enjoy the changes and have a great holiday season as you speed through the Tiers faster than ever before!

As always, we thank you for your patronage and support.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Mythic Entertainment. Please have a safe and fun holiday season whether your travels are in our Warhammer world or in the real world.


Mark Jacobs
[FONT=Arial]VP/GM Mythic Entertainment[/FONT]

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[rustayne]

Wow. That is a nice christmas present. Glad to see that most of the issues are being resolved so aggressively. I been playing games for years and I do have to say this game has been doing a great job of fixing the bugs that sometimes crop up. Keep up the good work, that is all I can say.

Rustayne

[Ascension]

Thanks for focusing on what's important first Mythic. Alot of companies don't really have their priorities straight, but anything that would stop a player from enjoying the game (like performance issues) is absolutely the most important.

[HeyBob]

NO fortress crashes since Monday, on volk last night , we had 3 crashes in a row, and the timer did not reset so in a hour we killed 5 gates then ran out time lol.


I love this game so much but if the won;t admit to themselves there is still a huge lag problem I feel we are in trouble.

[Goldenheart]

Increase rested XP rate? Holidays? Free time to do it in? OH MY GAWD IM IN LOVE!

[Durgo]

While this is not a guarantee that we have solved all the issues, the fact is that the fixes we have made have resulted in numerous fortress assaults and lots of exciting open RvR action.

Not on my server. We haven't attacked a fortress in weeks on Hochland. Please stop doing live events and FIX THE ZONE FLIPPING SYSTEM so low pop servers can do it too. There are numerous other issues which one would think would be easy to fix. I've even taken the liberty of compiling many of them HERE.

[Ilmoran]

Originally Posted by HeyBob

NO fortress crashes since Monday, on volk last night , we had 3 crashes in a row, and the timer did not reset so in a hour we killed 5 gates then ran out time lol.


I love this game so much but if the won;t admit to themselves there is still a huge lag problem I feel we are in trouble.

we have had only one server that has crashed due to a fortress take in North America since Monday (and that was on a server that had the older code)

I don't see them saying no fortress crashes, I see them saying crashes on one server. Now if other people report fortress crashing as well, *then* there's an issue.

[mykah89]

Thats because on our server, we know better.. nobody even wants to attempt a fortress anymore, two nights ago Order on badlands had 93 VP to destructions 7 in praag, and instead of trying to cap the zone you know what we did? We all went to dragonwake to take some destruction controlled keeps because nobody wanted to go to the fortress.

[rbanzai]

Where do you see the VP tally? I'm familiar with the little red/blue bar graphic but not the vp tally. Is that something you only see in higher tiers?

[Gaugamela]

Well, i guess the huge amount of fixes they have been doing and server down-time to improve stability are aimed for the added influx of players during the holidays.
Lets hope it works!

[Wrektem]

Where do you see the VP tally? I'm familiar with the little red/blue bar graphic but not the vp tally. Is that something you only see in higher tiers?

I use Nobby's Nuts.

Trying to get to it now for the link....darn Curse is slow....why do they still have "patch 1.06 live" as their headline for WAR? Hmm....2 new commercials for WoW, as if the banner on the WHA forum wasn't enough....ARGH SO SLOW!!!

http://war.curse.com/downloads/war-a...obbysnuts.aspx

Looks like there was an update on the 16'th. I'll have to download that when I get home

[ep17]

Sweet Lord!

[Gyr]

Thank you!

[Heavenfall]

Wow... this game is REALLY coming togheter. A lot of people say it wasn't ready for release, and I generally agree with that. But 1.1... wow. And now this? ZING!

[Rauros]

I would REALLY love it if they gave us a percentage increase to Renown gain. I'm not at all worried about Experience gain. Leveling is super easy, and fast. It's very easy to out-run Renown Rank though. I find that I really have to work hard at RvR if I want to keep the two ranks remotely even.

Still, something is better than nothing. Thanks Mythic.