Patch 1.02 for WAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!
By wardojo / October 9th, 2008 /
The servers are down so that Patch 1.02 can be installed, let’s take a look at what’s in store for us when the servers come up today:
“The war against the gold spammers continues. We’ve added new code that will hinder the spammers as they seek to carry out their nefarious deeds! This is only the next step, not the final one, in our continued battle against them.”
Sounds awesome. Maybe it’s an ankle trap, I hear those things are painful.
“We have added a ‘Join All’ button to the scenario window which now allows players to join all scenario queues in their current tier at once.”
DING DING DING! People in my guild have been talking about how they wish there was a random button so they could queue up for scenarios and be put into a random game in their queue. Sounds like we are very close to that with this fix, sweet.
“In order to promote realm and population balance, some realms on some servers will now award their players with a +20% bonus to renown and experience. This is not a permanent bonus, but rather a temporary incentive to promote balance. Realms currently offering this bonus are marked on the server list with a colored icon; blue for Order and Red for Destruction - Check the Herald for the latest list!”
This frightens me. Not because one side or another will get a bonus, but because Mythic swore up and down they would never give any bonuses to the opposing side that would affect their ability to fight. Giving people a 20% bonus on renown and experience will definitely affect their ability to fight, even if it is indirectly related. I don’t like this at all. I hope the 20% renown bonus drops once the player hits level 40 but I don’t see that in the notes. Ugh.
More after the break –>
“In an ongoing effort to deter players from going AFK while in scenario starting areas, we have made the following changes:
- First, players who join a scenario and remain in their realm’s spawn area for two minutes will be automatically removed from that scenario.
- Second, upon entering the spawn area of a scenario, players will receive a debuff that prevents them from earning renown and experience. This debuff will be removed when the player leaves the spawn area.“
I think this kinda fixes things and kind of does not. I envision afkers now running out of spawn and hiding somewhere and just riding it out. Not optimal for the afker, but I bet we’ll still see this kind of BS play going on in game.
“In response to player feedback, we’ve added RvR and NPC chat tabs for new players. These tabs filter scenario chat and NPC chat respectively. In order to minimize frustration to users who have already customized their chat window, we will not be overwriting any current settings, so this change will affect only new players. Players who wish to add these tabs may do so through the normal chat configuration options. ”
This is pretty cool. Remember though, it says you have to add these tabs through the chat configuration options, so if you want to get your chat working better you will need to set it up yourself!
“We have fixed an issue that was causing claimed keeps to forget that they had been claimed after a server restart. ”
Another huge fix.
“Fixed a bug that prevented players from creating an alliance with more than two guilds. Now that this issue is resolved, alliances can grow to great numbers to crush their enemies!”
If you have not been waiting for this fix then you’re probably in for a world of hurt once the big alliances start showing up at keep sieges. It’s time to start negotiating with other guilds. Trust me you’ll thank me when they invite you to a huge keep war that you would otherwise have not known about.
“The pre-scenario countdown timer should now work properly once again.”
The timing used to be about 4 seconds after it hit 0:00. So it hits 0:00 and you count 1, 2, 3, 4 and then start moving and most times that was correct. Now it sounds like they’ve fixed it, but if they haven’t don’t forget to figure out the timing and take advantage of it.
A day of huge fixes to say the least, check out the entire list of fixes for Patch 1.02 over at the Herald!
