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Hot Fixes - 11/20/2009

Andy Belford — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:36:15 EST

Greetings!

We have the following Hot Fixes for you this morning:

RvR

Guilds who claim a keep will now properly receive loot bags for each zone they lock in the same pairing.

Crafting

Fixed an issue where Pale Serissa, Red Serissa, and Golden Serissa were excluded from monster loot tables.

Mac Trial Client Installation Issues

James Nichols — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:39:23 EST

Greetings!

We are currently aware of a recent issue causing some new trial users to be unable to properly install the Mac Trial Client. We appreciate your patience and cooperation and anticipate having the matter resolved this evening.

Thank you!

Update - 10:30PM EST: This issue appears to be resolved at this time, thank you again for your patience while we corrected the issue. Have a great evening and welcome to WAR!

Jeff Skalski - WAR Producer's Letter

Jeff Skalski — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:38:19 EST

Hey Fellow Waaaghers,

Just wanted to drop a few lines to follow up where our fearless leader, Mr. Hickman, left off reaffirm that our support and dedication to making WAR the best RvR experience in the market has not changed. We're just a few weeks past the launch of 1.3.2 and heavily testing 1.3.3 as we speak to get it ready for PTS.

1.3.3 brings with it a focus on continued polish and bug fixes, enhancements to RvR as well as other features to improve the quality and enjoyment of your experience. We’ll be sprucing up graphics with improved lighting options and bloom to make the skies pop to life and create some spectacular sights, in addition over the course of 1.3.3 you’ll get to enjoy three live events including the return of the Battlebrew Backpack in Keg End and the much beloved Night of Murder event in addition to an all new event in the new year…yarrrr. We’re anything but bored as you can see and we can’t wait to open the gates on PTS to hear your feedback. Your feedback is vital to ensuring 1.3.3 is a hit so make sure you share it!

Till then, we are continuing to actively monitor how the RvR campaign is playing out across the servers and making adjustments as we develop the Underdog system which we look forward to sharing the details about with you soon.

In case you haven’t heard the news we’ve now made WAR more accessible than ever! We’ve brought RvR to the Mac for the first time ever so you don’t even need Boot Camp to play (It made me a Mac user!). Additionally your friends and family can play the intense, fast paced action of Tier 1 forever with the new Endless Trial and Windows users only need a quick 1GB download to get into the action while the rest of the game downloads as you play. PQ's are full, scenarios are popping and there are plenty of players scouring the RvR lakes looking for revenge – so why are you still reading?

See you on the battlefield,

Jeff Skalski

Hot Fixes - 11/12/2009

Andy Belford — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:38:15 EST

Greetings!

We have the following City Siege Hot Fixes for you today:

Capital City Changes

The doors to The Inevitable City and Altdorf now have reduced hitpoint values when cities enter their Contested state.
The amount of time the Captured city state is reduced by each time the defending realm successfully completes the city Public Quest is now 15 minutes per completion.
The timer for the initial contested stage of city battles is now 1 hour and the timer for the captured stage is now 3 hours. Scoring for the public quest within cities has been reduced to 500 points per stage.

Server Maintenance - All Servers 11/12/2009

Andy Belford — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:36:20 EST

Status: Maintenance Completed

Greetings!

We will be bringing all North American servers offline tomorrow morning starting at 9:00 AM EST for maintenance. At this time we anticipate that all servers will be back online no later than 12:45 PM EST.

As always, please be sure to check the Herald for up to the minute information regarding this downtime.

Thank you for your continued support.

Update - 10:10AM EST: Maintenance is complete and all servers are open to the public. Welcome back!

Update - 9:00AM EST: All servers are now offline as we begin the maintenance.

Jeff Hickman - Executive Producer's Letter

Jeff Hickman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:31:34 EST

Hello everyone,

With all that is going on within Mythic Entertainment and EA, I would like to take a moment to reinforce the studio’s dedication to both our games and our players. At Mythic, we remain committed to our games and the passionate people who play them – we’re going to continue to deliver the content and service that keeps you playing. We want to assure our community that we will maintain the same high level of customer support you’ve come to expect and continue to improve our games with an exciting schedule of patches, live events and new content.

Mass PTS Playtest! - 11/11/2009

Andy Belford — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:31:45 EST

Greetings!

The WAR Dev team will be hosting a mass playtest tomorrow night, 11/11/2009, starting at 8:00 PM EST on the Public Test Server, Warpstone. We will be testing the newly reduced city siege timers and the values associated with advancing the city into stage two.

As has been the case with previous mass playtests, some lucky players will win either an Enslaved Manticore or Imperial Griffon mount! So come on out and join in the fun.

We'll see you on the PTS!

WAAAGH!

Immediate Server Maintenance - Gorfang

Andy Belford — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:47:14 EST

Status - Maintenance complete

Greetings!

We will be bringing the Gorfang server offline this morning for maintenance. We apologize for the short notice. Gorfang will be brought offline at 10:30 AM EST, with downtime estimated to last no later than 2:30 PM EST.

As always, please check the Herald for up to the minute information regarding this downtime.

Thank you for your continued support.

Update 11:07 AM EST - Gorfang is online.

Update 10:33 AM EST - Gorfang is offline for maintenance

Dev Diary - John Cox (Combating Hackers)

Jess Folsom — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:13:40 EST

Well the topic of this developer diary is a naughty word—the H word—H ****** - er… hacking. It’s something we at Mythic don’t often talk about openly, but we do take very seriously. It’s a very interesting subject that I’d love to talk in-depth about; it has many challenges and curiosities that make for an interesting discussion. I get a sense of joy when I know we’ve ruined a hacker’s day. Unfortunately, “fighting the good fight” is very cloak-and-daggers stuff, going back and forth, with the hackers and cheaters—so, to talk about it in great detail also gives information to the very people we’re attempting to thwart. Here’s my best shot at showing you a glimpse behind the curtain about how we handle hacking and cheaters without giving away too many of our secrets!

Hot Fixes - 11/6/2009

Andy Belford — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:51:46 EST

Greetings!

Earlier this week the WAR Community team communicated that we would be implementing some immediate changes to the City Siege experience. The first round of these immediate changes to the City has been implemented during today's downtime. For more information please be sure to check the full list of today's Hot Fix notes after the Jump.