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Neverwinter Maintenance - 6/6 7am PDT (Pacific) COMPLETE
dwightmc
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Hey everyone,
Unfortunately there was an issue that appeared after the patch that was released today. Because of this we will be performing another maintenance tomorrow morning 6/6 at 7 AM PDT. Estimated downtime will be 2 hours but might be extended due to unforeseen circumstances.
Patch Notes: NW.15.20140528a.6
Content and Environment
• Sharandar: Removed collision that was blocking progress for the intro quest to Sharandar.
When is the maintenance for you? (Click here to find out)
We apologize for this unexpected maintenance. We'll keep you updated here tomorrow throughout the maintenance.
-Dwight
Update 1 (7:03 AM PDT) Maintenance has begun. Patch notes added. Looks like there was an progression issue within the Sharandar campaign that needed to be fixed right away.
Update 2 (7:45 AM PDT) Maintenance is progressing as planned. They are doing some final checks and if all goes well, we could be up sooner than expected. We'll keep you updated.
Update 3 (8:23 AM PDT) Maintenance has completed. Welcome back to Neverwinter!
Unfortunately there was an issue that appeared after the patch that was released today. Because of this we will be performing another maintenance tomorrow morning 6/6 at 7 AM PDT. Estimated downtime will be 2 hours but might be extended due to unforeseen circumstances.
Patch Notes: NW.15.20140528a.6
Content and Environment
• Sharandar: Removed collision that was blocking progress for the intro quest to Sharandar.
When is the maintenance for you? (Click here to find out)
We apologize for this unexpected maintenance. We'll keep you updated here tomorrow throughout the maintenance.
-Dwight
Update 1 (7:03 AM PDT) Maintenance has begun. Patch notes added. Looks like there was an progression issue within the Sharandar campaign that needed to be fixed right away.
Update 2 (7:45 AM PDT) Maintenance is progressing as planned. They are doing some final checks and if all goes well, we could be up sooner than expected. We'll keep you updated.
Update 3 (8:23 AM PDT) Maintenance has completed. Welcome back to Neverwinter!
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That, the fix for HF PvP set bonus and it's OP heals (Pathfinder deflect build)
Some fix for reapplication of weapon enchants through melee mark (Pathfinder-HF) would make me happy.
Too many exploitative builds rolling around out there in the 60 Dom. All it takes to make a game stupid is 2 roar spamming GWF's and a Deflect/Heal/Perfect Plaguefire mark spamming ranger to turn the whole thing pretty sour.
Have patience. It takes time to code and test a fix. The fix also may have not made it into the build in time for this week's scheduled maint, and a "hotfix" is usually only reserved for truly urgent matters, so as to minimize player impact.
As to maintenance times, not much to be done about that. Someone is going to be impacted during their peak play time, somewhere in the world. Cryptic does what they can to mitigate that but it's not possible to please everyone. Sorry.
Great Weapon Fighter: Because when is today not a good day to die?
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How about a 6 sec ranged stun that roots, interrupts and is immune to cc immunities and sets you up to be hit for 20k then 30k from two encounter on a class that has cc immunity and a sprint? sound gud?
Even if they were, someone would complain over in the EU that it's during their peak hours. Move it to EU non-peak hours and someone, somewhere else will ask "why does it have to be during MY playtime?". The circle never ends.
Great Weapon Fighter: Because when is today not a good day to die?
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Seems like several dozen got misfiled/mislabeled/shifted/replaced/all-around-really-messed-up.
Tower District is practically unplayable.
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While people are pushy and they can't fix every single issue at once. The last 3 modules all were released buggy and all of them had issues that weren't fixed for many weeks or months which is unacceptable for the people that support this game, especially when some of them were reported well in advance.
You can report a bug years in advance, for what it's worth--bug priorities are a dynamic and ever-changing matter. Today's annoyance bug gets moved out of the way by tomorrow's critical one. I know of games in which matters still haven't been fixed. Many times it's the matter of finding what's causing the bug. That has to be done alongside testing new incoming content.
Players clamor for new content quickly, and the team tries to meet that demand, however, the price paid is "release it now, patch it later".
I'd say this was a bit premature, as patch notes are not available at this time.
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True. I just got done searching thru the Dev tracker and had noticed multiple acknowledgements by multiple people on seemingly far less critical items.
Just seemed a bit like:
Devs:We'll get that dent out of the door right away...
Users: But, um, you know the trunk is on fire, right?
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I'll rebut that with part of a post made by Panderus:
Basically speaking, the team working on the "simple issue" may have their fix ready before the more critical problem, owing to the fact that different teams are working on different aspects. Again, though, it's a complex process.
Great Weapon Fighter: Because when is today not a good day to die?
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MC had (dunno if it still has) a bug that made performance abysmal (not an exaggeration) on amd cards when shadows were set to high no matter how powerful the gpu was that existed for a long time. VT had a bug that made it impossible to progress through the map if you wiped after the first boss (easy fix) and wasn't fixed for a long time. CN still has a door glitch that can prevent people progressing (should also be a simple fix). Broken pvp HEs were also long reported but they decided to release it anyway despite it being clearly very broken. The kessels retreat entry was also reported well in advance and should've been easy to fix. Those should all have been high priority fixes and shouldn't have made it to live if they were reported on preview. It isn't the issue of small issues going unfixed. It's that really important issues get overlooked. Mod 3 in particular was released in such a mess that it really should have just been delayed. There was just too much that was broken. I just don't understand how it happened since mod 2 was a long time ago as it was already.
I'm not asking for flawless releases. I'm asking for releases with no preventable bugs. Live will always find bugs that go overlooked, but when big bugs were already known, there's no excuse.
Don't you have a test server where you can install the new upcoming patch and look for bugs before patching it in the main server?
Sometimes it is possible for a patch to work perfectly on the preview server then break something on the live server .
There are loads and loads of typo's throughout the game , add this to the list (if it isn't already on it ) .
WTB Class Reroll please
Well I was joking for the most of it. That typo didn't hurt me in any way, well maybe a little, but I am having fun still.
Hit mute and read the text if the audio is that distracting. Really. PWE/Cryptic have never been known for the talent it uses as voice actors, but they do have to create audio for many different languages. F2P games don't have the budget to hire expensive talent for voice acting, and when that's compounded with the need to support it in many languages, it becomes a huge matrix of problems.
I did like it when the big dwarf in PE originally spoke like a leprechaun when handing out dungeon keys, though. That was epic!
He posted them at least 3 minutes before this post.
Its just the entry quest to Sharandar was broken so some people couldn't progress ,that is all that is listed.
Oh I know you weren't being super serious , typo's are quite annoying and when you notice one I know myself how annoying it can get seeing it every time you use a item or whatever xD
Such patch notes give me a "expect over9k ninja fixes" feeling. :P
WTB Class Reroll please
Nice rationalisation, but utterly irrelevant. The problem is that existing sounds have been swapped around so that fires sound like running water, and so forth, and some stuff is just looping in an obnoxious manner. It's a new bug since the last patch.
BTW some reward via mail will be nice, not everything need to be purchased.
Lets all think " revert coalescent wards from trade bar back to unbound " while rubbing the screen of our monitors and maybe a psychic message will get through and they will do as we tell them XD
I find typos all the time. Such as "guantlets" in the PVP blue gear for HRs.
Read about two pages back. There is NOTHING that Cryptic can do about time zones. The world spins and Cryptic isn't responsible for that, I'm afraid.
Prooooooooobably not gonna happen.
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gona camp here till the server is up
Considering it's a small bug fix, I think it won't take two hours at all. Will be patiently waiting if it takes more than that too. Good luck!