Riptide Expansion Being Released Aug 19? - CONFIRMED!

What's really curious is where they would get the information on the release date when we don't even have any information posted on it. At least, not on our usual channels for information from PWE. 19th is more realistic, as it would follow the usual maintenance window.

While we have sylenthunder in this thread, is there any remote chance of getting manual patches back, if only for new content expansion? Downloading the regular way takes about 3~8 hours

Maybe they told the press something they haven't told us, since companies usually do put out press releases when they have something they want to get out there.....

Looking at the news post here http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/pwi/news/detail/9496893-riptide-expansion-–-sneak-peek-ii it says "Excited for the new features? We sure are! Keep on following the latest news and follow us on Facebook to learn even more about Riptide in the upcoming weeks" which tells me that they plan on releasing more information to us still and are not ready to release this expansion.

jabq wrote: »

While we have sylenthunder in this thread, is there any remote chance of getting manual patches back, if only for new content expansion? Downloading the regular way takes about 3~8 hours

Sadly, we cannot link what China does not provide.

gotta ask @sylenthunder I know it would be possible to make a manual patch. Would this be against the T&C if a player did this and posted to the forums? Or even you or someone else that know a lot about this @asterelle does it its checked and GMs can use it?

Just a Suggestion... Would lower load on server when Big updates happen and this could be done for ONLY big updates!

many reasons to have a manual patch.
most importantly to avoid the need to re-download the client and several GB of patches if a re-install of the game will become unavoidable.
on the other hand i see no reason to not have a manual patch. ​​

razzzza wrote: »

sindarella wrote: »

many reasons to have a manual patch.
most importantly to avoid the need to re-download the client and several GB of patches if a re-install of the game will become unavoidable.

and im just sitting here playing the same installment i done back in 08 when i started playing and never had to reinstall the game ever and never used manual patches.

Same here. Never had to reinstall, never had an issue.​​

if a lightning hits your pc you will beg for manual patches. anticipate the worst, make backups.. ​​

bloodedone87 wrote: »

dblazen1 wrote: »

1. Manual patches are a gazillion times faster than automatic patches.
2. If you manage to **** up a manual patch, then you deserve a special hat and sit in a special corner.

They should either give a manual patch or just revamp the way they patch entirely. The automatic patcher is just horrendous when it comes to big updates.

I have an old lame laptop which was already repaired one time and still using Windows xp on it( yes I know I should change it, maybe until the end of this year) and I had no problem with automatic patcher. I dont get it how people with better PC with new version of Windows have problems with automatic patcher.

No one said there is a problem with it, it is just way slower than a manual patch file, that is what the issue is. Big patches with the automatich update are slooooow. Way. To. Slow.​​

Currently, the full download is about 6GB, and patching from it to be current is about 150MB. That's not really that bad, and if your client version is old enough, re-downloading the client and updating would be faster than auto-patching.

The problem is after a large expansion (like the last one) where the difference in patches is almost 1GB. I agree that we totally need manual patches for anything over about 50MB, but some of you guys take it way too far with the complaining about it.

TBH, if your internet connection is unable to quickly auto-patch something under 500MB, you should really consider an upgrade. If you're not able to get a good internet connection (good would be considered about 12Mbps DSL) because of financial reasons or your location, then you really should re-consider playing MMO's. (Also if your PC barely meets the min specs for a game created 7 years ago.)
Just for reference, with a older CPU like a Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz, and a 12Mpbs connection, auto-updating a client with a patch about 1GB in size should only take 30-40 minutes under normal circumstances. If the servers are under a heavy load, maybe as long as an hour.

China has decided not to send manual patches anymore. PWE isn't the issue there. They've asked for them. We can't manually create them unless we have the specific files changed by the update. I mean, I could do a before/after comparison, then pull the changed files, and create a manual patch .cup file. I have the tools for that. I just can't guarantee that it's not going to **** up your game, that it would actually work, or that I will have the time to do it.

Hopefully the patch for this won't be too big.​​

jaytrain91 wrote: »

Our CM's need to not only have better communication with us the community but they also need to be better at communicating with the folks over at China PW. We shouldnt be having to rely on third party website to get information thats why they have a news section.

First, we would need to actually have CM's.​​

sylenthunder wrote: »

jaytrain91 wrote: »

Our CM's need to not only have better communication with us the community but they also need to be better at communicating with the folks over at China PW. We shouldnt be having to rely on third party website to get information thats why they have a news section.

First, we would need to actually have CM's.​​

I miss Franky and Spoons

No official news about the patch going out on 19th. I doubt they'd release it in 2 days without any info on the patch yet.

rocky19 wrote: »

No official news about the patch going out on 19th. I doubt they'd release it in 2 days without any info on the patch yet.

I wouldn't be surprised, it wouldn't be the first time, actually. ​​