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Pre-Patch for Season 9 (Now Starting)

pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
edited April 2014 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Hailing all Captains!

As some of you may have noticed, your game client is running a patch after you have exited STO.

Don't Panic!

This is just a Season 9 Pre-Patch. It may take a little longer for some players, but we hope that this pre-patch will help make launch day for Season 9 a little smoother for everyone.

Sorry to scare all of you!

Thanks for your patience and we cannot wait for you all to see everything coming in Season 9: A New Accord!

~CaptainSmirk
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  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Off-topic but, are we getting a foundry spotlight today? It was mentioned last week.
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Damn, Smirk.

    You guys have learned from the LoR launch fiasco!

    Great job, and thank you! Season 9 looks to be EPIC.

    Also, as Sovereign Ba'al's Grand Vizier, I kind of need your feedback on your pleasure palace. Are your concubines suitably masculine and oiled? Are the rooms sufficiently lush? Is the food appropriately luxurious?

    Please be sure to submit your Pleasure Palace Feedback form ASAP. The Sovereign is a big fan of bureaucracy, sorry.

    Hail Ba'al!
  • usscapitalusscapital Member Posts: 985 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    but we hope that this pre-patch will help make launch day for Season 9 a little smoother for everyone.

    how many times have we heard this before and then had mega problems ? ;)
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  • talgeezetalgeeze Member Posts: 198 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Does patcher looks for Tribble files for updates ? Instead of downloading them, couldn't it copy them over from the Tribble folder ?
  • usscapitalusscapital Member Posts: 985 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    talgeeze wrote: »
    Does patcher looks for Tribble files for updates ? Instead of downloading them, couldn't it copy them over from the Tribble folder ?

    it does ;) , well most of them anyways
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  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    Hailing all Captains!

    As some of you may have noticed, your game client is running a patch after you have exited STO.

    Don't Panic!

    This is just a Season 9 Pre-Patch. It may take a little longer for some players, but we hope that this pre-patch will help make launch day for Season 9 a little smoother for everyone.

    Sorry to scare all of you!

    Thanks for your patience and we cannot wait for you all to see everything coming in Season 9: A New Accord!

    ~CaptainSmirk

    That's lovely, now can we get a word, any word at all, about the broken romulan doff mission?

    I mean, we've flagged it up for you for over 24 hours now.

    There's been no response from anyone at cryptic/PWE at all.

    If you're not going to fix it, tell us.

    But this studied silence is not particulary helpful.
  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    rinkster wrote: »
    That's lovely, now can we get a word, any word at all, about the broken romulan doff mission?

    I mean, we've flagged it up for you for over 24 hours now.

    There's been no response from anyone at cryptic/PWE at all.

    If you're not going to fix it, tell us.

    But this studied silence is not particulary helpful.

    Smirk just posted about it in the doff thread in the news.
    King of Lions rawr! Protect the wildlife of the world. Check out my foundry series Perfection and Scars of the Pride. arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1138650/ashkrik23s-foundry-missions
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  • tango2bravotango2bravo Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    and its a biggun!
  • tucana66tucana66 Member Posts: 710 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    See: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1078221&page=18
  • cookiecrookcookiecrook Member Posts: 4,557 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I would like to know when we can finally airlock Tovan. Another season of bugs and grind really isn't anything new.
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  • stomperx99stomperx99 Member Posts: 863 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    cookiecrook wrote: »
    I would like to know when we can finally airlock Tovan. Another season of bugs and grind really isn't anything new.

    Not you too! What did Tovan do that was so bad?! Because I don't remember………:P……:P……:P
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  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    stomperx99 wrote: »
    Not you too! What did Tovan do that was so bad?! Because I don't remember………:P……:P……:P

    Most people's answer: He was Tovan Khev,
    King of Lions rawr! Protect the wildlife of the world. Check out my foundry series Perfection and Scars of the Pride. arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1138650/ashkrik23s-foundry-missions
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  • cookiecrookcookiecrook Member Posts: 4,557 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Tovan takes away from being able to create the crew I want for my captain. They need to add an option to send him out an airlock without a space suit, vaporization by Phaser set to kill, handed over to the Tal'Shiar for the most slow and painful death possible, or something else that would make the many people who want him gone happy.
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  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    stomperx99 wrote: »
    Not you too! What did Tovan do that was so bad?! Because I don't remember………:P……:P……:P
    He forced himself onto us, plain and simple. He's not part of my crew and he never will be. He's an immersion-breaking, roster-filling, weak-traited, preset character BS parasite.
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  • cookiecrookcookiecrook Member Posts: 4,557 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    He forced himself onto us, plain and simple. He's not part of my crew and he never will be. He's an immersion-breaking, roster-filling, weak-traited, preset character BS parasite.

    Exactly! Maybe the Romulan word for cockroach should be Tovan Kev. :P
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  • kitsune424kitsune424 Member Posts: 236 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    OK so the prepatch starts up when I log off, ok no big deal, I go to log back i about an hour later and I CAN'T it keeps telling me, "Too many log in attempts" I haven't made more than ONE! :confused:
    We are the Borg. Existence as you know it is over. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
  • kitsune424kitsune424 Member Posts: 236 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    orangeitis wrote: »
    He forced himself onto us, plain and simple. He's not part of my crew and he never will be. He's an immersion-breaking, roster-filling, weak-traited, preset character BS parasite.

    That is YOUR opinion
    We are the Borg. Existence as you know it is over. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
  • olivia211olivia211 Member Posts: 675 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    kitsune424 wrote: »
    OK so the prepatch starts up when I log off, ok no big deal, I go to log back i about an hour later and I CAN'T it keeps telling me, "Too many log in attempts" I haven't made more than ONE! :confused:

    Rut Ro! Make sure you weren't TRIBBLE!
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  • kitsune424kitsune424 Member Posts: 236 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    olivia211 wrote: »
    Rut Ro! Make sure you weren't TRIBBLE!

    well if I was it won't matter I just changed my password
    We are the Borg. Existence as you know it is over. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
  • cryptiecopcryptiecop Member Posts: 239 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    Hailing all Captains!

    As some of you may have noticed, your game client is running a patch after you have exited STO.

    Don't Panic!

    This is just a Season 9 Pre-Patch. It may take a little longer for some players, but we hope that this pre-patch will help make launch day for Season 9 a little smoother for everyone.

    Sorry to scare all of you!

    Thanks for your patience and we cannot wait for you all to see everything coming in Season 9: A New Accord!

    ~CaptainSmirk

    Yes, I noticed this a few min ago...thanks for the BSOD
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  • spookpwaspookpwa Member Posts: 318 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    usscapital wrote: »
    how many times have we heard this before and then had mega problems ? ;)
    Perhaps this is their way of testing for bugs more by making live server test server? :P
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    A test server is supposed to be used to properly test patches before patching anything....
  • captainmike85captainmike85 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    not sure whats going on with the pre-patch download but as soon as i quit the game it popped up acting like it was about to patch then just decides to close ?? anyone else having this problem.. i've tried to get this to prepatch 5 or more times kinda annoying..
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    captainmike85 wrote: »
    not sure whats going on with the pre-patch download but as soon as i quit the game it popped up acting like it was about to patch then just decides to close ?? anyone else having this problem.. i've tried to get this to prepatch 5 or more times kinda annoying..

    It means it has downloaded the first available pre-patch files already. It just looks for new versions and closes when it can't find ones.
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    By the way:
    What? The Launcher is pre-patching?

    Noooo, this game is about to end when they are doing pre-patching. I don't want to pre-patch.
    There are sooooo much bugs in the game that the Launcher should fix first.

    I will tell everyone to stop playing this game, and I will tell the neighbor's cat too.

    I am a paying customer and I don't want the Launcher to patch after I have closed the game.

    Ok, thats all :D:P
  • monkeybone13monkeybone13 Member Posts: 4,640 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    spookpwa wrote: »
    Perhaps this is their way of testing for bugs more by making live server test server? :P

    Nope. None of the files for the season 9 stuff will be active until launch day. The reason for pre-patching is for us to get most of the season 9 files so when it launches we have a smaller patch and it doesn't take forever to download.
  • spookpwaspookpwa Member Posts: 318 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    organicmanfred wrote: »
    By the way:
    What? The Launcher is pre-patching?

    Noooo, this game is about to end when they are doing pre-patching. I don't want to pre-patch.
    There are sooooo much bugs in the game that the Launcher should fix first.

    I will tell everyone to stop playing this game, and I will tell the neighbor's cat too.

    I am a paying customer and I don't want the Launcher to patch after I have closed the game.

    Ok, thats all :D:P

    You better warn that cat, because you do not want to have an angry cat at the computer. ;)
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  • captainmike85captainmike85 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    organicmanfred wrote: »
    It means it has downloaded the first available pre-patch files already. It just looks for new versions and closes when it can't find ones.

    it never did downloaded anything to begin with..
  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    captainmike85 wrote: »
    it never did downloaded anything to begin with..

    It once happened to me that the download was done in the background

    But it seems anyway that the pre files have been downloaded sometimes in the last week on your pc

    The file size is about 700-800mb and about 2,5gb files are beeing patched.

    Depending on your connection it could have taken only a short time to download it in the background.

    I think..
  • iamynaughtiamynaught Member Posts: 1,285 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    So, is *this* pre-patching going to go the same way it always has in the past? I close the game, the installer starts back up and downloads the pre-patch.

    I play the next day, exit, and it does it again, downloading the same thing (apparently) I downloaded yesterday.

    And the next day.

    And the day after that.

    And then come the day of the actual release? I get to download EVERYTHING because the installer can't find where it downloaded the blasted pre-patch. I can, I always look to see if it's in there, but the installer gets a case of myopia, or something.

    Look, I get that pre-patching is supposed to save time and aggravation, but all it tends to do for me is waste bandwidth and cause me to miss an entire day of playing while I download the update the day it's released anyway. And the reason I miss out on an entire day is because the update downloads at a very slow speed due to "everyone else" doing the same. I don't have a huge download speed as it is, (or a download cap, thankfully) so even getting a 700-800mb patch can take me a couple of hours on a good day.

    I started closing the launcher this time since it's never worked for me in the past. I'll let the thing download tonight and see what happens, but I'm not holding out much hope for it actually working come release day.
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  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    iamynaught wrote: »
    So, is *this* pre-patching going to go the same way it always has in the past? I close the game, the installer starts back up and downloads the pre-patch.

    I play the next day, exit, and it does it again, downloading the same thing (apparently) I downloaded yesterday.

    And the next day.

    And the day after that.

    And then come the day of the actual release? I get to download EVERYTHING because the installer can't find where it downloaded the blasted pre-patch. I can, I always look to see if it's in there, but the installer gets a case of myopia, or something.

    Look, I get that pre-patching is supposed to save time and aggravation, but all it tends to do for me is waste bandwidth and cause me to miss an entire day of playing while I download the update the day it's released anyway. And the reason I miss out on an entire day is because the update downloads at a very slow speed due to "everyone else" doing the same. I don't have a huge download speed as it is, (or a download cap, thankfully) so even getting a 700-800mb patch can take me a couple of hours on a good day.

    I started closing the launcher this time since it's never worked for me in the past. I'll let the thing download tonight and see what happens, but I'm not holding out much hope for it actually working come release day.


    Here is what I experienced: I heve played on thursday, closed the game and the pre-patch started and downloaded the new files.
    I have played on friday, closed the game and the pre-patch searched for new files. Couldnt find one and closed.
    Saturday: the same as friday.
    Sunday: the same as friday and saturday.

    So as long as the pre-patcher can't find new files, he aborts. Surely there will be more smaller or bigger patches right before Season 9
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