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Friday news !
[2002-13-12]
Friday news !
Today, we will talk about the next patch coming to servers near you, the new "evolution" of the Chronicles, a little
"not so friendly reminder" about last names with illegal characters, some hints about epic quests on Camlann and finally, information about the cooperative server.
But first, we wanted to say this :
Some extra news regarding yesterday's crash of Albion on Excalibur. The Albion's server crashed 20.55 GMT and certain areas were unavailable for about 5 minutes, and more seriously, a relic raid was ongoing at the time and the invasion of Caer Witrin was reset.
In co-operation with Mythic we have continually investigated the crashes that have been haunting the servers, especially in version 1.52, and it seems to be partly related to this version. It is not related to hardware, network issues or the European version in particular and we should see less crash once we patch to 1.54.
Regarding the event, the Geershas have launched a new successful attack on Caer Witrin, and it should continue where it was untimely interrupted. Further, a few modifications have been made : There should be no more exp deaths in this round of the campaign, the fairly powerful Lord should no longer leave his post and lastly, modifications were made to the spawn rates.
Again, we are very sorry about the crash.
Back to the news now,
The next patch :
Our translation team is still actively working on the French & German 1.54 files and preparing the coming of the first DAoC add-on Shrouded Isles at the same time. The amount of work is, as you can imagine, quite big and, with the Christmas holidays coming, many of our partners will take some well deserved days off.
We should have a 1.54 version in testing between Christmas and New Year's Eve. We will give you more information about this next week.
The Chronicles :
As some of you already noticed, you can now get the XML files with the information of Camlann. While the official Chronicles are not yet ready, you can already use them freely for fan sites and guild sites.
On our side, we are planning not only to open our own Camlann's Chronicles before the end of December, but also to publish the information about non-guilded players.
Of course, I will use the famous quote here : "If everything goes as planned"…
Last name with special characters :
Several times previously we have given "friendly" warnings to players using special characters in last names or guild names on our servers.
Since the "friendly" reminders don't seem to work, this is the last warning : If you have a special character in your name, go to your "name registrar" and change it as soon as possible. Starting next week, we will start taking more "severe" actions on the accounts not respecting this rule. Do not hesitate to inform your guild mates and friends. The only exceptions to this are the accents and the umlaut.
Camlann and Epic quests :
Some players on Camlann are waiting until level 50 before even starting their epic quests. Sadly for them, many dungeons you need to go into are level restricted, which makes Epic quests un-doable.
For players with this problem trying to do the "Departed Fellowship" quest (level 40 cleric/paladin epic quest), there is a solution : check the druid grove close to Keltoi Fogou, you will receive some help for your epic quest there.
The Co-op server :
Mythic recently released a new server type called co-operative server. Many of you asked if the European version of Dark Age of Camelot will ever have one. For now, we have taken no decision about it. We will keep a very close eye on how Gaheris (the US server) is doing, read your comments and reactions to it, before deciding if we will, open such a server in the future. In any case, there will be no real decision about this before the release of Shrouded Isles in Europe.
That's it for today. Again, sorry for all the relic raiders yesterday, and happy hunting everyone.
Friday news !
[2002-13-12]
Friday news !
Today, we will talk about the next patch coming to servers near you, the new "evolution" of the Chronicles, a little
"not so friendly reminder" about last names with illegal characters, some hints about epic quests on Camlann and finally, information about the cooperative server.
But first, we wanted to say this :
Some extra news regarding yesterday's crash of Albion on Excalibur. The Albion's server crashed 20.55 GMT and certain areas were unavailable for about 5 minutes, and more seriously, a relic raid was ongoing at the time and the invasion of Caer Witrin was reset.
In co-operation with Mythic we have continually investigated the crashes that have been haunting the servers, especially in version 1.52, and it seems to be partly related to this version. It is not related to hardware, network issues or the European version in particular and we should see less crash once we patch to 1.54.
Regarding the event, the Geershas have launched a new successful attack on Caer Witrin, and it should continue where it was untimely interrupted. Further, a few modifications have been made : There should be no more exp deaths in this round of the campaign, the fairly powerful Lord should no longer leave his post and lastly, modifications were made to the spawn rates.
Again, we are very sorry about the crash.
Back to the news now,
The next patch :
Our translation team is still actively working on the French & German 1.54 files and preparing the coming of the first DAoC add-on Shrouded Isles at the same time. The amount of work is, as you can imagine, quite big and, with the Christmas holidays coming, many of our partners will take some well deserved days off.
We should have a 1.54 version in testing between Christmas and New Year's Eve. We will give you more information about this next week.
The Chronicles :
As some of you already noticed, you can now get the XML files with the information of Camlann. While the official Chronicles are not yet ready, you can already use them freely for fan sites and guild sites.
On our side, we are planning not only to open our own Camlann's Chronicles before the end of December, but also to publish the information about non-guilded players.
Of course, I will use the famous quote here : "If everything goes as planned"…
Last name with special characters :
Several times previously we have given "friendly" warnings to players using special characters in last names or guild names on our servers.
Since the "friendly" reminders don't seem to work, this is the last warning : If you have a special character in your name, go to your "name registrar" and change it as soon as possible. Starting next week, we will start taking more "severe" actions on the accounts not respecting this rule. Do not hesitate to inform your guild mates and friends. The only exceptions to this are the accents and the umlaut.
Camlann and Epic quests :
Some players on Camlann are waiting until level 50 before even starting their epic quests. Sadly for them, many dungeons you need to go into are level restricted, which makes Epic quests un-doable.
For players with this problem trying to do the "Departed Fellowship" quest (level 40 cleric/paladin epic quest), there is a solution : check the druid grove close to Keltoi Fogou, you will receive some help for your epic quest there.
The Co-op server :
Mythic recently released a new server type called co-operative server. Many of you asked if the European version of Dark Age of Camelot will ever have one. For now, we have taken no decision about it. We will keep a very close eye on how Gaheris (the US server) is doing, read your comments and reactions to it, before deciding if we will, open such a server in the future. In any case, there will be no real decision about this before the release of Shrouded Isles in Europe.
That's it for today. Again, sorry for all the relic raiders yesterday, and happy hunting everyone.
