Five on Friday - Publishes
Personal Attendants from Publish 41 Test Shard Giveway (August 18, 2006)
Can you tell us who received Personal Attendents from the Pub41 test shard giveaway?
Wilki: Here are the five winners:
1. C. S.
2. Oliver B.
3. Eric Y.
4. Chad L.
5. Yuuki K.Congratulations to all of the winners!
Status of Proficiencies (July 7, 2006)
What is the status of Proficiencies? Have they been scrapped, or will they be retained in a modified form?
MrTact: They are on hold while we deal with the aftermath of Pub 41, the gold sting, and the forthcoming PunkBuster beta test. If I had to hazard a guess, I would lay even odds on whether we end up doing them at this point. We will need to do extensive public testing before we decide either way.
Aegis of Grace and Publish 41 (June 30, 2006)
Can you explain what has happened with the Aegis of Grace in Pub41?
Ando: One of the engineers came across a bug that was causing item properties not to update correctly on old items after changes were made to their templates. This had the unintended side-effect of essentially fixing items that had been essentially “bugged” in the past.
After making this fix and putting it on Origin and Pacific, the Dev Team realized the modification had affected older “pre-patch” Aegis of Grace helms, which were rare because they could be worn by humans and had the wrong art. So a decision had to be made before we published pub41 to the rest of the shards. On one hand, this bug fix was needed by the Dev Team because it was interfering with some work that was being done. On the other hand, we didn’t want to make these items no longer useful to humans who had always had them before. So a change was made so that all Aegis of Grace helms, both old and new, can now be worn by both humans and elves. Also, the older helms will continue to display the horned helm art instead of the circlet art (with the exception of the old ones on Origin and Pacific that had already been modified, which from what I understand were more difficult to change back - though this is still being looked into).
Publish 41 - What? (June 9, 2006)
What will Pub41 consist of and when can we expect to see a Pub41 Test Center?
Ando: Since Pub41 will be a fairly small publish, we should be able to get a Test Center up sometime next week. At that time we will be providing details of what the publish will consist of.
Bushido Changes? (June 2, 2006)
Got any changes planned in Pub41 for Bushido?
MrTact: Most of the stuff that was originally scheduled for pub 41 has been pushed back to a later date. So, no.
Hunger, Remove Curse Apple, Corpse Skin (April 28, 2006)
What’s the status on hunger, remove curse apples and corpse skin?
Wilki: We’re going to adjust hunger, that’s a given. Remove curse apples will also be brought into balance by the hunger adjustment, since you won’t be able to eat tons of them repeatedly. In the meantime, the changes to corpse skin have been reverted, so there will be no change in Pub40.
Publish 40 Changes (April 21, 2006)
Are you guys at a point yet where you can finalize the list of pub 40 changes?
Darkscribe: We are very, very close, and just about everything in pub 40 is public now. I expect the entire “code complete†publish to be on test center next week. When it’s up on the TC, you’ll be able to sample all the new stuff, including the new buff-de-buff system and the new targeting system.
