GU #48 Hiccups

Game Update #48 was not without a few significant issues!

First and foremost, the introduction of Smart Loot (an item is not awarded if someone in the group already possesses it) to the Veeshan’s Peak Fabled Armor Patterns system introduced a glitch. Namely, linking to these patterns caused the EQ2 client (and possibly your computer) to crash! Due to the severity of this bug, a hotfix to the Client was released this afternoon. In the 36 hours that this problem was live numerous malicious users posted corrupted links in the public chats (often with the name of the item changed to something innocuous or tempting) leading to many users crashing to the desktop or having to reboot their PCs.

Other problems include the excessive triggering of the Wingbeat effect on mobs in VP as well as glitches in the newly added portals.

There are some other problems as well which unfortunately probably won’t get a fix until Monday at the earliest as the servers must come down for content updates.