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From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL When you unattune an item with no-trade adornments those no-trade adornments are now destroyed. Chests should no longer spawn in midair. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Skyshrine Contested Creatures involved with the Kildrukaun the Ancient battle in Skyshrine Contested should no longer cause the encounter to reset as quickly when pulled away from their spawn point. Qeynos Capitol District Added a collector to Qeynos Capitol District. Seek out Flitia Veel in Maile’s Exchange for all your collection needs! ITEMS The Opalescent Prowler plushie will now allow itself to be converted for use outdoors. Skyshrine: The...
Month: August 2012
All In Moderation The official support forums for any product must, by their very nature, present a good impression to potential customers. The forums should put the company’s best foot forward. The EQ2 forums have had their fair share of technical issues. But if customers criticize the product, this should be seen as an opportunity for Community Management, Developers, Designers, and Management to respond to these issues and show that customer feedback is valued. To avoid misunderstandings, Community Management can be a great liaison between developers and players.
From the Dexella on the EQ2 Forums: Greetings intrepid gamers, For the many of you asking the question, yes, we will be having a double XP weekend for this upcoming holiday. We have it scheduled from 12:01 AM Saturday until 11:59 PM Monday. We hope you have a wonderful weekend! Time Zone Conversions PDT: Saturday, Sep. 1 @ 12:01am ~ Monday Sep. 3 @ 11:59pm EDT: Saturday, Sep. 1 @ 3:01am ~ Tuesday Sep. 4 @ 2:59am BST: Saturday, Sep. 1 @ 8:01 ~ Tuesday Sep. 4 @ 7:59 CET: Saturday, Sep. 1 @ 9:01 ~ Tuesday Sep. 4 @...
From the EQ2 Forums: SOE Live – Time to Gear Up SOE Live will be here in less than two months, and we are starting to round out our panels and activities! It takes place October 18-21. You should sign up NOW, before you forget and regret it! I’ll say it right now – we have some panels that are so under wraps that if I announced them, someone from PR would have me beheaded! Stay tuned for more news on those, because I will tell you about them the instant I can! Here’s what I can tell you...
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL The Auto attack Timing window can now be resized. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION Withered Lands Talapatook’tei should no longer get in a state where he is completely damage immune if damaged too quickly. ABILITIES The effectiveness of riposte damage now diminishes as it gets higher and is now a rating stat rather than a direct percent increase. ITEMS Solidified Blood of Rallos Zek now grants 50 crit bonus instead of 100 Multi-attack. Focused Will of the Warlord now grants 50 crit bonus instead of 100 Multi-attack. QUESTS The Crushbone Water should now have its...
Linda “Brasse” Carlson has announced that based on the progress of the transition of DCUO players from SOE to ProSiebenSat.1, EverQuest II would see a delay to ensure a smoother process: Hail Denizens of Norrath in the UK and EU, I just wanted to stop in here on the EQII Forums to give you an update the current status of the transition of our EU players to ProSiebenSat.1 Games. Having recently completed the transition for DC Uiniverse Online, we’ve learned a great many valuable lessons and identified a few areas where we’d like to improve the processes. We’re currently...
Today was the “EQ2 Dev Team TweetChat” which saw EQ2 developers respond to a number of questions posed via Twitter and Facebook. EQ2 Zam now has the transcript of this “developer chat” available. Admittedly, there are few revelations but it is always good to see developer communication.
From EverQuest2.com: Purchase your tickets to play a new mini-game feature for a variety of prizes! When you use your Goblin Games ticket, a mysterious Gigglegibber will appear and offer you a choice of one of three mini-games: Goblin Grub, Decoration Duplication, or Statue Streak. Pick your game and play for a chance at one of many great prizes, including a new currency – Gigglegibber Gold – that can be used to purchase some items in the Marketplace as well! If you don’t succeed in your mini-game quest the first time around, fear not! The ticket will remain in...
From the EQ2 Forums: MERCENARIES The Ancient Construct mercenaries from Skyshrine should now be smaller once summoned. QUESTS The Lovebird’s Roost – Ferink no longer thinks Jojo is in Stonestair Byway.
UPDATE: The hash tag for EQ2 Developer responses has changed from #EQIITweetChat to #EQ2Dev. From EverQuest2.com: On Thursday, August 23, members of the EverQuest II development team will be answering player questions in our first-ever Tweet Chat. Visit Twitter or Tweet Chat and follow the hashtag for your game to see the responses to player questions (#EQ2Dev for EverQuest II). The chat time is: 5:30-6:00 pm PDT* – EverQuest II (#EQ2Dev) Players can submit questions through the EverQuest II Facebook page or by Tweeting to @everquestii through 12:00 pm PDT* on Wednesday, August 22.
Players are reporting issues with the EQ2/LoN launchpad on the EQ2 Forums. A response from Dexella: Hi all, We are working on the Launchpad issue now. It is currently affecting all games. We will update you when more information is available. NOTE: If your game client is already up to date, you can launch EQ2 by directly starting the EverQuest2.exe program.
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL Fixed an issue that prevented voice overs working with socials. SOEMOTE Added a video input device selection dropdown for SOEmote in the Options (Advanced) – SOEmote. POPULATION / ZONE PROGRESSION City of Freeport Vhishall, Freeport furniture merchant, now offers a selection of paintings for those that have completed particular quests in the city of Freeport. Plane of War x4 Raid In the general Teku fight warboars have less health and run slower, war wraiths will turn to face attackers sooner than before. Eriak the Fetid – Echo of Terror adds will no longer cast...
From the EQ2 Forums: On Monday, August 20, there will be threads on the EverQuest and EverQuest II Facebook pages where you can leave your question. We will select a handful of questions, and the developers will answer them during the Tweet Chat! On Thursday, August 23, developers of EverQuest and EverQuest II, as well as Dave “Smokejumper” Georgeson, Director of Development, will be taking to Twitter to answer your questions about the game! Stay tuned for more details!
Those Goblin Game Tickets we heard about are now available on the StationCash marketplace on the Test server. It looks like the ticket is only consumed after you succeed at one of the three mini-games and receive one of the prizes. Thus far, the prizes seem to be run-of-the-mill StationCash items. From the EQ2 Test Forums: Now in the Test server marketplace, under the Goblin Games category, you can buy a Gigglegibber Glockenspiel for 100SC which will allow you to play one of three games. You recieve a prize everytime you win, selected at random from the following list:
Those Walmart 1500+500SC cards aren’t going away, but if you redeem a 1500SC/30-day Game Card from Best Buy this weekend, you’ll also get 500SC bonus. From the EQ2 Forums: Get a 500 Station Cash Bonus when you buy a $15 SOE Pre-paid Game Card at Best Buy and redeem between August 17-19th.
As Linda “Brasse” Carlson (@Brasse), Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson (@Qixter), and presumably other SOE staff are at Gamescom this week in Cologne, Germany helping kick off the reintroduction of EverQuest II and other SOE properties to European audiences, we look at the rocky transition DC Universe Online EU players are experiencing in linking their SOE accounts with ProSiebenSat.1. Multiple Accounts One of the sticking points in the ProSiebenSat.1 terms-and-conditions which have EU EQ2 players concerned is the prohibition on multiple accounts. Indeed an earlier rendition of the ProSiebenSat.1 Terms and Conditions said this: For each person / IP only one...
Yet another finger in the pie… A press release from ProSiebenSat.1’s website: ProSiebenSat.1 and TF1 begin extensive partnership for online games in France Munich, Germany, August 2, 2012. ProSiebenSat.1 is entering into a partnership of several years with France’s biggest TV station Télévision Française 1 (TF1), covering the field of online games. The media company’s games publisher ProSiebenSat.1 Games will thus provide the French games portal www.MYTF1.fr with its portfolio in stages, starting in mid-August. The portfolio includes games from the existing licensing and content agreements with Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and 35 other partners. With more than 25...
After initially having been told: Why will this partnership not affect EverQuest 1? The original EverQuest was not included as part of the agreement between SOE and ProSiebenSat.1 Games. It appears that EverQuest, Vanguard, and 2 new games are now included in the SOE-ProSiebenSat.1 Deal. From a press release (posted at Gamasutra) at GamesCom in Germany: ProSiebenSat.1 Games expands Europe-wide exclusive cooperation with Sony Online Entertainment Munich, Germany, August 15, 2012. ProSiebenSat.1 Games and Sony Online Entertainment, LLC (SOE) are expanding their exclusive partnership with four online games for the European market. Following the successful launch of DC Universe™...
When asked about mob-specific war runes (red adornments) from earlier Velious zones being made available in Drunder, Kander had this surprising response: There is new raid content coming in September. Most of these will make a re-appearance there. At EQ2Wire, we have been very concerned that there would be no new high level content between April 2012 and late November 2012. Now it looks like we have something to look forward to!
If after your EQ2 game crashes, you’ve ever said to yourself “D*mnit this is so annoying. You’d think SOE would have some way to read my crash log and figure out what went wrong!“, it turns out they do. Unveiled during the ‘Geek Panel’ at last year’s Fan Faire, Recap allows EQ2 crash logs to be uploaded automatically to EQ2 developers. These comprehensive crash logs makes it possible for the EQ2 team see exactly what line of their code caused the crash, allowing them to quickly identify and squash these stability bugs. Recap has been mostly seamless for players,...
From the EQ2 Twitter: Reminder: there will be a US server downtime today (08/14) beginning at 1:00 pm PDT. [Dexella]
EQ2Wire updates have been a bit light lately. But it wasn’t my fault. I ran out of gas. I… I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD! Actually, I have a rather good excuse… One does not simply walk into St. Petersburg, Russia.
From the EQ2 Forums: GENERAL An Auto Attack timing window has been implemented into the default UI. You can enable / disable this feature under User Interface – Game Windows – Show The Autoattack Timing Bar. Fixed an issue with the age slider for male / female humans. Fixed some customization issues with Darkelves. Fixed an issue with skirts on humans and elves.
We recently saw the end of paying EQ2 subscriptions with StationCash (which, due to triple SC weekends and 50% off sales, allowed players to buy a YEAR’S EQ2 subscription for $14.99 — or an EQ2 sub for as little as $1.25 a month). On August 29th, the ability to buy EQ2 expansions for StationCash will similarly come to an end. With various promotions, it was possible to buy an EQ2 expansion normally retailing for $39.95 for as little as $6.65. SOE is providing this upcoming weekend as a grace period to buy expansions for 50% off with StationCash. The...
EQ2 Servers were brought down this afternoon for an ’emergency hotfix’. No word on what was changed as no update notes were provided. From the EQ2 Forums: EverQuest II servers will be brought down for an Emergency Hotfix at 2:35 PM Pacific Time. The servers will be down for approximately 1 hour. It seems unlikely that an emergency hotfix would be dedicated to fixing a (literally) cosmetic bug, but it seems that may at least partially be the case. A player asked: When I logged in this morning I had a mail with one attachment. I read it and...