Is there something wrong with the patch?

[Stimulate]

It went from being done in 22 mins .. to now taking 3+ hours.. is this only me?

[Salazar]

I only have 14 minutes left

Edit: Also, I see you have Planetside running, see ya on the battlefield.

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Hmmm...wait till you shoot or walk or listen to any sound effects.

[MilitantB0B]

It keeps kicking me out 5 minutes after I'm in. Then I got the message they are taking the servers down to clean em up. Man I hope theese problems go away.

EDIT: WAY less then 5 minutes, more like .05 seconds

[Hellsfire123]

I had 14 minutes left, then an hr, then 2, then it went to something stupid like done next tuesday, check back after the apocolipse, and when hell freezes over. I restarted and it went to half hr left, and finished in about 10 minutes.

[JonnyK]

sounds are so messed, when i fire my gauss it does a reaver flying noise, when i reload it makes little beeps. the knifes are really wierd some ppl said right before i crashed. the game is really messed up since these bogus patches

[�io]

Yeah lots of complaints on beta forums.


Do they even test patchs before launching them?

[Urthstripe]

Dio, read.

SmokeJumper -

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I completely understand why that's confusing. Let me try to explain:
1) A patch was pushed that should NOT have gone live because it wasn't tested or even complete. It was just a sample patch we were crunching for size analysis. It was never intended to go live, but got pushed up anyway. (I'm sure whoever did it now lives in fear of visits from upper management.)

2) We had to "reverse" the patch so that anyone that downloaded the "false" patch would get corrected files again when they reconnected.

3) The reversal works...but there is no differential patch to go backwards in the patch process. Therefore, if files were different, it has to download the entire file for each file that needs to change...instead of just the particular bytes that changed in that file.

4) Therefore, the reversal takes longer than the original screw-up. (And there's a lesson in life there, I'm sure...)

5) We're still working on the REAL patch. That won't be ready for hours.

6) However, during the meanwhile, the servers (all of them) are now on-line and available for play.

If we're lucky, Murphy and his stinking Law have left the building and we can get some work done now.

The servers are down. We're nuking and paving stuff because the "fix" that was created earlier for us is not the fix that was necessary.
Ever have one of those days?

The servers are going to be down for a while. I'll post more info in a new thread as soon as I get it.

We will ensure that everything is running smoothly and is ready for you to play again before opening the servers again.

No ETA at all. But the next time they're up, everything should be good to go.


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[�io]

Yeah but isn't all that about the "false patch" that was up an hour or 2 ago? Is the real pacth not up yet ?

[Cyanide]

No, the real patch is not up. They are working on it now.

[�io]

Ahhh ok forget what i said.

From reading the beta forums i was sure it was up and screwed PS up.

I should have know better than thinking people on beta forums knew wtf they were talking about.

[Fire_Monkey]

There are 3 patches:

1) False Patch big SNAFU
2) Repatch to fix the thing
3) Real patch, will take hours since they're starting from scratch.

ah nvm u guys posted before me

[quiet]

Originally posted by Urthstripe

1) A patch was pushed that should NOT have gone live because it wasn't tested or even complete.

^The original bad patch problem.

Originally posted by Urthstripe

The servers are down. We're nuking and paving stuff because the "fix" that was created earlier for us is not the fix that was necessary.

^The fix for the bad patch didn't work right.