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Scirocco
05-26-2004, 10:50 AM
May 26th, 2004
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Headlines!
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New Tutorial now live!
CS Assist allows use of Knowledge Base in-game

Tutorial
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- Does your significant other find EQ too hard to learn? Our new Tutorial is Live and ready to teach them to play. Creating a new character will give you the option to go through the new tutorial. You can choose to leave the tutorial at anytime and can return until your character reaches level 5. The tutorial will walk you through gameplay with easy to follow instructions in text and voice.
- Hybrids will now receive mana at level 1 as they now receive a spell in the tutorial.

CS Assist
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A new CS tool is available for use and should provide you with a better interface when petitioning. You can also access our self help option through the knowledge base. You can bring up the new window by pressing the 'P' key, typing /petition, or clicking the "Customer Service" button from the help window.

Cabalis Quests
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Iksar Warriors and Necromancers have some quests to finish!
Iksar Beastlords have a new quest.


UI Changes
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- There's a new button in the Options->Display tab to toggle between full screen and windowed mode.
- Presto Change-O! There's a new button on the bazaar window to hide all traders. Clicking a trader in the search window will make them appear (limited to the last trader you clicked)
- New text filters have been added for Pet Crits, Pet Rampage/Flurry, System Messages, Focus Effects, Exp Messages, and Who list.
- The Guild Management window should be better organized.
- There's a new /outputfile command to allow creation of text-file dumps of your Guild, Raid, Inventory and spell books.


Improved Collisions
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- There have been numerous collision system fixes and improvements.
- Collision system improvements have made elevators much safer.
- Getting out of water should be a little easier for short races. We wouldn't want all those Halflings to drown, now would we?
- Rogues should be able to more easily exit water while sneaking, although I think it would be hard to sneak with wet trousers.

Misc.
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- You now have the ability to "AutoBank" in the Bank Window.
- Casting a spell while sitting will stand you up.
- Camping while standing will sit you down automatically.
- NPC's will not begin regenerating immediately if fleeing or combat ends.
- Improved the Iqthinxa Karnkvi event in Qvic

Vekx
05-26-2004, 03:02 PM
Hmmm -don't hit exodus while sitting. I've hit exodus a few times while trying to swap hot keys around (and lag doesn't help) that I sometimes sit to avoid this. Now I'll just have to be sure exodus is the second hot key in the swap (i.e. already have a hot key on cursor).

Kuolon
05-26-2004, 04:08 PM
Best Bazaar upgrade...ever.

Aluaeia
05-26-2004, 04:12 PM
Hmmm -don't hit exodus while sitting. I've hit exodus a few times while trying to swap hot keys around (and lag doesn't help) that I sometimes sit to avoid this. Now I'll just have to be sure exodus is the second hot key in the swap (i.e. already have a hot key on cursor).

Yeah, that option definitely needs a toggle like auto stand or auto crouch (and I'll turn it off just like those 2)

Tiane
05-26-2004, 04:44 PM
Great bazaar upgrade, no question.

But a 3 hour patch (on dialup) for a new tutorial makes this 5+ year veteran cry 8(

Yeah, that option definitely needs a toggle like auto stand or auto crouch (and I'll turn it off just like those 2)

Just to emphasize!

Blueeyedangel
05-26-2004, 04:52 PM
oh thank you they listened about ppl being laggy in bazzar finally =)

Cloudien
05-26-2004, 07:11 PM
Whoa!

Now why didn't they think of that at the same time the rest of us did, about 2 years ago or whenever the Bazaar was opened :)

Some neat usability improvements. The autobank idea sounds good. Wonder what physics engine they're running... their own? Whatever it is, collisions seem to be a major thing (that's apparently one of the biggest updates in havoc2)

Arienne
05-26-2004, 08:23 PM
But a 3 hour patch (on dialup) for a new tutorial makes this 5+ year veteran cry 8(
I feel your pain. Almost 5 hours for me. My fastest connect here in the country is 28.8.

It's patches like this (and the ones with the mega music files) that should include options of what you download. I remember when I listened to some EQ mp files on a player just to hear the sounds I never have on when I play. OVER 24 hours to RE-download them. Seems that there's a bug that makes EQ think the file is corrupted if it's played on anything other than in game. The sad thing is, I have music OFF at the options screen before I even log into the game so the files are space fillers for me.

*WHINE!!!*

Tiane
05-27-2004, 12:39 AM
Focus effect filter doesnt work either... /sigh. Some of them go away, but most dont. And you cant undo it. Once you press the button they are permanently filtered... lol...

Darlyn
05-27-2004, 08:09 AM
Eye of zomm still doesnt open doors, thought they were supposed to fix that last patch!!

Claeopha
05-27-2004, 11:39 AM
Autostand-on-cast definitely needs a toggle - I try my AA hotkeys all the time while sitting, to check refresh times.

Firemynd
05-27-2004, 11:40 AM
Collision code really got screwed up this time. NPCs can get jammed into a wall such that you get "out of range" messages trying to melee, and "cannot see target" when trying to use ranged attack or spells (of course, the mob is still visible and can still attack). If you get summoned by a stuck NPC, you either end up under world, fall to a lower floor, or are transported to the zone's safe point.

Trying to implement Dx9 in EQ1 was a huge mistake if SOE had already pulled its most competent graphics coders for EQ2. Pushing OoW's release to late August is clearly a sign that EQ1 devs are in over their heads.

~Firemynd

Vekx
05-27-2004, 01:19 PM
Collision code really got screwed up this time. NPCs can get jammed into a wall such that you get "out of range" messages trying to melee, and "cannot see target" when trying to use ranged attack or spells (of course, the mob is still visible and can still attack). If you get summoned by a stuck NPC, you either end up under world, fall to a lower floor, or are transported to the zone's safe point.

~Firemynd

Had this happen all the time in Ssra. Don't volunteer to pull because the tanks might not be able to target the mob and you get beat up until you figure a way to get the mob moved. Which is hard when they'd rather just summon you.

guice
05-27-2004, 04:07 PM
I'm hearing through the Monk forums that the petition option doesn't work. It's disabled for some reason, or was yesterday. lol

Kulothar
05-28-2004, 08:01 AM
Did anyone else have trouble targeting after the patch?? Anything human sized I had to get almost point blank a couple of times to target last night. No problem with bigger stuff but was a real pain on smaller stuff..

Aidon
05-28-2004, 12:42 PM
You're telling me, they just now, some 4 years later, have finished putting in the Iksar warrior and necro quests?

Hahahahahahahaha

Glynna1
05-28-2004, 01:55 PM
Time was really messed up after patch last night. During phase 4 we had people warping to phase 5/mobs from phase 5 warping to phase 4 and killing people. Some people warped to zone in and some were warped to PoN/Tactics zones!

WTH!