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Patch to fix expansion issues
Tasos:
"Today scheduled maintenance will be postponed until later (to around 4PM GMT) so that we can also issue a small patch.
We've been following player feedback from the expansion, we've also been playing the game ourselves and we're working on understanding all the issues and addressing them. We can tell you right now that we're already working on fixing things and re-balancing others and we should be patching almost every day this week until everything is addressed.
This was a huge expansion with major changes to the game and there were bound to be issues. We're grateful for the feedback and all your efforts, we want to assure you that we'll keep monitoring the situation closely.
We'd like to also inform you that there have been issues with Canadian ISP SHAW making it impossible for their customers to access our servers. These issues are being resolved as we speak in cooperation with our iSP GNi.
We'll come back to you with more information on everything we'll be doing in the following days."
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Maybe you magic monkeys can reduce your blood pressure now? 
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
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Darkfall is $OE free zone so i was kinda expecting hotfixes and reaction to playerbase concerns.
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$OE - eternal enemy of online gaming
-We finally WON !!!! 2011 $OE accepted that they have been fired 2005 by the playerbase and closed down ridiculous NGE !!
"There was suppression of speech and all kinds of things between disturbing and fascistic." Raph Koster (parted $OE)
So this weekend Aventurine patch the new expansion for DFO, move office all in the middle of riots in Athens and still manage to get a patch out the next day to fix issues.
These guys are hardcore without a doubt!
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
I've been watching this game since release and have to say that my optimism for it has increased over time. I've been juggling the idea of giving it an honest shot and the new changes and efforts to fix the game may put me over the edge.
Thanks for posting. Time to go dig up as much info on DF as I can!
http://www.examiner.com/x-32227-Santa-Ana-MMORPG-Examiner
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http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/vagus
Good, fix the damn PVE
As a new player this patch really is making me rethink my sub. I was happily making slow progress rasing PvP skills on PVE Mobs. Training, learning and experimenting. Other than goblins, maybe kobolds that has been taken away. Gobos now hit from multiple angles at unexplainable distances. It makes no real sense, these Mobs have no value other than to train new players and I am not going to spend months attacking the same Mob.
On a side note, all this crap could hav been hashed out on a test server with real players, every serious MMO has one, high time DF gets one.
Awesome! I'm glad that it was this and not intended.
Games:
Currently playing:Nothing
Will play: Darkfall: Unholy Wars
Past games:
Guild Wars 2 - Xpiher Duminous
Xpiher's GW2
GW 1 - Xpiher Duminous
Darkfall - Xpiher Duminous (NA) retired
AoC - Xpiher (Tyranny) retired
Warhammer - Xpiher
They're actually going to be releasing small patches continually throughout the week. I'm pretty happy about this.
"IRL is a pretty upstanding MMO with thousands of classes, a lot of PvP and even some pretty unique emotes and titles you can acquire. Explore that world first, then we'll talk about this virtual one."
Two days into the game myself, and while I died maybe 2-3 times before I actually managed my first goblin kill (the starter weaopn sucks ass) I've actually really enjoyed the PVE. Granted, I spent the first few hours regretting having bought the game, but as I got some things figured out, it suddenly got fun. Now I'm downright addicted.
That said, I love going into a goblin camp (that noone's killing in) and starting at a corner, picking off goblins from behind cover with my bow/staff, then moving in and making it my farm. I'm even downing the "new and improved" shamans which at first were completely and utterly impossible, but now are exciting to see for their loot. Clearly I can't speak for the rest of the game, but I'm loving having to actually fight the AI in this game, rather than just tab+1,2,3, loot and repeat. Point is, I'm not even 48 hours into the game, and I already see my progress, and I seriously doubt I'll be killing goblins for "months".
Anyway, other than what seems like a bit of an extended maintenance (they said two hours; it's been over 3), I'm kinda with the other posters about their response to player reactions. Fast response to mistakes and problems looks good to me.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Per the AV website, Dec 7 patch notes:
This is the first of a series of patches to fix some issues that surfaced with the latest expansion.
* Problems some players were having with spell extensions: extra damage, faster travel, and extra distance have been fixed
* Guard Tower damage has been slightly reduced
* Fix for screen shot directory in Windows 7 where it wasn't created automatically
* Fix for disabling blow effect not going away if killed while it was active
* Fix for extremely slow Rage and Dwarven Perseverance skill progression
* Fix for AOE spells going through houses
* Ship Module crafting costs reduced
* Warhulk Module crafting costs reduced
* Fix for quest log on NA1 server
* Fix for starter polearms being better than R10 weapons
* Removed output for Dummy Effect Target when getting a melee extension
* Fix for Bloodcraft and Shadecraft effect persistence
* Fixed Keen enchantment of Magic Staffs
* Fixed Feather encumbrance enchant on armor
* Fixed most clan boards problems
* Fixed some Quest Diary problems
* Reduced health on player house doors
* Generally improved monster loot
* Corrected some monster attack rates
* Balanced most monster protections
* Fixed Oathliege spawn
* General monster adjustments and balancing.
* Campfires are now craftable under woodcutting.
* Elemental Bows can no longer damage Sea Fortresses
* Side Step when autorunning has been fixed
* Fixed so that crafted staffs now do the correct damage according to their magnitude