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What we have played => Other MMO's we have played => Topic started by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 11:35:19 AM

Title: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 11:35:19 AM
To go before OB starts! GGGnnNgHnHHHnHHHHH!

I can't take this kind of withdrawal dammit!
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 11:40:08 AM
hehe you addict

but isnt it 5.5 hrs?
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 11:59:17 AM
Does it not start at 5pm?

Oh balls, just realised its 10am PST = 6pm BST.

Poo.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Taith on August 17, 2009, 12:05:57 PM
As you are English, is the correct word not "bollocks"?
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 12:43:27 PM
As you are English, is the correct word not "bollocks"?

I'll have you know I do not resort to such foul language, thankyouverymuch! ;)
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 01:12:27 PM
Does it not start at 5pm?

Oh balls, just realised its 10am PST = 6pm BST.

Poo.

sorry to bear that bad news

however thats the reason why i has a second clock in my wiondows set to PDT so its easy for my old brain to calculate these things ;)
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Jarkko on August 17, 2009, 01:23:03 PM
Your chattering is startin to take effect... Is the OB only for those who have pre-ordered the game, or can mere mortals who have zero interest in the game get involved too?
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Taith on August 17, 2009, 01:34:35 PM
As you are English, is the correct word not "bollocks"?

I'll have you know I do not resort to such foul language, thankyouverymuch! ;)

Hehe, bollocks still sounds like baby-talk to me. I have an English friend who gets a shocked look on her face when she hears it, which I always find funny.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 17, 2009, 03:08:20 PM
Your chattering is startin to take effect... Is the OB only for those who have pre-ordered the game, or can mere mortals who have zero interest in the game get involved too?

Open is usually free for all.
Pre-orderees do get a 3 day early access thingy to the game once it goes live.

But I might be mistaken. Not sure if I can join in tonight, depends on how filthy the house or kitchen is when I get home and how tight the leash will be.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Macrune on August 17, 2009, 04:11:21 PM
Open beta is a go.....only issue bloody server is down *sigh*

taps fingers some more


*Edit*

server up and patching.  3623mb  and not a very rate either. this could take some time.  :-[
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Thuggy on August 17, 2009, 04:51:25 PM
Carefull Kurtt that you don't explode in the excitement - don't think Mrs Kurtt would be happy clearing up your remains after you have combusted.  :P
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 04:52:53 PM
Open beta is a go.....only issue bloody server is down *sigh*

taps fingers some more


*Edit*

server up and patching.  3623mb  and not a very rate either. this could take some time.  :-[


i only need 26mb to update my client and it is slooooooooow :) damn you


but with 3 gig of patching sounds like the fileplanet client is the same beta client i dld a few months ago.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 05:05:37 PM
come on i want to at least build my character before i go play LOTRO for a few hours
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 05:19:06 PM
Yeah, theres a massive amount of nerdrage occuring on the forums right now.

Can't say I blame them tbh. I mean come on, is it me, or is it just bonkers that Cryptic have continued patcher/launch problems EVERY beta phase?
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 17, 2009, 05:19:47 PM
Currently only installing the game. So I'm guessing I won't actually get into the game by the sound of it with all the patching and general slowness of people hammering their servers. Oh well... doing the dishes can be fun too.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 05:25:17 PM
Yeah, theres a massive amount of nerdrage occuring on the forums right now.

Can't say I blame them tbh. I mean come on, is it me, or is it just bonkers that Cryptic have continued patcher/launch problems EVERY beta phase?


i just dont understand why the fileplanet file was a 2month old one ;) thats just plain stupid.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 17, 2009, 05:41:06 PM
So everyone is getting 'Server down' - 'No shards found' after running the game and logging in? Or am I doing something wrong.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Thuggy on August 17, 2009, 05:42:27 PM
Correct me if I am wrong - this is a Beta? Not sure how people can complain about it the extra patches and the servers been down  ???
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 05:44:09 PM
Correct me if I am wrong - this is a Beta? Not sure how people can complain about it the extra patches and the servers been down  ???

you are correct, to me its a minor annoyance to others, who treat betas as free playtime it seems there rights are being violated.

If they want violated ive got a big heavy wooden object that has the name of their ass on it :D
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Mangala on August 17, 2009, 05:48:29 PM
Correct me if I am wrong - this is a Beta? Not sure how people can complain about it the extra patches and the servers been down  ???

Welcome to the internet, may you enjoy your time :)
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 05:48:54 PM
Correct me if I am wrong - this is a Beta? Not sure how people can complain about it the extra patches and the servers been down  ???

you are correct, to me its a minor annoyance to others, who treat betas as free playtime it seems there rights are being violated.

If they want violated ive got a big heavy wooden object that has the name of their ass on it :D

What gets me is not the downtime or the slowness of the patcher, because as you say, its a beta, but the fact that it happens every time the servers come up. Do they not have the knowledge/resources to fix these issues?
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 05:53:45 PM
Correct me if I am wrong - this is a Beta? Not sure how people can complain about it the extra patches and the servers been down  ???

you are correct, to me its a minor annoyance to others, who treat betas as free playtime it seems there rights are being violated.

If they want violated ive got a big heavy wooden object that has the name of their ass on it :D

What gets me is not the downtime or the slowness of the patcher, because as you say, its a beta, but the fact that it happens every time the servers come up. Do they not have the knowledge/resources to fix these issues?

im guessing its financial reasons that they are too stingy to pay for more bandwidth probs only started when they gave away 10k keys in some online mag ;)
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Thuggy on August 17, 2009, 05:57:14 PM
Correct me if I am wrong - this is a Beta? Not sure how people can complain about it the extra patches and the servers been down  ???

you are correct, to me its a minor annoyance to others, who treat betas as free playtime it seems there rights are being violated.

If they want violated ive got a big heavy wooden object that has the name of their ass on it :D

What gets me is not the downtime or the slowness of the patcher, because as you say, its a beta, but the fact that it happens every time the servers come up. Do they not have the knowledge/resources to fix these issues?

im guessing its financial reasons that they are too stingy to pay for more bandwidth probs only started when they gave away 10k keys in some online mag ;)

I agree, these guys arn't Blizzard - they don't have endless cash to throw at it.

Give it time Kurtt, you will fulfilling your fetish for Spandex soon!
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 17, 2009, 05:57:53 PM
Assuming there's a massive amount of people hitting the servers at once, there's not much you can do even if you have loads of capacity. Other than phase the activation of the game clients.

Everyone gets their hopes up on playing on the 17th. People get upset when they don't get to play. Can't blame them tbh, even if it is a beta.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: elv on August 17, 2009, 05:58:10 PM
just because the servers down doesnt mean they cant fix it, they could be testing various scenarios its a beta....

just remind yourslef its a slightly better version of coh and just another step down the all mmos must copy wow route barely worth visiting....

got to say massively dissapointed when i logged on and it was exactly the same street / talk to cop / go to computer that was in the start of coh, dont see this one lasting long less chance than conan or lotro tbh.

I''m with Gunnar these days all MMOs have got less and less interesting and are just inferior wow lite, may as well play wow or not bother til SWTOR.

so I'm MMO free till SWTOR unless some company actually bothers to try shock horror something DIFFERENT to wow.

laters elv
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Warcold on August 17, 2009, 06:06:31 PM
wow 11 ppl online, you guys must be excited :)
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 06:23:59 PM
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We're working on a resolution to this now, but the workaround we have is as follows:

   1. Delete everything inside the Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champions Online/Live/prepatch/piggs folder.
   2. Move all the *.hogg files from Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champions Online/Live to Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champions Online/Live/prepatch/piggs
   3. Restart your patcher
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 17, 2009, 06:27:17 PM
I don't have a prepatch folder... :D
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Mangala on August 17, 2009, 06:29:10 PM
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We're working on a resolution to this now, but the workaround we have is as follows:

   1. Delete everything inside the Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champions Online/Live/prepatch/piggs folder.
   2. Move all the *.hogg files from Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champions Online/Live to Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champions Online/Live/prepatch/piggs
   3. Restart your patcher

Whats this a resolution for?
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 06:30:27 PM
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We're working on a resolution to this now, but the workaround we have is as follows:

   1. Delete everything inside the Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champions Online/Live/prepatch/piggs folder.
   2. Move all the *.hogg files from Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champions Online/Live to Program Files/Cryptic Studios/Champions Online/Live/prepatch/piggs
   3. Restart your patcher

Whats this a resolution for?

Uber slow patching speed. Poor old Yyan only needs to patch 26mb and its taken him an hour and a half to do 5%.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Mangala on August 17, 2009, 06:49:30 PM
Well that didnt fix it for me, but then again I have 3g to patch apparently :S

I aint throttled today either. (Finally VM are useful)
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Macrune on August 17, 2009, 07:06:19 PM
lol their workaround destroyed my file totally. ive had to delete the lot and am currently downloading the whole thing again from fileplanet... :-\
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Warcold on August 17, 2009, 07:35:26 PM
that will teach you to put such stuff in a folder named Old or Poo or something
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 07:51:13 PM
While I'm embarrased to say this, I have a certain amount of nerdrage building right now...  :-\
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Mangala on August 17, 2009, 07:52:55 PM
While I'm embarrased to say this, I have a certain amount of nerdrage building right now...  :-\

Im playing eve, watching a movie, and just downloading.  Not really bothered about this at all, given theres plenty of time for me to play when the game goes live. 

But Dan, nerdrage? Thats beyond the paladin isnt it :D
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 07:53:49 PM
My problem is, I have the client, but the patcher won't even begin to patch the measely 50 odd meg I need to login.

I now have a headache.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Warcold on August 17, 2009, 08:00:41 PM
I'm in!!! I'm in!!!
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Mangala on August 17, 2009, 08:03:46 PM
My problem is, I have the client, but the patcher won't even begin to patch the measely 50 odd meg I need to login.

I now have a headache.

Ahh - forgot you had been in beta already so had a beta version than I :)

Well that does suck then.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 08:05:25 PM
I'm in!!! I'm in!!!

ORLY?
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Warcold on August 17, 2009, 08:10:56 PM
Your lack of proper nerdrage disappoints me...  :(

No I'm not. Not trying either.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 17, 2009, 08:27:16 PM
Meh... their website maintenance message made me lawl. I'd have some maintenance too if thousands of people were pounding my website because they can't play.

I'm off for some solo wubbing. Played some Blood Bowl. Getting some awesome value for money playing AI (not). But messing up a Chaos team, severely injuring 5 and murdering 1 is quite satisfying.

Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 09:15:16 PM
Isn't it weird how this thread title now reflects how many hours after launch that Open Beta is still down? ;D
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 09:26:37 PM
Isn't it weird how this thread title now reflects how many hours after launch that Open Beta is still down? ;D

lol i had funplaying lotro so the fact i now cant get in doesnt bother me ill try again tomorrow ;)
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 17, 2009, 09:31:46 PM
as they say in the military just a SNAFU
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 17, 2009, 11:19:23 PM
Its up and I've been in. Created a Liono style toon called Manimal :D
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 18, 2009, 06:11:01 AM
I applaud your persistence.

How long wil open beta be running for anyways?
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 18, 2009, 07:01:13 AM
I applaud your persistence.

How long wil open beta be running for anyways?

well advance play starts 28th(?) so up till then id imagine
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 18, 2009, 07:01:46 AM
I applaud your persistence.

How long wil open beta be running for anyways?

For a week, until the 24th I think. Then it gets taken down and headstart starts on the 28th.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 18, 2009, 07:02:27 AM
Its up and I've been in. Created a Liono style toon called Manimal :D

you do know the manimals in CO live on monster island having been created by Dr Moreau right? ;)
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 18, 2009, 07:03:29 AM
fingers crossed patcher works for me today XD
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 18, 2009, 07:13:58 AM
woot got passed the 1% it kept stalling at yesterday XD  ill be on beofr lunch id imagine hehe
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Kurtt on August 18, 2009, 07:22:26 AM
I'm at the office this morning, but should be on and off all day.

Oh, and Manimal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZxRH6uoiY) :P
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 18, 2009, 11:53:31 AM
lol that is one bad TV program :)

Behemoth has arisen once more, OMG theyve change initial powers for power armour lets see what othet polishing theyve done between closed and open.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Mangala on August 18, 2009, 05:09:19 PM
30% left to go after an hour of fresh dling today, not bad considering its EU prime :D
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 18, 2009, 05:23:32 PM
Hey my launcher still says no shards - server down. Disabled firewall completely...

Anyone got any ideas? :(

Spotted separate patch file... trying that now.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Thuggy on August 18, 2009, 06:06:31 PM
Hey my launcher still says no shards

Don't you need to kill something that yields XP to get Shards? Or am I thinking of another game?!
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Mangala on August 18, 2009, 06:07:22 PM
Hey my launcher still says no shards

Don't you need to kill something that yields XP to get Shards? Or am I thinking of another game?!

I get this, and I hate to acknowledge it.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 18, 2009, 06:18:32 PM
Fucksticks. Redownloading from FP.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 18, 2009, 06:19:33 PM
Fucksticks. Redownloading from FP.

i did that this morning and ive been fine since, if like me you did their first workaround it made it die :D
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Mangala on August 18, 2009, 06:20:46 PM
Fucksticks. Redownloading from FP.

i did that this morning and ive been fine since, if like me you did their first workaround it made it die :D

I did that lastnight, then started downloading when i got in earlier, not much left now - passing the time ice mining.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 18, 2009, 06:39:42 PM
Lawl... two hour download...

I might see you in CO somewhere around the weekend.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Mangala on August 18, 2009, 08:38:48 PM
Downloaded, but tired and dont want to fuck up my early choices for looks etc, I'll be on from the early AM tomorrow :)

Shall post names etc once done.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 19, 2009, 06:30:22 AM
So the gf plugged out my laptop while it was downloading last night, and now it's starting over again.

There's a conspiracy I tell you.
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Caradir on August 19, 2009, 07:36:53 AM
So the gf plugged out my laptop while it was downloading last night, and now it's starting over again.

There's a conspiracy I tell you.

as we say in Scotland "Wimmen !!"
Title: Re: 4.5 Hours!
Post by: Goatboy on August 19, 2009, 07:50:24 AM
Managed to grab the file before leaving for work. Even though I think FP is an overall shitpile, they offer excellent download speeds.

Now off to the other side of the country for work. My champion Almighty Bob will have to wait.