Halloween Update Discussion

Raijinn · 10/29/2007 18:44:52

This thread is for discussion of The Halloween Update, which is set to be released on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007.

Rosincrantz · 10/29/2007 18:47:01

Why aren't we making up for the time we lost due to the fires? We went from a 14 day event to a 9 day event...bummer...

MotorZ · 10/29/2007 18:48:15

Rosincrantz wrote:

Why aren't we making up for the time we lost due to the fires? We went from a 14 day event to a 9 day event...bummer...

Yeah, I'd like an extension, too.

Most stuff pretty standard for Halloween, but I don't mind.

Nice to see a few bug fixes in there, especially location of the gun muzzle blasts.

EDIT: oh and YAY for closing the dang map legend finally

Kybutra · 10/29/2007 18:51:34

MotorZ wrote:

Rosincrantz wrote:
Why aren't we making up for the time we lost due to the fires? We went from a 14 day event to a 9 day event...bummer...
Yeah, I'd like an extension, too.

I shall third that!

please extend the Halloween event.

Roukan · 10/29/2007 18:54:05

Please extend, or there will be consequences. Namely, moaning and crying on the forums.

Oh wait, Raijinn doesn't care about the game. Not really a threat tohim.

CPT_Starschwar · 10/29/2007 18:58:11

Rosincrantz wrote:

Why aren't we making up for the time we lost due to the fires? We went from a 14 day event to a 9 day event...bummer...

What they said.

On an unrelated note, woot for muzzel flash and Amber fixes (I reported the latter).

MatrixRefugee · 10/29/2007 19:00:48

Not so much an extension as a rollover, and it would be duly appreciated, as compensation for the delay.

odj · 10/29/2007 19:03:23

Extend event plzkthnx.

Phluff · 10/29/2007 19:04:35

Kybutra wrote:

MotorZ wrote:
Rosincrantz wrote:
Why aren't we making up for the time we lost due to the fires? We went from a 14 day event to a 9 day event...bummer...
Yeah, I'd like an extension, too.

I shall third that!

please extend the Halloween event.

Pretty please??????????????

/begging

Mitrios · 10/29/2007 19:08:56

EXTEND IT!

Rosincrantz · 10/29/2007 19:09:05

Phluff wrote:

Kybutra wrote:
MotorZ wrote:
Rosincrantz wrote:
Why aren't we making up for the time we lost due to the fires? We went from a 14 day event to a 9 day event...bummer...
Yeah, I'd like an extension, too.

I shall third that!

please extend the Halloween event.

Pretty please??????????????
/begging

SEE NOW? Phluff's begging, you HAVE to!

Tygrius · 10/29/2007 19:16:47

i agree with the rest of the people here. I feel bad for what is going on out west, but i dont think it is too much to ask for the halloween event to run an even two weeks.

Jilted1 · 10/29/2007 19:16:51

OK the delay is understood, I'm sure most of the community realizes that it was no cause of SOE that the delay took place. However, I'm still curious about why it is taking so long to get the update going. I mean from my understanding of the technology all that should really be required is for a technician to log onto the server and flip a few switches thereby activating the halloween content at next server restart. Since the server IPs resolve in Washington DC, why couldn't this be done from any remote location that has access to the internet? Of course my understanding my not be entirely accurate, or like many things in MXO, the update is much more involved than it should be, or would be for any other game.

Considering what little work it should actually take to activate/deactivate this content what is the reasoning for cutting things short? Other than the obvious speculation that SOE doesn't care about it's subscribers, I would like an actual explanation. So please Raijinn enlighten me/us, if you explain the situation we might just be more willing to accept it, but simply insisting this is how it's going to be will only leave people bitter.

GypsyJuggler · 10/29/2007 19:17:19

It's good to see some of Rarebit's improvements floating in already :)
Also, I have to agree with the above - please extend the event to it's originally intended length.
Unless there's a particular reason why this should not happen?

XRontix · 10/29/2007 20:10:41

well if your not gonna extend Halloween Raijinn can we at least have update 56 on Nov 9th? which is a day right after this Halloween event

GamiSB · 10/29/2007 20:15:47

The bluepill Amber asks you to escort in her second mission, "A Safe Place," will no longer be attacked by Amber's own ASP street gang.

*CENSORED* THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh right Halloween thing....yay?

Cervacius · 10/29/2007 20:52:19

We still don't know where to find the new masks. Will they be in the Zombie's loot or in the mysterious box or both?

ManicV · 10/29/2007 21:01:22

As others have already said, please extend the Halloween event. Delaying the event was understandable due to the circumstances, but the entire MxO population shouldn't be subject to the consequences if it can easily be rectified by simply not removing the Halloween content for an extra week or two. Nine days seems almost laughable.

Huslah · 10/29/2007 22:50:56

I'm happy it's out in time for Halloween.

It seems somewhat reasonable that we'd stay on the normal Thursday patch schedule. The event would have been 14 days thurs-thurs but we had a late switch on a tues instead making it removed on not the next but following thursday. Probably always concerns switching things if there needs to be a fix, scheduled days to have some dude stay late and restart the box if it bombs out, etc. Switching the holiday changes off is probably it's own patch. Pushing the update patch out on top of it with zero test time might be a bit much. Perhaps the two patches could be combined, I'm not really qualified to speculate on that.

Interesting on the gangs no longer attacking people their leader asks you to escort. Never thought about that as a bug, just figured it was due to poor communication in the ranks. Or possibly that the leader didn't bother to tell them or trust them with it, if they did, why hire you or something along those lines. Anyway, I think it's a good change.

Edited for a few missing letters, too tired, etc.

ThHidden01 · 10/30/2007 01:11:23

Don't extend...

I got so bored of people moaning about the dark 1 week in SMILEY

TH

Astila · 10/30/2007 01:37:57

ThHidden01 wrote:

Don't extend...

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TH

Hush Hidden lol

I promise I will not moan...

My vote goes to an extention

Croesis · 10/30/2007 02:02:00

Cervacius wrote:

We still don't know where to find the new masks. Will they be in the Zombie's loot or in the mysterious box or both?

2007 Halloween Masquerade: Oct. 30 through Nov. 8
It's time for The Matrix Online 2007 Halloween Masquerade! Find the jack-o-lanterns around the Mega City and activate them to spawn Exiles. Defeating a wave of Exiles leaves you with a special treat: A box only you can open that contains one of seven possible Halloween masks.

Suggesting they they come from the box rather than as loot.

Also, as I've said before there would be a lot more to it then simply flipping a switch, the patches need to be applied then tested and checked to make sure nothing has been compromised. Yeah they've done it before so they'd have a fairly good understanding of what to do so it should be quicker than previous times, but the new additions required checking for any flaws etc...

Fractor · 10/30/2007 04:19:37

Croesus wrote:

Cervacius wrote:
We still don't know where to find the new masks. Will they be in the Zombie's loot or in the mysterious box or both?

2007 Halloween Masquerade: Oct. 30 through Nov. 8
It's time for The Matrix Online 2007 Halloween Masquerade! Find the jack-o-lanterns around the Mega City and activate them to spawn Exiles. Defeating a wave of Exiles leaves you with a special treat: A box only you can open that contains one of seven possible Halloween masks.
Suggesting they they come from the box rather than as loot.

It isn't specific about which seven masks it is but it is most likely the 2005 halloween masks. These patch notes are very vague, they don't even say about the masks you get from the zombies (which should be the 2006 masks) which leaves the question where do you get the 2007 masks?

Also nice to hear about Amber's gang not attacking her escortee (could the same fix be made to others). I was stuck on that mission for ages because of it. I'm guessing you've just unflagged her for combat so no-one can attack her.

ZippyTheSquirrel · 10/30/2007 04:24:05

ThHidden01 wrote:

Don't extend...

I got so bored of people moaning about the dark 1 week in " />

TH

It hasn't even started and I'm already in grief over how bright I have to make my monitor! XD

I don't think anyone really remembers how dark it is. Two weeks of stumbling around in the dark... *shivers*

Procurator · 10/30/2007 06:18:59

So far I've been getting 2006 and 2007 masks from the zombies.

Croesis · 10/30/2007 06:31:39

Indeed, I have found that also.

letsrock · 10/30/2007 08:57:55

hey is it just me or is the jack-o-lanterns not working? I went to 2 different places and activated them all that happened was they made a noice and that was it.

Croesis · 10/30/2007 09:02:50

9mmfu wrote:

Dr5mith wrote:
morrel s(meta cortex roof), furihata s and mura nw....

the mura nw Finally worked after 5 tries it finally spawned :*(

I tried all the ones you have mentioned on Live Dr. The all worked on the first try for me.
Remeber if you have a sequence currently running on you a second one wont spawn. So for example the Agent spawns or the Neighborhood zomebie spawns will prevent the pumpkin ones from appearing even though you activated it.
I am not saying this was your case but just an FYI.

Raijinn · 10/30/2007 09:33:58

Kybutra wrote:

MotorZ wrote:
Rosincrantz wrote:
Why aren't we making up for the time we lost due to the fires? We went from a 14 day event to a 9 day event...bummer...
Yeah, I'd like an extension, too.

I shall third that!

please extend the Halloween event.

Unfortunately this isn't my call to make however the best I can do is pass this concern along and see what can be done by those who can extend this event.

ArchDuke · 10/30/2007 09:43:13

Raijinn wrote:

Kybutra wrote:
MotorZ wrote:
Rosincrantz wrote:
Why aren't we making up for the time we lost due to the fires? We went from a 14 day event to a 9 day event...bummer...
Yeah, I'd like an extension, too.

I shall third that!

please extend the Halloween event.
Unfortunately this isn't my call to make however the best I can do is pass this concern along and see what can be done by those who can extend this event.

Thanks Raijinn, I really hope your higher ups can make it happen. 5 days is a lot of party-time and halloween music video time to make up for. SMILEY

Fractor · 10/30/2007 09:45:52

9mmfu has said on the Broadcast Depth thread:

"No, If we did then every patch following it would be slightly off also. better to make just one a bit shorter and keep the regular Updates on schedule."

So it doesn't look likely.

Procurator · 10/30/2007 10:10:29

He said that implying that the update 56 patch would be delayed. As he hasn't given a reason as to why it might be delayed, I reckon he may be wrong. SMILEY

As far as I can see, they should be able to perform update 56 on time.

Raijinn · 10/30/2007 14:07:21

An extension looks unlikely at this point due to a few things. The zombies and Halloween masks are coded to shut off automatically on the 8th so pushing it further back would require a new update which is most likely not something that the team can do.

That's what I have on this for the time being, should any additional news come up, we'll let you know.

Roukan · 10/30/2007 16:05:58

Raijinn wrote:

An extension looks unlikely at this point due to a few things. The zombies and Halloween masks are coded to shut off automatically on the 8th so pushing it further back would require a new update which is most likely not something that the team can do.

That's what I have on this for the time being, should any additional news come up, we'll let you know.

Thank you for doing your job relaying us this information. Please continue this in the future.

But the fact it probably WONT be extended still angers me. Oh well. I guess I'll wait for Christmas fo-- no I can't have darkness and zombies then. Just snow. Oh well, I'll wait TILL NEXT YEAR.

GypsyJuggler · 10/30/2007 19:37:05

Rarebit:
It looks like the server file for the updated pumpkin loot did not make it into the stuff that went out for this update's server patch. This is being looked into now.

Sooo yah those masks are missing from the Live pumpkins right now. Tomorrow Walrus gets to figure out how we fix this. =p
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If we have to update to fix this, you could extend the event right?

jl10899 · 10/31/2007 22:21:25

after the 8.3.5 mission the rest of the story line is really just filler events and set ups for the next big thing. Rare could let some of his creative juices flow and make the rest of this halloween patch all halloween content for Live events. i for one hope he does this because then he can concentrate on making some events that we had in the past like the Scourge of camon event a one day per server event instead of hitting all three servers in one day. ( kinda bringing it back to the old days of first found, most dmg and last hit so more people can get prizes and such).

Porphy · 11/01/2007 04:29:35

Well I'm getting tired of slaying Zombies after only those two days.. don't mind the non-extension.

Raijinn · 11/07/2007 11:12:20

Good news! We were able to get the Halloween event extended to the 13th of November.

The Leo · 11/07/2007 11:26:11

You were able as in you already did it? Oh... erm... ehhherm... yay?

Michael1 · 11/07/2007 12:33:01

Hmm.. Well i guess it's not that bad..

Phluff · 11/07/2007 12:35:11

Raijinn wrote:

Good news! We were able to get the Halloween event extended to the 13th of November.

*Jumps Phor Joy!!!*

Tenshi · 11/07/2007 13:01:59

Michael1 wrote:

Hmm.. Well i guess it's not that bad..

LOL, my sentiments exactly...

MotorZ · 11/07/2007 13:18:45

Raijinn wrote:

Good news! We were able to get the Halloween event extended to the 13th of November.

lol very nice. Guess MxO's Halloween code wasn't so stingy, after all.

EDIT: what's the 'changes to the operating system' scheduled for tuesdays downtime? Is that just taking the event out, or more?

Croesis · 11/07/2007 13:47:45

Lol! I was expecting more reactions like Phluff's! I'm sure that this will please the majority of people. Me, I'm not fussed.

Changes to the operating system.... Hmm.... I hope its not Vista!!!

Nicksie · 11/07/2007 14:03:53

Yay!!! More time to have fun with the Halloween stuff! SMILEY

odj · 11/07/2007 14:18:46

Vinia wrote:

Changes to the operating system.... Hmm.... I hope its not Vista!!!

I hope they make the fix for Vista/8000 Nvidia cards, its vital to the games survival.

The Leo · 11/07/2007 14:23:31

odj wrote:

Vinia wrote:
Changes to the operating system.... Hmm.... I hope its not Vista!!!
I hope they make the fix for Vista/8000 Nvidia cards, its vital to the games survival.

Hmm when is the next big patch...

Croesis · 11/07/2007 14:30:17

Well update 56 is a week tomorrow, but with the improved CR2.R being delayed until somewhere in between 56 and 57, it may not be a large update... we'll see...

Remixermike · 11/07/2007 16:16:56

Raijinn wrote:

Good news! We were able to get the Halloween event extended to the 13th of November.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO darn it I didn’t pay for a 60 day prepaid card and waste 3 weeks of it just to not be able to do any darn missions because of the lame darkness ;( just kill the stupid event it’s not worth it ;( or at least get rid of the stupid darkness i think was stupid to begin with :S