Aion 1.5.1 Patch notes, part 2!

[Johndoe]

Originally Posted by Quagmyer

Hyped for the past 2 or 3 days about this and then you spew this junk out?

Thanks for finalizing my canclation plans.

NCFail.

Your canclation plans eh? Might be for the best judging by your made up words.

Originally Posted by Blackmyst

No fixes for the horrid abyss rvr.Still keeeping my cancellation thats happening next week.

The game has been out two months. Get a grip idiot.

[Abedeus]

Originally Posted by Johndoe

The game has been out two months. Get a grip idiot.

Fun sport, boys and girls - ignoring a year of Korean gameplay and few months of EU/NA CB and OB.

[Avalon1K]

Fail...I'm pretty much gone anyways.

[JamiJosh12]

Originally Posted by Knite

Hang on, take a step back people and lets have a look at everything.

First of all, as said in the interview done with Liv, the crysystem.dll fix is being worked on.



Secondly, SM pets aren't even live in Korea yet, so don't expect to see anything about them in Western patch notes until then.

Thirdly, everyone has their own idea of what the gamebreaking bugs in the game are, and no they can't all be fixed in one patch.

This is a correction patch, not a major update. You guys are expecting too much out of it.

Let's look at the big things that HAVE been addressed:

-Elites will now trail right so people can't exploit them anymore.
-Drop rates off regular bosses in instances is being increased.
-Drop rate from the final bosses in the Instanced Dungeons have been Greatly increased.
-No more soloing slow Dark Poeta bosses.
-Speed on some sets has been moved to the boots instead of a set bonus, so Steel Rake armor is actually worth getting.
-You can now earn medals for successful fortress defense
-Captcha system to prevent Bot aether gathering
-Increased EXP, items, kinah, quest item drop rate, and chance of getting Contribution Decorations for some quests
-Lower group XP penalty
-Fewer Stigma shards to equip Stigmas

Just to name a few of the big highlights. For only being a month after release here, these are excellent fixes.





People complain about bots, then complain about the methods employed to stop them. Let's see someone program a bot to input a captcha.

I know everyone wants to see this game improve and succeed, but you have to realize that not every issue that is brought to their attention is an easy fix. 1.5.1 has been in development for at least a few weeks now and so new issues likely haven't even made it to Korean test servers yet. Pressing issues like Crysystem are being worked on but likely don't have a fast and easy fix.

I guess I'm just trying to be the voice of reason here. These are a lot of updates, some of them are great, and there's still a lot to fix, but we can't expect everything in one patch.

Keep posting about your most pressing issues- They ARE being read and anything I notice is getting a lot of worry/hype/buzz, I make sure to bring up with the Community Team so it gains visibility.

It's going to take some work and it's not going to happen over night, but the core issues are being addressed and there will be fixes for them but you have to follow the steps; Information gathering, analysis, planning, development, testing, release.

Just please make sure that if you complain about something, to explain why you are. Simple saying this patch sucks doesn't help anyone. State your issues, state ideas, and lets work together to get things fixed.


And one last note about bots:

To be honest I completely agree with you. Yes the did NOT fix some of the major isues with the game. But these fixes do take time. and some of the things that they have given us in this patch are extreamly helpfull as now i wont have to go into Fire Temple 20 times to see a single gold drop. And has Knight said this is NOT a major patch. I really don't see why you guys are complaning so much. Some of the things in this patch are very promising and will make gameplay allot more fun for me.

One thing that has nyerked me off though.

They desided to do this patch during the day and not when everybody is sleeping. And ontop of that they said it would only take 4hrs and its been 9hrs now! Not to good on that pary NCsoft.

But otherwise i think your doing good :thumbsup: Please get rid of all the gold bots though

[shoebox22]

Wow - responders to this forum are shockingly so whiny! Whoever the "community" is that is requesting changes that weren't addressed are probably changes to make this game easier. Last thing we need is another "fixed" MMO to accomodate complainers that want to play games that are not challenging. The game has only been out for 2 months - and we're already at end game content. I REALLY home NCSoft doesn't give in to the NA demands of making the game more simple. Same reason I left WoW...

[Johndoe]

Did not see that post, agreed with Knite 100%.

Game has been out in US for two months. Abedeus. Big difference, especially with what...4 patches they have done since release?

[decesare]

Originally Posted by dkdude

What about the crysys.dll crashes that huge amounts of your playerbase is having?

^^this.

for a game that was a remarkably smooth release i feel many people probably are completely unaware that many people still crash not only regularly but often. the impact of soulhealing costs is monumental for us along with taking a significant hit to fun factor. not that games should be taken "seriously" but i do enjoy this hobby very much and the constant crashing just makes it hard to really feel good about the game.

[Rajster]

Damn crybabies. Sheesh.

[T0by]

Originally Posted by Hwin

People complain about bots, then complain about the methods employed to stop them. Let's see someone program a bot to input a captcha.


Gotcha, CAPTCHA! Gmail bot detector system cracked - Ars Technica

This site speaks of a bot that was used to break Captcha back in 2008. There are some others but they are links to botting sites and arent allowed here.

Contrary to popular belief, bots for games often aren't shining beacons of awesome examples of top notch programming.
Implementing captcha recognition into a dodgy bot program would be very difficult. All of the free to use bots are dodgy side projects that don't work very well.
The pay bots are okay, but still pretty dodgy. They do work, but they're not technologically advanced by any means.
I'm stating here, that bots won't bypass the captcha codes. And if they do, it's still going to stop alot of the smaller botters not affiliated with large bot business in china from gathering.

The captcha was only cracked in 2008, for one service, by people that couldn't care less about aion.

The implementation of captcha recognition that can accurately and consistently bypass the captcha would be a technological feat that surpases the intelligence and design of all aion bot programs currently around.

This is why it's not going to be broken easily, if at all.

[funkyduggout]

Originally Posted by Aneu

I'm absolutely shocked by how ungrateful us westerners have gotten, and how manners seem to have totally gone out the window in this thread.

NCSoft have a road map that they are sticking to, which in business is something you need to do. They deviate to fix major problems but the only major problem Aion really has is the memory leak which they are working on. Fixing this issue is obviously not a minor thing and probably involves going through numerous amounts of code to make sure nothing else is borked in the process.

The 1.5.1 is an INCREMENTAL patch, meaning its a patch to address issues in content currently in the game, not to add more content or the like. 1.6 will be the next Expansive patch which im sure will add more content to the game, it seems people are very unaware of this fact.

To put it bluntly. Which is something Knite probably wanted to say. Stop being a bunch of ungrateful childish idiots who expect everything to be fixed yesterday. The world does not work like this, the sooner you get to grips with that, the happier your lives will be.

~Aneu

Well said, but remember most of the people playing this game probably don't understand version numbering schemes, let alone software development lifecycles. They might be understaffed for all we know and what they pushed out is all they could QA before the release date that they had slated in their project plan. Just play the game and have fun with it and if you run into bugs/oddities, report them *in detail*. Don't submit bug reports that are vague, explain it the best you can on how to possible reproduce the issue, system specs, anything that could possibly help. Learn to troubleshoot on your side and if you do find some weird connection (i.e. version of some software driver/.Net/directx.... whatever is different on your computer vs your friends who isn't having the problem), report that to them as well as it may infact reveal some other underlying issue. That's all you could do, short of becoming a developer. It's a community effort as well.

[KoZmo]

Originally Posted by Inarshia

Clearly moronic.
Of course I have a right to "quit". It doesn't mean I'll get my money back.

You were the one complaining about all the people nyerking. I replied and said have a right to. Considering you had so much time to write a wall of text, I applaud you on your efforts.

This band aid isn't buying NCsoft any time, darling. It's wasting their time, and ours.

I think I'm in love