U19 launch date?

[Goodgoing]

Sometime in October, right?

[soltasword]

That was what the producers letter said. But it wasn't set in stone of course.

[NeebPlayer]

Oct. 10

[Goodgoing]

Cool, so this Monday then? I'll be looking forward to it.

[Beastnas]

Do we have an official word on that?

[algonacy]

Do we have an official word on that?

I will confirm that NeebPlayer officially stated it.

[Gilnoviel]

More important would be the release date of the first hotfix that fixes the major broken bits.

[Stefanitar]

It is not the official date

[NeebPlayer]

It is not the official date

Any official statement on it not being the official date?

[MaxHunter]

Any update about launch date????

[Gandolf_TheOld]

Oct. 10

Any update about launch date????

Not today...

[mykidstjz]

From what I understood and I may be wrong this up coming weekend will be the polished or so called version of U 19 on BR. Then it should come around close to fall festival for release.

[Cordovan]

If everything goes well this week, it could be out sometime next week.

[Oelle]

If everything goes well this week, it could be out sometime next week.

yea, that fits to my impression on state of BR beta3.
the basics work, some polish is needed (texts, some landscape fixes like minas morgul bridge, flowers everywhere and not just in half of the landscape), but it should be doable within a week. i wonder if german/french sound comes in before or after launch.
will there still be a beta4 this weekend? just for a final round of bugsearching before it goes live?

[mykidstjz]

If everything goes well this week, it could be out sometime next week.

Nice U19 and fall fest...what will I decide to do..the fall fast first or new area...you shouldn't do us like that...lol

[siipperi]

If everything goes well this week, it could be out sometime next week.

So in reality it shouldn't be out on next week then. But it will be because of how Turbine releases broken updates that get halfly fixed on upcoming updates and other half remains broken and will just snowball more problems.

Yes I know amount of devs is really small, but we got extremely positive things out of delaying the update on U18.2, which turned out to be one of least buggy releases post HD.

[Oelle]

So in reality it shouldn't be out on next week then. But it will be because of how Turbine releases broken updates that get halfly fixed on upcoming updates and other half remains broken and will just snowball more problems.

Yes I know amount of devs is really small, but we got extremely positive things out of delaying the update on U18.2, which turned out to be one of least buggy releases post HD.

did you play on BR b3?
i found no serious bugs anymore, all i found should be no problem to do within a week.
sure, they could change class-related things for months or years until they reach a level that fits with what players want...
but thats not really the point of u19.
delaying things is needed when its needed. not always just for the sake of it. u19 was nearly fine on BR this weekend imo.

[Arnenna]

did you play on BR b3?
i found no serious bugs anymore, all i found should be no problem to do within a week.
sure, they could change class-related things for months or years until they reach a level that fits with what players want...
but thats not really the point of u19.
delaying things is needed when its needed. not always just for the sake of it. u19 was nearly fine on BR this weekend imo.

If they get this wrong, and even 50% (or lower) of their hunters walk, U19 will be a game breaker. I think it's very important they get this right, and not just because hunter is my main (which I actually don''t play as main anymore, so it's not really affecting me that much at the moment and hasn't for a long time), but because I read chat, and forums and hopefully, so do Turbine. People have very big expectations on this release, and I think we will see a bit more than "just" disappointment. From what I've read, burg too isn't fully ready, but they are in a bettr place than hunter to take the kick and wait it out for a dot update IMO.

[siipperi]

did you play on BR b3?
i found no serious bugs anymore, all i found should be no problem to do within a week.
sure, they could change class-related things for months or years until they reach a level that fits with what players want...
but thats not really the point of u19.
delaying things is needed when its needed. not always just for the sake of it. u19 was nearly fine on BR this weekend imo.

Releasing update that is is 100% broken on PvP doesn't seem a problem to you?

Certainly doesn't seem it's problem to Turbine!

Oh and check bullroarer on recent thread how housing is totally beta. everything clipping and stuff howering etc and they asking money for that.

[Oelle]

Releasing update that is is 100% broken on PvP doesn't seem a problem to you?

nope. no problem for me :P (and nothing new at all)

and about hunter/burglar stuff. they are being improved. the only thing that makes improvements bad is expectations of better improvements, which i never had. so no problem here for me either. they can still change hunter&burg&other class related things with 19.x updates. its not like its needed to test things, if we know exactly which class is better by how much.
the update by itself is pretty boring as there is nothing to do besides questing that will be done in 2 days per character (and flowerpicking/housing, which wont be interesting for most players).
but as they will not just change it and release an instance cluster just like that or add a daily-questing area... there is no hope. so better release now and get the next update earlier which might make things more interesting.

[Bragolos]

Another tiny polish to do, but important to many of us: the overall Mordor map. I guess we won't get the final and detailed version, that would perhaps spoil parts of an entire Expansion . But on BR3 it's still the, ehm, 'colourful' version which shouldn't hit live.

[siipperi]

the update by itself is pretty boring as there is nothing to do besides questing that will be done in 2 days per character (and flowerpicking/housing, which wont be interesting for most players).

Agreed. Too bad team didn't do few alternative bosses for the raid or new tiny 3 man or something. Ah well maybe on the next update we get something decent, until then raid is still very much good fun. It's just a shame PvP will be worse than ever, and that's while not unexpected is a shame... Say goodbye to creep population Turbine.

[NeoBasilisk]

Agreed. Too bad team didn't do few alternative bosses for the raid or new tiny 3 man or something. Ah well maybe on the next update we get something decent, until then raid is still very much good fun. It's just a shame PvP will be worse than ever, and that's while not unexpected is a shame... Say goodbye to creep population Turbine.

Just get more multiboxers and creeps will be fine. PVP is fundamentally broken in this game, and I hope they never waste anymore dev resources on it.

[greetingsdownunder]

Just get more multiboxers and creeps will be fine. PVP is fundamentally broken in this game, and I hope they never waste anymore dev resources on it.

Disagree, I do think it would be nice if the Spring 2016 update was almost completely dedicated to class updating / skill balance and bugs for both creeps and freeps. warsteed traits and skill/fury bugs fixed as well. As well as PvMP gear and editing of the Osgilliath PvMP map.

Severlin, if you care, take an update and make a large system wide balance & class edit pass on everything. Old instances, skirmishes, pvmp, classic raids, etc. Based on your planned balances for possible but likely Mordor expansion.

[YamydeAragon]

If everything goes well this week, it could be out sometime next week.

At 1 week of releasing U19, i think that this is a good time to start releasing some more in detail articles about what is coming like the new premium houses & the flowers picking event. The fans have spread the news but there need to be official words.