Rise of Isengard Update/Patching Discussion - OFFICIAL

[Nodwick]

Yeah and here I thought that VIP status gave me some kind of advantage *giggles*

Well as long as we are waiting, let us all enjoy some music!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY

[AlphaMan]

OK just checked my game folder some of the files have been modified today other havent is there any way to tell if this is updated and that I am now consuming bandwidth for those trying to patch?

Did it update?

I mean, it's pretty easy to tell if you updated, unless you closed your client without looking at it at all.
If not, check size of your files.

[dagnic]

I've asked on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/lotro/status/118380928883105795
When you're patched you get to see the login screen. I'm not seeing the login screen. Still several client_xxx and lotroclient.exe have a time-stamp of 7 hours ago.

Can someone who knows their client is patched confirm that they are seeing the login screen?

For what it's worth the buildversion of my lotroclient.exe is 3.4.3.8026

How do you know this?

[Arbalister]

For what it's worth the buildversion of my lotroclient.exe is 3.4.3.8026

Stuck @ connecting to gls-auth.lotro.com

My retail client build is 3.3.6.8008 - I haven't patched yet.

An older BR build is 3.4.2.8007

[Rapunzel666]

Ok, nice, you win Nice to meet an Atari mate!

at my school the amiga 500 was the thing to go for.. the distribution circle was huge

[Floxxx]

One way for sure... check in your 'The Lord of the Rings Online - Public Test\raw\en\vignette_videos' folder for any movies with Vol 3, Book 4 videos.

If this is true, it means i've been patched for the last 7 hours already, unless the patcher keeps timestamps from the downloaded files

[Marguerita]

Originally Posted by DaimonUI
Huh you made me blush now (and I'm a man damned!). I guess I need to be more careful with my whines that there aren't new ArtAsset files in the future.

Actually, you may be receiving good news soon.

awwwww and now my headache goes again ... soon read soon forgotten *must read link again*

[Baerbel]

was afk for some hours....
Timestamp on all client_XXXX files are 26. September 2011, 11:36:04 (gmt+2)
get connection failed all the time... my game is patched?

[Crell_1]

To the two above posts. The size of the game folder depends on whether you have the standard or high res version installed, whether you installed from an online download, an original disk, a moria disk or some other means. All of these things cause the size of the folder to change.

The question is, what is the rough patch size?

Also? Any status on the LotrO store release notes?
(Yes, the store gets separate release notes.)

[Nikkimo]

I can tell you for a fact you won't get a fixed time for the worlds to be live. We will message they are live when we turn them on.

Sapience, YOU ARE MY HERO!!!!

[Grimdoin_EU]

I've asked on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/lotro/status/118380928883105795
When you're patched you get to see the login screen. I'm not seeing the login screen. Still several client_xxx and lotroclient.exe have a time-stamp of 7 hours ago.

Can someone who knows their client is patched confirm that they are seeing the login screen?



How do you know this?

Right click on the file and select "properties" -> "details" or something like that (not a EN OS install sorry)...

[Apparently]

Y'know the one thing I find really annoying? The fact that the launcher spends all of a millisecond (estimated) trying to connect before kicking me back into retry.

It might be a good idea to tweak the launcher to at least pretend that it's taking some time to think about it before refusing connection. As a perceptual thing for the user, not for any technical reason.

[Floxxx]

Y'know the one thing I find really annoying? The fact that the launcher spends all of a millisecond (estimated) trying to connect before kicking me back into retry.

It might be a good idea to tweak the launcher to at least pretend that it's taking some time to think about it before refusing connection. As a perceptual thing for the user, not for any technical reason.

"Loading, please wait..."

[danielj2010]

Might I say, that by trying to be PC and promote equality for all, Turbine has caused this Great Queue Problem?
By separating everything out, dividing up the queue, we could've had a quick and speedy patch and load-in. Something like this:
Life-times > VIP > Premium > F2P > Goldspammers, etc.

OR even more generalized...
Start with the West coast and just move East via time zones.

[Got-Show]

15 Minutes to FRINGE (2 hours) and SUPERNATURAL (1 hour)

After this time, wanna play....so hurry up turbine!

Wanna hear good house music wihile you waiting? Try this (if it is not blocked)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwhshQSBlfE

Have fun and enjoy it....

[Snyder]

when u go to pre order page of ROI. It says 27 - 09 - 2011 so where gonna have to wait till tomorow.

[AlphaMan]

15 Minutes to FRINGE (2 hours) and SUPERNATURAL (1 hour)

After this time, wanna play....so hurry up turbine!

Wanna hear good house music wihile you waiting? Try this (if it is not blocked)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwhshQSBlfE

Have fun and enjoy it....

Fringe is on fridays, not mondays?

[Ruintheliel]

How do you know this?

Right-click Lotroclient.exe and select properties. Go to 'Details' and look at 'File version'.
(Just translating on the fly from a norwegian Win Vista here)

[Wartom]

Relax guys, grab a beer and a cigarette and just chill.

[dagnic]

One way for sure... check in your 'The Lord of the Rings Online - Public Test\raw\en\vignette_videos' folder for any movies with Vol 3, Book 4 videos.

Like this: vignette_vol3_book4_part_a.bik ? But in the folder without 'public test'.

[Trouz]

Just out of curiosity have any EU clients managed to download the patch yet?

Yep, downloaded and patched about about 4pm UK time.

[korat102]

can you ensure that we are not being dumped to the bottom of the queue?

This doesn't look like a queue to me. It's trying to connect every 60 seconds or so. To me, it looks like it's pot luck whether there's a connection available at the time your client looks for it. If there was a queue, it wouldn't have to keep trying to connect and you'd hope it would tell you where you were in that queue.

[Promidir]

Y'know the one thing I find really annoying? The fact that the launcher spends all of a millisecond (estimated) trying to connect before kicking me back into retry.

It might be a good idea to tweak the launcher to at least pretend that it's taking some time to think about it before refusing connection. As a perceptual thing for the user, not for any technical reason.

I'll second that

[Montezuma's]

at my school the amiga 500 was the thing to go for.. the distribution circle was huge

Amiga 512 was my next step

[Floxxx]

Relax guys, grab a beer and a cigarette and just chill.

too early for beer, my wife would slap me silly...