Rise of Isengard Update/Patching Discussion - OFFICIAL

[plopeye]

I'd be willing to host a bittorrent seed on my 100M server if there's a standalone patch executable.

[Gamdred]

Interestingly, patch.lotro.com (which the Launcher tries to access every time it "retries" the connection), currently redirects to the maintenance page, which I imagine is why the Launcher says the connection attempt failed. I've tried it from a few geographical locations and it seems to be the same situation everywhere.

[Beimez]

This is odd for me, I always have connect and patch with no problems. Still trying to connect.......will post once I have patched.

[Brave.Sir.Robin]

I follow the forums pretty regularly, but I totally missed this one. Why are we patching today when RoI comes out tomorrow? Sorry if this is repeat but no way I can sift through 24 pages of posts in this thread.

because RoI is going to be released one day early!

[PuhFifer]

I can understand things being broken and give slack, but don't tweet about how everything is sunshine and unicorns while most people still can't seem to connect. In fact, Turbine shouldn't have anyone tweeting anything until the game works.

[Junoriel]

How it was?

-> load ""

haha...on my ZX Spectrum

/load Sabrewulf
/load KnightLore
/load JetSetWilly

[Dom-TheBestOfBest]

Rule #1 of all MMOs:

Never play on a patchday.


So guys... have patience. You WILL play!

[phantasiarose]

Hmm, mine seems to be failing to connect. I'll try it later tonight when I get home from work...or tomorrow morning before I go in. xD

[Kamikaze420]

....fail.....

[BellusDuFenna]

I left the lotro starter open. When i arrived home it had crashed. I've restarted it a few times. It keeps saying "An updated error occurred: A connection attempt failed." Should i wait or should i keep trying to restart the program?

From what I gathered in this thread, people are getting the best results by starting their Launcher, letting it run for a while, and restarting it from time to time if it hasn't connected yet. Maybe every 20 minutes or so. Eventually they have gotten in.

This didn't work so well for me, but luckily I had one computer already patched, so I copied that patched game folder over to our other computer, manually patching it as well.

[Cherrio]

Foremost, as it was originally announced for release the 27th, I see today as 'bonus-early' -- if I actually get to patch and play today, it'll feel like a gift. (For a real gift, bring back the lottery. *g*)

That said, add my Win boxes to the list of ''A connection attempt failed'' every 60 seconds, plus client restart every 10-20 mins ... for hours ... with no love.

Hopefully in the launch post-mortem, Turbine will get the hint that purchasing a LOT of extra bandwidth on launch day would have greatly decreased customer dissatisfaction. While I can't imagine many (if any) people are going to /ragequit over not being able to play a day earlier than first expected ... I CAN imagine the grudge carrying on to reduce LOTRO Store sales.

they might trash pando as well it dont work.

if it wasent for torrent site 3rd party i couldent download Lotro.

pando worst #### ever on the surface of the world of internet.

[Byatt]

I remember the days where patching a full mmog expansion over the net was simply unthinkable... you had to buy your cd - which was often for sale the same day as release, not before, hence you had to camp your game store or wait for your mail order to arrive, which on the route from USA to Europe often meant you were able to play one week after live...

I don't miss that, tbh :P

I remember the days when there was no patching at all, because the only thing you did on the client side was run the telnet client of your choice. Of course, the MUDs were all text then...

[dunedhain]

Rule #1 of all MMOs:

Never play on a patchday.


So guys... have patience. You WILL play!

Hmm. but will we suffer tomorrow also? as the release day means another download/patching?

[RedHairyToes]

Y'all should try to be a bit patient and give Turbine a break on this. They are working very hard to get things running as smoothly as they possibly can.

I think people just want to make sure they themselves aren't bugged in some way. The questions on twitter seem to be asking stuff like "should I be restarting my client if X is occurring".

I personally would have liked to know whether I should have restarted my client after I downloaded the patch and could not connect to my world. If the distribution system is torrent-like then patched people like me not seeding slows other people's updates down.

Sure there are going to be some fanatical people out there. Let's do our best not to let crazy win.

[lordmg1]

Can you give us an ETA (seconds, hours, days or even years :P) on the game servers coming back online Sapience? Thanks in advance

I think I can handle this one.

The servers will be back Soon™

[Kobayakawa]

Aye indeed, we updated this way first time when f2p was released. So idd i meant like Mirkwood and before
Wasn't aware it was only Europe that could do it like this. Still it works great and they can make use of anyones computer by downloading p2p i.e.(though i think in a way they do that now aswell). But stillgiven torrents and use of i.e. gamershell servers aswell worked great and very fast.

Absolutely. This is something Turbine should consider for future updates. It saves so much trouble being able to download the patch beforehand. Also it's "just" a patch anyway, a simple update of files on local computer, there's nothing complicated about that. Also as you said, release using torrents is very simple, for sure much simpler than now when everyone's trying to update through launcher at the same time.

[korat102]

Interestingly, patch.lotro.com (which the Launcher tries to access every time it "retries" the connection), currently redirects to the maintenance page, which I imagine is why the Launcher says the connection attempt failed. I've tried it from a few geographical locations and it seems to be the same situation everywhere.

I seem to remember, from the EU migration, that you get redirected to the maintenance page if you can't connect due to congestion. I'm sure someone will be along to correct me if I'm wrong

[Supergerm]

When I opened the client earlier, it downloaded and installed a Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable. It seemed to install properly, but now my client fails at the Connect phase, not Examine Programs like some have reported - is this still normal, or did something go wrong already?

[Lunathiel]

I started to watch LOTR if I cant play LOTRO. xD
I think I'm fortunate that I had 30mins to play today before the expansion started. :P

[Ulanor_EU]

I think people just want to make sure they themselves aren't bugged in some way. The questions on twitter seem to be asking stuff like "should I be restarting my client if X is occurring".

I personally would have liked to know whether I should have restarted my client after I downloaded the patch and could not connect to my world. If the distribution system is torrent-like then patched people like me not seeding slows other people's updates down.

Sure there are going to be some fanatical people out there. Let's do our best not to let crazy win.

actually from what i understand as it is a patch server and not Peer to Peer people who are patched logging in is still checking with the patch server to make sure they are up to date and thus slow things down ?

Anyone with a bit more technical knowledge know for sure there ?

[Cherrio]

europe connection refused still.

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Aye if they hosted a torrent with the game files would be the best option ever from turbine.

torrent is the best way =)

[AzmariaLionheart]

I would be so thankful for a torrent or ddl, like in old CM times, lets hope we can patch soon ^^

[Aikanaron]

Not working here either..
Hangs at Connect and then starts over again.

[silverwings]

WOOT!!!!! All patched and ready for login Had to wait for connection about 2 hours but had a chance to do some house work and get my breakfast. Now all is ready for the game servers.

[Geddes01]

maybe make a stand alone downlaoder and upload it many diff sites. If its to late to do it for this one DO it for the next update