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The preliminary Book 8 patch notes will be up tonight, sometime before Bullroarer opens with the patch at 7PM EST. Sapience warns that Bullroarer is going live with a version of the game that has some things that the final version of the patch will not actually have.
As an example, he cites that on Bullroarer First Age Legendary Items will be bind on acquire. This change will be noted in the preliminary Book 8 patch notes that will go up today. This change was reverted the other day and is too new to be part of the version of the game that will be on Bullroarer.
Despite this, once the final version of Book 8 hits all the normal servers this note will no longer be true. First Age Legendary items will not be bind on acquire at that time.
So whatever happens with these notes, it’s important to remember these are not necessarily final. Things could be removed, added or adjusted. Sapience says the notes won’t contain all the new additions to the game either … but he’s cut us a bit of slack with this one:
Well, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to give you one little sneak peek.
It’s funny you should mentions ‘tasty secrets’. Seeing as most food items will now stack to 50 and travel rations to 100.
Did I say that out loud?
Seriously, my hands are tied right now. Patience is reviewing my rough draft to make sure I didn’t do anything stupid like spell my name wrong or something (it happens! That i before e thing really trips me up sometimes!). Until she gives me the green light I’m forced to be a big ol’ meanie and tell you absolutely nothing about the new barter tokens for first ages. Not a word!
MMeOw is currently down for the count, but please visit the LOTRO Combo Blog. It aggregates content from some of the best LOTRO-related blogs and podcasts on the net.
Here’s a brief update on the Anti-Exploit problems.
The problem involving water affecting AE mode has been fixed. Players on the Isengard Private Preview server are reporting positive results. As one player put it: “… if people can actually kill things in Annuminas and Tyl Ruinen, that’s HUGE news.”
There will still be cases where Anti-Exploit mode is triggered, but they should be predominantly legitimate cases where the monster cannot reach the player.
This fix will be in Book 8 and will be testable on the Bullroarer test server when Book 8 is opened there.
Once Bullroarer opens up again and is updated to Book 8, I hope that others have similar findings. I don’t spend tons of time in the areas that are most affected by this, but it’s certainly annoying. I’m glad it finally seems to be getting cleared up.
MMeOw is currently down for the count, but please visit the LOTRO Combo Blog. It aggregates content from some of the best LOTRO-related blogs and podcasts on the net.
MMeOw is currently down for the count, but please visit the LOTRO Combo Blog. It aggregates content from some of the best LOTRO-related blogs and podcasts on the net.
Moormur posted his newest podcast a day early. If you haven’t listened to LotROCast before, make sure you check out this one: he secured an interview with Rowan, the Live Developer for LotRO. Trust me when I say getting Turbine’s attention isn’t easy. He was really proactive about this!
Anyway, the interview itself sounds to be pretty good:
In the interview, Rowan sheds some more light on Book 7, gives us some peeks at Book 8, talks about PvP, minstrels, hobbies, crafting, and even discusses “The Wall,” that my previous episode was based on! Yes, I know I need to work on shutting up during the interviews…I’ll work on that for my next few episodes (sorry if I cut you off, Rowan).
Check out the LotROCast podcast feed to keep up to date. He’s been doing an awesome job so far and I’m looking forward to more. I was also pleased to see I could subscribe to it through my Zune software. I assume it’s up on iTunes as well, if you roll like that.
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