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Terrible patch :-( targeting MUCH harder... Barb can't hardly get out of the water in Hallas What good new graphics when you can't see anything (ya the night sky looks cool ) Lag is WORSE AAND lots of crashes

Oh yeah, and they apparently took a page from FFXI's notebook on collision handling. "Aahhh! Rock in the road! Stop!" No longer can you smoothly hike over minor obstacles such as benches, rocks, logs, etc. Now you have to jump over them, but to get close enough to jump makes you duck

I know it's a work in progress but, from what I understand, this was a constantly /bugged and /feedbacked issue on Test so it's not as if they didn't know about it.

This also apparently goes for mobs as well. Since the patch mobs have been getting stuck everywhere. As many of you know, to remedy getting stuck, mobs have the ability to warp to wherever there target is at. For example, I was in JPF the other day. I was hunting gnolls inside the caves and about to pull one more. I go to cast my slow to aggro it, it runs a little ways, then gets stuck, I watch it for a second and start to walk up to it when suddenly a furry missile appears right on top of me, causing me damage I should not have had to take. I also witnessed many times the illusion of a mob coming at me when in actuallity it was not.

I can only imagine the woes this might cause a puller for a group or raid.

Edited, Wed Mar 24 13:16:36 2004 by PsyoofXev

You're not the only one that has noticed this issue. Article on PON...


http://pub148.ezboard.com/fpaladinsofnorrathfrm22.showMessage?topicID=1128.topic



Edited, Wed Mar 24 13:46:44 2004 by Valzarius

No Problem here... still got lag in PoK near Bank... always a lot of people around there. I did finally see that targeting ring SOE said I had...:) Targeting Corpse on the other hand, has always sucked... if I wasn't clicking in the right area I wouldn't ever get the loot off the corps. I did notice that if I clicked the name about in the middle or the feet and bang got what I wanted. But hey for 13 bucks a month can't complain to much... hell movies cost me more a month then this game does. I do agree with the fact that you need to know a little about computers now a day's to even get from point A to point B.

I did read those but, I never saw anything that said "You will need to have a new video card" I guess since I never had problems before I never thought to see what I have.



I did buy what I thought to be the most updated computer at the time. And I do realize that updated only last so long, and I don't mind updating my computer but it seems that I should be able to play without making a new purchase every month.



I didn't mean that I know -nothing- about computers, I can effectively get around in one but when it comes to hardware I am a bit lost. Anyway I just was quite frustrated with this whole thing and thought I would vent -my bad-. And once again I did not see anything that told me to check my video card, maybe I missed that lil note.

singdall says


i do agree with that i was just trying to point out that for the realatively low price for eq it is worth it to ive them time
personally i have had very few problems with eq and the poster i was talking to pissed me off by jumping on me for trying to help someone else


aegisfang said


good or bad thing?



dan reynolds said



yeah patch mesages help thos of us who have been playing awhile but what does it do for they guy who just bought his eq yesterday and just read the requirements on the box and thought he'd be fine?

Normally I try not to whine about patches

When I got the message that my direct X needed to be updated, I updated it right away, along with the drivers.

But I didn't know I was going to have so much lag

Its weird

My Dell computer was new as of December last year, has 1Gig ram, good video card, NEVER EVER had any problems.

Now I can't move

My older computer, that has had two viruses that crashed it, for major drive resets, 640 ram, is a year and a half old, runs perfectly

the only thing I can think of is I'm on Windows XP on my new computer and Windows ME on my old...

Sanctuary...Sanctuary... :-D

The only problem I saw was more funny than anything else. I zoned into Marus Seru, which is on the light side of the moon, and it was nighttime, and when I looked up in the sky I saw... the moon.

Just a note of help to some people experiencing the high lag issues. A ranger guildie was having huge issues whereever he was (not just in pok) making it nearly impossible for him to do anything. He reloaded his ui to default (was using a high graphic intensive ui) and poof, his lag was gone.

May want to try that out if your are using a custom UI.

Targetting is buggy, but I'm sure they'll get that fixed soon. It seems they made the corpse target box bigger, as they mentioned that "corpse" targetting would be easier in the patch, not targetting in general. Small environmental graphics are effecting targetting as they had not before as well. Last night trying to target Woushi in WL for example was a bit rough (but doable).

Test server is great for testing some things, however they wanted to push the graphics engine up so they did a bit prematurely. Test server also cannot test certain things that live servers do different, so there is a need for some player based QA. Foggyness can get annoying, but it's not that in lower lag places with clip turned up. They also did mention, that the graphics were still in progress, so this leads me to believe that things will improve over the next few weeks.

Overall, new graphics are really nice. There is a much higher level of detail on PC equipment (where you can really notice detail). Colors also seem a bit richer and deeper than before. The armor dying your whole slot rather than just whatever armor is there also seems to be fixed.

We shall all see what comes.

Did the patch make anyone else's dyed armor look almost hot pink? Very disturbing to see myself in those colors =(