We're supposed to be getting this patch tonight, along with some maintenance time. The post in the forum has a few details about what the patch is supposed to do but I'll wait for the actual update before putting any details up.

The really funny thing about this patch is the fact that G1 has pre-announced it. Anyone who has been around the game for a while knows that there has been a curse on every single patch that was pre-announced. Something goes wrong every time, and I'm actually looking forward to this one, just to see what happens.

Edit: Ok, the patch came and it's up and the most important thing I guess, at least for G1 is the fact that their item mall is now up and running. I'm not buying anything. They claim to have fixed the bugged mobs on the Icy and Tibet maps, but I don't play there at the moment. And apparently a few quests that were being exploited have been changed so that they can't be repeated. The rewards have changed too, so there is no longer any reason to repeat those quests.

In addition we're getting a new event that they're calling Lucky Level Up. It doesn't look too bad so far. For every hour you're in game you'll get lucky golden coins. People with dual logged perma stand characters will love that. And there are gifts for every Major Level gained, which means every time you chi breathe you'll get a nice gift. The GC1 gift is an XP card that is storable, but not tradeable. So there is no reason to get multiple accounts grinding to GC1. Also, the gift appears to be once per account, so there is also no reason to be deleting characters and grinding again to GC1. You'll only get that gift once per account.

I'll give them credit, G1 is a little sharper than Acclame when it comes to dealing with noobish players.

In other news, Hyperion joined the IRC channel today. If you want to speak to the man personally you might like to join us there. There is a link to that channel in the top bar of this blog.

Edit II: We now have 4x base rate experience in effect, and what we would normally call 3x for skills. This is supposed to last until fairly late Monday afternoon for Phoenix players. GoGoGo!!!

If you find anything interesting/faulty with the patch please post it in the comments.

- SpearDriver2