Scatter the Winds

Update 11:15 am EST: The maintenance ended, the account center is back online.

Greetings,

We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance today, Thursday February 9th, at 10:45am EST (16:45 CET). During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription, redeem game codes or transfer characters.

At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 11:45am EST (17:45 CET).

Thank you for your understanding.

"As darkness falls on the Night of Murder, the worshipers of death bathe the land in blood, all intent on proving their devotion to the Elf god Kaela Mensha Khaine. It is a time that the forces of Destruction are all too willing to exploit. Assassins infiltrate the cities, while on the battlefield the differences between Good and Evil fade beneath the crimson haze of blood lust. None are immune to the will of Khaine during this dark holiday."

We have applied the following hot fix to all servers:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Fortress Rams would occasionally self-destruct before the door they were attacking opened.

To address an issue with the way players get to contested cities the following fix was applied:

• While the Cities are contested, there is now a Portal available to teleport players closer to the city and a return-trip Portal to teleport players back. These are located in the Fortress zones, near the spawn location of the attacking Realm’s siege equipment. The return-trip Portal is near the gates and both portals will disappear when the City is no longer contested.

Update 11:15am EST: The maintenance is complete.

Greetings,

We will bring down the Account Center for a maintenance today, Monday February 6th, at 10am EST (16:00 CET). During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription, redeem game codes or transfer characters.

At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 1:00pm EST (19:00 CET).

Thank you for your understanding.

Greetings!

In honor of Patch 1.4.5 and in lieu of a Weekend Warfront, we launched a bonus weekend:

• 50% bonus to all Renown gained
• 50% bonus to all Experience gained

Bonuses are now active on all live servers and will continue until Monday, February 6th.

Thanks for your continued support and enjoy the bonuses!

We used the maintenance to apply the following correctives:

• Fixed an issue that was causing players to be sent to the wrong location when attempting to engage in the Hunter’s Vale Dungeon in Tier 1.

• Fixed an issue that was allowing players with the relic to be summoned, queue, or the like.  Players should not be able to move with the relic via these methods now.

• Added missing messaging and localization files.

As part of the introduction of Fortresses, we introduced a mechanic to allow City Queuing via the scenario UI element.  Unfortunately, this has led to some issues with the City invasion instances within the Live environment that were not discovered previously.  Because of this, we need to remove this functionality, at least for the moment to ensure that players can queue and enjoy the City Instances properly. 

This will mean players will need to enter the city via the doors to the city as they did previously.

Update - 10:40am EST: All servers are back online.

 

Greetings!

We will be bringing all North American and European servers offline tomorrow, Thursday, 02/02 at 8:00 am EST/14:00 CET for maintenance.
At this time we anticipate that all servers will be back online no later than 12:30 PM EST/18:30 CET.

As always, please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.

Thank you for your continued support.

We have applied the following hot fixes to all servers:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the new queue for city scenario function was allowing people to enter after the contested state.  Players will now only be able to queue if the city is in a contested state and not during the rebuilding or transition states.


• Fixed an issue where relics didn't broadcast when they moved across zones.
  

Due to an EA-wide maintenance that will affect our game and others, we will be bringing down our account center at 11:45pm EST (4:45am GMT).
During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription, redeem game codes or transfer characters.

At this time we expect the service to be back up no later than 8am EST (1pm GMT).


See you on the battlefields!

Update - 2:50 pm EST: All servers are back online with game update 1.4.5.

 

Greetings!
 
We will be bringing all North American and European servers offline tomorrow, January 31st 2012, at 8:00 AM EST (14:00 CET) for the deployment of Game Update 1.4.5. At this time we anticipate that all servers will be back online no later than 3:00 PM EST (21:00 CET).

As always, please be sure to check the Herald for updates regarding this downtime.

This weekend’s warfront is open for battle. The scenario ‘Talabec Dam’ is available for all tiers.
Grab the Powder Keg and obliterate the enemies!

'Talabec Massacre' is now live and will continue until Monday, 01/30.

Greetings,

We will going through the Grovod Caverns scenario, tonight from 8 to 10pm EST.

We will run a massive run through of Forts, Relics, and Grovod on Friday, January 27th from 6 to 10pm EST.

We have a few codes to give away, and will be randomly selecting a few players from among the PTS participants present for each testing block.

Hope to see you out there!

Greetings,

We will bring down the Account Center for a maintenance tomorrow, Wednesday January 25th, at 8am EST (14:00 CET). During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription, redeem game codes or transfer characters.

At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 1:00pm EST (19:00 CET).

Thank you for your understanding.

This weekend’s warfront is open for battle. The scenario ‘Stonetroll Crossing’ is available for all tiers.
Pick up the Troll Pacifier and to subdue the Trolls to defeat your enemies!

'Stonetroll Slaughter' is now live and will continue until Monday, 01/23.

We invite you to join us in the tests of the new relic raid system and the fortresses in three sessions:

• Wednesday, January 18th        8-10 pm EST (1-3 am GMT)
• Dwarfs vs Greenskins - Thunder Mountain
  

• Friday, January 20th        4–6 pm EST (9-11 pm GMT)
• Empire vs Chaos - Praag
  

• Monday, January 23rd        8-10 pm EST (1-3 am GMT)
• High Elves vs Dark Elves - Dragonwake
  

Please have your character ready for action in the warcamps of the specific zone.  Templates will be available and we will assist with the formation of guilds and alliances.

See you on the battlefields!

Greetings,

We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance tomorrow, Wednesday January 18th, at 10am EST (16:00 CET). During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription, redeem game codes or transfer characters.

At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 11:30am EST (17:30 CET).

Thank you for your understanding.

This weekend’s warfront is open for battle. The scenario ‘Khaine’s Embrace’ is available for all tiers. Gather your forces and fight for blood in Khaine's Embrace.

'Deadly Embrace' is now live and will continue until Tuesday, 01/17.

Greetings,

We are preparing our test server to be available for the tests of version 1.4.5 and will bring it down later today. Depending on the internal test, PTS will be re-opened for you tomorrow around noon EST.

As usual, keep an eye on the Herald for updates.

In the meantime we have the PTS 1.4.5 patch notes for your reading pleasure: