What's going on with this update

[Karl G.]

First, I want to thank everyone for sticking with me and showing up last night for the first test of the new version. There were obviously some issues that need to be resolved, and I will be coding all day tomorrow (I spent today recovering from lack of sleep over the last week and doing minor tweaks).

Tonight, I am playing the game with a few friends here at my place to get everything in place for a re-launch of this version. So far I have fixed:
- several crash bugs (I've played for an hour or so without problems)
- fixed geosids (their bonuses will now show up!)
- slowed monsters down, sped players up so that the game feels much more responsive
- repeatedly clicking on monsters to attack them doesn't cause your attacks to keep resetting
- AOE spells are fixed
- the launcher can now update your files
- DOT spells will now work correctly on any target

So here's my plan: I'll release a new version with all the fixes tonight. You'll need to re-download the installer.

Because we are still trying to figure out how to balance everything, make sure the game is stable and make it more fun (!!) we need you guys to help us test.

To this end, we will be doing reset-tests of the game until next week. Each day expect to log in to a completely wiped server with fixes based on your feedback from the previous version. You can get in, play, test things out and let me know what needs to be fixed here on the forum. Once Pre-Beta starts, we will start the "official" version where you get to keep your characters, and we will start adding content/maps/spells/etc and increasing the level cap as fast as we can.

Great to hear that everyone had a good time!

[strafe of x2]

sounds good. man i tried to stay awake for you last night but for some reason the download was moving ungodly slow.. then i fell asleep with my face on the keyboard.
lookin forward to it.
(got any type of time frame so i dont have to spam f5 all night XD ?

[Part-Time Modeler]

Sweet, you can count me in.
I will be switching to part-time at my job in order to gear up for upcoming classes.
I will be able to test this week, as long as it is not a 3am,

[Volcomboy99]

man i wish i didnt have school starting tomorrow lol. but man last night really got me pumped up for this game. it was already looking really good. i love the models for the races, its really different and cool

[9sam1]

The update doesn't work, it says i failed to launch evidyon.

[Part-Time Modeler]

The update doesn't work, it says i failed to launch evidyon.

Same here. I have tried everything stated earlier in the last forum.
Also says, that evidyon.exe (within the Evidion folder) it is not a valid win32 application.

[Caps]

Does Karl know of this new menace?

[Caps]

Sorry about the double post, but from the looks of it, it doesn't seem to ever finish downloading the client.

[Tseiga]

Sounds good. I'll try to get some free time to test things out.

[Karl G.]

That's really weird that it says evidyon isn't a valid app--you might have gotten an old version. Delete evidyon.exe and try again now.

I am devoting all of today to getting this thing online for you guys =)

[Joe M.]

Something I encountered while testing last night:
Firefox had stashed a copy of the installer somewhere, so even after I uninstalled and deleted all the files (including the installer), when I went to download the new installer, Firefox just grabbed the copy it had on hand (same link, same file name, same file, right?) and plunked it down in my download folder: 20 MB, instantly! But the installer was the old one and had all the old problems ...

The way you can tell the difference: the latest installer has the correct directory for default install (C:\Program Files\Evidyon instead of C:\Program Files\Common Files\Evidyon).

I finally got it to work by downloading with a different browser.

[Sankt Pauli]

A stickied "Download newest client here" thread or something alike would be nice, it's pretty confusing tbh. :p

[marzuku]

A stickied "Download newest client here" thread or something alike would be nice, it's pretty confusing tbh. :p

i agree, i found it hard to find the "Download" button etc.

[ven]

lol who got any playing time? i wanna know what it's like.

[strafe of x2]

DUDE its sick and i think the server just crashed...

[ven]

Ah yea its badass... and i think it did crash lol

[Sankt Pauli]

Playing it right now (well, yeah untill the server crashed lol), and it's alot of fun. I really dig the more vibrant world and the funky spells.

The only thing i'm not really digging is the graphics, i.e. textures (Effects and models are great). Things are looking too "low-res" and everything could use a bit less contrast together with some more brightness. Also something like anti-aliasing would help alot.

Besides that, two thumbs up. :]

[ven]

I think its just fine for pre-beta he can touch things up later

[strafe of x2]

man its just kinda like i dont remeber when the last time i had that much fun on xen... it had been a VERRYY long time lol and it was like 30 mintes

[ven]

lmao i was thinking the same exact thing.. now im dieing for it to get back up again

[strafe of x2]

yeah man i know... im like CMONNNNN actually ehm i think i might not have my acc number... shitttt

[ven]

it went back up then i was lvling and then it went down.. it might have been my fault this time.. i was run attacking a couple of times and it went down i believe

[strafe of x2]

it just went up and down again lol

[strafe of x2]

idk whats causing it to like lag out then come back

[ven]

lol its like a rollercoaster