163 to valve by 5pm

TigTig Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71674Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver
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<div class="IPBDescription">wake up, make coffee, be awesome.</div><img src="http://mauivents.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MAUIVENTS.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
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  • derWalterderWalter Join Date: 2008-10-29 Member: 65323Members
    be awesome reminds me at : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNL_Y98x6Gc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNL_Y98x6Gc</a>

    :P
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  • TigTig Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71674Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver
    i like that there was a "sweet." in there
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Is this the weekly "speculate on when the game will be uploaded to Valve and wait 'til next week" thread? If so, you might be better off watching that video which shows some pretty nice alien flashlight ideas ;)
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  • AsranielAsraniel Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 724Members, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester, Retired Community Developer
    they said that they want to move to a monday/tuesday release schedule instead of the friday one. So i doubt that today we will get a patch. And with all that stuff going on (DI, dark vision etc), i think they probably wont have a releasable test build (that is actually fun to play)
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  • TigTig Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71674Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver
    <center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nwv61Uu1fdA"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nwv61Uu1fdA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>
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  • LazerLazer Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14406Members, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester
    I have never seen them stick to any real schedule, it is always either announced and then late (old method up until a few builds ago), or not announced and then out of the blue (but kinda predictable from the tracker being at a standstill for a day or so). As of lately this Monday/Tuesday thing was mentioned and now everyone just keeps quoting that even though there hasn't been any obvious pattern to confirm it. I still think patches will be coming out whenever they feel ready (which makes more sense then trying to follow a specific schedule). If a patch is looking ready for them today they will probably try to send it off today and not just wait for the weekend to pass. Not to mention with all the PR this week and people flooding in to see what things are about is definitely incentive to get out another patch, but I wouldn't be surprised if what's holding things up is related to still trying to fix tickrate. A GC fix in itself might be enough to warrant a patch but there has been no mention of the problem actually being solved yet so :(
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    The second fly in the pie would be Valve...
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  • IeptBarakatIeptBarakat The most difficult name to speak ingame. Join Date: 2009-07-10 Member: 68107Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow
    Would rather wait a bit longer than have stripped patch. Many exciting things in progress lately.
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  • EnceladusEnceladus Join Date: 2004-01-18 Member: 25442Members
    Take an endgamestats tracker of your choice, check for version 163 and look for games which duration spikes out. If you find a recent one, chances are high that this is of a playtest with the internal testing team, checking the release candidate for any showstoppers, which would mean that a patch is near.
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  • Squeal_Like_A_PigSqueal_Like_A_Pig Janitor Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 66Members, Super Administrators, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Reinforced - Supporter, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer
    We are aiming for a Tuesday release for 163. We still want to stick to the Tuesday release schedule thing. This patch has had a lot added to it, and the more features get added the more bugs are created, so its taken a bit longer then expected, but we hope to be back to releasing smaller weekly patches again once 163 is out the door.

    --Cory
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  • TigTig Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71674Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver
    <!--quoteo(post=1831458:date=Feb 11 2011, 01:19 PM:name=Squeal_Like_A_Pig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Squeal_Like_A_Pig @ Feb 11 2011, 01:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1831458"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->We are aiming for a Tuesday release for 163. We still want to stick to the Tuesday release schedule thing. This patch has had a lot added to it, and the more features get added the more bugs are created, so its taken a bit longer then expected, but we hope to be back to releasing smaller weekly patches again once 163 is out the door.

    --Cory<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    back to mapping then :)
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  • uffouffo Join Date: 2003-05-03 Member: 16026Members
    If tuesday will be the official date I guess friday will be the actual date for release, then.
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  • LORFCASTERLORFCASTER Join Date: 2010-06-13 Member: 72049Members
    Good one
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  • SkiddywinksSkiddywinks Join Date: 2011-01-12 Member: 77239Members
    CAN'T WAIT!
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  • devicenulldevicenull Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15967Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    <!--quoteo(post=1831458:date=Feb 11 2011, 01:19 PM:name=Squeal_Like_A_Pig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Squeal_Like_A_Pig @ Feb 11 2011, 01:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1831458"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->We are aiming for a Tuesday release for 163. We still want to stick to the Tuesday release schedule thing. This patch has had a lot added to it, and the more features get added the more bugs are created, so its taken a bit longer then expected, but we hope to be back to releasing smaller weekly patches again once 163 is out the door.

    --Cory<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Sweet. Releases on Tuesday are a lot better then releases on Friday IMO.
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  • RUben1RUben1 Join Date: 2010-11-24 Member: 75246Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1831646:date=Feb 12 2011, 04:58 AM:name=devicenull)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (devicenull @ Feb 12 2011, 04:58 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1831646"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Sweet. Releases on Tuesday are a lot better then releases on Friday IMO.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    When it's released on friday, I can play it saturday, the whole day. When they release on tuesday, I can't play it on wednesday..
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  • BluePhishBluePhish Join Date: 2003-12-14 Member: 24364Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited February 2011
    <!--quoteo(post=1831464:date=Feb 11 2011, 05:42 PM:name=uffo)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (uffo @ Feb 11 2011, 05:42 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1831464"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If tuesday will be the official date I guess friday will be the actual date for release, then.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    As he said: tuesday (valve time ;) )
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  • peregrinusperegrinus Join Date: 2010-07-16 Member: 72445Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1831698:date=Feb 12 2011, 12:44 PM:name=RUben1)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RUben1 @ Feb 12 2011, 12:44 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1831698"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->When it's released on friday, I can play it saturday, the whole day. When they release on tuesday, I can't play it on wednesday..<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    When it's released on tuesday you can still play on saturday...
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  • HarimauHarimau Join Date: 2007-12-24 Member: 63250Members
    The benefit in changing release day to Tuesday, is that in the worse case scenario, if it's late by one (Wednes), two (Thurs), or three (Fri) days, it'll still be released before Valve-guy goes home for the weekend. So what Lazer says is both true and false, and what uffo says is possible - they will try for Tuesday, but they will make sure it's in a ready state before they release, and this might very well mean they release Friday. Either way, we can all play on Saturday.
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  • syprosypro Join Date: 2009-10-31 Member: 69195Members
    Will 163 have some server performance improvements ?
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  • LazerLazer Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14406Members, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester
    edited February 2011
    ^There will most likely be a bunch of little performance improvements leading to a noticeable performance gain.

    And not gonna quote my earlier post, but I was right about this whole schedule thing. I actually was hoping for the extra delay to finish up some things with my NS2 player stats before the patch hit, but for the sake of people's trust it's a bad move to keep declaring and missing deadlines when people would have been just as happy to have heard last week "trying to shoot for a patch this wednesday!" (even if tuesday had been the expected release)...
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  • ZurikiZuriki Join Date: 2010-11-20 Member: 75105Members
    Need b163 NOWWWWWWWWWWWW

    b162 is really unstable, it's actually getting to be unbearable. I hope b163 fixes the crashing for the most part.
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  • LazerLazer Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14406Members, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester
    edited February 2011
    Could be wrong about some of this but I remember reading a few of these crashes were from Lerk spikes not getting destroyed (and becoming memory leaks really), also the potential for armories to start spamming out rifles which was also causing crashes in a similar but faster way. Think I remember seeing both being fixed on the tracker but they might have been moved off the list since accepted.
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  • RuntehRunteh Join Date: 2010-06-26 Member: 72163Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Personally I'm looking forward to the alien night vision and some of the commander changes. It will be interesting to see if Decals has made an appearance on other levels but DI. Even if DI is not in yet, it would be great if we can experiment with it with cheats or some such.

    Anyhow, looking forward to this UWE. Great stuff.
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  • TigTig Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71674Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver
    i see what you guys are doing :-P
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  • ZurikiZuriki Join Date: 2010-11-20 Member: 75105Members
    Wow. The crashes are so bad it's gotten to the point where I crash before I even join a game. Hilarious /s.
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  • wakeboarderwakeboarder Join Date: 2004-09-05 Member: 31388Members, NS2 Playtester
    AH 5pm just no day or time zone nice trick! Still holding breath hurry I have the rest of the day off it's noon PST.
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  • ZurikiZuriki Join Date: 2010-11-20 Member: 75105Members
    5pm PST. Which is 5pm for you. Or midnight for us Britons. ###### timezones man.
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  • ShiloriusShilorius Join Date: 2011-01-14 Member: 77445Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    It seems the actual forum-time is a little off.
    I set the time to "pacific standart time" (GMT-8 hours) to see which time it is in San Francisco but the forum says it's 02:44 PM (according to google it's 12:56 am (PST))


    anyway, take your time with the patch... remember haste makes waste and Rome wasn't built in a day.
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  • ScardyBobScardyBob ScardyBob Join Date: 2009-11-25 Member: 69528Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1832670:date=Feb 16 2011, 01:51 PM:name=wakeboarder)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (wakeboarder @ Feb 16 2011, 01:51 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1832670"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->AH 5pm just no day or time zone nice trick! Still holding breath hurry I have the rest of the day off it's noon PST.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Both UWE and Valve are on PST so you'll need to adjust accordingly for your time zome.
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