Beta Patch 20191014

[Rogean]

I want to thank all the players that have been testing and reporting bugs on the Beta server. We've fixed numerous amounts of issues, all of which are being patched in with this update. I don't have a comprehensive changelog list, but anything that was reported and marked resolved by a developer will be patched in.

We are also implementing a few new large changes to the Beta server.

The first is a full overhaul to Nighttime Darkness that's been worked on by Blank and Telin. These changes utilize the Dynamic Lightning engine present in the Titanium client to restore full night time darkness to the player races that should be blind. This means that light sources (Fire Beetle Eyes, Torches, etc) and vision spells (Ultravision) have become very important to those races again. For more information, feedback, and bug reporting, please see this thread (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=336363).

The next update being implemented is some significant changes being done to our current Velious UI, worked on by a large team of the community. They have been working to restore the look of UI elements, including windows, buttons, and more. More information about that can be found in this thread (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=336341).

Make sure you get the latest patch files 50f (https://www.project1999.com/files/P99Files50f.zip).

11 Days to go!

Thanks!

[Diro]

Scurred me for a sec.

[NachtMystium]

love yall P99

[Albanwr]

much love

[FungusTrooper]

So the launch is set for the 25th? Woo!

[zaneosak]

Thanks for all your work.

I might have misunderstood but are the UI changes in this patch we just did or an upcoming? Or some of them now? Obviously the UI is different as of this patch and my main issue is the Inventory window text and elements are just so small now. Was that intentional? I can barely see the blue bar on top of the bubbles unless I squint... granted my eyes are not amazing... maybe its a resolution issue on my end.

[Aich]

Testing now

[Aich]

Nice Char select skin

[mcoy]

This new lighting is fantastic as a human. Luckily I already had a greater lightstone but I keep taking it off to see the difference. Awesome work!

-Mcoy

[Sorn]

My only question is will these nightblind races start with a worn candle* when they spring forth fully formed into the world of Norrath?

[Enme]

Patch file worked initially to let me log into the beta server. I tried to log another client on the same account onto Blue and it gave me the spell file patch error msg. After several tries I logged off beta and onto blue where it showed I did not have a single character on the character select screen. Repatched the F file again and tried to log into Blue and no luck gives me the spell file patch error msg.

[Aich]

Will we have to open the spell book to Meditate? I know in the past we had too stair at the spell book to meditate. New Ui has a meditate button that is toggleable.

[HedleyKow]

FYI the v50f patch makes it so you can't log into the Blue server. Gives the error message at char select saying your files aren't up to date or w/e.

[Aich]

FYI the v50f patch makes it so you can't log into the Blue server. Gives the error message at char select saying your files aren't up to date or w/e.

lol duh, make a new folder for p99 green, shits a green beta patch

[username17]

I'm loving the UI. It's hella sharp. 6 slot hotbar will take some getting used to.

Edit: OMG THE BREATH METER. Amazing.

[Tethler]

My only question is will these nightblind races start with a worn candle* when they spring forth fully formed into the world of Norrath?

My human ranger started with a candle

[mcoy]

Human Cleric - started with a candle.

-Mcoy

[Danth]

lol duh, make a new folder for p99 green, shits a green beta patch

I understand some folks like to try to 'pwn' people on the internet, however the previous download was compatible with both servers as have been the majority of past P99 'betas' and the original post did not indicate a separate install was necessary.

Danth

[Madbad]

gorgeous!

[Baler]

Thank You very much Staff!

[Danth]

...the previous download was compatible with both servers as have been the majority of past P99 'betas' and the original post did not indicate a separate install was necessary.

As an addendum, by switching a couple of files (i switched spelldata and the .dll) from 50d and 50f around I can use the updated lighting on either server which is as it should be since the updated lighting should be on 'blue' anyway (and hopefully it will be, once the kinks are worked out). Bit of a hassle to switch the files back-and-forth depending which server I want to play on, but IMO less of a hassle than maintaining two wholly separate installs.

Danth

[Tichotraxs1]

are hybrid classes gonna take the exp penalty?? like pallys 40%?

[snflanigan]

I downloaded the patch and installed it and now I can't login. I get this error when trying to log into blue: "One or more of your Everquest Files are not the correct Titanium version for Project 1999. You will not be able to play until the files listed in red are replaced with correct versions. spells_us.txt (731221104)

[snflanigan]

I downloaded the patch and installed it and now I can't login. I get this error when trying to log into blue: "One or more of your Everquest Files are not the correct Titanium version for Project 1999. You will not be able to play until the files listed in red are replaced with correct versions. spells_us.txt (731221104)

I fixed it. I grabbed that file from the 50d patch files and it's working now.

[Tecmos Deception]

are hybrid classes gonna take the exp penalty?? like pallys 40%?

Of course.

[skorge]

Just downloaded and started playing. Started in Oggok, it was fine. When I zoned into Ferrott, it appeared brighter, but then when i opened options it went back to being darker again.

Secondly, as soon as I zoned into Ferrott, the world was not as green anymore, it was desaturated (the ground appeared and looked as if you were walking on the moon...gray).

I will keep playing to test.

https://joelrozier.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ferrott.jpg

Update. Innothule Swamp appears the same...very grayed out in appearance for me. No greenish colors popping out. Not sure if it's just me or what.

Update 2: I found the issue. If there is not a light source near the textures, they all appear to be desaturated or grayed out in color. I am attaching an image that shows this. You can see the colors on the ground with light source near it.

https://joelrozier.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/innothule.jpg

[soronil]

Just downloaded and started playing. Started in Oggok, it was fine. When I zoned into Ferrott, it appeared brighter, but then when i opened options it went back to being darker again.

Secondly,
Update.
Update 2:

full overhaul to Nighttime Darkness
For more information, feedback, and bug reporting, please see this thread (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=336363).

[Gustoo]

Excellent changes. I look forward to not being able to look forward.

I made human ranger on green to test important cool elements like this. Looking forward to getting that elite greater light stone.

Even as an elf and halfling I remember greater lightstones being definitely worthwhile when cruising in night time.

Best game just got better. Nice work gang.

[uygi]

Don’t forget that that light source would make your corpse glow, sometimes making it easier to find!

[derpcake2]

Can't wait to sell lightstones at T1, starting sales at midnight.

[Deathrydar]

Can't wait to sell lightstones at T1, starting sales at midnight.

This is gonna be so awesome!

[Bigcountry23]

The UI looks much better (and wohoo for fixing spellbook)!

[Shadowfax]

I keep getting a spells_us.txt error preventing me from getting to the character select screen with the newest patch?

[jcbbjjttt]

Installed this patch and I can no longer log into Blue. I get a missing file "spells_us.txt (731221104)" is missing.

Installed the latest patch, I'm able to login on Green. However, attempting to login to Blue I receive "

Just an fyi.

[bassicallybob]

Unable to log into blue, missing text file spells_us.txt (731221104)

[jcbbjjttt]

Unable to log into blue, missing text file spells_us.txt (731221104)

If you redownload patch 50d, you can log into blue.

[Slackerkid26]

I'm getting an issue while trying to run Blue: spells_us.txt (731221104). Anyone else get this? Any advice?

[Slackerkid26]

Ah I see the advice above, do I simply replace the 50f patch with 50d?

[jcbbjjttt]

If you redownload patch 50d, you can log into blue.

[jcbbjjttt]

Ah I see the advice above, do I simply replace the 50f patch with 50d?

Correct.

[zeo1987]

So, Darkelves shouldn't be blind then correct? Cause I feel blind.

[Awweshux]

Loaded f; error msg re/ files came again. Blue wouldn't load either. Went back to d. Was logged into blue; didn't load a couple files due to that.

[Jettison]

Seriously... I'm a red player but this sounds so dang good I really wish there were a red box for it. Almost just want to go ahead and play green for the OG experience.

[Thrombosis]

Thank you Rogean, especially for using the superior big endian date format in the title of this thread.

[Lament Icarus]

For some reason my game crashes every time I camp.. the timer counts down, and as the game quits out it crashes every time. Anyone have any ideas?

[Veeshan31]

For some reason my game crashes every time I camp.. the timer counts down, and as the game quits out it crashes every time. Anyone have any ideas?

Set eq game.exe for compatibility mode for windows xp service pack 3. Only downside is this requires admin rights to run the launch titanium.bat file.

[loramin]

Seriously... I'm a red player but this sounds so dang good I really wish there were a red box for it. Almost just want to go ahead and play green for the OG experience.

It will have the /guildwar command, and it might even have server-defined guilds that you can auto-join to PvP or something.

Various ideas have been suggested (there's a thread if you're curious), and the staff have confirmed that /guildwar will happen in some form ... but the details (AFAIK) are still 100% up in the air. Regardless, it seems like Green will have the potential to be a home for PvPers too :)

[Lament Icarus]

Set eq game.exe for compatibility mode for windows xp service pack 3. Only downside is this requires admin rights to run the launch titanium.bat file.

That did it! Thank you so much!

[drelk001]

Awesome work guys.

But why not just use the old Trilogy client like EQClassic?

Or have a compatibility layer?

[loramin]

Awesome work guys.

But why not just use the old Trilogy client like EQClassic?

I believe our very own decompiler extraordinaire (Secrets) took a crack at it at one point.

Without knowing the details, I think the fact that everyone behind this server would love a more classic client ... and yet not even Secrets was able to make it happen ... suggests that it's a lot of work.

[drelk001]

Where there is a will, there is a way. Team up with the EQClassic team?

Just doesnt make any sense to me, If they put in as much work as they are with making Titanium as "classic" as possible. Why not just buckle down and figure it out? I just dont understand it.

[loramin]

Where there is a will, there is a way. Team up with the EQClassic team?

Just doesnt make any sense to me, If they put in as much work as they are with making Titanium as "classic" as possible. Why not just buckle down and figure it out? I just dont understand it.

Maybe Secrets will chime in with details, but if not I think it's safe to assume that if wasn't super difficult, it would already be done.

[soronil]

But why not just use the old Trilogy client like EQClassic?


How well is that server going??

[Wenai]

How well is that server going??

Lol. I remember so many people turning up their noses at P1999 when we were launching. Because "EQClassic will be out in no time." Here we are 10 years later, with a second PVE server about to be launched. EQClassic still seemingly never going to launch. I am super surprised to still see EQClassic chatter at this point.

[Valion]

It will have the /guildwar command, and it might even have server-defined guilds that you can auto-join to PvP or something.

Various ideas have been suggested (there's a thread if you're curious), and the staff have confirmed that /guildwar will happen in some form ... but the details (AFAIK) are still 100% up in the air. Regardless, it seems like Green will have the potential to be a home for PvPers too :)

This is a nice touch. :) I'm glad they decided to enable it.
I had to regrind 31-36 several times because of our guildwar and The Battle for Kithicor event during classic.

[dallasdirty]

Patch file worked initially to let me log into the beta server. I tried to log another client on the same account onto Blue and it gave me the spell file patch error msg. After several tries I logged off beta and onto blue where it showed I did not have a single character on the character select screen. Repatched the F file again and tried to log into Blue and no luck gives me the spell file patch error msg.

Exact same issue

[Smedy]

The first is a full overhaul to Nighttime Darkness that's been worked on by Blank and Telin. These changes utilize the Dynamic Lightning engine present in the Titanium client to restore full night time darkness to the player races that should be blind. This means that light sources (Fire Beetle Eyes, Torches, etc) and vision spells (Ultravision) have become very important to those races again. For more information, feedback, and bug reporting, please see this thread (https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=336363).


i rarely feel emotions relating to everquest anymore as they all died with the red server, but this got me feeling nostalgic again, i remember the first time i spawned into butcherblock 1999 and not seeing anything but thunder, rain and dwarfs running around with torches in their hand to illuminate the narrow path, true immersion that i hope can be recreated

[Deathrydar]

Lol. I remember so many people turning up their noses at P1999 when we were launching. Because "EQClassic will be out in no time." Here we are 10 years later, with a second PVE server about to be launched. EQClassic still seemingly never going to launch. I am super surprised to still see EQClassic chatter at this point.

I admit, I was one of those. I was a hardcore follower of EQClassic from the time it peeked it's head out in late 2007 and it actually became a solid community starting in early 2008. I still go to the forums a couple times a month to say hi or check in.

I just don't think their vision can become a reality, and if it can, it will not be for some time. I played in the first auditor (beta) test and leveled up a Cleric from 1-60, with no experience boost, in the tutorial zone. Yes, no other zone, just the tutorial zone, from 1-60...

And I didn't even care. I just wanted to help in some way, to bring classic EQ back to the limelight. I reported as many bugs as I could, and then logged off and never went back. I could still log into the beta if I wanted to right now.

They have a great set of people over there, and I kinda feel bad for the one or two developers that still exist. EQClassic is a great example of what happens when drama gets in the way of a great project!

But, they have to do so much over there and it has already been twelve years. I just do not believe you can reverse-engineer the trilogy client to work again. And even if you could, you would need more than the 1 or 2 (if they are lucky) devs that are working on their own time to make it a reality.

Anyway, to get away from my rambling, when I first heard about Project 1999, I thought it was going to be some loose wanna-be Omens of War era-EQ game that looked a little classic. Basically, I thought it was going to be the same, sad, sorry excuse for a classic server that Sony would put out when they would release their "progression servers".

Those things were a complete joke!

But as I played and saw the dedication of the devs and (some) of the community, I realized that even though there was a long way to go when they launched in October of 2009, there was no limitation as to how far they would go.

And now look! There will never be anything this close again to the classic experience!

[BlackBellamy]

I admit, I was one of those. I was a hardcore follower of EQClassic from the time it peeked

Christ, I went to those forums last night just to check them out. The drama! That first guy having a meltdown from angry PMs and abandoning years of work. The glacial pace of development. Beta tests every two years. Still nothing remotely playable. And you could see the forum progression, so many posts and then petering out and petering out and now it's just people like you checking in saying hi.

I don't think anyone there realistically expects this to progress and are probably just waiting for the final this is it post from that last guy working on it. Still, the amount of posts and community there, makes me sad it's going to die after all that time.

[dussle27]

I just don't think their vision can become a reality, and if it can, it will not be for some time. I played in the first auditor (beta) test and leveled up a Cleric from 1-60, with no experience boost, in the tutorial zone. Yes, no other zone, just the tutorial zone, from 1-60...

Wow. In the time this took you could have learned 2 code and built your own EQClassic.

[Deathrydar]

Wow. In the time this took you could have learned 2 code and built your own EQClassic.

I am not that smart.

[Fammaden]

Christ, I went to those forums last night just to check them out. The drama! That first guy having a meltdown from angry PMs and abandoning years of work. The glacial pace of development. Beta tests every two years. Still nothing remotely playable. And you could see the forum progression, so many posts and then petering out and petering out and now it's just people like you checking in saying hi.

I don't think anyone there realistically expects this to progress and are probably just waiting for the final this is it post from that last guy working on it. Still, the amount of posts and community there, makes me sad it's going to die after all that time.

Looking at some youtube video with classic era EQ the other day, there's some comment like "soon you will be able to play Everquest like this again! Google EQClassic!" The comment was seven years old.

[Deathrydar]

Looking at some youtube video with classic era EQ the other day, there's some comment like "soon you will be able to play Everquest like this again! Google EQClassic!" The comment was seven years old.

And to tell ya the truth, it was probably me.

[drelk001]

Thing is about EQClassic. They could launch a Full on open beta, Just fix bugs as they come in, It's playable.

Then do Progression style. But for some reason refuse. I even made a post about it here (http://www.eqclassic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4051)

And was met with condescension by staff and forum goers.

Even in the IRC, Harakiri would be condescending when people ask questions, Saying things like "I dont know why I typed all that out, When people cant just read it. Laziness" (Actual quote)

I have given up on EQClassic. But I would love to see the team behind P99 do a Trilogy client.

[Achromatic]

what about being able to multiquest plane of sky quests?

excellent work guys

[Tethler]

Can we have classic darkness on blue as well? Please?

[Deathrydar]

Can we have classic darkness on blue as well? Please?

The blue population complains every time they try to put something classic on your server. Why would the devs want to go thru that again and have to reverse it?

[strandvig]

Can´t login into beta, says spell_us.txt is out of date. i have the latest patch etc. any have this issue ?

[Deathrydar]

Can´t login into beta, says spell_us.txt is out of date. i have the latest patch etc. any have this issue ?

Which patch are you using? Should be 50g

[strandvig]

Which patch are you using? Should be 50g

it is that patch

[jmclark3592]

Which patch are you using? Should be 50g

Link for 50f is broken for me. Can someone send me a working link? Or should I be using 50g for blue? Just trying to log on blue

[Deathrydar]

Link for 50f is broken for me. Can someone send me a working link? Or should I be using 50g for blue? Just trying to log on blue

Blue is still on 50d