Patch Notes: September 8th, 2019

[1203jjt]

Originally Posted by TazarYoot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Really wish we could have left the UI’s as they were. Not really seeing this patch as an improvement... the game felt classic, I really don’t think the optional UI changes prevented anyone from experiencing the classic game. If you liked the simple UI use the simple UI if you preferred a bit more customization it doesn’t seem unreasonable to allow it.

Exactly...well put. Total fail on the dev's part.

[ballardbk]

Originally Posted by 1203jjt [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Exactly...well put. Total fail on the dev's part.

Agreed

[Ajax10]

Originally Posted by TazarYoot [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Really wish we could have left the UI’s as they were. Not really seeing this patch as an improvement... the game felt classic, I really don’t think the optional UI changes prevented anyone from experiencing the classic game. If you liked the simple UI use the simple UI if you preferred a bit more customization it doesn’t seem unreasonable to allow it.

I agree 1000%, the optional UI changes didn't prevent anyone from experiencing the classic game UI and its limitations. Use the simple UI and case closed. The pet bar and everything else allowed on P99 are quality of life options for those who need them. I dont play with voice chat or GINA but should we call foul on the people using these as well? They were not around at classic either. To not understand why folks are upset is bit puzzling to me.

[FungusTrooper]

Originally Posted by Ajax10 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree 1000%, the optional UI changes didn't prevent anyone from experiencing the classic game UI and its limitations. Use the simple UI and case closed. The pet bar and everything else allowed on P99 are quality of life options for those who need them. I dont play with voice chat or GINA but should we call foul on the people using these as well? They were not around at classic either. To not understand why folks are upset is bit puzzling to me.

I mean.. how could they police GINA? Introduce a logger that checks to see if it's running, and if so, close your game? I doubt people'd be happy with P99 constantly scanning their running programs.

Pretty sure they'd ban it if they could, since it's not classic.

[Katran]

Originally Posted by FungusTrooper [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I mean.. how could they police GINA? Introduce a logger that checks to see if it's running, and if so, close your game? I doubt people'd be happy with P99 constantly scanning their running programs.

Pretty sure they'd ban it if they could, since it's not classic.

Writing log file was classic, wasn't it? So anyone could have written a log parser. Maybe it was not so widely known as GINA or other tools today.

[Silken]

Originally Posted by FungusTrooper [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I doubt people'd be happy with P99 constantly scanning their running programs.

Nobody knows the specifics of what the anticheat does, but I can almost guarantee that at the very minimum it scans your running processes.

[mischief419]

Originally Posted by Silken [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nobody knows the specifics of what the anticheat does, but I can almost guarantee that at the very minimum it scans your running processes.

Not sure why people are going weird about this - tons of games do this. I'm honestly cool with them scanning for anti cheats. It's not like they're scanning for nudes or anything (not like the nudes will even be good if scanning p99 buddies ehehh). Better game with less cheaters, eh?

[bomaroast]

Originally Posted by FungusTrooper [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I mean.. how could they police GINA? Introduce a logger that checks to see if it's running, and if so, close your game? I doubt people'd be happy with P99 constantly scanning their running programs.

Pretty sure they'd ban it if they could, since it's not classic.

This functionality is already in place. The devs can see all the processes running on your system as well as the hostname. They're able to tell if you're running on a VM, so they might have acess to device id's too. Who knows what else. This was done around 2011 to prevent macroquest2.

We really need an open source P99 clone.

[Benanov]

Originally Posted by bomaroast [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This functionality is already in place. The devs can see all the processes running on your system as well as the hostname. They're able to tell if you're running on a VM, so they might have acess to device id's too. Who knows what else. This was done around 2011 to prevent macroquest2.

I guess it's time to start a new log parser called chrome.exe. /s

[BoneyBoney]

Only been on Blue for a few months, few characters into the 30s and 40s nothing special but capping the FPS and removing the pet window (including pet health being removed from under player health) come across as needlessly damaging.

My classes are predominantly pet-based and yes, classic EQ didn't have the pet window but that window has been established on P1999 for how long? You don't remove features that players come to depend on in this way, it's taking the server in the wrong direction entirely.

I game on 144hz and to have that forced to 60fps is a massive turn off. What were the issues with Velious specifically that required the entire set of zones to be hard locked to 60fps?

Very sad to see these changes go in. Unlikely to continue playing. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]