Well yes, the five hour maintenance for the City of Heroes/City of Villains servers today was indeed to roll out Issue 12: Midnight Hour. Oh, we managed to squeeze in extra character slots as well. Happy?
Here are the current official known issues with the… err… issue, and here are the official (lengthy!) patch notes as well. Pity the poor localisation people who had to translate those, and our community folk who had to proof-read, edit and post ‘em!
Launch days for any big patch are always a little scary; just because everyone has to cross their fingers and hope everything goes okay. So far it looks like today is all good… so hooray! Guess I’d better try and log-in tonight and start exploring Issue 12, as I never did get to check it out on the Training Room.
Enjoy.
PS: No, the timing had zero to do with the launch (in the US!) of A.N. Other MMO. We’re not that concerned to be honest (or that cunning).
PPS: While we didn’t make it, this is a really fine fan-trailer for Issue 12; if you haven’t seen it yet, enjoy.
#1 by Crimson_Archer at May 20th, 2008
So, I have been avoiding reading anything about Issue 12 to try and maintain my ignornace. I normally manage to rob the magic from movies for myself because I hunt for spoilers, but for this I’ve held back…
And having now read through the notes I’m *really* glad I did!! I actually W00t’d a could of times out loud!!
Okay, so I knew about the new zone, the Hollows revamp and the VEATs, but it’s the little things that made me the most excited. The change to Auto Turret?! Oh My God!!! I nearly sh@t myself!!! Stuff like this makes me *so* excited about the future of this game, and I can see CoH becoming so much bigger!! Great days!!
#2 by Samuraiko at May 23rd, 2008
Well, so my fame has now spread to the folks at NCSoft Europe, too? Go me!
I’m glad you liked my trailer – public response to it (including from the devs) appears to be wholeheartedly positive!
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko
#3 by Rockjaw at May 23rd, 2008
Did indeed, Michelle. You’re on my shortlist of people to contact if/when we get to doing a machinima-based project.