3.0.9 Testing Report
Posted: 07 Apr 2009, 05:42
So I compiled a 3.0.9 server the other day, to see how far MaNGOS has come since I last checked it. Death Knights are still very broken, however I didn't encounter any bugs on the few classes I tried out (that being the new abilities).
I'm a bit surprised that it's come along along from being tremendously buggy when I first tried it. :P However, I'm not saying all bugs are actually fixed, because I'm sure there are a few out there still. For those wondering, I didn't test Grounding Totem or Wound Poison, however Wound Poison was fixed already for 3.0 but wasn't applied to 2.4.3 because it wouldn't work I heard. I'll probably test a few of these tomorrow when I have time, or when I'm on Spring Break.
Lets see... Some of the things I tried off the top of my head would be Titan Grip which works fine, Divine Storm, Cheat Death, and several others Fluckadin tried (yes I let him on, anyone could too if they were on vent).
Now, you've probably heard me say maps were deleted in 3.0... well I was wrong. I made a mistake, there's a table in the world database called `instance_template` and it registered maps, well ones that are not accessible to players are not listed in that map(for some reason "Testing" and SWV are exceptions to this). Well since it was a Wrath testing DB I didn't think that the maps wouldn't be registered and when I tried to teleport to the maps, they simply came up with an error. So Emerald Dream, SC( <unused>Monastery), Hen's Palace (Sunwell FIX), Azshara Crater, are all still in the game :)
Know you're probably wondering where I'm going with this; I don't really plan on updating Smolderforge, at least, not right now, we would need to announce an update date a long time before we did. We gave players 1 WEEK and only about 50 accounts updated to 3.0.3 when we told them. Out of the 35,000 people at that time probably over 1000 being active through the week, only 50 updated. That's the problem, it's like TV's going to Digital, there's some people that just don't get with the program.
Anyway, let me know what ya'll think since I like to hear options -- for they make my decisions.
PS: Oh I actually like the "A GM Would Like to Speak to you. Press Here to Begin!" feature... sort of. It's cool in a sense of being a GM, however a player can just not accept that and ignore what the GM says... lol...
I'm a bit surprised that it's come along along from being tremendously buggy when I first tried it. :P However, I'm not saying all bugs are actually fixed, because I'm sure there are a few out there still. For those wondering, I didn't test Grounding Totem or Wound Poison, however Wound Poison was fixed already for 3.0 but wasn't applied to 2.4.3 because it wouldn't work I heard. I'll probably test a few of these tomorrow when I have time, or when I'm on Spring Break.
Lets see... Some of the things I tried off the top of my head would be Titan Grip which works fine, Divine Storm, Cheat Death, and several others Fluckadin tried (yes I let him on, anyone could too if they were on vent).
Now, you've probably heard me say maps were deleted in 3.0... well I was wrong. I made a mistake, there's a table in the world database called `instance_template` and it registered maps, well ones that are not accessible to players are not listed in that map(for some reason "Testing" and SWV are exceptions to this). Well since it was a Wrath testing DB I didn't think that the maps wouldn't be registered and when I tried to teleport to the maps, they simply came up with an error. So Emerald Dream, SC( <unused>Monastery), Hen's Palace (Sunwell FIX), Azshara Crater, are all still in the game :)
Know you're probably wondering where I'm going with this; I don't really plan on updating Smolderforge, at least, not right now, we would need to announce an update date a long time before we did. We gave players 1 WEEK and only about 50 accounts updated to 3.0.3 when we told them. Out of the 35,000 people at that time probably over 1000 being active through the week, only 50 updated. That's the problem, it's like TV's going to Digital, there's some people that just don't get with the program.
Anyway, let me know what ya'll think since I like to hear options -- for they make my decisions.
PS: Oh I actually like the "A GM Would Like to Speak to you. Press Here to Begin!" feature... sort of. It's cool in a sense of being a GM, however a player can just not accept that and ignore what the GM says... lol...