So there's another "huge" patch coming at the end of the month?

[Dterrio]

PS3 is getting their patches on 4-29-2013

As of right now NA pc and Xbox are getting

Server Update: April 26th 9:00am PT - NA Xbox 360 & PC
We are performing Server Updates on our NA PC and Xbox 360 servers. We expect 45 minutes of downtime.

Server Update:
Date: April 26th, 2013
Time: 9:00am PT
Duration: 45 minutes



Nothing else is listed for xbox and PC just ps3 getting caught up with the rest of the community. Which translate's to we are screwed like the rest of you on monday.

[DJTrig]

I think a few people are reading that 6 upside down and seeing 29th,that post is just another of the daily server updates.I'm guessing it was just basic server stuff since it is longer than the restarts but has no patch note.As i posted earlier,we should see the second patch at some point next week if the plan hasn't changed.Since nothing has been mentioned about a hard date or content of the patch yet i fear it may have been delayed.

[Schwa]

The source of the 29th is Some Trion Guy on Twitter. It's impossible to keep track of anything Trion's saying.

[BraveDude8]

Go ask Sony and MS ... they limit the frequency of client side patches.
This would've been so much more awesome as a PC only release in so many ways.

I'm not blaming the console players, you suffer just as we do, but consoles hinder the games evolution.

You hit the nail on the head. There is a reason why games like TF2 get daily patches while even MMOs like DCUO Online (PS3) only get one every week, maximum.

[Era]

Oh, interesting. That's funny, TRION would like to have a word with the current patch frequency for Defiance.

http://forums.riftgame.com/official-...s/patch-notes/

Equating a series of hotfixes with patching a buggy as hell incomplete game into a complete game is equivocation at its finest. Also with frequent large patches planned out other than emergency hotfixes they shouldn't be expected to release numerous hotfixes because doing so creates a greater chance for redundancy/resurgence of old bugs in the major patches.

[DJTrig]

Equating a series of hotfixes with patching a buggy as hell incomplete game into a complete game is equivocation at its finest. Also with frequent large patches planned out other than emergency hotfixes they shouldn't be expected to release numerous hotfixes because doing so creates a greater chance for redundancy/resurgence of old bugs in the major patches.

Like the EGO level spam on loading in.

[skepticck]

i think by "huge" patch they mean the size of the patch files not that it corrects an "huge" amount of bugs or adds an "huge" amount off content or that it changes an "huge" amount of anything, i mean the last patch was almost 4GB with nothing really to show for it, nothing much was added to the map, corrected some bugs but added a ton more, added a few things for the celebration, hardly what you expect for a 4GB patch.

[Schwa]

i think by "huge" patch they mean the size of the patch files not that it corrects an "huge" amount of bugs or adds an "huge" amount off content or that it changes an "huge" amount of anything, i mean the last patch was almost 4GB with nothing really to show for it, nothing much was added to the map, corrected some bugs but added a ton more, added a few things for the celebration, hardly what you expect for a 4GB patch.

I think they ended up replacing a lot of files, rather than adding extra content. The actual game ended up being only around 400mb larger after the patch.

[Tgreen]

I think they ended up replacing a lot of files, rather than adding extra content. The actual game ended up being only around 400mb larger after the patch.

Ok ... you really just blew the damn lod off.
The patch was mostly bug fixes. How the **** do you think bug fixes work? A new file for each fix or what?

[Technodude]

Ok ... you really just blew the damn lod off.
The patch was mostly bug fixes. How the **** do you think bug fixes work? A new file for each fix or what?

He talking about the size of patch files...ever heard of 4gb patch for bug fixes?