Mark stopped by the forums a bit ago and gave us an update on the Preview Weekend. Things they have found that need fixing, including the hottest topic around, r10 rr6 players going to tier 2 and getting gear then coming back to tier 1 scenarios.

Folks,

Okay, it was a wild and crazy weekend in WAR and while some of you might be tempted to go all Samurai on us for a couple of the bugs, overall things went very, very well. As long-time readers of my notes now, I won�t do a Nick Winters and we are anything but pathological liars so we�ll always own up when we make a mistake and we made a couple here. So, Aion Gold�let�s talk amongst ourselves and have a little chat about the top nine list of the biggest issues and where we stand in regards to them.

(1) Client Crashes � I�ve talked about this as one of the reasons why we didn�t release the NDA until recently. Here�s the current status.
- Just a little too many currently. While we are better off than we were in beta, we must do better still before release.
- A number of players will lower spec Air Jordan Shoes� machines had more CTDs than higher spec machines.
- Number of fixes already in pipeline. They are working their way through our testing servers and will be pushed to the players once they have been vetted internally.
- Engineering time for CTD issue has remained heavily committed; our top engineers are working on the various issues.

(2) Monster Pathing and AI � Well, what can I say other than not even all of King Tut�s wealth could have made us feel better for messing up on this one. Well, maybe all his wealth. 
- �Yes, that monster seems to be behaving a little oddly�. Monster responsiveness was very sketchy, odd pauses and tethering issues.
- �Oh, was I supposed to go in that direction?� Pathing sometimes wonky - mobs get stuck or go in wrong direction.
- Utter confusion at times as both monsters and pets will engage and disengage seemingly at random
- Internal server optimizations last week broke the pathing/AI. And I mean really, really broke it. This truly was a �Opps, we broke this code� moment for us and we don�t have many of them.
- Going to ensure that this problem is fixed this week. As I said in my first Preview Weekend, this is a major concern for us. Fortunately we have no underwater combat in this game or some of the Warhammer Gold NPCs may have been appropriately dubbed land sharks.

(3) Pet Responsiveness � With similar issues to Monster Pathing and AI, this was not our finest hour.
- Need to transfer "combat responsiveness" fixes to pets - have pet move immediately on button press.
- �Oh no, Mr. Bill!� Pets suffer from same pathing and lack of response as general monsters. runescape gold� Pets hopping around like they were headed to Del Staters.


(4) Global Cooldown Timers �This seems to be a hot topic for players to talk about. However, things aren�t always as they seem.
- Reality and perception are two different things, Warhammer has a GCD of 1.4s, WoW has 1.5s
- Need to improve on the feeling of sluggishness of the GCD and UI.
- Or is it really 2.0 seconds? Bug with display where our timer shows 2s when it is really 1.4
- Next in line please? We will add in better "slop timer" to allow players 0.3s extra to pre-queue a second ability followup.
- �Ability not ready� messaging needs to be improve, a sound effect if Global Cooldown in effect, maybe more� aion power leveling� cowbell?

(5) Client Performance � This is one of those issues
- Need better scalers on effects, sounds, graphics, etc to help lower end machines (already lots of additions to coders)
- This thing loves memory like Dan Aykroyd loves bass. We have already improved the memory consumption of the client and taken 100M out of current test best.

(6) Better animations
- So much more coming in the next two versions of the client. We are currently incorporating serious amounts of new animations into the game. Hopefully nobody will sneak a coneheads model into the game.
- Look at what my XXXX does now? Over the next� aion online gold�month we will address many class-attack specific issues across all 20 careers.
- �U think you can dance?� Nope, but we have added new racial animations for movement, fidgets and redid some emotes.

(7) Texture Blurring
- Textures are currently cached in a manner that results in blurriness on entering a region.
- We will look at adding a client scalar.

(8) Targeting, Camera, etc
- Currently our targeting system differs from many MMOs inTennis Rackets�� terms of our features and how we go about things. We will identify and make a more standard initial setup but allow flexibility.
- Will add additional keybinding selections to allow flexibility

(9) Renown rank gear
- Unfortunately, a new bug (well an old bug we fixed and then managed to break again) which allowed Rank 10 RR 6 players can go to Tier 2 to get better gear and then come back to Tier 1 and own scenarios. We are currently working on a fix.

I hope you enjoyed the Preview Weekend and we thank you for your interest and we hope, patronage of our game.

Guess what folks, that�s the news and I am outta here!