*** Vendetta 1.8.310
- Fixed X-based multithreaded rendering crashes on Linux.
- Fixed problem with not being able to enter the universe on very lossy network connections.
- Changed the fallback MTU network packet size if MTU discovery fails.
- Dynamic lighting now supports DirectX 10.0 hardware using the DX11 driver.

Did something get goofed in the updater and force the game to do a full download this time?

Seems that way. I'm still waiting for the server to start back up. 1/2 hour and counting.

same here. 9:44 EDT still not up.

Yeah, so.. patch failure in copying out to a server, and now we're having an internal problem with the chat not working.

Sorry to everyone who had to re-download a bunch of stuff. We stopped it as fast as we could to minimize that.

Well, seems the update has another snafu, the game just crashed out to the login screen. That hasn't happened a a LONG time. Sigh..

Ah, back to the server starting up deal again.

vskye: yeah, I believe that was intentional. Ray basically kicked everyone off.

How lossy do we want network connections to be in the game? Figured it would be considered a feature to not let really lossy network connections on the server.

We want the connections to be as resilient as possible to any network condition. The entire internet is sporadically lossy, often at things like peering points between top-grade tier-1 networks (ie, it happens to everyone). What was fixed was an ordering issue that could impact logins if the player happened to lose the right packet at the right time, and the re-transmission of the packet caused the ordering to be wrong.

It's a good thing that we fixed this.

We're back up.

No pumpkins, black cats or ghosts? Darn.

Incarnate, when will we get to see more content updates?
I'm just asking, because I don't know if I should renew my sub :-\

Check back in like a month.

Incarnate, when will we get to see more content updates?

There are a bunch of content updates coming soon, but I'm not sure whether they'll be the ones you're looking for or not.

Heh, fair enough.
Renewed my sub.

When I was young releases on 10 year anniversaries were cool.

And now that you're old you just want the damn kids off your lawn...