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The time has finally come, it is Patch Day!

Patch R#186 marks the beginning of a new era concerning the balancing in Neocron. It marks only the beginning, not the end. This is only the first patch and more will come. We only started the project and there is still a lot of work to do. Nevertheless we felt that the current status is a large improvement over what is currently on Titan and that we now need to collect large scale feedback from you.

We now need to test the first phase of the balancing project in a real environment. Nothing is final and a lot will still need tuning, but we hope that you will agree with us that this patch improves the situation. Please tell us what you think is good and what you think is bad and even more importantly: spread the word and get on Titan to enjoy Neocron!

Throughout the past few days we also did some maintenance work to improve Titan's stability, although we are confident that Titan is prepared for a huge wave of returning players, please do not hesitate to report problems in terms of stability even in case you got used to those problems, we are here to try our best to fix them!

You can find the full list of changes for Patch R#186 on the Neocron Website and of course discuss the changes on the Official Neocron Forum.

Sincerely,
Your Neocron Support Team

UPDATE (12.30 CEST): Titan will now go down for patching!

Hello Runners,

the long awaited moment has finally come, today is patching day! Titan will be taken offline at around noon for patching! We will keep you posted so stay tuned!

Slauncha

Alduin

UPDATE: the maintenance work has been completed successfully, now bring your friends and stress test Titan so we can be sure that the upcoming patch launch will go smoothly!

Dear runners,

first of all: sorry for the late notice! Today we will do some maintenance work on Titan to improve its stability. Most of the work can be carried out silently in the background. However, we will also need to take Titan offline for about half an hour throughout the day, maybe a bit more, to do some heavy lifting on the server. Once the maintenance work is complete please get in game and bring some friends, so we can make sure the server behaves more stable and is ready for what is about to come soon(TM).

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Slauncha

Alduin

Dear Runners,

Behold! The latest and last release candidate for R#186 has just been deployed out to Vedeena! This is a land mark occasion as it brings the results of many months of hard work to the finish line - next stop Titan!

Click on the links below to see the full combined patch notes for R#186 aka "The Balancing Patch". These notes have been restructured and combined to show the full impact of this patch against the current Titan State of R#185. This includes some final changes made in R#186-T#198/T#199(Release Candidate 7), these are highlighted in bold italics. We have chosen to do this to bring your attention to all aspects of this patch, not just the final changes.


Remember that this is just Phase One of the overall Balancing Project. Work does not stop here. We'll have more details about the next phase in the coming weeks.

We're taking advantage of our Extended Server Maintenance Window this week.

Please be aware of this extended server downtime, taking place during the morning (BST) of Wednesday 25th June. Due to a significant upgrade to our back end services, the downtime will last several hours. The Neocron Support Team apologises for an inconvenience caused by this essential disruption.

Recently we implemented a new in-progress feature, to add more scope to Neocron's Outpost system.

After your feedback and our monitoring of the feature, we have increased the candidate time period - the time until an outpost becomes a candidate for attack - from 7 to 14 days.

This timespan is the period between NOW and the date of the last takeover. Should an Outpost not change ownership for 14 days, it will be added to the 'candidate pool'. From this candidate pool the server will randomly select an Outpost for attack and occupation by the Wasteland's mutant population.

Once they have eliminated the mutant threat, Runners are able to retake an Outpost in the usual manner.

This new feature of your Neocron Community Edition experience will continue to evolve with your feedback, we look forward to your discussions on the Neocron Forum!

We're pleased to present to you, the first version of our new 'in-progress' feature called "Outpost Abandonment".

Key Features:

• Abandoned Outposts (defined as: no owner change for 7 days) will eventually be attacked by various mutants
• Mutants will take over ownership of the attacked outpost
• Fight back the mutants for glory, honour and last but not least the possibility to regain the ownership

Please keep in mind that this is only the first version and we will continuously improve this feature. Additionally we will add more features to improve your outer world Neocron experience.

We're looking forward to your feedback on the Neocron Forum.

Have fun!

This week the Official Neocron Facebook Page reached a significant milestone of 1000 Likes!

To celebrate this great milestone for our community and your continued support of everyone's favourite MMO, we are activating DOUBLE XP this coming weekend! Grab your friends and frenemies alike, then hit the Wastelands for twice the fun this weekend.

Make sure to spread the word if you 'like' the sound of that!

We're pleased to finally bring you the news that testing has now begun for the next Neocron patch!

R#186-T#186 is the first half and requires plenty of testing as it introduces the first set of balance changes. Check out the patch notes for all the relevant information and get testing! It's vital we get as much community feedback as possible for this important patch, as it will ultimately change the landscape of Neocron's PvP entirely!

Have fun on the test server and let us know your thoughts!

Via a post on the Neocron Forum, Trivaldi has delivered some new information regarding the incoming test phase for Patch R#186.

You can read the status update, here.