Test Release Notes - August 20th, 2010

[titanic95594]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

If we get lucky, fishing will be released by tonight, but that seems very unlikely for tonight. Odds are, it will be released next week; ironically when most people should be getting back to school.

Fishing is a pretty big update, to me. It was in Toontown, and remains one of the most time consuming things to do in toontown. It's not as time consuming as in pirates, but it's still big.

And this is irrelevant, but with the way things seem to be going, the new shrouded island and a quest with it doesn't seem like it's coming as soon as most would like it to. We might not see it on open until October 31, the 3rd year of POTCO.

I bet you it will not come out tonight you never know when its released could be next week could be tomorrow or right now .

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by titanic95594

I bet you it will not come out tonight you never know when its released could be next week could be tomorrow or right now .

I don't remember a time when POTCO ever had an update on Saturday or Sunday, so unfortunately we probably won't see the update until Monday or Tuesday.

[Tiberius Fireskull]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

I don't remember a time when POTCO ever had an update on Saturday or Sunday, so unfortunately we probably won't see the update until Monday or Tuesday.

I dont remember anything coming out on a Monday.. maybe Tuesday... but most big updates such as these are things they would release on Thursday of Friday...

This is the longest Ive ever seen anything on test... pretty much everything is released during its first or second week after being released on test... this is going on its third.... even the inventory expansion with all its bugs and things to be removed and added didnt take this long. How many bugs can a few fish have?

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by Davy Fireskull

even the inventory expansion with all its bugs and things to be removed and added didnt take this long.

The new inventory system, and new weapons were released in March 25-2010, and the last test update for the inventory system was April 22-2010. Almost a month after the inventory system was released, all the bugs for it on test were fixed.

Fishing is a big update, but not as big as the inventory system. And just because one update is bigger than another, doesn't mean the smaller update won't have more bugs. You'd usually think that bigger updates mean more bugs, but that isn't always the case.

For all we know, once this new island can be landed on, and we can do a quest for it, it will have just a few bugs. We could get lucky, who knows. I'm just glad they're taking their time with this update, because if they don't, then the next update is only going to be worse, because according to Speedway Masters thread, this Ravens Cove quest will involve potions and fishing. You can't exactly do a quest which involves fishing if all the bugs for it aren't worked out.

[angel 4ever]

glad there fixing all the bugs soon it will be on live thats great

[Matthew Sternrage]

It takes time to get almost 98% of the bugs out before it is released to Public servers.
Remember the Lost Weapons update? After the weapons came, there were many bugs left, like miscolored clothing on NPC enemies, missing Swamp and Forest textures, Lost clothing, and even locked pirates. So if you want Fishing to come out now, you will have to deal with Bugs that weren't taken out, which could crash the game, so we must wait. I actually went through the News section of the Website and saw Cannon Defense was put on Live 8 days after it was added to Test. This Fishing udate is 19 days in, meaning this is going to be a BIG update.

[Tiberius Fireskull]

Originally Posted by Matthew Sternrage

This Fishing udate is 19 days in, meaning this is going to be a BIG update.

This is the longest I've ever seen anything be on test for... as I said.... really surprises me... I just hope it will be worth it.

[Robin Yerloot]

Originally Posted by Matthew Sternrage

It takes time to get almost 98% of the bugs out before it is released to Public servers.
Remember the Lost Weapons update? After the weapons came, there were many bugs left, like miscolored clothing on NPC enemies, missing Swamp and Forest textures, Lost clothing, and even locked pirates. So if you want Fishing to come out now, you will have to deal with Bugs that weren't taken out, which could crash the game, so we must wait. I actually went through the News section of the Website and saw Cannon Defense was put on Live 8 days after it was added to Test. This Fishing udate is 19 days in, meaning this is going to be a BIG update.

They're releasing all the Daggers with it too, proabably like they did with CD and the Voodoo Dolls, and all the new stuff with the Throwing Knives.