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[InnerSphereNews]

[font=" 'Stratum1 Medium'; font-size: medium; background-color: transparent;"]Greetings MechWarriors,[/font]

UPDATE:

Public Test will be available at 11:00 am PDT and Live will go down at the same time.

Make sure you restart MWO Public test installer to get the latest patch.

We are scheduling an estimated 24-hour server maintenance for Thursday, August 28th, 2014 beginning at 10AM PDT / 1PM EDT / 5PM UTC. The reason for this downtime is to transition the game and services onto our new data center.

During this period of server work, you will still have ways to enjoy some ‘Mech action!

We will be opening the Public Test Server to all players so that you can try out the latest version of the next patch.

Please download the Public Test Server Client Here.

As an added bonus, we are also making all MC-only Clan Mechs available for C-Bills during the Public Test for new players to give these a try!

Remember that what happens on Public Test stays on Public Test: Your battles, scoring, stats and more will not be recorded onto your live account once the test is over. Also note that the Public Test is a separate installation from the regular game client.

Please note, the Public Test server system runs on less provisioning that the live game servers do. While we are not anticipating major issues out of this, we are expecting that some players may experience difficulty finding a match during peak times due to resource limits on those test servers. If you happen to find a “Cannot find match” error message, we ask if you could continue trying to launch until a match is made.

For those who will be unable to join the Public Test for any reason, we recommend checking out our friends at No Guts No Galaxy, who will be streaming throughout the test / downtime to bring even more Mech action right to your screen. You can also check out the plethora of other channels on both Twitch.tv and hitbox.tv!

We recognize that this is an unusually long maintenance window. As such, we will also be providing all players with active premium time during the maintenance/test an additional 24 hours on their live account after the maintenance has completed.

Thanks for your support!

[Lyoto Machida]

Nice...gives everyone that doesn't have Clan mechs a way to test drive them finally.

EDIT: Just the ones available for MC, I guess. Should make all of them available for test drives.

Is the Mech Factory map going to be part of that next patch?

Edited by Lyoto Machida, 26 August 2014 - 05:21 PM.

[LT. HARDCASE]

I've never been on the test server. So how does it work, as far as c-bills? is everyone given a huge amount, so they can buy and upgrade/fit any mech in the game easily? Are we also given large amounts of MC?

Thanks.

[Bartholomew bartholomew]

Bigger better servers?

Hopefully this will help for a whole bunch of current issues.

And thank you for the heads up well ahead of time.



But on another note, You all might want to do the email thing too for those who do not show up here.

[Lord Phills]

What about Premium Time?

[Kabball]

Yes the new map is going to be part of the rotation.

[Heffay]

Kabball, on 26 August 2014 - 05:42 PM, said:

Yes the new map is going to be part of the rotation.

Your faction... what is it?

edit: Oh, Clan Loyalist. I haven't seen one of those yet.

Edited by Heffay, 26 August 2014 - 05:48 PM.

[Sandpit]

wow

everyone might as well write off playing MWO tomorrow. The test servers get stressed even with small populations. I can't see them being able to handle the entire player population...

to answer the question

You will ahve xx cbills and xx mc injected into your account for the test server. Spend and go wild. have fun. it's all free. I generally use it to try out mechs I haven't bought yet to help figure out what mech I want to buy next.

[JimLahey]

DrPhills, on 26 August 2014 - 05:31 PM, said:

What about Premium Time?

Yes, this.

[OznerpaG]

you get a TON of CB/MC/GXP to do whatever you want with for that 24 hrs

it's a fun playground

[monee]

Hope it goes smoothly. Thanks for the update.

[1453 R]

DUDE. Where did the new red-star faction icons come from? I have not seen those around, nor do I recall patch notes telling us we got new choices.

I MUST INVESTIGATE...in, like, twenty minutes. Stupid work.

[Heffay]

1453 R, on 26 August 2014 - 05:54 PM, said:

DUDE. Where did the new red-star faction icons come from? I have not seen those around, nor do I recall patch notes telling us we got new choices.

I MUST INVESTIGATE...in, like, twenty minutes. Stupid work.

It's NEW! For Clanners who want to be lone wolfClanners!

[Sandpit]

1453 R, on 26 August 2014 - 05:54 PM, said:

DUDE. Where did the new red-star faction icons come from? I have not seen those around, nor do I recall patch notes telling us we got new choices.

I MUST INVESTIGATE...in, like, twenty minutes. Stupid work.

It's clan daggerstar. It's not lore based.

[Monsoon]

Are they still going to be in Toronto?

[Sky Hawk]

InnerSphereNews, on 26 August 2014 - 05:18 PM, said:

... we will also be providing all players with active premium time...

Lol... So, almost to ALL Players! (20 Wins Reward!)

[Davegt27]

does this mean I have to download the public test (again) to play?
and if so can anyone give me the link I cant seem to find it

thanks in advance

[Aurihalcon]

Thursday? Aw shuckydarns, I'm driving up to PAX Prime that day.



...OH WELL.

[Past]

Could you slake my curiosity and tell me where the new data center is located?

[Scratx]

The Dagger Star is there to represent all the Clans that aren't selectable. Given that, I believe, the Dire Wolf is available for MC right now, that does mean we'll have one clan mech of every weight class available for c-bills during public test.

If you haven't driven one of them yet, try them out.