Champions Online Open Beta impressions (starting Aug. 17)

[Butterknife]

It seems to be downloading OK now.  I haven't had any freezes recently.

[Blackjack]

If someone (even closed beta testers who updated seem to be having problems), anyone, can actually patch up and play, please post a screenshot or a flare or something. I'm hitting the road home in a bit.

[Arkon]

New patcher still freezes on me every 20mb or so.

[Daehawk]

OH F ME! JUST F ME!!! Firefox crashed..the bastard..now I have to start over...it was 80% done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[Abaddon]

Restarted my patch around 4pm MST and got to as far as 44% at which point it just stalled out. Waited about 10 minutes with no activity so closed the client and restarted now when I sign in to the client it says "Patching" but never actually starts the patch process. Thinking I will wait a few days and check it out then. Aion is looking like a better prospect at the moment 

[Blackjack]

If you're using Fileplanet's Download Manager, it can usually resume where you left off.  

I've seen some posts that Fileplanet updated its open beta client at some point to something more recent, so some people are starting over and downloading that version. I don't know if it's the thing to do or not, here's one of the threads on it.
http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=31053
Something about looking for a file marked 8/15 instead of one marked 7/27

I'm omw home and I'll see how screwed up it is for me. 

[Arclight]

Is this a case of servers not handling the traffic or something screwed up in the file directories\download?

I think I tend to agree with a post over on the O-forums.........."why not just take the patcher down until they've fixed it?"
You have alot of people fudging with things in an attempt to fix the problem(s) the less knowledgable are getting frustrated and wondering if they're doing something wrong, etc.
Just shut it down till you fix it.

[Lockdown]

Gametrailers has a new travel power video up for anyone just sitting around waiting.

...and some new Starcraft 2 videos as well (I think), just in case you are REALLY bored.

[DamageInc]

Had to restart mine again as well, but now its flying. I'm at 45% already.

[Ridah]

Getting 1.5MB/sec... Lookin good 

[Arkon]

Mine keeps dying, and here I was hoping to get some time in tonight...bah!

[Daehawk]

Im not using Vileplanet's download manager.

[Blackjack]

My folder's definitely 7/27, not 8/15, so I'm thinking of deleting pre-load and trying to snare the latest version, if that's really the case.

OK I'm just going to use my 7/27 and we'll see what happens or doesn't happens. 

[DamageInc]

I posted in either this thread or another that I updated to 8-15 this morning.
Still having the same issues you are all having. So not sure if it helps, but I guess it can't hurt.

[Arclight]

I wonder if they've taken the patcher down. I can't even get it to load to the starting screen now?

[Abaddon]

Cryptics launcher still will not patch, Im running version _08_17_13_50. I can sign in and it says "patching" but the file/s never start to download. I have tryed restarting several times. I am now hearing there's a newer version up on Fileplanet but the line to download it is ridiculous as well. Think Im done for the evening. I wonder if other hobbyists have to endure this sort of thing.

[Arclight]

Cryptics launcher still will not patch, Im running version _08_17_13_50. I can sign in and it says "patching" but the file/s never start to download. I have tryed restarting several times. I am now hearing there's a newer version up on Fileplanet but the line to download it is ridiculous as well. Think Im done for the evening. I wonder if other hobbyists have to endure this sort of thing.

Well I know model airplane enthusiasts can't fly in Thunderstorms, and golfers have to be careful as well...

[Blackjack]

Holding my breath, crossing my fingers, etc., but right now the patch speed for me is very spry...


Someone probably pointed out at some point that it doesn't need to download 3.6GB of files - it needs to "patch" that amount of files. So I guess maybe that 952MB number is closer to the actual download. Alas, on cue, it's bogging down at about the 54-55% mark of the patch download itself, for me.   Aaaaand it's frozen at 54%... Ah, ah it started up again... c'mon baby!

[Arclight]

Holding my breath, crossing my fingers, etc., but right now the patch speed for me is very spry...


Someone probably pointed out at some point that it doesn't need to download 3.6GB of files - it needs to "patch" that amount of files. So I guess maybe that 952MB number is closer to the actual download. Alas, on cue, it's bogging down at about the 54-55% mark of the patch download itself, for me.   Aaaaand it's frozen at 54%... Ah, ah it started up again... c'mon baby!

I've been at this since 1:00...........you've gotten further in a half an hour than I have all day.

[DamageInc]

Yeah I have 1917 MBs left to patch, but it just keeps dying.

This must be the mini-game they included. What a value.  

[Blackjack]

This reminds me of when I downloaded Bullfrog's Syndicate Wars on a 2400 baud dialup modem. I think it took about 2 1/2 days.  

I have about 2,023 MBs to patch, myself. Come on baby! 56%!!! I assume closing and restarting the patcher has no effect?

Now it's kind of trickling consistently (like .1MB a pop) but at least it's steady. No. Dammit. 

[Harkonis]

I guess I'm alone, but I had no problem at all updating and getting in game right when it opened.  been playing for the last 7 hours.

account name is Harkonis, send me a tell in game when you can.

[Blackjack]

Well post some screenshots for crying out loud.   Or, are you being sarcastic?  

BTW, I've seen posts that holding down the "F9" key for a couple of seconds while the patcher's running will show you the files it's running through. Hold the F9 key again for a couple of seconds to make the screen go away (or, just click the corner X to close it like a regular window).
Like so:

Part of me wonders if the patcher would work better if it did things one at a time instead of what appears to be multitasking.

A lot of folks are getting stuck on certain files including the game client .exe file itself around the 90-99% range of finishing the patching process.

[Arclight]

Well, I have a very fast cable connection so I know its not my DL speed. Stop and starting gets me about 50kbs before it freezes again. I might be in beta by the time the X-pac is released...

[Blackjack]

To stop and start are people hitting cancel and starting over, or just closing the patcher window and restarting it that way?

[Hotfreak]

Because the red X works for me, I counsel using that over the cancel button.

Edit: for very bad spelling error

[Barrakketh]

Boy do I feel like a moron for uninstalling my CB client and letting the OB client from Fileplanet inflate and patch.  

The patcher was going okay before I went out, but when I got back, it had stalled at maybe 2% further than when I left. Re-started it and it stalled again a little further long. Now it seems to have stalled at 49.8%

It does seem to be like a Turbine patcher in that it remembers what it already patched if you close it. It starts up where it left off.

[Punisher]

Well post some screenshots for crying out loud.   Or, are you being sarcastic?  

BTW, I've seen posts that holding down the "F9" key for a couple of seconds while the patcher's running will show you the files it's running through. Hold the F9 key again for a couple of seconds to make the screen go away (or, just click the corner X to close it like a regular window).
Like so:

Part of me wonders if the patcher would work better if it did things one at a time instead of what appears to be multitasking.

A lot of folks are getting stuck on certain files including the game client .exe file itself around the 90-99% range of finishing the patching process.

I like that F9 thing, it let's see that it's actually doing something...

[Punisher]

It just froze... All bandwidth from F9 is now at 0. This is actually a handy feature and would be nice to just toggle on and off...

[Blackjack]

Well, I restarted the patcher and now nothing comes up on the patch screen at all, I can't even get back to the patch screen. Sigh. Guess I should've left well enough alone.   Or, maybe everyone has gone to zilch. Who knows? Maybe they wised up and shut the whole thing down to try to fix it, as folks have suggested.

For today, that's it for me. I'm gonna go play LOTRO and hope the powers that be figure out what the heck they're doing overnight. 

[CeeKay]

well, here's my last character from the closed beta:




I just kept on hitting random for the costume and eventually got that one.


and huh.. took the dogs out and the patcher jumped to 51%.

[DamageInc]

Yeah same thing happened to me. I figured I'd reboot to see if that changed anything like unlock a file.
Oh, well.

[Daehawk]

Got it. Installing now.

[Arclight]

Got it. Installing now.

Your fun is about to start..........Lets say fun can be interchanged with hair-pulling-frustration... hehe...........Good luck.

[Aganazer]

I know some people who patched all morning and then played all day. 

[CeeKay]

and... I'M IN!  behold, Miss Tickle 2.0!





here outfit was pretty much made by clicking 'randomize', and I tweaked it a bit.

[Blackjack]

The good news for me is I got back in (after completing a few LOTRO quests), and the amount of files to be patched is down to 1.6GB (so it did retain my progress-to-date I think?). But it's only patched about 280MB of that, and it's at the same glacial rate most are experiencing.

I've seen the occasional post at forums where someone says they got in and oh boy it's great, and everyone says they hate him.  

On cue, I just lost my connection to the server.   The amount of file MB to patch does keep going down on successive reconnects so I think I'm making some teeeeeeny weeeeeeny amount of progress here.

[Harkonis]

I'm not posting screenshots because I'm too busy playin

[CeeKay]

I'm not posting screenshots because I'm too busy playin

I've seen the starting area a few times to many, it's hard to build up the willpower to play all the way through.

[MythicalMino]

I keep having log-in timing out issues....I was in the CB, so I have been able to update with no problem. Just cannot get past the log-in screen now.