Today I finally did some testings ahead of the party, to make sure everything's ok and stable (on a quite common computer with Win7 Home Pr, NVidia etc), and I can absolutely confirm that everything works and feels absolutely and extremely smooth and perfect and very stable, at least for me as far as I can tell from just testing the new stuff mentioned in the new release notes ...
Ok, here we go
Add shinies.To this I can only say wow, just wow and awesome ... Everything seems to be completely revamped.
It starts already with the new and shiny desktop icon and goes on with the Urulauncher/checking for updates window ... then after the usual formalities you're being linked to K'veer to the avatar selection screen ... wow ... what follows is the new in-game update screen without an update bar, you just see the beautiful animated (is this only Win 7?) green progress on the taskbar's Gehn icon, and the update screen with a classy shiny GoW icon with animated sun rays ... awesome ...
--- Allow more than 50 public Neighborhoods. cannot be tested by a single person immediately
Fix crash when linking to Gahreesen for the fifth time.Is really fixed
Fix kickables randomly warping to the origin on link-in.In the light of all the awesomeness I'm sorry to say that those kickables, in my case means the
fire marbles and the logs and stones remained rebellious by now ...
I've tried everything that came to mind ... I've deactivated them and activated them with linking out and back, with logging out and back in ... I've tried to retrieve them anew, but no change, the fire marbles that went overboard so to speak remain there in the clouds or up in the air, and the logs and stones are completely gone for me and remain so for three avis ... I've tried another 4th avi with which I haven't done the journey yet, so, I just went to the Watcher's Pub to get my Er'cana and grab the fire marbles, then I pushed one of them overboard and it remained there too ... Yeah, maybe anyone has another idea or is experiencing the same ... /shrug ...
As for the Gira baskets I can confirm as many, they were all (for all my avis) reset to its original position and work perfectly well as they should, means remain in position when leaving and coming back etc.
--- Fix localized audio. - don't know what that means, but my audio is ok in general
--- Fix lots of potential (but unreported) crashes. cannot be tested immediately
Fix trashed unicode characters in KI chat.This is one more awesomeness. I didn't know that we have that already. So, I've written some sentences in French with accent grave, accent aigu etc. and it works fine ...
Highlight chat messages that mention you by name.Couldn't test this with myself, when I write sth with mentioning my name it seems not to work, but I remember Christian on Tuesday in the Vothol Gallery after the hangout 'talking' to me and what he said was yellow, whereas his own name remained gray, I believe that was it, right?
Implement /loadclothing and /saveclothing.Another greatness haha, yeah, really, like this you can theoretically and also practically have your whole closet in all variations and styles you like in your pocket resp. at your fingertips literally ... You already see that this works absolutely wonderfully ...
--- Optimize client launch. works fast and smooth ...
--- (Re-)brand ALL THE THINGS. I don't know what is meant (newly branded) with this ...
--- Revamp the game launcher. Is that the new icon? , but I suppose also its functionality ...
Smooth out the various loading/updating screens.The awesomeness of this is already mentioned above with the new shinies ...
--- Reverse engineer image consultant. you know what that means, I don't lol
I'd say, that is it so far, so let's have a great party on Saturday, Gehn seems to be more than ready and beautifully polished ... See you all then in the Vothol Gallery ...