While I was tinkering with Doom 3 Blizzard confirmed the patch notes that were leaked two days ago (Oh! So they weren’t fake, huh?) and reopened the test servers.
These test servers seem open to everyone and there’s also a public page to allow to transfer the characters. The problem is that the transfer is already “temporarily” disabled. The current patch (from 1.3.1 to 0.4.0) is available through the standard, horrible installer here (40Mb of fun). I’m downloading it with a good amount of problems, as always.
I’m not sure if I’ll spend the time to mirror the patch here considering that during the last test session they kept rebuilding the whole package for every change.
Anyway. At least I hope I’ll finally be able to see how this Honor System is implemented. I hope… I have the bad impression that the mechanics will remain obscure to everyone but Kalgan even now that they are supposed to go public.
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If you are lazy check back soon. I plan to add at least some screenshots of the new mounts and add whatever I’ll find interesting. So I think I’ll keep updating this entry.
EDIT-1: Good news for the ease of testing. From the QA lead:
Good News! You no longer have to be invited to the Test Realms to participate in testing the new content. For this new phase of the Test Realms (patch 1.4.0) and all future phases, a new system has been put in place that allows anyone to copy their character over to the Test Realms via a web interface so that all who want to participate can do so.
After copying your character over to the Test Realms, a new patching process is now available. For the previous phase of the test realms it was necessary to patch up to the test realm version. If you wanted to play back in the retail version of the game it was necessary to install a reversion patch to change your client back to the correct version. This is no longer the case. The new patch system splits your client into two different versions. Upon applying it, a รข