As AC2 goes into its second week of Beta, a few warts have shown up. These issues are so much more difficult due to the limited knowledge of the internal functions and interfacees and APIs by the current developers.
One hopes that the original developers left great documentation to assist the current staff, but let's be real here. IT Developers hate documentation with a passion. They do it when they have to and in the case of a game terminating, staff size and dedication are not a primary concern.
Severlin has done a remarkable job in removing issues where possible, but new ones seem to arrive to chew up his time. He came into the game Monday evening (Christmas Eve) and explained the current major issue that was causing the Servers to go down. Apparently, an issue in one server caused it to crash and it would then take down the other servers on its way down. The result was a mini rollback and other strange results. They were looking at orderly shutdowns every few hours to prevent the crashing. This bug was proving to be very elusive and difficult to track down. It is Beta, after all. The developers need to use whatever tools they have to squash this and any other bugs. Even if our gameplay is impacted. I am looking forward to playing this game for many years. A little inconvienence now is a small price to pay.
In any event, I had fun playing several of my characters for the limited time I had. The Drudge is an enjoyable character. He whacks away using his board with a nail at anything and everything. He was a bit irritated when he went to get Rashan's Revenge and Rashan got all irritated at him. He treated my guy like he was a Drudge and would not give him the quest.
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