Archive for April 2011

Hotfix #22 29/04/11

Posted 29 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

A small patch slipped onto the server today. It’s 44mb and addresses the following issues:

* Fixed an issue causing just-trained abilities to temporarily appear in the General ability category rather then under a specific Soul.

* Incomplete legacy Achievements for the River of Souls event will no longer appear in the Achievements panel.

* New characters will once again be automatically added to Level 1-9 chat.

* Scarwood Reach: Exercise in Their Frustration, Saving the Scarwood: The correct Rift for these quests should now spawn so they can be completed.

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RIFT v1.2 Patch Release Date Changed

Posted 28 April 2011 by [2]

You may have read in numerous articles and interviews this week that v1.2 update will be coming out on 4 May. According to the latest news from TRION, the patch will now be slightly delayed. The patch will now appear the following week on 10 May. The official line is:

While functional and incredibly awesome, the new features in patch 1.2 are still being polished by the crack Rift development team. Because Trion is committed to bringing Rift players the best possible game experience, we’re rescheduling the patch for a live date of May 10th in order to spend more time tweaking and perfecting.

This is great to hear, TRION are going to take their time with getting this update right and the extra time required will benefit all of us players.

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TRION’s Hal Hanlin Discusses the RIFT v1.2 Update with IncGamers

Posted 27 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

Hal Hanlin


As you all know, the v1.2 update is bringing some pretty cool new features to the game so yesterday we caught up with TRION’s Hal Hanlin to discuss v1.2 and more.

In the interview Hal talks about the fifth Role, the Wardrobe, Slivers, and we even tried to pin him down on those elusive guild banks. Read on for the full interview. read more

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Rise and Fall of the Mathosian Empire Lore Videos

Posted 26 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

With new players joining RIFT all the time, many players ask about the lore in the game and where find more info on the story background. To help people out, Cromar recently created a three part video series which covers the lore. He has wrtitten the script and put together three great videos. Check these out if you want to know more about the game’s lore…

Part 1- Rise and Fall of the Mathosian Empire: Age of Man!

Part 2 – Rise and Fall of the Mathosian Empire: Shade War

Part 3 – Rise and Fall of the Mathosian Empire: The Guardians

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What went Wrong with the River of Souls?

Posted 25 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

The TRION team has been very open with regards to what went wrong with the River of Souls event once it wrapped up and it became obvious that the timeframe and scale of the event compressed into small areas were the main culprits.

The chaps over at PCGamer have also posted their thoughts on the River of Souls which looks back at the event itself and possible ways in which events can be addressed by TRION in the future so the similar issues don’t arise.

While I’m on the subject of the River of Souls, we will shortly be wrapping up our latest poll so do let us know what you thought of the event in the 1-10 rating scale. Vote below before we wrap it up :)

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RIFT On Sale with XP Bonus

Posted 24 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

TRION are running a three day sale on RIFT offering a $10 discount on the RRP. Between 22-24 April, the game can be picked up for $39.99 and there is also a bonus intem included called the Novitiate’s Phylactery which is a trinket which give an extra 5% XP bonus up until level 20. Note this offer ends today (Sunday).

Looking at the experience boost, is not a bit early in the game to be offering this? RIFT’s levelling is pretty quick anyway so surely the boost is a little over the top? Anyway, tell your mates about this deal because it’s well worth the $10 discount.

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Alpha v1.2 Server Patch Notes

Posted 24 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

A super lengthy set of patch notes for the Alpha test servers that are currently testing upcoming the v1.2 changes which are due to go live around 4 May. Read on for all the updates which includes a lot of what we have mentioned in the news this week.

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Scott Hartsman on v1.2 Additions

Posted 22 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

A new article/interview on Massively talks to Scott about what’s in store in the v1.2 update. Although the interview doesn’t touch on class specific changes it does offer a few nuggets of info on new features we can expect when the patch hits around 4 May. Scott also admits the problem with the last world event was down to a compressed timescale and a compressed space which I think you’ll agree was the major problem with the River of Souls event. Key points to note for v1.2 are:

  • The fifth role
  • Level 50 challenges called ‘Slivers’. These are 10 man raids which can only be seen by high level players if you’ve used an Ascended Power to reveal them. The first is “Gilded Prophecy’ which will have players fighting Golden Maw Cultists from “another reality” in a sandstorm.
  • New Dynamic content with three new high level zone-wide events. Tower Defense which involves controlling strategic locations, Escort to protect moving resources and another event where players can summon their own Colossus to defeat an enemy Colossus.
  • The addition of other zone indicators for world events to make it easier to spot events on the map.
  • Facebook integration.
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Hotfix #20 22/4/11

Posted 22 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

Another early hour patch adding hotfix #20…

Hotfix #20: 22/4/11

RIVER OF SOULS
* River of Souls quests that have been completed may be turned in to Bourlana in Meridian and Brendnall in Sanctum.
* Quest items for Tools of Destruction and Exorcising Evil will continue to drop for any players with the active quests.
* Players are no longer offered the quest “Bolstering the Defense” by faction invaders.
* Otherworldly Sourcestone will no longer drop from death invaders or colossi.

GENERAL
* Major zone events should fire off more often and the mythical purple zone event currencies should rain from the sky! Okay, maybe not rain – but they’ll be more common than they have been recently.
* Scarwood Reach: Sealing the Portal: The portal at the back of the Sagespire should be much more active now.
* Reporting spam for an offline character will no longer fail.
* Fixed a cosmetic issue causing the UI to report negative damage when damage preventing effects “attempted” to prevent more than 100% of incoming damage.  In those situations, true damage taken was (and still is) 0.

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Charmer’s Caldera Shots and Lore

Posted 22 April 2011 by [Comments Off]

Feel the flame

It’s another update to from TRION and this week it’s a look at the Charmer’s Caldera dungeon. For all the shots and lore read on after the break.

In the twilight of the Eth Empire, the Sorcerer Kings commissioned a secure laboratory in Shimmersand, its very existence a matter of extreme secrecy. They were never able to unveil their project, for when the Convocation came, a massive volcano erupted directly under the facility. All its research disappeared in a rush of molten rock, to be forgotten for eons with the rest of the extinguished empire.

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