Hellgate:London patch update 1.3d now live
by Matt Warner 
Jul 10th 2008 at 9:00PM
Filed under: Horror, Sci-fi, Game mechanics, Patches, Hellgate: London
All the scuttlebutt regarding fleeing Hellgate:London developers and programmers didn't stop the 1.3d patch from hitting the servers yesterday. The refreshing patch introduces changes to gameplay, a rebalancing act to the calculations behind rank experience, and further eradications to pesky bugs occurred which will help keep the mean streets of Hellgate:London crash free. The full 1.3d are listed on the official website or you can hit the jump below. Frequent displeasure remains constantly expressed in our Hellgate:London post threads. If you are still looking for an admittance of failures from someone at Flagship Studios, Max Schaefer, operations chief and co-founder recently acknowledged mistakes were made and lessons learned. The main one being the grandiosity in the overall vision for the game and an early launch that more or less turned Hellgate:London into a recovery process. Still there is a fanbase, and it was well received in South Korea. The developers are working hard, and hopefully with enough patches it will prove to be a better experience for those willing to give it a second chance. Have you?
General
- All accounts can now access Elite Mode when one of its characters reaches level 20 or above. (Accounts that already have a level 20 character or above will have to gain a level or rank for this to apply.)
- Subscriber accounts can now access Hardcore Mode when one of its characters reaches level 20 or above. (Accounts that already have a level 20 character or above will have to gain a level or rank for this to apply.)Our favorite Premium Item Merchant, Ko, just got a new shipment of items from a new supplier. Unfortunately, they aren't quite the quality that he is used to getting. In fact, they are all mostly Enhanced items. Sure, he's still got the Rare, Legendary and Unique stuff that he always had, but you are pretty likely to get an Enhanced item from him now. He's got to do something with this new shipment after all.
- Fixed a bug which could cause a player's PRD to function incorrectly if they were kicked from their party while warping through the PRD.
- Corrected foreign language translations for PRD messaging.
- Fixed a bug where character options would change as a result of minimizing the character options tab.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PurityKnight said on 3:10AM 7-11-2008
This poor game is not going to recover. It will go the way of AC2 and Earth and Beyond.
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ScytheNoire said on 3:34AM 7-11-2008
And where is patch 2.0?
With the amount of time it takes them to release patches, you'd think they only had one programmer working on things.
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Poozle said on 4:17AM 7-11-2008
I think I must be one of the only people in the world to actually like this game... I never really took it as a true MMO, only played it with friends or solo, more as if it was a networked game tbh. But now they've fixed a lot of the horrible bugs the game is quite playable.
I think one problem is that a lot of people made up their mind in the first month, anyone coming to the game now will see something completely different from when it launched.
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PurityKnight said on 4:32AM 7-11-2008
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I think one problem is that a lot of people made up their mind in the first month, anyone coming to the game now will see something completely different from when it launched.
PeterD said on 12:47PM 7-11-2008
The game has improved, but its not an MMO and should never have been billed as an MMO. Using the subscription model as a source of revenue was also a mistake. They would have been better off using a microtransaction system like Mythos will if they wanted an income stream post-release. The slow pace of patches and relative paucity of content in said patches means I'll never subscribe to this game -- it just isn't worth it.
However, play a Marksman and treat it like an FPS/RPG hybrid and its actually quite fun.
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Fisty said on 7:32PM 7-13-2008
As an solo RPG, I quite enjoy it. I only found out about this game about 2 months ago. I find the story compelling and the high-tech/magic theme very cool. I was going to finish the solo game before I was going to try it online, but I guess now I won't have a chance to do so.
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Matt Warner said on 7:36PM 7-13-2008
It is an awful thing. I hate to see the demise of any game company whether or not I like their games. Plus Flagship is responsible for development on Mythos, and it has a lot of potential but now who knows if it will even be released now.