[BB] Blabber Box Episode 4

It’s hilarious, unless you don’t understand what the heck is going on.

I love this episode of Testers, and the future reports on their games. So funny… Happy Nexon gaming!

[GMS 1.00] Game Update – Age of Triumph [Chaos 5] + Notes + Dev. Blog

Update 2: The game update has concluded at around 6:38PM Pacific (9:38PM Eastern) and the game is now open. Total update time was around ten hours and 38 minutes.

Update: The game update has been extended for another hour and the game is now expected to go live at 7:00AM Pacific (10:00AM Eastern).

MapleStory will be going through a scheduled game update on Wednesday, August 10, 2011. During this period, all game servers will be unavailable. The game update will last approximately 10 hours. Name changes and world transfers will be processed during this maintenance. The long maintenance time is due to Nexon performing network updates.

{ Time }
Pacific: Wednesday, August 10 @ 8:00PM to 6:00 AM Thursday, August 11
Eastern: Wednesday, August 10 @ 11:00 AM to 9:00 AM Thursday, August 11

{ Updates }
– [Chaos 5] Age of Triumph
– Capture the Flag PvP mode
– Silent Crusade quest line
– Crusader Codex
– Cash Shop update
– Gachapon Update

Updates notes and dev. blog after the jump.

[GMS v99] Game Update – Ice Knight [Chaos 4] + Notes

Nexon will be performing weekly scheduled maintenance on all game servers on Tuesday, July 26, 2011. During this period, MapleStory will be unavailable. Game maintenance will last approximately 5 hours. World transfers and name changes will be processed during this maintenance.

{ Time }
Pacific: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 @ 10:00 PM to 3:00 AM
Eastern: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 @ 1:00 AM to 6:00 AM

{ Game Updates }

-New PvP Mode: Ice Knight Update notes can be read after the jump.

[EMS v73] Lots of Content With Big Bang

Does everyone realize that EuropeMS’s Big Bang patch is basically a complete copy of MapleSEA’s client, minus Resistance. I’m sure no Europeans are complaining since all the content that EuropeMS didn’t have but MapleSEA did, EuropeMS now has (except Resistance). MapleSEA, ThaiMS and EuropeMS are almost equal in total game content now.

Europe MapleStory’s first Big Bang update didn’t just include the stuff that GlobalMS got in its first update, they got much more! In addition to the Maple World revamp, skill balancing, etc., the following were added:

• MTS
• Malaysia
• Ulu City
• Neo TOKYO (now people will see that the hype that surrounded Neo Tokyo was all crap. It’s a good area for the extreme high levels, a very, very small percentage of players.)
• Ninja Castle
• Pine Forest (Himes area)
• Gachapon (replaced Pigmy)
• Much more

Go EMS! So basically right now EuropeMS has almost everything MapleSEA has except for Resistance.

[GMS] Past Patch Extenstions/Early Endings

I took a look back at how many updates didn’t end on time, and if they ended early or late.

Extended updates are in red. Updates that ended early are in green. Updates that ended on schedule aren’t colored.

Out of the last 27 major patches
On Schedule: 4
Ended Early: 10 (6 of which were in a series of 7 patches from V71 to V77)
Ended Late: 13 (including the last 8 patches, with the exception of Jubilation)

V1.00 August 11, 2011 (Chaos: Age of Triumph): 10 + 0.63 = 10 hours and 38 minutes
V.99 June 28, 2011 (Chaos): 8 + 2 + 3 = 13 hours
V.98 May 25, 2011 (Cake Vs. Pie): 5 + 2 + 1.83 = 8 hours and 50 minutes
V.97 April 26, 2011 (Jubilation): 5 hours
V.96 March 9, 2011 (Aftershock): 7 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 10 hours
V.95 January 18, 2011 (Birth of the Mechanic): 9.5 + 0.5 = 10 hours
V.94 December 20, 2010 (Rise of the Resistance): 10 + 2 + ? = >12 hours
V.93 December 7, 2010 (Big Bang): 11 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 15 hours
V.90 September 29, 2010 (The Fall Effect): 12 – 1.58 = 10 hours and 25 minutes
V.89 August 19, 2010 (The Visitors): 8 + 2 = 10 hours
V.88 July 21, 2010 (Rise of the Dual Blades): 13.5 – ? = <13.5 hours
V.86 June 16, 2010 (Return of the Explorers): 6.5 hours
V.85 May 5, 2010 (5th Anniversary): 13 hours
V.84 March 31, 2010 (Evan): 6 hours
V.83 February 22, 2010 (Year of the Tiger): 10 hours – 3.67 = 6 hours and 20 minutes
V.82 February 10, 2010 (Login from website): 4 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 0.67 = 9 hours and 40 minutes
V.81 January 20, 2010 (Winter Wonder): 8 – 0.17 = 7 hours and 50 minutes
V.80 December 10, 2009 (Aran): 9 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 4.08 = 18 hours and 5 minutes
V.79 November 11, 2009 (A November To Remember): 5.5 + 0.33 = 5 hours and 50 minutes
V.77 October 22, 2009 (Halloween Maple Style): 7 – 1.25 = 5 hours and 45 minutes
V.76 September 23, 2009 (Spirit Week): 7 – 1 = 6 hours
V.75 August 26, 2009 (Back To School): 9 – 0.42 = 8 hours and 35 minutes
V.74 August 13, 2009 (Major Bug Fixes): 6.5 – 0.5 = 6 hours
V.73 July 30, 2009 (Cygnus Summer Knights): 8 + 0.75 = 8 hours and 45 minutes
V.72 June 24, 2009 (Summer Warm Up): 8.5 – 1 = 7.5 hours
V.71 June 16, 2009 (Bug Fixes): 6 – 1 = 5 hours
V.70 May 7, 2009 (4th Anniversary): 6.5 + 2.5 + 1.07 = 10 hours and 4 minutes

This will be updated with each patch and older updates will be added soon.

[GMS v99] Chaos: Age of Battle [Chaos 3]

Battle begins on July 20th, 2011!