Over the weekend gamers flocked to the model new Diablo-like action-RPG Wolcen: Lords Of Mayhem (previously generally known as Umbra), so many gamers actually, that the servers couldn’t deal with it and began deleting peoples’ stuff. Over Saturday and Sunday the builders labored to get all of it again in working order, reverting to a earlier save so gamers may get again characters and quest development that simply began disappearing.
The servers are again on-line now, however what on earth went incorrect?
Well, Wolcen: Lords Of Mayhem is simply too in style.
The new hack and slash left early entry on Thursday, and nearly right away began affected by the inflow of gamers. At first, the builders launched an update that appeared fairly jovial, they had been grateful for the curiosity folks had and apologised for the inconvenience.
The next update got here on Friday itemizing a variety of the identified points – together with characters disappearing, gadgets positioned in your chest disappearing on-line, and quest development… effectively, disappearing. A hotfix was utilized later that day, however sadly the problems didn’t finish there, and the game stayed offline for almost 20 hours.
In their most recent post, they clarify in additional element what went incorrect, and the way they went about getting it sorted:
“This difficulty was attributable to a too great amount of requests main the database to drop. We contacted our companions and appeared for an answer with them, however that implied rolling again to a earlier save of the database shortly earlier than the hotfix.
“Since then, we’re working with our companions to revive the database and merge it with the present one, whereas fixing the problems that induced these incidents.
“Unfortunately, different problems appeared within the course of that led us to constantly push again the ETAs we offered for the decision of the scenario, and we’re nonetheless working arduous to repair these points and guarantee that the game works correctly Online, which might nonetheless take a while.
“We want to sincerely apologise for the inconvenience, and to assure you that we’re working around the clock to fix everything and ensure that you will have a pleasant experience when the Online mode comes back.”
The on-line servers are again up, for now, although the devs are nonetheless wanting into some points on the Asia Pacific servers. It’s price noting that even when the net mode isn’t working it is best to nonetheless be capable of play offline.
So, Wolcen’s seeking to be a fairly in style one then. While they could not fairly have the servers to deal with it, the devs have already got a really massive variety of gamers invested of their game. When the servers went again on-line yesterday, they instantly hit their all time peak of concurrent gamers of 127,542 (again in early entry their peak was solely 1934).
Wolcen: Lords Of Mayhem is obtainable on Steam proper now, and in case you fancy giving it a go Dave’s executed a useful Wolcen guide that will help you get began.
