Project Epoch - WoW Classic+

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@everyone OKAY THE EPOG UPDATE


The Stress Test:

- No lag, No crashes currently. There will be more crashes and they will be fixed quickly as they pop up.
- With 7K people on the stress test without lag or crashes, it is clear there is a clear road to very high pop stability
- All the major issues we've pinpointed have been fixed or patched.
- I am sure there are more, and they will be fixed quickly as they pop up.
- Based on the overwhelming feedback, it is clear the community would rather us launch ASAP and fix the bugs as they pop up.
- I also told everyone if we formed a line from goldshire to westfall, we would launch and you all did it so
- It is time to talk about Launch.

Here are the Details:

# Launch of Kezan will be at <t:1755435600> (This is your timezone)
- It will be a fresh realm, past characters could not be put in without major delays.
- **YOUR CHARACTER NAMES FROM THE ORIGINAL LAUNCH WILL STILL BE RESERVED.**
- Gurubashi release time will be announced after Kezan launches, and it will be the same day as Kezan. I'd give this time now, but the goal is to release ASAP, and I need to confirm with infrastructure team who will wake up later the time Gurubashi will be ready.
- Additional realms will be spun up as needed if we hit capacity, and they will be merged efficiently if needed overtime.
- DOWNLOAD YOUR CLIENT BEFORE LAUNCH IF YOU HAVEN'T.
- There are still many minor issues to fix that should not delay launch, but expect frequent hotfixes.
- Let's crank it
Relaunch tomorrow morning 9:00am EST / 6:00am PST. Before TWoW even launches. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
 
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Relaunch tomorrow morning 9:00am EST / 6:00am PST. Before TWoW even launches. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Looks like I'm getting up early and sperging out on a fresh realm. TY.
I assume "Gurubashi" is their PVP server?
 
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Burren

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People being degenerate Horde, or degenerate Alliance? I'm doing Warrior and Shaman. Probably Alliance *shrug*. Full time job, full social calendar, double mains.
 

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People being degenerate Horde, or degenerate Alliance? I'm doing Warrior and Shaman. Probably Alliance *shrug*. Full time job, full social calendar, double mains.
If you're doing Kezan(PvE), it's cross-faction, so who cares. Gurubashi(PvP) will not be cross-faction to maintain faction PvP.
 
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ronne

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Smells like desperation to me to try and get ahead of the Turtle server.

Safe money is it still has massive performance problems.
 

Kaines

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Smells like desperation to me to try and get ahead of the Turtle server.

Safe money is it still has massive performance problems.
The test server was up for over 12 hours today with minimal downtimes to fix issues. The only "performance issues" were when they were intentionally running logging software to try and capture crash logs. Even then, for the last 6 hours, it ran smooth. TWoW players are SHOOK.
 

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I played the playtest earlier and teleported around twice, heard starting zones have no loot.. this seems ambitious but would be great if this actually works out
 

ronne

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The test server was up for over 12 hours today with minimal downtimes to fix issues. The only "performance issues" were when they were intentionally running logging software to try and capture crash logs. Even then, for the last 6 hours, it ran smooth. TWoW players are SHOOK.

Yea I read the update too. I'm pretty doubtful they can re-engineer the entire core and backend in ~2 weeks for a stable launch.

Server power was never the issue.
 
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TJT

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I was under the impression that they are using's Ascension's backend now. To include their core. But I get they have a ton of updates to do so their stuff can interact with it.

Hard to communicate how much effort it is to do something like this if you're not in tech. It's a near total refactor of a codebase they spent several years developing. Even with absolute ace guidance from the Ascension dev's its going to take a bit. If Ascension's people know exactly what to do and how to do it they can probably get it going in a month.

In my dumbass opinion.

EDIT: Oh shit it's today. Here we go I guess!
 
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People being degenerate Horde, or degenerate Alliance? I'm doing Warrior and Shaman. Probably Alliance *shrug*. Full time job, full social calendar, double mains.
I'm playing Alliance this time because I want to play Dwarf.
 
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When does Epoch custom content pop up?

I popped on during the stress test made a night elf and new racials seem cool. But I didn't see any new like quests or anything.

Seen some carts I guess to transport people to the city but they were both going in the same direction and I actually ran from Starting area to Darn before they could get back to Darn so they seem kinda there.

They had a boat captain on the dock that instantly teleports you I'm guessing this is for the stress test and not live.

I don't know the way people were talking about Epoch it was supposed to be SUPER custom like completely different than regular WoW. All I noticed was a log in screen, Project Epoch at character select, and some race changes.

Like I didn't get a good taste obviously it was a peek but I'm really getting the feeling this server is getting exaggerated in how custom it is. Unless it's all custom content that is at like level 60 which is retarded.
 

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When does Epoch custom content pop up?

I popped on during the stress test made a night elf and new racials seem cool. But I didn't see any new like quests or anything.

Seen some carts I guess to transport people to the city but they were both going in the same direction and I actually ran from Starting area to Darn before they could get back to Darn so they seem kinda there.

They had a boat captain on the dock that instantly teleports you I'm guessing this is for the stress test and not live.

I don't know the way people were talking about Epoch it was supposed to be SUPER custom like completely different than regular WoW. All I noticed was a log in screen, Project Epoch at character select, and some race changes.

Like I didn't get a good taste obviously it was a peek but I'm really getting the feeling this server is getting exaggerated in how custom it is. Unless it's all custom content that is at like level 60 which is retarded.
Epoch is a classic + version of wow. New mobs, new abilities, better crafting, new zones, new instances etc.

Ascension is the one that's a radically different playing game of WoW.

I think it's outstanding that both sides of the spectrum are available, so people have a solid choice of which one to play.
 
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TJT

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I am going to have to figure something out for how shitty Epoch looks. With a few Client mods you can at least get Turtle to look like this:

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Yea I read the update too. I'm pretty doubtful they can re-engineer the entire core and backend in ~2 weeks for a stable launch.

Server power was never the issue.
Ascension uses the same core in their versions, they've just kept all their changes/updates in house. They knew exactly what to do once they installed their logging tools and saw the shit show that is the open source version.

And to TJT TJT point, yeah this WAS a herculean effort to get this thing stabke and playable by over 6k concurrent users in 12 hours. So hide and watch at how good these guys really are.
 
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Burren

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I am going to have to figure something out for how shitty Epoch looks. With a few Client mods you can at least get Turtle to look like this:

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Should all be in the video settings. I tried Turtle this past week and it looked like 2004. I cranked everything up and it looked good. Hoping we can do the same in Epoch.
I wonder how many will play with old models and how many with new?