Will there be warning?

[Ironmase47]

Wondering if a Velious release date will be offered in advance or if it will be hot patched in....would love to take a day or two off from work lol.

[pharmakos]

the first day or two is gonna be a cluster fuck of people anyway, may as well wait til the initial rush dies down before you take time off work

[Ironmase47]

kind of the experience im looking for, nostalgia and all. maybe ill just quit and really indulge

[Tycko]

some of my best memories of p99 are during the kunark release.... I highly recommend joining in the "cluster ____".

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Better yet, take the day off work, quickly find one of the clusterfucks, and then be the first to /ragequit in the Velious era. Post screenshots for +25 forumquest.

The gauntlet has been thrown, sirs and madams, the gauntlet has been thrown.

[Milton]

I'll ask about this.

[Telin]

I'm looking forward to my first cold shower under the Thurgadin waterfall

[Clark]

I'm looking forward to my first cold shower under the Thurgadin waterfall

lmao

[gortimer]

Cant wait to train velks entrance after each ice skating accident!

[SyanideGas]

They did a beta server for a reasonable amount of time before they released Kunark, i'd imagine you could base it off something like that. IIRC beta was out a couple months or so before actual release.

[Cyph]

Out of interest, as I didn't play Velious, what level range are the zones?

[Champion_Standing]

There will be no warning, it will be ninja released at 4 AM.

[Tecmos Deception]

kind of the experience im looking for, nostalgia and all. maybe ill just quit and really indulge

400 people on the first raft in nro? Yes please.

[Tecmos Deception]

Out of interest, as I didn't play Velious, what level range are the zones?

wiki.project1999.com/Recommended_Levels_and_ZEM_List#Velious

[Kergan]

Out of interest, as I didn't play Velious, what level range are the zones?

No level cap increase in Velious, it's from an era of MMORPGs where content is why people bought expansions instead of stupid gimmicky shit. I can't think of too many games (none come to mind) where there was a full blown expansion that did nothing but add content without anything new in terms of races/classes/levels.

I believe you can start hunting in Velious around level 40 and go to max level in those zones. So pretty much an overlap with Kunark 40+, but the loot in general is better and faction is an enormous part of the expansion so you'll want to start hunting there and planning out which side to fight for as soon as you can.

[thugcruncher]

400 people on the first raft in nro? Yes please.

damn that's gonna be fun on red

[Wotsirb401]

I can't wait to require 10 level 60 toons to park out at all the different dragons/gods

[Barahir]

Velious has been out for months wtf have you guys been

[uygi]

When Velious releases some people might actually be able to get their epics without paying 500k+pp to other guilds for MQ.

that's what I am looking for.
more bards with epics
more druids
more everyone.

That's what I care about.

So this is one of those amazing misconceptions. First people thought that epic drops went to minis with epic release, and now people think they go in with Velious release? Velious had been out quite a while before the epic shortcuts and accessibility went in. Fear and Hate 2.0 were right before Luclin release, I can't imagine P99 revamping those less than 6 months into Velious.

[Sirken]

there will most likely be a beta similar to how kunark was released

[Mezzmur]

there will most likely be a beta similar to how kunark was released

5 hour beta this afternoon, followed by full velious release tonight. Confirmed by Sirken on IRC Channel.

[Clark]

They did a beta server for a reasonable amount of time before they released Kunark, i'd imagine you could base it off something like that. IIRC beta was out a couple months or so before actual release.