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Just have a few moments here.... Yes, the caves have been deactivated due to how easy it was to get flagged. We are working on a fix to push, which I will get to in a moment. Recent developments with this update, as well as last update, have caused us to make some changes. We've replaced the QA team and have new QA up a running as of this week. Too many missed issues, etc. that would couldn't let continue. The problem is that it delayed the hotfix so that we couldn't update right away. We cannot update without a QA greenlight, and with the new QA getting uo to speed, that unfortunately hindered that. We are looking to update a hotfix on Tuesday of next week. This is dependant on what QA finds. I've never worked with anyone that is part of the new QA team, so I am not sure how they work yet. Needless to say, we'll be paying extra attention to any issue that get through to Live. So please, continue to post any issues you find with any update, current and in the future. Do to the way lycans were implemented, certain flag combinations were either ported away from the Vampire Sanctuary for detecting infection even though that player did not complete any of the lycan quests, or were not detected and allowed to get both. We were under the impression that because testing on it was completed with not issues reported, that it was good to go. Apparently that ws not the case, hence the new QA. Test Guild was NOT involved in that part of the testing. They were purposely not assigned that due to their inability to flag themselves with various combinations the way internal QA can. So it was us that dropped the ball on that. So we are fixing the spawn times for the camps. They should have been rotating their spawn locations so tht all zones would see bats at least once per day, but not knowing where in the zone it would pop. With this, we know there are many that are now mis-flagged, or unable to get their abilities. But in order to fix those that may have both lycan/wh and vamp abilities, all current abilities will be "corrupted" forcing you to talk to antoher NPC who will determine the correct flag and then remove the corrupted abilities and resetting you to be able to get the new abilities at the Sanctuary. If you ARE lycan or WH, you vampire flag will be reset the same as the others, however, HOW you get flagged will change slightly. Greddy Oldman will check your status as a lycan or WH and if clear, flag you to hunt for the bats. It is only those that have THIS flag that will be able to get infected. We are in the middle of testing, and will hopfully have this ready for next tuesday. The recent maintenance from Operations on all our servers has given us that window to make an update. Even though the quest specifically said to keep the etching, for those of you that deleted it, please send a ticket into CS. They are looking into seeing if they can tell whether or not you've had the etching previously, and whether or not you got the reward. For those that have not received the reward yet, you "should be able to get your etching back. However, I say "should" because it is CS that makes policy for reimbursement. It will ultimately be their decision on whether to reimburse or not. One last thing I want to talk about... There wasa specific reason why certain decisions were made on how to handle the Vampire infection and granting of abilities. First of all, it was thought that it would take much more time than it has to get infected. With the bats spawn times off, that of course made it way too easy. The reason the abilities are granted by way of NPC rather than having you spend CMs to purchase them had to do with not making the same potential problems with the lycans. Vampire were specifically designed with a possibility ofa future cure in mind. Even if we never plan to cure it, I did not want the same thing that happened with lycans to happen with Vampires. We should know by Monday if we'll make the Tuesday date. I'll post whether it will make it or not. Thanks
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