SecretsOfThePast
Super Secret Squirrel Dev
Yes, you heard that right. We're opening up 2.5 for everyone to test now.
It's a glorious feat that we've even got this far, and now you, the common Shards of Dalaya citizen, can experience 2.5 regardless if you have been invited or not! So what are you waiting for, read this post and get started with testing!
As an added bonus, your characters from 2.0 AS OF JUNE 29th are available for testing on 2.5. Old 2.5 beta charcters have been wiped. As such, we have disabled the ability to use /cm betaheal, /cm betamana, and /cm betalevel. Note that no progress will be saved on the 2.5 Open Testing Phase, however...
Woldaff Edit: We actually may transfer over experience gained in 2.5 beta to your live character... but this is completely dependent on if there are bugs or other problems that make it unfair to treat beta exp as earned exp.
This phase of testing, depending on participation, may award fame for your live character when 2.5 open testing concludes. We have methods of tracking participation, though no specifics on numbers are being announced until we move closer to the end of testing.
The following are step by step instructions to replace your patcher and get in-game:
1) Copy your Shards of Dalaya "EverQuest" folder and keep this one separate from 2.0
Step 1 Troubleshooting:
1a) If you get permissions errors copying the EverQuest folder, move the folder to a place such as My Documents.
2) Visit this link for the 2.5 patcher executable. **IT MUST BE PLACED IN A DIFFERENT FOLDER THAN YOUR 2.0 PATCHER, AND MUST NOT BE RENAMED FROM SODPATCHER.EXE**
https://shardsofdalaya.com/patcher25/sodpatcher.exe
Step 2 Troubleshooting:
None!
3) On the patcher, set your EverQuest directory to the one you just made a copy of. Make sure that "Bypass DLL Injection" is always unchecked. Make sure "Repatch All" is checked for the first time you are running it, it can safely be unchecked after the first run.
Step 3 Troubleshooting:
3a) Make sure that "Bypass DLL Injection" is always unchecked.
4) Attempt to start the game. If everything works, enter the same username and password you use to connect to 2.0, except at this new fancy login page!
Step 4 Troubleshooting:
4a) If you receive an error message about DirectX, visit this link to download the Microsoft DirectX Runtime, which contains all of the DirectX Files.
4b) If your game does not start, delete eqclient.ini and re-run the patcher.
4c) All other errors related to the login screen and starting the game, post them here.
In Closing
We'll be rapidly making changes improving the 2.5 Open Testing phase over time. Your feedback and bug reports are valuable, and we request that you use either channel #25testing on IRC or /bug for reporting those bugs and feedback to us. When we feel it is ready, we will, of course, push 2.5 out to the actual servers!
Thank you for playing on Shards of Dalaya, and thanks for being a part of this testing phase! We hope to see you ingame on the 2.5 Open Testing Phase!
It's a glorious feat that we've even got this far, and now you, the common Shards of Dalaya citizen, can experience 2.5 regardless if you have been invited or not! So what are you waiting for, read this post and get started with testing!
As an added bonus, your characters from 2.0 AS OF JUNE 29th are available for testing on 2.5. Old 2.5 beta charcters have been wiped. As such, we have disabled the ability to use /cm betaheal, /cm betamana, and /cm betalevel. Note that no progress will be saved on the 2.5 Open Testing Phase, however...
Woldaff Edit: We actually may transfer over experience gained in 2.5 beta to your live character... but this is completely dependent on if there are bugs or other problems that make it unfair to treat beta exp as earned exp.
This phase of testing, depending on participation, may award fame for your live character when 2.5 open testing concludes. We have methods of tracking participation, though no specifics on numbers are being announced until we move closer to the end of testing.
The following are step by step instructions to replace your patcher and get in-game:
1) Copy your Shards of Dalaya "EverQuest" folder and keep this one separate from 2.0
Step 1 Troubleshooting:
1a) If you get permissions errors copying the EverQuest folder, move the folder to a place such as My Documents.
2) Visit this link for the 2.5 patcher executable. **IT MUST BE PLACED IN A DIFFERENT FOLDER THAN YOUR 2.0 PATCHER, AND MUST NOT BE RENAMED FROM SODPATCHER.EXE**
https://shardsofdalaya.com/patcher25/sodpatcher.exe
Step 2 Troubleshooting:
None!
3) On the patcher, set your EverQuest directory to the one you just made a copy of. Make sure that "Bypass DLL Injection" is always unchecked. Make sure "Repatch All" is checked for the first time you are running it, it can safely be unchecked after the first run.
Step 3 Troubleshooting:
3a) Make sure that "Bypass DLL Injection" is always unchecked.
4) Attempt to start the game. If everything works, enter the same username and password you use to connect to 2.0, except at this new fancy login page!
Step 4 Troubleshooting:
4a) If you receive an error message about DirectX, visit this link to download the Microsoft DirectX Runtime, which contains all of the DirectX Files.
4b) If your game does not start, delete eqclient.ini and re-run the patcher.
4c) All other errors related to the login screen and starting the game, post them here.
In Closing
We'll be rapidly making changes improving the 2.5 Open Testing phase over time. Your feedback and bug reports are valuable, and we request that you use either channel #25testing on IRC or /bug for reporting those bugs and feedback to us. When we feel it is ready, we will, of course, push 2.5 out to the actual servers!
Thank you for playing on Shards of Dalaya, and thanks for being a part of this testing phase! We hope to see you ingame on the 2.5 Open Testing Phase!
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