During the last few days the most important topic on Aion forums is Summer Event and rewards. Aion players were “little frustrated” when they realized that they couldn’t choose the reward. With the Aion Summer Event in full swing I would like to ask you what do you think about Summer event?
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You have probably noticed that this week’s character transfers have failed. Tamat has explained via Twitter that the reason for this delay was technical nature:
We had to postpone transfers due to some technical difficulties. We will have a new date for the transfers ASAP
Tamat
And the new date for the transfer is 16/09/2010.
We will be bringing the Aion servers down at 16/09/2010 05:00 CEST (more) for maintenance. The previously scheduled Character Transfers will be run during this server maintenance.
The maintenance is estimated to take no longer than 2 hours.
We hope everything will go smoothly this time.
Tamat has announced that Atreia Summer Event – Scorching Heat is officially on its way, beginning this Wednesday September 15, until October 13. If you don’t know how to get the Scorching Heats don’t worry. Like the Korean version of the event the Scorching Heats will be earned automatically while online. You can expect to see one every 20 minutes of online play. Additionally, you can get white and black dyes as well. The quest NPC (located in Sanctum and Pandaemonium) are marked with a red quest indicator on your map.
Rick Damland of the Atreian Weather Service has just informed us that summer is officially on its way, after a record breaking four month long spring. The report indicated that beginning this Wednesday, September 15, until October 13, all of Atreia will experience scorching temperatures, which will finally give female MuMus an excuse to wear those hideous bikinis.
It’s getting hot in here, so put on summer clothes! When summer begins on September 15th, you’ll be rewarded street cred scorching heat automatically as you adventure. As you collect scorching heat, you’ll be able to purchase frozen boxes to help you keep cool. These boxes can be used to claim swim suits, coins, polymorph candies and even dyes. Make sure to stay hydrated, Daevas—we’ll see you in-game!
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With the latest Aion update Assault on Balaurea several bugs have been noticed:
If you are continuing to experience errors in download please contact Customer Technical Support by e-mail at support@ncsoft.com.
Call by Phone: Phone customer service for billing and technical issues from Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 5 p.m. CT, by calling (512) 225-6359. Phone support for in-game issues is not available.
If you have noticed any other bug just let us know and we’ll try to find an answer.
Aion team has released a fully updated version 2.0 client installer. This client includes all the smaller updates and allows anyone to jump straight into Aion: Assault on Balaurea after installing with no patching required!
This full client is available via direct download from GamersHell, it’s also available from Aion own Torrent server.
NCsoft Torrent:
ftp.ncsoft.com/Aion/Client/Torrent/Aion2.0.0.2_FullInstaller.zip.torrent
Gamershell 1.9.0.3 – 2.0.0.0 Download:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_63074.shtml
GamersHell Full 2.0 Client Download:
I’ve recently noticed several summer NPCs in swimming trunks. My first impression was – I want a swimming suit for my toon! But I couldn’t figure out how to get scorching heats for this event. Like Serlain said: It isn’t fighting in general, gathering, lava damage, fighting things that do fire damage, or sitting naked in the pool near the summer NPCs.
As you have noticed, the NPCs for the Aion Summer Event are in the capital cities. These NPCs are going to be in town for awhile, but the event itself is not turned on yet.. so… No scorched heat yet! [Trine]
So, I hope Summer Event will start sooooon!
You have probably noticed on your NCsoft launcher information that Aion 2.0 update will be ready on 9/8/2010. Although the official line is that this is just a bug, Aion fans seem to be a little suspicious about “extended maintenance”.
Actually this is just a bug with the launcher, there will be an extended maintenance on the 7th of Sept, the servers will be patched to 2.0, – so will game clients. The servers will come up all patched and ready to go on the 7th of Sept. [Faelan]
While you may not believe that this maintenance should not be longer than the 1.9 update maintenance, the good news is that there will be external sources for downloading the patch like Fileplanet, Gamershell, Steam and an Official Torrent.
Also, one of the big questions is will we be able to rename AionPTS to AionEU/US and play?
As with the 1.9 PTS/Live release, its not recommended by us to copy and rename the current PTS client into your live client. [Faelan]
During this year’s GamesCom we were present at the Q&A event with the Korean developers at the NCSoft booth. The event was hosted by the charming German Community manager Imhotep and developers present were Jiho Lee and Seungwuk Baek. Most of the event was in German, which we are not very good with. We would like to ask our community members to help us with the translation if at all possible . One question per person and we’ll have the video translated in no time. If you feel like helping out you can leave your translations in the comment section bellow.
From the information we were able to gather, the most important announcement is that there will be separate builds from now one. On for the Korean market and one for the Western audiences. “Our” version should have better Abyss rewards, higher drop percentages and more XP. Please do correct me if I am wrong (somewhere near the end of the video is this information). We also managed to ask about the mounts in the game and they should be coming soon. They probably won’t have the same mechanics everywhere (PvP zones for example), but they are working on the mounts system.
If you haven’t played Aion 2.0 on the Public Test Server, but you are still interested in what the game looks and plays like check out this video we made at this year’s GamesCom convention in Cologne, Germany. The video showcases all sorts of new content and mechanics in the 2.0 patch. We can see the new lands, new wings, windstreams, new instances (including some 12 man lvl 55 raid instances) and pets functionality.
The footage is in German, but don’t worry if you don’t understand the language – the video speaks for itself. The presentation was given by German Community Manager Imhotep (very charming and very nice).
During the last few days a fair amount of attention was drawn to Aion 2.0. Pet System which we covered in our latest guide Aion 2.0. Pet System Part 1. The upcoming free expansion Aion: Assault on Balaurea introduces an entirely new pet subsystem to explore. You will have access to functional pets capable of storing goods, assisting with crafting, acting as guardians by alerting their masters to nearby enemies, and of course those simply designed to make their masters look good.
