December 1st, 2007

Hellgate: London – Another Hotfix

A very irritating bug that occured during the multiplayer online action was the fact that some group members became invisible and it was really difficult to go through the game like that. The multiplayer version of the game receiced a hotfix patch, namely 0.6, which adresses this particular issue. So now the co-op game should work flawlessly.

From the notes of the developers about the patch here's a quote: "Patch 0.6 has one very notable fix – the invisible group member bug has been slain. This was a crafty, fierce thing with rows of nasty sharp teeth, but we believe it has now fallen into the mists of legend. We’ll stay vigilant in case it raises its ugly invisible head again."(...) "We’ve also made great strides on the Engineer Drone issue where items become unequipped. There are some cases where Drones (as well as players), will still have items unequip. The main cause of this is when players “ladder up” the equipment on their Character or Drone by using items with statistic bonuses. This results in the Character or Drone being able to use a better overall set of gear than they normally could, and thus causes issues if the items are not equipped in a specific order (or used at all). We’re continuing to work on this one, but it is better with this patch."

The next problem they are going to look at and will find out how to fix is the memory management issue. The only thing that remains unknown is what will happen to the single player mode - a new patch to fix the memory management in single player mode hasn't been confirmed yet.