Timeline for New Challenge Leagues, 1.3.0 PvP Update and PvP/Race Seasons
The following times are all in the Pacific Timezone (21 hours behind New Zealand).
Thursday November 20 (1pm): Beyond/Rampage challenge leagues end Thursday November 20 (11pm): Race Season Nine ends Monday November 24 (3pm?): Prizes awarded for Race Season Nine Friday November 28 (5pm?): One-week Rampage/Beyond race starts Friday December 5 (5pm?): One-week Rampage/Beyond race ends Friday December 12 (5pm?): 1.3.0 Released and new Challenge Leagues start Monday December 15: PvP Season One and Race Season Ten both start December 20-21: PvP Season One Swiss Tournament Weekend 1 December 27-28: PvP Season One Swiss Tournament Weekend 2 January 3-4: PvP Season One Swiss Tournament Weekend 3 January 10-11: PvP Season One Swiss Tournament Weekend 4. Race Season Ten ends January 17-18: PvP Season One Finals Weekend (for victors of the weekend swiss tournaments) Around Monday January 19: PvP Season Two and Race Season Eleven both start | |
To address the issue that happened earlier today - we've fixed the exploit that allowed players to reroll items via crashing the servers. Players who abused it heavily will be banned, those that tried it a few of times will be given temporary suspensions. Crashing servers is a serious problem and is illegal in many countries (classed as a denial of service attack!)
Last edited by Chris on Nov 16, 2014, 9:21:15 PM
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" We are well down the road of banning people who cheat or try to crash servers for economic gain. Ghudda's account isn't over the threshold that would result in a permanent ban, but it'll be included in the set who are temporarily suspended. There's no need to stream exploits to raise awareness of them - we were working on it a few hours before it was streamed. Thanks to those people who wrote in privately before it was public knowledge. | |
" Probably hardcore and it'll probably have some prizes. | |
" Less than a day from what we can see. I know what you're talking about regarding the Rampage items and I can assure you that that was quietly dealt with a while ago. | |
" We typically make it so that you still get prizes you've earned if you die in the one week race - so it's worth trying out if you don't normally play hc. | |
" Our crash logs don't show it being used before today. Can I see the bug report you refer to? | |
" When the league ends we'll take the realm down to move everyone's hideouts over, etc. When it comes back up we'll award the Halo microtransactions and finalise who is getting t-shirts. | |
" That merge is at the end of the week when the temporary leagues end - is that what you meant? | |
" Winners from each tournament get into the finals, and there are plenty of weekday events to get points in also, so missing a weekend is totally fine. |