0.9.13i Patch Notes

Version 0.9.13i (aka 1.06?)

• As part of the leadup to Open Beta, we've substantially changed how characters are stored and saved.
• Due to the above change, we've reset all your passive skills. Please take care reallocating your passives so that you can use your equipment and gems.
• Fixed a bug where "No sound while in background" would start playing sounds again if they looped.

The map problem and the projectiles problem will be fixed very soon.

This was a total frankenpatch. We decided to backport all our database performance changes to 0.9.13 that were created with the assumption that they were after a wipe.

For example, the balance guys had removed difficulty 4 and renamed all the internal keys for items and world areas because none of the items and most of the character data in the database at the moment matter after the wipe.

Getting all the database stuff that was made after that back in to 0.9.13 was a mess of conflicts and strange source merges. Unfortunately someone missed a commit that mattered after we renamed all the end game areas.

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Moosifer wrote:

Oh don't take it as a personal attack, you guys do a great job. The problems just seems so random to someone who has no idea what you are doing.

I didn't. Just explaining how random things can go wrong.

Still, it wasn't good enough that we didn't detect this problem. Testing map areas should be on the list of mandatory to test before a patch goes out, and it wasn't.

We will try and do better in the future.

A few people are finding that they log in with passives already allocated.

We have a fix to this as well and it is going through in the same patch that we are building right now. Unfortunately the fix just prevents it from happening to future players logging in for the first time.

Anybody affected by this should send a screenshot of your current passive tree to the account "Rory" and he will send you enough Orbs of Regret to fully respec the passives that you were incorrectly assigned.

(This problem was caused by a missing NULL terminator. Doh!)

As Jonathan says, if you find yourself with someone else's passive tree, email me a screenshot and your character details and spec to rory@grindinggear.com and I'll be in touch!

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FriarJon wrote:

Would the changes in this patch break previous passive skill tree builds? The following link no longer works when it did yesterday:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAQIBBsBEzwjbctcK1ksqDTEnnBJoD8cUgyuTIdovZSPvSKwoFzgBKdY5MiwT8lYz_fsfNbUq6zXuYPo9t5s3RMYy6UhZ_PNJth9tXsSEcWdDamlqIuu8cYQpHHVTOnjgICcp7x4SX6SYTeLokprPjJ8LaoJ57e6hF-X66uKeruyVfPKcLz6x3qCvTYBnLFXev_2oxyb29vs-I6iCPL6sw7INguRiYL2hvSrY-NIybYRadRrH812999oE5sg5MAHXhdBayrm9keLi14XSVDf0tAoPWz0uSxXrpCJJILkVpzrcqhWGc4sPf6rIHhqR8tqAyTPVCqgxHaoFOlYIesKck4cffqtlVdKZLWG3ZRFytZvwKsVn7gnq5WPQVP6L4q46q_In8kM_fpo64s3t89YWQkzWvK5zcQNOYownZ2J6uhqdWbQL6q9z2Qkd2QWqm1VjOr_IXVWy5nzAId7rYAuN2GapJUsGJWtKtkyLT2ktRWJHuPI=

Cheers.

EDIT: yah looks like all my bookmarked build links are no longer valid.

Yes, for the same reason that we did a passive skill respec. We changed all the internal names of the passive skills.

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C4r1b0u wrote:

My question. All the builds I had made on the site, and saved, are now gone. Is this going to be fixed, or am I SOL?

Unfortunately they're no longer compatible :(

We're very sorry that this is inconvenient - a lot of changes have to happen when moving towards Open Beta and we'll try to keep the impact lower than this for future ones.