Today is the day the servers are all prepped for the big launch of Rise of Isengard for us to enjoy.
From the LOTRO Launcher:
In preparation for the release of our newest expansion, Rise of Isengard™, we’ll be taking the game servers down early in the morning on Monday, September 26. We currently anticipate that the servers will be up and available to players later the same day!
We should be able to start patching later today but what to do in the meantime? I have found some assorted links for you to read and enjoy to help you pass at least some of the time and still keep you psyched for the release!
Dev Diaries
GeneralPVMPVideo Region Diaries |
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Screenshots
Turbine released many official screenshots for Rise of Isengard. We’ve posted all the official screenshots to a Flickr set so you can see them all!
Interviews with Turbine
Written
- CSTM PAX Prime Interview
- Loge Interviews at Games Com
- GameSpot
- PC Gamer
- Massively E3 Coverage
- Massively: Interview with Aaron Campbell and Adam Mersky
- Massively: Inside Isengard
- Kalimari Castle
Video
Audio
Screenshots
From Closed Beta: Bullroarer
Written
- Draigoch
- Virtue Changes
- Crafting Guild Reputation
- Pineleaf Peruses Isengard (Skirmishes)
- Changes to the Defiler Class
- Lore-master Changes
- New Lore-master Pet
- Cosmetic LOTRO: New Store Cosmetics
- Doc Holiday: New Armor Sets
Video
Audio:
- Episode 103: PAX Information from Alphaman of CSTM and Chris from LOTRO Reporter
- Episode 104: PVMP with Mr. Warg
September 26, 2011 at 8:54 am
Oh!!!! Thanks GS. Time to go read all stuff I didn’t read when it came out.
September 26, 2011 at 10:15 am
Yay.
Links to stop my mouse from clicking on minecrack.
September 26, 2011 at 11:01 am
Amazing compilation.
Its great finding ALL under one roof so to speak.
September 26, 2011 at 11:51 am
Love the collection of links. Thank you for putting them together GS!
One quick note, it seems that the Pineleaf peruses Isengard link is actually taking clickers to Pineleaf plays the Warden article. No biggie, just thought you might like to know.
Thanks again.
September 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Fixed! Thank you
September 27, 2011 at 4:09 am
the ‘Massively: Interview with Aaron Campbell and Adam Mersky’ link sent me to a really old post – update 3 old
September 26, 2011 at 2:48 pm
We be downloadin’!
September 26, 2011 at 3:02 pm
I’m still at work, so let us know how long the updates take to download, please!
September 26, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Currently, the game data is 25% downloaded for me, but I don’t want to assume that once it’s updated that we’ll instantly be able to get into the game. It is being processed however, so you can at least start the update for it!
September 26, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Between that last post and now, I have updated 5% of the game! It’s all downloaded and now updating, so hopefully that gives you an idea of how long that might take.
September 26, 2011 at 4:00 pm
I’ve been stuck trying to connect for quite a while now:
X Connect Retry(00:57)
This is normal. I wish I was one of the lucky ones that already managed to get in, but I suspect that hours from now most of us still won’t be in the game. So now I try and stick to a little tradition I’ve developed over the years on ‘launch day’ of any game and expansion:
Spring Cleaning (now with less Spring)! It might be three minutes, it might be seventeen hours. I do my very best to let the launcher do its business and not stare at it (sometimes I succeed) and instead start poking around this room that I regularly ignore in favour of the screen before me. I’ve already vacuumed and filled one bag with stuff to donate!
Okay, almost filled…. I faltered and took the James Herriot books back out. Still not dwelling on the launcher progress though!
X Connect Retry(00:43)
Grrr… fine. Time to rummage through my ‘junk’ drawer. And my other ‘junk’ drawer. Le sigh.
September 26, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Ive Been reading so much about this expansion that i had to.drink myself drunk to pass the time……
Kenship : infected mushroom
September 26, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Got into the game and was met with a splash screen telling me to preorder RoI, I chuckled.
Download for me took about an hour but I was on another mmo at the time.
September 26, 2011 at 10:30 pm
I finally connected to a patch server around 10:20PM EST.
“Never play on patch day.”
- old Asheron’s Call players’ wisdom
September 26, 2011 at 11:57 pm
Love the new minstrel
The monster play screen has been made to look similar to the Free Peoples screen
currently the LOTRO store is down and the launcher takes a while to connect to the server, but after that there isn’t any new lag
The creeps are winning in the Ettenmoors without any lvl 75
sorry if my post doesn’t make sense
September 27, 2011 at 12:01 am
lvl 75s
the horse induction lasts for only 1 whistle, instead of 2