With less than 24 hours to go before the release of Trials of Atlantis in Europe, imagine a bee hive buzzing of activities and you will have a little idea of the current state here in the office.
But let's see the schedule for tomorrow.
All servers will be shut down around 6am GMT (7am CET) tomorrow morning. The patch servers will be activated with Trials of Atlantis a little later during the morning and all servers should be up and running with the patch 1.67 by the end of the afternoon.
The patch for Classic clients will be of 18Mb. For Shrouded Isles clients, it will be around 27Mb and for Atlantis clients, it shouldn't go above 10Mb.
Official website changes for Trials of Atlantis release.
As announced last Friday, the homepage of the official website will be replaced by a "lighter" version for the release day. On this new page, you will find the traditional patch day news and direct links to the three pages needed for the day :
The other parts of the official website, the ones less needed for such a day, will not be available as we want to put all the available resources on what is really needed for the release day of Trials of Atlantis.
The activation page for Trials of Atlantis is a brand new page in flash (you will need Flash 7 and a compatible browser in order to use it) and will use a totally different system than the one used for the release of Shrouded Isle last year. This new page was designed so that everyone can register faster and more easily.
Meta CD Key for Trials of Atlantis and add-on activation
Some of you already bought the special pack (Dark Age of Camelot + Shrouded Isles + Trials of Atlantis, normal bundle or collector) and in these boxes you will find only one CD Key and not three. This CD Key is in fact a Meta CD Key (all in one). You can of course use this CD Key to activate Trials of Atlantis but you can also use it to register a new account and activate Shrouded Isles.
Basically, you can use this CD Key 3 times, once for Dark Age of Camelot Classic, once for Shrouded Isles and once for Trials of Atlantis.
Now, let's see how the Trials of Atlantis add-on activation will go.
On the new light page of the official website, you will find the following links :
Note : Permanently suspended accounts cannot be re-activated, only the ones closed by yourself.
Important Notice :
Once the Trials of Atlantis activation is completed, you will automatically receive a confirmation email, make sure that your account information is up to date and that the email address we have is the right one !
You will receive this confirmation email only if the Trials of Atlantis activation has been validated, if not, you will receive an email indicating that some of the information you provided was incorrect.
Finally, know that there can be a delay (ranging from a couple minutes to more than an hour) between the registration on the official website and the confirmation email, depending on server load.
Trials of Atlantis and the coming changes, 1.68 and beyond
Dark Age of Camelot is a MMORPG and is in constant evolution. A new patch (1.68) has been released recently on the American servers by Mythic and this patch introduced a lot of important changes for many of the Trials of Atlantis features. These changes were of course needed for the game and will be applied in a near future to the European servers as well.
We strongly urge you to read these patch notes and to see the nature of the changes already now, to prevent any disappointment once we bring this patch live in Europe.