EQ2Emulator 0.7.1 Released!

[John Adams]

Although we are about 3 mos behind schedule, the EQ2Emulator Team is proud to release EQ2Emulator 0.7.1 to the public, officially.

We (quietly) branched the code back in Aug 2012 and have been running extensive tests on EQ2TC before calling this our next "stable release", and so far it passes with flying colors! I want to give a special shout out to Jabantiz for his excellent work fixing our very broken Combat System. Along with these fixes came some updates to how Movement works. While we still have a long way to go, EQ2Emu is far more stable than it was.

The EQ2Emulator 0.7.1 cycle focused on 3 primary tasks;

• 1. Bug Fixes
  2. Core Stability
  3. DoV Client support

While a few systems have been implemented (Character Development, Tradeskills continued effort) a majority of our focus has been on fixing bugs and crashes reported by you - the player in our community. It also took us quite a while to teach ourselves the magic of adding support for a whole new client without the help of LethalEncounter - but I think we got this now

Some of our DB Milestone 1 Data has been fixes as well, but rather that patch that data, we'll just roll it into DB Milestone 2 which should be starting soon (again, yes I know...)


Please check our ChangeLog for changes since January 1, 2012. I assure you, your EQ2Emulator Project is not dead, we're just a little busy trying to learn all we can


Download: The Source Code (SVN rev 1659)

Download: The Binaries (SVN rev 1659)

Download: The Binaries and Scripts

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A short list of some changes in the last 18 mos:

- Client 7628L support! Older clients also compatible, but Destiny of Velious is our new base client standard!

- 75% of this release cycle was spent getting DoV client compatible (we had to start from scratch!)
- Major improvements to combat and movement (thank you Jabantiz!)
- Tons of raw data work (DB Milestone 2, not yet released) and work on the EQ2PacketCollector
- Traits and Traditions systems have been started
- Passive Spells functionlity started (and continuing into the 0.7.2 cycle)
- World and Custom Chat Channels added
- Started work on AoD+ client compatibility
- Lots of Bug Fixes (see ChangeLog)
- Huge update to the server pack itself which now uses Xampp package for easier updating

Thank you for sticking around with us, and we hope you enjoy this release. Look for some exciting new changes coming in 2013!


What's Next?
Check our our Project Manager portal to see what is currently being worked on in 0.7.2 - Jabantiz is already feverishly working on Tradeskills (making great progress!) and Pets. Zcoretri is finishing Character Development (Passives/AA) and helping me with Achievements. Scatman is revamping core systems for stability and performance, as well as helping me with C# tools to make our jobs easier. I would tell you what Xinux was working on, but then I'd have to kill you...

Lots more, so check it out here:

• Link: 0.7.2 Development Cycle Tasks