Summary: This week Xander, Bishop, Dion, Ocalot and Galactrix get swept away in the opening week of The Secret World's launch! So sit back and listen as we explore Funcom's new flagship game and the events leading up to its landing! Take a listen as we discuss our love of The Secret World in a casual and friendly atmosphere. Beyond the Veil is a Community based weekly talk show sponsored by HolosuiteMagazine.com. Be sure to tune in Mondays and listin to our audio remastered shows. Looking for a Cabal? look us up in The Secret World. Host/Exc. Producer: Xander Hayes CoHost: Bishop Audio Engineer: Xander Hayes Content Manager: Ocalot Email: HolosuiteMagazine@gmail.com Twitter: @TheXanderZones Beyond The Veil's theam song by Simon Pool & Marc Canham Beyond The Veil's Logo by Xander Hayes Show Note Beyond the Veil Episode 1: The Launch Day Cometh Before Launch The Secret War and following ARG Early Access The Bad (problems): Unable to claim items from the item store / not getting items delivered from the store http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=36260&highlight=claim+item This issue happened because the server which hosts the store was being overwhelmed with requests for items. By the time I was able to play the game on friday night the fix was ready and the store was taken offline for a very small amount of time for the patch to be applied. The issue is fixed and the item store now works fine. Not being able to log in http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=36276 Morteia (TSW Community Manager): I have reported this issue, as it does look like many players are being affected by it. It does, however, seem to stem from the large amount of players currently accessing the character servers. The best workaround I can recommend is the one that has already been mentioned by several players in this thread.Just close the client and try to log into it again. It seems as though the second or third time may be the charm. I'll let you know if I hear anything back about this as soon as possible! No Names Available http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=36223 People were unable to create new characters because the game thought all the names were taken. This has been fixed Bugged Quests The quests Something Wicked and Men in Black Vans where bugged during prelaunch with users unable to complete them due to problems when it came to interacting with objects for those quests. Men in Black Vans was fixed for launch while Something Wicked still is. Thankfully Something Wicked can still be completed without a official patch by grouping with someone in an instance where the quest is working as intended and being completed from there. Ugly NPCs http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=36637\ Ragnar (TSW Director and Producer): A lot of the heads in the Betas were placeholders, and we only recently got the final heads into the game. Pastor Hawthorne looks the way he's supposed to look, while a couple of others -- Rogét, Cassandra -- didn't get the proper reviews before going into the game. We will fix a couple of these, but we're trying to minimise the amount of changes done to characters that players have become familiar with. It's like switching out actors on TV shows: while it may be beneficial to the quality of the show, the viewers might react negatively regardless, since they've gotten used to them. The Good (Things gone right): Hardly Any Bugs or issues: Besides the previously mentioned issues nothing else was wrong with the game. The servers also stayed up for the whole time only coming down for a quick patch or maintenance (in fact the longest time the servers stayed down was four hours during a scheduled maintenance that players were told about before it happen) this lead to people saying... Smooth as silk (pre)launch! http://forums.thesecretworld.com/showthread.php?t=36319 While The Inquisitor had this to say: Click here Launch
