Rust Monster

Now that the Rust Monster crew is set up in LOTR-Online you will start to see regular game information here at Rust Monster. At least until we get bored of it, or start out leveling each other, or break up due to some internal game polotics. Or Damionte get’s a girlfriend and stops waisting all his time online. . . . Though at his current rate pigs might fly first.

OH CRAP!! …

The following changes will be made in the patch on May 3, 2007:

• Guardians can now play some musical instruments at level 5.
• Fixed a bug with “Mischievous Glee” (Burglar) and “Sign of Power: Wizardry” (Lore-master) that was causing some enemies to assist the player in combat.
• The sky-diving NPC in Bree has been grounded, and will stop dropping from the sky now.
• In the “Shield Brothers” quest, players will no longer have to worry if the wight slave is killed by someone else. Using the barrow door again will cause the wight to re-appear so they can complete the quest.
• Bosses in instances are no longer scared of the players! They are immune to fear and will not be sent running like little scared hobbitses!
• Players can now destroy any and all of their Pre-order items if they so wish. This includes, but is not limited to, the Ring of Agility. Be warned, however, that once you’ve destroyed the item, that character can never get it back!
• Removed uncommon & rare loot drops from Tarburz the Wood Troll.
• Fixed a problem where some players were unable to enter any private instances.
• The problem with Undying titles not being granted to players has been identified and fixed. We’re still looking into whether we can retroactively grant the titles to those who didn’t receive them because they were fellow’d up in an instance with another player who died. This may not be possible, but we’ll try!
• Fixed pathing issues with the Rhavameldir encounter in Fornost and the Lagmas encounter in Urugarth.
• The Auction UI will now properly enable Kinship Only options when an online player’s Kinship reaches the appropriate Lifespan Rank (6).
• Fixed the following bugs on machines running Windows XP. A Windows Vista fix is still being investigated:
  • Players will no longer see their Overall Graphics Quality as “Custom” when they log in if they had originally set it to Low, Med, High, Very High, etc.
  • Fixed a bug which caused certain Graphics Options to reset to 0 every time the game was started.

This list of known issues will be updated as they come in!

• If players log out during the Newbie dwarf raid “Skorgrím’s Tomb,” the walls and entities may disappear. If this occurs, players should open their quest log, click on the Quest for the instance, then hit Cancel Quest to be removed from the instance and start the quest over again.
• In a field of like creatures, it is difficult to determine who will be tracked both before and after using the skill.
• The mouse pointer is lost when using mouse controls to steer the character and a dialog box appears onscreen.
• Animations are choppy when the game is run in windowed mode on a non-primary monitor.
• The Orc Reaver trait for flaming weapons should display a flame fx, but doesn’t.
• If the player opens their map in a dungeon and choosea “”Show Map”" to view any other area, the map’s fog-of-war gets refreshed, covering the explored area.
• When you equip a weapon or weapons while stealthed, they remain faded out even upon exiting stealth, and stay faded at all times until they are un-equipped and re-equipped.
• Players running Windows Vista may get a message that says “chat server unavailable.” This can be corrected by following the directions in our Knowledge Base at http://turbine.fuzeqna.com/lotro.sup….asp?kbid=1356
• Equipped items sometimes don’t change color when dye is applied. Unequipping and re-equipping should fix this.
• Players may sometimes see references to “Accomplishments” throughout the game. These are what are now called Deeds, and are the same thing.
• The Flute does not have an associated sound effect.

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