Okay, let's do this one last time.>Project Epoch Reborn is a community-run, non-commercial continuation of the custom Classic+ World of Warcraft MMORPG server Project Epoch.>3.3.5a>New race / class combos>funny community>devs actually listen to the players (unlike forever dogshit)>New balance changes>New starting areas for gnomes and trolls>New custom content +Did I mention it's free?Launches in 4 hours.
project-epoch.org/
didn't this shit already release once and it was basically forgotten within the week?how is it any different this time?
erm...this time guys....this time it will be good, i swears!
>>750194383It wasn't forgotten, the devs abandoned the project due to the sheer amount of players. It was the largest private server launch ever.
>>750194383yeah, it was mega hyped, released to like 20k players and imploded under its own weight. ascension wow took it over it and tossed it in a dark corner and forgot about, but now they're dead too. third times the charm i guess? it definitely wont even have a fraction of the players this time.
>>750194383i remember there was giga hype, server couldnt handle it and i think one of the programmers alt+qqq?i guess the scraps got reborn. shame im pl,ying maple right now
>>750194424>>750194445>>750194453so nothing guarantees me the devs won't have success anxiety and fuck off again, gotchai already have enough fell for it again awards from blizzard themselves, don't need to start a new collection from pserver devs as well
>>750194515nope, treat this shit as if it will die at any second. im gonna be playing it with a friend but we already have a backup game to play cuz we know its gonna be a shitshow
>>750194515u sound like a faggot lol
>>750194950>i got burned twice, maybe i shouldn't touch the hot stove again>what are you, a faggot?dumb shill
nobody is playing your brazilian third world server when WORLD OF CHADS: CHADEVER is releasing next week dumbass
>>750195090BASED CHADEVER BRO!!!!!!I MYSELF WILL BE A DWARF PRIEST AND SMITE THE HEATHENS
>>750194383>>750194515What happened was blizzard started their new wave of cracking down on pservers because their plans for classic+ a month or so in after epoch launched. It kinda puts a damper on things when you know your server might be CnDd at any moment and it won't grow because the server's got to stay real quiet to stay under the radar.
please dont advertise this here I dont want to play with vtards
>>750194986kek last game i got hyped for was age of conan. maybe you need to learn from your experiences and stop trying to be a faggot
>>750194346kinda retarded to launch a pserver with forever nearbylet blizzard take the nosedive first so retards like >>750195090 can see everything blizzard touch turn to shit
>>750194424interesting. most dev abandon games when they have too FEW players.
>>750194986You do sound like one actually."I got burned" ?? Its a fucking private server that you dont pay anything for
>>750196123it's called an analogy you low functioning autist
>>750195768it won't matterblizzcucks are so brainwashed blizzard could barge into their homes, cut their dick off and inject them with estrogen and they'll still defend the company
>>750196189we are not talking about the analogy, we are talking about the situation that you are in and your reaction to it.i hope you sleep at night knowing that you are truly a faggot. its amazing to witness
>>750196292i'll be too busy sleeping at night knowing you'll be looking forward to your next FRESH because the devs bolted again
>>750196359i already said im playing maple story. i think you need to go see a doctor to speakl too, tell them where these devs touched you are night
wasn't epoch the biggest rug pull in wow private server history? why would you get hyped for it again?are you retarded?
NIGGA. I have to work today. Why couldn't they push this to the weekend?
>>750196490WoW isn't a game for wageslaves.
I don't mean this with all ill will or animosity but I genuinely don't understand how many times this can go on for with this WoW classic stuff in any variation, it's like groundhog day but it keeps degrading with this routine.
>>750196583
>>750196483I was there, it was classic+ perfection but there were too many people, and everyone was whining because servers couldnt handle it so when the russians offered them the bag they probably said fuck it
>>750196780>too many peopleyou mean...an MMO?is this going to be another one of those dead private servers with a pop of 300 that everyone playing there spends all day coping with how the server is "comfy"?
Father...is it over?
>>750194346>dwarf shaman>undead paladinrofl noooooooooope
I think launch will be even more complicated this time. Beta ends today/tmrw/soon, so flock gonna search for quick fix.
>>750196845You don't understand, their lead code monkey was a 20 something college drop out. Of course the server was doomed from the start.
Do the devs still get bent out of shape over the pregnant male emoji?
>>750197132no, this is completely different project - main dev is the man behind epoch database, he got frustrated with Dutch and Ascension, teamed up with some lads to recreate Epoch outside of Ascension grasp
>>750196845some people actually think 300 players in a server is "comfy" o algo
>>750194346>advertising private servers during Blizzards marketing campaign on /v/You brought this upon yourself
>>750194383they paid more for jeet shills than for server infrastructure it instantly died
is epoch the most spectacular failure in wow private server history?
>>750198101it only failed because it succeeded so much, so no.
I had a lot of fun the first time around, but I cannot be bothered again.I do think it's a terrible shame that the original content they made for it is gonna be lost basically forever when this shuts down, there's some good shit in there.
>>750198223holy cope, I played it to level 35 but the most fun I had with it was shitting on the devs in discord/wpsg
>>750198292sounds like you don't enjoy WoW anymore. that's OK.
>Shilling actual, literal jerusalemware
>>750197363Us epoch shills are destined for greatness
>>750194346Does this thing not have a discord?
>>750198521Nah, they care about privacy. You can access their discord equivalent here https://chat.project-epoch.org/ can login with your game account or make one just for the chat.
>>750196845It didn't even work because the architecture was fucked. They had to enlist Ascension devs to make it functional but they quit before it got to that point under the pressure.
bro the dwarf building in kharanos, a fucking starter area, was placed too high up for players to accessyou can stop making up bullshit about your "suffering from success" LARP
>>750198641That's not what happened. Ascension bought them out to funnel players on their platform and p2w servers. Them leaving and letting the server to rot was part of the deal.
>>750194346Why should I play on a server that will also get shut down the moment it becomes too popular?
>>750198731They did have Ascension devs working on it for a bit while they were still the leads. It wasn't a long time before they just quit but it was at least a week. But yes, of course Ascension let it rot because they released Bronzebeard Classic shortly after
>>750196780shit was an abomination of vanilla, tbc and wrath talents lolclassic+ fags really have 0 standardssome classes get absolute dogshit and then warrior gets bladestorm lol
>>750194383It was rehosted by ascension after the miserable first launch and lived quietly for a year. It sunk to ~500 active players but regained some players when turtle shut down and continued until ascension's shutdown. I leveled 2 characters to 60 on it and it's the best classic+ pserv i played on. It was unfairly ignored because the original devs bailed out as soon as asc gave them money, and asc ignored the serv on purpose in favor of their bronzebeard server.I hope the new rehost will have a better future
>>750199234And I see from their website which looks inactive as fuck that there was little change regarding class balance.Shan't be wasting my time on this
I don't see why anyone would bother at this point with private servers, if they get popular they will get nuked and otherwise what's the point
>>750199739because they're putting out better gameplay than pozzsaard
>>750194346Leaving aside the disastrous launch, I had fun with the first release until I quit. I'm still unsure about Forever, so who knows, if this ends up not being a rug pull I might give it a try.
>>750198850This time they're using Chatgbt or something shieeeet
I decided I'm not paying blizzkikes. Too woke still to deserve my money. Even removed boob jigglehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXTgH1TrZx4I'll try this out but isn't there a lack of new shit compared to forever?
>>750199739This time it's not hosted in an EU country and the devs are anonymous and don't use fucking LinkedIn or Github with their real life names attached.
>>750194346How do i know if it will be as good as turtle?How do i know if blizzard won't kill it like it did with turtle?
>>750194346@grok what are the chances of this getting closed. Make no mistakes
>>750201732The custom content is much higher quality and the class balance is better since they used TBC talents with some tweaks.No guarantee it won't be shut down. Blizzard has Microsoft lawyers now and no country is safe to host.
>>750194346lmao nah I will play forever
>>750199234Show me a better version or stfu
>coa shuts down>1 week after>open source remake>they open a PTR>mite b gud>try>most classes work like ass>as expected I guess>"DUDE WE ADDED MANASTORM">report bugs and shit autistically>"DUDE WE ADDED BOTS">"bugs fix'd! ;)">it's not, most fixes are half assed>"DUDE WE ADDED NEW GFX">keep reporting>"DUDE WE ADDED.......">base classes STILL work like ass>"btw we're launching a live server! :)">wtfyeah I think I'm over pirate servers and fan-run faggotryai coding could have been great in the hands of smart peopletoo bad niggas running most of this shit seem to be as dumb as a rockit will be hard having decent fan-made content ever again, everything feels like endless slopor maybe this is all new and we'll need an adapting period idk
>>750195768Is their last attempt before asha fucks them up next year.
>>750202784Also fuck epoch too, fuck them and blizzard altogether.
>the people trying to make a decent version of wow are really dumb>im very smart actually but i cant do anything myself>i will still complain openly about the people who do something
>genuinely happy paying for blizzslop and bitching about a f2p fan project
>>750202974They are making pservers to trick me
>>750194346>original Epoch launch was such a horrific clusterfuck that it made me start playing on TurtleWoWGood times.
I'm going to trawl their website and discord for as much information as I can and then send it on to Blizzard and Microsoft's legal departments. Fuck pserfs.
Where do I dl the 3.3.5a client?
>>750205312https://chromiecraft.com/en/downloads/
>>750194346>Did I mention it's free?FREE!? WHAT? A private server and it's... *gulp*... FREEEEE!? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?
So is it wotlk class balance or did they balance it themselves?
>>750205538TBC with some changes
>>750194383>how is it any different this time?The big difference is that Blizzard will aggressively pursue shutting it down because it's competing with their Forever launchSo I would expect this classic server to last about two weeks total
I'll give it a shot, no skyelves is a pretty big plus over forever.
>>750194346Do I still got time? I want to do this all over again
>>750205850Yes. Download and join now. ~ 26k accounts made so far
>>750206278what do I need to play this besides a pc? I played the previous one and was part of The Shrouded Atlas guild , just made a completely new account like 2 minutes ago
>>750198260Yeah I had fun playing with pochie anons. Good memories, dont need to do it again.
Fuck it I'll give it a goPatching the chromie client is taking forever tho so hopefully there's no queue by the time I'm done>server launches in 10 min
>>750206436I'm with you don't worry we're now in this together , downloading chromecraft atm
alright so I just found out I still have pic related, do I just download the new launcher? would appreciate some instructions
>>750206380You need a 3.3.5a client, which you can download from the chromiecraft website or where ever you want.Their custom launcher.And an account on their site.project-epoch.org/how-to-connect.html
>>750206647see>>750206761You need to patch your vanilla 3.3.5a client with their launcher. It is a bit slow though.
>>750206761>>750206820ok so I did the patch and now is downloading something that's 1.52gb through the launcher, am I good?
>>750206931Yeah, looks like patching takes ages though, incredibly slow for me at least.
>>750206931>>750206990alright got it, this is my screen right now just waiting , I assume everything went right
where was this even advertised? apparently there was even a beta testing period last week? what the fuck?
>>750207039My patch seems stuck here, it just jumps between patch-a and patch-b.mpq with no progress, 1.19gb remaining won't move.
>>750207109I bet the private server thread on /vg/ has known about it for as long as it was plannedI think I saw a thread about it on /v/ a month or two ago
>>750207249bro spelt
>>750194383The earlier devs literally trooned out and abandoned ship right away because they saw Blizzard going after Turtle (plus the lead dev was an idiot who was upset at the "toxic" community lmao).But since Epoch was partially owned by Ascension (another Private Server team), when all the original devs quit Ascension decided to keep the server up and running for like another year but didn't really do anything with it. The server died due to stagnation.This is apparently a different team who are trying to bring it back (I think it might also be some ex-Ascension devs and ex-Epoch devs, not sure) since when Ascension got shut down by Blizzard the legal terms conveniently ignored Epoch.
>>750207249I had this issue at 1.40gb and closed the launcher then reopened it, that seemed to had fixed it, still downloading the patch atm>>750207282>vgfucking hell, I don't browse that sewer, and much less the private general dedicated to it , i'm glad anon decided to post about it here on /v/ at least or I would had lose interest
anyone got it? any screenshots?
>>750207508Yeah a fair amount of people in the undead starting zone
>>750207789Good, GOOD. Thanks anon I'm likely rolling a full Human Male Priest this time, was an undead Paladino back when epoch previously released
>>750194346Why would they launch this 2 weeks before WoWF?
>>750208250big dick move
>>750208250why wouldn't you?
wow I only need 1.32gb to play, that means I can log in in 32 hours from now on!
>>750208250>Blizzard have been scheduling patches and fresh launches to come out at the same time as their competitors products to stifle their potential growth for decades now>some fucking goyim have the chutzpah to pull a reverse uno on them like thisShut it down.
Forever already executed pservers thankfully, price of admission filters 90% of the third worlders shitters that infest them
This is the smoothest pserver launch I've ever experienced, hell it's even smoother than Blizzard launches. Do these new devs actually know how to code?
>>750208690they throttled the fuck out of the patch so new players wouldn't be able to log in immediately, which I think is a good way to handle the influx
can someone try this out? I took it from the fluxer server To help with server load in the mean time.You can download all the lastest MPQ's here.https://filebin.net/n5d83nof4jv6lhnnI wouldn't know how the fuck even use those files, but I can download it if it's faster than the patch itself
>>750209078ok just confirmed, it is indeed way fucking faster, downloading atm
>>750209078Why my screen started flickering
>>750209078Oiled up nigga booty virus, do not click
>>750209243>>750209256I'll scan and report back after it finishes
bro $15 for wow is not even that much but why would u play a private server for free that just forces u to play with mentally ill people like at least in retail wow u can solo the entire game and not have to deal with anyonethe solo mmorpg experience won.
>>750209770I can pay to play with mentally ill people, or play with mentally ill people for free. What a magnificent set of choices.
>>750209316no virus whatsoever according to my anti virus
>>750209976no u dont play with anyone at all in modern wow. wow is dead. but kids on here still say otherwise.my point is pay $15 for a few months for the real game, beat the game, and hang it up for good.
>>750194346Not interested at all after it was revealed they had nearly no custom content at all outside of a few extra quests in the starting zone.
>>750210145There are more extra quests in Epoch than in Forever.
>>750210276>than in foreverYou want a cookie? OfficialWoW has been dead for a decade
>>750209770You can't argue with europoors, they're too far gone
I take back what I said about a smooth launch
