Howdy hunters!
Welcome to this week’s slightly belated status update.
First we’d like to shed some light on the recent server problems. As our producer Philipp announced in the forum on Monday, our servers fell victim to scripting attacks which led to significant service interruptions. Despite the safety measures our backend programmers implemented in an attempt to circumvent the attacks, our infrastructure continued to take a beating through Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, forcing the servers to their knees. On Thursday Emil and Calle carried out a major change which we hope has put an end to the issue. There have been no subsequent outages or service interruptions. We will continue to monitor server performance to ensure stability so that you can continue to enjoy the game. On a side note, you can be absolutely sure that no personal data was accessed or compromised in any way.
In the hope of removing the bad aftertaste following the lost weekend, we added 3 extra days to existing memberships on Monday. Today we’ll be adding another 3 days as well as some sweet consumables – 100 bear and hog baits as well as a large bottle of scent eliminator to everyone. Just start the game before April 22nd and you will find these items in your inventory.
During the recent issues, you may have missed the release of a really nifty piece of equipment – the new Hunting Horn. It’s awesome, great fun to use, and we wanted to celebrate it with a little video competition. The only restriction is that your video must not exceed 2 minutes, contain no copyrighted material such as music or images, otherwise the sky is your limit. Make a little orchestra with your friends, stage a mini hunt, go nuts! You can find the thread with the rules here. The winner of this contest will receive a nice little prize of 5000 em$ or a Pathfinder membership bundle (winner can decide). Looking forward to your entries!
And lastly, a note from our QA manager Dennis; there seems to have been a bit of confusion regarding the hog feeders lately, and a lot of people have been reporting unusual behaviour which they believe to be a bug. We’ve done some digging into this issue and we can confirm the hog feeders work as intended. This means that you need to pick up the right location for it to attract pigs. You can find the extensive info on how they work in our wiki. What causes some confusion is that the feeders had been bugged before and for a long time, so they attracted pigs from all over the reserve. This has been fixed, together with the bear barrels bug fix back in 2015.
That’s it for today!
Happy hunting!
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