Gah...I logged off when I saw the announcement.

When the server comes back up, will the anniversary activities (such as the Odyssey-class shakedown mission) be in place and available, or will that come later?

No, I'm not waiting to get my hands on my new ship, why do you ask? (We wants it, yes we does, my precious...)

I believe they will start around 10am PST.

wow.. Midnight Cali time.. SO lets see..

That means.. right now as I type its 40 min to service time, so, either they just send someone to grab food at In and Out Burger, or the local artisan pizza place has the Cryptic order in the oven right now! (or very shortly!)

The QA team is in so Zero is in the building (possibly catching a nap in her cube) it only takes moment to actually update the build and bring the servers back up.. BUT they gotta test..make sure everything is working..The game its self.. and where possible check the new and changed features went in ok.. Oh you poor sorry................... your gonna have to run elite STF's... Good luck.. remember if you manage to take down an Elite Tactical drone having only two team members go down than yea the patch took fine!

I'm gonna go play something else for a bit..see ya all ina couple hours.. well, your departing shadows anyway..

Message actually popped up ingame that the maintenance time was incorrectly announced on the server.

Crap, I was going to stay up to get them before ESD was crammed full of people and lagging.

Ready to outfit a Bortas in the morning.

YAY!!! I can't wait to see Q and fly new class!

I have seen the scheduled updates involved in this patch, and I must say I am really disappointed. You plan to make all the elite STF's easier for the community, when it is not necessary at all. Myself and all my friends already can get through every STF without much problem.. maybe not complete the optional every time, but always get through it. Why? Because we learned how to properly play the game, and utilize all the skills of our classes.

But instead your probably listening to a group of players complaining about how hard it is because they likely always run with strangers, and never have actually tried to learn how to play the game. So of course its too hard for THEM. So rather then nerfing the game for players who don't want to bother learning how to play in the first place, why don't you just find a way to make them actually learn how to play. It would be better for the community as a whole if there were more skilled players out there to enhance PVP as well as PVE.

That's just my two cent's though.

Will the regular loot drop from MK XII to MK XI now because the Elite enemies are a level lower?