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Notes for AoC's 23rd of July patch: extra-short edition
We've had a long run of meaty patches for Age of Conan, and whether or not they addressed the most important issues on players' minds, the patch notes were always long and full of fixes. This week's update is in stark contrast to these past patches, as there are only two entries that sum up the changes: Resolved several memory leaks. Reset all characters feat training status. The first entry here speaks for itself. The feat training status reset refers to the cost of resetting your feats at a trainer -- due to recent class changes, Funcom has wiped the slate clean for feat respecs so that everyone can alter their build relatively cheaply. Both of the changes in today's update had already been mentioned in a recent developer post on the forums -- the other changes highlighted in this post will likely be making it in for next week.
EQII dev discusses the art of plugging a memory leak
No one enjoys a memory leak in their favorite game. Perhaps you've reported one in the past, in the hopes of a speedy fix. EverQuest II's technical director Joshua Kriegshauser recently noticed quite a few reports coming in about a possible leak in the zone Veeshan's Peak, and has done a write-up of what it takes to repair these crippling and annoying problems.Having read through the article, we won't pretend that we understood everything that Kriegshauser has written, but we get the point -- fixing memory leaks is no stroll in the park. For those of you that can keep up with what he is saying, kudos to you. For the rest of us, it opens our eyes to what really goes on behind the little hotfixes we zoom past in the latest patch notes of any given game. In case you don't make it to the end of the article, we'll let you know that he did manage to fix the leak -- we're going to go now and sleep off the headache we got from reading that far.
