Hello,

We've successfully moved to our new box. Everything is in order.

Please do not forget to read the post below and download the new patch, or you will NOT be able to log in.

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Hello,

Since we're moving to a new machine today and the IP is different, you'll need to update your clients. If you don't know to apply the patch, read the instructions HERE.

You can either download the System Only Patch HERE. You may not use the Auto Updater at the moment because it's currently being updated.

We're changing register.l2-vendetta.com to direct to the new server's IP, so if you can't access it at the moment, simply use THIS LINK to make accounts.

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Hello,

First off I'd like to apologize for not posting in here for a very long while. Unfortunately, we've all been stacked up with great amounts of work, both in real life and in here, so there was no time for a public announcement in the website or forums. Some of you may have thought we were leaving you behind, but you were wrong. We're all here, working hard as always.

I'll try to make this short. When we first launched the server, we were aimed by several people for DDoS attacks. This was the cause of many crashes, lag, and disconnection issues in the first days. We did notice though, despite the attacks, our stability wasn't too good, and after doing some research, we figured out we didn't have enough hardware to hold our community (over 1500 players). On top of that, our current server package only allows us to use 1000gb bandwidth per month, and due to this massive community, we used 5x this bandwidth just this month, which resulted in not only a gargantual invoice as it also resulted in limited bandwidth.

So the situation was... We were with a server with a package which bandwidth was very limited and the hardware was not enough, so we had to do something about that. We searched many datacenters around the world. In the end, we came down to two options: Stay on our current datacenter in Germany and get an entire new box instead of just upgrading the hardware, or start off clean and new in ThePlanet, Dallas, TX (USA). Our community did not agree with us moving to USA since, according to them, it'd generate lag. We did some tests and indeed, people from Europe would be very unpleased with us moving to USA, so we decided to stay in Germany.

That being said, we ordered a box yesterday, it'll be done tomorrow, and if all goes well, tomorrow (Thursday) or Friday we'll be on our new box. Anxious to find out what's in it? Read below:

Processor: Intel Dual (2x) Core 2 Quad Q9550 (8 cores)
RAM: 16GB DDR III
Hard Disks: 2x SAS 15k RPM 147gb, 1x Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM 147gb and 1x SATA II 250gb for backups.
Connection: 100mbit dedicated connection, 8000gb (8TB) max. bandwidth (we had 1TB before).

I hope this is good enough, nevermind, I'm absolutely sure this will be good enough for us, and most of our issues will be gone with this upgrade.

After we finish setting this up, we plan on expanding our custom area DVC (Dragon Valley Caves) and perhaps we'll add a new Shopping Zone and/or do some changes to Mithril Shopping Zone.

I'll update this post later on to warn you about our downtime, but I assure you it should take no longer than 1~3 hours to move to the new box, as we just have to move files and database. We decided to set up the box prior to shutting this down, to make the change as comfortable as possible to you, generating a minimal downtime.

Thank you all for your support. We are constantly doing our best to this community, and we are sure it goes both ways.

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Hello,

We've decided to open donations for enchants earlier than expected (as you can see below) because unfortunately Donations will be closed from a certain period in the month of February. Most likely starting in the period of 5th/8th of February for 1 or 2 weeks. This will occur because I'm going to an Army training and it'll take about 10 days or so. Since I'm the only Donations Manager, there's not going to be anyone here to take your donations, so they'll be closed during that period, hence why we opened them earlier than usual.

Once I'm back, and hopefully it'll take just one week rather than two, donations will be back open. If you don't want to wait till I'm back, feel free to perform your donation before the period of 5th/8th of February. If these dates change for any reason, I'll update this post.

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Our populational increase is astonishing indeed, I have never witnessed such an awe-inspiring server launch before. The siege today, Sunday, has been just awesome. Over 25 clans have struggled for the Castle in an epic battle. It was truly fascinating. We had over 1950 players online! Absolutely amazing! Arrows flew, warriors fell, clans and alliances alike were toppled before the wrath of opposing armies amidst the chaos of the fervent healing cries of bishops and the whispered curses of necromancers. The castle exploded in a literal maelstrom of anger, fortitude, and resilience today, as clans and alliances split into factions of 9 man teams and were pitted against each other in the ultimate test of teamwork, reflexes, and sheer will.

In the end, the clan Tig3r stood victorious over Giran Castle. Congratulations.

There's plenty going on... A promotional video contest is being held at the moment. Click HERE to check out the topic. Tomorrow the event ends and we'll begin a poll to decide which video is the best. Once the winners are elected, we'll make a mix of a specific video with the winner video and have our official promotional video.



Here's one of the contestants:






Barakiel time was changed to 1 hour. We had to do that because we have way too many people who need Barakiel / Noblesse and only 6 raids a day, so it'll be temporarily reduced to 1 hour (24 raids a day).

Epic Raid Bosses will be enabled this week. We'll enable them and kill them right afterwards (the GMs), so the counter on the Raid Boss Status page is going to start.

Donations for Armors/Weapons and Enchants will now be possible. The Max. Enchants for Weapons will be +10 and for Armors/Jewels it'll be +6. We keep a low enchant for donations in order to preserve the server. You can read our donation list HERE.

Also, we're getting a Hardware Upgrade really soon. I'll update this page later on with a scheduled maintenance for the server to be upgraded. We plan on doubling our RAM and getting a much more powerful processor, so we can hold up to 3.000/4.000+ players. Of course, this is only going to happen, if you keep on voting for us daily, so please don't forget to vote for us!

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Hello,

Yesterday we had a magnificent Grand Opening. Players poured in like a sand storm and it was completely chaotic (in a good way). Not even us from the staff expected such an amazing beginning. We dealt with a massive DDoS attack yesterday during our Grand Opening, which prevented some people to login, so sometimes it took them a long while to be able to connect, however our players ingame weren't affected by the attack at all. No lag at all.

We would like to thank you all who supported us and we'd like to keep on counting with your support on a daily basis to bring in even more players and help us with suggestions to improve the server. I'm sure none of this could be possible without your support, since we haven't even signed up on any top servers ranking pages yet.

Our peak online yesterday was of 612 players online and today we expect way more players to join. Just keep in mind bots do not work in our server, which means these are real players, on real clients.

Below I'm going to post a video, some screnshots and a graphic of visits on our website, so you can have an idea of what I'm talking about:

Let's keep up the good work! Keep on spreading the word and we'll only get better!

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Hello,

At this very day, 3 years ago, the first Vendetta was being built. We had very little experience and our server was C4, but we worked hard and throughout the years we turned it into a great server. Unfortunately we had to shut it down temporarily because of technical difficulties, but the dream never died. People have asked for Vendetta to return, supported the project and held their hopes up waiting for its return. Well, you no longer have to wait. Vendetta is officially back!

We've been through a massive and long process of countless tests and improvements, followed by a Closed Beta and an Open Beta and finally we're all set up. You may download our Auto Updater HERE and create your accounts HERE, but you'll only be able to get in game after the time announced previously: 20:00 GMT +1.

In order to update your client, simply unzip the Auto Updater in your Lineage II directory (not system folder). Run the updater and allow it to fully update. Once it's done, it should create a shortcut named "L2-Vendetta" in your desktop, use it to launch the game. If for some reason this shortcut is not created in your desktop, go to your Lineage II directory, then system/L2.exe to play.

If you have any sort of issues with the Auto Updater, download our System Only patch HERE. Unzip it to your Lineage II directory and allow it to overwrite all the files needed.

We're hoping forward to see you all ingame tonight. Don't forget to call your friends and tell everybody the good and old Vendetta's back!

Our GM team will be online to support you.

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Hello,

We're done with our Open Beta, which was perfectly fine. Thank you all for your suggestions/reports and your great support. We expect you and your friends here, Friday, 15-01-2010, at 20:00 GMT +1 for our Grand Opening. We'll wipe the server and make sure everything is clean and ready for you. Keep on spreading the word, Vendetta is back!

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Hello,

Our Closed Beta was extremely successful due to the fact that we barely noticed any bugs, therefore, we decided to begin the Open Beta earlier than it should. That being said, you may download the patch to get in Open Beta HERE, and create an account HERE. In order to update your client, simply unzip the Auto Updater in your Lineage II directory (not system folder). Run the updater and allow it to fully update. Once it's done, it should create a shortcut named "L2-Vendetta" in your desktop, use it to launch the game. If for some reason this shortcut is not created in your desktop, go to your Lineage II directory, then system/L2.exe to play.

We will launch the Open Beta officially at 15:00 GMT +1 of today (Tuesday, 12-01-2010), but you can download the patch and make your accounts already, however you will not be able to login until the time previously mentioned.

On a side note, we would like to ask you to please idle in our IRC channel. It takes 5 minutes of your time to download the client and join our channel, yet it makes a tremendous difference for the community in general, us, and specially YOU, so make sure you download mIRC here and join our IRC channel. The network is irc.deltaanime.net and the channel is #l2vendetta.

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Hello,

We're done with almost everything, which means today we'll begin our Closed Beta. Closed Beta means we'll be the inviting a small group of people to come and test things around. This period should last about 2 days (until early Wednesday), which is when we'll begin the Open Beta, which will last until Friday, when we'll finally wipe and go live. I'll keep you updated.

Regards,
PyroMaker.

Hello folks,

Our website is now up and running as you can see. We've achieved great progress with the server so far, and we'll soon enough begin a Closed Beta. Once we're done with Closed Beta, we'll begin an Open Beta for 2 or 3 days, wipe, and then we'll go LIVE. The whole process should take about a week. Our launch time, wiped and live is scheduled to be on 15-01-2010. At this very day of 2007, exactly 3 years ago, we had began the first L2Vendetta, and now we'll begin a whole new era.

In the meanwhile, we from the staff would like to ask you a favor: If you support this project and want it to be successful and great like the good old first Vendetta was, advertise it. Tell all of your friends about, hell, even your grandma, your dog, it doesn't matter. Just make sure everyone knows about it. Gamesites200 is great, Hopzone helps, but word of mouth is the best thing there is for advertisement, so don't let us down, you got about 10 days to do this, I'm sure it's plenty of time, and I'm sure you won't let me down.

Another helpful thing you can do is put the website link on your MSN nick saying Vendetta is coming back. I'm sure most of you have lots of contacts that play Lineage 2, and since almost everyone uses MSN, that's a great option. You might also want to advertise it on relationship websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Orkut... anything helps, really.

STAFF:

PyroMaker (Project Leader, Admin, Developer, Webcoder)
PainShooter (Admin and Head Developer)
Nettle (Head GM, Developer)
Freki (Head GM)
BanHammer (Forum Moderator)

Thank you for your attention.

Regards,
PyroMaker.