Dear players,

A terrible unfortunate has happened... apparantly these stupid idiots from our datacenter have erased all our data... when the maintenance was over, I still couldn`t connect to the box, so I sent a ticket and they said they were having "power issues"... a few hours later I was told our HDDs were corrupted and that there was nothing else they could do but wipe it, I told them not to and to figure a way out without losing any data.

This morning when I woke up I tried to connect to the box, I found out our 4 HDDs were fully wiped, there was nothing but a completely new operating system (Clean Windows 2003), everything was gone: L2Server files, Scripts, Geodata, web server files, databases, absolutly everything!

I am doing all I can to make amends to this situation, but unfortunately I see no other way out than shutting down L2Vendetta. If we had as many players and contributors as we had before, we would probably do an extra effort to work this out, we still got backups of our files but all the databases are gone... Our Databases backups were on a separate HDD but unfortunately, all of them are clean now.

My apologies to all the people who have supported this project, if you have any ideas you can mail me @ pyromaker@gmail.com, I`ll read and answer you asap, but like I said, I don`t think we have many options.

We are truly sorry for this, however it was out of our control.

Regards,
Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello dear players,

We are currently undergoing a maintenance. Sorry for not warning you before, but I only had time to check my email now. Here's what it says in the email:

"Dear Mr. Philippe,

We like to brief you on time about our sheduled maintenance of infrastracutre / powersupply.
The maintenances will be held on Monday (15.06.2009) from 0:00 to around 20:00. All times are GMT+1.


The operations on Monday (15.06.2009) in detail:

00:00 : Reconstruction of the uninterrupted power supply units main power tech to the mobile diesel-aggregate
02:00 : Startup of the diesel-aggregate
04:30 : Initialation of the final performance test and vernier adjustment of the software
06:00 : Reconstruction of the main power supply to the regular electricity network
08:00 : Final meeting for the upcoming live hook-up of the uninterrupted power supply unit
The operations on Monday (15.06.2009) in detail:

11:00 : Preparation of the upcoming switchover / finishing the protocol
13:20 : Test run for the uninterrupted power supply unit and final checks
16:30 : Netsynchronisation
18:40 : Switching to the uninterrupted power supply unit after successful netsynchronisation
20:00 : Checking the surveillance for failures and intervention if needed

All employees will be on duty during the maintenance to countervail any possible upcoming complications. The datacentre including our office and technics area will finally be protected against blackouts and current fluctuations after finishing the above mentioned operations and installing the uninterrupted power supply unit.

As a costumer you shouldn't be affacted by any failures or interferences at any time. Nevertheless we advise that your systemadministrators should be telephonical accessible during the given spaces of time and send us a "worst case" plan in advance for the adequate and orderly shut down of your infrastructure.

We would like to apologise for any upcoming possible inconveniences. Please consider that these maintenances are necessary to improve our service and availability further more. Especially you, as a costumer, will benefit from these new improvements."



As soon as we have further news, I'll keep you informed.

Regards,
Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello players,

First off, a friendly reminder to please vote for us at all the game topsites; GS200 at our vote subpage. Thank you!

We are happy to inform you we've implemented the 1st part of the skill balances, based on player feedback.

Regards,
Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello dear players,

It's the start of another month yet again, and we'd appreciate if you'd vote for us at all the game topsites, especially GS200 at our vote subpage. Thank you!

Also, we'd like to inform you of some changes we have made recently, along with some important information about an upcoming major skill balance update. We will be addressing the imbalance issues with mages, magic criticals, and hopefully be balancing out olympiad and pvp in general to make classes more competitive.

For now, following existing skill additions in later L2 chronicles, these skills have been added to current classes:

Regards,
Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello dear players,

It's the start of April, so please remember to vote for us at all the game topsites, especially GS200 at our vote subpage

Plasmin has been at work testing out creating new farming areas for some variety; after all DVC is only as old as dirt. Right now we're contemplating the Ice Queen's Castle for levels 60-70ish, and Monastery of Silence as a party area for level 80. Your feedback is welcome on the forums!

On the subject of new ideas, we're also considering adjusting the buffs given to individual classes in olympiad in order to make all classes more competitive. More on that later when concrete plans are drawn out, but again your feedback is welcome.

Also happy April Fools day to those unlucky enough to be tricked today! Rest assured we're not pulling your leg with this news post however; we're too cool for that. No really. Thank you for playing on Vendetta, and please remember to vote!

Regards,
Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello again,

Not a major change to skills, but the anti-griefbuff toggle now allows you to buff yourself (and only yourself) while keeping the toggle on. As this might interfere with some party buffer classes, we may or may not consider adding a 2nd toggle that functions like the first one, if this change inconveniences players. Let us know how you feel about it on the forums.

Also again, it's a new month so remember to keep on voting!

Regards,
Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello,

It's a new month, so please remember to vote for us, using the three links above, or at GS200 using our vote subpage. Thank you!

Regards,
Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello,

Yesterday, 25th of January of 2009 we've had our 2nd year anniversary. All of this began at 2007 in January, and today we're still here, strong. Thank you all for your support and for staying with us this long.

As you can see we made a new website design for you in celebration to this moment. We hope you enjoy!

Best regards,
~PyroMaker and the Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello,

We've finally finished bugtesting and the server is now back up ONLINE. Since we've come across many difficulties and had a lot of work to do, it is possible we might have missed a few things here and there, like a few class balances or NPCs, minor stuff. If you do come across any bugs or find anything that shouldn't be the way it is, feel free to post it in this topic in the forums.

If you still don't have Interlude, check out our downloads section (for further instructions) and download the client. If you already have it, download and install our patch:

Click here to download the Full Patch.
Click here to download the AutoUpdater.

ATTENTION: Before updating, delete your system folder, or the game won't work.

Best regards,
~PyroMaker and the Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello,

As promised I'm gonna post a full list of the features we're going to have in the server with all the upgrades we've done and after moving on to Interlude:
(these are subject to change, since we'll be constantly adding more things and we could have forgotten one or two features)

Best regards,
~PyroMaker and the Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello,

We're practically done doing all the changes we had to in the server. As soon as we finish tweaking a few things around, we'll bring it public for you guys to enjoy the awesomeness of Interlude.

If you still don't have Interlude, check out our downloads section and download the client. If you already have it, download and install our patch:

Click here to download the Full Patch.
Click here to download the AutoUpdater.

ATTENTION: Before updating, delete your system folder, or the game won't work.

Best regards,
~PyroMaker and the Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello,

We've been constantly working on the server. We've already upgraded to Interlude successfully without any "surprises". Right now we're adding all the custom stuff in and making sure it's all working properly. Later today we'll start bugtesting and if all goes well the server will be available to the public tomorrow.

The patch is not ready yet, but as soon as it is ready we'll make sure to announce it here so you can download it.

Best regards,
~PyroMaker and the Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello,

It's been a long while since we've moved on to C5... More than a year, at least. We've had plenty of good histories to tell with it, but it's time to move on. That means finally we'll be moving on to Interlude chronicle. It took us a long time to get this ready for you, but finally here it is, and I assure you it'll be extremely high quality stuff, with all the features you ever dreamed of fully working!

I'll update this post soon to tell you more about ALL the features, but for now... you should know a few things:

We'll be taking the server down for a few days starting from this moment. The ETA for the server to be back online is approximately 3-5 days. In the meanwhile, you should download the Interlude client:

L2-Vendetta_Interlude.7z
(UltraCompressed, 2.2Gb instead of the usual 3 Gb).

This file opens with Winrar.


If all the links are offline, try searching: Google search

ATTENTION: THERE IS GOING TO BE NO WIPE. NOTHING WILL CHANGE ON YOUR CHARACTERS, NOTHING WILL BE LOST! EVERYTHING WILL REMAIN LIKE BEFORE!

When you come back, everything will be like before, except we'll be having plenty of more fun in a new chronicle with plenty of new features. While you're waiting, sit down, turn your TV on and leave your PC downloading Interlude. By the time we're back, all you'll have to do is get the new patch and we'll be ready to rock on!

Best regards,
~PyroMaker and the Lineage ][ Vendetta staff.

Hello,

We are releasing a tool to benefit of our community. It is a loader, and it includes a voting feature so you can always vote when you come to play. Download it NOW! You can run it from any folder!

Have fun!
The Lineage ][ Vendetta Staff.

Hello,

We have released the so much awaited Epic Weapons. They are available for craft on the Epic Lord NPC, in Giran. During this or the next week maximum, we are going to release the Craftable armors, also on the Epic Lord.


Get the AutoUpdater HERE and run it from \Lineage2\ Folder. NOT \System\!!
Donations for Epic Weapons will be closed until next monday, December 1st.


Epic Armors are coming out tomorrow.


Initiating the Christmas Season, we made avaliable the items for the santa claus' Hat. The items can be buyable on the Epic Lord also, and be traded by Christmas Trees in any of the Santa's Trainee NPC. The Special Christmas tree, when not on peace zones, give boosted HP/MP regeneration (equivalent to Chant of Life +25 Power).

Have fun!
The Lineage ][ Vendetta Staff.

Hello,

We have opened donations this week and as you can see the entire donation system has changed. We are working towards our belief that PvP can be an awesome and balanced experience and that distinguished supporters should be recognized by bearing an exclusive appearance. We have been revising many stuff regarding PvE and PvP, and we are working more than 30GM-hr/day (if you add up the time all GMs stay online) to ensure you all have the best server around.

Becoming the best is not easy, keeping it the best is even harder. And costly. We are willing to expand our server Chronicle in the future, as well as increase our hardware (we have quad-core Xeon with 16GB of RAM) and our connection speed (to 1GBs).

All of that is really costly. So, that is where donations come in. We have a budget to fill, we have plans ahead to fulfill. Make the plans get out of the paper and become real, straight into your screen!

If you'd like to donate, CLICK HERE.

Thank you!

Best regards,
The Lineage ][ Vendetta Staff.