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FE launcher / updater / whatever was bugged for most of the day and required a bypass to be able to play. Game is down for maint now. Edit: its back, issues ^ fixed.

No, but the launcher was bugged for most of the day and required a bypass to be able to play. It is down for maint now. The bypass: If youre using the G1 launcher - open FE install location and type "frontend LOGGEDIN=TRUE PASSWORD=" into the address bar, hit ENTER. If youre using Steam - same, but with "frontend LOGGEDIN=TRUE PASSWORD= STEAM=TRUE".

This applies to recent issues with FE too:

Emily is pinged on discord (no response yet), yes - there are more player complaints about it there.

At least some players are finding char select screen completely empty after todays maintenance. LO is pinged, waiting for a response. Edit: some ran into this after crashing / relogging. If anyone is still ingame - LA and Embry regions might be dead, avoid going there. Edit2: Emily is here, server is being restarted again. Edit3: issue should be resolved.

FE went down for maintenance about 4 hours ago, and currently is still down. According to Emily, LO is also attempting some changes to make it run smoother for us. Edit: its up!

Server should be down for maint right about now.

Server should go down for maint any minute now. Edit: its UP!

Server is back UP!

Info relayed to Emily, shouldnt take much longer from now.

At times - it runs well for a few hours and then rapidly goes to crap. Other times theres minimal, but noticeable, lag right after a restart - this isnt normal. Some are thinking that the last restarts are done improperly (e.g. not all processes actually get restarted), also Emily has been very quiet lately, so its a real posibility that someone else took over doing them for a while, and things arent working out the way they should. Current status - the server gave up and went for a nap xD LO is notified again.

No restart for about 48 hours now afaik. Likely time for a ping. (Ping done, now we wait)

Server is back up!

Late reply, but it went down for a restart about an hour ago, no ETA on uptime.

Server has been restarted, issues should be gone now.

then let it go

Quite heavy lag in FE for the past few days. Westreach subsector, S1, (Odenville, Midway, surrounding area southwest of Embry), is dead, those that have characters left there are unable to log into them. Any unsuspecting new player that tries out the game eventually wanders into the dead subsector, since it basicaly cuts off the starter area from the next big player hub (Embry). The server hasnt received a much needed restart since friday. Its bleeding out players. Players that would have otherwise stayed for both classic and the eventual remake. Customers. Please, just restart the server, while there still is a playerbase. @Emily @MattScott @KattieeFluff

Heavy lag in FE right now. Westreach (Odenville, Midway, surrounding area southwest of Embry), S1, is dead, those that have chars left there are likely to be unable to log into them. LO is notified, we are still waiting for a restart or any kind of info.

Wrong game, welcome to the FE part of the forum. APB section is here: https://forums.gamersfirst.com/forum/10-bugs-and-tech-issues/ Youd likely get more info from LOs discord channel: https://discord.gg/littleorbit Or maybe even by emailing support: support@littleorbit.com

There really isnt any higher power thats forcing anyone to keep playing a dead bad windows 95 game. Treat yourselves to something you find fun and enjoy life. Why torture yourself.

Or theyre gonna dev it during the weekend too x_x

Well, lets try to be a bit more optimistic, i think xD The game ran insanely well yesterday, probably the best ive seen during my playtime (since 2014). LO is trying, despite all the crap they got this year, yesterday made it seem like theyre on the good track. Lets just have a bit of faith and support them, cause they really need it lol. Heck, they deserve it.

Cause: * we might break something (by accident). * some that got cancer for brains might take the chance to break something intentionally. * we might see a broken feature that didnt survive all the host / hardware changes, decide that "omg they changed it to crap, noooooo" and cause a stupid riot over something that isnt even going to happen. * the game may not be in a playable state when devs quit for the day, easier and faster to just lock us out for a while. * probably something else too, but cant think of anything more at the moment. FE is gonna be fine, looks like you really might find it up and running after the holiday. Edit: steam charts say that its up, try your luck.

Nah, seems like everyone got kicked, LO switched back to internal testing. ----- Info: