It’s time for a little community roundup on Data Node One. First, a few news items.

External Playtest Server

Due to a few delays (one of our key engineers has been out sick), the external playtest server will not be opening on Wednesday, December 21. As anxious as we all are to get Combat Revision 2.0 out to the community, there are a few key issues that have to be resolved before we open the floodgates.

We are still trying to get the External Playtest server open before the SOE holiday break. It will mean fewer hotfixes to the EP version before we take time off, but we want to start getting community feedback as soon as possible.

Stay tuned to Data Node One this week for more information.

Critical Mission Completion Tokens and Historical Critical Missions

Players now gain completion tokens for finishing all critical missions in an episode. If you are going into the fifth critical mission, make sure you leave some room in your Inventory for the token.

When historical critical missions are implemented in the near future, you will be able to earn completion tokens for all episodes you complete. This includes critical missions for Organizations you don’t belong to. (Yes, you’ll be able to complete crits for all three Organizations.)

The designers do have plans for these tokens in the future. When I have details on exactly what those plans will be, I’ll get that information out to you.

From the Net

Without further ado, here’s a bit of data I picked up from the net while trolling the forums.

Designers Collaboration Project

Aquatium and some other community members are collaborating on some imaging work.

http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=rsi&message.id=6639

Vote MxO

jeffers started a thread to get folks to vote for The Matrix Online on mpogd.com a while ago and it’s still going strong.

http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=general&message.id=45114

“Hostile” Sigs

Ntrails began a thread asking if players on Vector wanted to coordinate on a standardized sig style. It looks like Resurrected.’s style has really caught on.

http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=vectorgeneral&message.id=29686

Operation: Secret Santa

Symmetric has posted details on the Secret Santa project on the Recursion forums.

http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=generalrecursion&message.id=17481

The Matrix Online: Countdown

If you haven’t seen the Tetragrammaton video “The Matrix Online: Countdown”, what are you waiting for?

http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=generalsyntax&message.id=5843