The launcher has been updated to version 1.6.1. It will offer the update on its own when you start it — accept it, there are two important things in this release.
The game no longer takes minutes to start
Some players reported that the client sometimes started normally and sometimes hung for minutes. We found the cause: before launching, the launcher wrote a build key into the client that did not match what was actually installed on disk. The client treated its own storage as foreign and re-downloaded a 108 megabyte index table over the network in small pieces, one request per piece. In a single day that came to more than sixteen thousand requests from just four machines.
The cause is fixed on the server side, so normal start-up is back for everyone immediately, even without updating the launcher. The launcher itself now double-checks the key and will not write one whose file is missing from disk.
The battle pass finally ships with the client
The battle pass addon is now called AzeronBP. Previously the distribution carried only its description without the code: for everyone who downloaded the client through the launcher, /bp opened nothing. The addon now ships in full, and the old folder is removed automatically so two copies can't load at once.
Two rewards that showed empty squares instead of icons have been fixed as well, and the currency "Coin of Luck" has been renamed to "Astralite".
What to do
- Start the launcher and accept the update to 1.6.1.
- Run the file check — the old battle pass addon is removed and the new one is downloaded, 14 MB.
- If the game was running, restart it completely: addons are only read when the client starts.
The full list of today's fixes, including the death knight scenario, is on the forum under "Bug fixes".
