Fernando Melo, Online Produce at BioWare, posted his regular heads up on the official Social Network site regarding future patch, the current 360 issues and about a new announcement that will make BioWare fans happy.

This week we saw the release of patch 1.02 for PC, and from speaking with customer support as well as monitoring our forums it has been a relatively smooth launch – there are some edge cases here and there which we’re already looking at, but for the most part it was a very successful patch. As always, if you do have any issues please make sure to post in the tech support forums.

Continuing on from my previous posts, we are still working on 1.03 for PC, as well as the first console patch (console update #1). These will largely address very separate issues and are being worked on in parallel.

I can’t confirm yet what will end up as final fixes in each yet, but I did mention that we hope to address amongst other things the missing achievements from 360 for those folks.

Why this? Well, it was one of the first issues found so work began on it fairly early on. We also discovered some unrelated items in investigating around that issue that made us want to dig in a bit more on the 360 – so it wasn’t a simple cosmetic/player gamerscore win, if successful this fix will actually have a longer term benefit for the main game as well and that’s why it’s fairly high on the priority.

Also, that was just one of the issues I used as an example – of course we’re looking at the other high priority items console folks are reporting, using the process I mentioned before – we have a lot of folks lurking through our tech support forums + talking to EA support, they enter bugs on what they find, we triage these regularly, these get allocated to folks here for fixing, based on timing it gets slotted into an update, or moved to next available update slot. Likewise, fixes may fall out or be moved on purpose from one update to a later one during the testing phases for a variety of reasons.

What else is coming, you ask? Well, we are *really* close to having some more official news on Return to Ostagar – I wouldn’t be surprised if we see something on this before next week is out. This delay hasn’t been intentional, but we’re waiting to get solid dates for console release in order to be able to communicate that back to you correctly.

In other parts – expect to see some very cool new items on your 360 next week! (sorry, no, it’s not the title update yet, nor Return to Ostagar) As well as a new announcement early in week that will make some BioWare fans happy.

Stay tuned. We will keep you posted on the future patch and the upcoming announcement.

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