Preparing for tomorrow's launch of LotRO Book 14

by Shawn Schuster on Jul 21st 2008 4:30PM

Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Events, in-game, Patches, Education

We know you're excited about tomorrow's new content patch for Lord of the Rings Online. With Book 14, we'll get some wonderful new additions to the game as well as some hearty preparation for Mines of Moria later this year. So it would only make sense that you'd want to play as soon as possible, right? You don't want to sit around patching with everyone else, you want to play the second Book 14 releases!

Turbine makes it easy for players to do just that. Their Downloadable Updater will patch Books 13 and 14 onto your computer before the official release hits the live servers. Not only will this let you be ahead of the game, but you can also download this content on another computer, transfer the file onto a disk or device, then run it on your computer with a LotRO client to access the update. The downloaded update won't apply itself until the servers go live on patch day, but consider this a great little tip on getting yourself prepared.

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Tags: codemasters, lord-of-the-rings-online, lotro, lotro-book-14, patch-day, turbine

Reader Comments (4)

It's worth doing unless you want to sit around for a while when it debuts. The full patch is almost 600 MBs.

Downloaded and installed it a few days ago. I like how you can patch all the stuff in w/o it affecting the current game. I don't know how many MMO's do this now, I know in my old WoW guild back when i still played(long ago), a guildie would host things like this on their own server.

Its nice to see a company add stuff like this that makes it easier on everyone.

I give this my seal of approval. Automated patching to make life easy for everyone, but a straight-up torrent file as well, so those who are comfortable doing so can grab the patch ahead of time, using the torrent client of their choosing. Couldn't be done better imho.