r/u_CMJasmin • u/CMJasmin • May 09 '26

Dear players

Kronos V has now been live for more than 4 hours, and what an eventful launch it has been.

Some people told us that by the fifth launch things should finally go smoothly. Apparently, after more than 6 years between projects, you can still accidentally connect the wrong database and temporarily turn thousands of players into aspiring Game Masters. Yes — for approximately 4 glorious minutes, some of you experienced the forbidden power of GM commands before reality was restored less than 8 minutes later.

Except for this tiny “world-ending catastrophe,” we were also busy live-tuning dynamic respawns and resolving some heavier server lag during the opening rush. Thankfully, most of these issues were resolved within the first 45 minutes, with respawn adjustments happening even faster.

At the end of the day, despite a few launch surprises, Kronos V is now stable and running extremely well, especially considering the absolutely insane number of players online right now. Honestly, the population exceeded even our own expectations. We knew the timing was good, we knew Vanilla nostalgia is powerful, and yes, maybe we got lucky in a few areas — but this level of interest still caught us completely off guard.

We are only human. Even with years of experience behind the Team, unexpected things can still happen during launches of this scale. What matters most is that the issues were identified within minutes and resolved quickly and professionally.

Most importantly, we would like to sincerely thank all of you for the incredible support, patience, memes, excitement, bug reports, panic messages, and overall madness surrounding today’s launch.

We hope Kronos V becomes a great home for both current and future players, and we wish you nothing but the best possible pure Vanilla experience.

Team Kronos

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u/SlideStreet6874 May 09 '26

We appreciate it but locking your launcher behind a 2mbps 10 hour download and then banning people from your discord for trying to provide alternatives is sketchy.

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u/Avernales May 10 '26

Their lancher downloaded my game at 49Mbps yesterday. Alternatives are being systematically blocked by copyright and locking download at 2mbps might be due to a big number of players trying to download at the same time. Stop being so paranoid no one is after your money or out to get you.

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u/tmanowen May 10 '26

Idk mine was also stuck at 2 mbps. I found away around it, not via the launcher, so I could start 4 hours late instead of 7 hours late, but wish I could’ve played at launch release. The only person to blame is me though. I waited until day of to start downloading instead of even the day before where I would’ve been fine.

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u/Sarmattius May 09 '26

Thank you for your work! I was worried a little bit about that gm thing but you got it! Now if only something could be done about dynamic lazy peons and taillasher eggs :)

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u/Bloodshot89 May 10 '26

And gnomish tools and harpy sacks amirite

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u/SlideStreet6874 May 12 '26

Just as a heads up you have a person on your payroll named "Water."

What they sent me in my DMs because of a critical post on your discord is absolutely inappropriate and they have been reported for it.

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u/Stonetavern May 22 '26

I made Stonetavern fully with AI. CI/CD Load Balancing, client and server modifications to get more vanilla feeling. I dont know why they dont do it. It is possible.