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I had a GPS and got killed by opening a door by myself into my face in the dark.

If you think the server will crash because of all the people connecting after the patch, you don't understand how it works. Every server runs its own queuing system (HIVE) for connections. We're able to handle all these players connecting and sending messages right now while live. The patch would only reduce load while people are busy updating their versions, then slowly ramp it back up to normal. A player getting the incorrect version screen or failing to login is going to use less resources than one running around the map alive, anyway. Worse comes to worse, the DB server gets overloaded and you can't get on? Oh well, wait a couple hours. It'll be fine. Just be patient.

Seriously, it will be fine. Just stop fretting, stop posting, and relax. They don't need your ideas on how to deploy patches.

Yeah, it was late at night when I sussed it out and as I was like 'we are no longer... alive...???' It was very frightening.

There's no problem here. Patch released, servers updated, the rest of the people will just have to figure it out. Rocket may have been waiting for a 'lull', but he's not gonna sit there wringing his hands because he has to release an update when people are playing. Relax. : P

So, morse code starting at 4:10 there: WE ARE NO LONGER ALIVE STOPMESSAGE THIS MESSAGE WILL PLAY EVERY HOUR IF OPERATORS ARE NO LONGER RESPONSIVE STOPMESSAGE UNABLE TO QUARANTINE SUBJECT CHANG STOPMESSAGE Just in case anyone was curious.