EVE Online patch, Quantum Rise 1.0.5 will be released as of Tuesday 27th January. It has been confirmed that the downtime has been scheduled to begin at 11.00 GMT and will run until 12.15 GMT.

The patch, as well as releasing some lovely bug fixes, will also introduce the new Redeeming System, of which details can be found here.

Fixes have also been confirmed as the following:

• Fixed an error in the model preload system. This was causing some slight performance degradation on premium clients being run in classic mode.
• Removed an outdated DirectX check from the client.
• Updated the clients patching mechanism to handle very large files and patches correctly.