Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

I've been playing PBW for a month now, and never have gone through a patch on the "stock" files. Will uploading the patch cause troubles with the stock games I'm playing?

Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

Generally patches don't harm pbw games so it should be a straight-forward update.

Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

Sure they do. The patch that drastically altered the nature of Ionic Dispersers (no longer skip shields) caused a lot of PBW games to not upgrade. So did the one that made Allegience Subverters not work against targets with damaged Master Computers.

Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

I thought that change was from non-gold to Gold? And wasn't that change incompatable with existing games? I could be remembering that wrong.

Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

So, what I should do is wait till somebody else tries the new patch with an existing stock PBW game to see if it hangs the game. Presumably if one game works they all will work. I just don't want to get into a situation of loading a patch, finding that it does not work, then downloading and re-loading the older version back.

Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

I would copy over your SEIV folder and update the copy. This way you have both versions

Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

ehh, sorry to interupt about people saying what will happen if they download the patch... is there a patch? on the link that atro gave, all I saw was the gold patch to 1.91, and that is what we all have anyway :S

Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

The patch to deluxe isn't out yet. Hopefully soon!

Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

You should have read my post at the top. "NOT DELUXE" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Re: SE4 Deluxe Available as Download
 

My comment was based along the lines of bug fixes for this patch, and not gameplay "fixes". In that case, the answer is not so clear and depends on the game.