Lanka first look comments.
 

Not only the Enemies of the Sun but also Sandhyabalas should have Darkvision, being demon ogres of the night who even gain STR in night.

The combination of air, blood, death, nature, Bandar longbows (!), and pretty decently armored infantry for move-2 EA is at first glance quite strong, although there are supply issues (the demonic troops all being gluttons), a lack of shields, and some old age issues with the hybrid mages. Quite a few national summons seem available in both Blood and Conj, including mage and assassin summons -- the Enemies of the Sun are fairly buff for non-unique mage summons, and the assassin summons come equipped with two magic weapons already. Nasty. Maybe not the most subtle of nations for those preferring massive stealth armies, but...

Oh, and undead monkeys. The priests, being demons, get to reanimate, and it looks like they get undead Bandar and Markatas and maybe Atavis (didn't check them all), generally favoring maces it seems. Nifty.

Re: Lanka first look comments.
 

All their priests reanimate, even those who aren't demons. And yes, they get undead Atavi too.

Re: Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
 

Hello, I'm new here, so hello everybody.

another thing : I'm not an English speaker (Frenchie ;o), so excuse my horrible mistakes ...

Sorry, Gandalf, but I have the same problems than paparapapa. Since patch 3.04, my game freeze in the turn resolution (on battle turn), or in battle view (strange graphic bugs with crahs ou definitly freezed with reboot : no possibility to return to Windows ...).
I'm running stand alone games because I don't have Internet at home. So, nothing to do with conflict of versions in MP.

I'm under Windows XP (SP2 I think).

Anyone with this (very very) annoying problem ?
Or news for a quick fix ?

Q'Xel

Re: Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
 

Regarding hanging games: We haven't encountered any problems in beta testing, but if you accidentally have come across a cracked version of the game or a key from some suspicious site it might affect the game. Just make sure you use the correct key from your manual. If the problem remains you can send us the buggy turn file and we'll have a look.

Regarding darkvision: Demons are supposed to have it at 100%. Some changes were accidentally overwritten (hunter of heroes bug) and had to be refixed. If demons do not have darkvision it is a bug that was not properly removed.

Re: Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
 

Onis got a sligt cost reduction. They might need more, so feel free to let us know how they fare. I'm not inclined to increase their MR, but have little personal experience with priestly encounters, so I'm not entirely sure here. I still prefer changes to the second form behaviour. So further changes might appear.

Re: Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
 

Well you could, but then you couldn't play any of the other races... Besides, there have been a couple bugs fixed since the original release which are really nice to have for multiplayer games (like fixing the problems with random maps loading in MP games, and with downloading maps in linux, etc)...

Re: Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
 

Does "Fixed memory overwrite bug" means tha turn generations will be faster?

Re: Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
 

Uh oh...

Re: Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
 

No, that means the game is less likely to crash or missbehave in random ways.

Re: Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
 

Just a question:
Is 3.04 a stand alone patch or do you need to install 3.01 first ?

And congratz for being so fast updating the game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif