Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
 

News Release For Immediate Release


Dominions 3 Version 3.04 Now Available!
New Patch For Hit Fantasy Strategy Title!


Hampstead, NC, 07 December 2006

With Grip of Winter starting to be cast at maximum efficiency around the northern
hemisphere there's no better time to curl up at your computer with a nice mug of spiced
cider and a copy of Dominions 3: The Awakening. You'll of course want Dominions 3
to be running at its peak funability, and with that in mind Illwinter Game Design has
released a new patch.

The latest Dominions 3: The Awakening patch brings the retail game up to version 3.04
and corrects a number of issues and adds several new items. A sampling of the patch
includes such highlight as:

** You want more? You got it! A brand new nation!!

** Even more! New map by Jason Lutes added.

** Memory overwrite bug fixed.

** Demons can see in the dark. No more bumping into furniture on the way to the
bathroom!

** Modding manual updated.

** Various typos fixed.

** Lots more!

The full listing of changes, along with the version 3.04 patch, can be found at:

www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/6.htm

Dominions 3: The Awakening is a turn-based fantasy strategy title available for the PC,
Mac, and Linux operating systems. Content rich (which may very well be an
understatement), Dominions 3 features hundreds upon hundreds of unique units, spells,
and magic items, along with near infinite replayability. Supporting up to twenty-one
players in a single game (either human or AI), a multiplayer Dominions 3 game is a thing
of beauty. A random map creator and extensive mod-making support makes Dominions
3 a game that keeps on giving well past the expiration date of other games.

Dominions 3: The Awakening was the best selling pre-order in Shrapnel Games' history,
and the critics are in agreement with the fans, this is a must own game! The January
issue of Computer Games magazine scored Dominions 3 a 4.5 out of 5, and awarded it
their Editor's Choice award. James Allen's Out of Eight PC Game Reviews gave the
game a perfect score (that would be eight, get the title of the site now?). A few choice
quotes from James' review:

"For gamers who enjoy deep, strategic gameplay, Dominions 3 is really sweet. Sheer
complexity does not always translate into a good game, but all of the spells, units, and
other options definitely works towards Dominions 3's benefit. And if all the default
content isn't enough, the game includes extensive support for mods as well. This game is
great because, unlike most strategy games, it supports almost an infinite number of viable
strategies for victory..Plus, Dominions 3 rewards overall strategy instead of being able
to issue specific commands during battles and quickly activate special skills; we'll leave
that juvenile reflex stuff for the mindless console games."

Dominions 3: The Awakening can be ordered directly from Shrapnel Games for only
$54.95. It comes as a physical CD (only, no download option available) with all three
binaries and includes a spiral-bound tome of a manual, with a staggering 300 pages of
actually useful information written by Bruce Geryk, veteran computer game journalist.
Shipping is fast, and worldwide. It should also be noted that Dominions 3 makes the
perfect Christmas gift!

To purchase Dominions 3: The Awakening visit:

www.gamersfront.com/xcart/home.php

To download the demo or for more information please drop by www.shrapnelgames.com,
where you can find the complete Shrapnel Games catalog of challenging and unique
games.

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Hooray!
(I'm first http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif)

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Thanks! The new map is really really nice. Funny starting positions for example caelum!

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Great!

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Woot! Awesome! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Thanks.

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Cheers for the new patch.

Installed and it still says I am running 3.01 and not 3.04, is this correct?

Got the new map ok, looks interesting...but whats the new nation? Had a quick look through all 3 ages but could not spot it. I have only played less than a dozen and don't know them off by heart. Someone blatantly point it out to me, so I can check its there.

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Ebil blood Monkeys http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif


Edit: @ Meglobob: Lanka, Land of demons, in the early age.

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Hmm, try a reinstall. To me it says 3.04

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Yep, it says 3.04 indeed, try to reinstall your game Meglobob. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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Nice new map.
The new nation (demon monkeys) has a nation-specific blood spell with "no description available". Is this a bug or is this a feature ?
And do i still need the "Hunter of Heroes Nerf Mod" ?

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You shouldn't need the hunter mod anymore. I read through the full patch info and it says they fixed that problem.

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Thanks IW!

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Lanka looks like a strong nation.

- variety of blood mages
- chaff
- archers
- some stealth
- strong and magic resistant sacreds. 4 units 4 commanders. Sounds like a good bless nation.
- air mages to remedy the shield problem
- no old age
- awesome number of national summons, mostly blood

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The lack of description is probably a bug. It summons three tough guys. And by tough, I mean REALLY tough. With some nice magic weapons. Also good candidates for Gift of Reason.

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As commanders they have holy 2, and magic skill up to 2 blood and 2 air (50% chance each).

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Anyone know what Lanka's nation number is?

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Hmm Lanka seems really fun. One thing confuses me. Units with both "Gluttony" and "Need not eat". Does that mean they use up supplies other units might need but shortages don't hurt them(by them I mean the unit with need not eat)?

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Exactly this. Gluttony is a new icon, but e.g. Celestial Servants of Tien Chi have had it for a long time.

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Exactly. This is best described with Onis (EA jomon) : flavor text explain that as demons they do not nead to eat, but that they love to eat, even while humans inferior are left to starve.

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Thanks. I have to say the flavour text in this game is amazing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Make sure your exe file is called Dom3...
 

Sorted now, thanks for the help everybody. I had renamed my exe file to Dom301, which stopped the v3.04 exe file from being installed. Sorted it out now, so I now have v3.00, v3.01 and v3.04. So I can play any version I fancy!

New nation/map looks great, now if only I was not in 6 MP's I might have time to try it out! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif

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Cave province terrain files are missing.

Details and fix here.

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It is only the Linux and Mac (?) patch that is affected.

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True. The windows patch has got that file included correctly.

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At least Linux, perhaps Mac, not Windows.

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Custom Item Creation Wizard in next patch? *hint-hint* http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Sounds great, but since there's only two developers that feature is more likely to be seen in a sequel than a patch.

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Small text bug: although the ecruitable version is fine, the starting bandar commanders description mentions protecting yakasha's.

ps: im LOVING this nation. It has blood magic(which i love), air and death(which i love), great(and varied) sacreds, good archers, reanimation AND demon monkeys.

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Great !
The Lanka nation looks very very interesting and powerful, a sort of Mictlan with temples *and* potent recruitables !! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

As for the missing spell description, any chance O Great Illwinter to have it through a simple "spell mod" ?
So we'll see for ourselves if spell modding really works now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif !

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Regarding fixing flaming arrows and "small bows" -- does this mean short bows? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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No... it previously worked correctly with short bows. It did not work with small bows which are used by some ape nations.

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What I want to know is if there's any chance that the demo will be upgraded. It's a bummer to have to roll back to the original release just to play with people I'm trying to convince to buy the game...

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Can't you just download the demo to play with those folks? Though, I agree that an updated demo is a good thing...

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this patch has completely destroyed my game. all my turns hang forever and i can't connect to any multiplayer games. sometimes i get this error: convarmynbr. what happened?

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Good work with the patch Illwinter!

Although it's not major part of this patch of course, but it's about time Oni got price reduction - the oni's demonic troops are absolutely useless in MP ATM, I've played them in several MP by now and I am more convinced than ever that this is the case. Almost all other players with whom I spoke about it feel the same. I wish they would also get some MR increase - the banishment is the worst problem with Oni's national troops, especially with their size 1 small demons, just as I wrote in my Oni's analysis.

Could somebody please post new prices for oni troops? I won't be able to upgrade my Dom3 game for few more days, and I am curious.

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Everyone has to be upgraded at the same time. Especially the host running the game. And they have to remember to shut down the game and restart it or its still running on an old version in memory.

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Which simply means that you can't do combined armies using them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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No, that simply means that you may need to bring supply items when traveling through low supply provinces with large army of demons and mortals. No need to be dramatic. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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.

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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)...

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

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Uh oh...

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

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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