Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

News Release For Immediate Release


Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
Brand New Crunchy Patch Available For Download!


Hampstead, NC, 03 May 2007

Ladies, gentlemen, and fell creatures from beyond the plateau of Leng, Illwinter Game
Design and Shrapnel Games would like to call your attention to a shiny new patch for
Dominions 3: The Awakening. The patch brings the sheer delicious awesomeness of
Dominions 3 to version 3.08 and includes two new nations, some new mod commands,
and a witch's brew of bug obliteration.

So, what does version 3.08 hold in store for you? Gaze into the scrying pond and see for
thyself:

New Nations!
* Tir na n'Og - Land of the Ever Young
* Eriu - Last of the Tuatha

Mod Squad!
* New mod commands: #spreaddom, #nobadevents, #incunrest.
* Enforce some rules for #itemslots modding to prevent weird bugs in mods.
* #siegebonus didn't work (Fixed)
* #copyspell didn't work (Fixed)

Bug and Balance Fixes!
* Dragonflies' strength changed from 0 to 1 and they can now inflict damage.
* Burden of Time caused severe damage to diseased non-old people (Fixed)
* LA Atlantis could not continue fort construction (Fixed)
* (Fixed) Cave battlegrounds.
* Mod that modified a monster's magic skills could lock up the game (Fixed)
* #defaultmapzoom saved when editing maps.
* (Fixed) Cave symbol that disappeared in version 3.06.
* Some Tuatha and sidhe stat fixes.
* Some sidhe magic skill fixes.
* A few description fixes.
* Light weight scale mail increased res cost.
* Svartalf home only
* Can use monthly cast multiple site search spells of the same type.
* Some monsters were not always unparalyzed properly (Fixed)
* Ritual of Rebirth didn't work with 15 size Hall of Fame (Fixed)
* Wild Hunt and some more spells were buggy when attacking besieging armies (Fixed)
* Magic site fixes, armor fixes, age fixes, hero fixes, unit fixes.
* Y could be used to find undiscovered castles (Fixed)
* No looming devils underwater.
* Summon barghest and black dogs switched
* Province defense overflow fix
* Esc works when right side menu is hidden
* H-shortcut didn't work (Fixed)
* Marverni and me Man temples cost 200
* Mind hunt could crash the game. (Fixed)
* N?got gick fel: No space left on bg - bug fix (Fixed)
* Mirror image (and glamour) does not protect units from missiles or magic.
* Blade wind reduced # o e
* Flaming arrows increased path lvl.
* Sloth scale -> 15% / step
* Kala-Mukha warrior and Palankasha increased cost.
* Ulm EA archers not stealthy.

Enhance your Dominions 3 gameplay right now! Download the version 3.08 patch here:

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

Dominions 3: The Awakening is the multi-award winning, critically acclaimed, fan loved,
epic fantasy strategy game available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. In
a world of cookie-cutter real time "strategy" games and twitch-based multiplayer gaming,
Dominions 3 shows why turn-based is still alive and well, and that multiplayer gaming
doesn't mean needing the reflexes of an ADD spider monkey on crystal meth.

If you have not yet experienced Dominions 3: The Awakening (Computer Games
Magazine - Best of 2006, Cyberstratege - Strategy Game of 2006, Yahoo! Games - 4/5,
Gamespot - 8.7) download the demo (available on the same page as the version 3.08
update) and see what you've been missing! The full game ships with a 300+ spiral bound
manual, perfect for not only comprehensively explaining the game, but also for killing
rabid garden gnomes.

To check out the complete line of Shrapnel Games' products, from computer to upcoming
boardgames, please visit us at www.shrapnelgames.com. You'll feel good that you did.

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

Thanku for the update!

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Yahooo!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Way to go Illwinter! Thank you!

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

Yes, that's great, thanks!

Can anyone please give me advice on whether to update now, if I'm involved in 3 different MP games.

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

I wouldn't try using 3.08 in an MP game that hasn't upgraded.

Make a copy of the 3.06 version so you can switch back and forth depending on the game. It will also help if there are game breaking bugs in the patch.

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

Go into your Dominions3 folder, copy/paste the dom exe file to you desktop, rename it to 306 for example. Install 3.08 patch. Now cut/paste 306 back to where you got it from. To do your MP games remember to load the game with 306, otherwise load normally to enjoy 3.08.

DO NOT attempt to do your MP turns with 3.08 until the host as upgraded, you will crash the server and after do you turn again with 3.06.

Thanks Illwinter/Shrapnel for another great patch.

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Wow, now Ulm (all ages) gets a nice 70% resource bonus in all castles with production 3. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Wow, that means you can use those LA Ulm Black Templars!

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Yep !

A huge "thanks you" at everybody behind all of this ! Especially the Illwinter staff, but also the Dom community (in particular, everybody on this forum), all players & testers in the world, etc.

yes I'm enthusiastic ;o)

I'll patch this evening at once !
Well, when I'll go back home after work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif(

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

One reason for upgrading as soon as possible is the Y-fix mentioned in the middle of that list. That's the one that got marked GUI Special in the shortlist. Essentially it allowed anyone to locate all capitals on the first turn by checking each province on the map by selecting them and using the y-key shortcut. If the province had a castle, the castle icon was visible in the castle icon slot even though did not see castle type or anything else about the province.

It's verifiably fixed in 3.08, so no more beelining for the neighboring capitol with a bless or elephant rush without scouting first.

DB update to follow sometime next week. The issues shortlist will also be updated and reorganized as soon as I have time, meaning next week or later.

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Wow.. the biggest changes for MP:

* Mirror image (and glamour) does not protect units from missiles or magic.
* Blade wind reduced # o e
* Flaming arrows increased path lvl.
* Sloth scale -> 15% / step

All good changes IMHO

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Wow, Many thanks to IW!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

Does this mean that I can take three earth mages and have them all cast Gnome lore as a monthly ritual without having them cast it on the same province?

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I can't wait to try the new nations! Thanks for the patch.

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This is a stunning patch, in all the right ways. Especially if the site searching fix works the way I think it does (can't wait to get home and try it!)

I'll be curious to see how the Mirror Image/Glamour change affects people's thoughts on Helheim/Vanheim and who the new "uber" nation in each Age will be determined to be now that blessed 'heim units are no longer quite so butch.

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Yep. Awesome!

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Does this exclude provinces that have already been level 4 (or higher) site searched by a normal mage?

Jazzepi

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

There is other batch of changes that shouldn't be forgotten when discussing the glamour change:

* Light weight scale mail increased res cost.
* Svartalf home only

Many of the better Vanir units and commanders used Light Weight Scale Mails...

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I assume that everything else in the site-searching will be the same.
Can anyone verify?
It will exclude provinces that have been searched (to any level.) What about provinces being searched that turn? (Probably not.)

It will exclude capitals. (Actually it currently sometimes searches capitals and excludes other provinces for obscure reasons. Hopefully, now that all site searching can be done with monthly casting, it'll be easier to detect a pattern.)

It'll be interesting to see if some of the other weirdnesses , mostly involving taking or losing provinces, have been addressed.

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

I can confirm that the bug where you could get a save file where right clicking on a province ended the turn is fixed, even though it is not explicitly mentioned in the patch notes. My very fun game is playable again, hooray! Thanks Illwinter and the testing crew.

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Really awesome, especially about the Heim-nerf, except still no Fomorians... I want my nasty evil giants! ah well, maybe next time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

An earlier post from K.O. makes it sound like the Fomorians will likely be popping up very quickly after this patch.

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I'm hoping so, I'm very excited about them. I wonder if they'll be giants with glamour? That would be interesting.

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*cough*all-view*cough*

Nope, no glamourous giants. They could use an illusion or two, though.

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Stealthy giants...

"Hey Hans, let's hide behind that mountain over there!"
"Ok, but only if you take off your helmet or they will surely see us..."

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

Good news. What I'd like to know is: Will it still hose a 3.06 server if I try to connect with a 3.08 client to it like it did last time? Or is there some kind of backward compability now that the client just gets a warning "your version number is too high"? There have been lots of accidents like that last time when people had to juggle different patch levels depending on the server they wanted to connect to...

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Does this mean that if you are currently in a multiplayer game and are able to cast flame arrows, once you install the patch you might not be able to?

But I agree. Those changes are good ones.

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No Linux PPC binary in the patch file? I hope that was unintentional http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Sill

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Thanks for the update, balance changed sound good. I still think shadow blast is a bit too nasty but thats just me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Yes it will hose it up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

Oh _goody_. Still no bloody Tab-research toggle, and for some reason, Windows user are stuck with a bleeding .exe file instead of a _SAFE_ .zip file which the other platforms have.

With the greatest irritation in the game still there, I'm getting disgusted.

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Joining the disgruntled Cainehill:

LE C'tis apparently *still* can't summon Tomb Wyrms. That's been broken going on a couple of patches now. You'd think that stuff that *used to* work and got broken along the way would be fixed by now.

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

May I make a suggestion about this sticky? Can you put the date of the new patch in the subject line? For those of us who are slightly less than hard core, we don't remember the version number we are using. I checked the old thread a few times to see if there was a new patch. But for a post by another user, I would have missed this one.

Thanks!

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Reverend: how is Illwinter supposed to know what to put in as high-priority? They aren't keeping up with the bug reports themselves, and they started going through Edi's list in the order he lists the bugs. Shocking, isn't it? They still have 26 points in the buglists (not counting the magic/undead/demon leadership list and hp discrepancy, which seem quite minor) before the part Edi has named Nations. The Tomb Wyrm problem is fourth of the nation-spesific problems. 11 of the 26 points left to do are about maxage changing with mod commands that shouldn't change maxage, and there are two pairs of almost identical problems (two bakemono poptypes not having commander, two versions of the smouldercone not increasing heat). If they continue going through the list in order, I'd expect them to reach and perhaps finish the Nation list for the next patch, which might not be that long way off considering that the Fomorian nation is almost finished.

Edi does have a color-coding system for reporting more severe problems; perhaps you should ask him to let you color-code the bugs so that the important stuff are fixed first. The ones that got broken in earlier patches (3.04, 3.06), as an example.

Cainehill: I didn't even remember the tab-research request any more! I don't know WHERE Illwinter are supposed to check things like that. It doesn't even seem to be listed in the Dom4 Wishlist thread... And also, as Reverend reminds us, there are still a host of bugs left to be fixed.

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The shortlist is going to get reworked now that the new patch is out. However, I do not have unlimited time, so it is going to have to wait until next week before it gets completely sorted. A lot of issues are going to get color-coded at that point. The reorganization will also clear up the way the things are now sprinkled haphazardly around.

The C'tis Tomb Wyrm issue is going to get a higher priority.

As for the "tab-hide researchers" thing, unfortunately we are not going to get it back. Not for the tab key anyway. It has been requested by several people at several points and was a very popular feature. I would ove to have it back, but all indications from IW are that it is gone for good.

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I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to with the Tab-research thing (you want Tab to hide researchers on the main screen as well as the army setup screen?) but the site-searching fix is saving me more annoyance than researchers have ever caused me. I say, Yay for Illwinter!

-Max

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Oh, I too am totally disgusted, I mean all illwinter has done is made a great game that hundreds of people are enjoying and you two Cainehill and Reverend Zombie are off having a hissy fit about a few bugs, all I can say to you is that if you are so disgusted with the game, don't play it! we don't want to hear your (removed by poster), if you want to report a bug do it properly don't wine about how bad the game is.

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They own the game, they've played it for a long time. They have right for their own opinions about what is good about the game. They are also probably right in that the change would be very good and in that Tomb Wyrms should reappear. They did nothing wrong, they just voiced their opinions in angry tones. That's no reason to be rude.

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I make a post complaining about this issue after every patch in which it is not fixed; that would be one way they could determine what should be a high priority. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Was waiting for both. Thanks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

Umbrals are now aquatic. Yet another reason to raise their cost.

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

Aquatic or amphibian?

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Thanks IW!

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shhhhh.

YUMbrals are JUST FINE the way they are -- they just used to get lonely when all their pasty one eyed friends went swimming without them.

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

I've got a Mac and the read me file for the 3.08 upgrade tells me to doubleclick on patchme, but there's no patchme file. Am I missing something?

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Oops - amphibian. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

This is a really nice patch! That said, I'll nitpick that a Fir Bolg Champion should probably cost more then a Fir Bolg.

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

?

Has this changed for 3.08 then? Where did you get the information?

Re: Update To Version 3.08 Of Dominions 3 Today!
 

Look inside the dompatch_308 folder and you should find it.

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* Mirror image (and glamour) does not protect units from missiles or magic.
* Blade wind reduced # o e
* Flaming arrows increased path lvl.
* Sloth scale -> 15% / step
* Kala-Mukha warrior and Palankasha increased cost.
* Ulm EA archers not stealthy.

They're listed at the end of the changelist of the first post of this thread. It seems that they aren't listed in the progres page, though.