New patch available (2.12)

Endoperez · #1 June 7th, 2004, 03:30 PM

I am happy to see a new patch is out and running, but... has the demo been updated? There was no mention of it, so I quess not. It would be nice, for Desert Tombs if not for anything else.

Vicious Love · #2 June 7th, 2004, 03:31 PM

[Delayed response] What the sundry expletives?! You fixed the alt-tab texture bug, didn't you?! I LOVED that bug. A's and C's hurling lightning bolts at hyphens and asterisks, just like the ASCII-based dungeon crawls of olden times, and you just went and buried those YEARS of gaming history in the name of your ultramodern, flavor of the month "Version 2.12".

Praise retracted. Good day to you, sirs.[/Delayed response]

PhilD · #3 June 7th, 2004, 04:34 PM

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Originally posted by Cohen:
Azz ...

I expected some more things.

There's really no pleasing some people, is there?

OK, so there isn't much new content, mostly bug/balance fixes. But maybe we should all try the new stuff and balance before complaining? I mean - these two guys are doing this on their spare time, and I don't think Shrapnel pays them anything for it, other than whatever royalties they get for sales of the game. So, if they don't feel they've put enough testing into their future new nation, or new units, or whatever, I'd rather get a small new patch than nothing.

Teraswaerto · #4 June 7th, 2004, 04:47 PM

The changes to Desert Tombs look great.

atul · #5 June 7th, 2004, 04:57 PM

Desert Tomb, Tomb Guard. No more Sloth for lizards... (or then I've just played too much nations with crappy basic troops

)

Only... while all the predator lizards have ran away, how come you still can recruit Taskmasters? Hopefully they at least get Berserk+0 for being unemployed and frustrated?-p

WraithLord · #6 June 7th, 2004, 05:02 PM

Can someone summarize the changes to pangaea and desert tombs?

TIS

atul · #7 June 7th, 2004, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by izaqyos:
Can someone summarize the changes to pangaea and desert tombs?

Haven't played Pans much in dom2 so can't say too much about them, Desert Tombs have at least two new units (Desert Ranger, MI? patroller; Tomb Guard, prot-21 elite) and one new mage (Keeper of the Tombs DFHH). They lost all the predator lizards and shamen. And, as it says in the patch list, Terror as a starting spell and cost to 150.

Edit: The new units seem to be capitol-only.

[ June 07, 2004, 16:13: Message edited by: atul ]