Upgrade 1.20

[dari]

tried the cold water: 1.10 games will load with 1.20
my real question is do some/most/all new/changed 1.20 features work without a new game ?

And also some initial impressions (continuing my 1.10 normal perma-death game)

1. was able to promote my commanders beyond the old known limits.. ie field medic 4 - and other skills like party leader and efficient construction - crafting consultant up to 5 even the "only-one-level" skills could be upgraded

2. way more awesome: no more targeting through walls !

3. deep diving in caves got a very nice and dangerous boost - no more instakilling rock collossi with my smg - and that stinger bee queen almost killed my 17K HP party

4. not all data entries got that thousand delimiter - only new created items get that "," in their text-data-field

5. sometimes in caves i lost several hundreds points of oxygen for no apparent reason (no unidentified artifacts - nor monsters) maybe thats the way the newly oxygen limit works

6. crafting got big nerf in few areas - was not able to produce even one special effect space suit out of 20 tries with base crafting skill of 457 - getting decent reactors was also impossible and stuff that uses supply now doesnt get extremely low supply usage anymore - at least i get way more easier longer jump ranges

very good job IBOL !
(btw what is the harder difficulty than HARD with permadeath on ?)

[PvK]

Originally Posted by dari

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1. was able to promote my commanders beyond the old known limits.. ie field medic 4 - and other skills like party leader and efficient construction - crafting consultant up to 5 even the "only-one-level" skills could be upgraded

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Were they level 10? From the patch notes:

officers who reach level 10 can level up ANY SKILL THEY WANT, regardless of whether that is intended/designed!

[dari]

Were they level 10? From the patch notes:

officers who reach level 10 can level up ANY SKILL THEY WANT, regardless of whether that is intended/designed!

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i guess so - each of them had more than 10% profit share and had the "commander" title

also i could promote them all to over 65% profit share - the manual reads a 50% cap for this - dont know if this limit was already removed/non-working even in 1.10 - yet it didnt hurt my balance unlike armor repairs...

and on hard ill make sure to have armor replacement in my cargo hold! these repair costs are punishing right at start
(i hope that the formula will be made available for modding)

[Hakko]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I couldn't find any instructions for actually patching the game. I bought the full version after playing the demo, but the download of the Mac update has no executable or instruction file. It looks like I could replace the files in the game package by hand, but I'm reluctant to do so if there's an easier or more fool proof way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.