New Dominions 3: The Awakening Patch Now Available

[Dedas]

The new swedish unit names are awesome. For example I just recruited a Troglodyte lord named Hjälmgunnar.

[Unthawer]

Meglobob said:
Big thanks for the new patch!

Yes.

[Tichy]

Hi --

Anyone else having trouble patching on a Mac? I put the patch folder and the dom3 app on the desktop, run patch.command and get

"Patching Dominions 3, please wait...
cp: Info.plist: No such file or directory
cp: PkgInfo: No such file or directory"

If I open up the Dom 3 package, those files are there.
Thanks

[Tichy]

Ok, the Mac terminal screen says it fails to patch, but it actually patches. As far as I can tell all the content is there, but the title screen reads 3.09.

[Zylithan]

yay! undead monkees

[OmikronWarrior]

Quick, somebody remind how patching can affect MP games. If I patch and the server doesn't, is that a problem?

[thejeff]

Yes. The server must patch first.

If you have an older version I believe the server will inform you and tell you to upgrade.

It's easy to make a copy of the current version before upgrading and switch between the two as needed.

[OmikronWarrior]

thejeff said:
Yes. The server must patch first.

If you have an older version I believe the server will inform you and tell you to upgrade.

It's easy to make a copy of the current version before upgrading and switch between the two as needed.

How would that work? Just make a copy the dominions3 folder anywhere, patch the original, and then just use the copy to play online until the servers get patched?

[thejeff]

Pretty much. I've only done it on linux, so I don't know if there are any gotchas on Windows, but I don't remember hearing of any.

[lch]

Since there are no newly patched files, you can just install the 3.08 patch before playing on 3.08 servers and otherwise install the 3.10 patch if you want to play the 3.10 version, too. That means that you can downgrade from 3.10 to 3.08, yes.