Patch 1.34

[Chris Firefox]

With the almost superhuman effort of several highly motivated beta testers, namely lunatic, mordbrenner, sordul, curom and Blanidur, we can proudly present you this Patch 1.34.

New features

• Equipment worn on the body only weighs half
  
• Autocombat asks whether magic is to be used
  
• Skip character with Space Key in combat
  
• Vitality and Astral Energy regeneration on sea journeys

New Content

• Mini event "Old Keep" in Thorwal
  
• Phexcaer: Quests "Temple of the Golden One" and "Ektor Gremob" completed and extended
  
• Phexcaer: New Dialogue "Blacksmith Alrik Derondan" (mix-up) added
  
• Phexcaer: Quest Alrik Derondan completed
  
• Phexcaer: Dialogue "Practice" completed
  
• Phexcaer: Dialogue "Quack" completed
  
• Phexcaer: Dialogue "Gambler's Den" completed and extended
  
• Phexcaer: Dialogue "Golden Puddles Brothel" completed and extended
  
• Phexcaer: Dialogue "The Archivist" completed and extended
  
• Phexcaer: Dialogue "A Wagoner" completed and extended
  
• Efferdun: New mini event "Imman man"
  
• Nordvest: Text for castle added
  
• Rovamund: New quest "Kidnapping"
  
• Guddasunden: New quest "Occupied barn"
  
• New Random Event: A silverling by the harbor
  
• New Random Event: "Borbarads Witnesses"
  
• New Random Event: A Villain
  
• New Random Event: Tame a beaver
  
• New Random Event: Burning
  
• New Random Event: Elf conversation in the camp
  
• DLC For the Gods Baerhag: Additional event "Bandits" enroute to Orkhun added
  
• DLC For the Gods: Follow-up event, if Yussuf stays alive

Mods integrated to main game

• Magic herb pouch (Stores herbs)
  
• Shipyard Thorwal
  
• The 13 Doxologies of the Nameless One (A dangerous book to read, which can be found in the Temple of the nameless)

Modability

• Function: breakInventoryItem (slot, who)
  
• campTrigger introduced
  
• getHouseTrigger sequence established
  
• modifyInventoryItem extended by parameters "movetoslot" and "movetowho"
  
• Item Image Modding
  
• Character Image MODDING (actually as a "mod", not only in the userimage folder)

Bugfixes
Attention: Not all Bugfixes will apply to existing Savegames, especially those regarding Triggers in Dungeons already explored!

• Hyggeliks Dungeon can now only be found on the route Phexcaer Skellelen with at least 7 map parts
  
• OD, Beilunk Riders in need: Rider-Event will only trigger once
  
• FtG, forsaken woods can now be entered multiple times
  
• Huge Skeletons now attack properly
  
• FtG, Baerhag: Fix to allow Baurgrims Axe to be taken later if there is not enough capacity right after the battle
  
• Items 188, 215 und 245 (Fire protection amulet, Silver pendant Necropathy, Silver tiara Fastness of Body) fixed / reworked
  
• Toadskin encumberance fixed
  
• Magical Resistance Boni/Mali fixed
  
• OD, Beilunk Riders in need: Secret message is now displayed correctly
  
• Chain mail encumerance fixed
  
• a lot of missing translations added
  
• Fixed several F1 Helptexts
  
• Reworked text punctuation
  
• Fixed Armor Values of several helmets
  
• FtG Random encounter Rondra battle only triggers once for parties of average level of at least 4
  
• Remove Runestone after completing Gorah/Sevenstone quest
  
• Timings in the textbox "No orks yet" fixed / adapted to the voiceovers
  
• Random Encounter Corpse with amulet: It can only be found once with a corpse, but the event can trigger more often with random loot
  
• Made Anti-Bravery-Elixier usable
  
• Battle in Tavern "Green Horseshoe" now starts correctly
  
• Fixed check for healing spell
  
• hunting event "aurochs": time passes according to description
  
• weights of several items fixed
  
• added headline to riddle-chest in the ork cave
  
• Hjaldingard-tower of Thorwal: text now triggers in the house closest to the tower
  
• hunting events "aurochs": no more rations if the animal escapes
  
• fixed superstition check at Zerif (Rukian)
  
• adapted description text of hylailian fire
  
• Zerif-battle (Rukian) not repeatable any more
  
• FtG, questbook entry Baerhag clan fixed
  
• Unlimited XP by hole in dwarven mine fixed
  
• speartrap in dwarven mine now ignores armor
  
• trap wolves den: ignores armor, reduced chance to sickness
  
• FtG Rukian: Hunger/Thirst to 0 after meal at the elder
  
• FtG Rukian: fixed wrong house captions
  
• FtG Rukian Zerif: fixed text for missed superstition check
  
• weapon usability for the druid fixed
  
• reworked many item values
  
• reduced damage for door crashes in the old bailey
  
• Prem abandoned mine: reduced difficulty for some doors
  
• Fixed re-triggering of Grimring search if already in possession
  
• Fixed event "meeting rafters"
  
• Old Bailey: Hole in the ground (ladder) now triggers multiple times
  
• Zwingfeste: "Rabbit over the fire" and dialogue "found a ring" in third level now trigger only once
  
• fixed several missing text keys in "Hyggelik the smaller"
  
• Gameover after losing against the ork champion: according text is displayed in the gameover screen
  
• The Dead Ship: The amulet that can be found was assigned to the proper corpse
  
• Sweet erika: added missing text keys
  
• Black mages ruin: included using magic to counter acrophobia checks
  
• final battle: no more magic is usable
  
• Reduced battle range of healing spell to 1
  
• Added question where to continue the journey to after leaving a dungeon (and where it is necessary)
  
• Fastness of Body Tiara fixed and added description that it needs to be used in battle
  
• Moved hint to Gorah to another, more apropriate dialogue
  
• Fix and Extension of the Swafnild-Egilsdotter-Quest
  
• Fixed captions of houses in daspota
  
• Trap in Daspota treasure cave ("Strange floor") fixed
  
• added itemdescription for the register of debts
  
• added text for orvil harbor ("no shipping routes available")
  
• Hyggelik ruin: prevented leaving with the cursed gold
  
• Hyggelik ruin: added effect "nausea" with foul food chest
  
• Artair Branson (onion soup hero, Prem): adapted reaction to revisiting, onion soup now actually counts as food
  
• Adsiniliya Wüstenschnee (Prem fire elf, Thorwal): introduced alcohol effect
  
• Random encounter beggar: hint is now displayed when he thanks you
  
• The old bailey: drunk effect and satiating introduced with Master Dramosch after-dungeon-party
  
• Goblin cave: fixed bat encounter responses
  
• FtG, Hasgar: Items are removed on quest completion
  
• dwarven mine: Fixed dialogue headline bug
  
• FtG, Baerhag: Final dialogue fixed (now can get one or both of the quest rewards properly)
  
• dwarven mine: Speartraps are deactivated properly when pulling the arm of the statue
  
• Fixed tavern info in Skelellen and journey duration to Phexcaer
  
• Fixed tavern info in Thoss regarding resting places
  
• Hyggelik ruin: fixed several text keys
  
• dwarven mine: fixed several text keys
  
• FtG, mysterious wooded area: adapted chest loot
  
• FtG, Rukian: lock picks break properly at Zerif, text keys fixed, questbook entries fixed
  
• XP for "magically knocked out" enemies fixed
  
• Daspota treasure cave: trap "singing blade" fixed
  
• drinking a wonder potion now results in an empty bottle
  
• dragon cave: holes and dead dwarf now trigger multiple times
  
• black mages ruin: removed agility check
  
• undead ronald moves again
  
• Thorwal armory: added hint that it only can be entered once (even with both documents)
  
• Event strange marshes text keys fixed
  
• Event Monolith, several text keys fixed
  
• a lot of typos fixed
  
• Hermit dialogue fixed
  
• spider cave: Spider nests can now only be ignited once
  
• FtG, Hasgar: added hint for actual delivery of the quest items
  
• FtG, mysterious wooded area: The spider webs can now be ignited by equipped torches as well
  
• Daspota treasure cave: moved bedroom trigger, loot can only be received once
  
• introduced abandoned Firun temple (according to hint in Skelellen)
  
• Travel event hunter's hut (meeting the hunter) fixed
  
• Bug "Magic staff endlessly sellable" fixed
  
• Bug "weather and clock on the top left corner disappear after showing a scene" fixed
  
• Levelup: current AE/Vi is increased correctly
  
• fixed bartering at the blacksmith
  
• Tavern: "We are looking for you" with random name fixed
  
• Fixed sleeping party members not waking up on damage
  
• Fixed journey speed not respecting different road types
  
• reworked all journey hunting events
  
• Unicorn-Event: fixed several text keys as well as checking existing map parts
  
• fixed missing inn hints (concerned Serske and the roud inns)
  
• loading from the main menu doesn't reset to "professional" difficulty any more
  
• loading ingame correctly resets dungeon chest contents
  
• The Old Bailey: fixed corpse textkeys
  
• descriptions of the miracle cure fixed
  
• fixed wrong routes in "through the wilderness" (Skelellen-Kravik and Rovamund-Peilinen)
  
• included ranged attack penalties for opponents in the shield descriptions
  
• introduced hints and a quest to the ork cave
  
• FtG, Rukian: added some missing Quest markers
  
• Item "red lunar disc": added description and effects
  
• Hyggelik ruin: replaced Heshtots by ghosts
  
• Olimone (Strange marshes) now gives the recipe for a strong healing potion instead of a normal one
  
• Hetman: new text for visiting "afterfinal"
  
• Alchemy recipes now include duration
  
• Hyggelik ruin: prevented multiple triggering of the final battle
  
• Fixed bug on settings of "Calm Body"
  
• Dungeon AmbientLight after battles fixed ("too dark after battles")
  
• It is now possible to exchange NPCs in a tavern (to release them without replacement, you still need a temple)
  
• InputBox (e.g. sleep how long) now reacts better to typed input
  
• character image of npcs cannot be changed any more
  
• Grimring is now correctly removed after the final battle

[schmusekater78]

Sorry to be honest, but this game still doesn't work well on linux. So only conclusion after trying nearly every build and non work to a good extend -> finally made deinstallation.

[Mkoll]

still cant start a game just stops loading at torwahl 2%
releaseversion started atleast

[Mark]

Nice.. :)

[buy my couch plz]

Thanks!

[Royal Fusilier]

I just may have to start my first game.

[NeonSocialite]

Fantastic! Thanks for the hard work!
I am very glad I supported this project and will continue to do so.
How long till gold release now I wonder?

[Caz]

Thank you for the update :)

[pfdsotm]

I have to say I did not expect this, thank you.

Will give it another go :)

I have one question.

Can the ingame time limit be made modable, as in the ablity to turn ON or OFF.

I know it does not bother lots of players, but to be honest it is the most crazy idea of any RPG I have ever played, I want to explore the whole game without thinking about getting the GAME OVER message, I want to sleep and rest and travel any way I want without having to keep check of time wasted etc.

[Chris Firefox]

I'll reward you with a virtual beer in a thorwalian tavern if you can play a game without deliberately waiting for months at a time and actually reach the timeout. Moreover, the timeout was modable from day 1.

Easy method, for your current game:
1) Open your current savegame (<Document>/BladeOfDestiny/save/<whatever>.dsa1save with a text editor
2) search for "<ignoreTimeout>" - if it isn't there, load the game with a current version of the game and save it again, then it should be there
3) there should be the text "false" (without the quotes) after the >. Replace it by "true".

It is also possible to create a supersimple mod (very little xml involved) to deactivate for all future games, but this would go beyond the scope here.

[pfdsotm]

DId not realise I could do that, so I need to do this for every new save ?

I know I would like this time limit removed but what does this cause to happen if and when the orcs invade, I assume they just wait for me to arrive at the cave ?

No deliberate waiting, in the original I followed a lead for a map piece that told me to meet a unicorn at a certain point on the map, I followed this line and waited and waited and waited and waited no unicorn ever apperard but soon after I hit the GAME OVER, I had been playing for quite a bit before this also. I knew there was going to be an orc invasion but did not realise it would bring about the end of the game.

[sunshinecorp]

Still crashes when I click on settings... Ubuntu 12.04.5 64-bit.

[[FUA] Scruffer]

Thanks Devs :)

[nathelbiya]

Thanks for the update!

[min0]

Thanks!! This is good game but too many bugs ruin the experience, now it's enjoyable!

[Chris Firefox]

@pfdsotm, no, you only have to this once per playthrough, so as I said, start a new game or load an existing one, save, then edit the savefile, then load the edited save file. If you continue to play, the "ignoretimeout"-Setting persists. Until of course you start a completely new game.

And the only effect is that there is no gameover when the timeout is reached, everything else is unchanged.

@sunshinecorp, the crash is caused by a malfunctioning driver that is somehow unable to deliver a list of available resolutions. Might be your Window Manager, might be your driver, it is hard to tell. Anyways, nothing in the notes suggested that there was a fix regarding this problem, so that the problem persists is hardly surprising.