Dungeon Lords v1.1 Patch Released
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Version 1.1 Updates
Gameplay tweak: Monsters less aggressive in some areas of the game.
Gameplay tweak: Magic items appear at a more even rate.
Gameplay tweak: Ice magic now holds opponents longer.
Gameplay tweak: Exploit reselling single use scrolls and lockpicks can no
longer be abused.
Gameplay tweak: Boons from relics at Talendor adjusted.
Added feature: Additional spells added for specific types of magic.
Added feature: New heraldries added for specific quest bonuses.
Added feature: Players may skip voice-over/text dialogues with NPCs.
Bug fix: Screen resizing issues in the User-Interface fixed.
Bug fix: Bargain skill works correctly for reselling items.
Bug fix: occasional guild inventories not showing up in MP now fixed.
Bug fix: Pain Sting (nether spell) now fixed.
Bug fix: Flickering on load screen no longer occurs.
Bug fix: Occaisional hang under MP in Fargove Slums now fixed.
Bug fix: Order of the quests at the Celestial Order in Fargove adjusted.
Bug fix: In the Shadow Ruins, the Blue Athena Statue now drops the Shadow
Crystal even after failing the chess puzzle.
**IMPORTANT NOTE on TASK SWITCHING**
Dungeon Lords does not currently support multitasking when run as a full-screen
application. If you use the Alt-Tab key combination to minimize the game you
will need to close it from the Task Manager and will lose any progress since
yourlast save.
You can play Dungeon Lords in a window by running the executable using the
command line parameter "dlords -gdi". Playing in this mode will allow you to
switch between applications, however mouselook will no longer work and you will
need to map the view rotations to the keyboard.
- Some users have reported that difficulty hearing the voiceover. This can be
adjusted by reducing the volume of the other ambient sounds in the controls on
the options screen.
- Users on some systems may experience a flickering on the main menu screen if
it is left to idle. This may be due to triple buffering on the video card
and can tweaked in your video display settings.
-Users must use the sliders to adjust settings on the options screen.
-Users on some systems have reported load time lengthening as they progress
through the game during long play sessions. Restoring from a saved game seems
to solve this issue.
-The potion of Power currently has no effect.
- Multiplayer games have been designed so that they can be resumed using fewer
characters than were originally present when the game was saved. However,
resuming without a character in possession of quest items may cause progression
issues.
- There is a known multiplayer issue where if either 2 human females or 2 male
dwarf characters are in the game and one tries to exit, the other machine will crash.
This can result in loss of progress in situations where a client machine exits,
and the host machine was continuing to play but had not saved.
Manual Errata/Addendum
Page 7 - Game Settings
The default volumes for the different sounds in the game should be as follows:
Sound Effects=28; Music=80; Ambient=28; Speech=100
Page 9 - Creating Custom Characters
The last 4 options (face, skin color, hair style, hair color) are inactive in the
game.
Page 14 - The Game Screen
A line is missing from the end of this section indicating that the game compass can
be seen at the upper right hand corner of the screen.
Page 15 - Inventory
The junk inventory is inactive. Duplicate items are discarded from inventory as
they are picked up.
Page 18 - Repair, Identify
The identify ability was removed from the game after it was determined that it did
not offer significant benefits in its current form. Repair was also removed for
balance reasons relating to deterioration of weapons/armor during combat.
Page 23 - Obtaining Treasure and Other Items
As noted above, duplicate items that are picked up are automatically discarded
rather than being placed into the junk inventory.
Page 25 - Camping
Some hearths are lit in-game but the actual fire does not appear. This does not
affect whether a player can actually camp there or not.
Page 32 - Hosting/Joining An Internet Game
Selecting Multiplayer from the main menu, leads you to a new menu - LAN or Internet.
Selecting the Internet option allows you to pick Direct IP (connect directly to
an IP address) or Gamespy, which uses the Gamespy service to find and connect to
other players.
Page 38 - Keyboard Controls
The automap feature has been removed from the game, so the M key is unused by
default.
Page 41 - Skills
As noted above, the Identify and Repair skills are inactive.
