Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny v1.32 Patch Released

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Written by BuckGB on January 5th, 2014

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Over the holidays, the indie team at Crafty Studios released a hefty v1.32 patch for their Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny remake, which "completely reworked" the user interface, added new NPCs to the game, improved the game's performance, and a whole lot more. The buzz on the Steam forums is positive regarding the update, so it might be a game to add to your list this year if you haven't yet picked it up:

• Completely reworked user interface
  
  • clear Character Screen
  • extended Tooltips
  • intuitive handling
  • Questbook improved (Mark completed Quests, Sorting)
  • Travelmap and Battlescreen with Camera control icons
• New Non Player Characters
  
  • From walkers in the streets to the healer
  • individual Faces
  • Authentic (Thorwalsh)
  • Guards with traditional Skraja
• Completely new Music (Original score can be optionally activated)
• Massive Performance Improvements
• Significant Optical Improvement on all game Scenes (Towns, Dungeons, Battles)
• Linux Version
• Beginner mode (choose on new Game)
• Optional Automatic Levelups
• Complete Data-Modding-Ability, even with multiple independent Modules
• Rebalancing Trader Buy Pricing
• Trader locks you out when trying to haggle too hard
• Taverns lock you out when being caught stealing / cheating
• Levelup adapted (Vitality/AE distribution, grand meditation for magicians)
• Combat and Autocombat Bugfixes
• AI-Wizards use more different Spells
• Autocombat also uses Magic
• Reinforcements appear at the exits
• Waterskins are refilled in Taverns (with the first beer) and Hostels (when eating)
• Ingame-Console is saved to a textfile for later reference
• 40 new Steam Achievements (including Stats)
• Steam Cloud Integration (Online-Backup of Savegames)
• Potion effects don't stack any more
• New Spell (Break Domination) (to counter Horriphobus, Evil Eye)
• English Map
• Corrected Town Names
• Many texting issues fixed
• Problem with Unity Crash when having Corrupted Font Files fixed
• "Campfire Chitchat" with valuable tips for the Heroes depending on their current situation (thanks to Fujak Loganson for the implementation and writing!)
• Many more smaller and larger Bugfixes

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