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