Sacrifice patch 3

A frissítés leírása angolul:

NETWORK:

• Upgraded to DirectX8 for DirectPlay
• Added progress bar and cancel button (quits game) to network resynch box.
• Changed join box to be same for all create/join game operations.
• Game now polls DX for connection bandwidth.
• Game now assigns more bandwidth to players with more creatures.
• Anti-hack measures are now in place.
• Game now properly handles the local player being dropped.

NEW FEATURES:

• All new formation icons.
• Added observer mode.
• Added edit wizard option.
• Added spellbook editor (must finish sp campaign once though)
• Added game summary screen for skirmish.
• Added allied vision option.
• Added more context sensitive cursors (free manafont/red soul)
• Multiplayer ranking system.
• Added AI player damage multiplier in skirmish (AI difficulty setting)
• Added trigger actions:
  • Music reset                  (resets all moods to initial settings)
  • Music add <num> to <mood>     (currently can add to "battle" mood)
  • Music turn <switch>          (ability to turn music on and off per session)
  • Order [creature group] go to <location> with <formation>   (use any formation!)
  • Order [creature group] attack <location> with <formation>  (")
  • Order [creature group] guard <location> with <formation>   (")
• Added GameSpy chatroom notification when new patch is ready
• Rewritten landscape renderer:
  • Greatly improved speed on T&L cards.
  • New 3 pass lightmap render mode allows older cards to use lightmaps.
  • New ultra-fast no lightmap render mode.
  • Added bump mapping for cards that support the DOT3 operation.
  • Detail limit is set much higher for newer cards.
  • Added full scene antialias option.

GAME OPTIONS / GAME LOBBY:

• Display ping to each player.
• New alignment: custom (uses spellbook of MP wizard)
• New alignment: observer
• New game setting: Allow custom spellbook
• New game setting: Allow observer
• New game setting: Allow observer chat
• New game setting: Allied vision

COMMANDS / KEY BINDINGS:

• New command: drop soul
• New command: cast creature spell #
• New command: cast spell #
• New command: cast structure spell #
• New formations: flank left and flank right

BALANCE:

• Balance: Storm Giant takes less damage from lightning attacks.
• Balance: Brainiac and Shrike.
• Balance: Animate Dead/Breath of life/Charm adds unit to group 10 and selects it.
• Balance: Blue souls are now shown on minimap.
• Balance: Halo of earth and rings of fire now stop when target dies.
• Balance: Ent protector shield no longer stacks.
• Balance: Viscous oil no longer stacks.
• Balance: Death can no longer be stopped by player.
• Balance: Can now teleport to allied structures.
• Balance: Removed area of effect damage for each target hit on Silverback.
• Balance: Any poison type stops mana and health regen.
• Balance: Increased poison damage by 50%
• Balance: Heal spell only heals 1000 health.
• Balance: Healing aura only heals while spell is in effect.
• Balance: Frostwulf has much higher resistance to all ranged attacks (they are so fast that they can dodge missiles)
• Balance: Seraph and Gremlin abilities will fail to grab a shielded unit.
• Balance: Erupt now throws units around correctly.
• Balance: Bombardment no longer hits units for the first second of each boulder's flight.
• Balance: Increased rung 1 melee damage
• Balance: Decreased scythe's melee bonus
• Balance: Given Troggs a small melee bonus
• Balance: Increased Fallen's ranged recharge time.
• Balance: Locust drain mana ability reduced based upon maximum mana capacity of target.

FIXES:

• Fixed bug where you could cast a creature that you didn't have the souls for.
• Fixed Scapex "hyper" movement on Pentium 4's
• Fixed wobbling detail levels on characters and other game entities (noticeably on Pentium 4's)
• Fixed screen fades (noticeably on Pentium 4's)
• Fixed buffer overwrite in landscape renderer causing random crashes.
• Win and loss dialogs pause local games
• Unit view updates and unit AI are now timesliced better = better performance.