Archived news from 11/00.
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- New Variant. Joseph William Dixon has decided that there's still room out there for another variant (and quite rightly so). He's taken ZAngband (v2.1.1c) and given it a good kicking to create Gumband (v2.1.1c). Here's some of the things added/changed...
- Enabled the Monk hack to make their speed bonus cumulative with those of Klackons and Sprites.
- Tweaked the pseudo-ID of most classes.
- Rings and Amulets can now be pseudo-ID'd, tho only as good, average and cursed.
- Got rid of the autoroller delay during character creation.
- Many activated artifacts, wands, staves, rods, etc., now deal 50% more damage.
- Spell damages have been adjusted upwards a bit, up to 50% or so more effective.
- Cure Light, Medium and Critical Wounds have had their die rolls increased by 50%.
- The Mindcrafter power 'Precognition' now detects doors and stairs at character level 5, with detect traps moved to character level 10.
- The Identify portion of 'Psychometry' has been moved up to level 30, inserting an *Identify* effect at level 45.
- Again with the Mindcrafters, the Dimension Door part of 'Minor Displacement' has been moved to level 30.
- Replaced the Trump Spell "Reset Recall" with the spell "Minor Divination," which detects traps, doors, stairs and normal monsters.
- Removed spellbooks from the Temple and Magic Shoppe - they were too much competition for the Bookstore.
- Removed the aggravation/XP-drain option and the NO_TELE flag from Stormbringer. It now deals 8d8 damage (to jibe with The Stormbringer's attacks as a monster) and is permanently cursed instead.
- Potions of New Life are cheaper and more common.
- Altered the purses of the store owners, mainly to remove the 5000 gold limits on the Armour and Weapon Shops.
- Only Warrior-Magi have access to the Arcane Realm.
- Several class/race tweaks.
- New topic in manual containing detailed description of all what's new in current version.
- Woodmen village map changed.
- Wooden floors can catch fire now.
- Poisoning and bleeding can kill monsters in inactive maps.
- Potion of Healing added.
- Poison resistance added. Increasing of resistances.
- Alcohol effects. Staggering. Alcohol increases morale.New resistance: Alcohol resistance. Some potions can contain alcohol.
- Monsters' behavior is now affected by morale - they can panic or even become berserk.
- New spells: Magic Missile, Remove Fire.
- New window for selecting pictures, MPC pictures selection allowed.
- Custom hero tiles.
- New window for creating and viewing your hero, changing his face, name and his tile. The name of your character can also be changed during the game.
- Some attributes rebalanced, time and timecosts rebalanced too.
- Decreasing of stamina is influenced by terrain difficulty and fighting.
- Icons indicating bleeding or poisoning are drawn on gamebar too.
- You can attack hostile monsters by clicking on them or pressing 'a' and selecting the unit.
- Created "gatelist" that allows two or more steps can lead to one map. It is also no longer necessary to define the position where the hero appears in a new map.
- Steps and few other tiles were changed. New hero tiles.
- Some activities can be paused - Waiting, Moving. Options window can be opened during waiting and other activities.Speed of run mode can be changed in option window.
- New option added when hero is dead - Load Last Game.
- Scrollbars in inventory, spellbook, shop window, count window and configuration window.
- Toolbar added to inventory window.
- Inside the shop you can steal only one item at one time.
- Steps up/down graphic tile is set from map file.
- Using of torches on wooden objects fixed.
- "Give to" function replaced by "Use on" function. When using item on unit option "Give item" appears.
- Bug fixes
- A new race, the Lagdalen, has been added, with inherent speed and eventual free action at the cost of the ability to wear rings or gloves.
- Wood Elves (and any new race with the INH_MIGHT flag) get an extra bonus point to extra might when they reach level 25, if they use a bow.
- Hitting "m" as a prayercaster will preform a prayer, and vice versa.
- The bug with the "Study" message being partially erased has been fixed.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Variant/eyangband-020b3-ami.lha = EyAngband Amiga.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Variant/gsn2band-10-ami.lha = GSN2band Amiga.
- http://artemida.amu.edu.pl/~naskrent/gsn2-10.zip = GSN2band Source.
- Valdor Surfaces. Another developer thought lost in the mists of time was Piotr Wolny with his project, Legends Of Valdor. Not so, he's just released v0.02 with a number of new additions. In fact, I feel a list coming on...
- New features in town.
- First quests.
- Plot added.
- Giving, Chating, Looking, Drinking (potions), Smoking (cigarettes).
- Bugs fixed.
- Another EyAngband. Eytan Zweig has updated his EyAngband (v0.2.0). This version is beta3 and thankfully has a much more manageable changes list so here it is *grin*...
- Bards made more powerful.
- Fixed font-ibm.prf.
- Disease now strikes a lot less frequently.
- Bard spells properly fail.
- Bards get correct item_tester_hook after casting spells.
- In the adventurer's guild, you can not longer accept illegal choices.
- http://members.nbci.com/eytanz/eyangband/files/eyangband-020-beta.zip = EyAngband Binary.
- http://members.nbci.com/eytanz/eyangband/files/eyangband-020-beta-src.zip = EyAngband Source.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Variant/EyAngband-020-68K.bin = EyAngband 68K.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Variant/EyAngband-020-PPC.bin = EyAngband PPC.
- Angband/64 Update. Jurriaan Kalkman has a new version (beta 7, release 0) of his variant - Angband/64. According to Jurriaan, this version fixes a number of bugs (Keys should work again in windows, scrolls can be read directly off the floor again, etc.).
- Typical... Take three days off and everyone decides to release something. I'm working through my mails as quick as I can but if I've missed ya... Sorry.
- Amiga Fixes. Bablos has added a number of fixes to the Amiga port of Angband (v2.9.1). He's also created a port of OAngband (v0.5.0b). The list of Angband bugs fixed follows with the file links after that...
- Avavir has a wrong activation.
- The "Bubbles" vault has inaccessible areas.
- init1.c contains dead code.
- The recall artifact activation does work in ironman mode.
- Random class selection at character birth isn't restricted to legal class choices.
- The description of the genocide artifact activation is broken.
- The immunities of user-designed character races are not properly shown in the flag display.
- When examining/looking at flavored items in stores the flavor is displayed.
- Trying to destroying an unidentified artifact gives info about the cursed status.
- Security hole (buffer overflow) in Angband and variants.
- The pref-file parsing allows the specification of invalid indices for some entries.
- The weight carried by the player can reach strange values when carrying huge amounts of heavy objects.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Amiga/angband-291-ami.lha = Amiga Angband.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Variant/oangband-050b-ami.lha = Amiga OAngband.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/Oangband-0.5.0b-68K.bin = Mac OAngband (68K).
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/Oangband-0.5.0b-PPC.bin = Mac OAngband (PPC).
- The evil boss has some nasty powers and a big weapon.
- New bodyguards at end room.
- Swaped a map and item chests.
- Included some weapons for evildoers.
- Passages now are opened at the right time.
- Miscelaneous minor changes.