Inny: The serial patchers strike again. :)

Hi everyone,

A new update is now available for download. Here are the 1.0.6 patch notes:
Improved HUD for units on the tactical map.
The way unit speed animation changes has been improved.
Optimized tooltip display for mouse cursor movement.
Improved support of displays with 768 vertical pixels resolution.
Fixed ‘Lighting change’ mode functioning.

Multiplayer:
Mistiming problems fixes.
Fixed disconnection problems between the server and the game’s client in a multiplayer game and in the lobby.
There are now two game modes in multiplayer:
‘Advanced’ mode — number of points depends on the number of played games and achieved victories;
‘Classic’ mode — every player has an equal number of points (1000 at the moment).
Added icons for player statuses: ‘Player is looking for an opponent’, ‘Player is in the game’.
Added information display of other players’ spent points.
Updated prices for units, spells and items.
Improved chat.

Fixed:
‘Endless siege’ bug.
Berserk barbarian animation caused the game to crash.
Selected building is not correctly highlighted in the city screen.
Effects bug of ‘A portal to Chaos’ event.
Battle starts before some of the dialogues are over.
Capitals generating on neutral terrain types.
AI controlled hero doesn’t attack the castle’s garrison while it’s under siege.
Delays in selection, giving orders and showing tooltip for units.
Problem with necromancy skill and hero information display after the battle.
Inability to sell an item in some cases.
Bug that caused heroes to receive new skills and parameters earlier than intended.
Attack of the enemy castle with no units in the garrison.
Bug with provinces capturing where defenders could become guards in some cases.
Karma transfer from the shard map to the astral.
Killing a skeleton during a battle could cause the game to crash.

If the updater does not work, the patch is available here :
http://www.snowbirdgames.com/files/eador/updates/inline/1.0.6.zip

bossonova: Thank you for your unneeded opinion. But if a game needs 5 patches+ and still going strong less then a month into it then yeah I don`t trust the developers. By the sounds of it you have father issues, so go away. also what you said makes no sense. Go back to the farm where you belong, bitch, maybe the animals will listen to you there.

ambient_orange: Im also very astonished where the game was rushed out will hundreds of bugs/ideas that were ignored as if they were most lazy bastards.. and now they are throwing patches like morning pancakes to us as if it is effortless and self-explanatory.

So how they end up with hundreds of bugs in the first place? Quite a paradox..

reminder: You guys crack me up.

Well, if you prefer waiting go ahead. In fact, I don't even understand how you managed to patch the game to 1.0.5 like this. God's blessing?

If you don't trust a patch that comes from the DEVELOPERS (http://www.snowbirdgames.com/forum/index.php?threads/patch-notes-may-7.1986/) an is hosted on THEIR website (http://www.snowbirdgames.com/files/eador/updates/inline/1.0.6.zip), then I hope your dad is a really good programmer to make you a trustworthy patch. Or, if you don't trust your dad either, go to the church and pray.

Caution is a virtue but moderation is as well. Learn to pick who to trust instead of just dissing everyone.

Actuarian: Agreed - the original complaint/caution is in my all-time top 10 of ridiculous illogical arguments. What exactly is GOG supposed to do with the patch to make it trustworthy?

I'm also not very impressed with the too many quick patches complaint. I guess the dev's could have held off and done one big patch instead of a bunch of smaller ones, but how would that have helped? You could go buy Might and Magic Heroes 6. They gave us big slow patches and that game is still a mess after about a year.

I think Heroes 6, Fallen Enchantress, King's Bounty - WoTN are the last three major turn-based strategy games released, all with 100's of bugs and design problems, many of which still haven't been fixed and probably won't ever be fixed. This doesn't excuse Snowbird, but it makes me think there is a false sense of shock about the release state of Eador. The problem is with the industry, and although the jury is still out so far Snowbird has actually exceeded the norm in my opinion.

bossonova: How many patches will it take........ Gog took the game under its wing so it should be their responsibility to release patches for their gog games. Snowbird is just releasing patches like crazy cause they knew that the game is not complete and they are trying to make up for it. by releasing patches like all the time they are trying to build back trust in the company with the population but it doesn`t help. I checked with my people, and there are many, and they are already over it and so am I to tell you the truth. even with this bad release I still trust gog more then snowbird for sure, you would have to be stupid not too. a patch from gog carries the implication that it has been filtered through the gog crew and if there is anything wrong with it they will fix it or send it back. with a patch from snowbird their patches may be as faulty as the game, since they made it and all. Should I take that risk and fuck up my computer from an untrustworthy source as it has already been proven with the release of the game. I know they have a small crew and Russia isn`t really known for tons of games so how would I trust this company to download their patches independently. a smart person would not, logically. think about it you fools.....

Actuarian: What implication? Do you actually think that GOG tests the patches they get from developers? They might do a virus check, but I would be extremely shocked if they try to install the patches much less playtest them.

The personal insults......they diminish your arguments.

bossonova: unless you actually know then don`t guess what gog does. they diminish your arguments.