V 3.5 now in feature freeze

[takkaria]

I pushed a load of changes and bugfixes today to the 3.5 code. 3.5 is now in feature freeze so from now until release it's bugfixes only. The changes from today fix quite a few of the issues that have come up but please don't hesitate to bump threads if bugs are still occurring with the latest nightly. We're going to have a bug-hunt-athon at some point in the next few weeks and hopefully 3.5 can be releases as unbuggy as possible.

As ever, you can download the latest dev version from http://rephial.org/nightlies .

[Derakon]

Congrats on hitting feature freeze. Do we have a list of new features anywhere?

[molybdenum]

Is there a target release date? I've got a few things that I could submit that should close some issues. I just need to pull out the changes, since my working copy is quite different (and probably has regressions).

[Estie]

Whats the status on poison duration ? Ever since ccw has been made scarce, I feel compelled to wait out poison and it has been bugging me to no end.
I havent seen anyone else complaining, so maybe its just me (or maybe noone was playing 3.5 ?), but as it is I feel its borderline unplayable. If I play at all, I do the "wait 10000 turns downstairs till shops refresh" like in old *id* days to get enough !ccw for poison curing. Playing kobold also helps, but I like to change it up occasionally.

[Timo Pietilä]

Whats the status on poison duration ? Ever since ccw has been made scarce, I feel compelled to wait out poison and it has been bugging me to no end.
I havent seen anyone else complaining, so maybe its just me (or maybe noone was playing 3.5 ?), but as it is I feel its borderline unplayable. If I play at all, I do the "wait 10000 turns downstairs till shops refresh" like in old *id* days to get enough !ccw for poison curing. Playing kobold also helps, but I like to change it up occasionally.

Elven waybread also cures poison. I hope that has been made more common, it is my favorite food source for warriors.

[takkaria]

Congrats on hitting feature freeze. Do we have a list of new features anywhere?

Yup! Here: https://github.com/angband/angband/b...er/changes.txt

I think this is one of the longest changelists we've ever had. In particular feedback on the following would be helpful:

* Replace rings of rFire & rCold with one ring, rFire&Cold
* Move =Flames/Ice/Lightning/Acid higher in the dungeon
* Radically improve Slow Digestion (you nearly never need to eat with it).
* Tweak mushrooms:
- fast recovery heals some HP, clear mind heals 10SP.
- substantially increase duration of telepathy from ,SecondSight and rConf from ,ClearMind.
- Terror now gives you +10 speed

[MattB]

* Replace rings of rFire & rCold with one ring, rFire&Cold
* Move =Flames/Ice/Lightning/Acid higher in the dungeon
* Radically improve Slow Digestion (you nearly never need to eat with it).
* Tweak mushrooms:
- fast recovery heals some HP, clear mind heals 10SP.
- substantially increase duration of telepathy from ,SecondSight and rConf from ,ClearMind.
- Terror now gives you +10 speed

All sound good to me!
Thanks Takkaria.

[Derakon]

Whats the status on poison duration ? Ever since ccw has been made scarce, I feel compelled to wait out poison and it has been bugging me to no end.
I havent seen anyone else complaining, so maybe its just me (or maybe noone was playing 3.5 ?), but as it is I feel its borderline unplayable. If I play at all, I do the "wait 10000 turns downstairs till shops refresh" like in old *id* days to get enough !ccw for poison curing. Playing kobold also helps, but I like to change it up occasionally.

In addition to waybread, Cure Serious Wounds also removes poison. But are you getting badly poisoned frequently? Most melee poison only lasts for a few turns...

[Timo Pietilä]

In addition to waybread, Cure Serious Wounds also removes poison.

It does? It doesn't in 3.4.1, so that has to be new on 3.5.

[EDIT] I don't find that in changes so I need to test that.
[EDIT EDIT] No, it doesn't cure poison.

[Nomad]

When was torchlight changed so that radius 1 light no longer illuminates diagonals? I don't see that on the change list.

[Ed_47569]

Congratulations, and thanks to all those who have given up their time to get this release out.

For what it's worth, 3.5 is probably the best (fun and well balanced) version I have played.

[takkaria]

When was torchlight changed so that radius 1 light no longer illuminates diagonals? I don't see that on the change list.

Ah, yes, I just reverted that change, thanks. It's an unexpected side effect of a change to how distance is calculated.

[Nomad]

Ah, yes, I just reverted that change, thanks. It's an unexpected side effect of a change to how distance is calculated.

Ooh, thanks. I was hoping that was unintentional.

[Timo Pietilä]

Ah, yes, I just reverted that change, thanks. It's an unexpected side effect of a change to how distance is calculated.

does that affect radius one ball spells too? (assuming there are radius one spells, can't think any just now).

[Derakon]

It does? It doesn't in 3.4.1, so that has to be new on 3.5.

[EDIT] I don't find that in changes so I need to test that.
[EDIT EDIT] No, it doesn't cure poison.

Bah, my mistake. Sorry for the confusion. CSW does clear up confusion/blindness, and I always think of those as more serious than poison, ergo it ought to cure poison too...oh well.