Pre-release HellBand 0.8.7

[konijn_]

Hi,
this is the pre-release of Hellband 0.8.7, since its been a while I
wanted to make this one more of a 'beta'. The most important fix here is stability, there should be no more crash bugs. I've been flooding levels with monsters and items in wizard mode and hellband is now responding properly to abuse

Links :
Download : http://download.hellband.net/
Bugs: http://code.google.com/p/hellband/issues/list
OMG I want to subcribe to a zombie list : http://groups.google.com/group/hellband/topics

Changes:
*Creatures
- 0.8.7 Uniques that only drop gold drop much more gold now
- 0.8.7 Added Babylonians on level 24 to speed up level generation,
Nimrod was feeling lonely
*Story
- 0.8.7 Story added for the Heretics level
- 0.8.7 Story added for the Satan level
- 0.8.7 Story added for the first pos Dis level
*Equipment
- 0.8.7 Added the infamous white banner of hell, when carrying you
should experience 'hmm','cool!','wot?','f!!','oh','heh'
*Character Building
- 0.8.7 Mindcrafters can now be generated again, *blush*
- 0.8.7 The temple can now remove all your corruptions for 1.500.000
gold
- 0.8.7 Werewolves did not get random names
- 0.8.7 Skeletons no longer have the Second Sigh but Second Sight
now
- 0.8.7 Profile file names are now based on the safe name instead of
hard core player name
- 0.8.7 Potential crash bug found and removed for custom names
- 0.8.7 Player names can now be up to 40 characters because of the
Italian names
- 0.8.7 Italian name generator added ( male and female )
- 0.8.7 Fearless and coward mutations could not be gotten, they were
their own opposite
- 0.8.7 Removed reference to 'Draconian', it should all mention
Draco now
- 0.8.7 Minor background spelling mistakes and punctuation fixed
- 0.8.7 Random characters work now
- 0.8.7 Fixed missing space in Ogre descendant description
*UI
- 0.8.7 Ring choosing now asks left or right while showing the rings
in those locations
- 0.8.7 Dragon Armor no longer gets squelched
- 0.8.7 Squelch no longer squelches boots of speed, even if set at
'keep artefact only'
- 0.8.7 Squelch will not squelch terrible artefacts.
- 0.8.7 Native Mac support for intel macs <- broken, sorry
*Help Files
- 0.8.7 Alchemy command key is now integrated into interactive help
* Stuff
- 0.8.7 Chests are now much more interesting like in cool variants
- 0.8.7 Weapons of KILL_ANGEL now protect the player from Lucifers'
curse
*Stores
- 0.8.7 Junking terrible items like Thanos now give a choice,
before shop owners would just junk the item..
- 0.8.7 Black Markets have deeper items once you start to get over
character level 25
*Internals
- 0.8.7 Fixed evil wand stacking 'problem'
- 0.8.7 level creation time has decreased MUCH both on count of
object generation and monster generation being more stable
- 0.8.7 Object dropping, stacking and compacting robustified, lots
of arrows should no longer crash the game
- 0.8.7 store item maintenance is now centralize instead of copy
pasted in 4 locations
- 0.8.7 makefile.WHICH now has proper code
- 0.8.7 Stat adjustment tables are merged into 1 2D matrix, cleaning
up 900 lines of code
- 0.8.7 Fixed warlock realm choice

Cheers,
T.

[Tatami]

Leprechaun mindcrafter, oh yes!

[Tatami]

On vista: the application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail.

[konijn_]

On vista: the application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail.

Ouch !!!

Now I need to find a vista machine ;\
Did you happen to find that log ?

T.

[shawnosullivan]

it looks like it works fine on vista for me (although the last version i tried of hellband didn't work, if i recall)...
will try this out soon! looks very cool...

[konijn_]

it looks like it works fine on vista for me (although the last version i tried of hellband didn't work, if i recall)...
will try this out soon! looks very cool...

Yes, works fine on the Vista machine I found in a hurry.
Both machines are 32 bit, is yours as well, could that be the problem ?

T.

[konijn_]

On vista: the application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail.

Greetings once more, please try to visit http://download.hellband.net/ once more and download evil_hellband087.zip, it contains potentially missing dll's, let me know if this does the trick.

Cheers,
T.

[Tatami]

Same message. Android phones have no copy paste...

Activation context generation failed... \hellband.exe... error manifest or policy file Microsoft.VC90.CRT.MANIFEST on line 4. Component identity found in manifest does not match the identity of the component requested.

[Tatami]

Its my dying machine isn't it?

Reference is... "win32", version="9.0.21022.8 ... definition is ... "win32", version=9.0.0307229.1

[Tatami]

Yep it was this fossil machine I have to use for the next few months. I just downloaded visual c++ 2008 distribution and it worked 1st time. Thanks!

[Tatami]

My titan born under draco is only getting one blow instead of 3 with his dagger. I think this was in 0.86 as well.

[konijn_]

My titan born under draco is only getting one blow instead of 3 with his dagger. I think this was in 0.86 as well.

Hey Tatami, you are experiencing a feature called fractional blows. Basically after every blow you get to choose what to do next.

This means that if you have 3 blows with your Titan, and you are standing near an almost dead Heretic, you can slay that Heretic with one blow and use your other 2 blows for another adjacent monster. This way your 2 remaining blows don't get wasted.

Same for monsters, if they have 4 attacks, you will never experience ( unless you're really slow ) all 4 at once, but you'll be trading blows.

Just think of it as being in the matrix in slow motion

Titan descendants under Draco rock by the way

T.

[Magnate]

Hey Tatami, you are experiencing a feature called fractional blows. Basically after every blow you get to choose what to do next.

This means that if you have 3 blows with your Titan, and you are standing near an almost dead Heretic, you can slay that Heretic with one blow and use your other 2 blows for another adjacent monster. This way your 2 remaining blows don't get wasted.

Same for monsters, if they have 4 attacks, you will never experience ( unless you're really slow ) all 4 at once, but you'll be trading blows.

Just think of it as being in the matrix in slow motion

Titan descendants under Draco rock by the way

T.

Hey Konjin (why the underscore?) - I don't know how far Hellband has diverged from V, but is there any kind of patch or code segment you could attach to http://trac.rephial.org/ticket/987? It would be good to see how you've done this.

[Tatami]

Sweet!

The knowlege menu is working fully now too. It wasn't previously.

[konijn_]

Hey Konjin (why the underscore?) - I don't know how far Hellband has diverged from V, but is there any kind of patch or code segment you could attach to http://trac.rephial.org/ticket/987? It would be good to see how you've done this.

The underscore is a reference to irc, at some point someone else already took konijn

I didnt code that feature, it was Dean Anderson who did that, maybe we can ask him.

T.