[announce] Sangband 1.0.1 released

[camlost]

Sangband 1.0.1

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Sangband 1.0.1 for Windows
Sangband 1.0.1 source

Major changes since 1.0.0

• Savefile INCOMPATIBLE!
• No longer able to raise skills once you reach power 100.
• Magic oaths are harder to come by, martial oaths easier.
• Improved support for shadowstalker characters.
  - Able to pick locks, use devices, and disarm in the dark with infravision. Able to read certain scrolls in the dark.
  - Ability to cast priestly and necromatic spells in the dark with less or more power, respectively.
  - Infravision now maps the dungeon, and allows you to see objects on the floor.
  - Burglary now gives a 'darkness' talent.
• Martials arts revamped; they get criticals, have more than two blows, and can benefit from brands and deadliness. They provide a variety of bonuses depending on skills.
• Add history to character dumps.
• Improve display of weapon blows, hit rate, damage, and resistances on character screen.
• Adjust polearm and hafted damage to compare better with swords.
• Dropped books will show a preference for the player's spellcasting type.
• Game will now by default generate extra cash, but prevent selling objects (birth option).
• Monsters target player in rubble properly.
• Dwarves are smart, instead of wise.

[ekolis]

Woot! I might just give up on Jackband now that this variant is alive once again :P

[ekolis]

Hmm, if I load a savefile and create a new character with the same name, I get an out of memory error

[camlost]

Hmm, if I load a savefile and create a new character with the same name, I get an out of memory error

Are you using a savefile from a previous version? I'm unable to replicate this bug.

[ekolis]

No, I created a savefile in 1.0.1, and when my character died, I loaded it up and created a new character...

[camlost]

No, I created a savefile in 1.0.1, and when my character died, I loaded it up and created a new character...

Maybe there's something corrupt in the savefile. Have you tried a different savefile or deleting that one? With those directions, I'm unable to reproduce the issue.

[NotMorgoth]

How many of these changes were already in the previous unofficial beta, and how many are new in 1.01?

Also, making dwarves smart instead of wise may fit better from a Tolkien/flavour point of view but it does leave a major hole in the selection of good races for priest characters; there are already a lot of races with + int but I think that leaves only Elves with + wis out of the 'normal' races (and Dunedain from the 'easy' races.)

Anyway, I'll give it a try once I've finished my current game.

Edit: oh, and Hobbits too.

[Magnate]

Oh wow. I was just coming back to V after a month's fixation with EU:Rome (awesome game, in case anyone was looking for a strategy recommendation) ... but I can feel a dark elf burglar-necro coming on instead ...

Congrats on getting a new version out, and thanks for the effort. I'll let you know if I have trouble compiling it on Linux ...

[ekolis]

OK, I'll try creating a new savefile... would you be interested in my savefile, in case you can glean anything from it?

[ekolis]

Also, why is it that item a (some food rations) never appears in the item list term window?

edit: I also notice my character runs past closed doors, which is annoying, and also that sometimes the game just freezes for a few seconds randomly! Music doesn't work either

[ekolis]

I created a new savefile and after my character died, I got the same crash when starting a new one... I did choose yes to the "overwrite savefile" prompt after naming my character... was I not supposed to do that? :P

[camlost]

How many of these changes were already in the previous unofficial beta, and how many are new in 1.01?

Also, making dwarves smart instead of wise may fit better from a Tolkien/flavour point of view but it does leave a major hole in the selection of good races for priest characters; there are already a lot of races with + int but I think that leaves only Elves with + wis out of the 'normal' races (and Dunedain from the 'easy' races.)

Anyway, I'll give it a try once I've finished my current game.

Edit: oh, and Hobbits too.

Elves also switched their int and wis, but +1 <-> +2 isn't big enough to hit the major list.

Many of the changes have already been released (some of the infravision changes, the martial arts changes)

OK, I'll try creating a new savefile... would you be interested in my savefile, in case you can glean anything from it?

Send it on, but unless it rears its head elsewhere, I probably won't look at it.

Also, why is it that item a (some food rations) never appears in the item list term window?

Which food items?

edit: I also notice my character runs past closed doors, which is annoying, and also that sometimes the game just freezes for a few seconds randomly! Music doesn't work either

I didn't compile the SDL version, so that might explain music. Running past closed doors is expected behavior when the ignore_doors option is set, which it is by default. Does changing this option fix it?

[camlost]

I created a new savefile and after my character died, I got the same crash when starting a new one... I did choose yes to the "overwrite savefile" prompt after naming my character... was I not supposed to do that? :P

That shouldn't matter. Send the safefile on my email address (redacted).

[ekolis]

OK, sent you both my savefiles...

As for the missing items in the term window, it actually seems to be whatever item is item "a" in the inventory - once I bought a spellbook, the food rations appeared as item "b", but the spellbook was not listed!

I'll try the ignore_doors option - I thought there might be some option like that, but I couldn't find it right away... I'll check again!

[getter77]

Yay for more variant release development!