FAangband 0.3.0

[Psi]

I'll be interested to hear your opinions on gameplay changes, too.

I'm still getting used to a new keyboard... first char died this morning trying to take the stairs he was standing on but ended up running towards a sabre-toothed tiger... I guess I hit '.' followed by an up arrow or something.

[Nick]

Wish I'd checked here earlier Having got my first Vista laptop just before Christmas I'd been googling trying to find out why FAA crashed on exiting. Glad its not my new kit that has the problem. Any closer to discovering why, Nick?

'Fraid not. I spent some time trying to track it down around the time I released this version, but "maybe a font thing" was about as close as I got. Other variants have had issues with freeing fonts in Windows before; also, I imported a lot of low level code from vanilla at a time when it was changing fairly rapidly, so some subtleties probably got overlooked.

I'll probably do another code update before releasing 0.3.1 (if I understand properly V3.1.0 should be out soon, and so I'll try and sync with that), and with luck the problem will go away then. It doesn't seem to have any bad effect apart from bringing up a dialog, and if you're running Vista you'll be used to that

I'll be interested to hear your opinions on gameplay changes, too.

[Psi]

There is a known issue where the windows port registers a crash on closing the game - I haven't been able to work out why, but the only obvious effect is to pop up an error window. The game still saves fine. I suspect it's a font issue of some sort, and I'm inclined to blame Vista...

Wish I'd checked here earlier Having got my first Vista laptop just before Christmas I'd been googling trying to find out why FAA crashed on exiting. Glad its not my new kit that has the problem. Any closer to discovering why, Nick?

[Arralen]

The good news is you can sell it back to the shop

Whhoooo .. FAangband is the first rougelike where you get a refund !!


If that only where true as well for staves, wands and artefacts which are not activating in critical situations, or scrolls that burn up all to easy, or potions which shatter without any real cause (their bottle must have been defective ) ...

[Nick]

Minor bug: It seems you can fire arrows normally even when confused. Very handy, but it feels a bit like cheating .

This appears in some other variants too - confusion doesn't kick in when you already have a target.

[AnonymousHero]

Minor bug: It seems you can fire arrows normally even when confused. Very handy, but it feels a bit like cheating .

[Nick]

One quick bug report I haven't seen posted allready (latest 0.3.0 windows-precompiled on XP) : I just equipped a ring of resist cold and my cold resistance dropped to -36 % (from 0). I got it at the magic store for a 50% discount; an amulet of resist acid I bought at the same time (with the same discount) seems to work fine.

Yes, that probably counts as a bug. These items can have either positive or negative resistance, but shops don't distinguish - so it pays to look before you buy. The good news is you can sell it back to the shop

[Satyr]

One quick bug report I haven't seen posted allready (latest 0.3.0 windows-precompiled on XP) : I just equipped a ring of resist cold and my cold resistance dropped to -36 % (from 0). I got it at the magic store for a 50% discount; an amulet of resist acid I bought at the same time (with the same discount) seems to work fine.

[zaimoni]

This looks like you don't have the right library (the curses library?). I would try using adept to find it; someone else may be able to be more specific.

ncurses and PDCurses are the most obvious curses implementations. On a *NIX, I'd try ncurses first.

[Nick]

Errors like this:
/home/thorgot/Games/FAangband030/src/main-gcu.c:435: undefined reference to `wrefresh'
/home/thorgot/Games/FAangband030/src/main-gcu.c:438: undefined reference to `endwin'
main-gcu.o: In function `hook_quit':
/home/thorgot/Games/FAangband030/src/main-gcu.c:794: undefined reference to `endwin'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This looks like you don't have the right library (the curses library?). I would try using adept to find it; someone else may be able to be more specific.

[thorgot]

It gives me a bunch of errors in the install, and doesn't make a faangband executable anywhere.

Errors like this:
/home/thorgot/Games/FAangband030/src/main-gcu.c:435: undefined reference to `wrefresh'
/home/thorgot/Games/FAangband030/src/main-gcu.c:438: undefined reference to `endwin'
main-gcu.o: In function `hook_quit':
/home/thorgot/Games/FAangband030/src/main-gcu.c:794: undefined reference to `endwin'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [faangband] Error 1
make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
make: *** [build] Error 2

[Nick]

How would I go about compiling the .30 source for Ubuntu? I'm going to be without windows for a month, and I'd love to try this out..

In the top level directory, do ./configure, then make, then make install. You may get errors in the install, but they shouldn't affect anything. Do check that you actually have the executable (faangband) in the top level directory, though, and if you don't then copy it there from the src directory.

[Nick]

I stupidly ended up equipping a spear I found on the ground instead of putting it in my quiver. It was cursed, and I lost access to my Whip of the Balrog.

Later in the same level I tried throwing 'v' the spear from my inventory. Away it flew, and I was able to reequip my badass whip. As I understand it, shouldn't I have had to read a ?Remove_Curse? Character is a rogue with no access to RCurse.

Yep, that's a bug. You should be able to do that from the quiver, but not from wielding.

[thorgot]

How would I go about compiling the .30 source for Ubuntu? I'm going to be without windows for a month, and I'd love to try this out..

[Slonk]

Don't know if this is a bug or not

I stupidly ended up equipping a spear I found on the ground instead of putting it in my quiver. It was cursed, and I lost access to my Whip of the Balrog.

Later in the same level I tried throwing 'v' the spear from my inventory. Away it flew, and I was able to reequip my badass whip. As I understand it, shouldn't I have had to read a ?Remove_Curse? Character is a rogue with no access to RCurse.