FAangband 1.4

[Arralen]

Version 1.4.3 is now available
...

• Stop artifact ID leaking in 'C' screen

Dunno if this is working as intended - loaded the 1.4.2 (once 1.4.1) savegame and prf file and got the following C report ... Cammithrim still shows up, but all kills are gone?!

  [FAangband 1.4.2 Character Dump]
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                                  CHAR.
|   TURN  |      LOCATION        |LEVEL| EVENT
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        11  Ered Luin South Town    1    Gained the Soul Siphon specialty.
     24164    Eriador South   2     5    Reached level 5
     88714          Eriador Town    8    Moved house to Eriador.
    109513          Eriador   6    10    Reached level 10
    130536          Eriador   9    11    Killed The Thief of the Mountains
    141511          Eriador Town   12    Killed The Complainer
    152852         Belegost Town   12    Moved house to Belegost.
    200656        Ered Luin  10    15    Reached level 15
    247436        Ossiriand   8    15    Killed Pongo the Devious
    267789           Andram   7    15    Killed The Ickiness
    279774           Andram   9    16    Destroyed , the Skeleton
    279794           Andram   9    16    Found The Lamp of Gwindor
    295041   West Beleriand  14    17    Killed Ulfast, son of Ulfang
    359190       Amon Rûdh  19    19     Killed Boldor, King of the Yeeks
    361188       Amon Rûdh  19    20     Reached level 20
    417370       Amon Rûdh  23    22     Killed Brodda, the Easterling
    418242       Amon Rûdh  23    22     Found The Set of Leather Gloves
   continued...                          'Cammithrim'
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    436719       Amon Rûdh  24    22     Still alive
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  [FAangband 1.4.2 Character Dump]
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                                  CHAR.
|   TURN  |      LOCATION        |LEVEL| EVENT
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    279794           Andram   9    16    Found The Lamp of Gwindor
    418242       Amon Rûdh  23    22     Found The Set of Leather Gloves
                                         'Cammithrim'
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    436719       Amon Rûdh  24    22     Still alive
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[Nick]

What was the *gate* to Nowhere Town, anyways?

This time, it was a fairly boring failure of the quickstart option - not nearly as much fun as using teleport level from the bottom of a dungeon, or going upstairs from a patch of grass...

[HugoVirtuoso]

What was the *gate* to Nowhere Town, anyways?

[Nick]

FAangband 1.4.3

Version 1.4.3 is now available at the downloads page, the variants tab and in all good bookstores.

Just bugfixes this time:

• Fix some more mode menu issues
• Fix explosion visual radius
• Disable text screen dumps
• Stop artifact ID leaking in 'C' screen
• Fix some text encoding
• Make autoinscriptions apply on item ID
• Shut the (a?) gate to Nowhere Town

There will likely not be any new releases for some time; in particular, FA will be caught up in the Vanilla restructure. Do make bug reports, though, as I will continue with fixes and do another release if there are any showstoppers.

Thanks for playing, everyone

[Nick]

All known bugs now fixed (aside from the issue of left and right arrows being weird on the mode screen, which is proving complicated).

Also except for the Nowhere Town bug I just found

[Nick]

All known bugs now fixed (aside from the issue of left and right arrows being weird on the mode screen, which is proving complicated).

Rumour has it that there may be an FA competition soon, and I would like to have a version out with the artifact ID leakage fixed. So my plan is to release 1.4.3 some time in the next few days - please keep the bug reports coming so I can try and get fixes into it.

[Nick]

I found an unidentified scroll and picked it up. Read it and it turned out to be WoR. I have outoinscribed WoR with !*. But the game wouldn't apply it to the scroll. Finally, when I dropped it and picked it and picked it up again, it was inscribed correctly.

OK - I have fixed some issues with autoinscription, apparently not that one.

"a Ring of Mobility <+1>
Found lying on the ground in Amon RRdh level 18.
1 intelligence."

Again, some instances of this fixed - will follow up. When this appears in dumps, btw, it can be because of how your browser is treating the page.

Thanks for the reports.

[Mondkalb]

Ah, I've seen that in the dumps, I thought it was a problem with a font or such. Apparently, characters with an accent are not displayed correctly, at least in the dump.

[Arralen]

... and more "complaining":

"a Ring of Mobility <+1>
Found lying on the ground in Amon RRdh level 18.
1 intelligence."

[Mondkalb]

Now the complaining starts again :

I found an unidentified scroll and picked it up. Read it and it turned out to be WoR. I have outoinscribed WoR with !*. But the game wouldn't apply it to the scroll. Finally, when I dropped it and picked it up again, it was inscribed correctly.

[Nick]

All right, I have now excised text screen dumps completely from the development version - I think it's now safe to assume that players have access to software that displays html files.

The artifact info leakage I will have to track down. Also thanks LT for that info - I have implemented a fix, but it sounds like yours is better.

[Mondkalb]

I also had scrashes because of text dumps, right after dying.

[Arralen]

Now things are getting ugly:

I found that the game showed 2-sqaures radius for r.o.l. when and only when I used it this situation:

  # #
  #*#
  #*####
  #@**
###/####
  **#
#####

So I tried to do a screenshot .. and looked for the dump option. Confusing variants, I thought I might have seen it on the "C"haracter screen ... only to find out that the "good" leather gloves I just picked up from the floor (Dlvl23) where in fact ... Cammithrim!

They showed up as found in the log without being properly identified!

Even worse, I remembered the cmdlist.txt and found ")" for doing a dump. Chose "t"ext dump and had a nice crash on -more- prompt ... and an empty dump file, and no more Cammithrim ...

[LostTemplar]

Nicely observed. It turns out the animation effect in FA always covers one less than the actual ball radius

I fixed this in my version, just add one more delay to project function between end of drawing and start of erasing. It actually covers all area, but it starts erasing immediately after it finishes drawing.

[Nick]

the squelch setting behave strangly somehow:
1) I'm pretty sure I never squelched normal arrows, as I'm still carrying 50 of them, which suddenly showed up as {squelch}, but didnt get dropped.
2) ID'ed a dubious ring, which got squelched - yet no quality or ego squelch showed up in the settings. After toggling them back and forth I was able to pick it up from the floor again.

Yeah, I'm not sure how well squelch settings translate - I think the standard thing is not to save them in a pref file, because typically you don't want the same ones at the beginning of your new game as the end of your old one."

3) Beorning Huntslady looks like some olive-skinned alien with a staff. (Shockbolt's tiles)

And not just the Beornings - all Huntsladies look like that, and it looks so bad in the Shockbolt tiles because wherever there sin't an obvious tile I have just used the Gervais one, which typically doesn't match all that well.

Note that all the "player race" monsters have the same tile, because their existence is a bit hacky and I have never worked out a good way to get them individual tiles, let alone actually having that sort of range of tiles or putting in the effort to allocate them all across the 14 player races and five different tilesets.

Long story short - you're going to have to live with it

4) Rod of Illumination only shows light animation of 3x3 squares, but illuminates more. Once (wasn't able to figure out exactly when) the effect seemingly went out to squares on the 2nd ring.

Nicely observed. It turns out the animation effect in FA always covers one less than the actual ball radius, unlike in Vanilla where it does the whole radius. I don't know if this was originally a deliberate optimisation, but I would certainly now call it a bug. Now fixed in development.

5) Clvl 22 on Dlvl 23 ... Bow of Accuracy, some rings and amulets as drop and in shops, but best armour was +3 whatever. No ego etc. Makes it hard to get resistances, but poision and blindness attacks start to show up.

Keep trying

6) A dubious ring "makes you vulnerable to frost" .. yet the resist is termed "cold".

Also lightning and electricity are the same. Isn't language wonderful?

7) Squelch menue tells you to navigate using the arrow keys, and to toggle options with "enter". Why doesnt the game-settings-formely-known-as-birth-options page does the same?

OK, now it does.

Keep complaining and there will have to be another release...