[Announce] Oposband 0.1.0

[grodrigues]

A few bugs

Using Oposband 0.1.1 in arch linux via wine (to save me compiling). Loading savefiles does not work, the app exits to the terminal.

There is also some misterious errors in parsing graf-xxx that disappear once I turn off some options like equippy chars. Also, with Adam's bolt tiles, my char is the unenspiring @ instead of the little char as in Frog.

I also get lots of errors in the terminal (I start the game from it), apparently harmless, of the form:

0009:fixme:msvcrt:MSVCRT__stdio_common_vfprintf options 24 not handled
0009:fixme:msvcrt:__stdio_common_vsprintf options 25 not handled

[Gwarl]

if you just update Makefile.src to the correct list of .o files (corresponding to the .c files needed) that should probably make it build, if that doesn't solve it I'll help troubleshoot and save you trying to set up a linux build environment.

[EpicMan]

if you just update Makefile.src to the correct list of .o files (corresponding to the .c files needed) that should probably make it build, if that doesn't solve it I'll help troubleshoot and save you trying to set up a linux build environment.

Thanks for all the help, Gwarl!

I have corrected Makefile.src and related files and gotten it to compile on a Red Hat server.

https://github.com/EpicMan/Oposband/commit/10b208c36d3e2cee3df1c2fc0c1495f43a97da09

[EpicMan]

Using Oposband 0.1.1 in arch linux via wine (to save me compiling). Loading savefiles does not work, the app exits to the terminal.

There is also some misterious errors in parsing graf-xxx that disappear once I turn off some options like equippy chars. Also, with Adam's bolt tiles, my char is the unenspiring @ instead of the little char as in Frog.

I also get lots of errors in the terminal (I start the game from it), apparently harmless, of the form:

0009:fixme:msvcrt:MSVCRT__stdio_common_vfprintf options 24 not handled
0009:fixme:msvcrt:__stdio_common_vsprintf options 25 not handled

Grodrigues,
Failure to load saves happens on Windows as well, whether you open on command line or in-game. I will investigate and get a fix up ASAP. EDIT: Load.c is expected the last version part to be a string and not a number, not sure why it didn't fail before. Should be easy to fix.

I don't think I have changed the graphics code any, so I'm not sure why Oposband would behave any differently than Frog. Were you playing as a monster race or a regular race/class combo?

[grodrigues]

I don't think I have changed the graphics code any, so I'm not sure why Oposband would behave any differently than Frog. Were you playing as a monster race or a regular race/class combo?

Normal character: high-elf sorcerer. FWIW, never had any such problems in Frog, with monster classes or otherwise. Played beholder and angel with no problems.

[EpicMan]

Version 0.1.2 has fixed makefiles and corrects a dumb savefile error. Link in OP is updated.

Oposband was forked from FrogComposband which uses a word as its third version number (i.e. 7.1.Chocolate). When I converted the versioning to all numbers (0.1.0) I missed a pair of messages about saving and loading a version "%d.%d.%s" savefile in the code. This apparently works ok if the number 0 is translated to a string, but crashes the game if the last number is nonzero.

[Nick]

Hint for hosting on github: if you tag the commit where you introduce a new version, github will call that a release, and you can add the precompiled zip there instead of having to have a subdirectory for them.

[EpicMan]

Hint for hosting on github: if you tag the commit where you introduce a new version, github will call that a release, and you can add the precompiled zip there instead of having to have a subdirectory for them.

Thanks. I will do that for the next version update.

[grodrigues]

Just in case it helps, here is the error about graf-xxx that I just got (using new 0.1.2):

The Tax collector dies. You just completed your quest! Error 1 in line
4549 of file 'C:\games\oposband\lib\pref\graf-xxx.prf'. Parsing       
'K:70:18:0x86/0x82'-more-

[emulord]

Can I suggest to nerf the Munchkin personality? It doesn't even feel like playing the same type of character at all, rather than a way to get the feel of them quickly.

Start with 10K gold, so you cant just buy out the black market.
+2 each stat, so like unlucky but good at skills
75% exp mod, so you don't level up over and over from casting spells for the first time.

[EpicMan]

Normal character: high-elf sorcerer. FWIW, never had any such problems in Frog, with monster classes or otherwise. Played beholder and angel with no problems.

Some items were commented out in the k_info files to stop them from spawning in but that broke the tiles pref files. I have uploaded fixed versions of graf-xxx.pref and graf-new.pref, but you can fix your local copy by finding and commenting out (or removing) these lines:
graf-xxx.pref:
4550 K:70:18:0x86/0x82
5039 K:106:0:0x03/0x3F
5042 K:106:1:0x03/0x3F
5045 K:106:2:0x07/0x3F
5048 K:106:2:0x07/0x3F

graf-new.pref
1026. K:70:18:0x83/0x9D
1899. K:106:0:0x03/0x3F
1902. K:106:1:0x03/0x3F
1905. K:106:1:0x03/0x3F
1908. K:106:3:0x07/0x3F

[EpicMan]

Can I suggest to nerf the Munchkin personality? It doesn't even feel like playing the same type of character at all, rather than a way to get the feel of them quickly.

Start with 10K gold, so you cant just buy out the black market.
+2 each stat, so like unlucky but good at skills
75% exp mod, so you don't level up over and over from casting spells for the first time.

I think munchkin is meant to be sort of a joke personality, though it certainly acts as an easy mode for trying stuff out. It was pretty heavily nerfed in an earlier version of Poschengband (I think?), back in the Hengband days it gave +10(!) to all stats.

I don't mind reducing the XP bonus though. And in this variant you don't get XP for casting new spells, so that helps offset it a bit.

[Gwarl]

It compiles now, but trying to run it gives a 'Fatal Error'...

I'll investigate further after the server move is finished.

[Aszazin]

This is an okay variant in dire need of a hotfix.

Note that this is a beta release and there are probably many balance issues.

Holy fock ster... give things a chance to grow up...

[TauzentBlitz]

Quickstarting a chaos character will give you a random patron, same as the latest version of Composband, which isn't a good thing with how varied they are.

Though, changing that will break savefiles according to Gwarl, so it might be something you want to do soon-ish...?