Bugfix release for 3.2?

[Timo Pietilä]

Any idea when there will be bugfix release for 3.2?

Especially that annoying GV "8"-grid bug that causes them to be colossal waste of time should be fixed.

Other fixes I can think of are:

Item descriptions that don't fit into screen saying "up/down escape for exit" doesn't actually allow up or down, only space which does take you to down.

Screen flicker with flicker on whenever there is flickering monster in overhead screen.

Game being slow when you use overhead view.

There might be others, but at least that GV bug should be fixed.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

Any idea when there will be bugfix release for 3.2?

Especially that annoying GV "8"-grid bug that causes them to be colossal waste of time should be fixed.

Other fixes I can think of are:

Item descriptions that don't fit into screen saying "up/down escape for exit" doesn't actually allow up or down, only space which does take you to down.

Screen flicker with flicker on whenever there is flickering monster in overhead screen.

Game being slow when you use overhead view.

There might be others, but at least that GV bug should be fixed.

I think takk does intend there to be a 3.2.1 bugfix release - the only problem is that most of those bugs aren't fixed yet! In fact I'm not sure if any of them are ...

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by Magnate

I think takk does intend there to be a 3.2.1 bugfix release - the only problem is that most of those bugs aren't fixed yet! In fact I'm not sure if any of them are ...

Is there an actual 3.2 nightly edition, or is nobody working on fixing bugs in 3.2 and everybody busy tweaking with 3.3?

[takkaria]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

Is there an actual 3.2 nightly edition, or is nobody working on fixing bugs in 3.2 and everybody busy tweaking with 3.3?

We only have one main branch, which is that for the next release. At some point I'll go through bugfixes and apply them to 3.2 where possible and we'll have a 3.2.1. No promise as to when, though, but hopefully soon.

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by takkaria

We only have one main branch, which is that for the next release. At some point I'll go through bugfixes and apply them to 3.2 where possible and we'll have a 3.2.1. No promise as to when, though, but hopefully soon.

I'm not very concerned about other bugs (haven't seen many), but that "8" tile bug in greater vaults should be fixed ASAP. Last CGV was so huge disappointment that in next vault which contained Kavlax I didn't care if my char survives or not, I took a chance with mentality of "who cares what happens". He died, of course.

I mean killing monster several dlvls OoD which you wouldn't usually even try to tackle with inside no less than legendary CGV, and get "quarterstaff (1d9) (+2,+4)".

[bulian]

Sorry, this probably shows my ignorance of how the game functions, but couldn't you just change the specific squares in the vault.txt file yourself?

[Derakon]

The problem is that the definition of what the square is has been changed in the code, not that the vault templates in vault.txt have changed. Fixing this requires a (trivial) code change and recompilation.

[d_m]

I just spoke with Takkaria about this. The plan is to wait a little longer for bugfixes to trickle in (and play testing to happen) and then port them to a 3.2.1 release.

I think the reason this hasn't been done already is that it would be annoying to release 3.2.1 and then have to turn around and do 3.2.2 also, so it's worth waiting a week or two on.

The nightlies have this fixed, and Derakon is right that it's a trivial change--I can provide a patch to anyone who wants it.

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by d_m

I just spoke with Takkaria about this. The plan is to wait a little longer for bugfixes to trickle in (and play testing to happen) and then port them to a 3.2.1 release.

I think the reason this hasn't been done already is that it would be annoying to release 3.2.1 and then have to turn around and do 3.2.2 also, so it's worth waiting a week or two on.

The nightlies have this fixed, and Derakon is right that it's a trivial change--I can provide a patch to anyone who wants it.

Patch that applies against .exe? Otherwise it wouldn't do much good for majority of players. If they know how to compile then it only requires knowledge about where that one "false" is that needs to be changed to "true" and they can do it themselves.

[camlost]

There are a lot of numbers between 3.2 and 3.3.

Just sayin'