Beta version of PWMAngband 1.1.12 released

[PowerWyrm]

New PWMAngband 1.1.12 beta 5 released!

Bugfix version + nerfing of Unbelievers. List of changes:

- Base targeting lines off player belief rather than truth
- Change waybread to a flat 20 heal
- Force at least two rooms in modified levels
- Randarts: hit/dam on gloves, reduce amount of cursing
- Move angband.css to the manual generation directory, generate PDF and HTML manuals in the root directory
- Improvements to pathfinding
- Use singular when displaying the activation message for a stack of rods
- Make DAMAGE effect identify
- Change Identify to Identify Rune
- Cap anti-magic and anti-summoning at 90%
- Minor changes to randarts (AC, to-hit and to-dam)
- Add antimagic field value to the description when inspecting dark swords
- Make a list of grids to pick a teleport location from
- Don't count timed effects as damage in nonhp_dam()
- Fix quiver header
- Remove (unused) monster spell power
- Update view after changing gear and allow trap discovery if searching has improved
- Give all traps a 1 in 3 chance of being destroyed when the player hits them
- Fix "It (offscreen) disappears" message when teleporting a monster away
- Don't make teleport other sound twice when teleporting a monster away
- Forbid enchantments (to-hit, to-dam, to-ac) on dark swords
- Remove old code displaying garbled entries at the beginning of the character history

Files updated: client, server and source code.
Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr

[PowerWyrm]

New PWMAngband 1.1.12 beta 6 released!

Bugfix version. List of changes:

- Fix a buffer overflow
- Fix some memory leaks
- Stopped reporting "Radius 1 light" for non-lights
- Don't report "Cannot be refueled" for unknown lamps
- Add copy of Manual.html and Manual.pdf to setup.bat
- Add missing drop flags to the Glass Golem
- Improve pathfinding for passwall/killwall monsters
- Reject curse if flag is already present (conflicting or redundant)
- Don't display misc magic flag info from curses (curse description is enough)

Files updated: client, server and source code.
Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr

[PowerWyrm]

New PWMAngband 1.1.12 beta 7 released!

Bugfix version (mostly). List of changes:

- Update view after rubble effect
- Clarify door opening and bashing logic
- Re-create missing mimicked objects on savefile load
- Make lava glow
- Allow selling cursed artifacts
- Fix Raise Dead spell
- Allow Raise Dead to raise ice skeletons from elven bones and give a chance to get skull drujs from skulls
- Remove reference to obsolete monster index in monster.txt
- LIBPNG upgraded to version 1.6.32
- FREETYPE upgraded to version 2.8.1
- PYTHON upgraded to 32-bit version 2.7.14

Files updated: client, server and source code.
Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr

[PowerWyrm]

New PWMAngband 1.1.12 beta 8 released!

Bugfix version (mostly). Adds the last changes from Vanilla before the release of 4.1.1. Changes antimagic to a modifier and feather falling to levitation. Full list of changes:

- Add struct connector for joining levels (adapted for PWMAngband)
- Enforce minimum level sizes for persistent levels (adapted for PWMAngband)
- Stop passable rubble protecting monsters from projections
- Label fully-known cursed items in stores
- Stop monster status info when blind
- Clarify curse removal menu
- Stop rubble being created on top of monsters/players
- Update view correctly after darkening a room
- Tweak modified profile unusual room parameter
- Always give the player some experience for disarming a trap
- Add number of unknown runes to rune knowledge menu
- Add list of visited dungeon/town locations to the knowledge screen
- Fix experience earned by killing Atlas, the Titan
- Allow cursed objects with positive value to be sold in shops
- Remove HOLD_LIFE from Morgul weapons and from Mormegil
- Remove slay undead from Morgul weapons
- Fix remove curse spell
- Change Feather Falling to Levitation (makes falls painless + prevents drowning)
- Add LEVITATE flag to allow (mainly flying) monsters to cross water
- Make antimagic a modifier instead of a flag, cap its value at +4 (40% field)
- Fix randart dark swords having nonzero initial to-hit and to-dam values
- Prevent adding supercharged AC to randart dark swords
- Give all randart weapons a chance to get an antimagic field
- Remove possible enchantments on ego dark swords
- Reduce chance of supercharged AC on weapons
- Add mana resistance to randart Crystal DSMs
- Allow rerolling random artifacts (Dungeon Master menu)
- Fix crash when monster tries to create traps in MvM mode
- Ensure that Raise Dead generates an undead monster consistent with the corpse used
- NOTEYE upgraded to version 8.4

Files updated: client, server and source code.
Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr

[Talharim]

How exactly do you run the game? I fetched Beta version (PWMAngband 1.1.12 beta 8), unzipped it, ran the server (mangband) and then any of the 3 clients but none works.

[PowerWyrm]

Originally Posted by Talharim

How exactly do you run the game? I fetched Beta version (PWMAngband 1.1.12 beta 8), unzipped it, ran the server (mangband) and then any of the 3 clients but none works.

Yes, normally you connect via a metaserver hosted by mangband.org, but it's currently down, so you need to connect to your server manually:

- REPORT_TO_METASERVER = false in mangband.cfg
- host=localhost in mangclient.ini (just uncomment the line)

If you want to play with turn based mode like Angband instead of real time, set TURN_BASED = true in mangband.cfg.

[PowerWyrm]

New PWMAngband 1.1.12 beta 9 released!

Some game balance following my test run described with details in the AAR section + some changes from V. And as always some bugfixes. List of changes:

- Add option to display effective speed
- Change to main-gcu.c
- Place stairs in safer places, forbid stairs in vaults, starburst rooms and rooms of chambers
- Randomise teleport distances a bit
- Prevent conflict between object flags and curses
- Fix ART_TAG stuff for plurals
- Give a chance to get dracoliches when using Raise Dead on dragon corpses
- Make controlled monsters more likely to react to new orders
- Fix typo in description of potions of life
- Fix description of objects with random effects
- Fix placement of rubble and traps in turn-based mode
- Fix oversized labyrinths generated above or below a static level
- Make Mirrored script "B"s vault centered
- Make ancient wyrms rarer
- Add ABOMINATION flag (currently used for death oozes and chaos masses)
- Add S_ABOMINATION spell (Xakaze)
- Add S_SPIRIT spell (Melkor)
- Don't allow antimagic field from monsters to disrupt other monsters' spells

Files updated: client, server and source code.
Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr

[PowerWyrm]

I've found a fix for the endless wait while querying a non-responding metaserver. Now the code calls SocketReadable() ten times, once per second, and defaults to selecting a server manually if the ten second timeout expires. Tested vs MAngband's metaserver (the timeout triggers) and TomeNET's metaserver (data is properly read from the meta).

[PowerWyrm]

Unless something gamebreaking pops out, the next beta will be the last beta. As usual, a christmas release is likely...

[PowerWyrm]

New PWMAngband 1.1.12 beta 10 released!

Last minute changes:

- Place player more safely
- Make all random breath activations have the same damage
- Allow ESP undead to detect ghost players
- Fix client hanging when the metaserver is reachable but not responding
- Make "rest until morning" properly work
- Reduce stat boosts on the Massive Iron Crown of Morgoth to +50
- Remove ABOMINATION flag from death oozes
- Tweak base depth of some postgame monsters
- Restrict nether vortices and crawling masses of primal chaos to the Nether Realm
- Add new abomination: vlodblad
- Reorder monster.txt for the last three dungeons

Files updated: client, server and source code.
Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr