FAangband 0.3.4, as source or compiled for Windows, OSX or WinCE is
now available at http://angband.oook.cz/faangband/.
Many thanks to all the people who have given feedback, in particular
(as usual) Si Griffin.
Major changes (more detail below):
- New dragons - winged dragons (replacement for wyrms) are faster and
breathe nastier stuff than they used to.
- Morgoth has lost speed and gained spellcasting power, especially
summoning.
- Implemented Sangband-style terrain flags.
- *ID* no longer exists.
- Added NPP-style accented characters.
- Added Hugo Kornelis' 'h'andle command.
- Included a "small device" birth option which reduces all view,
missile and
spell projection distances by half. This is intended for playing on
very
small WinCE devices and (soon, I hope) the Nintendo DS.
- Made amnesia only lose map knowledge, not object knowledge.
There will probably be a while until the next version, as I am going
(gulp) to attempt to write a port to the DS. Believe this or not as
appropriate.
Nick.
Features
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- Reworked dragons. There are now four levels of dragons - worms
(roughly as
strong as young dragons used to be), drakes (mature dragons),
dragons
(ancient dragons) and winged dragons (great wyrms). Only winged
dragons can
fly, and they are faster and breathe nastier stuff than the lower
level ones.
There is a new breath element, dragonfire, which is half fire and
half poison;
also, storm and ice can now be breathed. Winged dragons are only
found in
Angband.
- Morgoth has lost speed and gained spellcasting power, especially
summoning.
- Implemented Sangband-style terrain flags - although there is still
more
functionality to be added. Each feature now has a description in
the
'~' knowledge screens. Other visible changes include traps in
trees, and
two types of tree.
- *ID* no longer exists - ordinary ID fully identifies everything. A
future
release will rework pseudo-ID.
- Thralls now get waybread instead of regular food.
- Made 'I'nspecting an object print at the top of the regular screen,
not load
a special screen.
- Added NPP-style accented characters for the Macintosh, Windows, SDL
and x11
ports (but not WinCE or gtk). No accents in random names yet.
- Added Hugo Kornelis' 'h'andle command - 'h' can be used to aim a
wand, quaff
a potion, etc etc.
- Made stairs and wilderness paths not take any energy
- Added average barehand damage for druids/martial artists to 'C'
screen
- Included a "small device" birth option which reduces all view,
missile and
spell projection distances by half. This is intended for playing on
very
small WinCE devices and (soon, I hope) the Nintendo DS.
- Added lots more wilderness vaults and imported some new dungeon
vaults from
vanilla. Changed wilderness vault frequencies so that vaults
specific to a
particular type of wilderness are more common relative to generic
ones.
- Made amnesia only lose map knowledge, not object knowledge.
Bugfixes and cleanup
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- made ARC_ spells work.
- fixed bug that was giving set items the wrong percentage resistance
- randarts and egos no longer get immunities when they shouldn't; the
maximum
percentage non-immunity resist for a single item is now 80%.
(Arralen, Si
Griffin)
- fixed (yet again...) bug where HP/SP were being lost on saving and
reloading.
(Si Griffin)
- did fix from NPP to make tunnelling/immaterial monsters disturb the
player
in a more reasonable way. (Si Griffin)
- stopped space from selecting the first menu item - instead it
toggles the menu
(as it should have all along). (Eddie Grove, Remuz)
- made some improvements to macros, although keymap triggers still
don't play
very nicely with inscriptions.
- birth options are no longer labelled as cheat options in character
dumps (Si
Griffin)
- game no longer becomes bizarre when a half-caster attempts to browse
one of
the unused books of the correct realm (Si Griffin)
- may have got rid of some excessive beeping (darkDrone)
- fixed x11 default fonts (Bandobras)
- fixed amusing bug where thrall mode had multiple players (me, Si
Griffin,
Seany Clayton, HallucinationMushroom)
- removed redundant roff and c_roff printing functions
- dragon scale mail can no longer give vulnerability (Si Griffin)
- "Underworld Town" and related silliness should no longer appear in
the
character notes
- replaced hard-coded limits, so that all limits appear in limits.txt
(with an
exception for loading artifacts that will need attention at some
point).
- pseudo-IDed items now stack consistently
- patched a couple of memory leaks
- fixed incorrect (fro FA) vault encoding in some vaults previously
taken from
vanilla - now less food to be found in vaults :)
- fixed bug with pathfinding through trees and rubble only getting the
player
half as far as expected. (Si Griffin)
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