Darkstone v1.0.3 Patch (European version)

Darkstone v1.0.3 Patch (European version)

This patch will upgrade Darkstone to v1.0.3. With this patch, characters and single player save games are compatible with the previous versions.

What's new about this patch ?

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The difficulty level has been increased:

-The monsters open the doors.

-Some of them have new spells (Reflection...)

-Their resistance and their speed movements have been increased.

-Monsters regenerated in dungeons and outsides areas (in solo games).

There is a new difficulty level,"Hero", also playable on the network: (view location)

-More difficult.

-New weapons.

Some new character functions have been added:

-Change of memory spells of the 2nd character with the shortcut key.[Shift]+1-8

-Call for help [D] and your 2nd character attacks your closest attacker.

-The automatic spells for the second character are more intelligent.

-Characters can now be exported from saved game files from the export option in the game menu. (see below)

-Stone and confusion weapons effect now 10 seconds long instead of 2s.

-2nd character berserk spell casted only if he attacks a monster.

-New delay between spell casting. Each characters have their own speed of spellcasting,

which grows with the level of spell.

The network has been improved:

-The chat box supports up to 80 characters.

-Chat messages are now visible by the sender.

-The server is able to end the session of another player using "K" followed by the player number.

-In cooperative mode, your character can't be attacked by another player.

-Moving the mouse on a multiplayer character will display his experience level.

-Disconnection(s) problems in tcp/ip fixed.

-This patch will permit you to play with all the different territories worldwide.

-Less teleportation of monsters in multiplayers sessions.

-Compressed data send at the beginning of a multiplayer session.

This patch also fixes:

-The weapon durability problem.

-Network character ageing prematurely.

-Irma ' s identification bug.

-Monsters 's berserk bug.

-Magic bomb and poison cloud can only be casted on visible monsters.

-Camera allocated keys can be modified in keyboard.txt.

The Export function: (view location)

This feature will allow you to extract character information from a saved game.

Load the saved game with the characters you want to extract, then return to the main menu and click 'Export'.

Note: This will erase all other characters that were listed prior to using the Export function.

New command lines:

-nointro : launch the game without intro sequences.

(also added ; when you click during intro sequences it now zaps to the beginning menu.)

-reversecam : reverse rotation camera keys.