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| Dominions 3: The Awakening Patches Again Illwinter Game Design could be sitting on top of a mountain of kronors in their gold plated castle while being waited on hand and foot by a harem of dancing girls, basking in the glow of their success with Dominions 3: The Awakening, but they're not. Instead they are constantly prodding and poking at the code, tweaking it here and there, all in an effort to make one of the greatest strategy games even better. Yes, lesser developers may throw a game out to the public and move on, but not Illwinter Game Design. These guys have given gamers more gameplay in their patches than most games provide in their expansion packs. And they've done it again. Shrapnel Games and Illwinter Game Design announce that version 3.17 of Dominions 3: The Awakening is now available for immediate download. What treasures might one find in it? Let us look... New and cool stuff including: - Three new nations. Hinnom, giants of primordial times. Ashdod, descendents of the Nephililim. Gath, humans led by the last of the giants. - New spell: Manifest vitriol. Summon the green lion of alchemy. Warning, if the green lion remains erect for more than four hours please contact-oh wait, that's Manifest Viagra, which isn't in this patch. - Shattered Souls: Tartarians are insane and might act randomly (and probably won't be doing any random acts of kindness). - Some new longdead graphics. - New modcommands: #specialllok, #hero6. - New events. Bug and gameplay balance changes: - Twiceborn no longer makes demons immortal. - Hidden in Sand and Hidden in Snow spell descriptions fixex. - Shamblers cost reduction. - Some unit stat fixes. - Voice of Apsu/Tiamat restricted to own provinces. - Astral/fire shield was overvalued by AI and sometimes overruled scripted spells. - Recruitment queues were not cleared when castle was conquered. - Seduction order could be copied to ordinary commanders. - A non-flying seducer could flee with their victim to an underwater province where they both drowned. Don't ya hate when that happens? The 3.17 patch is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux and can be downloaded here. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Game News :: home page |