Dungeon Crawl 0.8 released

David Ploog dploog at mi.fu-berlin.de
Wed Apr 27 10:01:53 PDT 2011


[From http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/faster-pussycats-kill-kill]

It’s that time of year again! The Stone Soup development team are
extremely pleased to announce the latest release of Dungeon Crawl: 0.8,
"Frantic Frenzied Felines".

Major changes:

* New god: Ashenzari.
Ashenzari is the god of curses and divination, who gifts a number of
passive and active abilities in return for wearing cursed equipment
gaining knowledge and exploring the dungeon extensively. Most significant
of these passive abilities includes magic mapping, see invisible, clarity,
and the active abilities of scrying, which allows the player to see
through walls (though not to perform smite-based attacks), and transfer
knowledge, which allows the player to improve one skill by sacrificing
experience invested in another skill.
* New race: Felids.
These sentient furry felines are incapable of using rods, armour, wands or
weapons, nor are they able to throw things, but are granted extra lives as
they gain levels. These extra lives allow the player to escape death! As
one might expect, felids are fast and come with claws and fangs, making
them excellent at unarmed combat, and have excellent eyesight — the
ability to see invisible creatures.
* The Enchantments school has been split into Charms and Hexes.
While a significant and drastic change, it has certainly been long in the
making: the Enchantments school contained a large percentage of the
game's spells, and was certainly a no-brainer in terms of experience
usage.
* Character backgrounds have been improved.
The Stalker background now focuses on transmutation for the purposes of
stabbing. Makhleb and The Shining One are no longer accessible as starting
gods: Paladins have been removed, Chaos Knights are now worshippers of
Xom, while the new class of Abyssal Knights provides access to Lugonu.
* Heavy armour has been improved.
Guaranteed damage reduction has returned! The formula has been tweaked
since the great armour nerf in version 0.7, making it more efficient.

Full changelog see (beware, it's long):
http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/blobs/stone_soup-0.8/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt

Downloads:
http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/downloads

Servers: crawl.akrasiac.org is now running up-to-date development builds
alongside the latest stable releases, as well as a number of experimental
branches (currently consisting of Lava Orcs and Octopodes, based on a
branch by Eronarn).

Unfortunately, we are still awaiting builds for Mac OS X! These will be
added to this post as soon as they’re available!

Happy hacking,
the devteam


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