[ann] T-Engine4 / ToME4 beta30 aka "Matrix Style" unleashed!

DarkGod darkgod at te4.invalid
Sat Jul 16 16:38:18 PDT 2011


As promised here comes T-Engine4 and ToME4 beta30 ! See http://te4.org/

Don't forget to help ToME by with donations( http://te4.org/donate ) !
 
Release highlights:
    Mostly bugfixes
    CPUs without SSE2 support should work again
    Split Difficulty setting into Difficulty & Permadeath setting
    Improved start of Cursed & Doomed

Expanded changelist:
    Displace no longer works in vaults.
    Feed no longer feeds on yourself when frozen.
    Alchemist gems no longer become cursed.
    Only *body* armor gets the Grim Craft bonus
    Removed healing factor curses (which didn't work anyway)
    Fixed the worldmap
    Birth screen will not have "player" has the default name (unless 
using cheat mode)
    Worldmap rivers will not make you drown, and thus should also save 
poor alchemist & mage
    Added an option to the graphics mode selection to use a custom tileset 
by entering a folder name and a few parameters
    New game option to change the log/chat log fade time
    Setting log/chat fade time to 0 makes it never fade out
    Fixed duplicate achievements granting
    Achievements are correctly displayed in the ingame list
    Cursed start with a point in Weapon Combat, making thzeir first few 
levels much nicer
    New achievement for finishing the Abashed Expanse without taking a 
single void blast or manaworm hit
    Doomed start with a point in Call Shadows
    Split difficulty settings into Difficulty (Easy, Normal, Insane) and 
Permadeath (Adventure, Roguelike)
    Improved melee summons damage
    Archmages which do not start in Angolwen do not get the Teleport: 
Angolwen spell
    When inside an exploratory farportal zone you can use the rod of 
recall to force an emergency recall, doing so however has very high 
change of permanently breaking the exploratory farportal
    Laying multiple traps onto one an other will not destroy the last one 
prematurely
    Bathe in the Light now deals damage to undeads
    Shortened the Blighted Ruins to 4 levels
    Skeleton and Ghoul player races do not have underwear when naked
    Changed the "Blood" bar on the left panel for Cursed and gave it a 
correct tooltip
    Fixed rush range
    Fixed the tempest peak quest from Zigur side
    Left pane correctly shows max hate increases
    If the CPU can not support optimized LuaJIT, the JIT will auto-
disable and let the game run normally
    Fixed Air Bubbles
    Blinding Ink gfx effect changed
    Blindness/invisibility/stealth now correctly updates the display
    Can not dig or teleport outside in the arena unlock zone
    Improved the visibility of the Heart of the Gloom and Norgos Lair on 
the worldmap
    Fixed some egos that granted an incorrect mastery
    Slightly increased auth wait time to let laggy connections have a 
chance to auth
    Rain fo Death vault is now correctyl flagged as no teleport
    Ben Cruthdar in the temporal rift now has a tile
    Doomed Shadows now enter the party and will follow between levels
    Runic/Infusion saturation do not prevent entering the worldmap anymore

Have fun!


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