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[unormal]

:/ Thanks anyway.

Try making a shortcut to xrl.exe with the -console parameter.

"xrl.exe -console"

If you're having trouble starting up in OpenGL mode it might work better for you.

[BackgroundGuy]

Um.  How exactly do I do that?  I know that right-clicking on the xrl.exe icon will give me a list that includes the "make shortcut" option, but what do I do from there?  I don't just rename the shortcut do I?

[ToonyMan]

Go into the properties and add that -console tag to the end of the file path.

[unormal]

Bug fix patch:

*Missile weapons are now able to hit monsters that appear 'inside' walls (jilted lovers, for example)
*Updated tortoise description
*Heightened Strength should correctly display the next level's statistics in the level-up dialog
*Fixed a memory leak in the pathfinder
*Fixed a memory leak in the river builder
*Fixed a mutation-related exception in deep object copies (evil twins, fugues, etc.)
*Fixed an evil-twin specific exception
*Added a batch file to launch caves of qud in console mode
1.0.4043.41148

[Tellemurius]

memory leak? how big was it?

[unormal]

memory leak? how big was it?

None of them are particularly massive, but there are still some floating around that cause the game size to grow over time. This fixes a few. I'll eventually nab them all, but it's just a pain to track them down.

Since it's .NET it's not really a 'memory leak' in the true classical sense, though it means the same thing in real effect, game sizes and memory usage that grow over time.

[BackgroundGuy]

Bug fix patch:

*Added a batch file to launch caves of qud in console mode
1.0.4043.41148

Wait so this means...?  Thank you if this means the game will run!

[Tarran]

*Fixed a mutation-related exception in deep object copies (evil twins, fugues, etc.)
*Fixed an evil-twin specific exception

Yay! Now we can actually pick that defect without worrying about the game becoming unplayable.

*Added a batch file to launch caves of qud in console mode

Really? I don't see a .bat file in the zip download.

[Tellemurius]

wait i thought there was a console mode shortcut already?

[unormal]

Whoops I messed it up, just posted a new build that should have the new .bat file in it.

[forsaken1111]

Just a thought: It would be neat if the future copies of you summoned by fugue could be observed with random mutations if you paid for random future mutations at character creation and haven't gotten to select them yet.

[freeformschooler]

unormal, the new build is great.
I do have a question, though, and it's going to sound silly considering the more or less stable, powerful state of the current crafting system. Are you ever planning to have more detailed crafting implemented? You know, in the long term. The current one is fine, but it seems like the kind of thing that might fit the game. 

[unormal]

unormal, the new build is great.
I do have a question, though, and it's going to sound silly considering the more or less stable, powerful state of the current crafting system. Are you ever planning to have more detailed crafting implemented? You know, in the long term. The current one is fine, but it seems like the kind of thing that might fit the game. 

Yeah, we'd like a much more complex crafting system, but like alot of the fantasy stuff it'll be awhile probably.

[Angle]

What kind of crafting system do you eventually want? can you describe it to us?

[unormal]

What kind of crafting system do you eventually want? can you describe it to us?

Well, we haven't run full designs on any of it, and this doesn't really include my colleague's thoughts on the matter, so take it all just as random chatter; but some assorted rambling:

1. Tinkering - We added tinkering as our first 'craft' because it's really core to the flavor of the world, as well as the first major plotline. We would like to add the ability to apply modifications to exist equipment as well, and I'd expect this in the medium term (sooner than 'actually never'), because we think it's pretty core to the value of tinkering. The overall balance and UI for tinkering is still really rough, so I wouldnt' be surprised if it changed quite a bit once or more as time goes on.

2. Smithing/Tailoring - Tinkering lets you create artifacts, but I'd like to provide crafting based on drops from butchery and ore you can dig up to create and maintain the rest of the gamut of items in the game. This would probably be recipie driven like Tinkering, with drops from plants, animals and walls to allow a different subset of items and mods than tinkering to be created. This would come after tinkering in the grand scheme of things, but I wouldn't expect it until after our '1.0' release. As it was added, we'd probably add more brutal degredation/breaking of items.

3. Medicine/Healing - Tinkering lets you create injectors of various sorts, but I'd probably want to branch the 'drugs' category off into a seperate craft, perhaps using 'autoinjector blanks' you can tinker up and filling them with stuff crafted by healing instead. It would utilize harvested drops from plants and organs from butchery. This would probably come after smithing/tailoring.

4. More general world/townbuilding - In the dim future (maybe never) I would like to add a major plot that would allow you to grow and defend a settlement in the world, with the 'win' condition for that being surviving a certain set of events, and providing for a thriving settlement. This would be a long time from now, and might just end up being a seperate game if it happens.