Ultimate ADOM Early Access 'Corruption & Hunger Update' has been released!

• 70 corruptions (minor, major, ultimate) now are part of the game and will alter both your gaming experience and your character forever. Grow wings or prehensile tails, wrestle enemies with your tentacles, sweat maggots, summon chaos imps, breath lighting or acid… ChAoS hath no boundaries! Note that nearly all monsters can receive most of these corruptions, too. So the more corrupted the overall dungeon gets, the more likely you are to encounter weird new (and more powerful) monsters that have been altered by corruptions and try to utilize them to their advantage!
• But beware - too much corruption comes at a prize only those of strong personality can suffer! The higher your charisma, the more corruptions you can sustain… before turning you into an unfortunate blob of raw ChAoS!

Input handling:

• Gamepad support is now disabled by default because it could create some weird inputs when other devices like joysticks were plugged in. If you wish to play with a controller, you have to enable gamepad support first.

Performance:

• Dying now is much faster (for both yourself and the monsters you slay, if they carry a large amount of items).
• Map and monster generation is now less memory intensive and should be much faster.
• Spawning monsters no longer should have a serious impact on performance.

Important changes:

• The key to activate camera rotation was changed from “alt/ctrl” to the “shift” keys. We decided to change these to prevent conflicts with key combinations used by the operating system (e.g. alt+tab on Windows). Please let us know if you want to be able to remap these keys!
• Summoning has been balanced and although it now is less realistic (for a given value of realism) it hopefully is more fun to fight summoners.
• Spawning has been reduced in the big room and Lake Gloom.

Bug fixes:

• A few remaining grafting bugs have been fixed. Grafted bodyparts now should work under all circumstances and in all combinations.
• Multiple monster attacks now work. Beware of things that bite and claw!
• Pouring potions on the floor once again works.
• The tutorial no longer starts with the Mad Minstrel introduction. His madness will now only affect the foolish brave, starting with him as a patron.
• Items now are immune to various effects such as poisoning and bleeding.
• Starting with points invested in the blunt weapon skill tree no longer provides excessive equipment.
• Artifacts will no longer be generated more than once for each type.
• Oil spilled from burning braziers now continues to burn properly again.
• Inferno and poison cloud spells no longer crash the system when getting into contact.
• Artifacts are now true artifacts - indestructible and loaded with other goodies. Of course, enemies will make use of them too.
• In some cases, average damage, damage ranges and hit probabilities were incorrectly calculated in tooltips. This has been fixed.
• You can no longer sneak attack with spells.
• Fixed various missing monster stat definitions.
• Bracers that did not work will no longer be generated.
• Potions of gain attributes now work (and are slightly stronger).
• Tooltip caching problems have been fixed. This means all stat tooltips should update immediately.
• Hive monsters no longer will accidentally enter tunnel entrances. Neither will summoned monsters.
• A rare bug leading into a crash, when entering the worm tunnels, has been fixed.
• Randomly generated artifacts will now actually apply the indicated stat bonuses.
• And many more smaller, most likely less noticeable bugs, too many and too small to list them all, have been tackled and fixed.