Hello there Under-Snots!
The updating evil has released another patch for Dungeons 3. Here is what specific presents you can expect from it:
- Windows: Removed dependency on vcredist2015, to fix startup issues caused by skipped or broken installations
- Scene and Skirmish loading speed improved. This also fixes level load and random map generation not finishing at all on slow graphics devices.
- Fixed problems with room floors: black areas, lag when changing rooms with floor cutouts, memory leak
- Performance improvements, particularly in late-game
- Players with incompatible GPUs now receive a notification during game launch
- Balancing: 'Mana Shield' cooldown increased to 20 seconds
- Multiplayer balancing: 'Meteor Shower' and 'Frost Bomb' now have reduced stun duration
- Fixed the 'Positive Payday' bonus to actually give you money as intended, instead of taking twice as much
- Fixed: The Naga did not always prefer to heal your creatures when a group of units including Nagas was directed to attack something
- Fixed: The Outside world was sometimes rendered incorrectly during the first few frames
- Fixed: Traps and doors were sometimes not being rebuilt after loading a game
- Fixed: Certain spells could incorrectly be recast during cooldown
- Fixed: Creatures were not resurrected after dropping them into the Crypt, and Snots then putting them on the Defi-Bri-Mat
- Fixed two music tracks playing at the same time
- Fixed various minor sound/music glitches
- Fixed: Marking tiles did not work when ending the drag on the UI
- Fixed: Minor tweak to load game menu, to better visualize the different modes
- Fixed: The mage's chain lighting spell visualization sometimes caused an incorrect line to be drawn on the screen for one frame
- Fixed: On aspect ratios other than 16:9, the main menu image fade was slightly corrupted.
- Fixed having two mutually throne room themes enabled at the same time by default (for players who pre-ordered Dungeons 3)
- Fixed: Texture of hooks in the Crypt was defective
- Fixed: Texture of a Ship was slightly defective
- Multiplayer: 'Field of Honor': Heroes spawned in underground portal for players 2 and 3 now behave correctly
- "The Shadow of Absolute Evil": Fixed movement of Shadow sometimes getting interrupted after loading a game
- "The Prince of Hell": Fixed mouseover text for map specific UI buttons
- "The End of Yaina Overproud": Fixed typo in English localization
- "The End of Yaina Overproud": Fixed mini map icons for portals
- "The Hungry, Hungry Ogre": Player can no longer erroneously pass through a fence
- "The End of Yaina Overproud": Prevent Yaina from teleporting to unreachable positions
- Show thought bubbles when pressing 'Alt' key
- Vortex chamber now adjusts regeneration speed based on room efficiency
- Balancing: Mother Worm now has slightly increased attack range
- Balancing: Skirmish bosses are now tougher (except in difficulty 'easy')
- Balancing: Increased Gobbler spawn rate by 25%
- Simplified Chinese: Show subtitles for in-scene dialog
- Spanish/Italian: localization fixes
- Multiplayer: Do not show enemy Demon Portals through fog of war
- Linux: Fix edge scrolling at top of screen
- "The Battle of Steelsmith": fixed 'The One-Huge-Army-Building Evil' achievement/trophy not getting triggered in some circumstances
- "Everything Has An End…": Moved waypoint so heroes won't attack city_gate
- "Everything Has An End…": No longer kill some heroes with exploding barrels in the intro, preventing the achievement/trophy 'The Benevolent Evil' from being awarded
- The boulder from the 'Rolling Stone' trap is no longer affected by doors in construction
- Research menu: if there is no capacity for more scrolls, the count now turns red
- Fixed creature animations in the 'Temple'
- Fixed 'Exploding Treasure Chest' sometimes being invisible after loading a game
- Spiders, Dragons, and Worms now despawn more rapidly after they are killed
- Automatic Drum no longer triggers on defeated heroes
- Changes to Guard Room Drum buff: duration increased, affected creatures visualized, and snots are no longer affected
- Mouse cursor on guard room drum now visualizes that it can be interacted wih=th
- Fixed some UI overlays shown during cinematics
- Fixed some minor keyboard input inconsistencies
- Don't show empty mission goal tooltip
- Reduce tooltip transparency to make them more legible on noisy backgrounds
- When finishing the last tutorial, the campaign button in the victory screen openes the main campaign now
- Fixed various word wrapping and text clipping issues
- Picking up several units via hotkey no longer picks dead units
- Fixed room tooltip in Crypta and Temple
- Fixed timezone of savegame dates
- Co-op: fixed pickup of resources in certain cases
- "Dungeon Basics" tutorial: Minor improvement to tutorial highlighting
- "The Ashspring Swamplands": Fixed zombie lifebar positions
- Fix 'Subtitles' setting to not require restarting the game
- Pause Dialog audio when in-game menu is openened
- Random map generation: Minor improvements with road connections, corssings, stairs
- Fixed AI pathfinding separation
- Fix snots not carrying mana balls to the arcanium even though there is capacity