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... Desura approved this news post, but didn't approve the patch that it is announcing yet. So, it will be up as soon as they get to it :/ Hopefully not too many days after this is posted.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it :) There is a longer post about polish and enhancements I think one page back... But, we're open to suggestions on how to improve the game :)

*Update: 1.02 and 1.63 should now be available! :)

Uploaded 1.02 and 1.63 last night to help address a few issues (full list in the forums). Hopefully it will be approved for download soon :D

Thank you for sending the log. I believe it is a video card specific issue, and I'll be uploading a patch shortly that should (hopefully!) address it.

The game should be compatible with that O/S. There's a couple of things I can think to check. if you go to the install director for the game, there should be a console.log file that it generates each time it start. You can e-mail that to me to review at support@iawgame.com . If it doesn't exist, then something is likely preventing the game from getting off the ground at all. Either some sort of anti-virus software or other software protection program that is mistakenly blocking it from running.

Though, you should also be able to try running the game from the executable there... so, you could try running it as admin, or in compatibility mode to see if that helps. It does work on my Win 7 system, and I imagine a lot of the other people playing it may be on that, too.

The last question I can think of at the moment is, are you using some unusual video card or monitor settings? The game uses openGl, which should be compatible with a pretty wide selection of video cards... but, it is always possible there's some sort of conflict.

Which install are you using? The standalone MSI installer or the Desura build? Have you tried right clicking on the game in the Desura listing and selecting Verify Files? Do you get any sort of error message when trying to start it?

Greetings!

Thank you for the kind comments! I'm really glad that you enjoy the game :)

Our current plan for the game following release is to try to do relatively small patches in order to fix any outstanding issues (or make small improvements). Once we've got all of the kinks ironed out, then we're going to switch to a slower patch schedule with more focus on bigger improvements. So, in the short term, we're probably not going to do a lot of improvements to the main art.

Getting into a bit of a longer answer... Art has always been a bit of a sticky subject. Personally, I'm pretty bad at doing much with it. When this project was starting, Olly came on board as a volunteer to do the music and the sound... Jjust for the sake of making a game. A ton of game ideas never get off the ground, but he liked the sound of this one and signed up to be part of the team. At the time, we couldn't find any artists that wanted to join a project just for the love of making games. So, since I was serious about getting this game made, I ended up comissioning someone to do all of the art pieces. He did the job (with a good bit of reworking and prodding), then was done with the project. However, he didn't do the backgrounds in a way to be handled as separate images for foreground and background pieces.

Olly, after finishing the sound, took up the other artistic duties - and is responsible for almost all of the game menu design. (You might be able to see my original blue menus of doom on the first video I posted at the official game site.) He only finished redoing the last of them in the week leading up to release... and maybe after a little rest he'll feel inspired to continue to do additional art assets ;) I think he's pretty good at it :)

A bit of a long winded answer, but I hope that it answers your question! Thank you again for the nice comment, and enjoy the game! :)

* I double checked the numbers in the agro tables and (on the current build at least) removing a tank from a mob does stop him from generating new threat. Switching a Warrior to a DPS role does also stop him from generating threat on all mobs he was formerly targetting.

It's not an initial bonus to the primary tank, only a bonus when a tank is switched in. It should help make switching a little more effective - at least in theory.

1.01 and 1.62 are finally approved (hopefully people already got the updated builds patched in on here :)

I took a quick spin through the logic, and it looks like they should stop taunting removed targets, but I'll double check the actual numbers tonight.

In 1.0, for tanks with equivalent threat modifiers, if one does 5X the DPS then it should take 5X the rounds for the other tank to pull agro. In 1.01 this time should be reduced significantly as switching now gives the new tank more of an initial bonus to threat.

Though, by 20+ rounds agro should have switched. As I said, I'll verify that the targets are actually being removed . Always possible I broke something somewhere when we retouched the screen before release :o

I'll try to address these in the order brought up...

1. "Doesn't Care" may have been stating it a bit strongly, as all raiders do like loot to some degree. These ones just don't like it as much as most ;)

2. Raiders be crazy ;)

Seriously though, I tie this in a bit with number four and doing another pass on loot. Perhaps the passing over penalty for off class items is a bit too punishing.

3. Critical hits could possibly using a little tweaking on the earlier bosses in easier modes to make it a bit more balanced. I'll take a look at the numbers. At least they don't crit too often, and you probably can get them back up once :)

4. A couple of people have mentioned wanting a change like this. I'm going to add it to the list of things to review .

5. There were some small changes made in 1.01 to help improve tank swapping. Though, it is true that having a tank with high DPS that has built a lot of agro can make it hard for anyone else to pull the monster off them...

6. Thank you :) I'm glad that you enjoy it enough to take the time to write up a lot of feedback :) Olly and I appreciate it!

7. Heh, kicking people is an interesting idea. It's crazy to do it, but I kind of like it. I'll need to work on some morale implications, but I'll add it to the list of enhancements to look at adding.

Thanks again for all the feedback :)

Not yet :( Maybe I should get back to looking at adding some sort of patching system to the game itself :/

1.01 and 1.62 have been uploaded for approval! Hopefully they will be available for download in the next day or so. It also looks like someone may have also fixed the .9 download problem :)

I'm going to be uploading Demo build 1.62 and Full build 1.01 tonight to address the bugs found so far. They should be available in the next day or two, depending how long it takes Desura to make them available.

Just as an update, it looks like the stand alone install is 1.0. But, the Desura auto-patching version is .9 :/ Still haven't heard back from them on when this will be fix. But, you should be able to use the stand alone/off line install to play the game.

Pretty sure the link your trying to post is for your personal download - so, other people won't be able to use it :) There should be a way to do an off-line install that seems to be closer to the correct version. Still haven't heard anything back from Desura :/ Hoping someone there checks their e-mail before Monday.

I've heard reports people are getting version .9 instead of 1.0 when installing, which is the very buggy original build uploaded for testing quite a while ago. I've tried contacting Desura, but it's the weekend... and not sure if there's anyone actually at their office. If you are getting this version, you probably should wait until it gets patched up to 1.0 to try playing.

Thank you, I'm glad that you are looking forward to it! :)

Thank you, I really appreciate the comment and I'm glad that you like the game :D

I hope you like it, too! :D We do also welcome any feedback or ideas for improving the game after you've tried it out.

As a note, 1.58 has been approved (yay!) and is now available for download/patching. Enjoy the loot! :D

The 1.57 build had a bug introduced that broke loot assignment (fixing something else broke that, the usual tale of programming woe :o ) It is fixed in 1.58, which was uploaded to Desura yesterday... but no one has approved it yet. (see my comment below).

Just wanted to note Demo version 1.58 is up on the official site (http://www.iawgame.com). It should be up on Desura sometime "soon" once the staff here has reviewed it. 1.59 should be forthcoming by the end of the weekend with a few more fixes and menu adjustments :)

Thank you. I hope that you enjoy the game :)