New Dominions 3: The Awakening Patch Now Available

[Annette]

News Release For Immediate Release


Megapatch 3.10 Awaiting Your Download!


Hampstead, NC, 09 October 2007

The game that keeps on giving, Dominions 3: The Awakening, gives some
more! A new patch bringing the retail game up to version 3.10 is
available for immediate download. Featuring hordes of new content,
along with the standard slaying of bugs, there's something to excite
everyone! It's like Christmas in October! So grab a mug of hot cider,
gather round the warm glow of your monitor, and go forth and slay
tonight!

The following are highlights of the version 3.10 patch.

Brand spanking new content with that lemony fresh scent:

** New nations! EA Fomoria and LA Phythium. Deformed seafaring giants
and a serpent cult!

** New heroes! Agartha, Sauromatia, Eriu, Jomon, Lanka, and Marverni
all receive fresh meat.

** Iron Pigs (Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at
black masses - oh, sorry, that's War Pigs) gives Marverni Iron Boars.

** New events, new icons, and new horrors!

** Independent undead apes! Grrroowwwlll, need more
baaaanannnaaaasss...

Illwinter kills bugs dead. Such as:

** Mac could crash when shift selecting units. Fixed.

** Numerous mod commands that did not work fixed.

** Horticulturist no longer harvests his crops with
firebrand.

** Leadership fixes for magic units and undead units.

** Seer King enabled.

And the rest of the story:

** 1920x1200 screen resolution now supported.

** Rain moddable.

** Golem cult statues got darkvision.

** Several units have cost changes.

** Animal and vegetable names.

There are many, many more changes to be found in version 3.10. To
view the complete list of changes and download the patch, please
visit:

www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/6.htm (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/6.htm)

While we're confident that you're already aware of the almighty
greatness that is Dominions 3: The Awakening, just in case you're
not here's the scoop. Dominions 3: The Awakening is a turn-based
fantasy strategy game that will consume you body and soul, but in
a good way. Featuring more content than possibly allowed by law,
there is always a new strategy to try, a new tactic to unleash.
Designed from the ground up for multiplayer, Dominions 3: The
Awakening supports huge games of twenty plus players, but is also
fully playable solo. And since it's available for Windows, Mac,
and Linux, unless you're still using a TRS-80, there is absolutely
no excuse not to join the cult of Dominions!

If you don't believe what a strange press release tells you, then
check out what others have said about the game by visiting
www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/4.htm (http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/4.htm) . From the now defunct
Computer Games Magazine to The Bovine Conspiracy to Yahoo to
Gamespot and everyone in between, everyone hails Dominions 3: The
Awakening as the living classic it truly is.

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[Meglobob]

Big thanks for the new patch! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[QXel]

Yeeeepeeee !!!

Thanks you very much, all of you at Shrapnel & Illwinter, and everybody in this forum community !

I'll try it this evening (it's 2.00 pm for me and I'm at work ;o)

[coobe]

so when does 3.11 come out http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Dedas]

Great lizards! Thank you! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Horst F. JENS]

Thank you, Illwinter! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[okiN]

It's nice, but Serpent Cult hydras need work. Check the bug thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Sombre]

LA Pythium and MA Tienchi look like a lot of fun and I'm really loving the new icons.

Nice one!

[Dedas]

Me too, gotta love the new shapeshift icon.

[llamabeast]

Wow, just reread the list of changes - this looks amazing. Can't wait... unfortunately probably won't get a chance to try it till the weekend, aargh!

[Dedas]

The new swedish unit names are awesome. For example I just recruited a Troglodyte lord named Hjälmgunnar. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Unthawer]

Meglobob said:
Big thanks for the new patch! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif



Yes.

[Tichy]

Hi --

Anyone else having trouble patching on a Mac? I put the patch folder and the dom3 app on the desktop, run patch.command and get

"Patching Dominions 3, please wait...
cp: Info.plist: No such file or directory
cp: PkgInfo: No such file or directory"

If I open up the Dom 3 package, those files are there.
Thanks

[Tichy]

Ok, the Mac terminal screen says it fails to patch, but it actually patches. As far as I can tell all the content is there, but the title screen reads 3.09.

[Zylithan]

yay! undead monkees

[OmikronWarrior]

Quick, somebody remind how patching can affect MP games. If I patch and the server doesn't, is that a problem?

[thejeff]

Yes. The server must patch first.

If you have an older version I believe the server will inform you and tell you to upgrade.

It's easy to make a copy of the current version before upgrading and switch between the two as needed.

[OmikronWarrior]

thejeff said:
Yes. The server must patch first.

If you have an older version I believe the server will inform you and tell you to upgrade.

It's easy to make a copy of the current version before upgrading and switch between the two as needed.



How would that work? Just make a copy the dominions3 folder anywhere, patch the original, and then just use the copy to play online until the servers get patched?

[thejeff]

Pretty much. I've only done it on linux, so I don't know if there are any gotchas on Windows, but I don't remember hearing of any.

[lch]

Since there are no newly patched files, you can just install the 3.08 patch before playing on 3.08 servers and otherwise install the 3.10 patch if you want to play the 3.10 version, too. That means that you can downgrade from 3.10 to 3.08, yes.

[WraithLord]

Thank you very much IW. It is indeed a measure of your love to the game that you keep supporting it like this. We are grateful for that.

Such dedicated support is, in my experience, extremely rare in the gaming industry.

[Edelstein]

As a mac user, I really appreciate it. Getting halfway through an LA Ermor turn and crashing was... infuriating.

[mac5732]

I see this is 3.10, was there a 3.9?? if so I missed that one and if there was do i need it or just go straight to 3.10? also a friend of mine just picked up the game and he wants to patch up.. is 3.10 the only patch he needs to be up to date, or does he have to load all of them?

Tks for the help

[Sombre]

You only need 3.10

In fact there was no 3.09 released to the public.

[tka]

Thank you!

[lch]

mac5732 said:
I see this is 3.10, was there a 3.9??


It is common practice in development to have some parity numbers (here: odd) for internal releases only, and the other (here: even) for release to the public, after those internal releases have undergone testing. So these versions are pretty much the same, they're just tagged differently.

[Gandalf Parker]

3.09 was released to the beta testers and the result of that created 3.10 before you got a patch.

[Velusion]

Gandalf Parker said:
3.09 was released to the beta testers and the result of that created 3.10 before you got a patch.



Unless you are on a mac apparently...

[Lingchih]

Velusion said:

Gandalf Parker said:
3.09 was released to the beta testers and the result of that created 3.10 before you got a patch.



Unless you are on a mac apparently...



Which I am now (since my PC flipped out). I haven't heard definitively if this is just a version naming error of if we Mac users actually have 3.09.

[Fate]

Thanks for the patch! Definitely the most exciting event of my month. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Fate]

*update*-has anyone tried the new hydras yet? They definitely have made my coolest units list (and great graphics now, too).

[poopalt]

I think I'm patching incorrectly because my game is messed up. How would one patch under linux?

[Dedas]

1. Extract and overwrite everything from the patch to the dom3 game directory (the one with the executable).
2. Make the binary executable with chmod +x dom3.
3. Play the game.
4. Eat and drink something or you will surely die.
5. Repeat 3.

[poopalt]

Thats what I did, but the game was still messing up. I reinstall dominions and tried it again and the game was still really buggy. It has problems connecting to multi player, problems generating turns, and it just crashes for no reason.

The patch just made the game 5 times buggier, and now I have to downgrade it and be left out of multi player games until they fix the bugs in the patch.

[Sombre]

Is it possible that you somehow accidentally entered a cd-key other than the one from your manual? That could cause a lot of problems once you patched.

[poopalt]

No, because I reinstalled it 2 times, and if I mistyped a cd key it wouldn't let me play.

[Edi]

What kind of error message does it give you?

[Aezeal]

I get a red screen when I try to connect to velusions server.... the SP game I'm in has no problems as far asI can see now..

I do want to continue playing in evermoore though..

[Aezeal]

ok I'm just to novice to know how I'm supposed to play online.. it seems everything works now..
I'll see next turn cus my former sub did this one already

[WraithLord]

I'm not sure this the right place to post about it yet I don't want this to escape notice. There seems to be some serious issues with playing modded nations. They were encountered in modded nations MP game, see here (http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=557013&page=0&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=7&fpart=1&vc=1#Post557013)

[Sombre]

This issue has been around for a while, it's just been compounded by the new patch which leaves even less room for mod nations.

[TwoBits]

I saw a comment above about downgrading to 3.08. Seems I patched to 3.10 too soon, and now I'm out of step in a game with friends. How do I dial back to 3.08, at least for one more turn?

Thanks for any help!

[Endoperez]

For one turn, you could probably just keep on playing. Most versions only differ in battles. When you view a battle hosted in a different version, what you see can differ radically from what happened. However, the battle report will always show the actual losses/deaths, and unless you try using anything added in the patch (recruiting patch-added creatures like the new Hydras, or the new Mictlan/Tien Chi units/commanders), there shouldn't be any major problems.

[lch]

Endoperez, no that is not possible. A client will crash with "game version number too low" if he detects a higher version on a server, a server will crash if he detects the same from a client (when receiving a turn). It is not possible to mix versions in a game.

TwoBits, if you're not on windows, just overwrite your files with those from the 3.08 patch. If you're on windows, use this executable (http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/showflat.php?Number=557238#Post557238) to do your turn.

[TwoBits]

Hey Ich,

The executable didn't work for me, but the trick you mentioned (fiddling the URL to get the old 3.08 patch) worked just fine.

Thanks!

[Wikd Thots]

Sombre said:
This issue has been around for a while, it's just been compounded by the new patch which leaves even less room for mod nations.


I already mentioned that and gandal said something about using other ages.

I can't find it now. It was something about a late age nation mod might use a early age nation slot. Does that work or is it just another brain fart of his?

[Endoperez]

Wikd Thots said:

Sombre said:
This issue has been around for a while, it's just been compounded by the new patch which leaves even less room for mod nations.


I already mentioned that and gandal said something about using other ages.

I can't find it now. It was something about a late age nation mod might use a early age nation slot. Does that work or is it just another brain fart of his?



I've also suggested it, but not to circumvent these restrictions.

You can REPLACE (i.e. selectmonster instead of newmonster, or selectnation instead of newnation) a unit or nation, its description etc. You can replace its sprite, but only by adding a new sprite, so this won't help if you want to get more sprites to the game. But you can get more nation slots, and more description "slots", this way.

[T3hDudeAbides]

After installing the new 3.10 "mega-patch" using a Linux installation I now get a segmentation fault when trying to run dom3_x86. No further information is given using the console, just segfault, then core dumped, and that's it. This isn't the first time I've had problems with a Linux patch, after applying the 3.08 Linux patch the game GUI would simply disappear at random intervals, but this time it is, like, really bad.

I have no idea if the problem would persist if I used a Windows installation instead, as I do not currently own a Windows system, but I do think this is Linux specific. Simply downloading the .zip again and overwriting the executable seems to be of no use at all, so I am at a loss.

Does anybody have any suggestions what I should do? There basically isn't anything I as a user can do against a segfault, so maybe it's in the settings, somewhere? I don't have a particularly exotic setup, a plain Debian box on a recent kernel with XFCE4 for the window manager and manually compiled NVidia drivers, nothing that should make a difference.

[Edi]

Contact Shrapnel tech support. You did enter the CD-key from your ring-binder manual correctly?

[SmokeJaguar]

Outstanding! Thank you! I really appreciate the fact that you are going to extra mile in supporting this game - it was one of the factors in my buying it (after playing the demo). With so many companies making expansions instead of working on the root products, this is a huge breath of fresh air.

Thanks again.

[T3hDudeAbides]

You did enter the CD-key from your ring-binder manual correctly?


I did apparently, since the very same key worked quite well before. Because the key file doesn't really contain anything other than the key I simply copied it back into the game folder; I didn't think about trying to manually re-enter my serial. But, after deleting the old key file and doing just that, the segfault problem is gone. I have no idea why, given that the key file looks exactly the same now as it did before this really shouldn't even have helped at all, but it did, so thanks anyway. You might want to put that into the readme, maybe.

Now here's to hope the GUI problems are gone as well, made it pretty impossible for me to use multiplayer in 3.08.

Edit: No, they're not :-(

[llamabeast]

T3hDudeAbides, your problems are typical of those experienced by users with banned CD keys - as in, those obtained with pirated versions of the game.

[Makinus]

I´m having a strange bug after 3.10: i star new games normally, and thy work normal, but every time i try to use a mod (any mod) the game can´t process the turn...

The turn processing shows a loooooon time (five times normal turn processing times) "AI Thinking" and them crash to the desktop withou any kind of message...

If i don´t use mods the turn processes normally, and if i use mods in a installation without the patch it also processes normally....

What is happening?

Thanks

[Edi]

Try uninstalling and reinstalling the game from scratch. If that does not work, contact Shrapnel tech support. Do you have a manual?

[Makinus]

I tried reinstalling from scratch and it didn´t work... then i noticed that even after unistalling the game the dominions directory was not being deleted in the uninstall process... deleted it manually and reinstalled from scratch and it works now...

Must have been some kind of corrupted file left behind after unistall...

[AMF]

Ummm....the patch release notes say that 1920 X 1200 resolution is supported, but it's not letting me choose that option. The max it allows me is 1620 * 1200...anybody have ideas why this might be the case? Anybody successfully playing with 1900 * 1200 res?

I've got a dual core vision 1.8 GHz, with 2 gigs RAM and an nVidia GE Force 7600 GT adapter...

Help?

thanks,

AMF

[Edi]

Does the graphics card support 1920x1200? Does your monitor? If the monitor doesn't, then you won't be able to use it.

[AMF]

Yes. Sorry I should have mentioned that.

Still no joy on my end...


Edi said:
Does the graphics card support 1920x1200? Does your monitor? If the monitor doesn't, then you won't be able to use it.

[Edi]

I don't know what the problem is. Hardware incompatibilities and glitches are a pain in the arse to sort out. I suppose you could email Illwinter about it, it's info at illwinter.com.

[AMF]

Bummer.

Ok, I'll email them.

thanks!

AMF

EDIT/UPDATE: I emailed Illwinter, and they got back to me *real* quick. They stated:

There was a bug in selecting that new resolution in dom3. As a work around before we fix it in the next patch, use the following switch when starting dom3:
--res 1920 1200

I did, and it works fine now.

woo hoo! yay Illwinter!


Edi said:
I don't know what the problem is. Hardware incompatibilities and glitches are a pain in the arse to sort out. I suppose you could email Illwinter about it, it's info at illwinter.com.

[PrinzMegaherz]

I'm having problems with Dom 3 on my Macbook after upgrading from 1.0 to 1.10b. The game freezes after pressing the end turn button. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Too bad I don't have my game disc with me to reinstall the game...