Dungeons 2 Patch 1.6.1 Change Log

Dungeons 2 Patch 1.6.1 Change Log

Controller controls completely revised and improved, in particular:

• Button assignment completely revised

• Context-sensitive display of button assignments

• Selection radius in RTS mode now increases over time, no longer manually

• New screen center marker in RTS mode: Prettier, no longer disappears in objects, gives feedback on the targeted object similar to the mouse cursor

• Start a New Game menus controls greatly improved (skirmish, campaign and multiplayer)

• Revised menu screens and modal dialogs for controller controls

• When last unit dies in a neutral dungeon, you can still use the D-pad to change region

• Magic bar with hotkeys is no longer displayed in gamepad mode

• Unit list GUI now usable with controller

• Build-Queues now supported

• Deadzone logic improved

• Tools (Crate-o-Mats, etc.) can now be scrolled through

• Tutorial messages and controller controls tip of the day adjusted

• Steam controllers supported natively (Steam)

Performance optimization, in particular:

• Dungeon rendering greatly accelerated under DirectX 11

• Improved performance when displaying damage values

• Pre-placed outside world units are only activated shortly before player contact

• A variety of little delays corrected (for example, when large areas are marked for excavation, new songs are loaded, when scrolling at start of a level, etc.)

• Evilization optimized

• Optimized rendering of simple outside world objects and dungeon decorative objects

• Other tasks optimized for multicore systems (e.g., animations)

• Optimized dungeon unit path calculation in the rough planning phase

• Overall unit path calculation optimized

• Corrected performance hit occurring with many un-stored resources

• Logic physics system optimized

• Various other small optimizations

Stability improvements:

• Greatly reduced memory consumption under DirectX 11

• Leak in Sound Effects corrected

• Reduced overall music and sound effect memory use

• Some assets were not unloaded properly after use

• Object pools release previously unused objects

• Reduced GUI texture memory use

Multiplayer:

• Team Domination: now works properly

• In 3/4-player games, the game is now always won/lost as soon as the first player has been defeated

• Removed distinction between LAN/Internet game

• Disconnections are now better communicated to players

• The initial camera position is now correct for all players when loading a multiplayer game

• A changed player color is now displayed correctly when loading a multiplayer game

Balancing:

• Barthas Snow will be revived after 3 minutes maximum (previously 6 minutes)

• The ghoul skill "Braiiins!" now has a cooldown and costs energy

• Research duration for some spells increased, for others decreased

Level design:

• "King Robert must die!“: Cannon tower weakened by 50%

• Adjusted"The Battle of King’s Ending"Regeneration for the Ultimate Evil increased significantly

• Battle map: spawners better coordinated

• Corrected spawners in several maps, especially the Paladin mob in "The Poshlands"

• Some creatures in individual maps mistakenly failed to attack players

• Various script corrections

• Fixed several minor bugs and imperfections

Miscellaneous:

• Japanese localization added (Steam, retail, Gog, Mac App Store)

• More light sources are now placed on the dungeon walls

• GUI: Barthas now visible in the dungeon minimap

• Snowball trap no longer rolls immovable objects such as doors and brewery boilers away

• AdjustedGUIText spacing increased for better readability

• Loading of large savegames accelerated

• Units hidden in excavated areas can no longer be targeted with spells

• Fixed several problems with Ragdolls

• Level loading now less tricky

• Repaired various visual glitches