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

Hear ye! Hear ye! Adventurers! Today we have released update #6 (0.8.0) for thy Ultimate ADOM Early Access!

The “Corruption and Hunger” update comes with two challenging new mechanics, two new playable classes/professions — the Chaos Knight and the Troll, and a host of fixes and patches.

If that wasn’t good enough news for Adomites, the man behind the series, creator Thomas Biskup, will be live-streaming via Twitch and YouTube today at 8:00 AM PST/ 11:00 AM EST! Mark the time and follow us to get notified, when the stream goes live today: https://www.twitch.tv/assembleentertainment

Find below the full changelog and before, feel free to enjoy our full-length Corruption & Hunger Update Trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8eN0XzB2M8

New game settings:

• You can now modify the way you want to play the game! Toggling these will result in an unbalanced game experience and thus not generate a highscore entry. Also, please note that this is a highly experimental feature and will not receive the same attention as the default game, because we need to finish work on the core features first before we can fine-tune alternative game modes.

• Diagonal Movement

• Permadeath

• German and Simplified Chinese made it into the game already, with more languages coming soon! With real grammar support, getting better with every release (correct multi-lingual grammar is a real challenge when you have complex procedurally generated content).

New content:

New profession: The Chaos Knight stomps all opposition beneath an iron-clad foot! Or tentacle, as you will.

New race: The mighty trolls have arrived to shake the very mountains with their battle cries! Play your first large-sized monster. Large muscles, large appetite, small brains – all a troll can dream of. Make sure to carry around plenty of provisions with you!

Corruption consumes the dungeon!

• 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!

At some point during your dungeon delving, ChAoS will awaken - and it becomes a race against time, so don’t tarry too long in accomplishing your mission!

The food system has been implemented. You now can grow hungry and eat foot to counter that (and corpses - but beware: corpses will often have side effects). More than 70 types of food are looking forward to trying your palate!

Gaining levels now affects your attribute scores and various other stats (like combat probabilities). The specific details depend on your chosen profession. A higher-level fighter will have an easier time hitting those pesky displacer beasts now!

You now can choose various attack modes via a button to the lower left or the key “z” (US keyboard layout). Due to corruptions or other circumstances, you might want to switch between kicking, biting, spitting, clawing, using your melee weapons, etc. Any being can have an arbitrary number of such modes and they now can be