Age Of Sail II Update - V1.50 This update is a self-extracting .zip file that will extract the following files to your C drive: AOS2_V150.exe and readme150.txt (this document). To update AOS2, double click on AOS2_V150.exe. This update replaces V1.01 and includes all improvements, added features, campaigns, and tech support updates of V1.01. V1.50 includes the following improvements, added features, and tech support updates: - New icon for surrendered ship - New icon for captured ship - Game spy logo on find Internet game window - Message in chat window if one player leaves multiplayer game - Improved Ship List 'scrolling.' - Cannon's Recharge improved: Left Mouse Button - Change Next Type Right Mouse Button - Reload - Icons on ship improved. Sometimes icons crawl over player's name. - Chat window feature during battle added - Ships will change flag in campaign by side, not by nationality. - Captured ships now should carry player's side flag. - Guns Repair issue addressed - Guns can be repaired during battle. - Many AI improvements. - AI much more aggressive - "End" feature (E-key) feature improved - setup.exe in the game folder can give ability to user to select video card if more than one video card installed in computer This feature will allow users with old daughter cards like Voodoo 2 play the game. It can also switch off all intro movies. - Completely new ships path finding - Improved shot system - Ships should not fire to enemy ship if friendly ships are in front of enemy. - Multiplayer - better tasks synchronization - When surrendered ships captured flag should be changed to side that put a prize crew and icon that ship is captured displayed - All known problems with Voodoo 3 fixed - black gunrange, missing splashes, white windows - Repair task - Save & load issues fixes - Ships capturing (including surrendered ships) and ability to buy them in their future - Lot's of small fixes New Gamespy command line support: Gamespy arcade: '-host': tell the game to go straight to a staging room as the host of a game, and wait for clients to connect to it. '-join ': launch the game as a connecting client and attempt to connect to the host at the given IP address, in order to enter that staging room. '-name ""' specify name of theplayer. NOTE: name should be quoted Examples: AOS2launch.exe -host -name "John Doe" AOS2launch.exe -join 123.111.222.111 -name "Enola Gay" Also includes all these updates from V1.01: - Improved Sail Repair - Improved Multiplayer Game Speed - Improved Fires on ships - Information about ship speed updated - Crew tasks assignment updated - Ship control in multiplayer mode updated - Speed control in multiplayer mode updated - Fort damage improved - Side B fire control feature added - Turn time calculation improved - Campaign defeat briefing feature added - Status arcs on ships have new order, the same as on Helm window - Forts in gun range feature added - Gun range on ships with carronades updated - Grapple function improved - Boarding action improved - Nest of Pirates campaign 3rd scenario improved - Player's names in multiplayer game feature added - Prize crew can be put on ships - Improved fort functionality - Fog of war - additional info about enemy ships updated - Campaign save game improved - Crew can be assigned when game is on pause - new feature - Marines can be transferred - new feature - Speed of Melee improved - AI improved - Improved Voodoo 3 support - Improved weather sound effects - Other minor improvements (lot's of them!) New Campaign also included: Fighting Admiral Satan (newcamp.exe) This self-extracting zip will extract the files to the default directory of: programfiles\talonsoft\aos2\campaigns If you installed AOS2 to any other directory besides the default, please extract these files to wherever your aos2\campaigns folder is. The following files need to be in these folders: Fighting Admiral Satan.cmp - [your directory name]\campaigns FAS_script.cms - [your directory name]\Scripts _FAS1.sc - [your directory name]\Scenarios _FAS2.sc - [your directory name]\Scenarios _FAS3.sc - [your directory name]\Scenarios _FAS4.sc - [your directory name]\Scenarios _FAS5a.sc - [your directory name]\Scenarios If you have any further questions, please contact Talonsoft tech support at 1-410-933-9191 EMAIL: tech@talonsoft.com