Birthright PATCH README 1.0.0.2 8/22/97 _______________________________________________________________________ [ To read this file, select Edit/Word Wrap from the menu above ] _______________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS I] WHAT THE PATCH FIXES II] HOW TO INSTALL THE PATCH III] ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IV] IF YOU STILL EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS I] WHAT THE PATCH FIXES ======================================================================= 1. The multi-player game will access character data files from the CD only. This will prevent multi-player games from getting out of sync and crashing when one or more players have edited characters using the Birthright Character Editor Tool. 2. The Turn Undead spell will be fixed so that it only effects the undead, rather than all foes. 3. Having a regent die in an adventure will no longer end the game. If any of the adventure characters survive, they will lug back the corpse of the hapless regent and have it resurrected. It may cost you a bunch (gold, regency, and bloodline strength), but the regent can be revived and the game continues. 4. The LISTEN feature in chat did not work correctly. If you set it so that you would only listen to chat from player 3, for instance, it actually only listened to player 2. 5. Often, while playing multi-player, a wait cursor would appear while other players were interacting with NPCs. While that was up, you could neither scroll around, nor chat, even though your computer should have been idle and able to do those functions. This has been greatly improved so you can scroll the map, check unit and holding status, or chat with other players whenever you are waiting on an opponent to finish up his turn. 6. When the source potential of a province declines, any sources in that province should decrease as well to stay within the province source potential limit. This has been fixed. 7. If you are in a multi-player game, you should never minimize your game window as the game then does not talk to the host and will be disconnected. To prevent this, we removed the minimize button from the title bar. But, if you go into DirectDraw (full-screen) mode, then back to windowed mode, the minimize button re-appeared, enabling the other problem. OK, this one is pretty obscure, but we fixed it anyway. 8. When the Gorgon "dies", his message about "I'll be back." (shades of Arnold the Terminator?) had some garbage characters in it. We fixed it. 9. Several non-landed organizations did not have the correct loyalty levels towards certain realms. For instance, the Western Imperial Temple should like Tuornen more and Ruarch Rockhammer should be more favorably inclined to Baruk Azhik than to other realms. 10. The prompt to memorize spells before going on an adventure will be more prominent. 11. The Coffer of the Realm should add d6+4% 12. Vassal troops visiting your provinces caused those provinces to be treated as occupied, reducing their tax and loyalty levels. This was fixed. 13. Meteor Storm spell did not work on the battlefield. This was fixed. 14. Units can retreat from a battle either out of or into a warded province, ignoring the ward in that case. This was fixed. 15. The Chalice of the Dead could summon infinite skeletons if it was used before any other domain action during a turn. This was fixed. 16. The Legion Of The Dead spell should generate one skeleton per level over 6 for magic users. That is, a 7th level mage can make 1 and a 10th level mage can make 3, etc. 17. When a lieutenant action is used for an adventure, it used up a domain action. This was fixed. 18. Even if you have enough memory, high-res animations and textures were not being displayed during adventures. This was fixed. The table on page 2 of your user's manual should now include one additional line. If you have 40 Meg or more of RAM and are running the Win95 game, you will see the highest resolution images for both wall textures and animations. 19. There were several fixes to the memory manager code that would prevent disk thrashing while battles were occurring with large stacks on both sides. In those cases, the battlefield display would slow to a crawl. It could have also lead to a erratic and difficult to reproduce game crashes during battles. A rare bug, but now fixed. 21. There was a bug with the string handler that could lead to intermittent and unpredictable crashes, most often when running the game under Windows NT. This was fixed. 22. That door in Bindier that had the switch on the wrong side of the door - fixed. 23. Playing multi-player mode with different versions of the game (demo vs release game, for instance) would cause the game to crash. This has now been dis-allowed. 24. THACO numbers were incorrect for several units. These were fixed. 25. The Scepter of Cuiraecen didn't have a single charge on it for adventures, this has been fixed. 26. Shooting a wand with a charge on it from the "use" button instead of from the hot box doesn't decrement the number of charges on it. This was fixed. 27. Some blood abilities were not available during adventures. Travel now allows one teleport per adventure visit. Enhanced sense provides 3 detect evils to those with Anduiras derivation. Other bloodlines get infravision. The Heal blood ability allows healings (minor ability = 1 healing, major = 2 healings and great = 3 healings per adventure). The Fear blood ability will act like a stun spell. Protection from evil now works. 28. Time based adventure elements (lift movement and damage, duration spells, HP being regained, etc.) do not continue to occur while you are waiting in turn-based mode. They stop accruing when animations are not moving. 29. Players now accrue experience for realm actions, per the table in the on-line help on this subject. II] HOW TO INSTALL THE PATCH ======================================================================= Double click on the brwn95pt.exe and follow the instructions. For Windows 95 -------------- Make sure that the following files are copied to the Birthright game folder: WINBR.EXE STRDAT.DAT Sierra.inf \Wads\bindi_mw.wad \Wads\lofto_mw.wad These files will over write existing files. III] ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ======================================================================= If you haven't installed the DOS version, the NOVA.EXE program will not run. If you haven't installed the Win95 version, the WINBR.EXE will not run. Use the SETUP or INSTALL off of the Birthright CD-ROM to install these products. The patched version of Birthright will not be compatible with the non-patched version when playing multi-player and should not be attempted. IV] IF YOU STILL EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS ======================================================================= If you continue to experience any problems, or if you have any questions concerning any of the above steps, our Technical Support Team will be more than happy to assist you. Please call (206) 644-4343 between 8:15 a.m. and 4:45 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, Monday through Friday. We can be reached by Fax at (206) 644-7697, or by mail at the following address: U.S. Technical Support Sierra On-Line Phone: (206) 644-4343 Technical Support Monday - Friday, 8:15 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. PST P.O. Box 85006 Fax: (206) 644-7697 Bellevue, WA 98015-8506 Sierra On-Line offers a 24-hour Automated Technical Support line with recorded answers to the most frequently asked technical questions. To access this service, call (206) 644-4343, and follow the recorded instructions to find your specific topic and resolve the issue. If this fails to solve your problem, you may still write, or fax us with your questions, or contact us via BBS. U.K. Technical Support Sierra On-Line Limited Phone: (0118) 920-9111 2 Beacontree Plaza Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Gillette Way Fax: (0118) 987-5603 Reading, Berkshire RG2 0BS United Kingdom (Disk/CD replacements in the U.K. are £6.00, or £7.00 outside the UK. Add "ATTN.: Returns." 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