The Age of Wonders v1.36 patch. This version fixes some rare crashes, improves the automatic combat calculations involving archers and fixes some minor balance issues. This upgrade also includes a fix for the end of game bug when playing in Italian. Again this upgrade works on all versions of Age of Wonders, regardless of language or current version number.
What's New in Version 1.36
This upgrade includes all the changes from previous patches and can be applied on all versions of game, regardless of language or version.
Note to users of good old Windows 95: For Microsoft's new Direct Play to work, Winsock 2.0 is required to play V1.31 over the Internet or LAN. A free update can be downloaded from Microsoft's site.
BUG FIXES:
General:
- Some races' Hero faces were missing
Global:
- Casting Anarchy or Fire Mastery while in Low Detail mode crashed
- Spanish version had an error when rescuing units
Tactical Combat:
- AI units sometimes moved incorrectly
What's New in Version 1.35
BUG FIXES:
AI:
- Global AI sometimes refused to end its' turn
- AI could sometimes cast spells when Spell Ward was active
General:
- Italian version sometimes crashed when a player was defeated
- Mastery Spells didn't make Unit-spells cost double
Global:
- Casting Holy Woods while in Low Detail mode crashed
Fast Combat:
- In rare situations, Fast Combat could crash
Tactical Combat:
- AI units could sometimes move 1 hex further than their limit
- Units could sometimes move while Frozen / Entangled / etc
- Defenders couldn't cancel global spells
- When a Hero died, their items disappeared
Multi-Player:
- In TCP/IPX/HEAT, the game would sometimes go Out of Sync when entering
Tactical Combat
- Sending multiple email games, then pressing Cancel, crashed
GAMEPLAY CHANGES:
- Swarm now has 2 DAM instead of the previous 1 DAM
- Ice Shards now has 4 DAM instead of the previous 5 DAM
- Chain Lightning now has 4 DAM instead of the previous 5 DAM
- Water Elemental now has 30 MovePoints instead of the previous 24 MovePoints
and has 3 DEF instead of the previous 2 DEF
- Leprechaun now has 8 HitPoints instead of the previous 7 HitPoints
- Charlatan now costs 64 gold instead of the previous 75 gold
- Turtle Ballista now costs 68 gold instead of the previous 45 gold
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