New Dwarf Fortress release

[Nedrah]

<A HREF="http://www.bay12games.com">Bay12 games</a> has released a new version of their great realtime dwarf simulator <A HREF="http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/">Dwarf fortress</a>. You can download the freeware game <A HREF="http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/">here</a>.The new release seems to be mainly about eliminating some bugs and annoyances as well as a few performance improvements. Find the full changelog <A HREF="http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html">here</a>.

Please also take note of Codex-member Maydays great and informative <A HREF="http://rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=21041">thread</a> about the game, he has so far been doing a very good job at helping us DF-newbies out.

 

[Nedrah]

Yes, I realize I said I would propably not do many news on roguelike updates anymore... Hey, it's Dwarf Fortress, mkay? Also I didn't even notice there was a new version out until I saw Maydays thread, so I hope this will suffice as a "thanks" for that.

 

[Monolith]

Yes, I realize I said I would propably not do many news on roguelike updates anymore...

Why not?

 

[Nedrah]

Why not?

Well, I plan to do a feature where I hand out the news in compressed form, mixed with some wild ranting and mini-LP like thingies - people were a bit worried that the frontpage might become flooded a little, I think. I'll definitely re-evaluate that a few weeks from now, though.

 

[Au naturel]

Thanks Nedrah. Just to be a Codexian, it is spelt probably.

 

[crakkie]

I dig roguelike coverage, but not for bug-fix releases. Wait until a significant update like the last one for DF comes along.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

I dig roguelike coverage, but not for bug-fix releases. Wait until a significant update like the last one for DF comes along.

Agreed. This is pretty much just a minor patch, following the one a few weeks back.

 

[Nedrah]

Definitely,

but I couldn't find any news for that significant release, so I did them for this one

 

[Slith]

Next couple releases are focusing on bug squashing. I do ever so hope Toady makes the code more efficient. My low-end computer only manages 25 fps with weather and temperature turned on.

 

[OccupatedVoid]

25 fps with ASCII graphics? Thats some massive bloat.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

Yeah. I can run Bioshock on high better than I can run DF, which should really tell you something.

 

[Mayday]

Awwwwww... that's so sweet of you, Nedrah

 

[Section8]

25 fps with ASCII graphics? Thats some massive bloat.

Yeah, but you gotta admit, it's nice to see all the computational power going toward something instead of just pushing polygons around a screen.

 

[Nedrah]

Awwwwww... that's so sweet of you, Nedrah

Hey, I knew you'd like it. Now come here, give me a man hug. Hey... HEY! HANDS ABOVE THE WAISTLINE, PAL!

.....

See, you actually have a thread were you help people (me among them) out with something, as in, you're actually being constructive. That needs some mentioning.

 

[Dmitron]

Yeah, but you gotta admit, it's nice to see all the computational power going toward something instead of just pushing polygons around a screen.

Amen to that.

 

[OccupatedVoid]

25 fps with ASCII graphics? Thats some massive bloat.

Yeah, but you gotta admit, it's nice to see all the computational power going toward something instead of just pushing polygons around a screen.

Like soil erosion?

By the way, polygon pushing is done by the GPU not the CPU, but, yeah, I agree with you there. I think DF just needs some threads to fix its lag.