Dungeons Updated Released

Feb 4, 2011
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Dungeons

Assume the role of a mighty (and mighty evil) Dungeon Lord and create your own diabolical demesnes underground. 10 different classes of heroes dare to enter your dungeon where 15 different monsters lurk in the dark.

Updates to Dungeons: Steam Special Edition have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.
  • Upgraded DUNGEONS to use Microsoft .NET 4.0 (lower memory footprint, faster startup).
  • Modified graphic assets for Radeon R520 core compatibility (Radeon X1000 series).
  • Switched to hlsl shaders for lower memory footprint.
  • Added ribbonbands for all weapons.
  • Improved shader effect quality for many game object surfaces (crystal, lava, water, invisibility, ...).
  • ReturnToDungeonHeart spell now opens a portal that can be used to travel back. This will not work in old saved games however.
  • Allow switching the game language in the in-game options.
New minor features and improvements:
  • Goblins fetch their gold from a gold pile in throne room, not from the room-center.
  • Shift-Click in attribute panel now increases an attribute by 10 points.
  • Increased default autosave interval to 30 minutes.
  • Dungeon displacement can now be deactivated in options.
  • Rotating camera with right or middle mouse depends now on setting in options.
  • Added low shader quality option for improved performance on less capable hardware.
  • Allow selecting 720p resolution in options.
  • Added configuration option to deactive build-after-teardown.
  • Added buff loop animation for heroes.
  • Tweaked several game textures to reduce memory footprint.
  • Custom game: buy spawn credits with soul energy.
  • Custom game: Hero entrances can have a "spawn now" button.
  • Custom game: Increase or decrease hero level with soul energy.
  • Heroes don't cast townportal if they didn't learn the spell yet.
  • Enhanced GUI modding hooks.
  • Improved memory monitoring, which can be disabled in config.
  • Improved performance of displacement texture.
  • Included more sound effects.
  • Optimised some models, for improved rendering performance.
  • Clip mouse cursor to game window in fullscreen mode, for multimonitor setups.
  • Custom game list now shows the map type.
  • Minor improvement of positions for all wall gimmicks in the sunken temple setting.
  • Tweaked tooltips of campaign map challenges.
  • Minor balancing improvements.
Fixes:
  • Fixed several reported crashes.
  • Various minor map fixes.
  • Fixed tortured heroes not running away after being freed by the champion.
  • Fixed Minos special attack spells.
  • Fixed displacement bugs on GeForce 7XXX series cards in maps with multiple dungeon levels.
  • Fixed: Sentries didn't stop moving when they died during patrol (sliding bodies).
  • Fixed problem with Alt+Tab during startup and in campaign map.
  • Fixed rare audio crash if audio device was lost during the game (e.g. unplugging audio cable).
  • Repaired some challenges.